Showing this Lichens drawing I made last year in an awesome group show “Back in the Future” curated by the amazing @erikaranee — at @platformprojectspace a super cool artist run gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Such a great group of artists- opens tonight!

F these goons and their malevolent, nihilistic commanders. Peace liberty and justice now ☮️ 🗽 ⚖️ 🇺🇸

My dear friend Troy Chatterton is following his dream to open up a cookbook shop in the East Village in NYC called @wildsorrelcookbooks and I was honored that he asked me to draw his future storefront on 13th street. Troy is running a kickstarter to help him get his dream shop off the ground. If you are interested/able to help him out and would like to visit someday and peruse the world’s best selection of cookbooks you can find his kickstarter page through his profile @wildsorrelcookbooks #wildsorrel

I’m excited to show this new drawing in an awesome group show called V-EFFECT that opens this Saturday 6-8pm @halseymckaygallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The show has works on view by an incredible group: DAVIS ARNEY, GINA BEAVERS, DAVID KENNEDY CUTLER, BUTT JOHNSON, KYUNG-ME, ERICA SHIBA, STACY LYNNE WADDELL Come by the opening on Saturday! Above: untitled (integrated circuit), 2025 marker, ballpoint, gel ink, and “Sparkle Pop” ink on Bristol 8.25 x 7.25”

V-EFFECT DAVIS ARNEY, GINA BEAVERS, DAVID KENNEDY CUTLER, BUTT JOHNSON, KYUNG-ME, ERIKA SHIBA, STACY LYNN WADDELL By Appointment January 17 – March 1 60 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn NY Halsey McKay is pleased to present V-Effekt. The artists in this exhibition both conceal and reveal labor to varying degrees across diverse approaches to making. Mundane domestic objects and ephemera are depicted, constructed, and suggested. Paint, gel pens, graphite, and inkjet transfers create, distort, and belie images. Illusions are tenderly formed, yet repeatedly interrupted, fragmented, and obscured. Bertolt Brecht’s concept of Verfremdungseffekt—often translated as the “alienation effect” or “distancing effect”—asks audiences to question the seductive and immersive qualities of theatrical performance, rejecting these popularized Aristotelian conventions. By exposing the mechanics of the stage or employing formal interventions that reveal theatrical artifice, Brecht sought to encourage objective reflection on one’s role as an observer, inhibiting emphatic identification with characters or narrative. Ultimately, he believed this distancing could open a pathway toward liberation grounded in a critical analysis of social and economic structures. In a world increasingly adept at capturing and redirecting our attention, the ability to look beyond surface-level messaging—whether in advertising, politics, or media—has become essential to retaining the human experience. The artists in this exhibition are acutely attuned to the dynamics of attention: how it is shaped, sustained, and disrupted. Through their practices, they not only exercise deliberate control over attention in the studio, but also invite viewers to become conscious of their own modes of seeing—both within the act of encountering an artwork and in the ways we observe and move through the world at large.

I finished this drawing of a potted Oxalis plant a few weeks ago. I’m excited to be exhibiting it @kristenlorello_gallery in a massive group show with 90+ other artists titled “Spectrum”. Opens Friday 7/25 on 73rd Street NYC, up through August 15th. The drawing is 16 x 13”, marker, ballpoint and gel ink on Bristol paper.

Had a fun conversation with @alfredstudio on his podcast @soundandvisionpodcast talking about growing up reading comics, making and looking at works on paper, music influences, art school in the 90s, audiobooks, collaborations and more.

