I just got back to Philly from the Midwest with my friend Jenna J! I had a great time. We mostly spent time in Grand Rapids.


We also visted Chicago, and met up with one of my best friends Maeve Parker at Chicago's Art Institute. http://www.artic.edu/

Max Beckmann
German, 1884–1950
Self Portrait
This was my favorite piece in the museum. It inspires me to paint something like it.


Utagawa Hiroshige. Red Plum and Moon. Kate S. Buckingham Endowment.

There was also a special current exhihit of japanese woodblock prints. I love them.


We also visted Bloomington, Indiana!
Here is a video Jenna J taped of a Dretime performance at the Cinemat in Bloomington.




After playing at the Cinemat I went to the "House of Strange", for another round!


I think Ben Myers made this flyer. Thanks guys!

Special shout out goes out to DVN Tarbuck! Thanks for the support, you are the first person in this city to own a Dretime Deck!

Here are some pictures of my new paintings on decks. I just finished two yesterday.










I also painted this 51 in x 27 in portrait of a blue whale on wood. I'm not sure if it is finished, or what?

I went to PS1 today with Bob Judge. Here are some favourite pieces.

This work reminds me of my childhood friend "Big Bird".

Paola Pivi
Life Is Great
2007
Urethane foam, plastic, wood, steel, feathers
236 x 133 x 118 cm
Courtesy Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano
© photo: Johanna Tilche

I think that Kathe Burkart's series about Elizabeth Taylor was cool. I really like how each painting uses some untraditional material.



Kathe Burkhart
Lick Bush: from the Liz Taylor Series (Butterfield 8)
2001
96 x 78”
Courtesy the artist and Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY

I would have to say that my most favourite artist featured at PS1 today is Tony Fitzpatrick. I love his collage. I need to make some collage time. Here is a pic of one of the pieces I saw today that I found on his website.

TonyFitzpatrick




Club Lucky Scorpion
mixed media, 2007
image 10" x 15"

I just made a flyer for this upcoming show on Halloween.

Some of my friends and I are featured a Halloween art show at the Tiberno Museum and/or the Ellen! Lou from the Geek Boys Press (and Eric Reamer was there), one of my former teachers from Moore College of Art and Design Rich Harrington, Alyssa Maloof, Todd Marrone, and I have some Halloween themed pieces on display in the gallery space.

Here is a picture of my piece.

Medusa (in Frame) 22in x 22in, oil on canvas

Here are some important links!
Todd Marrone
Tiberino Museum

Here is the information about the reception, which already happened... But the show will be up for a month.

What: Halloween Art Show Reception at The Ellen
Where: 3819 Hamilton Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
When: Friday, October 26, 6:00-9:00pm

I had so much fun on the 19th! Best birthday and party I ever had!

I just made this flyer for my upcoming birthday party!

I attended this show last night. I bought two Cheer Accident CDs, Enduring the American Dream, and their newest What Sequel?

On Saturday night I visited the Padlock Gallery to see the current show which features philly comic illustrators, like my friends Jesse Moynihan and Hans Rickheit. I really enjoyed the work displayed by all of the artists.

Here is a link for more about the
Padlock

Today I took some photos of Normal Love, which is a instrumental quintet for High Two Records. I had lots of fun at the photo shoot. I want to take more pictures.

www.myspace.com/normallove

I went to Greg Labold and Tara's art reception at Cafe Mocha last night. Their work has been in there for a few months, and they finally had a reception for it. Greg told be about a photo of me being in the Philebrity blog modeling one of the Labold Brother's shirts.
Here it is!
Philebrity

John took that photo.

Here is a video I made at a show at the Circle of Hope on Broad street in Philadelphia of local jazzercise avant garde group ShotXShot. This show was on September 8th, 2007.

I created an animation for my first music video!

Here is a flyer by Sherman Arts for an upcoming show I am performing in!

Dretime music at the Northstar Bar! My housemate Liz Knauss is also playing as Music for Ladels. We are exicted for this upcoming event!

There are two upcoming Dretime music shows this weekend 8/25/07 and 8/26/07! Luke Madeira designed the flyer for Party Island and I designed the flyer for the show with Captain Ahab at the Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Studies (PIFAS). The show at PIFAS is my CD release show. The album was recorded at Buddha Zen Studios on South Street, and contains songs I wrote since I was seventeen up until now. The name I choose for the album is "Go On A Diet."

Past History

November 19th, 2005
My artwork was exhibited in a group show with some great artists and friends at the Photo West Gallery on Lancaster Ave in Philadelphia. Irina Hasnas Pascal was the currator. She found a box of old photos from Romania in the 70s in the trash outside the Romanian Consul in NYC. The theme was to take the photographs and transform them into something new an different! The well-know painter/my former professor Frank Hyder invited me, and my painter friends Jean Paul Stanley, and Luke Maderia also participated.


I am photographed with Frank Hyder, and Irina Hasnas Pascal.

Oct 10, 2005

"In a recent work of art, Andrea Grigoropol ’05 poses a question that many a Moore student has asked – usually when they are late for class or work. “Where the heck is my Moore I.D.?”

Grigorpol’s screenprint depiction of her I.D. appears in the Lobby Gallery of The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Central Library on Logan Circle, 1901 Vine Street. It is part of the “Meet the Print” exhibition of work by student printmakers from Philadelphia art schools."

Actually, it is a portrait of my friend Colleen Sweeney's ID which at the time she forgot it in my silkscreen class.



Here is the second flier I made for my solo art show in summer 2005.



Here is the first flier I made for my solo art show in summer 2005. It features what I think is the first painting I sold.