friday after next.

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fucking 307 am and im ready to head home, and wash this fucking filth off my body. A new skin has formed in pastel colors on my hands, forearms and feet, due to paint slangin'.
-rapidograph ink smells like cat urine
-my right arm hurts at the bend due to russian throwing knives last night with Frank
-next weeks show might be a 2 man show, instead of just me by myself
-futons are stupid to sleep on
-ramen is amazing
-dont climb up the side of buildings if you're drunk and the first summer thunder storm is peaking

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fuck, im tired.

Art Hop May 2009

So tomorrow (tonight? im typing this at 1 in the morning) is art hop/open studio/ first thursdays. I think most cities do them by now, and if you live in a city that doesnt-well....too fucking bad. I got my studio all nice, and hung all my paintings and drawings, most of which Im over already-they've seen a few venues, cities, and 2 states, so I think I'll have a painting sale tomorrow.





And something you should definitely check out tomorrow is Shannon Hunters, "three more years", collection of photos, shes showing at Broadway Studios.
Three years ago, she took photos of alot of her friends, most of which were couples at the time, and mostly on their porches. Well, she revisited them this year, and needless to say, most of them are no longer together. DRAAAAAMA (say it in a 15yr old girl voice). right? kinda. It makes for a really interesting show, whether you know the folks or not.
I know most of them, and its really interesting to see the change; whether it be living situation, relationship status, or just how peoples faces have changed in only 3 years. I like it. So will you. Heres some shitty cameraphone previews





and heres a photo of Frank Tabarez's work. Frank and I look alike, kind of, well not really, we're both young, handsome, Mexican, painters, living in Fresno, and working in the same studio. And we have the same hair. It makes for fucking confusion amongst folks sometimes. I think if me and frank were cousins, or brothers, growing up, we'd have burned this fucking town to the ground by now. Anyways, he's my doppleganger and he makes amazing fucking work.

"Frank could be your twin. Your more handsome, more talented, twin".-Josh Wigger.




I had an earache earlier this week. My mom gave me this medicine from Mexico, it helped. It went away. The front translates to "Healthy Ear".

All watched up.

So, spray paint magician/paint dump iron chef and all around bad ass (in his own mind) Josh Wigger, will be having a show in two locations,on the same night.
One of which is a collection of these silly little watercolors he's been doing to keep his mind off of his loneliness, entitled "all washed up".
Theyre pretty exciting, though, I am a water color fiend.

THe other show is compiled of pages he drew on from this 200 year old book he found while looking for food in dumpsters in Berlin. Yes, thats right, Berlin. Motherfucker was stuck there for like 6 months last year after he missed his flight home.
It was all good though, since Joshie is great at thriving in shitty situations, while in Europe, he:
painted murals anywhere somebody'd let him, made money as a backup dancer for various techno-music festivals, ate outta' dumpsters, slept with wolves for warmth, fell in love with every pretty face he met, fought with the Berlin police, graffitied, pissed on, snorted, swallowed, drank, ate, jacked off into, pretty much anything you could think of.
The shows called "Doing lines to pass the time", it gets its name from Joshs addiction to snorting his own dandruff.

Anyways, as much as I talk shit about the guy, hes one of my bestest good friends/ brother/lover, and he always puts on good shows,and by that I mean, if the art sucks he's known to start arm wrestling matches/parades/break dancing competitions, whatever it takes to keep the audience entertained.

check it out, and buy something for your mother.

busy busy busy!

heres an old acrylic ink i did of my idol, DR. Dre.

feed my obama

saw this today. kinda weirded me out. Obama in the upper left corner for no apparent reason. and foodmax. Obama and foodmax. It was posted up outside Harbor Freight, which if you live in Fresno, you know is a hardware store where you can get real shit quality tools for dirt cheap. needed staples, so whatever.



bucket rainbow.

Debts to society

This is a door I painted at "Debts to Society", a boutique thats opening today in Chinatown, Downtown Fresno. Its a metal door that blocks people from watching you take a shit, piss, or possibly masturbate while at the store. Same deal as the H street door, I was commisioned to recreate one of my drawings. I gessoed it, then pumped the fucking thing out in 20 minutes using a sharpie paint pen, while being engulfed in pot smoke the entire time. It was fun despite going home smelling like my college days.

Eigch Streat

Heres a door I painted for the front of the H-street office, last summer. They needed something to block passer-bys from seeing the mail slot, so thats why the bottoms painted up. They chose an image from one of my drawings and were pretty adamant on me painting it. One shot oil paint on glass, it was a little tricky cuz I had to paint it backwards on the inside of the glass, plus I made a fucking mess everywhere. I would have just left the reindeer if it were up to me, but whatever, it looks okay I guess.

GO TO THIS!

My buddy Andrew who runs the VILLAGE HILL clothing company, opened up a boutique with a couple o' friends in the historic ChinaTown, located in the outskirts of downtown Fresno. The shop looks good already, and nothings up yet. I painted the bathroom door with a re-creation of a self portrait I did last year. I'll post it up tomorrow, when its done. But, anyways, the shop has its grand opening this saturday and it should be fun.

CHECK IT OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Donkey Puncher

unless youre a complete dummy, you've seen my flyers around fresno promoting my show at both Teazer's locations ( downtown and Tower District), well the shows about mid-way through, so if you havnt yet, go check it the fuck out! and if you have, then go check it again! and if you hate mediocre art work, then go to Teazer, only stare at your phone the entire time, order a drink and sit down whilst waiting for your tea to cool. but keep in mind that you gotta keep your eyes on your phone the entire time, completley ignoring your surroundings. You'll blend right in with about half of the customers.