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o the show it promises to be a remarkable spectacle this slideshow requires javascript written by david january 29 2016 at 12 31 pm posted in art news 2015 the year in review kind of leave a comment what the hell happened to 2015 it managed to both arrive and depart without the production of a single blog post from this indolent reprobate is it too late to make up for this lackadaisical approach to communication probably nevertheless here s my misguided attempt to make up for my lamentable lack of updates okay so lets start in october it s as good a month as any and it was the month that saw the creation and launch of the above limited edition bronze this was definitely the year s most awesome project embarked upon with the help and expertise of the good folks at the compound gallery in oakland entitled the pursuit of happiness it s a handsome bronze skull that sits proudly atop it s very own sturdy maple plinth complete with laser etched profanity each and every part of this edition of 13 was hand finished by me at great personal risk and considerable discomfort and most astounding of all every one of the 13 pieces was sold in exactly 13 days well one disappeared into a mysterious void in the australian postal system but that s neither here nor there like the piece itself earlier in september i also took part in a group show at the aforementioned compound gallery it was a boxing themed affair entitled knockout and i my contribution was the oddly shaped mixed media piece above if you re wondering about the unusual dimensions i chose them after a great deal of contemplation and consideration because the wood panel was heftily reduced in price in the art store aside from all the compound related activity 2015 also saw me start to show work regularly at the dove biscuit gallery in los angeles which is located downtown inside the last bookstore the work available there is mostly my letterpress prints plus a few smaller mixed media pieces if you re in the la area it s definitely worth a visit not i hasten to add because of my work but because it s a totally cool old building stuffed full of new and used books and records for sale at bargain prices speaking of books july saw my humble contribution to international art publishing this took the shape of 14 pages inside this lavish volume which goes by the imaginative title artist notebook unsurprisingly it s a collection of artist s notebooks it s publushed by monsa in spain and is available for a mere 25 90 right here and if you re wondering the inside looks bit like this okay i can tell by the glazed look in your eyes and your incessant yawning that you re getting bored with all this dreary rambling i think we both knew it wasn t a great idea so let me wrap it up quickly for both our sakes here s something interesting it s that fucking gorilla again yes it made another fucking appearance this time in the form of a fully fledged theater performance complete with paying audience at the toronto fringe festival that s in canada people which is cool and this time i supplied the original artwork for the posters which was also cool finally as is traditional in these sparse and sporadic blog posts i d like to end with an apology accompanied by an excuse but first some visual evidence yes dear reader that is my wrist to be more specific that is my right wrist the wrist i use to draw paint type this very blog and complete sundry other less glamorous tasks this delightful snapshot was taken in the emergency room of a san francisco hospital back in march after my bicycle and i were involved in an unpleasant altercation with an automobile thankfully after the surgical insertion of about eight inches of titanium and several weeks spent in a variety of casts everything was restored to full functionality and on an uncharacteristically optimistic note it gave me a chance to practice drawing left handed anyway as you probably guessed by now i was planning to blame the utter lack of activity here on the results of this regrettable incident but the fact is it s really just down to idleness and inertia so i won t insult your intelligence as usual i offer a half hearted pledge to update this nonsense more frequently if only to avoid having to create another of these appalling anthologies in the future however if you are misguided enough to want to keep up to date with my artistic activities i d suggest following me on some other social media minefields which i actually do update regularly these include tumblr instagram flickr pinterest twitter and of course my very own kingdom on the internets which goes by my name with com on the end happy new year i hope 2016 will be everything you wish it to be and thank you for your continued tolerance written by david january 8 2016 at 11 06 am posted in art news personal guff tagged with 2015 art artist artwork david fullarton drawing gorillas oakland painting sculpture the evolution of a gorilla leave a comment what follows dear reader is a strange and cautionary tale a true story in which we will attempt to examine the inexplicable appeal of the apparently random combination of gorillas and gratuitous profanity our story begins with this drawing created by my own fair hand on the back of an envelope and glued into a notebook way back in june 2006 obviously you can ignore the poorly rendered fire extinguisher and concentrate on the image on right hand page actually i ve just remembered that in actual fact our tale truly begins with a scribbled note in an entirely different journal one which i sadly can t find right now the note said something like draw a gorilla with those lines around it that make things look like things are vibrating i sometimes make notes like this in a misguided attempt to remind myself of things that i think will be cool to draw i realize that most other artists would probably just do a skillful but lightening fast sketch to be referred to and improved upon later but i write words instead it s what i do judge me if you want more often than not i ll immediately forget about these scribbled notes and that ll be the end of the matter but for some reason in this case i didn t i actually drew the gorilla complete with the vibrating lines which proved to be unsatisfactory and then i added the non sequitur you see above i have no idea where that phrase actually came from it simply plopped into my head after i had drawn the gorilla and then scribbled colored pencil around it in an attempt to assuage the disappointment i felt when the whole vibrating lines thing failed to live up to my hopes and dreams eventually i posted the above image to my flickr page and found the response was both immediate and alarmingly positive i even got a request to purchase the drawing presumably be ripped out of the notebook in which it resided in the end i actually created another version and sold that one what was interesting though was the way people responded the enjoyment this apparently random concoction of words and images gave to otherwise rational people a little less than a year later i was preparing for a solo show at a gallery in san francisco and decided to turn the notebook image into the small mixed media on canvas painting you see below as soon as the show went up the gorilla sold immediately and at the opening several people told me they wished that they had bought it and asked me to let hem know if i ever created another version or made a print of the same