aloe nets. 8 color screenprint on fanshay paper.  24” X 35”

digital photograph 35” X 50”

I owe the introduction to Dan Black at landland.net, my former roommate, who suggested my inclusion.  Dan. Can’t thank U enough.

Anyway, the book came out late last month.  I bought a copy yesterday and it is so well made, shot, and currated wisely.  I am humbled to be included in the same pages as Aesthetic apparatus, Landland, Seripop, Sonnenzimmer…and a bunch of others.

here’s the cover.

There is a book release party and art show…my work will be included.  here’s the info.

Mike Perry Presents PULLED A Catalog of Screen Printing

Book Release Party & Exhibition

Friday, April 29, 7pm – 10pm

7pm: Panel Discussion featuring: Josh Cochran, Demo, Maya Hayuk, andJeremyville, moderated by Mike Perry

Come celebrate the world release party of Mike Perry’s PULLED, the first book to collect the most innovative contemporary screen printing.

3rd Ward will display nearly all the works from this ground-breaking book, including boundary-pushing artwork from Aesthetic Apparatus, Deanne Cheuk, Steven Harrington, Maya Hayuk, Cody Hudson, Jeremyville, Andy Mueller, Rinzen, Andy Smith, and other artists and graphic designers from around the world.

Mike Perry is an artist and best-selling author (Hand Job, Over and Over). He was chosen as Print magazine’s New Visual Artist award in 2008, a “Groundbreaking Illustrator” by Computer Arts Projects, and works regularly with editorial and commercial clients including Apple, The New York Times, Dwell, Target, Urban Outfitters, eMusic, and Nike.

With complimentary drinks from Brooklyn Republic and music from DJ King Pop.

and here’s the poster.  with my test print on it.

First time i’ve been published!  XOXO DAn

I made this poster, a 18” X 24” 4 color silk screen for a show i’m curating a lot of, called RADIANCE.

Opening 8pm – a group art show featuring a crew of artists from NYC and Mpls artists working in diverse media, yet with similar concerns.  1/2 of the art show INTO THE NEON, makes it’s way to mpls, and is agugmented by local talents.  This “queer” show is not defined by identitarian lines, but instead positions work that addresses aesthetics of visionary/queer collectivity, imaginary communes, and counterpublic ideals.  Additional gallery hours on Saturday 2-8pm, and Sunday 1-5pm.

Artists:

• Quito Ziegler
• Blaise
• Elliot Jobe
• Daniel Luedtke
• Marc Debauch
• JoAnn Blohowiak
• Andrew Boos
• Kelly Brazil
• Jeff Hnilicka
• Sinem Sinan Goknur
• Lucas DeLima
• Jes Seamans
• Ryan Kaster
• Lxznn Disaster
• Jesse Siegel
• Buzz Slutsky
• Anne Erickson
• zine rack curated by A. Agony

prints available at the show.  and I will have other work in it as well.

@ MAdame.  a new queer community art center I help run..

3401 chicago ave. s.

XOXO

DAn

This will be the beginning of several posts to come updating you all on what i’ve been up to since…this last summer.  It will be out of order, it will get messy and greasy, but you will get updated. 

o.k. first thing to come to mind.

Last summer my super great queer photog friend quito zeigler called me up to get breakfast.  Over coffee and amazing breakfast sandwiches at the collossal cafe, we dreamed up the idea of a queer art/performance road show.  In our riffing of ideas, Quito planted the idea of doing a preliminary queer art show in NYC, drawing from the excellent pool of artists that quito attended the International Center of Photography with…along other seminal queer artists and activists.  The germ was planted…and then many months later Into the Neon was born.   

Now, because I am such a terrible blogger, I am telling you this after the show has closed… but for those (like me) who were unable to attend the show regardless, maybe I can compile, and connect you to what happened with the show.

there wuz photos, there wuz skulpture, there wuz performances, there wuz a big fruit tree.

and I made the poster, which is a photocollage of the window of a gaybar in milwaukee where jeffrey dahmer used to find some of his victims at, and an old lover’s hand w/ sharpie drawings on it.

12” X 20” 5 color silkscreen. $10 if u wanna one

here’s one of the prints I had in the show.  It’s sort of a prototype.  I’m going to work with this print a little more, but here’s version 1.

“between fake and dead (trixter)” 26” X 30” Screenprint on Foam

edition of 5.  If you want one, contact me.

This is the first of a series of portrait prints on foam.  The goal is to present several portraits of personas, people or characters who’s plastic play with identity acts as a way to order society.  This is a portrait of a trixter character whome appears during the Brazilian Carnival celebration.  Carnival is a celebration and farewell to bad things, but even during the uplift and celebretory atmosphere of carnival, the trixter’s mischeif making reminds parade goers of the death and troubles left behind, or will encounter in the near future. 

The show, INTO THE NEON, was great from what I heard. Check the website to see the other amazing artists, and soon there will be photos from the show.

Some version of the same show will be held in Minneapolis in April.  More details about that to come. 

