Kris Graves Project opened up a few months ago in the 111 Front building in DUMBO, Brooklyn (across the hall from moi) This is a solid gallery, run by two solid directors. Check out their latest show by Peter Baker, featured above. Running through May 10, 2009.

*photograph by Peter Baker, from the series My Lost City
*photograph by Peter Baker, from the series My Lost City

Been loving this work since I first spotted it with my girl Kristin at Rhona Hoffman in Chicago. Her work is mad beautiful, and something I could stare at for hours on end. Something about the pretty ladies and rhinestone that has me hooked.

* Mickalene Thomas, Portrait of Lovely Six Foota 2, 2007, Rhinestone, Acrylic, & Enamel on Panel

This reminds my of a friend of mine... and it terrifies me.

*Image by Lyndon Wade, from the series, The Birds

wishing for warmth

* Photograph by Pablo Lopez, Cabo de la Vela 1, Columbia 2006
* Photograph by Pablo Lopez, Miso Ha 1, Chiapas, 2007

*photograph by Doug Dubois, from the series, Avella.
*photograph by Doug Dubois, from the series, Avella.

Home...

California was sunny, and despite a major 'tectonic split' on Cesar Chavez, I really enjoyed myself.

*Fig. 11. "5529 W. Sunset Blvd." From Ed Ruscha's A Few Palm Trees (1971). Courtesy of Ed Ruscha/Gagosian Gallery.

Four nights in a row, four dreams about Mos Def. Life is good.

Leon and Lazlo strikes again with the ultimate Ladybird gift.

On the road again...

*photograph by Dorthea Lang, Toward Los Angeles, California, 1936

I love photo studio portraits. These photographs are taken in Accra with hand painted backdrops.

*photograph by Philip Kwame Apagya, Kaaba Style Shama, 1996
*photograph by Philip Kwame Apagya, No Title

Hello, I love you

*Tomoko Yoneda MUD BATH, Hadjduszoboszlo, Hungary, 2005

*photograph by Benedikt Partenheimer, Pulga, Mexico City. 2006
*photograph by Benedikt Partenheimer, Felix Riebl, Berlin, 2007

*photography by christopher starbody

*photograph by Edith Maybin, from the series, The Conversation Document, 2008
*photograph by Edith Maybin, from the series, The Conversation Document, 2008

I have the sweetest friends. Leon and Lazlo found this book for me. It is perfect in so many ways. Thanks for looking out lady.

a weekend with home cooking and long walking....

The sun is shinning, the air is cold, and the magnolia trees have bloomed. Days like this, I have to get nostalgic.

*Blackstar, Definition

*photograph by Kyoko Hamada, from the series, Hello Lovely Walls
*photograph by Kyoko Hamada
Bill Charles Represents

I had the fortune of bumping into this photographer in Swaziland. Her work is moving, and she is an incredible woman with a lot to share. Swaziland has the highest percentage of women with HIV in the world. With 26% of the population infected (population a little over a million), Krisanne addresses the issue through young woman.

*photograph by Krisanne Johnson, from the series I love you real fast.
*photograph by Krisanne Johnson, from the series I love you real fast.

Love this guy. His daughter has been posing for him since she was small. The collaboration is amazing. I get a real sense of their relationship through these recreations, or adaptations of early dutch paintings. I prefer his older work, when Paula, his daughter, is younger. Her age reveals her innocence and importance in ways that the newer photographs can not.

*photograph by Hendrik Kerstens, Lampshade
*photograph by Hendrik Kerstens, Sunburn