Current music:	Souls Like The Wheels - The Avett Brothers
Entry tags:	friends, links, love, scott avett, susan brenner, the avett brothers

Influences
Scott Avett
Scott Avett and Crackerfarm (Mike Beyer & Lindsay Rome) are having a show together in NYC at Envoy Gallery tomorrow night. I obviously don't live in NY...I live in Portland, but if I did I would be at that opening engaged at Scott's beautiful paintings and Mike & Lindsay's incredible photography. There is a great article from the Salisbury Post, found HERE, that does a good job of mapping his artistic career as it relates to The Avett Brothers progress. I met Scott shortly after he finished up at ECU and opened Southern Star Gallery in downtown Concord. I was honored when he asked me to show some work there. I was also smart enough to gather some of my pennies and purchase one of his paintings back then because the price tags these days are nuts. I'm getting derailed. Read that article and check out both of their sites and if you live in NYC go and see that show. It's guaranteed to be awesome.

Susan Brenner
During my talks with Nicole at the Chris Isaak show we discussed UNCC and some of our professors. The ones we liked and the ones we disliked. I'll leave my opinions (and hers) in the air but I wanted to link Susan one of my favorite teachers and working artists that taught at UNCC. The images I've shown come from "This is History...That Is Not Over". It's the series I believe she was finishing up with or close to it when I started in 1998. Most of my classmates are more familiar with "the rope paintings" she was working on during our time there and still exploring currently but I am partial to these early pieces dissecting ideas of beauty in women and sardonically approaching Hysteria as it was diagnosed in the late 1800's. I love love love these pieces. Masterful application and weighted subject matter. It's my kind of work and I am to this day honored to have studied underneath her for my time in art school. She was also the professor that manned the New York Trip we took after I graduated that spawned a lot of new influences for me and a better view of the New York Art Scene. Go check out her site, there is a lot of work there to see so spend some time. Also, shoot her an email and thank her for being a rad teacher and person.

jeremy