Don Porcella plays live in Brooklyn, NY and he releases 7th album

If you are in the New York Area, come to a free concert of my original music in Brooklyn. I am playing music Thursday Jan 26th from 9-10pm.

Smith's Tavern
(718) 788-9363
Park Slope440 5th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

This is my band's new album. It is our 7th total and 4th in the last four years. It is titled, Mutants, Miscreants and Thieves and it has 13 original songs all written by me. I will have these for sale tonight at my gig in Brooklyn for $10.00 each. I will also have them for sale after tonight on my website. Thanks for all your support...

I play guitar. Here are 2 songs I wrote. I have written over 100 original songs and been performing for over 20 years. My band is releasing its 7th album tonight at the show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrZSLv6ZnOY&list=UUCr_StKMt3SYiLqX_7A7LNg&index=1&feature=plcp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxrX1EKpgKQ

here is my channel so you can see other music performances like when I play with my band.
http://www.youtube.com/user/donporcella?feature=watch

CRITIC by Don Porcella and other action figures

This is an action figure I made last year of the art critic Jerry Saltz. I thought it would be funny to make the critic into the art. I have been making these action figures in New York for the past 8 years and exhibiting them in galleries and museums worldwide. These are handmade by myself and most are in prominent art collections. If you would like to order one I can make another CRITIC like the one pictured here. Last year, I made one of 'Morgan Spurlock for his birthday so I also do commissions.

my painting Routine Cloud Maintenance on the cover of an album

Cloud Maintenance by Kevin Hearn The latest album by Kevin Hearn, keyboardist for the Bare Naked Ladies features my painting Routine Cloud Maintenance on the cover of the album. Kevin bought this painting from me several years ago and I am so thankful and pleased that it will be seen by many more people now. The album is available Dec 20th, 2011 on his website 

"The inspiration for the album title as well as the album’s cover image is the striking painting Routine Cloud Maintenance by Don Porcella. It’s also the anchor for the song “Tell Me Tell Me."” 
From http://www.kevinhearn.com/ 



In Style Magazine features Don Porcella's print in Nov issue

Here is the November Issue of In Style Magazine with a photo of my print that is for sale at http://www.littlecollector.com/artwork-artist-colony-by-don-porcella-306-937.html right alongside Shepard Fairey. Feel free to go to the website an order a print for yourself or give as a gift. Prints start at $40.00 and there are 3 different sizes and prices so get the one you can afford. These are all limited editions so get your's before they sell out.

http://www.littlecollector.com/artwork-artist-colony-by-don-porcella-306-937.html

Solo Exhibition by Don Porcella in NYC opens Oct 5th, 2011

Recent press for the exhibition:

http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php/good-stuff/3703-sculptures-by-don-porcella

http://www.worleygig.com/2011/10/everything-and-nothing-at-all-new-works-by-don-porcella/

http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2011/10/don_porcellas_pipe_cleaner_scu.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+craftzine+%28CRAFT%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

I will be putting this Skull (Damien Hirst) into a fire and burning it

I will be putting this Brillo Box (Andy Warhol) into a fire and burning it

Making Room for New Ideas; Destruction of the Readymades by Don Porcella, 2011. woven pipe cleaners.

pipe cleaner action figures of Don Porcella and Larry Gagosian and other art world types.

