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April 27, 2008
Woah! ok long time no news. well i have a computer now so there will be more frequent updates and maybe a little reorganization of the site. if you have any suggestions or if something doesn't work please let me know - shawncreeden at gmail dot com
New Blog
The time seemed right to timidly try my hand at blogging. Go here, to The Ashen Ledger, and read about my weekly trips to the New York Zoos, animal stories from New Hampshire, see some pictures eventually, and probably other faunal stuff, who knows.New Band
I've joined up with my dear friends Casey Dienel and Matt Meyer and officially joined their band White Hinterland. I'm extremely excited to be out of my bedroom and collaborating on some new music and playing shows and touring.
I had done the album art for Phylactory Factory, which just came out on Dead Oceans, and in addition to playing saw, banjo, percussion, etc i'll also be doing all the art direction/t shirt design/posters/stage set design/lighting/etc.
we're playing a show at the Cake Shop in NYC this coming saturday, may 3rd. It's the 3 year anniversary of the CS and our friend at Chouette has helped put together quite a lineup, and graciously invited us to take part. look at this!
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UPSTAIRS IN THE NEW CAKE SHOP STAGE3:30 ELECTRONIC TICKLE MACHINE
4:15 MATT GANGI
5pm SOFT BLACK
5:45 PEPI GINSBERG
6:30 LAND OF TOMORROW
7:15 AIR WAVES
8pm WOODS
9pm WHITE HINTERLAND
10pm JANA HUNTER
11pm VIRGIN FOREST
12pm BARGHESTDOWNSTAIRS CLASSIC
3pm ASTRID PIERCE
3:45 FAMOUS AMOS
4:30: S-S-S-SPECTRES
5:30: FRENEMIES (MD)
6:15: CRYSTAL STILTS
7pm: NEW BLOODS (sf, kill rock stars)
7:45: VIVIAN GIRLS
8:30: MY TEENAGE STRIDE
9:15: SOILED MATTRESS AND THE SPRINGS
9:45: caUSE co-MOTION!
10:15: OAKLEY HALL
11:15: "HATE CRY"
12:15: HOLY HAIL
1: MOON MAN ON THE MOON, MAN <cakeshop staff for the most part
last band (no later than 2am): FREDDIE AND THE JASONS!PLUS!
DJs MIKE WOLF (timeout), HARRIS SMITH of EVR, CECI MOSS (radio heart, evr),
MELISSA SKADUTO , NICK GAZIN (midnite till death), MATTHEW CARON (pogo in togo), CAKESHOP FRIENDS AND FAMILY$3
3pm-3am
may 3
3 years
3,000,000 lives
--------------------------------------We'll be recording a new EP in Portland,OR later next month as well, and we go out for a full US tour in june. stay tuned!
i'll have some new things in the store this week, including some new collaborative books. well, that's all i can think of at the moment. more soon (and i mean it this time)
september 20, 2007
Solo show in San Francisco
i'm so excited to announce that "Hollow Face, Hand Wing" will be opening in San Francisco early next month. this show will consist of all new works on paper, embroideries, and installation work all on one of my favorite subjects, bats. please join me for the reception and the grand opening party for the store on october 4th, from 6-9pm at the brand new Curiosity Shoppe at 855 valencia here in SF.
THEN, the following sunday, Oct. 7th at 2pm there will be a presentation by the California Bat Conservation Foundation (californiabats.com) including live bats and possibly a powerpoint presentation! oh yes. i am so excited for this. brought to you by the Curiosity Guild.
the brief summer continues
my solo show at the AG Gallery is still up through october 21st, so stop on by!
AG Gallery
103 North 3rd
(btwn berry & wythe)
brooklyn NY
aboutglamour.net
august 28, 2007
solo show in brooklyn
my first nyc solo show is opening next month. september 7th will see "the brief summer" opening at the ag gallery in williamsburg. the show will run through october 21st. opening reception 7-10pm.
solo show in san francisco
immediately following the opening of "the brief summer" i will be flying out to san francisco to install an as yet untitled show on bats at the brand new curiosity shoppe on valencia in the mission. this show will open on october 4th. more info coming soon.
june 3, 2007
sounds
i'm going to start posting some of the music i've been working on on the music page, as well as at this myspace location. there are some sweet new jams at the † space, and the †moor loups† cassettes just arrived from vulture culture, so those should be in the shop soon. i have some shows coming up and hopefully there will be some more in nyc this summer and then fingers crossed a little tour out to and down the west coast come august. here's some info
JUNE 14th
ARTWORKS!
384 Acushnet Avenue
New Bedford, MA 02740
opening for [gull cries] in the upstairs gallery.
