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I have a couple pieces in a show up now at Roots and Culture through March 21. They’re part of Robert Snowden and Carson Salter’s publication/curatorial project called FloorPlan which consists of drawings of sitcom residences executed from memory. Each artist participating was asked to create drawings from memory of the main sets from Seinfeld, The Simpsons, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Cosby Show or Full House. Some of the results are pretty fantastic and many include notes about what they do and do not remember. There’s even one of the upstairs of the Full House house by Mary Kate Olsen. Can’t wait to see the book. More on The End of Analog.

Me and the Floor Plans (my two second and third from the top, closest to me)

Last Friday I made a trip down to Pittsburgh with my friend Julian to catch the incredibly mediocre Carnegie International: Life On Mars? show before it closed. We were both pretty underwhelmed overall and agreed that the Barry McGee installation, Wilhelm Sasnal’s paintings and Mike Kelly’s Kandor series were among the strongest work. I’ll throw Rudolf Stingel’s large paintings and the Thomas Hirshhorn’s installation as being noteworthy as well. Biggest disappointment: an entire room of Vija Celmins paintings. I normally like her work when encountered individually but an entire room seemed to deflate their power and failed to hold my interest.

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I have a piece in a show opening this Sunday at devening projects + editions. There will be roughly 50 artists in the show. It’s all works on paper and runs for most of the rest of the summer. Should be pretty cool.

UPDATE: The Tribune ran an article last week on devening projects + editions which briefly mentions the show. Also, my photos from the opening along with some installation shots.

UPDATE UPDATE: TimeOut Chicago offers this mixed review of the show. I don’t get a mention but three of my friends do.