Pen and gouache on paper, 14" x 11."

Another show coming in January at Canessa Park. Stay tuned for details.

Click HERE to read DISRUPTION by Jorge Melícias (traslated from Portuguese by Brian Strang and Elisa Brasil).

A beautiful and disturbingly vivid work up now at Duration Press.

Jorge Melícias was born in 1970. He is the author of the following books: THOSE WHO LIGHT THE ROOFS (1996-1998), forthcoming; INITIATION TO REMORSE (2004, Cosmorama); THE LIGHT IN THE LUNGS (2000, Quasi); THE CIRCUMSCRIBED KING (2003, Quasi); INCUBUS (2004, Quasi); THE LONG BLASPHEMY (2006, Objecto Cardiaco). He has translated, among others, Baudelaire, Lautrémont, Saint-John Perse, António Gamoneda and Leopoldo Maria Panero. His poems have been translated into various languages, Spanish, English and Serbo-Croatian, and have been published in various reviews. He is a co-editor of Cosmorama.


I used Wordle to create the collage above from my preface.

Gouache and pen on canvas, 16" x 20."

20" x 20," Gouache and pen on canvas.



20" x 20," Gouache and pen on canvas.

I'm now on Deep Oakland:

Deep Oakland

Gouache and ink on paper, 11 x 14.

INCRETION, 71 pp. of poetry and prose, is now available at Small Press Distribution!

Click HERE to purchase from SPD.

"Brian Strang's INCRETION is a probe into the genuine state of things, seeking definition and measure amidst the blood-and-circus reversals of regime, market, vestigial culture. Where the first world hits the last wish--this is the challenged territory he would have us know, and face."

--George Albon

14" x 11," gouache and ink on paper.

Three new ones for summer. All are 8" x 11," gouache and pen on paper.

Summer offering to Ra. Gouache and pen on canvas, 12" x 36."

Gouache and pen on paper. 9 x 11".

Another image from INHABITANTS, a 38-page fine art chapbook of black and white drawings, available now for $12 from small chapbook project-2, a series devoted to fine art c-books. Order from small chapbook project-2, 45 Ravenwood Road, CT 06107-1539. Email Peter Ganick (pganickz AT gmail.com ) to receive the backlist [$8 each] or other new scp-2 cbooks.

Gouache and pen on paper, 11 x 14".

More images from INHABITANTS, a 38-page fine art chapbook of black and white drawings, available now for $12 from small chapbook project-2, a series devoted to fine art c-books. Order from small chapbook project-2, 45 Ravenwood Road, CT 06107-1539. Email Peter Ganick (pganickz AT gmail.com ) to receive the backlist [$8 each] or other new scp-2 cbooks.

INHABITANTS, a 38-page fine art chapbook of black and white drawings, available now for $12 from small chapbook project-2, a series devoted to fine art c-books. Order from small chapbook project-2, 45 Ravenwood Road, CT 06107-1539. Email Peter Ganick (pganickz AT gmail.com ) to receive the backlist [$8 each] or other new scp-2 cbooks.

I started this blog with the words of noted scientist Albert Hoffman:

"It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans," he said. "The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature."

He died April 29th at the age of 102.

ADMITTANCE 18" x 24" gouache on canvas

New poem up at

Left Facing Bird

GHOSTGIRLFLOWER SERIES






Pen, gouache and pencil on paper. 14" x 11."

A new chapbook, Human-Sized, from Peter Ganick's small-chapbook-project:



"human-sized holes hover
in the heat"