TASM Lab Artwork - TASM Lab TASM Era Paintings

After I finished school, my friend Dave and I moved to Boston. I figured two things: 1 - if I'm going to be an artist and musician I best move to an art center, and 2 - if I have to have a day job and work eight hours a day, I might as well get one that pays (seems simple enough). As it goes, once you get a job that pays, it begins to consume you, and your attention suddenly gets drastically redirected away from your "first" job as an artist.

These paintings were completed after the time where I was required to paint for school, so they are crafted only my own volition. They were done in-between the mundane and profane tasks of finding and developing a career, joyfully exploring the wonderful city of Boston, and trying to make friends and meet a sweetheart.

Most were done for an a TASM lab album cover. I had to buy new paints and brushes everytime I started because painting was done so infrequently. There was also a certain freedom in some, as I had no one to show them to (except Dave), and a new perspective: the workplace.

Without being a ninny, some were created out-of-era, but seem to fit categorically. Thanks.

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"The Essential Cubicle Nosepicker" and "The Crazy Breakfast"
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Nude blondes in the woods


A Magnet to his Mother's Love


"Thing and Nothing" and "The Ill-starred Headscotch"
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Life at the Office

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An unfortunate birth