Wandering & Wondering

Hot damn! Lock up your cats. It's finally out! The debut album by Witch Watch, Wandering and Wondering, is now available via Bandcamp (itunes and streaming in a week or so). It was recorded by Knol Tate, Jonathan Neighbors, and myself and features a very haunting cover by Minneapolis artist Edie Overturf.

New Band Sneak Peek At Public Functionary

Tonight, at Public Functionary Gallery in North East Minneapolis, Riveter Magazine will be holding an event from 7 to 9pm which will focus on women and narratives (fiction & journalism), calligraphy demos, and book binding. Following after will be two sets of music, one by A M Stryker and the other by members of Murder Shoes (formerly known as Marriage At Nevers). The Murder Shoes set will preview our new material in an informal setting before our proper five piece full band set next Wednesday at the Kitty Cat Klub. In between these sets will be vinyl D.J. sets by Chris White and myself. Expect garage rock, yakety sax, and my usual punk faves. Fun til' midnight or so. All this and a mammoth amount of art. Meowsa!

Exhibition Opening Tonight 7pm to 12am

Better reschedule that fondu night and come out to opening of the Edie Overturf and Derek Van Gieson exhibit In Search Of, happening at Public Functionary, Northeast Minneapolis, 7pm to 12am. It'll be a hoot and you'll see damn near 80 pieces of art. Maybe more, I forgot to count everything once it got hung. See you there!

Edie Overturf & Derek Van Gieson Exhibition

This Friday, September 19th, will be the opening of In Search Of, a joint concept exhibition between Edie Overturf and myself at Public Functionary, a gallery in Northeast Minneapolis. Edie's woodcuts and reliefs will join my paintings and drawings in a show that riffs on the creation myths and histories found in folklore, religion, and mythology.

Our idea was to develop five tribes and for each of us to elaborate upon and document two of them. We worked on these separately and shared our progress halfway through the show's development in order to gain access to each other's story lines for use in repeating and overlapping motifs. Each tribe has a unique way in how they depict themselves and others in their history, in this way, we also riff on our own history and the history of other nations.

In Search Of Exhibition
Opening Friday, September 19th 2014 7pm to 12am
Closing Friday, October 17th 2014

Public Funtionary

1400 12th Ave NE, Minneapolis 55413

(The corner of Broadway and Buchanan)

In Search Of

In the not too distant future-May/June 2014, I will be exhibiting with fellow Minneapolis artist Edie Overturf at the up and coming Public Functionary gallery. This will be the largest show either of us has participated in and I'm looking forward to working side by side with her on a show titled In Search Of that references ideas of folklore/ mythology/ fables/ legends/ religions etc. It's a large space, mammoth actually, and we've started a modest kickstarter to offset the costs of framing and various supplies. In my mind though, framing will be the bulk of it as big oil paintings, drawings, woodcuts and lithos are expensive to package. Any help on your end will be rewarded with various prints or drawings. It's an important show for the both of us, we're excited to see what happens next. Hopefully you are too.