Derek Erdman's Digital Infinity Palace

Baldessari Bootleg | May 2021 | Chicago, IL

Traipse Barn | May 2021 | Louisville, KY

SOUTHERN TRAIPSE TOUR / SPRING 2021
IS NOW OVER (thanks for coming, book soon.)

Sat 05/22 Louisville KY (5pm Clifton Neighborhood)
Sun 05/23 Memphis TN (5pm Cooper Young / Goner Records)
Tue 05/25 Chattanooga TN (5pm Frazier & Forrest)
Wed 05/26 Atlanta GA (5pm Club 529) Fri 05/28 Savannah GA (tba)
Sat 05/29 Columbia SC (5pm Five Points-ish)
Sun 05/30 Raleigh NC (5pm CAM Benches)
Tue 06/01 Philadelphia PA (5pm South Street)
Wed 06/02 Brooklyn NY (4pm Bushwick)
Sat 06/05 Akron OH (4pm Square Records)
~~Sat 06/12 Chicago IL (Belden Ave)~~

Traipse Press Page (Click Above) | May 2021

Guest Check | May 2021 | Chicago, IL

Only Care About Books | May 2021 | Chicago, IL

The Great Gatsby ALL CAPS / NO BREAKS
Release Date: April 9th 2021. Press here for more info.

Aelfie Rug | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Big Boring Worry Maze | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Birthday Candles | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Bollocks to the Poll Tax | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Great Gatsby Cover Template | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Great Gatsby Advertisement | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Andrew & Bucky's New House | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Drugs & Crypto | February 2021 | Chicago, IL

Dum Dum Dum | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Escape From Hands | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Glossy Bear & Doritos | January 2021 | Chicago, IL

Great Joy Window Tiger | February 2021 | Chicago, IL

Let's Have Some Fun | February 2021 | Chicago, IL

Laughing (For Ruben M) | February 2021 | Chicago, IL

Mount Steven | February 2021 | Chicago, IL

Nighthawks: In the Bathroom | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Shopping | February 2021 | Chicago, IL

Chair Lift "A Beast on Those Hills" | February 2021
Portage, WI

I'm So Bored With Mt. Rainier | February 2021 | Chicago, IL

Stress Tiger | February 2021 | Chicago, IL

The Sun Boys | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Tape Measure Study | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

This Is Real | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

Wow Window | February 2021 | Chicago, IL

WOW YES | March 2021 | Chicago, IL

House Cats | January 2021 | Washington DC

Happy Birthday Pal | January 2021 | Chicago, IL

Chicago Art Show: ONE HOUR Wednesday Dec 27th 11am-12pm
Location TBA, text 773-595-9708 for more info.

Seattle Art Show! ONE HOUR Saturday Nov 7th 2pm-3pm
Location TBA, text 773-595-9708 for more info or
check iGram for the latest news. Sick shit, much fun!

Juggling Dogs | October 2020 | Chicago, IL

COB YES ELEVEN | October 2020 | Chicago, IL

Pence Fly For President 2028 | October 2020
$5 Venmo to derekerdman or PayPal here.
(Make your own by printing this out.)

Not All That Bad | October 2020 | Chicago, IL

Polka Dot Car | October 2020 | Chicago, IL

Sophie & DJ's Favorite Things
October 2020 | Chicago, IL

Fuck Off So Bored | August 2020 | Chicago, IL

Various Tea Tigers | October 2020 | Chicago, IL

Triscuit Collab | September 2020 | Chicago, IL

VOLKSPILE | August 2020 | 60"x144" | Seattle, WA

Derek Erdman @ the Planet Fitness
Bill Griffith | September 2020 | Hadlyme, CT
Get one for yourself! Bill Griffith is a genius.

Blue Bear Head | August 2020 | 18"x18" | Chicago, IL

Cut Out Tea Tigers | October 2020 | Chicago, IL

Envelope of YES | (140 scraps of paper with YES on them)
$10 Venmo to derekerdman or PayPal here.
October 2020 | Chicago, IL

RIP ME (Dead Dawg) | October 2020 | MPLS MN
(Photo by good friend Liz Walker)

Ina Garten | September 2020 | Chicago, IL

Kingdomes | September 2020 | Chicago, IL

Moldy Globs | August 2020 | Chicago, IL

NOTE: I recently scanned 1,200+ of my photos from the
1980s until 2012 or so. Probably boring to most people,
but if you'd like to have a look they're right here. (please be patient
with the page load time, it is 1,200 photos) I figured I'm going to die
eventually, so it'll be nice to have something like this to look at.

Color TV #43 | September 2020 | Chicago, IL
16"x16" latex and acrylic on wood | $160 click here to buy
(shipping included, dedicated to Cody Freed)

The FREE PAGE has been updated, perhaps go there for
some "free things." (I certainly sell your info as much as I can).
Unfortunately, this stamping of a UFO crashing into the Washington
Monument isn't available, but almost better stuff is.

