MIERCOLES, EL ONCE DE NOVIEMBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
An invitation to a new exhibition at the Rayner Bros Gallery in Whanganui. Thirty-eight E.T.'s, decorated by thirty-eight artists from around New Zealand...should be interresterling. I'll be posting an photo of my version in the next couple of days. I've tentatively called it 'Spielbergian Pergatory'.
Come along if you can, the exhibition opening is this Saturday at 6pm at 52 Guyton Street, Whanganui.

MARTES, EL DIEZ DE NOVIEMBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
After a week of openings at the Art School here in Whanganui, I drove over to Hawkes Bay to Judith Anderson's country gallery in Hawkes Bay for the opening of Seen This Century, an exhibition of artists from Warwick Brown's recent book.
Here's a snap of Warwick Brown delivering the opening speech. Ben Pearce's Great Grandfather's Clock is to the right.

LUNES, EL NUEVE EL NOVIEMBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
Hoping to find equilibrium after a crazy two weeks.

[still from Holy Mountain]

JUEVES, EL CINCO DE NOVIEMBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
I've got a couple of retablos in the following show, opening in Hawkes Bay this Saturday at 3pm. All other details below:

MIERCOLES, EL CUATRO DE NOVIEMBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
Here's the reason I was looking for that specific hood image on the de Cosimo altarpiece (right) - I've put up this image on the left once before, a detail from a large della Robbia altarpiece

LUNES, EL DOS DE NOVIEMBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
Back to work today.

Bone Machine
1999
Oil and enamel on canvas
Private collection, Wellington

DOMINGO, EL UNO DE NOVIEMBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
With Jo's show finished and packed down, two weeks in Auckland and a hole in our wallets, time to head back to Whanganui.

SABATO, EL TRIENTE Y UNO DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
(above) Fanny Kinder's (John's wife) sampler at the Kinder House between Newmarket and Parnell Rise.
(below) a detail from a new Piero de Cosimo book at the Auckland Public Library - a reproduction of a painting from the Yale Collection I've been looking a while for.

VIERNES, EL TRIENTA DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
Guys looking at a spitfire. Auckland Museum.

JUEVES, EL VIENTENUEVE DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
Poof or cushion with Fra Angelico Madonna and child. Shop front, St. Kevin's Arcade. Auckland.

MIERCOLES, EL VIENTIOCHO DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
David photographing in the exhibition, I Go Where The Party Takes Me, 305 Queen Street Auckland. 11am-5pm daily, until the 31st of October. He'll be back in Hong Kong by now.

MARTES, EL VIENTISIETE DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
Marzipan skull from Craftbomb in Grey Lynn, a present from Jo.

LUNES, EL VIENTISEIS DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
An eyes, nose and mouth building down K road.

SABATO, EL VIENTICUATRO DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
A break and a nice drink in the sun, aesthetically designed by Jim V.

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Tonight's the book launch of The Real Art Roadshow hardback edition at Art+Object. Here's a reference to it on Beatties Blog.

MIERCOLES, EL VIENTIUNO DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
Last night was the opening of I Go Where The Party Takes Me. A good turn-out and lots of fun, along with serious conversation. There's some photos of the opening on Jo's blog here.

MARTES, EL VIENTE DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
Here's a photo (middle one) that a friend recently sent me. They're part of a photo shoot by Dan Budnik in Guston's Woodstock studio in 1964. What I like about this photograph in the middle is the square of light and the bottom left of the pic, with Guston's head creating a shadow, echoing his paintings from that period. The linseed-ridden, gun-metal head-shaped blobs seemed to carry on throughout his painting career. Below the photos are two untitled paintings, one from the 1964 period and a figurative head from the last group of ink and acrylic paintings he completed before he died in 1980.
Right, I'm off for a couple of weeks, will upload a post or two when I have internet access.

LUNES, EL DIECINUEVE DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
A new piece of pottery, a phoenix rising from the flames salt and pepper shaker set.

EL CRUZ DE DOMINGO, EL DIECIOCHO DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NUEVE
wacko-cross. Fused coloured glass crucifix with plastic corpus

SABATO, EL DIECESIETE DE OCTUBRE, DOS MIL NEUVE

I've been thinking about reinvigorating my Whiteworld series of drawings and have been looking into the new designs and styles of currencies, notes and bills. The most popular one at the moment is the possibility of the Amero, a joining of the Canadian, Mexican and American currencies. There's some great conspiracies out there so I'm thinking it would be interesting to address it now artistically as a marker to see what happens in the future. Check out the image below with the photoshopped deer from the net.
I also keep going back to the drawing below, Changing World (pencil on paper, 2004) which was a precursor to the Whiteworld portraits. It's based on the American one dollar bill, but apart from that I think its something to do with the composition that seems to be popping up in a set of new paintings on tin that I'm working on at the moment.