Art and Hot Dogs at Hobbs in Swathmore

Art and hot dogs! This friday at Hobbs Cafe in Swarthmore. I'll be showing a bunch of hot dog and food paintings from the archives - pretty much everything that hasn't been sold, or isn't already on the walls at Hot Diggity. 

Along with the art Hobbs is doing a special Hot Dog Menu featuring franks from Karl Ehmer and Kocher's in New Jersey - serious, serious hot dog dogs, considered the best in the country by the hot dog elite. Check out the menu below: 

Bill’s BBQ

-Pulled pork, canables bbq & corn salad

Karl Ehmer

-The original Ehmer Saitenwurst unadulterated

The Class Act

-Duck dog wrapped in spec with smoked tomato marmalade & pear mostarda

Japan Four

-on an okonomiyaki roll with kewpie mayo & Japanese BBQ sauce

Sout’

-Wit’ extra sharp provolone, rabe and long hot relish on a Sarcones roll

Dirty South

-chili, jicama slaw and bacon

William

-Butterflied dog, tomato gravy, mustard butter, confit potatoes, cheese, and an egg

Chi City

- tomato, onion, double kosher pickle, sweet relish, pickled pepper, celery salt.

Hobbs Coffee

Friday, Feb 1st 6:30pm

1 park Ave, Swarthmore, PA

Hobbs Coffee on Facebook

Sandwich Show at American Sardine Bar

BIG Thanks to everyone who came to check out the show & also to chef Scott Schroeder & Michael Jordan at ASB for hooking it up. The show will be up until January at American Sardine Bar, 18th & Federal in Philadelphia. 

25 sandwich paintings, some are from the menus of American Sardine and South Philly Taproom, others are Philly classics, then some random regional stuff that I've always wanted to draw. 

A bunch are still for sale, you can check them out at the bar or just email me (hawk krall at gmail dot com) for more info & prices.Check out the whole show on flickr and/or the awesome article that Drew Lazor wrote about the show for the Daily News. 

These were all done on wood with house paint - something I'm getting into that's faster & looser than my illustrations. I don't do anything more than a thumbnail sketch (if at all) before drawing straight onto the board, different from my detailed hot dog diagram illustrations where I painstakingly agonize over every detail with 20 layers of tracing paper.

Definitely into doing work like this for clients - I don't know how well they will scan and reproduce, but if you're just looking for something to hang in your restaurant or hot dog cart, I can do this a lot faster & cheaper than the other stuff, and you'll receive it ready to go up on the wall or whatever.

Also debuting at the show was the South Philly / South Africa Gatsby Combo in which Scott and myself collaborated to attempt fusion of the South Africa Gatsby Sandwich and the infamous Philly Combo. 

For this special Scott has been driving up to Rieker's in Fox Chase to pick up their mind-blowing beef and pork frankfurters - maybe one of the best in the country - if I was running a kitchen in Philadelphia there is no way I wouldn't serve these. Topped with deep fried cod, skate wing and potato fish cakes, mustard seed /  longhot pepper hash (nod to both philly and the indian achtar pickles served on Gatsbys in South Africa) and tumeric mayo.

I don't know if this thing has much to do with authentic Gastbys or real Philly Surf & Turf but it's freaking delicious. Even though it sounds insane, it really really works. On the menu until January, when ASB will unveil the next monthly guest sandwich.

December 8th - January 2013

American Sardine Bar

18th & Federal, Philadelphia

americansardinebar.com

Sandwich Show this weekend at American Sardine Bar

All new paintings of sandwiches from Scott Schroeder's menus at ASB and SPTR, Philadelphia hoagie shops, and some others from around the country. Check out the opening next Saturday the 8th at American Sardine. 

Also on the menu for the month of December, some sort of wild sandwich collaboration, a cross between the famous Philly Combo and the South African Gatsby sandwich. 

Opening Sat December 8th

American Sardine Bar

18th & Federal, Philadelphia

americansardinebar.com

Space 1026 Show Photos

Massive thanks to everyone who came out to the show even though it was 110 degrees & especially Kris Chau and everyone at Space 1026.

There's a ton of photos on flickr if you want to see more. 

There's also a handful of 30"x20"-ish screenprints (thanks Awesome Dudes Printing) of this South Philly Times Square piece left, $40 plus shipping if you're outside of Philadelphia, email me if you're interested.... Show is up 'til July 28th at 1026 Arch St!

Space 1026 Show

Come check out my show of crazy Philadelphia drawings at Space 1026 in two weeks! Mostly black & white, no hot dogs (ok well there's a few in the background) and maybe some big wooden signs for fish hoagies and lottery tickets if i can get them done in time. Big 1-color prints of the above "South Philly times Square" piece will be available for 40 bucks a pop (printed by the best dudes over at Awesome Dudes). Also free tomato pie.

Space 1026

July 6th - 28th

Opening First Friday July 6th 6-10pm

1026 Arch Street, Philadelphia

Space1026.com

Deli Dog

Just finished this the other night for my show at Hot Diggity. Homage to the little known Philadelphia Deli Dog - a.k.a. Kosher Tommy. According to my mother this was common in the 1950's at Philadelphia Jewish delis as a kosher alternative to the popular texas tommy (hot dog wrapped in bacon, usually with cheese).