^^^ EXTRA EXTRA ^^^ EXTRA EXTRA ^^^ EXTRA EXTRA ^^^
"The last art show that I will ever have in Chicago."

Frog & Toad Were Friends | Various sizes | Insulation foam

Aram's SF Pandas | Various sizes | Acrylic on wood

2020 Burger Test Score Sheets

2020 Burger Test - The Winner: Scofflaw

Lambkin #1 | April 2020 | Chicago, IL

Cheer You Up | April 2020 | Chicago, IL

Color TV #27 | April 2020 | Chicago, IL

Lambkin #1 | April 2020 | Chicago, IL

Diet Coke | June 2020 | Chicago, IL

Uniqlo Dunes Tussle | June 2020 | Chicago, IL

Good Times | April 2016 | Seattle, WA

Emotional Weather | April 2020 | Chicago, IL

Fake IDs | May 2020 | Chicago, IL

Greetings From Milk | April 2020 | Chicago, IL

Hello | April 2020 | Chicago, IL

Friend Club Flyer #29 | Chicago, IL 2020 | 8"x10" copy on paper

Orange Room | Chicago, IL 2020

Neighbors | Chicago, IL 2020

A Very Funny Joke | Chicago, IL 2020

Judge Parkour | Dave Neeson | Portland OR 2020

Jupiter Ace | Chicago, IL 2020

Krylon | Chicago, IL 2020

Lambkin #1 | April 2020 | Chicago, IL

Danger: Cone | May 2020 | Chicago, IL

Lightfoot: Fact or Myth? | July 2020 | Chicago, IL
Friend Club Flyer #32 | Chicago, IL 2020 | 8"x10" copy on label paper

Not What I Signed Up For | July 2020 | Chicago, IL

Yellow Day | July 2020 | Chicago, IL

Teen Rebz Whale | April 2020 | Chicago, IL

For Sophie & DJ | July 2020 | Chicago, IL

Friend Club Flyer #32 | Chicago, IL 2020 | 8"x10" copy on paper

House Swatches | On a Garage | Chicago, IL 2020

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2020 Best Year Stamp Sheet | 8.5" x 5.5" Color Print
$20 Venmo to derekerdman or PayPal here.

Street Catz | 70"x48" (Collection of Jackie Slivka)
Acrylic & latex on canvas

Here You Come | 5.5" x 8.5"
Ink on paper, maybe available through the Friend Club

Flat Dot Ladies | 96" x 48"
Latex & acrylic on canvas

Cares About Chairs | 8.5" x 8.5"
Ink on paper, maybe available through the Friend Club

Marching Penguins | 12" x 18"
Latex & acrylic on wood

Sally Ride | 8.5" x 11"
Ink on paper, maybe available through the Friend Club

Very Disagree | 48"x48"
Acrylic & latex on canvas

"This cat hates literature!"

Cheer You Up | 12" x 18"
Latex & acrylic on wood

Virgin Mo Mer | Chicago IL 2020 | 28"x24" Acrylic Painting on wood

Double Kareems | LA CA 2019 | 30"x24" Acrylic Painting on wood

Empty Room | Chicago, IL 2019 | 8"x10" Ink on paper

Friend Club Flyer #14 | Chicago, IL 2019 | 8"x10" copy on paper

HTBTBA | Seattle, WA 2019 | 8"x10" Ink on paper / T-Shirt

Visiting Seattle | 12/23/2019

York 4 Kev's Mom | Cincinnati OH 2019 | Painting on wood

Collection III | Chicago, IL 2020

Holy Hill Cafe | Hubertus, WI | January 2020

Holy Hill Chapel | Hubertus, WI | January 2020

Khaki Capri | Philadelphia PA | December 2019

Mall Screen Shot | Internet | January 2020

Mall Screen Shot Altered | Internet | January 2020

Poppy | Chicago, IL | Painting on Wood 2020

Friend Club Flyer #15 | Chicago, IL 2019 | 8"x10" copy on paper

Megan Jasper Holiday Card | Seattle WA 2019

Burying the Dog | Chicago, IL 2019 | 8"x10" Ink on paper

Friend Club Flyer #11 | Chicago, IL 2019 | 8"x10" copy on paper

Friend Club Business Card | Chicago, IL 2019

Friend Club Drawing #19 | Chicago, IL 2019 | 8"x10" Ink on paper

Seattle Garbage Burger | Seattle WA 2020

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Mid 2019 update: I work in a law office now, so I am now artistically apethetic.

If you're in Seattle on September something, please come to this
VERY GREAT ART SHOW (I will be there):

If you're in Los Angeles on November something, please come to this
VERY GREAT ART SHOW (I will be there):

Here's a Beto drawing just for you:

And some DIY can labels:

OTHERWISE, LIFE IS FINE, I GUESS.

