ICP was kind of popular where I went to high school. I’m invested in the Juggalo movement with the kind of detached rancor, as it’s a part of me- I hold for filthy public restrooms( I delight in how disgusting they are, the dirtier, the better), the faded colors of poor church’s nurseries, KOA Campgrounds, Ball Canning Jars, Free Mason Meeting Halls, deserted diapers, tree stumps with an axe in ‘em, copper pots, kiddie pools, yard decor, dying wind-up toys, smaller County Fairs, bike rallies, Ohio River Rats, Christmas stores, dirty pictures, ugly murals, backyard junk heaps including tire collections( where else to put them?), Raccoon hunting, gravel pits, old ice cream/burger shacks, drive-thru beverage buildings, license plate collections, broken planes, boat propellers, gumball machines, bronze wall sculptures, hoarders, head shops, oak paneling, cuckoos, monogrammed shutters, house crests, Home Shopping Network, taxidermy, barber shops, paddleboats, sisterns, tobacco barns, man-made lakes, fishing lakes, ball fields, outhouses, and what comes down to, most things white trash like I observed in the countryside I grew up in and was part of. Appalachian stuff if you want to boldly generalize, which I boldly am.
I read DListed every day to escape whatever task it is I’m trying to finish. Anywoo, my main blog diva Michael K linked to this 2009 site, which led me to Derek Erdman’s paintings HERE. I savor that he’s documenting the Juggalo culture at their annual event close to his home and on the sly, produces these wise little single-subject paintings. Like he’s winking at us. I like them cuz most of ‘em aren’t punch lines, D.E., who I fancy to be a bit like me in terms of interests, likes signage and objects. And they’re not the best technical paintings, but it’s purposeful and it’s the style I like. In fact, while we’re being honest– I would like most things better if children drew them.
Eating Corn.
I like it when art looks like the mattress store hires an artist to do the side of the building and it’s as if they haven’t considered the exact angle to draw the bed so that it works in perspective; the result is a bunch of lines somehow resembling a bed–you hope to God it’s not like, the bed you would buy inside the store, but you know the artist worked hard to paint it and, by the looks of the painting, didn’t necessarily( or did they?) go to school for painting, but has indicated with curved lines that the mattress is soft and patterned with little hash marks of a couple values darker, and the backboard is tufted with little buttons, and the frame is hard because the lines for the frame are kind of straight, and the same height all around. Then the artist kind of got a little nervous, decided maybe it looks better in black and white… or they’re fooling us all with a display so brilliant and simple. (Hollywood Ave., Burbank, Ca.)
Tags: artists, painting
SO Pimp. 
Right?? Maybe not good for a hot day.
I’m proud to say that the Hell’s Kitchen Art Team pulled out the big guns and secured another Emmy nomination for Art Direction on a Multi-Camera Series! Good job, guys!!! It’s so much fun with our family on this show– I’ve been fortunate to continue Art Assisting on HK Seasons 2, skip one – 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, making graphics, menus, small props, and set dressing.