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DON PORCELLA: EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AT ALL  SPATTERED COLUMNS, NEW YORK OCTOBER 5, 2011; 6pm-8pm    Art Connects New York and Spattered Columns are pleased to announce the opening of Don Porcella: Everything and Nothing at All, a solo exhibition featuring new works and signature pieces from the artist's studio. This multi-media exhibition will feature Porcella's trademark pipe cleaner sculptures and hand made encaustic paintings, as well as video and sound components in a gallery-wide installation. Don Porcella (BFA California College of Arts and Crafts, MFA Hunter College) has been a creative force in the New York City art world for over ten years. Porcella utilizes humble materials in innovative ways to craft a unique commentary on the human condition. Drawing from his own imagery of the suburban and his interest in folk art, cartoons, and science fiction, Porcella's work allows the subjective and strange to penetrate humorous representations of a wildly imaginative reality. Don Porcella: Everything and Nothing at All includes new installations featuring cave painters, crystal skulls, alien encounters, bonfires, birds of prey, and other whimsical work. Born and raised in Modesto, California, Don Porcella's artwork has been exhibited at galleries in New York City, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, East Hampton, Washington D.C., Miami and San Francisco. Porcella's art has been reviewed in the New York Times, NY ARTS, Fiber Arts Magazine, Chelsea Now, San Francisco Magazine and the Village Voice to name a few. The opening reception for Don Porcella: Everything and Nothing at All will take place from 6pm-8pm on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at Spattered Columns, 491 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10012. The show will run until October 28, 2011, and will feature a live musical performance in the gallery by the artist and Nicholas Fevelo on Wednesday, October 26th, 6pm-8pm. Spattered Columns is a program of Art Connects New York, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that seeks to enrich the lives of New Yorkers by making original visual artwork more readily available in non-traditional settings. For more information on Don Porcella: Everything and Nothing at All, please contact Ginger Shulick at gingers@artconnectsnewyork.org. Image: Installation shot of artist's studio Spattered Columns is located at 491 Broadway, Suite 500, New York, NY 10012 NW corner of Broadway and Broome Street By subway, take N/R to Prince Street; A/C/E to Spring Street; 6 to Spring Street; B/D/F/M to Broadway/Lafayette

SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK - "Rock Star" by Don Porcella

"Rock Star" by Don Porcella. 7x3x3 feet, Styrofoam and Aqua Resin, 2011. I hope you get the joke that it is art about art and meant to be funny. A rock about rock on the rocks. He is in a perfect spot to take cheesy tourist photos of the NY skyline. My take on roadside attraction art.

This sculpture deals with double meaning (rock about rock), using sculpture to reference sculpture (meta language) and self. I am a musician so I thought it fitting to do a tongue and cheek sculpture set in the rocks about rock made to look like rock. 

EAF 11: 2011 EMERGING ARTIST FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION  Saturday, September 10, 2011 - March 4, 2012

SOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK 32-01 VERNON BOULEVARD (AT BROADWAY) LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11106 TEL: 718-956-1819 FAX: 718-626-1533 WWW.SOCRATESSCULPTUREPARK.ORG

Beautiful Decay

A beautiful post on Beautiful Decay thanks to Bill Donovan celebrating my art and my exhibition on view till July 31st, 2011 at Christina Ray Gallery in NYC. CHRISTINA RAY > 30 Grand Street, Ground Floor
New York NY 10013 > Phone: 212 334 0204
http://beautifuldecay.com/2011​/07/25/don-porcella-gets-waxy/

See exhibition photos and see the show in person till July 31st, 2011
http://www.facebook.com/christinaraygallery
http://according2g.com/2011/07/don-porcella-and-brian-leo-at-christina-ray/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/christinaraygallery/sets/72157627156780764/

ARE EMBODIED IN A THICK, SENSUOUSLY WAXY MEDIUM

hand made encaustic paint by Don Porcella

"NEW YORK TIMES, ART CRITIC KEN JOHNSON DESCRIBES DON PORCELLA’S PAINTINGS AS, “…IMAGES LIKE SASQUATCH LOUNGING IN A PINK RECLINER BY A WILDERNESS LAKE AND A MOBILE HOME TRAILER ON FIRE ARE EMBODIED IN A THICK, SENSUOUSLY WAXY MEDIUM."

I make my own encaustic paint from the best materials. I use pharmaceutical grade beeswax and melt that with Damar Resin (Malaysian Fir Tree sap) and pigment to create the paint. Damar Resin is a very hard material and it has a much higher melting point than beeswax so when combined together to make encaustic paint you would need a temperature over 140 degrees to melt my paintings. Of course this temperature would also ruin all other types of painting as well. You can rap your knuckles on one of my paintings to see how hard they are and how durable they are too.

After making the paint I use a hand held butane torch and drip the paint onto the surface (wood panel) to create my paintings. After I drip the paint onto the surface, I sculpt the paint with gouges, knives, spatulas and my fingers. It is a handmade approach that helps create these unique paintings. Each painting is a "one of a kind" and can never be duplicated.

Encaustic paint dates back to the ancient Greeks and Romans around the 1st century. Encaustic is over 2000 years old and yet it has survived better than other types of painting like oil on canvas. In fact, encaustic on wood is more archival than oil or acrylic on canvas because the encaustic on wood prevents moisture which is often times the downfall of anything painted onto canvas.

