A Luminous Weekend

Just returned from New York from my latest show, Luminous Reverie, at Jonathan LeVine Gallery. All  in all, an exceptional trip. I drank at least 8 different bourbon cocktails, shared a 38 oz steak with my wife Ash, got a friend slapped at a bar, punched at least 3 people in the gut and returned with out a scratch... well excluding the small bruise on the bridge of my nose when Ash accidentally elbowed me in her sleep. The show itself was an amazing experience and I got showcase the new resin paintings for the first time in the Big Apple. The overall reception was extremely positive so I can rest easy.

I posted the new work to my website and my Facebook Page. Please check it out and if you are in the New York, please drop by Jonathan LeVine Gallery and see it in person. The show is up until June 15th.


I'll be releasing 5 prints from the show on Friday at 4:00 p.m. EST. Here's the info on the release.

1. Relish the Moments of Glory
20" x 20" including 1" white border
edition of 100
$75

2. Roamer of the Subterranean Forest
22" x 18" including 1" white border
edition of 75
$75













3. Riding a Dream

22" x 18" including 1" white border
edition of 75
$75

4. A Flowering Fascination
20" x 16" including 1" white border
edition of 75
$65

5. A Placid Pause
12" x 16" including 1" white border
edition of 75
$50















Also please note, I will be releasing resin print versions of Relish Moments of Glory and Roamer of the Subterranean Forest later in the year.

Report from the Maeltrsom

I have an update on the resin prints which can be considered good and bad. The update is that turned out wonderful... and quickly sold out before I even posted them. Here are some pictures of the completed resin prints.

I've been meaning to post about it, but I've been caught in an art making maelstrom that has left me little time to do anything but desperately art make. My next show at Jonathan LeVine is coming up on May 18th, so every minute counts at this point. I am incorporating some new elements into my work, literally into my work, since it'll all be submerged in resin in the end. Some paintings are finally coming together and are actually starting looking like something. That's always been a satisfying aspect to my work, but especially now with the resin pieces. Most of them start out as an abstract idea, a hopeful plan and a lot of improvising.
After this show, my next show isn't for another year so I can slow things down a bit. I've been going full tilt for years now, and I'd like to leave some room for other things in my life. Like updating this blog with updates more pithy than practical... and more than four times a year.

I'll also be releasing a new print this Friday at 4:00 pm ET. It'll be my last print release until the end of May when this show is over. Here is the info:

Cloaked in a Vast and Quiet Wonder
12" x 18" including 1" white border
edition of 75
Signed and Numbered
$60

Cloaked in a Vast and Quiet Wonder

Resin Print Progress

Well, looks like the world is still here. Which is a good thing since these resin prints are making some serious progress and it would be a shame if they all burnt up or fell into a chasm. They look great so far and I'm very happy with how they turned out. Though, they are taking a little longer than I thought, which doesn't surprise me. Very few of my endeavors end up being completed in a reasonable time frame.
Regardless, I hope to finish the first batch off relatively soon. I'm done painting all 3 layers of leaves on most of the panels and just need to do some blending and wood staining to finish it off. This first batch will have 15 pieces and 6 are reserved so far. Send me an email if you'd like to reserve one.
Here are the specifics again.
14" x 14"
Acrylic, Oil and Resin over Giclée Print
$350

andy@andykehoe.net

Here are some shots of the progress.

1st layer of leaves.

Then 1/4 inch of resin added

2nd layer of leaves

Then another 1/4 inch layer of resin added

And the 3rd and final layer. 

Some prettying up and it'll be ready for the final thin layer of resin to seal it all up.

The wood will also be stained a darker English Chestnut.

I'll also be pre-mounting them so they are ready to hang. I'll even send some wall mounting hardware along with it. Boom.

Why Thank You

I love Thanksgiving. Though I'm not one of those folks that celebrates the misconstrued, weird history behind it, I do like the idea of being all thankful about everything all day.
In this often horrifying and crazy world, I actually do have a lot to be thankful for. I have an awesome family and an amazing wife that I recently tricked into marrying me. She's amazing and I feel like a very lucky chap. I have an outstanding group of friends and colleagues around me. I'm ever thankful that I love what I do for a living even though it consumed my soul and traps me in a black hole where neither time nor socializing exist. I'm thankful that I have a job that I can listen to audio books and work at the same time. I am thankful for the Harry Potter audio books for being so well produced and enjoyable. Jim Dale is amazing. Thanks Jim Dale. I'm thankful that I can live with cats that somehow don't kill me with allergies. And of course, I'm thankful that I have the privilege to share my work with such a kind, gracious and generally awesome group of art makers and art lovers out there. So to all of you out there that have put my work into a show, bought a painting, bought a print, said hello at an opening, shook my hand, gave me a hi-five, wrote me a nice email or message, interviewed me, blogged about me, commented on that blog post, or just thought, "Huh. I like this." To all those and everyone in between, I thank you.

