Charles A. Hartman Fine Art

The gallery that represents me, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, has relaunched their site. I believe it would be categorized by people in my Ohio hometown as "right purty." Take a gander.

Portland Perpetual Print Post

I'll have an update about a new print in the next few days, but the print in conjunction with my recent show in Portland at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art is still available for order, so if you've been on the fence about picking on up, remove yourself from the fence and fall squarely on the side of purchasing, for the good of the nation.

Click here to order the print via paypal.

Eva Speer and the Gorgeous Amorphous

While in Portland installing my show at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, I was fortunate enough to see several of Eva Speer's amazing paintings and have wanted to recommend them here ever since. While the paintings and multimedia pieces are beautiful in small preview form, they're breathtaking when viewed in person. If you're in Portland, stop by the gallery and see if you can't pester Charles into showing you some of her work. It will be well worth the effort.

Opening Tonight: Art, Books, and Prints Galore

Tonight is the opening reception for Cloistered in Crowds at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, featuring dozens of pages and covers from my books and various projects over the last seven years. I'll be there signing copies of the new hardbound edition of Mother, Come Home and trying to justify all the dejected characters on the surrounding paper.

We'll also have on hand the (above) signed and numbered, 14 x 14", five-color limited edition silkscreen produced for the show. The print's been pre-ordered online at a decent clip, so if you're not going to be at the show and want one, I'd highly recommend ordering now:

Click here to order the print via paypal.

While the gallery owner and installer were putting the show up, I signed and numbered these, and I have to say this is the nicest print in which I've ever had a hand. (A tip of the hat to Kristen Thiele who painstakingly registered and screened the design.)

If you're in Portland or the surrounding area, I'll hope to see you at the opening. If you're in Vancouver or Seattle, I'll see you in the next couple of days. Put on your best slacks and monocle.

Setting Up the Cloistered

Here are a few before and after pictures of Charles (the gallery owner) and Mark (installation guru) setting up "Cloistered in Crowds," opening tomorrow at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art. It probably speaks poorly of me that the most interesting aspect of the installation process was seeing the vinyl lettering applied to the wall (something I would have butchered horribly). But to anyone else the show will be, I hope, more exciting than the lettering.

Cloistered in Crowds: Hot Off The Screen Press

The above print – populated by characters from books past, present, and future – for my upcoming show is now available for purchase online. The print is 14 x 14", printed in five colors on gray paper, signed and numbered in an edition of seventy five, priced at $65. I will be signing and numbering these when I arrive in Portland at the end of March, and they'll be shipping shortly thereafter (and of course being sold at the opening as well).

Click here to order the print via paypal.

(Shipping is available for international orders as well (just enter in your location when ordering).

Cloistered in Crowds

In the near future I'll post more information about the events following this opening on April 2nd. But for now, here's the general announcement for the show, featuring a detail from the original art for my Poetry Foundation strip.

Cloistered in Crowds Print

Here are a couple shots (the finished above and the initial step below) of the limited edition print that will be sold in conjunction with my show "Cloistered in Crowds", opening April 2 at Charles A. Hartman Fine Art in Portland. The prints will be signed and numbered, and limited to an edition of seventy five.

I'll post information about purchasing the print online once the details are ironed out.

Forlorn Gallery

I'm pleased and honored to say that original artwork from my books – as well as uncollected comics, drawings, and various oddities – will now be represented by Charles A. Hartman Fine Art.

Feel free to peruse the pages the gallery's put up. And in the near future I'll post more information about the show planned for next spring.

Muybridge in Portland

If you're in or anywhere near Portland, you've still got a few days left to see the exhibit of Eadweard Muybridge's "Animal Locomotion" showing at Charles A. Hartman Gallery.

Chicago, it turns out, is not anywhere near Portland these days, but I'd love to see these prints up close in personal. Muybridge has saved my brain on more than one occasion when I've been called on to draw a horse or tiger moving around, which lately seems to be bizarrely often (more on that – the tiger at least – later).