5.26.2012

Printed Matter "Awards for Artists" nomination!!

I was recently blessed with a great honor- a nomination for Printed Matter's "Awards for Artists", for artists committed to self-publishing! Once nominated, one has to submit a statement about their self-publishing practice, a resume, a slide list and some images. I submitted everything today. Here are my images: 







5.23.2012

I SEE CLEARLY NOW

Wanna good look at what I do when I'm not teaching or putting together shows for Double Break? Click here.


5.22.2012

Double Break Launches Online Store!!

*For Immediate Release*

A Double Break Announcement!

We’ve launched an online store!




In conjunction with the opening of our recent exhibition, Digging a Hole, Looking for Something, Artworks by Michael Krueger and Travis Millard, Double Break is excited to announce the launch of an online store! Currently available, we have a plethora of fantastic items exclusive to Double Break- original works of art, limited-edition prints, artist-designed t-shirts, zines and much more. If you can’t make it into the gallery, but want to support great art (and great art spaces) in San Diego, click here and check it out! And stay tuned for upcoming additions to the inventory, including drawings by Matt Coors, Jay Howell and Louis M Schmidt! Please pass along the link! Thanks!

Be sure to mark your calendars with our current/upcoming exhibitions and events!
May18- June 16, 2012 
Digging a Hole, Looking for Something, Artworks by Michael Krueger and Travis Millard (available online for the duration of the exhibition)
May 29, 2012 (8pm-midnite) 
Drawing Jam #3 (at Tin Can Alehouse!)
June 22- July 21, 2012 
Good Grief, New Work by Matt Coors and Louis M Schmidt

1821 5th Ave
San Diego, CA 92101
619.238.2325
info@doublebreakstore.com
http://www.doublebreakstore.com (we’re also on Facebook!)

5.14.2012

Michael Krueger and Travis Millard at Double Break! Friday May 18 (6-10pm)




*For Immediate Release*

A DOUBLE BREAK EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT

Digging a Hole, Looking for Something
New work by Michael Krueger and Travis Millard

Opening Reception: May 18, 2012 (6-10pm)

Double Break is delighted to announce Digging a Hole, Looking for Something, an exhibition of new work by Michael Krueger and Travis Millard. Coming to us from Lawrence, Kansas and Los Angeles, CA respectively, Krueger and Millard will bring new drawings, prints, ceramics and more. Both widely exhibited and admired artists, the two first connected at the University of Kansas and have long drawn inspiration from one another. Both artists explore the figure of the “common man,” displacing the mundane and the mythic from everyday life, weaving threads between past and present. Their search for the sublime in this densely hyper-visual yet vacuous post-industrial age is rife with humor, longing and discovery, as is apparent in this selection of new works on view at Double Break. The opening reception is Friday, May 18, 2012 (6-10pm). Please join us!

About the artists:

Michael Krueger was born on January 5, 1967 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Michael’s artwork reflects a deep interest in American history, contemporary American culture, and personal memoir. He has given over 100 lectures and workshops including, Cranbrook Academy of Art, RISD, City College of New York, Edinburgh College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA. He has recently had solo shows at Sunday L.E.S., New York, NY, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Recent group exhibitions include, KRETS Gallery, Malmo, Sweden, Baer Ridgeway, San Francisco, CA, Ambacher Contemporary, Munich, Germany, Glasgow Print Studio, Scotland, UK, Adam Baumgold, New York, NY, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL, NY The Drawing Center, New York, NY, Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia, PA and the Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA. 

Travis Millard grew up in Olathe, Kansas and founded the Fudge Factory Comics operation in 1997. His work reflects a personal examination of the beauty and absurdity in common things, random and on repeat.  Travis' work has been published on numerous platforms and exhibited widely in the US and internationally. Including work for Foundation Skateboards, Stereo, Volcom, Vans, Burton, Chronicle Books, Cartoon Network and others. Travis currently lives in a cabin near some coyotes on the backside of a hill in a Los Angeles fire zone.


Opening Reception: May 18, 2012 (6-10pm)
Open to the public (and free!)

Exhibition runs through June 16, 2012

1821 5th Ave
San Diego, CA 92101
619.238.2325
info@doublebreakstore.com
www.doublebreakstore.com
www.facebook.com/DoubleBreak
www.twitter.com/DoubleBreakSD           

4.27.2012

follow the link!

so, I'm getting pretty jazzed about this website I've been working on using cargo collective. just a nice, clean way to present the work I've been making over the last few years, without the informal vibe of the blog (which I also dig). 

check it out: 


4.16.2012

Collide

Facies Hippocratica installed at Collide, a one-night art/music event that happened on April 14th, put on by Sezio here in San Diego. I made a specific drawing for the bricks, photocopied it, then cut all the bricks and put them up with double-sided tape. Pretty snazzy! 



4.09.2012

Facies Hippocratica

Facies Hippocratica

There will be a small installation of these works, titled Facies Hippocratica (the first in an ongoing series) on view April 14, 2012 (6-10pm) at Collide, a one-night only art & music event in San Diego, put on by Sezio. Come check 'em out! I'll be showing with a wonderful local artist/musican named Christina Tsui.

