The Yes Men are a group of culture jamming activists who practice what they call “identity correction” by pretending to be powerful people and spokespersons for prominent organizations. They create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites to appear at conferences, symposia, and TV shows. While posing as these prominent figures of corporation, they use their identities to admit horrible mistakes on the corporations behalf, and also propose absurd plans for development. So, they’re cool. I made this poster for their recent “Fix the World” movie on HBO. They dig it, and it’s on they’re website. There’s also speculation that someone’s going to get the image tattooed, on there forehead, on tv, naked, really naked. Why do you read this stuff?

Some long awaited images from last June’s Oh Nancy; Home Coming Stories, at Gallery Diet in Miami. Those two dots with the spotlight focused on them is actually these guys.

I was invited to contribute to Side B: A Music Lover’s Anthology. Created by veteran and ingenue artists alike, Side B contains over 200 pages of lost lovers, rocking out, spirit guides, ghosts, and dinosaurs – it’s like an action adventure comic for the music lover in all of us. I ended up making kind of a collage-style guide to indie touring. This gem also features great artists like Jeffrey Brown (Clumsy), Brandon Graham (Multiple Warheads), Ryan Kelly (Local), Jim Mahfood (Clerks), Box Brown, Colleen Frakes, Cristy C. Road, Grant Reynolds, Joe Decie, John Isaacson, Jonathan Baylis, Liz Baillie, and Noah Van Sciver. Get it here!

I just contributed some illustrations to the UK’s premier cultural magazine Who’s Jack issue #27. The Bomb Guy is for an article about how “bomb” is a sensitive word, and how your going to get in trouble for saying it.
Above is my image for an article about being macho, and having a penis.
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Jailbreak Toys supplied my with some of their Obama action figures to customize for their “Art+Action” toy show at Toy Tokyo last November. My “Barack Paper Scissors” even saw a little press…

Hey, remember that IDN book I was talking about? My pal Nick Zegel scanned my spread, and now I shall post it for you! click it for high res. If you wanna see all the other talent this book stores, you can buy it here.

I sold merch For Dinosaur Jr a couple weeks ago in Cape Cod. Then I wrote about it for Impose Magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

I was recently assigned one of the most sacred tasks an artist can ever be met with. I was commissioned to transform a pair stolen bowling shoes into real life “voodoo turkey knockers”. Everyone knows three consecutive strikes is called a turkey, and my pal Colin has been especially hungry. After he slipped on his new “XXX” laced “voodoo turkey knockers”, the bowling gods elevated him to their level, and he quickly had his turkey.

These guys came to me in a dream. It was one of those dreams where your on some adventure, but your not in control because your shoes are possessed by Mexican wrestlers, giving you advice in Spanish, but in real life you don’t even know Spanish, so your wondering how your brain came up with the words, and also how you knew what they meant. So these shoes are for escaping danger, and learning Spanish.

Some scenes and sounds from a resent Rhode Island art show for Impose Magazine. Read the rest of this entry »

In these trying economic times, continuity often demands a hit to ones pride, or a duck from moral standards. BEG BORROW STEAL assembles the work of a variety of emerging artists who embrace theft and appropriation as key elements in their creative process.

BEG BORROW STEAL is a group show of 35 young artists, juried and curated by Aaron M. Segal, a MassART graduate. Aaron is currently the art preparator of the LaMontagne Gallery. His objective for the show was to organize a group of peers, who may at this point in their careers still have limited access to commercial galleries, and give them the opportunity to show in one of Boston’s best. In the spirit of the show, the LaMontagne Gallery has been begged borrowed and stolen while Russell LaMontagne is on vacation, hopefully he won’t mind.

Contributing Artists:
Aimee Belanger, Octavia Bennet, Brian Butler, Michelle Carter, Cydney Cnossen, Corey Corcoran, Ryan Crowley, Alexander DeMaria, Hilary Doyle, Terrence Gaidamovcio, GJYD, Jes Hughes, Vanessa Irzyk, Victoria Jacob, Alex Jacobson, Ian Jeffrey, Michelle Livingston, Melissa McGorty, Matthew Mosher, Monica Nydam, Destiny Palmer, Chloe Reison, Jeremy Roby, Rachel Salamone, Camden Segal, John Skibo, Catherine Stack, Wayne Stoke, Noelle Teague, Jena Thomas, Christopher Wawrinofsky, Alison Wilder, Brian Wilmont, Amy Yoshitsu, Michael Zachary

BEG BORROW STEAL
An Unauthorized Use of the LaMontagne Gallery

On View: August 15th – 29th
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 15th, 6 -8 PM

LaMontagne Gallery
555 East 2nd Street
South Boston, MA