Comedy Paintings The Spare Gary
Hi!
So glad you’re here but also, I need to be honest with you–I still haven’t fully updated this site (I’m working on it soon though, I swear!).
If you’re looking for paintings to buy, your best bet at this point is my shop on Redbubble or looking around on my Facebook page and messaging me about one, or better yet, coming to see me at a comedy show or open mic.
If you’re curious about comedy–I do not currently have any regularly scheduled shows but I will be doing family and pagan friendly comedy at Alton Baker Park in Eugene on August 6th at 11:30 am and I’ll be at a show at Wetlands in Eugene sometime in the next month or two.
If you’re here for some other mysterious reason, feel free to just email me about at [email protected].
Thanks for stopping by!
Welcome to Whatever This Is (2022)
Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, this website has undergone some serious reconstruction. Unable to perform and book shows, in the summer of 2020, my focus switched to collecting accounts of the widespread protests and for a while, this website was called “Documenting the Present” aka “The Spare Gary.”
When 2021 rolled around, stuff was opening back up but living in a multi-generational household, I didn’t feel right about performing again unless I knew for sure the show producers and other performers were taking the pandemic seriously (this made shows extra sparse). I was also suffering the mental consequences of watching hundreds and hundreds of hours of footage of police brutality. I needed a creative outlet and the new outlet became painting. So when documenting worldwide protests against states condoning the battery of their own citizens just got too overwhelming for me to handle on my own, this website became an art auction and journaling haven.
Now, in 2022, I eagerly await a vaccine for my very small child so that I can perform regularly again with some level of safety. I’m excited, too, to relaunch Eugene’s Best Medicine, the comedy showcase I produced for three years before the pandemic to fund mostly local charities. But, I’m also still painting and people want to buy those. And I’m not about to erase everything collected about the protests, so this website will be split three ways for the foreseeable future (I’m pretty sure there’s no reason other than those three for you to be here).
COMEDY PAINTINGS THE SPARE GARY