Terra Incognita

TERRA INCOGNITA is tangible proof - counterintuitively manifested on an online platform - that humanity is immutable despite shifting topographies. From Queens to quarantined corners of the world, TERRA INCOGNITA charts and unfurls from each of us out to us all.

The Outer Boroughs: Brooklyn, Queens & The Bronx

The Lodge Gallery is proud to present The Outer Boroughs; Brooklyn, Queens & The Bronx, a group exhibition exploring the transformative cultural history of New York through contemporary urban landscape painting. Curated by Jason Patrick Voegele, featured artists include: Derek Buckner, Todd Gordon, Valeri Larko, Tun Myaing, Laura Shechter, Pamela Talese, and John Wellington.

Art For Tibet

I've been donating my paintings to Art For Tibet whenever I can. It's a great cause and the shows are always fun and inspiring.

Transmogrification group show

This is a last minute pop up show I curated with Panos Papamichael in Long Island City. It was the first time meeting Panos but we hit it off really well and put together an amazing show. The show was at 2320 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City from June 21st – July 16th 2017

Tell them Stories: Origins

This is the second show Marshall Jones and I have curated together. We were able to implement some cool new things into this show and expand our roster of artists internationally. It was a lot of hard work but meeting new artists and collaborating with them has been a blast.

I have also created a website dedicated to this series that I love curating: tellthemstories.org

Lucid Visions

An Academy Alumni show I was happy to curate with the lovely Diana Corvelle and Cara DeAngelis. Here are some pictures from the show via Panepinto Galleries facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/panepinto.galleries

Tell Them Stories Show

This is a show I’ve been wanting to put together for a long time with my friend Marshall Jones and we finally made it a reality. The idea of the show was to bring fine arts, illustration and comic book art together into one place to blur the boundaries between these different mediums.

Behind the curtain - Oct 8-Nov 9, 2014

A fantastic group show I am proud to be apart of highlighting the artists assistant's personal works.

Here is an interview with Trek Lexington the curator of the show:

Interview with Trek Lexington

Beyond the Threshold show

The show was a success with a great turn out all thanks to Luis Borrero and Amber Lia-Kloppel hard work.

Voyeur

Voyeur curator Dina Brodsky has assembled a series of artworks that fill viewers with a sense of wonder and transgression, oscillating between the tender and the unnerving. Ms. Brodsky’s paintings deliver a peek into abandoned rooms, leaving viewers wondering about the former occupants’ lives based on what is left behind.

5 Pointz labyrinth series

The 5 Pointz labyrinth series is finally finished after 2 years of work. There are all together 14 paintings from that series. Here is a look at the 9 that are still in my studio:

American Alien

American Alien, a project developed by Flux Factory Artist-in-Residence Ye Taik, is designed to increase awareness of the Burmese diaspora and to serve as a platform for the Burmese American voice. Through interviews published as podcasts on the Flux Factory website, American Alien will address topics related to Burmese innovation and hybridity.

Coumpulsion

Compulsion celebrates the obsessive efforts of sixteen such artists. Working with different materials, they share an unwavering devotion to executing their visions, producing pieces that are exceptional in their beauty, craftsmanship and technical complexity.

New finished paintings and paintings in progress

It's a new year and I'm happy about my two new finished paintings. Hopefully by the end of this year or sooner I'll be able to finish the whole "5 Pointz Labyrinth" series which comprises of around 19 small paintings that I started last year.

LIVING THINGS

The artists exhibited in Living Things continue and expand on this tradition, bringing their unique contemporary vision of the bizarre and eloquent world of the insentient. Acknowledging and celebrating the materiality of their work the artists of Living Things talk to the viewer with the voice of Everything Else.

THE DRAWING ROOM

This is Milavec Hakimi’s last show in its current space, and the impending closure of the gallery has liberated the creative team and the show from commercialism. There is enormous talent represented, but there are no obvious “art stars.” Instead, the presentation shows artists in their essence and it wins with intimacy rather than noise. As one attendee commented to me, “if you really want to get to know an artist, look at his drawings.” In this particular drawing room, artists reveal what they draw when the galleries are closed, the auctions are over, the twitter accounts are silent, and the art buyers have returned to their lofts.

My new paintings in progress

I've been working on these bad boys for a while but they've been on hold for about 3 months now because I've been very busy putting together shows. Enjoy!

LINE press release

Ranging from the inarticulate to the sharply defined in their unbroken linearity, these masterful renderings will draw you in, engage you, entrance you with the unique promise of meeting some of the most interesting and talented artists of today mind to mind. It is our sincere hope that the viewer will leave aesthetically engaged, but also with a sense of connection; that particular solace offered only by the well-crafted thoughts of an articulate mind.