6-8pmJUNE 16th
10 Car Pile Up- 511 York rd. Towson MD 21204
Doors at 6:45, $10
RUINER (PREPARE TO BE LET DOWN)
BAD BUSINESS (REUNITING FOR THIS SHOW! Rochester NY)
VERSE (RI)
HOW WE ARE (NY)
BRACEWAR (RVA)
PULLING TEETH (MD)
BRAIN DEAD (NJ)JUNE 26th
pa's lounge - 345 somerville ave, somerville MA
8pm (we're playing first)
Tony The Bookie Orchestra
Pearlene (Cincinnati, OH)
Elizabeth Butters and Shawn Creeden
there are also some really exciting things in the works with my drawings and embroideries and some installation things. they are still in the works and i don't want to jinx anything so i'll save that for a later date.
march 31, 2007
interview on our art site
so this past week i did my best to answer some questions for the nice folks at ourartsite.com. you can read my little piece here. this site just started but it looks like it is going to be good.
8x10 show at AG gallery
this coming month i'll have a few pieces in a group show at the AG Gallery in williamsburg. the opening is april 20th, 7-10pm. hope to see some ny faces there. i'll send out a reminder.
† updates
the † website is undergoing some serious overhauling and we're still looking for any recordings or photographs or videos of any of our projects. send a note to glacialghost@gmail.com and thanks!
new drawings, installations, music, prints and other fun things coming soon. spring has arrived and with it a new burst of motivation and ideas. stay tuned
february 27, 2007
upcoming show in seattle
well the j&l group show at marcia wood was a success, and this coming month the show will be traveling to seattle to be installed at the okok gallery. the opening will be on march 10th, from 6-8pm.
hmm. i'm trying to think of anything else, but things for the rest of the year are still being worked out.
new book
(pardon the science lesson)i recently finished a new book, the first in a series of volumes about bats. bats are really amazing creatures and thinking about echolocation and how developed and how mind blowingly advanced that technology is, it's staggering, let alone the ability to fly on top of that. the book is called CHIROPTERA, which is the name of the order of mammals that includes bats. within the order of chiroptera, there are two suborders which still exist, megachiroptera and microchiroptera. megabats are large, tropical fruit eaters like flying foxes, while microbats are what you probably think of when you hear "bat", small, echolocating insectivores active at night. this first volume is a brief introduction to microchiroptera, and includes sections on eating habits, enemies, roosting, as well as portraits of a few species. you can see it here and buy it here, or at these bookstores.
november 16, 2006
thank you's
huge thanks to melissa, melinda, chris, brandon, tesni, liana, catherine, nicole, matt, joel, andrew and marty for their generosity, hospitality, help, friendship and attendance of the opening at nonesuch earlier this month. i did not take any photographs of the show but i am working on pulling some some from the opening and i'll scan the work once it comes down.
north/south at relative theory
from the african coast to the arctic circle. in december i will be debuting some new works at relative theory in norfolk, va. these drawings deal with animals living and dying in the most extreme environments on earth, the north and south polar ice caps. seals, polar bears, walrus, penguins, whales, skua, and foxes are among the creatures who inhabit and struggle in these regions. temperatures rarely climb above 0°f, seriously. i can't even imagine going swimming. big ups to those crazy people in the polar bear club. and check out this polar bear club too.
the show runs from december 1 through january 2. opening reception december 1st, 7-10pm. there will be a musical performance at 9pm, food and drink provided.new clothes
i just posted a new shirt in the shop. it's the first of a series of shirts that come from the [gull cries] stuff. more to come in time for the holidays!
also an adorable new skirt from melinda melmoth here.
and i need a new pair of jeans.
october 19, 2006
[gull cries] at nonesuch
the countdown is on, two weeks until my show [gull cries] opens at nonesuch in richmond, virginia. the show is new drawings and embroideries of wildlife on and around the cape verde islands off africa's northwest coast. sea birds, whales, sea turtles, giant lizards, and bats living in threatened isolation. this show is dedicated to and was inspired by two great friends, brandon carmo and christopher hillman, both of whom are of cape verdean decent and both of whom at times feel too geographically distant and isolated from me, but also flourishing in their own right. many thanks to melinda melmoth for the concept and the name (we watch lost on dvd together and she needs the captions and they denote important sound elements with the brackets, [disembodied whispers], [twig snaps], [gull cries])
the show will be up from november 3rd through the first week in december. opening reception november 3rd, 7-10pm. i will be playing some music with friends at 9pm. there will be food and drink.a pleasant surprise
i almost never answer my phone, at all, but especially when it is a number i don't recognize. it's irrational but my near crippling paranoia is no secret. but when i saw in my call log two missed calls from a 415 number the other morning, something made me dial the number back. it turns out it was some friends from new york, derek and lauren, who moved out to san francisco earlier this year and started up a wonderful online store called the curiosity shoppe, as well as opened the hardware store gallery. between being adorable, running these businesses and calling me on the telephone, these two also host amazing looking craft workshops, field trips and other events with the curiosity guild, and have a craft blog, plus do their own stuff, plus who knows what else. hugely inspiring and exciting stuff. hopefully i will get the chance to do some work with them in the near future. check out their things, the shoppe is filled with great stuff. i'm firing up my paypal account right now!
