Help my friend, Christopher Robbins, bring back the WPA.  For everyone’s sake.

I have accepted a fellowship from the University of Southern California and am starting PhD work in Media Arts & Practice this fall! I am sad to leave New York City and my many awesome jobs but I am really excited about school and about living in Los Angeles again!

Latest show is up!  here & here Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce its third exhibition, REFASHION , which examines contemporary fashion’s influence on two emerging artists. Refashion changes and evolves over the course of the exhibition. At the show’s onset, Korakrit Arunanondchai and Pamela Lee take over the gallery with their collaborative fashion label [...]

I put up some mp3s from my old band, Arabella.

From A Star, a Soap and the Meaning of Art by James Franco I have been obsessed with performance art for over a decade—ever since the Mexican performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña came to visit my class at Cal Arts summer school. I finally took the plunge and experimented with the form myself when I signed [...]

Tompkins Projects announces FULL DISCLOSURE, opening January 15, 7 – 9pm. Brooklyn, NY – January 2010 – Tompkins Projects announces its second exhibition, Full Disclosure, a group exhibition of work that focuses on transparency and the visible versus invisible. Yuka Otani creates blown sugar sculptures, Cody Trepte bleaches paper and Maria del Carmen Montoya covers [...]

Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee DCCC | Tell John Boehner that you Support a Public Option How is this for being out of touch? Despite polls showing millions of Americans support a public option, Republican Leader John Boehner actually said, “I’m still trying to find the first American to talk to who’s in favor of the [...]

Quint Stevenson and I have started a gallery in Brooklyn!  Please come to our grand opening on October 16, from 7 – 9 pm. Tompkins Projects is pleased to announce the opening of our premiere show, ABSTRACTION AIN’T DEAD, featuring the artwork of Anthony Baab, Laura Braciale, John Fasano, Joshua Abrams Howard and Ziad Naccache.  [...]

A really cool stop-motion from my SF friend Tony Benna, with Adam Avilla, for MusicID.  The second video is a ‘making of’ and I think I may like it even better!