Chicago Barewalls 2009

For those of you not familiar with Barewalls, it is fund raiser put on by the School of The Art Institute of Chicago every year to raise money for student scholarships. The school clears out one of their galleries, invite alumni like myself and Joe Spangler in, give us 7 or 8 hours to paint whatever, feed us and give us booze, invite high rollers and wannabe high rollers in at $250 per ticket, get those people fed and drunk, then once they are hammered and feel like time is running out, they bid on the artwork of their choice. 

Winning bid takes the painting it's an absolute fucking mad house from 8-830pm. I hate painting in front of people and I hate acrylics (so does Joe) but it was for a good cause, I had fun, saw some old friends, made some connections, and got a nice tax right off form the whole thing. Below are some highlights! 

Enjoy.

Joe Spangler, the sideways painting king!

Getting it done!

Thumbs up!

What you looking at sucka?!