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 5^th 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 27^th 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 5^th Ave

San Diego, CA 92101

tincanbooking@gmail.com

http://thetincan1.wordpress.com/

Double Break

1821 5^th Ave

San Diego, CA 92101

619.238.2325

info@doublebreakstore.com     

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

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: 

http://cargocollective.com/bridgethevoid

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.