Public Fiction

RAINBOWS, CAPRICORNS, VIRGOS & ALCHEMY...
This Sunday March 13th please join us for a series of events at THE FREE CHURCH:

Beginning promptly at 8pm:
A lecture about rainbows by TRINIE DALTON:
Trinie will give a slide-talk about rainbows what they are, how they're formed, and their roles in the history of art, spiritualism, mythology, and color theory.

at 8:45pm
A video screening curated by CATHERINE TAFT:
Catherine Taft presents a Capricorn/Virgo-inspired selection of videos by Dale Hoyt, Lauren Lavitt and Andrew Steinmetz

and at 9:30pm
RON REGÉ, JR. will read (and project!) comics from The Cartoon Utopia concerning the basic tenants of Alchemy and Hermetic Philosophy in Fairy Tale."

Public Fiction
749 Avenue 50, LA 90042
http://www.publicfiction.org

Google image wins again...

When researching my book titles, I do some preliminary internet trolling, and this is what comes up when I hunt images for "Baby Geisha" —go figure...I see the pup, but what the heck is that animal above?

Admitting the past unicorn obsession...

Back when I used to sing with bandmates Ben Parke and Greg Moore. Ten years back, the medieval garb and paper maché uni as our stage pet:

http://www.myspace.com/unicornucopia


But these days I'm more into images like the one above...

On Oscar weekend...

An Artforum Diary entry:

http://www.artforum.com/diary/#entry27667

Rockypoint Reading Series

Two Dollar Radio

Will be publishing Baby Geisha. Hooray!

http://twodollarradio.blogspot.com/2011/02/qa-with-editor-trinie-dalton.html

Eric Yanker's "Cracks of Dawn"

Lucky I was able to cover this exhibition as a Critic's Pick:
http://artforum.com/picks/section=la#picks27506

Meet My Brother

My brother, Greg, is a talented artist, and this is one of his latest pieces. I love the carnivorous plant over there in the lower left corner, as if the mammoth creature is about to get a stinky whiff of putrescence.

How Many Parts I Admired in Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman

The Latest Double Rainbow

And while we're on the topic of double rainbows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQSNhk5ICTI

Coolest Book Ever?

Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer:

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/jonathan-safran-foers-book-as-art-object/

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...