Above is an example of the print I submitted to this year’s annual Print or Die! print exchange organized by Douglas Bosley and Dominic Senibaldi. Print or Die!: Twenty Ten is currently on display at the Madison Museum of Post-Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin. Thirty national artists are featured in the show. All thirty prints will also be exhibited later this year in Chicago at Sputik Press. Thanks to Doug & Dominic for including my work in this year’s collection.

CHICAGO ART MAGAZINE
Popped Up in The Loop: (Con)Temporary Art Space
By Carrie McGath on Feb 22, 2010 in Featured, Reviews
by Carrie McGath

…The painting by Douglas Burns was another highlight of the show. Its colors and light motion drew me in slowly, and then stayed with me throughout my thinking about the show as a whole entity. Its placement nearing the middle of the gallery made sense to me. It is a very realized and mature piece that acted as the meditative center of the show. In the painting there is a lone man who is meditative while moving forward and away from the viewer, and this really hinged the emotion in these three strong pieces. It seemed everything that was being grappled with in the show was being dealt with truthfully and genuinely in this piece by Burns…

Midnite Snacks : Chicago includes over 160 international artists presenting diverse studies that have helped actualize works of merit. Coming from far ends of the visual arts spectrum, these are works that usually fall in the shadow of more important pieces. This is a collection of the forgotten blueprints lying around every artist’s studio. From abstraction to photo-realistic drawing to digital renderings, each piece functions as the backbone of what is to come.

Midnite Snacks exhibited at Ghost Print Gallery in Richmond, VA and No Globe Gallery in Brooklyn, NY in 2009. Plans to extend the show to Milwaukee, WI and a museum in Newport News, VA are in development.

“Weird It Up!”

“Weird It Up” is an exhibition featuring work from Titus O’Brien’s Fall 2009 Advanced Research Studio course at SAIC. The class consisted of Priory Degree students working in multiple disciples, painting, photography, sculpture, video, and writing. In one critique, O’Brien borrowed a line from Rob Reiner’s Spinal Tap to help a student make their work more intriguing. He told the student to “turn the weirdness up to eleven.” “Weird it up” quickly became the catch phase that defined the class.

Artists
Rajee Aryal, Douglas Burns, David Cavaliero, Tony Costello, Sina Haghani, Ayla Hibri, Peter Neu, Brenna Quinn, Mary Quinn, Nace Sayles, Dominic Senibaldi, Radek Skalski, Titus O’Brien, Emily Wagenknecht

Opening March 4th: 4:30-8:30pm

Come down to the (Con)Temporary Art Space this Thursday for the inaugural exhibition of Chicago’s newest art space. The show will featuring work by the members of the (Con)Temporary Art Space.

Opening reception
Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:30 to 8:30 pm

Work by:
Douglas Burns, Tom Burtonwood, Emily Clayton, Theodore Darst, Jim Duignan Josh Finck, Marian Frost, Elizabeth Furani, Laurra Hieber, Serena Himmelfarb, Holly Holmes, Henry James Glover, Nate Lee, Sarah Loude, Ed Marszewski, Rachael Marszewski, Tim Mellon, Andrew Rigsby, Chris Roberson, Kevin Stanton, & Kenneth Zawacki

The The (Con)Temporary Art Space is open daily from 11:30 - 5:30pm. (except Mondays)
and located at 208 S Wabash downtown Chicago

Here is an example of one of my new paintings. I’ve updated the Portfolio page with new work from 2009. I’ll be updating the website and adding more work over the holidays.

I received issue #4 of the Czech Republic based punk zine How Can Limo Kid Kill Your Dreams?. A charcoal and pencil drawing of mine from 2000 entitled, “Punk Show” is featured on the cover. The drawing borrows the composition from Caravaggio’s The Martyrdom of St. Matthew (1599-1600). The narrative, however, takes place at a mid-1990’s punk show. If you can read Czech, be sure to pick up this publication. Issue #4 features interviews with Propagandhi, Slobodna Europa, XBananX, and reviews of the latest releases by MCD, Riot Cop, Coldbringer, Austin Lucas, Chuck Ragan and many more. The Revisions album Revised Observations is reviewed. I can’t read Czech, but I’ve been assured that the review is “130% positive.” That’s a slight improvement from MRR’s review of it, hahaha. Above is a photo of the zine. Below is Caravaggio’s painting for those who are interested.

This is a drawing I did that will be used for the cover of the first issue of MONO. MONO is a zine based out of Sao Paulo, Brazil. According to editor Isadora Fernandes, the issue will focus on the backstage and personal lives of people involved in the DIY music community. An interview with the Red Dons, conducted by Ruivo, will also be featured in the issue. In other Red Dons news, I just completed a Brazilian tour report. It will be published in the Mountza Zine from Greece.

The Chemicals recorded an album last month. I am not sure when it will be released. Look for it to be available this fall. Tuesday night will be my last live show with the group. If you are in Portland, please tune in to 90.7FM on Wednesday night. We are preforming live on KBOO’sLife During Wartime. I am leaving the group to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.