Gallery, Part 2

"Hoc Corpusculum quo Induti Sumus"
Signed "McDevitt" on back, with an alien cartoon
Paint on wood, 2003 or 04


We bought this from the artist after M- saw his stuff at the too-cool-for-school street market. The one M- liked best was sold by the time we called, so we went to Michael's apartment to see more. We picked this one, though I dislike the rigid lines there on the right.

Michael says he was a biology major before he switched to art; thus the dendrites, etc. that are partially visible in this awful photo. I doubt he was a Latin major, but then, neither was I.

Michael was about to leaved for the summer to be first mate on a barge up the Hudson or something like that. I guess that's why he only charged us $50. M- brought him a beer, too, but not because he thought $50 was too low.

Gallery, Part 1

Here begins a catalog of the permanent collection of A- and M-, art collectors since 2005 or so. Each work's provenance will be elaborated beside its image, photographed by A-, a notably lousy photographer.



Untitled
Stamped on back: "Guan Wen Wu," with a Brooklyn address


M- bought this print about five years ago at some outdoor art festival in Baltimore during a visit to a former deep crush and her husband. He displays it above the family computer, where, he says, it is meant to inspire his stock-trading philosophies.


This photo doesn't show how the lines are drawn with a good-humored touch.





"At the tic-tac-toe-tal look salon" 5/12 lino print (I think)
James P. Nikkel, 1993 or 94
Signed and numbered by the artist

James is the best cartoonist I've ever known. I wish he were still making pictures, but I don't think he is. I bought this after his senior exhibition and it ended up in my parents' storage for over 10 years--I thought I had lost it in my travels. When it turned up last year, I wanted it to be a sign that James was okay.