American Letterpress

 The Art of Hatch show print Feb 13-may 9 2010

Matt Rodriguez in the building… Jason Austin was too..

Eric Scissor hand

Sterling lost in translation

Texas native Flaco Jimenez played a few early tracks..

Welcome back to Circus Gold, we are pleased to have you here with us on the internet, with that said, please enjoy a new lighter look at an Art Show that we happened across… Ready? Time Machine Clean, this time we are headed back all the way to September of ‘09 :

While the new Circus Gold Lighter Look, which is based on our unpublished mission, is less judgmentally influential on the viewer than our contemporaries, I’ll type 2 things:

1) I am weary of drawings that do not bear erasure marks.

2) I like art that features cut stones, gems, diamonds, etc..

“Your Heart is not a Museum” is Levi Dugat and Leah DeVun’s second collaborative gallery show. Taking inspiration from traditional craftmaking, romance novels, daytime television, and Southern kitsch, Dugat and DeVun’s graphite drawings offer fantastical and iconographical portraits of their extended band of family, friends, and favorite soap stars.”

Circus Gold Amigos, James Brandon & Son.

Bring Bling,

SugarBricks@gmail.com

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Blowing up the screaming 400.com

Wes Hunter (Fort Peck Lake, MT. 2007)

Carly Rabalais

Wes hunter    (MFDoom SXSW 2007)

Carly Rabalais

Wes Hunter   (ATX pecan ramp locals 2008)

Carly Rabalais

for more check the screaming400.com site

The (Ms.) Lora Reynolds Gallery in the uppity downtown Austin had a Show back in July about and entitled ‘Mark Making, Dots, Lines, and Curves’ (so drawing, writing, spitting, & shitting?) which is basically all art except performance. Here is an excerpt from the explanation:

“…This exhibition brings together works that are concerned with the act of mark-making, including drawing, sculpture, video, cut paper, and painted wood. The show considers the primacy of how the pen or pencil hit the page, how the artists have controlled and exploited the possibilities of their mark, and how a line or curve can occupy a space….”

These pieces that Abelman is admiring were quite enjoyable, as records, not as Art, they are too attached to my heart to be anything but.

Sidebar: Why do Musicians call themselves Artists?  They don’t make Art, they make Music. Frank Didn’t. Dylan Did.

Graphed Pencil Portrait of my favorite Kobe Lebron of the Artworld: Francis Bacon, which still has same problem as the records and nude paintings of women, I already like them before I see them reconstructed as Art in a show, so has a crime been committed here? No. Simply pandering, but less specific than Johnny Cash’s ‘I got Stripes’.

If you are like Ol’ Sugar Brickonia, you are probably asking yourself if they aren’t talking about your studio or the bathroom at Lovejoy’s but no, they are seriously describing the art show as the act of mark making. I would have enjoyed seeing a faux lambskin contract with ‘X’ on the signature line delicately showcased on purple velvet behind glass, but instead that honor went to Ed Ruscha’s piece, which you can only guess at the title…

(G.....H….O…S…T…)

Ed Ruscha is a special breed of Sign Painter, or Fine Art Typographer I should say, because what he does is magically considered to be fine art therefore relevant in the modern world of ‘fonts’ and Vinyl lettering on demand. The mental accessibility of his ‘Words’ leads him to be both approachable by the masses (Juxtapoz Magazine for one) and the fine art world through power already instilled in the words and phrases he chooses.

Don’t misunderstand me, I like Ruscha’s stuff, and by stuff I mean well crafted letters (graff!), but that is simply because instead of paying to learn how to hold a Paintbrush in Art School, I set out, alone, and got paid to paint signs as an Amateur all while developing a strong hatred on all letters vinyl which, in the eyes of a sign painter only keep soup out your bowl and your belly bread free, but $350,000 for one word? A Brand new Bentley cost that much.

Diddy told me over bubbly.

The decline of the hand painted sign, however, cannot be blamed on Ruscha, but easy access to mundane technology, the same sting is currently being felt by talented freelance graphic designers all over the world.

Here is a sign I painted around the same time as this show for considerably less than $350,000.

Here is a clip of a film about an Argentinean Sign Painter who cracks up because his craft is increasingly becoming obsolete by kids with art degrees, who in between grants, work as graphic designers in vinyl sign shops.

Love Always,

SugarBricks@gmail.com

May 2009

Well the story goes ole Bonifacio earned Diplomatic Immunity in Hartford Connecticut. Put eyes, nose, n mouths on 77 trees in the Pope Park right off Hamilton Street and Hill side Avenue.

A stroll through the Park, The Zoo, or Jeet Kune Do Riot fighting training course is a lovely way for you and a loved one to enjoy nice weather and the company of friends .We know Rahsaan would agree , Lets watch as  Rahsaan ROLAND ROLLs RIGHT ON THROUGH THE ZOO with his flute and lil man on his shoulders!

Play music for animals more often my friends.

Dont forget to not miss our party at the Rudolph Projects in Houston Feb 5th this Friday. 6-9 pm 1836 Richmond Avenue Houston ,Tx

Love Always,

Circus Gold

january 17th sun. 2.00 till shit..

dj bands art skate bmx projection

RDOG

Gabriel Hedrick

This guy blew it up, but jason sunday ruled the day…. yo. pearl is where its at…..

Birthday Goodbye

A short film by Sugar Bricks,

Cinematography by K. Crumley,

& introducing Zach McDonald.