Video of the Storm...

It's almost showtime!

It feels good to work your arse off and then see all of it hanging nice and tight on the stark white wall of a gallery.... and from the ceiling. Tomorrow night is gonna be RAD!

Thinkspace has a bunch of Sneak Peak pics up on their site. Go check those out!

Here's other random shots from setting up the show...

::abel

One Day to LA. and a new Print.

Well that time has come to pack my bags after a week of packing flurry and last minute mayhem. Not to mention a trek across the great white north to the other side of Lake Erie for a beautiful wedding at the Knox estate (Founder of the Albright Knox) for a very good friend and coincidentally my cousin and his wife Amber, some highly emotional grandma visitations, and an installation at the University of Michigan down in Ann Arbor including the opening. Now its back to the daily grind at the motors of general for about 6 more hours including a trip for my habitual monday burrito then finish packing personal wardrobe and supplies needed for this second week of travel, visitation and most importantly aesthetic happiness that some refer to as art.

Also wanted to give you a lil peek at what i will be bringing that will be available to the masses for consumption and making the walls more lively in whatever venue they choose be it offices, homes or fornification dens. Both colorways or of the limited kind one being more exclusive then the other. The thoery on this is heavily dependent on color and global warmings effects. Its pretty simple the warmer the rarer. Well i ll stop the babble and hopefully see the hordes of beautiful people that populate the left coast at the opening. DH IV

This show is kicking my arse!

Lame life truth: Everything takes longer than you think it will.

Super late nights, early mornings.... the end is near! Coffee is my god! I think the eye of the storm just past me yesterday so a little more wind and rain and I should be in the clear.... clean up the wreckage, photograph the remains and drive it all away... yaayyy!!!

Plan the work and work the plan.... until you screw something up and need to change everything around... technical difficulties seemed to have found their way to me, however, I think I like the new and improved design a lot better.

Here's some pics from the front lines...

Flat Earth's in progress:

3:



black is the new black, the globes get there final coat:



and last but not least, we should have named him Falcor!



::abel

Long Haul...

So the chainsaw thing turned out to be a longer process than expected... I now have some major respect for those log carvers, you know, those rednecks that turn logs into bears, eagles, owls, indians etc... that project will have to come to fruition for another show in the future... it turns out to be a good thing because i would never have been able to fit those along with everything else into my truck to bring down to LA... but the chainsaw was definitely good times.

on the way down to LA I drove through a killer little Southern Oregon thunderstorm complete with giant rainbow and crazy lightning, reminded me of a piece I did for the show...Here's the featured EVENTS page out of the the September Juxtapoz issue... pretty sweet!
For the last few days I've been finishing up some of the bigger sculpture pieces, my Dad has a big workshop with every machine and tool you could possibly imagine in it. So I'm letting my imagination run a little wild... ton-o-fun!


::abel

2H Bumbershoot Installation

I know this isn't for my L.A. show but it's somthin else that I've been up too. I recently was asked by BLVD Gallery to paint an installation panel for the 2007 Bumbershoot music and arts festival at Seattle center. It was an honor to do so and I got to paint with a lot of amazing artists. It's always cool to meet them and make new friends in life's kick ass rad path. I'm gonna head over to the spot and check it out today. There's supposed to be around 50,000 people rolling thru this year so I'm hyped on the mass exposure. I'll be back home later to paint more and then tomorrow I'm going over to Parskids studio to paint outside with that dude. Here's the killer show lineup---->
2H
Parskid
Anthony Lister
Ghost
Bigfoot
Deuce 7
Robert Hardgrave
Logan Hicks
Oliver Vernon
Bask
Tesone
Michael Genovese
Kel1st
Jesse Reno
Eric Green
Mike Poetzel
Cody Hudson
Warren Dykeman
Sneke
Hews
Myth
Iosefatu Sua
Darvin Vida
Peekaboo
Joshua Krause

Angel of death drawing. Think I'll have some new shirts available at the show. Gotta swoop some on the flip side.woot woot,stay up!------>2H

The Earth is still flat...

There are a few ideas and themes you will find running through my work for this show, one has to do with old ideas/beliefs that are still creating many problems today. I thought is would be appropriate to make a bunch of flat earths.... maybe symbolizing that there are many old ways of thinking and doing things that are still in action today.

The Flat Earths are not even close to being done but here are a few pics from the work in progress. They range from 1 foot to 5.5 feet in diameter. Here in Portland there is a great place called the Rebuild Center, it's full of reclaimed building materials that have been donated, one of my new favorite places to rummage through.
::abel

Storming in the Storm

Howdy Folks. working another late night through another nasty rain storm this week in SE MI. Its also humid as hell and i personally am excreting percipitation down on my paintings while working. As if you wanted to know about me sweating my hinny off . I suppose i just needed to do some bitching. any how thought i would share a few thoughts about what s going on down in the studio here in fashionable ferndale. first off i ve been listening to some incredible music. I have just got MIA s new cut earlier this week and i must say i am enamored with the track paper airplanes. . Also been jamming out to some ol Janis and some ol Spooky tooth. Cut Copy have made a few rotations as well as some G n R appetite style. Number 2 i found out i am very fond of Zooey Deschanel. I have been going through a bunch of her films over the summer and i haven t really been disappointed by one. Alright have to go put the brush back in hand and change the record.
ps the image is a photo I took this past weekend taking the kids out for a picnic dinner and a hike right before the first storm rolled in.

