The Paper Crane

blue and orange together please my eye and so I ate them for breakfast.

Wel­come to Green Lantern Gallery, a fan­tas­tic space in my neigh­bor­hood on Mil­wau­kee Avenue. http://thegreenlantern.org/ Last night was the open­ing of my friend Amanda Browder’s show Cyclone. Amanda’s work com­bines the use of found and thrifted fab­rics and other mate­ri­als to cre­ate won­der­ful sculp­tures and instal­la­tions. Her work is…

a detail of the fab­ric of the lightning bolt

the sewn gorilla throw­ing up ribbon

Gorilla DetailThe Big Painting

Behind the paint­ing you’ll find that the ship has sailed.

A detail

me tak­ing expe­r­i­man­tal photo’s (whoooooaa!)

the ship has sailed, made out of vinyl

the artist, Amanda Brow­der this guy says farewell on your way downt the stairs

Good­bye Cyclone, Good­bye Green Lantern

A cyclone from the street

is a solo-exhibition by Amanda Brow­der, Opens on Fri­day May 30th with a recep­tion from 7–10 pm at The Green Lantern Gallery.It’s the last show of the sea­son and what bet­ter way to cel­e­brate the dowdy onset of sum­mer than with a soft sculp­ture instal­la­tion by Our Heroin Amanda Browder?…

This is Jack­son. I have been nurs­ing this sick lit­tle one back to health. He has a kitty cold and had a kitty flu with a super high fever. The vet kept him in the hos­pi­tal until his fever came down back to normal.

Two times every day he gets…

So far here is what it looks like:http://www.ericgallegos.com/dee/links.htmlNot all of my embroi­dery work is up due to some bad pho­tog­ra­phy how­ever, one of the main pur­poses of Paper Crane is to post my new works here that can’t make it onto the web­site right away…Also you can find my…

Intro­duc­ingThe Chicago Man­ual of Style!!http://thechicagomanualofstyle.blogspot.com/A new style blog cre­ated by my friend’s Whit­ney and Jenny.It’s about time someone(s) rep­re­sented the sec­ond city!Thanks ladies!

This photo essay in the NY Times is a beau­ti­ful doc­u­men­ta­tion of the strug­gle of the mod­ern artist and their com­mu­nity. It made me feel so morose by the time I got to photo 13. Maybe its the com­bon­a­tion of the death of Robert Rauschen­berg and the fact settling…