"Elephants Memory"
Acrylic ink and Etching on book jacket,
2006

Things Fall Apart

"Things fall Apart" * August, 2007 Acrylic ink, Hand Drawn transfers and Xerox on book..
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Detail#1




Detail#2

"The Scales That Weigh The whales"

Invisible NYC:
148 orchard st: L.E.S march 23, 2006



"Be Aware pt#3" Mixed on paper 2005
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"Revolution" xerox on assembled paper 2005
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"Streets are hot" 2005 Acrylic , Etching, Xerox


"BearPaw" party of 5 mixed on book
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"WolfenBerry" (Granny) party of 5 mixed on book 2005
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"Herbie" (gramps) Party of 5 mixed on book 2005
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"The mom", party of 5 mixed on book 2006
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"LandShark" ( the Dad) party of 5 mixed on book
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Party of 5 is a family i constructed out of found photos, drawing and collage while watching hurricane Katrina come in,then destroy. Then Leave.I started to realise the backdrops i was creating for them, how ever beautiful they were contained animals that would soon take there lives. Life is full of balance like this, and this project helped me understand that..

some other things from around then..

"Lure" 2005 Photo Etching and ink on Paper
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"Madlib" 2005 Ink on paper
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maybe the only person ive done 2 portraits of..?

old School Monday: P.P.O.W

The inception of the books,, 2002- 2003 P.P.O.W Gallery NY

Originally i was Attracted to the yellowness, but soon it became a project of rescuing books never to be read again. I strip them down and work with with the marks life provided. I then add my own and send them back out into the world. By stripping them down of anything that mighty scare off the audience, (I.E. Thickness of pages) i also work on the end pages where some people will read the summary of the book, and obviously a pictures worth a thousand words. My hope is that in this new format these books will be able to compete with moder media and return to conveying information as they once did.

Untitled Pigeon book"* 2003 Acrylic ink on book



"Chief" 2003 Acrylic ink and Smoke on Book


BeAware pt 1" 2003 Etching on book


Untitled 2002. Acrylic ink on book

Portraits

Some musicaly inspired works

Thelonious.. 2003 Ink on paper..


The Rula" 2003 ink on book *



Sean Lennon for Sentimentalist magazine. Jan 2007 ink and xerox on paper


R.I.P. Buffy the Human Beat Box..Design for a dinner plate that never went down.. 2005 ink on paper


Ghost Dinn'e .. 2006 Ink on book..


O.D.B. rip 2005 Etching on book.


Brubeck Vs Brubeck (dave Brubeck) 2005 Etching on book..

Birds of a Feather

A mural painted for Cannibal Ox that apeared on there 2000 debut album the "Cold Vein" on def jux.
by me and Taras.. 2000 Queens NY. aerosol on wall..

Count your sheep..

While you sleep your sleep.. BY Taras Hrabowsky and John Breiner
Summer 2001. Aerosol on wall .. big.. 48 Morgan Ave. Brooklyn NY

Fly Away..

Flying away to a new home..

"Love Story" * 2005 Acrylic ink and spraypaint on paper..

Flashback: Scope art

Detail of my room..Photo by: Vara Fine art


Scope Art Miami Fl. Dec 2004
In a not so old, old school monday i present what was to be my first major show intitled "Surfaces". Curated by Renee Vara and Michael Sellinger it featured the Work of myself, Jeroen Jongeleen and Eric Payson. It was During Scope Art @ the Townhouse hotel in December of 2004 that i was first introduced to the rapid pace, highspending art circuit. A place where little old ladys moved at the speed of light. I knew little of this..

"HorsePower" * 2004 Acrylic ink and Spraypaint on bookjacket



"Aesop" * 2004 Etching on paper




"Untitled Crab book" * Photo Etching and Acrylic ink on Book




"Untitled Pigeon book"* 2003 Acrylic ink on book


"Chief" 2003 Acrylic ink and Smoke on Book



"BeAware pt 1" 2003 Etching on book



Elephant book * 2004 Acrylic ink and Spraypaint on Book



Physical Diagnosis * 2003 Acrylic ink and Spraypaint on paper



"untitled" 2002? Acrylic on found Metal




"Kareem" * 2003 Acrylic and Spray paint on found metal..



(A mention in Londons "Art News Paper")


( an excerpt of a conversation featured on Latin Arts.com)
SCOPE and the NADA Art Fair operate in a similar manner. Converting hotel rooms (SCOPE took place at the TOWNHOUSE Hotel) into exhibition spaces is a challenging endeavor. There were several rooms at SCOPE where the mattresses had been removed from the rooms and the bed frames were turned on end and used as hanging supports. There were also single artist installations, which I again found more successful. Artist John Breiner, for example, creates drawings on book covers. Rather than discard the book pages, for his installation at SCOPE the unused pages (the meat of the book) were strewn throughout the room to completely cover the floor, the bed, and even the bureau. The drawings depicting fractious narratives of Indians, mechanical landscapes, and zebras, to name a few, were hung in no apparent order around the room. The underlying sense of violence in the images complimented the destructive act of taking apart the books--the torn pages left as evidence.
(the whole artical) http://www.latinart.com/aiview.cfm?start=1&id=326


all room photos by Vara Fine Art.



(The Show, other artist's and Pics below:)
http://www.varaart.com/main.asp?page=surfaces

Hey Look Away Now...

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"Pray #1" * 2003 Acrylic ink on paper
Oh...what a time you chose to be born..

BlackOut..

"Looting" * 2004 Acrylic ink on paper

GHOSTFACEKILLAH!!!!

Ghost Deini..2007. Acrylic ink on Book.. Available

Part of the "If you do 6 plus amazing ablums in a row, ill paint your portrait too"..series