Visit to THE NWBLK, San Francisco

We finally had the opportunity to stop by THE NWBLK, the space representing Yaffe Mays in San Francisco. The space was impressive in scale and slick in presentation.

As many may not be aware, Yaffe Mays is the collaboration of furniture makers Rebecca Yaffe and Laura Mays (the director of Darrick's woodworking program at College of the Redwoods). Their representation in the city is not only exciting for their careers, but also what we believe to be a valuable extension of the school and its leader. 

With no relation to THE NWBLK, the woodworking class'  final Spring show this year will be in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco for the first time ever! There will be the usual showing at Mendocino's Highlight Gallery, and the SF exhibition will follow it. Opens Friday May 17. 
More on that later.   

Yaffe Mays, Personhood.

Phase Design, Wired Metallic Chaise.

Yaffe Mays, Mrs. Willoughby. 

Yaffe Mays, Zaftig. 

Final Show Images

Yesterday was the first time I saw all of my wall drawings painted over at Lost Coast Culture Machine. Wow. This show was a great opportunity to work in this way, creating my own little home of drawings within a finite space. I've also never worked on this scale with my own work. The success of the show comes in my determination to continue working with many of the forms I came up with on these walls- in print form most likely.    

Thank you to Anne and Deitmar from LCCM for supporting this project! 

This piece was one of my best discoveries. A bunch of maddening lines morphed into a sort-of permanent fiber wall piece. I look forward to doing more versions of this in other spaces.

It all started with this drawing collection I completed last summer. Everything I created in the installation was in some way derived from these works.

Many are for sale! Email me at info [at] killscrow.com

Drawing Away From Home

Last week, working from the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Not Bad. 

I still have 3.5 drawings to finish by mid-April for an exhibition I am participating in this summer. For the first time ever, I will be sending drawings overseas to Japan. 

Vessel 2, 2013. Ink on paper. 15x22".

A Start On A Chair

Derived from various influences, Darrick designed this low rocker which will be built with Walnut and leather. Pictured above is a six-inch maquette.   

The beginnings of the full size mock-up.

Donate to Leslie Williamson!

Darrick and I have agreed that if ever we were paid to take photographs, we would hope to do it the way Leslie Williamson does. In plain terms, she travels the world photographing interiors of the foremost makers of the modern mid-20th Century era, predominantly. I wrote briefly about her previous book Handcrafted Modern: At Home With Mid-Century Designers in a previous post here, but she needs donations to finish the next installment Handcrafted Modern Europe! Watch the video above to get a strong sense of the project's need or simply link directly to the Kickstarter page here. 

I have always been a little bored with some publications solely dedicated to pictures of interiors. While I may enjoy the content, the images start to feel muddled quite rapidly. Leslie captures something much more personal. She pays genuine allegiance to a canon of modern craftspeople that we too idolize. As important as this work is for its preservation of these people and places, memorializing a time when people valued things with such care in the home can only mean great things for makers today. 


We were both pleasantly surprised when Leslie recently came by both of our Feb 1 exhibition receptions while she was in town on a writing jaunt in Mendocino. In the ten minutes I spent talking with her, there was certainly no mistaking her complete devotion to this work. She is a one-woman show and very much an artist simply trying to do everything to continue working. This book has to be made! 

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Join Us Tonight

Reception at Lost Coast Culture Machine in Fort Bragg. 5-9pm

This is the second and final installment of my exhibition Grounding, drawings and installation. Bob Rhoades will be showing an installation in the project room of the gallery as well.

These are a couple images from the second phase.

My exhibition statement...