CURRENT AND UPCOMING SHOWS

Water Project at the

Thoreau GalleryWe Need Our Water June 19 opening 5p to 7p gallery located in the Presidio District

Needles And Pens 5 Year Anniversary Show

Come and Celebrate!

Hello Now From Everywhere - Lit review by Lynn Rapoport(SF Guardian)

On the corner of 20th and Valencia streets, there's a window that makes people think of the dead. The reason is a series of annotated sketches that, over the past few years, has gradually accumulated on the glass to the right of the doorway at Dog Eared Books. A sort of eulogistic message board for drifting window shoppers, these paper notices gently call attention to the passing of poets, visual artists, writers, teachers, and other cultural heroes, some renowned, some formerly celebrated, and others largely unknown Ñ though not to Oakland artist Veronica De Jesus, the creator of this memorial window. Now, with the window grown crowded, another local artist and a friend of De Jesus's, Colter Jacobsen, has published a collection of the memorials (Allone Co., $18). Tributes to Susan Sontag, Jacques Derrida, Robert Creeley, Octavia Butler, Will Eisner, Quentin Crisp, Richard Pryor, and Rick James are interspersed among pages dedicated to death row prisoner Stanley "Tookie" Williams; Al "Grandpa Munster" Lewis, whose roles also included circus performer, Pacifica radio host, and Green Party candidate for governor of New York; the New Zealand experimental novelist and poet Janet Frame; and "Don" Magargol, a folk dance instructor at San Francisco's Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The spiral-bound notebooks in which these memorials are collected Ñ and the cover image, a drawing of a largely denuded but vibrant dandelion superimposed on what looks like crumpled paper that's been imperfectly smoothed out Ñ suggest a continued meditation on impermanence and remembrance, the attempts we make to prolong or enlarge the presence of our heroes and loved ones in the world after they leave us.

Happy New Year 2008, Year of the Rat

I have new batman drawings i am finally putting on line, and i am also putting up some new work from late 2007. Right now i am focused on Sports and our culture, and i am working on new memorial drawings-i should be putting them in the window of Dog Eared Books very soon.

There will be a special 10 limited orginal cover priced at $100.00(this is set for a later dater still working on original covers. This project first began in November of 2004 because my dear sister-in-law lost her life.

The Receiver gallery has my Guest Artist T Shirt ready to buy.Find Out about New new T shirts