I just survived a record heatwave here in Portland. It reached a balmy 106 degrees earlier this week and people were freaking out! Almost every store sold out of air conditioners and people were checking into hotels just for the AC's. Madness. It got so hot, that I had to sleep with my fan in my bed. Don't worry, it was consensual... I think. Anyways, I had 2 fans blasting, my window wide open and I wake up to my landlord and the building manager inspecting my apartment. They walk into my bedroom with me hugging a fan in my bed in nothing but my underwear. I jolted awake and they ran out apologizing and all I could think to say was, "I had a late night last night!" I thought it was the afternoon, so I was embarrassed to be sleeping so late, but it ended up only being 9:20 in the morning... assholes! I guess they had knocked, but whose going to hear anything with a fan blasting right in their face!
I did have to move my work into my apartment since my studio probably reached over 120 degrees... no joke. Probably would've seen visions of spirit animals if I spent more than an hour up there. In the time it took me to get my supplies out of there, my body started weeping sweat.

I just released FIVE new prints on my Etsy Store. Sweet! There is a little mini shop to the right or you can click here. Onward to Prints

I originally planned to release three, but it was too hot for my brain to decide which ones to release, so I just decided to release a bunch. Why not? I'll have some bigger prints coming out around September so more on that to come.
I'm also going to be partnering up with the BLDG to release a print of the piece, "The Wandering of the Wicked" in the near future. It'll be an 18" x 18" print with a 2" border, screen printed on Stonehenge 100% Cotton Rag paper. Nice! They are an amazing outfit and have done high quality prints for many great artists over the years and I'm honored to be on board. More info on them here--->BLDG

My friend and studio mate, Evan, recently finished a commission for a fine fellow going by the name of Nick. The painting had been finished for some months, but Nick was crazy bonkers busy touring with his band, Death Cab for Cutie. That's an awesome kind of busy. So last friday, Death Cab for Cutie was stopping in Portland to play an outdoor show at McMenamins Edgefield, which is a pretty cool spot by the way. To take advantage of this, Evan decided to go to the show and bring the piece of commissioned artwork to Nick while the window was open and the gettin' was good. Evan asked me, "Would you want to go to a free Deathcab for Cutie show?" to which I replied, "I'm your huckleberry."
Evan also decided to bring a bottle of wine to Nick of which he designed the label for. It was quite a sight to see Evan trying to get a big painting and a bottle of wine through security that have been firmly trained to slap any exceptions in the face. Following much deliberation, Evan was carted off to a different gate and all was well. After New Pornographers played, we decided to take advantage of our backstage passes and get some refreshments. Whist backstage, I meet the manager of Death Cab, Jordan, and it turns out he just bought one of my paintings from my show at Jonathan Levine Gallery. How random is that? I love when these happenings... happen. Then Jordan escorted us to the stage and we got to watch the show from the side of the stage. A good summer night indeed.

On to news of the official manner. I'll be releasing 3 new prints in August so keep posted. The store is looking mighty sad these days, but brighter days are ahead.

Got back from San Fran on Monday and have slowly been putting my life back together since. Had a super great time in San Fran and will probably post more specific details on the trip later. One highlight though was a shirtless man running up to me screaming, "YOU'RE PART OF THE REASON I'M CASTRATED!" and proceeded to punch things around me. No joke. The funny thing about that is that I really think I was part of the reason he was castrated... I used to run with a pretty rough crowd. On the way back, Evan and I traveled up the coast and camped out in the Redwoods. Wow! What a magical place. The picture above is me hanging out with Paul Bunyun... a real man. All in all, a full success of a trip.

On to some other pressing issues. As I've already hinted at, I'm going to be releasing 3 new prints shorty, but they won't be happening until the beginning of next month. I'm doing a whole restructuring thing and will have a whole new deal for August. The prints have gotten so popular that they started taking over my life... which is awesome! But doesn't leave much time to actually get any painting done. So I'm bringing someone in to take over the print business for me... Yes, that's right. I'm going to have some poor person under my employ. Hahahaha. Her name is Heidi Maas and she's an absolutely amazing human being and should treat you just fine. If she doesn't, she'll have hell to pay! So in light of having someone else doing my prints for me, I will have to bump up the prices moderately. Just $10 more so I can maintain keeping them affordable for everyone and make sure my new employee doesn't end up on the street with all the crazy castrated people running around. But I will of course be around and you can still email me about all things prints. This also solves the problem of me dealing with releasing the larger prints I have planned... now someone else can deal with all that madness and I can sell them directly from my store. Awesome!

Speaking of prints! Since it's going to be a couple weeks until the new prints and my store is looking a Depression Era grocery store, I released all my remaining AP prints of all previously sold out editions. There's only a few of each and after these AP's, they will be gone forever... forever... for... ever. So if you missed out on anything, now is the time to jump on it. I usually keep these AP's for request, but I have to put something in the store! Plus, it'll be good to start fresh in August and bring in a whole new era of printiness. Also, since I've got some help now, I will focus on getting some T-Shirts added to the store. Hopefully by the fall. Hi-fives all around.

So as many of you know, the March of the Exiled print was released and sold out in a little over a week! I have never dealt with amount of orders at once! Thanks you all so much and thanks for being patient waiting for your orders. I spent a whole day just cutting down cardboard and weeping. My local Fedex guys were equally annoyed and impressed by the sheer number of packages I dropped off in one day.

