This week I’d been shuttling back and forth between FastFrame and Aaron Brothers to try to find the right frame for the monster drawing I put up a few posts ago.  After purchasing a frame from Aaron Brothers and realising it just wouldn’t work I returned it, bit the bullet and headed back to FastFrame.  At that point it was already Friday afternoon and I’d have to deliver the piece to the gallery Saturday afternoon.  I looked through a few thin frames with the owner.  We were limited to what he had in stock, which wasn’t much.  However, he did have this super expensive weathered looking wide frame material that was cool.  We went ahead with it.  Even with a 40% discount (because it was extra stock that wasn’t used when fulfilling someone else’s order) the frame was almost $200.  I thought it was a lot to spend when you’re trying to conserve, but the better the frame the better chance of selling the piece, right?

Of course, I got it in time, hurried over to the gallery, and was told that it wouldn’t fit in with the rest of my work because it is the only drawing. 

(heavy sigh…)

I’m sure I’ll get to put it up somewhere at some point in the future.  In the mean time, if you’re in Glendale this Friday please stop by and say hello.  I’ll have six pieces (two old, four new) at the Gallery Godo show that opens at 7pm.

After dropping off the old paintings at the gallery I headed southwest to meet with Sam and go to Culver City.  We intended to visit the book signing event at the new Thinkspace location.

I could be wrong, as I didn’t check, but I believe those two on the end are Ota and Craola.

We didn’t realize that the new gallery space is literally only a hundred feet from LaBasse Projects.   It looks like the hip LA art scene is swinging west ward, with these two major galleries located in Culver City and other heavy hitters (like Copro) closer to the beach.  All the more reason my dream is still to one day be able to move down to the area.  How lame is it that it is harder now for me to move 20 miles than it was six years ago to move 2,400 miles?  (HellaLame!, as Cartman once said)

Before going to the galleries we needed sustenance.  We stepped into the Eritrean/Ethiopian Jazz restaurant.  I tried Tibese for the first time.   They served the tomatoey meat chunks and onions with this great spongy pancake like soft bread called injera that absorbs all the grease.  In fact, while it doesn’t look like a lot of food at first, if I was less of a glutton I could have easily stretched the one entree into four meals.  You see, not only do you get a huge plate with a pile of injera, but they line the entree plate with it too.