trying to keep up!

Its been a very busy month of  March!.
I had a solo show curated Frankie Velez at the Harlem Wine Gallery, A nice turn out as I played catch up with old friends and made new ones.
Met the CEO of Student union clothing who wanted to work with me.
http://studentunionnyc.com/ you can see his line at this link


I also participated  with Artwhino for the 2014 cherry blast in D.C.
http://artwhino.com/exhibitions-1/cherry-blast-2014
Which I did have a blast!.

Caught up with my Baltimore family of friends and spent a wonderful time with my Little girl for her birthday, shooting monsters and racing speed boats at the arcades..Perfect birthday party I think!



So I was aproached by Artdeckco.com to create some art on a skate board for May show that they are planning on. They want the artist to document the process so here is a first look at what I am planning to do. A leather wearing hottie with a chained spike ball being dragged.

 
There are other projects I have in the works, but you going to have to come back and find out about later .. :)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/reeflect/maritme-shenanigans-solo-show-by-brooklyn-based-ar-fa3f
My friend Richard shot pictures at the show.

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