Well the Life's been wild lately,last week started off buying paint with Parskid and having some guy at the coffee shop have a heart attack in front of us and fall and knock over a bunch of mugs and start bleeding. After that we picked up Bigfoot from BLVD Gallery and went and painted these huge installation panels for bumbershoot. Like 50,000 people are gonna roll thru so I'm amped on that.Did that for 2 days then went to Sneakerpimps 2007 with Redman playing. Parskid painted this huge fiberglass shoe and BigFoot rocked out.I jacked a road closed only sign from a alley so we could all hit it up with tags.Some hobo was takin a pee on a dumpster and he was like"hey what are you doin with that sign!" and I was all like "SHUT UP!!!"haha and ran inside. After that i left cause it got crazy. Next day went to Havana's with Bigfooty and my posse and Conan O'brian was there hangin out, we were all too busy jumpin around spillin beer on girls to notice haha. Alot more happened this week but It takes four hours for me to type so I'll leave some fliks.

All Fliks taken by my homie Joey and Parskid! Wish we had the camera the other nights haha.

"Its not easy being GREEN" said Kermy

That was the late Seventies now we all have access to a great resource that makes green easier and more interesting for those not in the know. Treehugger and treehuggers green guides.
I have found the green guides to be quite a supurb reference.
Now go love the land.
DJH4

Environmental Blathering #142:

"Statistical data on the human impact of sea level rise is scarce. A study in the April, 2007 issue of Environment and Urbanization reports that 634 million people live in coastal areas within 30 feet of sea level. The study also reported that about two thirds of the world's cities with over five million people are located in these low-lying coastal areas."

Undercurrents

Thought i would share an early sketch of the background graphics for one of my pieces. This is a graphic breakdown of the gulf streams in our 70% of earth covering. I love where this piece is heading and will show you some images later of progress.
sticks and stones. DJH4

Rope and Metal Stuff!!!

Looky what I got the other day!

::abel

Another couple of Nomads...

These are 2 of the medium size Nomads. I believe the chainsaw is coming out next week to make the bigger ones, pics will follow no doubt. (see the picture of the giant wood beams in an earlier blog)

::abel

"Listening to the Storm"

I just gave birth to another one. My studio is overflowing with children. I think I learned a few things while painting this.... those always tend to be my favorite pieces in the end.

"Listening to the Storm" 60"x28"

::abel

Environmental Blathering #357:

"An example of an extremely quick climate change came during a period of time known as the Younger Dryas, which happened right after the last ice age ended, about 12,000 years ago. The Younger Dryas itself lasted about 1,000 years. What we didn't know until recently was just how quickly the Younger Dryas started and stopped. In a period of less than 50 years, the climate from the eastern US and Canada to much of Europe went from climate conditions much like today's, to frigid readings more like the Ice Age, at least a ten degree Farenheit change. That's how it stayed for a thousand years - and then the climate flipped back to normal in as little as 20 years."

It's like playing God!

It's one reason I love art so much... pure freedom to create whatever I want! My industrial planets are coming together nicely...

::abel

I would like a SoCo Manhatten up top please.

Alright so today is another looooong day at the 9-5er after a loooong nite in the studio. Granted this has been going on for awhile and i don t see it stopping at all til Sept 15th. One of the things that got accomplished last nite - I GOT ME A PLANE TICKET. So i ll be heading to LA on the 11th. Just so you eco heads know i ll be doing some Carbon offsetting for my flight and i ll keep you up to date when i do(most likely after i get back from LA) and who i ll go through to do so. I have also been considering instead of doing the straight up offsetting making a donation to an enviromental, water or agricultural advocacy group. The reason i am considering that instead is because my employer matches contributions on donations to non profits. Let me know your thoughts on this "issue", i ll be checking the comments.

Smackdown on my backside.

Alright i ve been a bad boy and have been slacking on the posting front. so let me introduce myself. Hi my name is Dennis Hayes and i ve been an artoholic for 30 years. Now that the hard part is over lets get to it.
I ve been an advocate of for the enviroment for as long as i can remember. I was a member of the "Green Team", a small sect of boyscouts who fought for the enviromental cause and more specifically the health of the great lakes. One of my favorite projects in grade school was one where i designed a recycling system for implimentation in the common household. I have continued to strive to be a sustained citizen especially making stronger efforts in recent years. I practice the prioritization of the recycling symbol (1 Reduce, 2Reuse, 3 Recycle) in my studio. I have a tendency to excel with number 2 (no pun intended with showing you my backside..., of my painting that is), by reusing refused lumber, paints, and other supplies. any how that s a brief background that i hope you enjoyed.

3-Color Print for the show...

My first screen print is ready for production. Locally made in Portland, Oregon. It will be released on opening night at the Global Storming show. I'm still pondering whether or not it will be available in 2 color ways... we'll see. Here's a sneak peek... ::abel

ffffffffffresh paint

newness... ::abel

Industriuos Globes

These are going to hang from the sky... ::abel

Nomadics

Just finished the first of the "Nomadics" series. Very happy with them... a whole new world just opened up for me. ::abel

Nomad: (noun) A member of a people having no permanent abode, a wanderer.