The autobiography of the artist John U. Abrahamson written with best-selling author William Maltese

Lots of New Stuff

2011-04-18T21:08:00.000-07:00

First. I will be the cover artist and an 18 page interview in the next issue of ARTsync Magazine. The release date I will announce as soon as I get the go ahead from the publisher to spill.

Second. Though still in the pipeline (I believe the creative team of FX Master Jeff Farley and Director Drew Daywalt are building another version of my creature and doing some pick up shots), the upcoming film "Mamma's Baby" staring the talented and ultra-guttsy actress Shannon Lark gets ever closer to release. Stay posted

Back to Work

2011-04-18T20:48:00.000-07:00

It has been a long time and my co-writer still welcomed me back with open arms! Not sure about how my publisher views the little vacation I took. The time away allowed me to complete the solo exhibition last year at Bert Green Fine Art in Los Angeles entitled "Flesh and Blood" now in large hardcover or smaller soft cover book form. (See n the blog entry below)

Have to say it is good to be writing again.

Another Book "Flesh and Blood"

2011-04-18T20:44:00.001-07:00

"Flesh and Blood" by John U. Abrahamson

Tatuaz Magazine With Your's Truly

2010-07-25T22:27:00.000-07:00

Tatuaz Magazine is now out and available. You can go to http://www.tatuaz.net/_england/home.html for more info. They did a great, in depth interview and besides the occasional language barrier, I think Peter asked some very thought provoking questions.

Africa

2010-07-21T23:04:00.000-07:00

Tonight was all about Tanzania Africa, Boxing and having an extream aversion to needles.

Tonight's Musings

2010-07-11T21:47:00.000-07:00

Surfing in San Diego with Jetty Eddie's crew, mafia run underage clubs, 1980's coke culture and marring a Vampire. Tonight musings.......

Back!!!!!

2010-07-07T00:45:00.000-07:00

I'm back! Crazy happenings lately but back on track writing. The years of youth slowly disappear and now working on young adulthood. After unsuccessful murder (maybe) plots, I have entered into the development of an artist.

FEAR

2010-06-15T16:50:00.000-07:00

Hello Horror fans! At this point I can make one, but only one announcement of several projects of interest especially to you.

I am currently working with Drew Daywalt and his DAYWALT FEAR FACTORY on a film short. VERY excited to be working with him.

The power of Photoshop

2010-06-12T09:17:00.000-07:00

I put together a mock-up of the book, just for fun.

Set Back!

2010-06-08T19:06:00.000-07:00

My dear readers (future tense). My laptop committed suicide taking with it my main means of writing.
Hopefully this will all be taken care of soon.

Dashcakes and Grizzly Bears

2010-05-27T00:48:00.000-07:00

Tonight: Moose, Dashcakes, Grizzly Bears and a 1974 White Dodge Van.

Pigs

2010-05-25T01:01:00.000-07:00

Spent the night reliving my days on the farm. Including but limited to my first kill, fields of pig shit, lightning hog sausage, piglet "Soup" death and other stories from the heartland.

Version #4 To My Dear Co-writer

2010-05-21T22:42:00.000-07:00

Late, or seemingly late night tonight. Great interview today, more later on that, another interviewer's questions waiting for an answer on my computer and the deadline for the other book I am working on is due TONIGHT! shit.

Press Release

2010-05-15T18:06:00.000-07:00

15 May 2010

PRESS INFO

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

RE:

“An Abominable Fancy”

An Autobiography by John U. Abrahamson with William Maltese

Artist John U. Abrahamson and internationally best-selling author William Maltese,

have just gone to contract with Laura Baumbach’s MLR/PIP Press to pen the artist’s

Faustian autobiography that was birthed in the aftermath of Abrahamson’s recent

successful and much-discussed “Flesh and Blood” exhibition at Bert Green Fine Art in

Los Angeles, CA.

“Flesh and Blood” included an installation of the same name that consisted of 660 vials

of the artist’s own blood and flesh, collected over the previous year. It was, though, his

thirty personal journals, written over 15 years, which viewers were encouraged to

destroy, and did, that provided Abrahamson the catharsis and sudden incentive he needed

to “reclaim those memories” in “An Abominable Fancy” now being penned with

Maltese.

The autobiography will span almost half a century and illustrate the artist’s long-existent

quest for understanding life and himself through his experiences and through his

controversial artwork. It will document the odd and often macabre twists and turns taken

by him towards achieving those ends … from his abandonment by his mother when he

was 7… to his rise within the Los Angeles art scene… and his deep descent into San

Francisco’s dark underworlds of vampirism, blood-sports, and fetishism, all the while

putting his ghosts and demons on canvas and paper, for all the world to see, in his attempt

to achieve some kind of much-needed self-realized exorcism.

Contact information —

JOHN U. ABRAHAMSON attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has

exhibited in galleries and museums world wide, currently resides in San Francisco, CA,

and is represented by Les Barany and Bert Green Fine Art

Jua@johnua.com http://www.johnua.com/ http://www.bgfa.us/ http://www.baranyartists.com/

WILLIAM MALTESE has a BA in Marketing/Advertising and spent an honorable tour

of duty in the U.S. Army, achieving the rank of E-5. He started writing for men’s pulp

magazines in the sixties, and has since penned more than 171-published books, both

fiction and nonfiction, with foreign-language editions in over twelve countries.

williammaltese@yahoo.com http://www.williammaltese.com/

The Beginning

2010-05-15T10:45:00.000-07:00

Here is where it starts.

With the conclusion of my solo exhibition "Flesh and Blood" at Bert Green Fine Art in Los Angeles, CA in March and April of 2010, I began to contemplate the destruction of 15 years worth of my writing through the installation work featured in "Flesh and Blood." Perhaps the only way I could realize this book was through the destruction of my journals. A great cleansing before the new journey.

I had approached William Maltese, a collector of my work and a very accomplished writer. The partnership was solidified and MLR/PIP Press agreed to publish the manuscript. William and I are both very excited in bringing my sometimes odd and often macabre life's story to print.