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***06/22/10 CONJURING AND DISPELLING is reviewed on Julia Friedman's CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO BLOG.

***06/18/10 CONJURING AND DISPELLING, solo exhibition at Motus Fort, 1-3-5 Higashi Kanda, 2nd Floor, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, opens and runs through July 17th.

***06/10/10 ALL SIGNS POINT TO YES: AN INTERVIEW WITH KADAR BROCK by Michael Tomeo on Daily Serving.

***05/28/10 SUBSTANCE ABUSE curated by Colin Huerter opens at Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, 541 W. 23rd St., NYC and runs through July 3rd.

***04/30/10 NIGHT FISHING opens at Thierry Goldberg Projects, 5 Rivington St., NYC and runs through May 30th.

***04/27/10 NIGHT FISHING is a pick on Art Cat.

***04/14/10 IN DIALOGUE, curated by Peter Makebish, opens at anonymous gallery, 169 Bowery, NYC and runs through May 23rd.

***02/28/10 IN.FLEC.TION. opens at the Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art. and runs through July 26th.

***02/21/10 Nothing Is Wrong If It Feels Good is up at Mike Potter Projects in Cologne.

***02/20/10 The Artist's Guide to the L.A. Galaxy opens at West Los Angeles College Art Gallery.

***01/21/10 QUICK WHILE STILL NYC opens at Heist Gallery Pop-Up Space, 143 Madison Ave. @ 31st Street

***01/09/10 NEW MIRRORS: Painting in a Transparent World is open now at EXIT ART, up through February 6th.

***10/28/09 Too Big To Fail is on KCLOG blog, with a few pictures of my piece.

***10/23/09 Too Big To Fail opens tonight at 395 Flatbush Extension. It's already been mentioned on thing.net and on James Wagner's blog.

***09/21/09 Today is my Pop Pop's birthday. Happy birthday Pop Pop.

***09/21/09 Video content is here, here, and here. Definitely not here.

***09/11/09 Here is a link to a blog that discusses my work in "Heart Break Hotel" at F+V.

***09/07/09 THE CURSED CHATEAU at Indy MoCA opened August 14th.

***07/19/09 I'm in a group show at Freight + Volume called "Heart Break Hotel." It runs through September 12th. I'm also in a group show curated by Michael Wilson at 999 Metropolitan (our studio building) called "Candygrammar," it opens July 23rd, and goes for three days.

***03/02/09 Interview with Qi Peng is posted on EXAMINER.COM.

***02/10/09 FUTURECLAW is live - Check out pages 45-54 and the back cover.

***11/06/08 The "Young Bloods" story from CITY Magazine is now in the press section.

***11/02/08 I'm going to have a portfolio of paintings and an interview with Ana Finel Honigman come out in the next issue of FUTURECLAW.

***11/02/08 Issues of CITY and USELESS are on the stands.

***09/26/08 I have some press coming out next month in USELESS and also in CITY.

***09/26/08 Canadian art critic Leah Sandals mentions my work on her blog.

***09/22/08 The HVCCA Benefit Auction will take place on Sunday, October 5th at Yvon Lambert Gallery.

***08/08/08 Barnett Newman's essay THE PLASMIC IMAGE as a pdf (give it a second to load). This is very good reading.

***08/08/08 "I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" at Asia Song Society (A.S.S.) opens Saturday.

***07/22/08 Read this fashion blog my friend Abby writes.

***07/07/08 Mentioned on some Swedish blog - Google translation says "The artist who made this painting is called Kadar Brock and is incredibly clever. I love the art!"

***06/22/08 This is a video of a ritual I did at Buia while my show was up. It was a secret.

***06/21/08 COVER VERSION curated by the wonderful Timothy Marvell Hull at Taylor DeCordoba Gallery in Los Angeles runs from June 28th through August 10th. There's already a little press for it here and here.

***05/30/08 HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH is a "Weekend Pick" on ARTINFO.COM. I got to review/recommend five shows for this write up as well.

***05/30/08 I'm listening to Jens Lekman, he's wonderful. I've been reading, in no particular order: parts of Barnett Newman interviews (I have that hard to find collection of all his writings), Kasimir Malevich's treatise on Suprematism, and Delueze and Guitari's KAKFA book; all of which are inspiring me to further hash out what it is I'm making, why I make it, and what I hope it's about.

***05/17/08 Painting contradicts the inevitable impermanence of my life. I guess it's the closest thing to eternity (or immortality) I've got.

***05/16/08 HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH is on a few blogs - Nancy Smith put some pics up on ARTLOVERS, including a great pic of me and Kenny Scharf. a wordpress blog.DELICIOUS GHOST. ARTCAL lists it as a "pick." Katy Hamer put something up on her blog.

***05/15/08 It's my mom's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! My mom is fucking awesome.

***05/02/08 HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH is on STYLE.COM.

***05/01/08 HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH, my New York SOLO opens tonight at BUIA.

***04/29/08 YOU ONLY LIVE ONCE (solo with Angell Gallery in Toronto) is reviewed in the May issue of ARTFORUM.

***04/11/08 Interview with Matt Jones has been edited, and posted.

***03/31/08 James Mahon, this great fashion photographer, took some photographs and a video of me in my studio. You can see it on his website.

***03/19/08 You Only Live Once is reviewed in ArtKrush.

***03/05/08 Heaven Is A Place On Earth, is previewed in The Village Voice by RC Baker, as part of his Spring Picks.

***03/02/08 The opening date for Heaven Is A Place On Earth, at BUIA, is Thursday, May 1st.

***03/02/08 I've been listening to David Lynch's "Catching the Big Fish" on audio book in the studio. Listening to it over and over, enjoying the sound of his voice, and what he talks about.

***02/22/08 "You Only Live Once," solo show at Angell Gallery in Toronto, opens.

***01/24/08 I'm entirely addicted to Twin Peaks.

***12/1/07 I'm having a solo show at Angell Gallery in Toronto from February 22nd to March 29th, 2008.

***9/19/07 I also put a rad painting by MATT JONES in my bedroom; it's above his tv and his gamecube, also in my bedroom.