I was not going to release a print for a bit but since everything in my shop is pretty much sold out, I will be releasing 3 more in Etsy shop in a couple weeks. I'm also looking to get a couple of these pieces printed larger so that will come further down the road... and I may possibly do these prints through someone else so I don't have to deal with shipping the larger prints.

I will be shutting down the shop for a few days starting Sunday night. I'm on my way to the Bay Area with Evan B. Harris to haul all his work to his upcoming solo show at Johansson Projects in Oakland. I'm going to stick around for the fourth of July so hopefully I can blow some shit up or at least watch shit get blown up. Should be a good time. I do have some work that's staring me in the face, but fuck it... I need to get out of the studio some time this summer.

Also, I'm going to start guest blogging on Juxtapoz.com. I agreed to write some ridiculous shit every once in a while so I might be writing about my upcoming jounrey to the Bay. Keep posted.

I'm releasing a print from the Living in Twilight show and they are all ready to go... and look great! They are around 18" x 12" and the whole print size is 13" x 19" and are going for $60. These are my biggest prints to date but I do have plans to make some even larger prints in the future.
I was going to post these on Etsy today but it'll have to wait a couple weeks. I'm heading home to Pittsburgh to celebrate my birthday with my twin brother Ben and I'm also getting my wisdom teeth removed. Beautiful! So I'll be gone for 2 weeks and I decided to wait until I got back to post them on Etsy. I'm putting my Etsy store in vacation mode in 2 days anyways so what's the point? But you can pre-order the prints by emailing me at:

art@andykehoe.net

Thanks!

(photo by Marc Hug)

Thanks to everyone who came and responded and emailed and everything related to my show! I had a blast at the opening and got to meet many wonderful people. I even relatively controlled my whiskey lust and remained a very good citizen that night. Even after my friend Angelique gifted me with a whole bottle of bourbon at the opening. Devil woman! The last time she did that, I woke up at a friend's place with cuts and bruises all over my body and no sheets on the bed... because I threw up all over them. I'd like to think I'm growing wiser in my years... or maybe I'm just better at drinking. For those that haven't had a chance to check the show out yet please visit the Jonathan LeVine Gallery site.

Next on the list of things to do is a piece going to the Crazy 4 Cult show at Gallery 1988 in LA. It's a show based on artists representations of cult classics and I've got mine in the works. The show opens on July 16th 2009 and should be quite the event. I think it's hosted by Kevin Smith or something. Strange! Then I'm going to get real busy on my next upcoming solo show at Thinkspace in LA. That show will open on December 11th and I'll be posting plenty more on that one.

I just wanted to thank everyone for the amazing response to the print sale. I sold out of them in 4 days! Amazing! I ended up getting everything photographed and shipped and all is well indeed. I got a call from Jonathan LeVine Gallery yesterday and they confirmed that all my work arrived safe and sound. Whew. I'm always in a state of anxiety when I ship that much work across the country. And this was by far the most I've ever had to ship out at once. Well, all the bigger work is done and now I'm plugging away at some smaller pieces which is really fun. I hope everyone in the New York area and surrounding can make it out. I should be getting the postcards soon and I'll post it on this here blog when I do.

I've also decided to post 5 more of the sale items on my Etsy store if anyone missed out.

Thanks again!!

So I've finished all the large work for my upcoming show at Jonathan LeVine. Yeah!!! That is the great news... and the even greater news is that I think these pieces are the greatest I've done. But now the issue is getting these babies over to New York. I've got to photograph them all and then get them all packed up and shipped off. God, I hate this part of doing a show. This being the tail-end of my working on the show, I'm basically running on stale and dirty money fumes. SO I decided to have a little sale at my Etsy store to raise some funds and get these bastards to New York on time. The big city.
I'm selling any two prints available at my store for $70 which take $20 off each print. I'm no genius but I swear that's a mighty fine deal. I'm only doing 15 of these sale items so get them while you can.... Hmmm. Weak pitch. Where's the Sham Wow guy when you need him?

Thanks!!!

Link to Etsy Sale

I've been very busy blog, but let me make it up to you. Here's what's happening in my life. I had a Q & A session on Juxtapoz.com for a fun new feature called 20 questions. You can check it out here,

Andy Kehoe 20 Questions Juxtapoz

Good times.

And I also released some vinyl skins through a company called GelaSkins to decorate your beloved gadgets. iPhones, iPods, Laptops, Blackberries... even portable gaming devices. I can rule all those little rascals now. Oh, and Brian from GelaSkins was even awesome enough to approve the ridiculous and fun bio I gave him for the website. Just the thought of writing another serious 3rd-person bio almost made me want to go a little Harvey Keitel Bad Lieutenant... which would involve full nudity, a handgun, straight liquor out of the bottle and a whole lot of uppers and hysterical crying. That's so draining. Here's a link to my page on Gelaskins,

My GelaSkins!

Well, back to the painting business. May 15th is coming up insanely fast... Oh god. So fast.

I'll also be participating in a show called Movers and Shakers curated by Gino Joukar. The show will be opening on February 14th at POVevolving in LA. While I won't be submitting any original work to the show, I will be included in the limited edition print box set which is exciting. 12 other artists I love an admire with also be included in the set. Here's link to the box set preview.
Movers and Shakers Box Set Preview

So any of you lucky people in the LA area should check out the show. There's so many amazing artists in it that I can't even list them all... luckily the postcard does for me.