HAPPY NEW YEAR ALMOST

Francine Spiegel WORD UP

My pal Francine Spiegel's show was just up in Sweden; she's definitely ruling it in the painting department:

www.galleriloyal.com/

And, I discovered an interview we did for North Drive Press awhile back is in PDF form, so I'm going to try attaching the site link here, then you can click her name and download the file:

www.northdrivepress.com/ndp5.html

Upcoming Readings

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
I have three upcoming readings to mention and hope to see some friends there:

Februrary 19th, Oakland, CA: Writer's With Drinks series
At the Makeout Room
http://www.writerswithdrinks.com/

April 28th, San Francisco, CA: RADAR Series hosted by Michelle Tea
At Intersection for the Arts
http://www.theintersection.org/

May 7th, San Francisco, CA: 2nd Floor Projects Reading
Celebrating the release of a Writing/Art Multiple in collaboration with gallery artist TBA
At 2nd Floor Projects
http://projects2ndfloor.blogspot.com/

Cristina Toro

I received a letter in my mailbox the other day from a woman named Cristina Toro, and attached to this very kind letter was an intricate painting that looks as if it is embroidered. I wrote back to Cristina and she tells me that this painting (above, the painting that spells MOON) is large, 5x7. She has also made other alluringly stitched-style paintings, and so I thought I'd post a couple here. Exciting to get mail from people out there making work I might have missed otherwise...