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reuben

Nothing chanced, nothing gained.

About Me


I paint with watercolors, make comic books and from time to time I make people's stores, parties and movies look good.
Most of my work can be seen here:

My friend and film maker, Kevin Kunze recently put this together for me:
A little about the exhibit "Lucy's Legacy" at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Viktor Deak and I did the mural for the exhibit along with the help of Xothil Gomez, Alana Guglielmo, and Charles Hearn...

My Interests

Art, Rice and Beans, French food and comics (I've gotten over the women part), Diners, Music that moves and shakes, Naked People, Beer, Bourbon, Spectacles, Occasional Pontification, Wood Stomping, Skiing, Team D.I.S.C.O., Team Lesbian, Team G.R.I.M.E., Movies, Dancing, Traveling, Experimentation in Hair Growth Patterns, Mountains and Trees, Good Times and Good Friends, Omelets.

I'd like to meet:


All the lonely people... where do they all come from?

Music:

2 Skinnee J's, The Talking Heads, Prodigy, Frank Sinatra, Metallica, Eyedea&Abilities, The Counting Crows, System Of A Down, Bjork, Chemical Brothers, Turntables on the Hudson, Ezekiel, Jethro Tull, Elvis, Pink Floyd, Stevie Wonder, New Order, Mars Volta, The Beatles, The Roots, Tori Amos, Superfunk, The Allman Brothers, Sade, Tool, Charlie Parker, Orishas, Flogging Molly, Helen Stellar, OutKast, Queens of the Stone Age, 311, The Doors, MC Solaar, and many many more...

Movies:

Last Tango in Paris, Conan the Barbarian, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amelie, The Last Emperor, The Big Lebowski, Lord of the Rings, Closer, Old Boy, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset, Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Amores Perros, Sex y Lucia, Memento, Good Will Hunting, 21 Grams, Snatch, The Nightmare Before Christmas, True Romance, A Scanner Darkly, The Fountain, The Godfather, O'Brother Where Art Thou?, The Wings of Honneamise, Akira, The Ice Storm, Clockers, The Dreamers, Paris Texas, The Fountain...the list goes on and on and on...

Television:

Iron Chef, Globe Trekker, Planet Earth, Anything on the History Channel, Everyday Italian (with Giada De Laurentiis), Tyler's Ultimate

Books:

Grendel, The History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, Naked Pictures of My Ex-Girl Friends, The Hero With a Thousand Faces, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Flaubert's Parrot, The Sandman, The Journey is the Destination, Goad, Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, Tuesday, Watchmen, The Giving Tree, Stray Bullets, The Lessons of Terror, Domu, Siddhartha, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Watchmen, Cages

My Blog

Rabid Rabbit 8 (The White Album): Dear Prudence

Rabid Rabbit 8 (aka. The White Album) is currently in production. This time around the rabbiteers bring you The Beatles’ White Album, song by song, 30 tracks by 30 artists. It’s going to b...
Posted by reuben on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:30:00 PST

DIRTY DIRTY LOVE": Roxy

I recently finished this small (10x10 inch) painting. It began as a study for a larger work... I regularly will do smaller studies to plan out compositions, colors and lighting before investing time i...
Posted by reuben on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:16:00 PST

DIRTY DIRTY LOVE": The Embrace I

Well, MySpace and Photobucket both deleted the new work I had recently posted but I managed to get this one to squeeze by the censors. It's DIRTY DIRTY LOVE--: The Embrace I - the first in what i beli...
Posted by reuben on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:16:00 PST

DIRTY DIRTY LOVE": Coupling I

Here's the newest painting. I'll be working on this mini-series of smaller works for the rest of the year. In this sub set of DIRTY DIRTY LOVE--, we follow a married couple through out the course of o...
Posted by reuben on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:21:00 PST

MEMORIA PORNOGRAFIA

Once again, Rabid Rabbit's come round the bend. Here, in advance, is my contribution to this issue's theme: Rabid Rabbit's unabridged hands-on handbook to recognizing and evaluating the fallacious and...
Posted by reuben on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:48:00 PST

DIRTY DIRTY LOVE": The Embrace

Here are the first three drawings from the sub series of DIRTY DIRTY LOVE-- called "The Embrace." They will eventually be watercolors and will accompany another sub series called "The Kiss." For this ...
Posted by reuben on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 05:54:00 PST

DIRTY DIRTY LOVE": AUTOEROTICA

For those of you who don't know, I've recently begun working on a new body of painting and drawings entitled DIRTY DIRTY LOVE--. This series aims to use sex, in all it's many varied and glorious incar...
Posted by reuben on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:22:00 PST

STORYTELLING

A few years ago, while in grad school I began to deconstruct the process of storytelling as a way to better understand my own obsession with image making. What arose was a series of writings and image...
Posted by reuben on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 10:43:00 PST

BECKY AND NEOMI

Here it is, after all these months, I've finally finished it. This painting is watercolor on Arches Cold Press and measures 52 x 34 inches. Compare it to it's earlier sketch version in the previous "B...
Posted by reuben on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 09:17:00 PST

THE FUTURE

It's been a while since I've posted anything on here and that's mostly due to holidays. Every year I get into such a great grove and then wham! The holidays come round and piss on my fucking rug. Anyw...
Posted by reuben on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:06:00 PST