In Progress. Happy Happy!

Here's one I'm currently working on, it's based on a Bellini composition.

In Progress. Temptation...

Pizza

'One Hundred Dollars' at LittleField Brooklyn

100 artists, one dollar each. Check it out, it's a great show!

Here's a review of the show on the Huffington Post....

'One Hundred Dollars' Reworks The Dollar Bill At LittleField

'Odditites' at Neue Berliner Räume, October 21, 2011 to November 11, 2011

ODDITIES

21 October 2011 - 11 November 2011 Fr - So / 14h-19h Opening: 21 October 2011 - 7pm Closing: 11 November 2011 - 7pm

Neue Berliner Räume is pleased to present the exhibition Odditites, featuring works by Eva Lauterlein and Christopher Leib. Both aesthetically and with regards to content, the exhibition focusses on positions that explore the notion of oddness.

While representations of beauty often serve to obscure fissures, oddness may be understood as an access to more authentic perspectives. Where the idea of strangeness is being shifted to the foreground without redefining it as normality, a space emerges in which the normative power of the notion of normality begins to wane.

The discursive battles around notions of beauty and normality and their function in the arts have faded. Yet, the idea of perfection continues to exercise great fascination on the society. And while it refers to more and more constrained positions and constructs, representations of oddity have been increasingly approximated to fit to an idea of normality. Disrupting these dynamics, the works of Lauterlein and Leib render the notion of oddity accessible for identification as they explore it without distorting it.

Importantly, the works of both Lauterlein and Leib do not stop at showing oddity as a merely aesthetic feature. Quite to the contrary, the works point to an internal feature that finds a symbolic materialization on the faces and the bodies of the bizarre and strangely withdrawn figures. That they, the figures, still retain an element of approachability may be understood as an invitation to explore the core of their oddness and, ultimately, what we share with them: an all too natural oddity.

Please visit the Neue Berliner Räume website.

Gold Leaf...

I had some gold leaf scraps from a mural I was working on, so I thought I decided to incorporate it into some paper pieces...

Ink, watercolor, colored pencil, duct tape on paper.

Schöneberger Art walk, Kit Schulte Contemporary Art Berlin

If you happen to be in Berlin this summer, check out the Schöneberger Art walk and the Summer group show at

Kit Schulte Contemporary Art.

SOMMERPAUSE

June 15th to August 27th 2011

Works by David Buckingham, Max Diel, Chris Leib, Sandra Munzel, Malte Hagen Olbertz, Rex Ray, Susanne Ring, Owen Schuh, Lars Theuerkauff, Arngunnur Yr, Patrick Gabler, Linda Karshan, Juliane Laitzsch, Werner Linster, Koho Mori-Newton, Nadja Poppe and Justin Quinn.

Pincus

close to finished.

Drawing Post

Drawings

Here's a drawing I started for a new group of paintings. Look for new paintings... and an overhaul of my website... coming soon.

Something from my sketchbook

Painting posting...

Cain Schulte Contemporary Art Berlin at Art Monaco, April 29th to May 2nd

Cain Schulte Contemporary Art Berlin will be at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco at ART MONACO, booth H8. Be sure to stop in!

Hospitality House's 25th Annual Auction at Andrea Schwartz Gallery

This drawing will be available at the auction. It's a rather large study I did in preparation for an upcoming painting. Hope you can make it to the event.

A few Sketches from last night at Make My Monday

Make My Monday

I'm looking forward to drawing tonight at Make My Monday, a live art making event at the Fort Mason Center. I hope you can join me at Make My Mondays!

Mission Artists United presents Spring Open Studios!

April 24 and 25th, 11am - 6pm. More than a hundred Mission Artists open their studios to the public for the weekend.

Spring Open Studios in the Mission

In coming days I will post small paintings that I'll have available during Spring Open Studios.

Here is a sample...

Portraits of people from the 70s, 2.5 x 2.5 inches, oil on panel

Mission Artists United present Spring Open Studios in the Mission

Evidence, 2 x 3.5 inches

Mark your calendar for April 24 and 25th, 11am - 6pm. Mission Artists United presents Spring Open Studios where more than a hundred Mission Artists open their studios to the public for the weekend.

UPDATE: SOEX's Monster Draw Rally

One of my drawings...

A few pics from the Monster Draw. Fun time, as always...

Verdi Club, prior to the event

Early on...

Monster Draw in full swing...