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Jeff Soto: Before Spring

Written by Jeff Soto

Wednesday, 18 March 2009 02:12

Jeff's expecting a new baby is just under a week. A quick blog before the stork arrives. Brandon Steen sent me this image but I haven't seen the actual magazine. I have a subscription but I think it may have ended this month. Thanks Juxtapoz! I have been out of touch and away from the web lately, and haven't really posted anything substantial in here for a while. It has been nuts, or I don't know, maybe it's always a little nuts in the Soto household. We have our second baby due in a week (yikes!!) so we're preparing for that and I have a show in London I am feverishly working on. Then there's some crazy shit (no pun intended) that has happened, like our toilet deciding to one day overflow into our shower. Fun. And our laptop and iMac decided to die on us so we're somewhat offline at the Soto house. Here's what's been happening... Taco Bell burnt my burrito.... and damn, I still ate it. UFO clouds hovering over the I.E. I sometimes take Shannon's Legos and make weird shit. Kelsey Brooks, Clayton Brothers, and I at the 15 Anniversary New Image Art Show in January. Finally met the Date Farmers... awesome dudes! Marsea and I backstage. The best art I've seen in a while- Taylor McKimmens wall painting in the NIA bathroom. Genius. My kidlet is growing up which is both awesome and sad at the same time... Chris Uphues sent us some goods in the mail, which were quickly put up by Shannon! This mural in L.A. always makes me laugh. Isn't he the meanest looking cop ever? Uncle Ralph is awesome. Lots of visitors to my RAM show before it went down.. thanks guys, good food, good friends... Barbie celebrating 60 years at Tio's Tacos. Took an art trip to L.A. with my pal Lee. Saw the Megan Whitmarsh show at NIA. Her work is amazing, and knowing that she has two year old twins, makes it all the better somehow. The Fucking Crap of Life. Neck and Lister got upon the bricks. An old graffiti yard off Soto street we were checking out. I'm sorry but this guy is fucking gross! Kofie Obama art. Saw the KAWS show and ran into Edwin Ushiro. D*Face wuz here.. Checked out the Sao Paulo show at Scion Installation. Pretty cool, nice work.. Spent last week taking my show down. This is the mess it leaves. My friend Hung thought he had a rock in his shoe all morning, upon checking he'd been walking on a lizard. Not sure if the poor guy made it, but it actually looked way more alive than this ten minutes later (eyes open, moved a little...) Jeremy Asher Lynch came out to film me some more. I took him around Arlanza to get some footage. Helped Lee take some pictures of his work. Very cool stuff. Hot pink killzzz Now just waiting for the baby and painting in the garage for my next show. I am slowly becoming addicted to television. Show info: Jeff Soto "The Inland Empire" Stolenspace, London May 14th- June 7th, 2009 Contact: info@stolenspace.com I will put more info up soon.. Words and photos Jeff Soto {moscomment} Tags: jeff soto Related Articles A Week with Jeff Soto - Day 1 A Week with Jeff Soto - Day 2 A Week with Jeff Soto - Day 4 A Week with Jeff Soto - Day 5 A Week with Jeff Soto - Day 6 Jeff Soto at BLK/MRKT Jeff Soto: First Blog Jeff Soto: Trip to the Norton Simon Jeff Soto: An Update Jeff Soto: A Trip to LA < Prev   Next >

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