Arty Farty

Art Reception Photos

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:42:59 -0700

I wasn't able to get to the Attack of the B Movie show in San Francisco, but Josh from Creep Machine has put up some photos from the reception here.

You can also still purchase many works through the new Creep Machine Store here.

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Hey you, Vancouver...

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 17:49:25 -0800

I'll have a few things in it.

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Switchblade Sue

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:53:18 -0800

"Switchblade Sue Will Cut You" 8x10 inches, oil on board.
This is for the B Movie group show at Space Gallery in SF coming up in April. I've watched a lot of teen exploitation flicks from the 1950s involving girl gangs, or sorority girls who are just bad, so this character was just sort of inspired by those as a whole.

Switchblade Sue Will Cut You

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Cheap Art This Week

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 12:06:54 -0800

So my usual "save some endangered art" Monday is a little different today. This week I'm offering a variety of prints from my punk/goth/Elizabethan/mannerist series for $3.00 a pop. And since I have 3 of each image available, you can grab more than one if you want, so they don't get lonely. These were a test run of prints from a while back, the image size is only 7 inches high on 8.5x11 inch paper, and the actual paintings have changed a bit since these were made -- I have a habit of going back and "adjusting" my artwork. Guess that sorta makes them collector items, right?

For the cheapskates out there, this week it is $3 instead of $1 for a variety of reasons: these are heavy stock glossy prints that come all fancy in a plastic pouch, hence they cost more to mail, but mostly because stamps and envelopes cost this girl money if you can feel me. But hey, it is still cheaper than a large coffee concoction at Starbucks.

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So hit me up as to your choice(s): arabella@elephantstonerecords.com
Thanks everyone!

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Fire at Miami Art Gallery

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:39:29 -0800

Shit.
From Bear and Bird Gallery:

"Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of lowbrow art destroyed in Miami fire.

Hundreds of amazing and beautiful lowbrow paintings and artwork were destroyed this morning when a fire broke out in Miami Wynwood Art District's Harold Golen Gallery - the current exhibition was especially important due to the international art fair Art Basel, which wrapped up this past Sunday.

Among the paintings that were lost are the work of Ron English, Tim Biskup, Niagara, Mars One and most notably Skot Olsen.

The now destroyed show was called "Subjective Reality" and featured at its center ALL of the new neo-psychedelic artwork of Skot Olsen, which has taken years to complete. Destroyed in the fire were a dozen paintings by this lowbrow/pop surrealist artist who unveiling his new direction and more realistic painting style at Art Basel show this weekend.

All that remains of his work are a few prints available on the artists website: Saint Psilocybe & Saint Elyse's Epiphany. http://www.skotolsen.com/purchase/prints.php

Obviously, Skot Olsen is shocked and heartbroken and could use any support that the art community can muster. A year of work down the toilet! :-o

Also news coverage at:
http://www3.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/MI70321/
http://www.local10.com/news/14821045/detail.html

and sure to be ongoing throughout the day."

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Art Sites I Dig

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:27:38 -0800

Art blogs I've been digging on lately:

www.CreepMachine.com put together by Josh of the SF Weekly, I like that he alerts people not just about shows, but new prints and stuff available on Ebay by much of the lowbrow/pop surrealism crowd.

www.LinesandColors.com this goes back and forth on featuring very "painterly" painters, to commercial illustrators, comic artists and animation layout designers. Very awesome.

www.OurArtSite.com a little bit of everything.

www.ArtBoobs.blogspot.com Boobies!

www.OnMyDesk.com showcases designers and illustrators workspaces that they submit. I'm glad I'm not the only one cramped into a dinning room or small space to work. And people ask me, "why don't you have a big loft with skylights? Isn't that where artists work?" sheesh.

www.Coagula.com I used to read it regularly when I lived in L.A, but have only recently started up again after the wonderful and entertaining video smackdown Mat Gleason gives Shepard Fairey. Brian Teasley of Chunklet Magazine used to be my internet cranky-pants crush, but sorry Brian, Mat has re-claimed my heart. His review of the Murakami exhibit ends with things like,

"After you have visited the Takashi Murakami show, this bombastic, empty plastic palace of sterile child abuse, caucasian humiliation and Hyper-capitalism making even Beijing envious, well you can say you saw it.

And you can forever look MOCA director Jeremy Strick right in the eyes and call him a WHORE.

You can look MOCA curator Paul Schimmel in the eyes and call him a WHORE.

You can look at anyone associated with the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art with the same tittilation and disgust that you would aim toward Heidi Fleiss were she to walk in the room."

Thank you Mat, may I swoon now?

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Hot Pink Attack!

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:52:52 -0800

My newest gal. I don't know what happened, but layers of different pink colors just kept getting laid down until it became outrageous...

Lady Delphine of Dogole (1596 - unknown )
Charming, delicate and imaginative, she was described by her brother, a prominent Earl, as the richest and stupidest girl to ever hail from Dogole. When the nuns gave up on her convent education and sent her home, she stopped in a port town to shop and see the 'pretty ships'. It was there that she met a pirate captain; not realizing she had been kidnapped she then married him at sea and unwittingly, funded his crew for years after being told they were freedom fighters. After the death of her husband, she gained control of his fleet only to lose it in a South Pacific storm during her expedition to find Candy Apple Island. It is believed the sea chanty 'Ditzy Dame of Dogole' was inspired by her.

I've also added the short biographies finally to the newer portraits on my website a while back: www.ArabellaProffer.com family trees and all that will come eventually...eventually.

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Hi Fructose

nobody@vox.com(ArtyFarty) — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:27:12 -0700

You know what magazine I'm liking better than Juxtapoz lately? Hi Fructose
I dunno, just seems like less noise and crap to sift through if that makes any sense.
This is only my first issue right now, but I'm thinking I'll get a subscription.You should dig it.

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