Well, I was sitting on my porch having a well earned smoke break, and I noticed the buds are growing in on the trees... yes. Leaves are coming and coming soon. Thank God. Thank God spring is coming. I'm enjoying winters less and less as I get older. The first snow is nice and beautiful and all, but after that... Over it. So welcome Spring! I've missed you.
I finally got around to replacing those sold out prints amongst the tax madness. I added a couple smaller $35 prints so that's fun.
So just a general update and a get to know me post... but if you get too close I'll just push you away. It's a defense mechanism and it's not my fault... it's not my fault.
I'm working right now on a contribution to Blab! by fantagraphics which is fucking sweet. I used to read those at the comic shop and got so excited by all the art that decorated those pages. It was one of my first introductions to some of my favorite artists and a constant source of inspiration. . Weird thing is, I actually made a mock proposal to Monte Beauchamp, the editor of Blab!, in my "art business" class at Parsons asking to be in the book... but never sent it. Then one day a few months back, I got an email from Monte asking me to be in the next issue and the clouds parted and god reached down and put a sugar-coated gumdrop in my mouth. So it's awesome to actually be involved in it.
Also, I'm included in the new art issue of Trace Magazine. I believe it's issue 81. Anyways, there's a bunch of really great artist included in the issue, so you should check it out. You can also download a digital PDF version of the issue on their website.
I also have some shows coming up this year. The first is a group show coming up in July at Gallery 1988 SF. I only have a couple pieces going out there... but that won't keep from from coming to San Fran for the opening. Any excuse to go out there is a good one. Get a burrito or two.
I have a three-person show with my brother Ben and the awesome Hiro Kurata. I know Hiro from my Parsons days, and he's still one of my favorite artists out there. The show will be opening in October at Black Maria Gallery in Los Angeles.
And after all that, I have only two shows in 2009 and they're both solo shows. Sweet. The first is going to be at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York and in December I'll be showing with ThinkSpace in LA. That should be an amazing year!
So to celebrate the opening of my new site and to not fume on the bullshit that lead to the closing of the old site, I'm posting a couple new prints to replace some of the sold out prints. Yeah!
You can check out the print here.
Prints!
But now I have andykehoe.net!
So after many many countless and fruitless attempts to get my website back from those ass-licking scoundrels at PagesGarden (my web and domain servers) I've given up. They broke me. I am a broken man. I came across a customer review section of good 'ol PagesGarden... and they were not good reviews. They were horrible and frightening. There were a number of people that wrote reviews that were in my same situation and never got replies after months of trying. Wow. So I decided just to put a fork in it and begin a new site. Unfortunately, now I have to inform everyone that had my old web address and email that I've had to change. That fucking blows. So BEWARE!! Stay away from PagesGarden if you plan on putting up a website. They did quite a number on me. Anyways, for all those that find this, my new website address is
www.andykehoe.net
and my new email address is:
andy@andykehoe.net
Oh god... somehow my domain expired and my website is a no go. I thought I paid it but I guess that was a foolish assumption. Well, I just paid to renew it and it's not doing much still. Hopefully it comes back to life in a few moments. Sorry folks! I'm just going to sit here and refresh my website until it comes back. Stressing...
**update**
I just checked my billing transactions and I actually paid them in December... what in god's name is going on here? I could cry... and punch someone's teeth out.
**update 2**
8 hours later. Site's still not up and I've gotten no reply. Getting very angry.
I'm leaving on my treacherous journey through the frozen tundra of the midwest to Chicago tomorrow. So I'm posting the preview for the show on my site tonight while I can. It's not directly linked on my site so this is some fun, secret shit we got here. Check it out. the link's below....
I've had a good number of people ask me if I had prints of this particular piece and damn it all, I gave in. I hope you're happy... I'm happy about it. So I mean that sincerely. I think these acorn guys will be running about nimbly wimbly in upcoming pieces as well so keep an eye out. I'm now getting prepared for my trip to Chicago next week. I have a friend in Chicago that says he feels like the wind is punching him in the face with cold, leather gloves... in so many words. My god. Plus it's supposed to snow that weekend so driving there should be great fun. Pray for me.
Here's a link to the Prints shop
Oh, and sometimes the html pages don't load up on your browers right away, so if you don't see it, simply refresh the page and it will appear like magic.
Hello Hello. Sorry so long for an update, but I've been hard at work for this here show. It's a two person, one-family crackerjack extravaganza featuring myself and my brother Ben... well, not so much an extravaganza... just an art show called "The Safest Place in the World." It's great to have a show with my hermano and the show's shaping up to be a dandy. So if any of you are in the Chicago area, you should drop on by and we'll talk about Chicago things.
Jonathan Viner (Weiner) is having a solo exhibit opening this Saturday at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York. It should be a great show and anyone in the area should check it out... even I'm driving up to New York from Pittsburgh to drop in on the excitement. And there's sure to be a Viner/Kehoe dance battle at some point, so be sure to stick around for the after party as well. Hopefully he doesn't put my into the Royce Gracie arm bar, pretzel death grapple maneuver that I've heard of him using every now and again... and from what I know, no one's ever escaped that move... yet.
So I heard the world's supposed to end in 2012 according to the Aztec calender or something.... oh wait, just checked and it's the Mayan calender. Whew, almost blew it there. Anyways, not sure if I'm ready for all that mayhem... it's only four years away! That's like going to college, but at the end of four years you don't get a diploma, instead you get a comet in the face, or an alien death ray and everyone dies or explodes or something world-ending like that. I told my sister I'm part of an alien species that's here to scope out all the sensible people in the world and leave all the fundamentalist nutbags here to enact out Revelations chapter by chapter... god knows they've been patiently waiting for it. Wow, come to think of it, that would be almost the opposite of Rapture. But she's extremely frightened of aliens so I think she'd rather stay in Armageddon... that's just crazy. We'll get her to come with us.
There are a lot of really amusing end of the world scenarios out there. Like the one called the Singularity theory where ground breaking discoveries and inventions are made in rapidly spiraling succession until at the end, like 30 major breakthroughs are made in one second and it propels humankind into a new realm of enlightenment! Or something like that. What an orgy of technology and innovation that will be in that final second of human existence! Can imagine that last group of scientists together going nuts?? "Woah! Look what I - Look what you- Woah!! Wooooah!" FLASH! Then after that, who knows? Some say we reach a new plane of understanding with the universe and burst into light beams, or we meld with our computers and evolve with technology into a whole new species. i dont't know... but I kind of like having a body. But this isn't supposed to happen until around 2030 so I'll probably be old and broken by then. Fuck it. I'll live in a computer or bust into stardust. I just hope to get at least one robotic limb before I go.
