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.

There's no way to type that show title with out all caps. This is a group show that I'm participatign in that benefits the ASPCA which in turn helps animals in need. With the recent downturn in the economy, even more animals are being abandonned and are in need of new homes. The show is curated by Aliya Naumoff and is a great mix of painting, sculpture and photography. The show opens February 18th at Fuse Gallery in New York City.

Well, it looks like the human race has survived yet another year. *Hi-Fives* I hope everyone celebrated accordingly and with out the need of a police escort home. I just got home to Portland from a couple weeks off in the homeland of Pittsburgh. Good times indeed but I'm excited to get back to work on my upcoming show at Jonathan Levine.

I'm also finally releasing one of my favorite pieces, "Noble Voices Lie Hidden and Mute" as a print. It's been on the block for a while so I'm excited to finally have it out there.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I went up to visit some friends in Seattle and had dinner with them and the mighty Paulus family. Food, drink, ping pong, creepy cat puppets, belly twirling: you name it, we had it in spades. Good times indeed. Now I am back in Portland officially starting my solo show at Jonathan Levine's in May... whew. But as with most shows, May isn't nearly far enough and I'll soon be in panic/crying/sleep-deprived-mode finishing the last pieces up for the show. In order to cut down on the great and final madness, I'll try to disperse the crying and panic evenly over the next few months. But in all seriousness,very excited to get it under way!

Also, I released a new print on my Etsy store of the "Cost of Modern Living" piece. People are digging the blues and the printer is happy to finally be using some cyans for once. Nice. I'm also temporarily housing one of my brother Ben's prints until his Etsy store goes up. The piece is called, "Loner Days." Love it.