A Kosher Tommy usually consists of an all-beef dog wrapped with beef bologna or salami, variations including pastrami or some with cheese (I guess for the non-kosher??).

A while back I scoured Philadelphia area delis looking for these things and man some of them were sort of awful. Knockwurst and thick layers of greasy, dried out grilled salami under a mountain of congealing provolone cheese on a stale hoagie roll?!?!

 My favorite was this fairly simple Sizzle from Zeke's, a semi hidden diner-deli around 5th and Spruce, and the inspiration for the painting. 

Anyway you can check it out this month at Hot Diggity (630 South Street) along with a bunch of my work that's hanging in the shop. No word on whether or not they are going to run it as a special but this month's Detroit Coney dog is really really good.

Art Show At Hot Diggity!

Stop by Hot Diggity on South Street this Friday for lots and lots of hot dog art including some brand new work and even a couple of burger paintings.

Also for the first time prints from the Hot Diggity menu will be available for sale. The show will be up until the 29th, opening reception is this Friday the 3rd from 6-9pm. The restaurant will be open for business so come have a beer, eat a hot dog and check out some art. Also exciting, Hot Diggity (and the menu paintings) finally made it onto Hollyeats.com... my life is now pretty much complete.

Hot Diggity
630 South Street
thehotdiggity.com

GRNY Post-it V

Rustled up some last minute submissions for Giant Robot's 5th Post-It show at the NY gallery. Had less than 24 hours to get them done and in the mail and thought I was going to blow it. But they turned out pretty fun and I'm happy to have my work up with such a stellar group of artists.


Post-It V was curated by Mark Todd and Ester Pearl Watson, and will be up until July 7th.

Giant Robot Gallery
437 East 9th Street
New York, New York 10009
(212) 674-GRNY (4769)



Check out some shots from the opening here-
GRNY POST-IT V on flickr

Fuss Free

The first Fuss Free show was a blurry week in Miami 6 years ago. Probably the first time I sold a painting for more than 25 dollars. Next friday curator Roy Miranda is bringing it back to Philadelphia at Shadow's Space located right above Kung Fu Necktie. I'll have work up (old and new, hot dogs and not) along with some of Philly's finest. More info below.




Participating artists: Dave Delaney, Matthew Kucynski, Hawk Krall, Martha Rich, Thom Lessner, Christopher Luxton, Adam
Wallacavage, Matthew Michalak, Jayson Musson, Joel Flood, Carrie Collins, Don Vincent Ortega, Ted Passon, Linda Smyth.

“Fuss Free” runs from March 5th, 2010 through April 30th, 2010
Shadow's Space is located at, 1248 N Front St.
(@ Thompson St., Girard stop on the Market Frankford Line)
Philadelphia, PA.

The opening reception, on Friday March 5th from 6 to 10 pm, is free and open to the public.

• Shadow's Space info and press release
• Fuss Free on Facebook
• Out Of Print Mag - Fuss Free
• Opening night on Flickr

Chicken Show in Baltimore

Baltimore Citypaper art director Joe Macleod asked me to contribute something to this chicken-themed holiday art show. I'm not sure exactly what it's all about, but it looks amazing (scroll down & check out the video from last year). So I painted up some chicken art this weekend that made me want to go to Popeye's and get a bucket.



Thursday, December 3rd
THE 2ND ANNUAL CHICKEN LIGHTING
and TWO-PIECE & A BISCUIT ART SHOW

Featuring ACTION PAT, The Poultry Pickin', Chicken Clickin'
Drumstick Lickin', Baaaaadest Frickin' DJ
in Baltimore to help you shake a tail feather!

WORKS OF CHICKEN ART from Okan Arabacioglu, Emily C-D
Larnell Custis Butler, Ben Claassen III, Donald Ely
Mel Guapo, Frank Hamilton, Jess Harvell, Sam Holden
Gary Kachadourian, Daniel Krall, Hawk Krall, Heather Rounds
Deanna Staffo, Jefferson Jackson Steele, Strobophoto
Dan Van Allen & MORE! BUCK-BUCK-BUC-KAW!
Also featuring: CHICKEN HELPER: SANTA CLAUS!!!

OTTOBAR
2549 N. Howard St. Baltimore, MD

That Bites!

I've got a couple small paintings in a teeth-themed fundraiser group show this weekend. There's over 40 artists involved so it should be an awesome variety of tooth art. Opening is friday night with live music & free beer. Auction starts at 6pm!

More info here.

That Bites: An Oral Fundraiser
Pageant Soloveev
607 Bainbridge
Philadelphia
Aug. 14, 6-9 pm

Big Funny Opening Friday!

Opening & official release party this Friday night for The Big Funny in Minneapolis.

I've got a big old (16" x 23") full page comic in there about living in a crappy apartment and buying VHS tapes from the crackheads who lived downstairs.

I haven't seen a copy yet but it looks awesome. Here's a couple of reviews -

Review: Big Funny at Newsarama.

BIG FUNNY, for those who like their comics man-sized at Poopsheet Foundation.

Big Funny Opening Reception
Friday August 7, 2009 7:00pm-11:00pm
(Show Runs August 6-29,2009)

Altered Esthetics Gallery
1224 Quincy St NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413

Go to the Big Funny website to order a copy or get more info.

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-Updated Mon, Aug 10th-


Check out some photos from the opening here!