17 posts tagged “pop surrealism”
New graphite chicky-poo "Lara", 7x5"
Also Greg Holston down at Mahan Gallery was nice enough to take some more accurate photos of these two pieces...
"Baron Luca and Baroness Elizabetta of Moravic, 18x24"
"Galliano Corset" 18x24" 
I also still have this tiny gal for sale, I lowered the price since she isn't framed. Please help fund my desire to see both The Boss Martians and The Bellrays this week here in Cleveland.
Looks like I'll be showing in a lot of places around N. America the next two months. I'm glad I got it together enough to do some pieces specifically for the themed shows -- I've been lazy since October. So here, mark your calendars if you are in any of these cities...
Friday, March 7th
“All Girl Show” @ Anxiety
Gallery in Madison WI. I'll have two mixed media pieces in this one, wish I could go.
Saturday,
March 8th
The 2nd Annual 'Ladies
First' art event in Vancouver, BC. As part of the Indie
Music Video Festival
This show will also be traveling to Chicago, IL in May and Portland,
OR in July and possibly more.
Many hot artist chicks involved in this one. Here's some work you'll find And I'll probably be attending the Chicago event.
Saturday,
April 5th - 26th
"Isn't It Romantic" group show @ Mahan
Gallery, Columbus OH. I'll be attending this with my posse -- watch out!
Saturday,
April 12th
"World Space Party" group show. Space themed art in honor
of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
@ Art Whino Gallery, Alexandria
VA. I'll have a painting I made just for this on display. Wish I could go to this.
Apirl
14th - 20th
"Attack of the B Movie Show" @ Space
Gallery 1141 Polk St (at Sutter) San Francisco. CA.
Curated by The Creep Machine. Opening Reception Friday, April 18th,
8pm - whenever. My "Switchblade Sue" series will be on display. A lot of awesome people involved in this show too, damn I wish I could attend.
You can also find my stuff at Boxheart Gallery in Pittsburgh, Gina's Gallery in Cleveland and well as on display at Velvet Tango Room in Cleveland.
I've started a series of low priced paintings, here is the first of it...
"Winter Wind, 11x14" price: $150.00 Sold.
Basically, I ordered a bunch of art board from a website and it was not what I was expecting. Not only does it turn oil paint into acrylic on contact, it is just difficult to use overall. Rather than waste a bunch of art board, I decided to do a series of quick paintings I could get done in a few days with no planning and just, you know, off the cuff so to speak.
Please email me if you are interested in owning this pretty gal.
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.
So hit me up as to your choice(s): arabella@elephantstonerecords.com
Thanks everyone!
Cordeleia of Kronin (1440 - 1504)
A carnival
performer since childhood, she was raised in a nomadic tribe known as
Brothers of the Serpent -- infamous for gambling, grave robbing, and
juggling. It was during her acrobatic horse riding at a festival that
she caught the eye of a wealthy architect and was sold to him by her
uncles. She had a small career as a courtesan to wealthy, but
politically unimportant men. While drunk on ginger ale at a ball, she
began to strip her clothes, and perform her acrobatic routine for the
guests. She was an overnight success; invited to perform in most
affluent homes of the day. She was no longer dependant on wealthy
partners, but became trapped into supporting relatives who squandered
her fortune. When her youth faded, she went back to her horse routine
performing for carnivals.
11x14" oil on canvas. She'll be for sale at Anxiety Gallery in Madison, WI for the "Tattoo Show" with a book signing by Mitch O'Connell.
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."
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?
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.
