Party in my boudoir

My first real day off in about a month. Started as a relaxing day at bean bag, to a dance party in my room, to having more people over and my room once again being rubbelized.







Life of the party, ALWAYS











Waiting for all the boys to get there:



No one really knows:









Shelby's skirt:

Favorite

Yacht

Saw this band last September opening for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs alongside the Oh Sees, now their hit "Psychic City" always plays in my work and the catchiness of it has really gotten to me. They put on an amazing live show with a lot of video/light effects, etc and I recall at the time describing them as an electro dance gothic cult band, my own term of endearment.

PSYCHIC CITY:



Two videos from the show I was at, the sound is a little sketchy in both, but you get to see their endless energy and sporadic choreography.






Umm, and can you say "Eurythmics"?

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Tonight sounds like this

Not going out tonight, gonna stay home and paint instead. I don't know what this video is, but I do know that I'm getting back into Beach House, especially tonight.

No green for me

Going for more of a "Death of Sardanapalus" color scheme instead...

no, whaley....

Made this the other week for someone speeecial

Surprise show

Walked by the Martin Wong Gallery today at school and remembered I had a piece of artwork in the latest show! It was a self-portrait I embroidered in my textiles class last semester that my teacher has been holding for the show for quite a while, I pretty much forgot it existed until now, let alone how much work I put into it....









The rest of the show was pretty great, a mix of undergrad and grad students.



Our teacher, Vic, showed us examples of past student's work before we started the embroidery project last semester, this one was my favorite:

EPIC sleepover

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Vara

Here I am again, writing a blog entry way past my bedtime, apparently the only time I can find time. I’ve just spent the last 3 hours studying for my Western art II test and just had to post about this amazing artist my boyfriend’s friend, Gardner, told me about (which is funny because my textbook for Western art also happens to be the well-known Gardner’s Art Through the Ages).

He saw my art for the first time this weekend(particularly the unfinished painting posted two entries ago) and he was shocked that I had never heard of the Spanish surrealist painter Remidios Vara, and truthfully I’m surprised too. I googled her today and was instantly hooked on all of her work! Her paintings manifest the surrealist style being used in her time by Dali and Kahlo, while also possessing a lot of motifs I see in modern illustration today in artists like Julie Morstad. Also, I must agree with Wikipedia for their comparison of her art with that of Hieronymus Bosch’s, an amazing Dutch painter from the 1400’s. The stylistic resemblence between the two artists is really uncanny especially based on their use of vibrant color, lack of foreshortening, and allegorical style, not to mention how elated I get when I find two artists this similar that lived 500 years apart(what a mystery to me as to their congruencies, so much to learn about the connections of artists through time).

Honestly, when I was looking at her work for the first time each painting seemed to transcend the previous one. Thus, picking only a few to show on here was a surprisingly difficult task, but here are my favorites…preceded by a fishtastic Boooosch closeup.

BOSCH:





VARA:

I just want it to be a sound

This interview with John Cage really pulled me back to my fundamental artistic goals that I often unintentionally stray away from, the appreciation for the minimalist, essential, and sensory (not to mention he's quite the character).

followed by my obsession of this afternoon, various performances of 4'33"

I wish I knew how to finish you

TO BE CONTINUED...