LATEST PIECE

HERE IS MY LATEST WORK WHICH WILL BE SHOWN ALONG WITH A FEW OTHER PIECES AT MULTIKULTI THIS SATURDAY. THIS IS AN OLD STORM WINDOW WHICH I HAVE PAINTED ON BOTH SIDES. IN ORDER TO CREATE THIS IMAGE I FIRST STARTED BY CUTTING OUT A STENCIL WHICH I SPRAY PAINTED ONTO THE REVERSE SIDE OF THE GLASS. ONCE I HAD LAYED THE PROPER COLORATION ACROSS THE BACK, I THEN WENT IN AND PAINTED IT FROM THE FRONT. THIS IS A REOCCURRING STYLE WHICH I AM STILL ATTEMPTING TO MASTER.

CONCEPT PROJECT FOR ELMHURST

THESE 2 PICS ARE BOTH CONCEPT SCHEMATICS FOR A PROJECT WHICH I AM HOPING WILL BE ABLE TO BE WORKED ON BY MYSELF AND RACHEL LECHOCKI IN THE NEXT UPCOMING MONTHS. ELMHURST IS TAKING STRIDES AT PUSHING FOR SOME PERMANENT STREET ART SCULPTURES FOR THE PUBLIC TO ENJOY.  THIS PIECE WE TITLED "ALWAYS CHASING..." FOCUSES ON THE FACT THAT THERE WILL ALWAYS BE ONE THING WHICH WE WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO BEAT IN THE GAME OF LIFE AND THAT IS TIME. IF YOU LOOK AT THE 3 DIMENSIONAL IMAGES THERE WILL BE A CLOCK ON THE TOP THAT WHEN VIEWED FROM AN AIREAL IMAGE SHOWS A CLOCK WITH NO HOUR NOR MINUTE HANDS. INSTEAD THERE ARE FEET RUNNING AROUND IN A CIRCLE NEVER ABLE TO FINISH. FROM THE SIDE VIEW YOU SEE A PLAYFUL SCENE OF CHARACTERS ATTEMPTING TO REACH THE GOAL WHICH IS THE TOP OF THE BLOCKS. YET, NO MATTER HOW HARD THEY TRY AND CLIMB UP THEY WILL ALWAYS SLIDE DOWN TO LOSE AGAINST TIME. THE PLAYFUL IMAGERY IS A MIMIC OF CHUTES & LADDERS A CHILDHOOD GAME TO TEACH THE EBB AND FLOW OF LIFE AND HOW IT IS JUST A ROLL OF THE DICE.  

 

Recent events

So it has been a pretty busy month as of so far. Just had an opening at Morpho Gallery on february 22nd.
Out-of-line Gallery on March 9th and the show will be up and running until the middle of April. You can see more about it at www.out-of-line gallery.com
For the upcoming weekend of the 16th I will be taking part in an event for MultiKulti/Quennect 4 for an evening at "The Chicago Art Exchange".
Coming up for next month on April 3rd I will be showing at a "best of show" at Logan Bar where I showed last summer at for a month and where one of my pieces has been permanently hanging.
This has been some busy times with some new work on the way. Definitely keeping my fingers crossed for a few more opportunities on the way.

Newest pieces Newest series Underwater series Animal series

Here are two of my newest pieces. With this series I am beginning I am going back to my roots on detail. I am stepping back in by using pen and ink and water color. There will be more of these to come. Eventually I plan on doing this type of work focused towards land animals as well. Possibly even stepping back even closer too my roots and delving back once again towards nature i.e. plants. We will see where this takes me.

poetry on Love

LOVE

by James Riggs

sometimes I think that I've got things all figured out

then you throw me a curveball and I strike out

it's how you look in your eyes

soft and fair like the morning sunrise

kisses like dew on the soles of your feet

then I see past those eyes

see a knife wielding side

see how I let you in and then you begin….

you dig.

how far can you go though?

china is not inside my chest

there is no other side,

nor is there a diamond in that cave for you to find in my breathe

it seems sometimes we let love get the best of us

it only comes in like a morning fog

then the suns rays come in and it dissipates as quickly as it came

do you not see the steam or the lava behind my grin?

do you not understand that all we have is time?

do you not want to take advantage of this so called love?

and this time is not on our side just as that damn fog…

damn knife wielding whore on the foot of my bed.

damn sun for coming out and evaporating that cool clean air which can drown you in a moments notice

someday I should learn to swim

I already know how to run, 

but i just can't get far enough

Some different views of myself (self portraits)

sometimes I can be a monkey man

sometimes I can see it all

sometimes I can't tell who I am...

newer pieces of the past few weeks!!