Here's information on the event :

6" x 8", Ink on Paper, 2012

6" x 8", Ink on Paper, 2012

6" x 8", Ink on Paper, 2012

6" x 8", Ink on Paper, 2012

11" x 14", Ink on Paper, 2012

11" x 14", Ink on Paper, 2012

11" x 14", Ink on Paper, 2012

11" x 14", Ink on Paper, 2012

9" x 12", Ink on Paper, 2012

9" x 12", Ink on Paper, 2011

9" x 12", Ink on Paper, 2011

3.27.2012

Drawing Jam #1!! (Tonight, at Tin Can Alehouse!)


*For immediate release*

A Double Break/Tin Can Alehouse Event Announcement!

Drawing Jam!!
March 27, 2012 (8pm-late!)

At Tin Can Alehouse
1863 5th Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101

                                                     

Despite the incredibly short notice, Double Break and Tin Can Alehouse are pleased to announce that we have joined forces to put on Drawing Jam, a fantastic, new drawing event! Please join us Tuesday, March 27th for the first evening in a series of monthly, live drawing events co-curated by Double Break and Tin Can Alehouse! The event is a fun, casual way to meet and interact with great artists, watch them draw and take home original works of art at affordable prices! So, please: come hang out, listen to good music, drink good beer and buy great art!

The cast of artists will rotate on a monthly basis, but joining us this first time around are some of San Diego’s finest: Niko Burke, Matt Coors, Sky Cris, Christopher Kardambikis, Morgan Mandulay, Mike Maxwell, Scott McPherson, Kevin Peterson, Louis M Schmidt and Christina Tsui.

March 27, 2012 (8pm-late!)

Open to the 21+ public w/I.D.
This event is FREE!

Tin Can Alehouse
1863 5th Ave
San Diego, CA 92101
tincanbooking@gmail.com
http://thetincan1.wordpress.com/

Double Break
1821 5th Ave
San Diego, CA 92101
619.238.2325
info@doublebreakstore.com     
www.doublebreakstore.com      
www.Facebook.com/DoubleBreak         

Stay tuned for the second installment of Drawing Jam: April 30, 2012!
(Image courtesy of: Scott McPherson, ....Ace Ventura..., Ink on Paper, 2012)


3.16.2012

wallpapering the floor

I'm psyched about this wallpaper design. Gonna test hang it in the studio in the next few days. I have a few shows coming up this summer here in San Dawg for which I'm prepping three bodies of work. This is part of one- an immersive landscape of this wallpaper, with a drawing series on top of it. 


3.02.2012

sketchbook pages and works in progress from the last month:

 I've been obsessing over a certain few things for the past 10 years... profound experiences I've had at Arlington National Cemetery (when I was 13), the old Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw, Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Hitchcock films (specifically North by Northwest, Vertigo and Rear Window), Jochen and Esther Gerz's Monument against Fascism in Hamburg, the Washington Monument, concentration camps and American suburbs, the use and misuse of pattern within contemporary art and the art historical canon... ruins, the pyramid and the diamond (tangibly and symbolically), the repeating form as analogous with the failures of history... plus the work of Andrew Schoultz, Ryan Travis Christian, Chris Johanson, Steven Parrino, George Grosz, Giorgio di Chirico, Piet Mondrian, Alan Moore, Alex Lukas, Ben Shahn, Barry McGee, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Tauba Auerbach, Francis Alys, Chris Duncan, Georges Seurat, Rachel Whiteread, Gerhard Richter, Anselm Kiefer, Picasso. And a few more. I obsess. 

At any rate, look at these works in progress. Then cruise over to the other website I'm working on and look over some projects I did from 2008-2010: 

I'm looking for some places to show. Drawings, installations, publications. Hit me up. 
louismschmidt at gmail 

the 8.5" x 11" sketch. scroll down for the finished 22" x 30" drawing.




working on a raised brick pattern

the 8.5" x 11" sketch. scroll down for the 15" x 15" finished drawings: one straight, two with blobs. 

another 8.5" x 11" sketch. finished 22" x 30" drawing is below. keep on scrollin'.

trying to come up with a decent wave pattern. not too into this one.

I'm gonna work idea this into a big drawing. dark rocky/landscape shape at the bottom, window/building pattern above. 

just an idea. it's not really working.

another horizon line blob disturbing a pattern. I'll work it out.

this one reads "Christians kill" (not the other way around)

working on a house pattern, too. 

silly, I know. I still like it despite the fact. 

whatever, pool. 

a North by Northwest pattern, pushed downwards a bit. 

slightly wonky perfection. I gotta make a bigger drawing of this.

reminiscent of my undergrad sketches. deep thoughts, right? 

possible sticker design

not possible sticker

this image, and the next few, are just crappy snapshots of the "real" drawings- many are still in progress- including the bigger teal blob and the smaller blobs with figures. all of the small figure drawings are still in progress. don't judge. 

I'm pretty stoked on these two. Ink on paper, 22" x 30", 2012.

detail

detail

this one's pretty great, too. You'll have to imagine all these pieces floating on walls covered floor to ceiling with similar patterns. wallpaper made from xeroxes of pattern drawings. hopefully someone will ask me to do this in a real gallery. I'll just start holding my breath...

the North by Northwest pattern... came to me subconsciously. realized after the fact how heavily Hitchcock has imprinted upon my brain. 15" x 15", Ink on Paper, 2012.