To get in the holiday spirit, I'll be releasing 4 new prints this Friday, November 23rd, at 3:00 PM Eastern Time through my Etsy Store. Here is a list of the prints and all the info.

Mutual Enchantment

limited edition giclee print of 75.

18" x 18" including 1" white border

printed on Innova Smooth Cotton 315gsm, High White, 100% Cotton

signed and numbered

$65

Profound Encounters Amid the Forest Deep

limited edition giclee print of 75.

20" x 20" including 1" white border

printed on Innova Smooth Cotton 315gsm, High White, 100% Cotton

signed and numbered

$75

Companion

limited edition giclee print of 75.

16" x 12" including 1" white border

printed on Innova Smooth Cotton 315gsm, High White, 100% Cotton

signed and numbered

$50

Days of Cider

limited edition giclee print of 75.

12" x 15" including 1" white border

printed on Innova Smooth Cotton 315gsm, High White, 100% Cotton

signed and numbered

$45

I also have some resin prints of Mutual Enchantment in the works as well and I hope to be done with them in early December. I basically took a photo of that painting when it was half completed and made prints of that. Then I sealed those prints to the bottom of a framed wood box and put a layer of resin on them. The next step is to paint a layer of willow leaves and put another coat of resin on. I'll repeat that for a couple layers and the final result will be a 3Dish print that is closest to representing my new resin paintings  It'll be a good middle ground between a print and an original painting. They are 14" x 14" and I'll only be making 30 of them and they'll be selling for $325 each. More info on them to come as I start finishing them. I should have 15 of them done in a couple weeks. Let me know if you'd like to reserve one as well. Here are some quick process shots so far. 

First I take a wooden box and seal and prime it. In this case I used some black gesso to prime. 

Also, here are the prints before I adhere them to the box.

Here the print is sealed to the bottom of the box and it then received a 1/4" layer of resin.

At this point they will be painted with a layer of willow leaves, then another 1/4" of resin and so on. There will be 3 layers of willow leaves and then a final layer of resin to finish. 

More to come.

Bad Dads

Just a quick update before I rush around to get my Halloween costume together.
I'll be showing at the Wes Anderson Tribute show, Bad Dads, tonight at Spoke Gallery in San Francisco. It's also a costume party, so it should be quite the event. Wish I could be there.

Here's my piece for the show. I couldn't pass up doing a Fantastic Mr. Fox piece. It's called "Days of Cider." This is also an ode to Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven. I always loved the Rat character and imagined him in better days.

Days of Cider

Back to the East

Just returned from LA a couple days ago and I feel like the show was a smashing success. Thanks to everyone that made it out and got to see the work in person. Overall, it seems like the majority of people were very into the new resin technique and I can't wait to explore this direction further. Please check it out in person if you can, as I really feel like it resonantes so much more in person. Also, if you're close to the gallery, send me a chicken burrito from Pinches Tacos. We can't get burritos like that on the East Coast. All we have here is some grade A sarcasm. I can certainly trade.

I'll be releasing 3 prints from the show through my Etsy store on Friday at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Summoning the Dusken Wanderer

Summoning the Dusken Wanderer
20" x 20" including 1" white border
edition of 75
$75

Sir Botley, Lord of Troublemakers

 Sir Botley, Lord of Troublemakers
12" x 22" including 1" white border
edition of 75
$70

Isle of the Floating Moon

Isle of the Floating Moon
16" x 12" including 1" white border
edition of 75
$45


I'll also be releasing 3 more prints in a few weeks with a new venture in resin prints. Stay tuned.

Into the Depths

Well, my next show at Thinkspace Gallery is on the horizon and the ship has almost passed through the fogs of exhaustion and the rocky shores of panic and fear of complete disaster. Never in my life have I been involved in a show with the upmost hopes of reaching new heights with my work coupled with the heaviest fear of absolute failure.
For this show I decided to add a new dimension to my work and that is the dimension of depth. I've been playing with layers and depth a good deal over the years and for this show I decided to push that even further by adding layers of resin to my work. Each of these new pieces is made in a box and comprised of multiple layers of resin that I paint on and build up to make a 3D-like effect at the end. So it feels like the characters are actually immersed in their surroundings.

This is after several layers.

Resin layer poured

Trees added on top of lovely creatures

The final result after a couple more layers of trees

I only intended to do a few of these at the beginning stages of the show, but I just kept coming up with more and more ideas for these resin boxes. So I just went all in with it and centered my whole show around this concept and technique. It was a little risky to devote a whole show to something I've never tried before, hence the the occasional pangs of panic. But in the end, I love how these turned out and I'm glad I took the leap. This is definitely work that needs to be seen in person to really appreciate. So any of you in the LA area, please come out to see it.

Profound Encounters Amid the Forest Deep