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The first poster I did was for the dynamic and versitile Amanda Browder. Amanda’s work ranges from 2D work, to sculptor and installation and also performance. Who knows, maybe she has done video as well? She has also done projects and residencies all over the place with her collaborator Stewart Keeler. She is also famous for bringing personality to the Bad at Sports podcast and her extremely fashionable eye wear.

The poster painting that I made was for Amanda’s May/June 2008 exhibition at the Green Lantern Gallery in Chicago. Above is a picture of a reproduction of my poster painting installed somewhere on the streets of Chicago. I am not quite sure how many posters actually got put up as while Amanda sent me quite a few photographs of street shots of the posters, upon close inspection it seems they may have all been the same poster from different angles. I choose to believe that the windy city was plastered in Amanda Browder Cyclone posters.

Above is the Green Lantern from the outside and you can see Amanda’s crazy-massive-stuffed-cyclone through the window. This is a great sculpture, not only because it is such a cool and fun object, but also because it reminds me so much of Miss. Browder herself – she is a whirlwind of energy and excitment, but without all the unfortunate devastation of a natural disaster. Amanda is the cartoon cyclone. I love this view of the piece – it is like you are a voyeur looking into a cartoon world.
Below is another one of the sculptures from the exhibition. Amanda and I have not concluded this phase of the project as we have not managed to find time to make the trade yet. I have been secretly hoping that she will offer this wonderful stuffer baboon – it is far to significant a piece for my poster, but some day when I have children I think they would really go nuts for this one.