Jasper Johns is the most famous encaustic painter. The famous American flag paintings he did were all made using encaustic paint.

This is a link to the most comprehensive site regarding this medium...

http://gallery.sjsu.edu/arth198/painting/encaustic.html

Don Porcella making an encaustic painting

the tools and materials to make encaustic paintings in Don's studio

Allecrop Trebor Nod - a self proclaimed alien visitor from outer space.

Saturday, March 12 - 3:00 - 4pm - I did a performance in support of my solo exhibition called "Cave Dwellers". I was performing as Allecrop Trebor Nod an alien visitor. Brendan Coyle was performing as me and Christoph Mayer was performing as Dr. Michael Byrd - Snug Harbor Cultural Center- 1000 Richmond Terrace, Bldg C, Staten Island, NY 10301

 “How to Live as One Race”  - An informational session with Allecrop Trebor Nod - a self proclaimed alien visitor from outer space. On the left is Special Guest Dr. Michael Byrd – a leading researcher in human evolutionary biology at Harvard University performed by Christoph Mayer and on the right is Don Porcella performed by Brendan Coyle. It was important for Don to be represented because he had a solo show there (see image behind performers). So the performance was lending support. We were all performing as someone else thus further obscuring the concept of identity and what is alien or foreign to us.

Don Porcella performing as Allecrop Trebor Nod (his full name backwards)

I made a video of the video of us taking photos after the performance. Questioning what is authentic.

Photos by Amanda Curtis of the performance can be see here...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33469972@N03/sets/72157626152059233/show/

New York Fiber in the 21st Century

My Swimming Hole installation is being featured in this group exhibition at  Lehman College, Bronx, NY New York Fiber in the 21st Century “There You Remain in the Drain of the Mainframe Food Chain” pipe cleaners, 8 x 8 x 8 feet. 2008 - 2011. “There You Remain in the Drain of the Mainframe Food Chain”, pipe cleaners, 8 x 8 x 8 feet. 2008 - 2011. “There You Remain in the Drain of the Mainframe Food Chain” pipe cleaners, 8 x 8 x 8 feet. 2008 - 2011. "There You Remain in the Drain of the Mainframe Food Chain" is an installation that is made out of woven pipe cleaners using a fun but laborious process that was invented and hand made by the artist. The scene is of a swimming hole with two swimmers in a remote area. The two swimmers seem relatively happy but apprehensive about their experience in the swimming hole, like something is about to happen. Over head is a turkey vulture that is about to prey on them. "There You Remain in the Drain of the Mainframe Food Chain" represents a cycle or food chain. The swimmers are equal members of the food chain, along with all the items around the swimming hole. In addition to the swimmers, swimming hole and turkey vulture there are several items, around the swimming hole, that the swimmers have brought along with them on their nature adventure. A stereo cassette player/radio, a pair of New Balance athletic shoes, a pair of flip flops, two Sudz beer cans, a bag of Machos and Cheapos in a plastic bag, that are all parts in the food chain. There are two rats, bees, a parakeet and a dragonfly in addition to the rocks and tree stumps that surround the swimming hole setting.   http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Porcella/723036285

Cave Dwellers by Don Porcella Reviewed in Staten Island Advance

read the text version online at: http://www.silive.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2011/01/hes_going_international_but_ar.html

http://www.silive.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2011/01/hes_going_international_but_ar.html

Recent Images

Own "The Art World" - 6 handmade action figures based on members of the art world

Curator - David McFadden

Collector - Eli Broad

Dealer - Mary Boone

Assistant - my assistant

Artist - Don Porcella

Critic - Jerry Saltz

I just completed these 6 handmade action figures based on members of the art world for the Museum of Arts and Design auction in New York City. The 6 action figures are made using pipe cleaners and hand made packaging. These are mini versions of the larger, life sized sculptures and installations I usually make. The entire 6 action figures are called. "The Art World" They are based on real members of the art world. The idea is that someone can own The Art World by purchasing these pipe cleaner action figures at the auction tonight.



Each action figure comes in handmade packaging with a label. Here is an example of what CRITIC looks like in the packaging.