So, I apologize for it having been so long since I posted anything new (don't I start every blog entry like this (not to mention my journal)), but I have been staying too busy to breathe. Between opening Firestorm Cafe and Books, juggling my various lives, and trying to stay afloat, I haven't had much extra tyme to blog... in fact, I haven't made tyme to make art in longer than I'm proud of.

These are a collection of art which I've amassed. Some of it is from when I was in school, most of it is from after I got out.

I've still got more to photograph and post, but I thought that it would be prudent to go ahead and post what I have and work on getting the rest up as soon as I can.

I am looking to sell what I can here. I feel like I've put the prices are as low as I can, but if you have another offer (a trade of some sort), feel free to offer it and we'll see what happens from there

-E.Y.Baynes

"Brothers" (2007)
Etching, Dry-Point, Aquatint and Silk Screen on Paper
11"x15" Limited Edition Prints (18)
$50



Stacked Figures (2007)
Graphite, Charcoal, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint and Collage on Masonite
30"x30"
$200



Untitled (North-Eastern Longings) (2007)
China Marker, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Tar, Shellac, Masking Tape on Paper
22"x30"
$275



Untitled (North-Eastern Longings) - (Detail) (2007)
China Marker, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Tar, Shellac, Masking Tape on Paper
22"x30"
$275



That Which Binds Us Binds Us Together (2008)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac, Collage Paper on Masonite
24”x24”
$275



That Which Binds Us Binds Us Together (Detail) (2008)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac, Collage Paper on Masonite
24”x24”
$275



That Which Binds Us Binds Us Together (Detail) (2008)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac, Collage Paper on Masonite
24”x24”
$275



Untitled (Bound Together Series) (2008)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac on Paper
22"x30"
$200



First Place or Thirty-First, if You Stay Here, You're Glue (2008)
Graphite, Charcoal, Acrylic, Oil and Shellac on Paper
22"x30"
$200



First Place or Thirty-First, if You Stay Here, You're Glue (Detail)(2008)
Graphite, Charcoal, Acrylic, Oil and Shellac on Paper
22"x30"
$200



Pear Shaped Wife (2007)
China Marker, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint and Collage on Paper
15 1/4"x18 1/4"
$80



Untitled (Concentric Circles) (2008)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac on Paper
22"x30"
$250



Untitled (Concentric Circles) (2008) (Detail)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac on Paper
22"x30"
$250


Untitled (Concentric Circles) (2008) (Detail)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac on Paper
22"x30"
$250


Untitled (Concentric Circles) (2008) (Detail)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac on Paper
22"x30"
$250


Untitled (Concentric Circles) (2008)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac and Other on Paper
22"x30"
$250



Untitled (Concentric Circles) - (Detail) (2008)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac and Other on Paper
22"x30"
$250


Untitled (Concentric Circles) - (Detail) (2008)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac and Other on Paper
22"x30"
$250


When the Truth and a Lie Bleed Together, Can You Tell the Difference? (Concentric Circles) (2008)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac and Collage on Paper
22"x30"
$250


When the Truth and a Lie Bleed Together, Can You Tell the Difference? (Concentric Circles) (2008) (Detail)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac and Collage on Paper
22"x30"
$250


When the Truth and a Lie Bleed Together, Can You Tell the Difference? (Concentric Circles) (2008) (Detail)
Graphite, Acrylic Paint, Oil Paint, Shellac and Collage on Paper
22"x30"
$250

So,
Yesterday I hung my first show in a year. My first show since i got out of school. My first show with my mother ever.

Its not a big show, or even at an art gallery, but its my first time showing in asheville at all, and im really pleased with the way it got hung. I took some pictures, but havent run through them yet to see if they are any sort of decent... so when i do, this'll be the first place i'll post them.

E.Y. Baynes

So, I was called on it. It has been since early may since I posted anything, and there have been massive changes in my life since then.

In late may Firestorm Cafe and Books opened up, of which I am a part owner. It is a cooperatively owned community space with about 10 owners and hosts community events regularly, from a local AA meeting to weekly free movie nights to acoustic shows and local college professors giving talks on permaculture. We have a bookstore and vegan cafe to bring in funding to make the space sustainable and to pay ourselves with.

Since we opened in May, i have only taken one weekend off (this past weekend which i spent on a commune with Anarchist, Pagan, Gay men), and have been kept so busy that it is no surprise that i've forgotten to update said blog.

I have also continued to paint and draw (though never at the rate that i'd like to). but in the next day or two i am going to photograph and post what i've been working on.

E.Y. Baynes

So, its been a minute since i last posted anything. Over a month, actually. Things have been happening in my life, fewer artistic things than i'd like, but good things in motion.

I spent a week in New Orleans doing volunteer work reconstructing destroyed houses with the St. Bernard project in the St. Bernard Parish (which was actually hit harder than New Orleans proper by a magnitude of 10 [made up statistic... but it was hit hardhard]). I went with the Jubilee Community along with 15 other volunteers, some of which were on their 5th or 6th trip. I met some amazing americorps kids and it really made me think again, stronger, about the possible future of spending a year with them.

Also, i have managed to scrape my way into an apartment in downtown asheville. A single apartment. For work-trade. Within easy walking distance of everything. Working graveyard shifts at a medical answering service. The apartment is ample for my needs, and comes complete with a decent studio space//bedroom which will be converted into studio space. I've been here for about a week now and as soon as i am set up a little more, i look forward to painting like the bejesus. during this time i am continuing to put in applications to money-jobs, but have, thus far, been med with a cold shoulder everywhere i've put in.