This Tick drawing I made in 2019 is included in what looks to be an awesome group show — “Deep Color” at @halseymckaygallery in East Hampton NY. The show is organized by @hartjoseph based on his oral history project and audio podcast, also called “Deep Color”. We had a fun conversation back in like 2018, still up on the website. The show opens Sat 5/24 and runs through 6/30. There’s a bunch of incredible artists I admire in the show: Joshua Abelow, Glen Baldridge, Yevgeniya Baras, Gina Beavers, Susan Bee, Katherine Bradford, Patrick Brennan, Ernesto Burgos, Sean J. Patrick Carney, Brian Chippendale, Kari Cholnoky, Ryan Travis Christian, Graham Collins, Ian Cooper, David Kennedy Cutler, Rachelle Dang, Alex Dodge, Jim Drain, Leslie Duiguid, Christopher Robin Duncan, Elise Ferguson, Nikita Gale, Daniel Gibson, Ethan Greenbaum, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Dave Hardy, Elias Hansen, Adam Helms, An Hoang, Kevin Hooyman, Butt Johnson, Matt Kenny, Elisabeth Kley, Andrew Kuo, Fabienne Lasserre, Jennie Jieun Lee, Maia Ruth Lee, Matt Leines, Spencer Lewis, Lauren Luloff, Eddie Martinez, Jason McLean, Sam Moyer, Hilary Pecis, Celia Pym, Matt Rich, Erin M. Riley, Libby Rothfeld, Adrianne Rubenstein, Sara Maria Salamone, Phil Sanders, Curtis Talwst Santiago, Andrew Schoultz, Emily Mae Smith, Sophie Stone, Sean Sullivan, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Ryan Wallace, Eric White, Rachel Eulena Williams, Jesse Wine, Sun You, and Sarah Zapata

Lichens, 2025- layers of marker, ballpoint, gel ink on Bristol

Some very cool oil pastel drawings on sandpaper invoking sexual pollutions by Rob Palidoro @painterly_prince on view @1969gallery in Tribeca

Protists and Algae, 2025 - 14 x 17” ballpoint on bristol

Psyched to have a drawing on view in this mega show of works on paper @halseymckaygallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Im showing this dandelion drawing I made last year. Opens tonight 3-8pm. So many awesome artists in the show! With works by: Abdolreza Aminlari, Adam Helms, Al Freeman, Alex Dodge, Alexander Deschamps, Alexander Russi, Amy Marino Lyons, An Hoang, Andrew Kuo, Andrew Schoultz, Anne Buckwalter, Annette Wehrhahn, Anthony Iaconno, Anya Kielar, Austin Eddy, Ben Blatt, Ben Degen, Ben Weiner, Beverly Semmes, Bianca Beck, Brian Alfred, Butt Johnson, Charles Ly, Chris Chiappa, Claire Oswalt, Daid Puppypaws, Dana Schutz, David Kennedy Cutler, David Scanavino, Denise Kupferschmidt, Dietmar Busse, Eddie Martinez, Eleanor Conover, Ethan Greenbaum, Francis Picabia, Glen Baldridge, Graham Anderson, Gryphon Rue, Haley Mellin, Henry Glavin, Hilary Pecis, Hisham Bharoocha, Holly Coulis, Jamel Robinson, James Kusel, Janis Provisor, Jessie Henson, Jesse Willenbring, Johannes VanDerBeek, John Tursi, Jonny Campolo, Jordin Isip, Joseph Hart, Kadar Brock, Keegan McHargue, Kevin Reinhardt, Kianja Strobert, L’Merchie Frazier, Lauren Luloff, Layo Bright, Louise Sheldon, Martha Tuttle, Marcia Kure, Mary C. Manning, Matt Kenny, Matt Leines, Matt Rich, Matthew Kirk, Michael DeLucia, Monsieur Zohore, Nathlie Provosty, Nick van Woert, Orlando Estrada, Patrick Brennan, Paul Wackers, Raymie Iadevaia, Reuben Lorch Miller, Richard Tinkler, Ridley Howard, Robyn O’Neill, Roger White, Rosy Keyser, Ryan Travis Christian, Sabra Moon Elliot, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Scott Reeder, Shaun O’Dell, Sheree Hovsepian, Simon Evans and Sarah Lannan, Stacy Fisher, Steven Cox, Teresa Baker, Tessa O’Brien, Timothy Hull, Todd St. John, Tyler Lafreniere, Tyson Reeder, William Villalongo, Yuri Masnyj, Zoe Ilić