Monday I hung my new show at Secession. I had more work than I had space on the wall, so I had to cull a couple of pieces, but I think it ended up being a pretty good and cohesive set. This show has several smaller inexpensive pieces in it, which is a bit of a change for me. I hope it will be successful.

Aside from my  work, there’s new prints by Brian Schuck which are lovely, and paintings by Nate1, plus an entirely fresh set of clothing, jewelry and accessories in the boutique area of the gallery.

This show is up on the wall til November 28, but the big weekend for it will, I think, be Open Studios, which happens in my studio neighborhood (Mission/Bernal Heights) next weekend, October 10-11. We’ll be open and I’ll be there 11am-7pm on Saturday the 10th, and 11am-6pm on Sunday the 11th. The opening party is that Friday night, the 9th, 6:30 to 9:30pm. I am aquiver with anticipation.

A few pieces of my “Earthly Desires” series are now up at Vi Gallery, along with three of the Butterfly Boxes and a couple of Butterfly Paintings. Vi Gallery is a lovely shop at 4 Embarcadero Center. I’ll be showcasing more of my paintings there in November and December: I’ll give you more details closer to the date.

I spent today trying to fight off a cold, but also processing the new photos of my work to upload to my website. Here they are! Thanks for looking - I’d love to know what you think.

Open Studios is fast approaching! I’ve been working on entirely new paintings for the last few months, but it’s about time to start worrying about all the other prep that goes into a show - getting work photographed, wired or framed, printing postcards, doing a press release and so on. I really need to work on my artists statement, as well, and I’d still actually like to finish a couple of more paintings, but may not have time. So yes, much to do.

Today I did check something off my OS to-do list: I got fourteen pieces shot by Bob Hsiang and will be putting those up on my website in the next few days - I’ll let you know when. You can see some in-progress shots on my Flickr stream, in the meantime.

My show is going to be up at Secession from September 29 to November 28, so if you can’t make it on Open Studios weekend (October 9-11 for me), come by another time.