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Oh man, Chicago. Things have been pretty good here. Ashley HATES it. The
city infrastructure is a total mess and the weather is either cold or sweltering.
It's a hard drinking place, so relating to people while not hard drinking is a
challenge. There is good and cheap food though, and it's a really nice place
to ride a bike. I kinda want to get a job, but one that will allow me to sit at
a desk and say hello to people. That job doesn't even really exist.

Oh, and I also fucking love Planet Fitness:

Just look at that! Satanic calories! One of my favorite things is to load up on
ibuprophen and run like crazy. Usually HGTV's Flip or Flop is on the overhead
televisions, holy shit that's some serious garbage. Otherwise, here's my gym
and non-gym running soundtrack and/or other shit I've been hella into lately:

Dominique Lawalree - Vis a Vis
(You can find the MP3s on this excellent website)
Ken Burns The Vietnam War Documentary
(18 hours of dense information)
Plush - Fed (2018 rsd release)
(Long walks on the streets)
(Playing Trivial Pursuit on the porch)

Oh, and a bunch of Clone Records singles that I got from this place:

...which is Square Records in Highland Square in Akron, Ohio.
We went to Ohio for Mother's Day to see Patty. It's still Ohio there.
(Photo of Patty and I can be found below)

All Myself Again | CHICAGO IL 2018

Oh, and I did the windows for The Annex in April.
It was an all around delightful experience.

When I moved to Chicago the first time in 1997, I wanted two things:
to work in a record store and to own a table top Galaga videogame.
I worked in a record store for a really long time and one of them had
and standup Asteroids machine, so close enough. When I moved
back last October, I wanted a piano and a cat. As an adult, those
things were relatively easy to acquire. Here's a cat:

He's mostly a lunatic, he MEOWS LIKE CRAZY and licks and
breaks through the screens to get outside whenever he can.
He's absolutely fucking adorable, we love him so much. His
name is Archie.

Ashley took this photo on the roof of our garage. She's been
fucking killing it lately, so that's great. We might not LOVE
Chicago, but work is going vaguely well for us both.

Here's the Barksdale in Memphis, TN. It was called
Bob's Barksdale before, but Bob died, what a fucking
bummer. This is a recent photo taken in April 2018.

Here's a holy trinity of awful known as Bhad Bhabie, Lil Tay
and Woah Vicky. It's pretty great that bad stuff like this exists,
sometimes when I get depressed I just want to watch THE
WORST stuff possible. Like Logan and Jake Paul's father's
Instagram videos. They're really wretched and also from Ohio.

Bunk Bed | CHICAGO IL 2018 | 11" x 8" latex on wood
(this painting is unlisted, if interested in buying, get in touch)

Processing | CHICAGO IL 2018 | 11" x 8" latex on wood
(this painting is unlisted, if interested in buying, get in touch)

This is a drawing of Dan Schneider for Jason Baxter's
birthday. GROOOOOSSSS.

Diana Ross | CHICAGO IL 2018 | 24"x36" latex on canvas
(this painting is unlisted, if interested in buying, get in touch)

Dogs vs. Cats (First Strike)
Arwen Nicks is pretty great, hi Arwen.

Family Presley | CHICAGO IL 2018 | Digi-Drawing

Presley Mom | CHICAGO IL 2018 | Digi-Drawing

We went to Graceland, and while it's RADICALLY different
from how it was in 2008 (much more corpo-money minded),
it's still really excellent. I don't even care about Elvis, but
fanatical shit is something I can usually get behind.
Usually.

Everything is Easy | CHICAGO IL 2018 | 18"x24" latex on wood
(this painting is unlisted, if interested in buying, get in touch)

Fashion Gals | CHICAGO IL 2018 | 18"x24" latex on wood
(this painting is unlisted, if interested in buying, get in touch)

Godzilla-ing #1 | CHICAGO IL 2018

Godzilla-ing #2 | CHICAGO IL 2018

Pretzel Grackle | CHICAGO IL 2018 | 12"x12" latex on wood
(this painting is unlisted, if interested in buying, get in touch)

Grass Devil | BATH OH 2018

Same Costume | BATH OH 1971

TRIO | CHICAGO IL 2018 | latex on wood
(this painting is unlisted, if interested in buying, get in touch)

Dogs vs. Cats (Second Strike)

Myself Again, WOW | CHICAGO IL 2018 | 24"x18" latex on canvas
(this painting is unlisted, if interested in buying, get in touch)

New Businesses | CHICAGO IL 2018

Eternally Empty | CHICAGO IL 2018

Ooh, it made it to the Chicago Reddit page!
That's nice. I inflated those numbers on the bottom.

Interracial Mimes | CHICAGO IL 2018 | Digi-Drawing

Favorite Foods Legend | CHICAGO IL 2018 | Digi-Drawing

Lake Michigan | CHICAGO IL 2018 | Digi-Drawing

Lamplighter Bathroom | MEMPHIS TN 2018

I refinished my Lane coffee table. It wasn't really that
difficult to do. YouTube videos mostly, and a WHOLE
bunch of inhaling things that I shouldn't have.