Alexander Giehl / Matt Dorman
HUSTLER: 200c on 199c
Screenprint, Cut Paper, Custom Frame
26in x 22.5in
Cincinnati is the home of hustle.
Andy Sohoza
Endurance Prevails
Serigraph on Masonite
18in x 24in
Confession: I really like going to baseball games, but I don’t like baseball. I’m enthralled by the specifically American pageantry of the whole thing for a little while, and then I’m good for another year or so. With no particular love of the game, I’m always tempted to make one of these about Noam Chomsky’s sports quote, or my long standing personal contempt for that soon to be “pardoned”(?) degenerate from my old workplace, Pete Rose. But from the start, me doing 199c has always been about me “playing ball”. Whether that was pivoting to commercial art, staying in a bad relationship, toning down the content of my work, or in this case, simply enduring long after the novelty of “living my dream” has worn off. If we count my work output as art (which I usually don’t, but for the sake of argument…), I’m creeping up on 20 years of this, with no clear end in sight. The scary part? If I could go back and explain it all to that kid at the racetrack who had to deal with Pete Rose (who was a degenerate), I’m certain he’d still trade it all for this. What do you do?
The Block Watch
John ET Bench
Paper & Plastic
6in x 9in