Jeff Soto's Blog

Dang, been a while since I posted... been busy, painting everyday, making (I hope) some good art for my upcoming show. I'm eating lunch right now, taking a break, I'll type a bit in here...

Today Aaron Mason and I went to Artworks in Pasadena to pick up some giclees, and we decided since we'd be close by, we'd stop by Alex Gross's place to see his new work. He has a show opening November 4th at Copro Nason in L.A. so he had paintings all over the place. The new stuff is beautiful, I forgot my camera so you'll have to take my word for it (and check them out in person if you live in L.A.). Alex also has a book coming out soon. Here's a picture from a couple years ago of Alex and his cat Carlos. Just pretend it was taken today, they both still look the same.


I've been spending alot of time in the studio painting, so it's been pretty boring around here lately. Here are some things that have been going on....


A Darth Vader mask arrived in the mail one morning...


A signed AFI poster arrived in the mail. Davey Havok is a big fan of my artwork....


The new Terrarium Keeper Egg came out, available at www.potatostamp.com...


At home in our backyard we found a possum playing "possum". He just sat there, hissing quietly and drooling. Many people think these marsupials are ugly, I think they're way cute. Living in a house is so different, we're really surrounded by nature which is rad. In our apartment we were surrounded by UCR students, so its a pretty big change.


Shannon loves being able to go outside.

Some works in progress for my show...














And I don't have any screenshots but my brother got in on the "friends and family" Alpha testing for the next World of Warcraft expansion. So of course he gave me the password and key and I've been playing it too! I can't say much because I don't want to get in trouble with Blizzard (and I don't want you all to know the extent of my geekiness), but damn, there is some cool shit going down in Outlands. After my show in November I might have to dork out, tune out, and veg out and play some video games....

So, tomorrow I'm meeting up with the talented Jonathan Weiner AKA Viner in Los Angeles to show him around town. I think this is his first west coast visit, so I hope I show him a good time. We're gonna hit up some galleries and I'll be there taking photos. Check back Wednesday night, I'll try to blog it up.
He has a show at Bergamot this Saturday with A.J. Fosik, Ray Caesar, and Dan Kennedy. It was curated by Jonathan Levine who will also be there Sat. night.

Jeff signing out....