I've started reading a book recommended to me by a friend on the transition from 'student' artist to 'professional' artist and the hardships involved... from inspiration and community to support (to a lack) to displaying work and shows, and have redoubled my resolve that i will not be a person who's thesis show is not also their terminal show. i'm down for working at this medical answering service, but it doesnt satisfy me... i'm not looking for any sort of career as anything other than 'artist'... so... it feels like the drive is still there, it just needs to be actively there, and i am steadily working toward a place where i can act on it more and more.

anyways, i figured i'd post to let people know that i was still alive. i dont have any new work to post, but thoughts are still flowing.

E. Y. Baynes.

I went to Winston-Salem to my ol' alma motter... i wanted to see Pam, but i am stupid and went the monday after easter... and during their spring break... so i didnt see anyone. Anyways, i saw some old art of mine, of Kandy's, of Brennen's, of other VA alum... it was good times.

I've been drawing more... starting to work a little large scale (despite not having the facilities for it), and continuing to work on the tinfoil face paintings...

It is so much more difficult to motivate myself bing out of school and out of community. There are so many other things i need to do, other things i need to set up, other activities to distract me... almost enough to make me want to apply to grad school. HAH!

E.Y.Baynes

So, here are a few pictures of what i've been working on the last day or two...

Crystalline Structure of Belief - Process shot 1

Crystalline Structure of Belief - Process shot 2

Crystalline Structure of Belief - Process shot 3

I really like whats going on with this one... its so unlike things that i've spent time with in the past. Im doing it on this old, weird paper that i've had forever... i think my grandmother found it in her attic 5 or 6 years ago, and it'd prolly been there for at least two decades prior to that, but anyways, its old, odd paper, and i've got a few more sheets in its deminsions, and im thinking about whether or not i wanna do a few other 'The Crystalline Structure of..." pieces... make a triptych... we'll see.

Oh, and sorry for the blurry images and the kinda wonky colors... i'm doin' my best with the facilities i have... but for those pictures, the 'facilities that i have' consist of borrowing my moms digital point-and-click, and the carpet space in front of a stained glass window... i worked on 'em a little bit in the photoshops to bring 'em back right... but there wasn't much i could do about the blur.
please forgive.

and speaking of those being unlike things that i generally do, here are a few paintings that i started once i got down here. i dont have very good studio space, so i only work on them when i feel a strong need to... but they are more in line with what i have done in the past.

 
TinFoil Face (Eli) - Process 1

  
TinFoil Face (Wig) - Process 1

so, i've started a new, large, more precise version of "The Crystalline Structure of Belief" in a very Papa Paszul vein. I dont know what you've done to my brain, how you've done it, or what will come of it Papa, but i am fond of this drawing and plan on seeing it through and possibly doing a few others with a similar feel.

Its been so long since i've done anything that has required a ruler or precision and it feels nice to try it a little... i am pretty sure that this isnt where i'll set up shop and stay, but i am enjoying it while i do it now, and thats what seems more important than anything else to me.

I dont understand how artists can get pinned down into a specific thing that is 'their thing.' Rothko with his 'big fuzzy squares,' Pollock with his 'big ugly splatter shit'... part of it is, i guess, that i've never found something that i needed to explore in such depth... but to work on one single thing to the exclusion of so so so many other things seems ludicrous to me. What i do ranges almost too wildly... i look at two things next to each other and they seem like they were don by different people. I like some amount of change and flux because it says (to me) that i am not a machine excreting the same thing over and over... but i'd like maybe a little more continuity to what i do.

E.Y.Baynes

So, i've had another day or two of sketching... with so little to do during the daylight hours, i have been spending a lot of time in Battery Park soaking up sun, watching pigeons and young'uns, listening to conversations the asheville-homeless carry on, and a few days ago, watching a dealer make his rounds... dont know what he was selling, but it didnt seem to be pot... and that made me pretty well uncomfortable...

but i had a lot of time to do scribblin' and will show a few of my favorites here.

E.Y.Baynes

Postmodern Chairs

while i was drawing an argument broke out among a rough lookin' woman and a rough lookin' guy where the woman was screaming profanities at him and talking about how he couldnt trash talk her like that, and the rest of them stood up and said that she couldn't be screaming like that with a little girl in the park (as there was a little girl climbing on the rocks who was prolly around 3)... and then the drawing turned into this and i gave it the caption i did.

Crystalline Structure of Belief

this one, too, was a response to some of what i was hearing people hanging around the park say. some guy was 'hollerin' at some woman across the street and said "i'll make a believer outta you," and it got written.

 
Beard Hierarchy

 
Coffee Advice

i got taken out for coffee at 5:30pm or something... so...

 
Still Life with Quill and Grapes - 1

Still Life with Quill and Grapes - 2

Which Fills First?

drew a little more.
things arent terribly consistant between my moods, but when i do a few i like, i do a few more like that... and then i do something else.

anyways. these are three of six that i did

E.Y.Baynes.

Fade

I Know a Heroine Addict When I Draw One

Sleep Naked

So, here is a barrage of some of the things i've been working on recently. Sketching has been the recent focus because of my lacking adequate studio space... but i have been working on two paintings which i'll photograph soon and post.

Sorry for the horizontal images toward the bottom being cut off... i'm trying to work in code, and i've never done it before, my time is short, and it only bothers me minimally... so... deal. [Mar. 08, 2008 - Fixed it. it was quick and simple... just took a little mathing.]

Oh, and they are all out of the same sketch book, so they are all 4"x6" (or 6"x4" if you couldn't figure it out).

-E.Y.Baynes.