subject the print thing eventually happened after a fashion when i posted it to my society 6 page in 2010 and made it available in a variety of formats and while i wasn t exactly able to retire on the proceeds it did sell pretty well after i joined the compound gallery studios in 2012 i started to make my own letterpress prints in small editions and of course i inevitably thought of the fucking gorilla i did another version of the drawing and had a photopolymer plate made up and the result was a series of letterpress prints that look a lot like this once again the unique combination of ape and vulgarity proved popular with prints being dispatched as far afield as germany the united kingdom canada and australia as well as several us destinations but our tale doesn t end here no in fact it just get more bizarre because at around this same time i received an unsolicited email from a perviously unknown canadian named tia mcgregor informing me that she had written and staged a play based on the gorilla piece the title of the play was not surprisingly you and that fucking gorilla and it had its debut at victoria university in victoria british columbia although i sadly didn t get to witness a performance i did read the script and i have to tell you to my untrained eye it was pretty damn good i realize that this all sounds highly unlikely so as irrefutable evidence that i m not just making stuff up here are a couple of shots of the production complete with gorilla who appears to meet a tragic end so there we have it the evolution of gratuitous simian profanity from scribbled note to stage production none of which actually helps us understand the appeal of this particular combination of words and pictures perhaps the whole thing was best summed up by a visitor to the compound who purchased one of the gorilla prints she revealed that she was actually a gorilla researcher who spends her days working with the beasts and one of her friends had emailed her the image presumably because she shared the sentiment expressed her pertinent observation was why would anyone else appreciate this why indeed written by david march 28 2014 at 12 56 pm posted in art news personal guff tagged with art artist gorilla painting profanity things that are about to happen and things we made up leave a comment things that happened and things we made up the event postcard crikey okay people i know there had been a continuation of the shameful lack of regular posting but i swear from now on i ll be trying oh so hard to get my act together and give you sufficient warning of all upcoming exciting and important events so lets kick off 2014 with the timely announcement that i will be taking part in a three person show at the awesome compound gallery in oakland the show is entitled t hings that happened and things we made up and my fellow artists are the magnificently talented alison tharp and the equally superb liam golden it is an honor indeed to be hanging on the same walls as these two and it should be a very interesting provocative and entertaining show i plan on having around 15 new pieces on the walls including some new paintings i ll be posting a few little tasters in various places over the coming weeks the grand opening shenanigan will be on saturday february 8th from 6 9 pm and the exhibition will be hanging until sunday march 3rd on that very day at 3p m there will be a closing tea and something called an artists panel which i haven t actually had explained to me yet but probably will involve me mumbling incoherently in front of a handful of people who only really want free tea anyway it is my fervent hope that you dear reader will find the time and inclination to visit this breathtaking spectacle perhaps i will even be lucky enough to see you there the back of the postcard imparts a wealth of information this little fella will be there making you look good in other news that esteemed berkeley based magazine of the arts works and conversations recently published an interview with yours truly in their latest issue no 27 you can get you hands on a copy right here or you can save your money and get instant gratification by reading the whole interview on their website right here obviously paying for the magazine is preferable since the money goes to an excellent cause and you get large reproductions of several of my pieces in the magazine itself but far be it from me to stand in moral judgement over your decisions however if you feel the need for guilt free downloads that feature my bewildered scribblings then point your little pointy digital thing right here and download a pdf of the latest issue number 14 of the truly excellent composite magazine this is the reprobates issue and it features several bits and pieces of mine all reproduced in glorious digital color plus a ton of other awesome artwork highly recommended this drawing appears in issue 14 of composite magazine and will also be up in the february show so there written by david january 21 2014 at 3 27 pm posted in art news hands pants leave a comment one hand and the pants by john casey the rest by me this collaboration drawing is my contribution to john casey s hands pants show which can now be viewed at the 63 bluxome street gallery in san francisco through july 30th strictly speaking this show is actually hands pants 4 hands pants being john s collaborative drawing venture which now involves more than 70 of his artist buddies basically the mighty mr casey draws some hands and pants in his simple pen and ink style on 8 x10 bristol paper and then he sends his drawing to an invited artist me in this case the artist is then asked to complete the figure in any way they see fit and this is how i saw fit you can see how everyone else saw fit right here written by david july 9 2013 at 12 08 pm posted in art news apologies for the late notice leave a comment apology number 40 installed directly onto a wall at the compound gallery okay i admit it this is a very late post i don t know why i find it so hard to update this blog when i regularly update my tumblr and flickr pages i have some kind of mental block about wordpress however based on the principal that late is better than never heres the news of most immediate importance is the fact that i have a solo exhibition of all of my apology drawings on right now at the compound gallery in oakland ca i m afraid the opening reception has come and gone but the gallery is open thursday sunday 12 noon to 6 pm and the show is on until sunday june 9th this is also the date of the closing tea where i ll be delivering what has optimistically been labeled an artist talk and if you can t make that you can watch the whole debacle streaming live on the compound gallery website you can even send in awkward questions in real time for me to ignore details of what you ve missed and what s still to come if you can t wait till then to get answers to your many questions you might find they have already been answered in this interview about the show which appeared on jeremyriad com there s even a little vine video of me in action i sincerely hope you can make along to the show but if your impressively hectic schedule doesn t allow it you can still buy a little apology of your own right now at the compound online shop i ve also produced a couple of limited runs of apology letter press prints which are for sale at a very reasonable prices at the show and probably a bit later online two of the limited edition letter press prints i made for the...