more upcoming shows in december
i will be having pieces in two group shows this winter, an animal themed group at nonesuch, as well as a group show at the marcia wood gallery in atlanta, georgia curated by jason and leanne from j&l books. many thanks to them!
also i will be having a solo show of new work at norfolk cultural bastion relative theory. more info coming soon.montreal post script
despite not going to a single record store, nor gallery, i did come to the conclusion that montreal rules and i love it there and my friends are awesome and short shorts an secret swimming pools are/were the best new things this summer.
music page will arrive soon
july 16, 2006
Salad Days at Artists Space
thanks to everyone who came out to see
's installation and performance at Artists Space this past tuesday. a huge thanks to Jennifer Moon and Hillary Wiedemann, as well as all the other artists, curators, AS faculty and interns for their patience and assistance. the show is great and the opening was a blast. we'll be doing a closing ceremony performance on august 4th, so if you didn't get to see the first one, come to that one.
***ALSO there is a pot-luck "meet and greet" with all the artists and curators this wednesday the 19th from 6-8pm at the gallery. check the AS website for the full deal, plus summer gallery hours.
go to e-liz's flickr to see some pictures (the one on the right is hers) from the opening. more to come.
shirts by melinda melmoth
i'm currently showcasing seven hand embroidered t-shirts by my lady friend melinda in my shop (click here to see them). melinda's drawings have that childlike confidence/naivete that art students across the globe are clawing backwards to recreate, except hers, like herself are true, honest, funny, and thoroughly free of pretense. she's long been one of my favorite artists, and i hope you will think so too. our book collaboration, mothden will hopefully be finished by autumn, we're currently looking for funding.
Montréal ici je viens!
ok i don't speak french so hopefully that says what i want it to. this weekend i'll be in montreal for the first time in at least a decade with my friends maggie, liat and jason. i'll be looking at galleries, browsing record stores and seeing what all the fuss is about. open to suggestions...
june 27, 2006
at Artists Space
july 11th will find
July 11th, 6pm
Artists Space
38 Greene st
new york, nysee you there!
june 26, 2006
the maiden voyage has set sail!
i just finished my new book, the maiden voyage. this book presents drawings i made to document a 3 week adventure across europe, my first time overseas. copenhagen, berlin, prague, zurich, london, it's all in there and then some. it's 54 pages, hand perfect bound, with a screen printed cover (silver on blue). limited to 140 lovingly handcrafted copies, check it out in the books section and/or in the shop.
june = jam sessions
a huge thank you to casey dienel, tigersaw, and brown bird for giving me the opportunity to share the stage and play music together this past week. all have shows coming up and new records out soon in addition to being delightful people to hang out with.
may 16 2006
so here we are. finally.
getting right down to it,
the last bad business show is upon usSunday, May 21st, 2006
@ The Montage Grill
50 Chestnut St • Rochester, NY
Doors @ 4pm • $8.00BAD BUSINESS (Final Show)
TAMIROFF (Final Show)
NO TIME LEFT (Buffalo ragers, 2nd to last show)
HOW WE ARE (not their last show)
GAK ATTACK (albany punkers)3 new books
i am at this moment assembling my latest book, the maiden voyage, which should be available by the end of the week. look here for information
in addition, i am working on two collaborative books which should be published by the end of the summer. the first, titled mothden, is a book with one of my favorite people, melinda melmoth. it will span a wide range of topics from undersea life to seal and heidi klum's baby. the other book,en titled bubo bubo, will be a collection of drawings of or relating to owls by myself and bi coastal playboy joel statz.shows in VA
this autumn and winter i will be spending quite a bit of time in the beautiful state of virginia. i've been invited to take part in a group show being curated by the illustrious max fenton, to be staged in charlottesville (with a possible tour of duty to follow). in november i will be having a solo show of drawings and embroideries at nonesuch in richmond, and in december i will be showing a different body of work at the relative theory gallery in norfolk. more info on all of these as it becomes available. also be on the lookout for me socializing at harrisonburg's JMÜberhouse, camelot.quiet time
other than the bad business show this weekend, i have no other musical performances scheduled at this moment. i recently had to take a break from sparrows swarm and sing to deal with some personal issues, though their upcoming record will feature me on saw, bells, and assorted other instruments. things with my other unspeakable project are beginning to move again after a very thorough exploration of the continental united states followed by a much needed period of rest. new records and upcoming shows will be announced soon.if you notice any broken links or things not behaving properly on this site, let me know!