XO,

DAn

Jackie and I were really stoked to a: be asked, and b: to work together. Her band Brute Heart, and my band Gay Beast have played many a show together, but we’ve never really had the chance to collaborate. So, once we got to talking, Jackie mentioned that she had organized a marching band for the last May Day parade, and how she’d love to get the marching band involved in some sort of performance. Then I started gabbing about my interests in parades, and it just all ballooned from there. Parade, followed by killer warehouse show. We got ahold of this really great new venue in town called the 1419 space..and we got an amazing lineup. Gay Beast, Mother of Fire, Brute Heart, and two touring bands..No Babies, and Orange Coax.

The parade was just bonkers. Jackie organized the marching band, complete with costumes and glow sticks. There were stilt walkers, a banner of christmas lights ..powered by a generator on a bike..face paint..everything.

We had no permit for our shenanegans, so we crossed our fingers and hoped the popo wouldn’t have a problem. And it all worked, with no complications or drama.

Here’s some more info:
The Poster:

18” X 24” 3 color silkscreen $20 ppd (will be in poster section sooon!)

Andrew Flanagan did an interview with me about the show: HERE
Slide show of pictures from the Parade, courtesy of City Pages photographer Sean Smuda: HERE
Then, Andrew Flanagan did an article about my art and music that goes in print tomorrow: HERE

Sufficed to say, it was a memorable time….and hopefully we can do it all again next year.

For the show, I made 3 small editions of prints as a response to Tom’s work. I tried to take some of the ideas and vitality of erotic art and put it within a more whimsical and/or abstract context.
Here are the 3 prints.

∆∆∆∆∆”Cancer Crab” 12” X 24” 5 color silkscreen

∆∆∆∆∆”Lower Half” 22” X 26” 8 color silkscreen

∆∆∆∆∆”Mickey Dick” 14” X 17” 5 color silkscreen

Sean, and his boyfriend Mikhai were the sweeetest organizers ever. and I had an unforgettable conversation with the TOF foundation president Durk.
before the show, Sean did an inteview with me… and it’s HERE.

and then, after the show, we had a crazy awesome show at the Pehr space with Raw War, Sister Fucker and XBXRX. Totally off the chain.

Prints are in the “Prints” section and are for sale if you like.

XO
DAn

Also! There was an article written about me in today’s Star Tribune (Thank you Christopher jensen). If anyone sees any print or poster that they are interested in, please contact me and I can set you right up. Still a few things to work on the sight and paypal stuff isn’t set up.

Thanks everyone and hopefully I’ll see you at Heliotrope. my band Gay beast is playing 8:30 on Saturday. So many good bands that night, so don’t SNOOZE.

XXXXXOOOO
DAN

Here’s the poster. The feet were drawn by Jessica Seamans of Landland…who also has a print in the show.

16” X 16” 2 color silkscreen. will be selling them for cheap at the show.

more details about the show:
Flocked:
A wall paper project

Art-A-Whirl Weekend!

Location: Casket Arts Carriage House, 1720 Madison St NE #203, Minneapolis
Hours: Fri 8-11pm, Sat noon-6pm, Sun noon-5pm

Opening Party 8-11pm Friday May 14th

This is not your grandmother’s wallpaper. Studio mates Nick Howard, Anna Tsantir and Vincent Murray invited 30 local artists to create prints, drawings and multimedia two dimensional works that will be combined to cover a 22’x10’ studio wall floor to ceiling. Each artist created at least five works no larger than 10”x15” that together will loosely mimic the repetition of a wallpaper pattern. So “flock” over to the Carriage House this art a whirl weekend, and see what they’ve come up with.

Artists:
David Peterson
Terrence Payne
Dan Ibarra
John Diebel
Drew Peterson
Ruben Nusz
Crystal Quinn
Jessica Seamans
Ruben Nusz
Tara Costello
Alex Kuno
Josh Norton
Mayme Donsker
Dan Luedtke
Nick Howard
Anna Tsantir
Lee Delegard
Joel Starkey
Miles Mendenhall
Brian Aldrich
Cheryl Wilgren Clyne
Jacki Zitek
Toni Gallo
David Malcolm Scott
Joel Schwarz
Johanna Winters
Tim Carroll
Jaime Carrera
Betsy Byers
Gip Matthews
Lauren Schuppe
Vince Murray

for the show. I collaborated on a print with my good friend Anna Tsantir.

5 color silkscreen. 14” X 14” on fancy shmancy paper. We’re going to work with these cinder block brick things some more.

Big props to my good friend Elliot for setting it up.

Pardon for the reposting, but here’s some newer stuff that I have recently posted on my blog.  I’ll try to redirect everyone here.

Total Babe Shirt design:

Appleseed Cast:

17”X23” 3 color silkscreen

Broken Water/Gay Beast/T4T gig poster

17” X23” 4 color silkscreen

Shirt for WPA PRINTERVENTION show for Version 10 festival

17”X23” 5 color silkscreen

Vampire Hands Shirt:

Heavy Focus 3 poster: Collaboration w/ Casey Deming

18”X23” 5 color silkscreen

Big stuff in the works. Info about a show i’m going to be in for Art-A-Whirl this year.
stay tuned.