showing through

september 1st through october,
Edward Gorey, Mary Blair and Lark Pien
at the Cartoon Art Museum

i think that all museums are homes, and i'm a guest invited into these homes. it's a sentimental notion, maybe. there is an urgency to it though, so sentimental urgency let's say; like i really need to know that the home i have built for myself isn't the only one i'm welcome to. that there are other homes that i can kick my feet up in. that there is a place, and it's bigger and more awesome than my place (also awesome). whatever the case, i like it that they are bigger than me. they house worlds larger than my own. i can stretch in places like these.

alice is upset, illustrated by mary blair

i never ever thought that i'd ever be in one myself. not only am i in one this month, but in fact two. it's blowing my mind. it's like saying that i'm a guest and a host at the same time. that's just crazy. my worlds are converging upon each other! it sort of gives me goosebumps.

tezuka osama's Astroboy

yoshitoshi's retrospective
at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum
one of the best curated collections i've ever seen

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my brief residency at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum runs fromAugust 9th - 12th, and again on August 30th, 31st and September 2nd, alongside the fabulous works of Yoshitoshi and Tezuka Osamu.

my work is on display at the San Francisco Cartoon Art Museum, showing concurrently with an exhibition of Mary Blair illustrations and Edward Gorey's amazing set designs for the Broadway production of Dracula, from late August and continuing into the winter season.

the best times are now