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It ain’t pretty, but it’s honest work

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It ain’t pretty, but it’s honest work

#lacustomcanvas #lacustomframing

It ain’t pretty, but it’s honest work

#lacustomcanvas #lacustomframing

It ain’t pretty, but it’s honest work

#lacustomcanvas #lacustomframing

It ain’t pretty, but it’s honest work

#lacustomcanvas #lacustomframing

It ain’t pretty, but it’s honest work

#lacustomcanvas #lacustomframing

We’re building out a new space in the warehouse to kick back—just a little—against what’s happening out there. You feel it every time you step into an art event. Something is off.
At some point, meaning stopped being something we shared and became something we privately negotiated. That wasn’t an accident. When meaning floats, power doesn’t have to argue with you—it just has to outlast you.
Here’s the trick: if anything can mean anything, then nothing has to mean anything. Responsibility evaporates. Position disappears. Community collapses into vibes.
Decades ago, institutions figured this out. Certain kinds of art weren’t supported because they were radical, but because they couldn’t be pinned down. Work that refuses to say what it means is easy to circulate, easy to sanitize, easy to sell as “freedom” while staying politically harmless. You don’t censor it. You just let it hang there.
Now you don’t even need that machinery.
Algorithmic capitalism does the job faster and cheaper. Platforms don’t care what you make—only that you keep making it. They don’t suppress meaning; they drown it. Speed over touch. Reach over risk. Everything becomes content. Community becomes “engagement.”
Artists are expected to survive in cities where rent alone costs five grand a month, selling work into a system that mathematically can’t support them. So people get scared. Edges soften. They stop saying what they see. They call access “community” and gratitude “politics.”
That’s not a failure of character. It’s a pressure system doing exactly what it’s designed to do.
Look at David’s painting of Marat: a body, a wound, a position taken in public. No ambiguity. It didn’t float. It landed. People knew what it was saying—whether they agreed or not.
That kind of clarity terrifies systems that live off blur.
This show isn’t here to fix that.
It’s here to refuse it.
A room. Real work. Real bodies.
Community over commodity. Everything else is drift.
Bring the failures. The experiments.
The shit that would turn JD Vance’s stomach.
Unregulated hang of small works. Very soon.
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@tipoftheberg

When real flowers just ain't gonna do the trick
Wild Kazakh Tulip I painted for my wife
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Years of this work on the books.
Letting the materials do their thing.
No rushing.
This is why we’re trusted with the important stuff...

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Johnny getting things going for that next big sale I've been promising for alt 6 months... coming soon.. for real..
@johnnyo527

Somewhere between the end of one year and the start of another, the noise seems to swell... as if certainty itself were a kind of reflex.

A thinning of commentary feels necessary. A deliberate recovery of the senses, long blunted by excess, abstraction, and the constant demand to react. Attention returning to what is proximate and real... hand to material, eye to surface, breath finding its own rhythm again.

What seems required now is not rhetoric but repair — the sober re-ordering of days, the quiet disciplines that accumulate meaning without announcing themselves, the return to work not as spectacle but as practice.

Been listening to @thechemicalbrothers all day

Delivery is always available

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Summer sale coming soon..
Let nothing go to waste. We always have cut-offs from our large orders.. this is how i sell these canvases so cheap.. I'll post again soon about the sale..

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📷 by @postmodern.family

This is what we do, all day. Galleries send us rolled up work…we unroll it, measure, make stretchers, stretch em up, then we make frames to order…mount em, then ship them out ready to be hung for the show. Thisis the first time I’ve made red oak frames, and they came out gorgeous.

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One reason to make float frames.. or any frames for that matter,is that the need to be pretty much prefect.. and this need ends up enhancing all the other work,cause it raises your attention to detail.. there's not much money in making frames, even though we make the best ones in town.. but it's still worth it to do..