The most recent issue of the Boston area Meat for Tea Magazine, the Boudin Noir Issue, features my painting, “Paper Doll Pin-Ups” on the cover. You can purchase a copy at FOE Gallery, Broadside books and Booklink and the magazine will be making its way to other locations soon. The 1st 50 issues also come with a CD! You can also purchase a copy online here.
Folio journal has requested to feature some of my paintings, drawings, and sculptures in their upcoming winter-spring 2011 issue.
Folio is a nationally recognized literary journal sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences at American University in Washington, D. C.
In celebration of American University’s MFA Program’s 30th anniversary, Folio is announcing the Winter-Spring 2011 double issue.
Houdini Lives in Scranton is one of the featured works.
A photograph I took of our basset/beagle mix, Bessie, will be included in the upcoming July 5th release of “Hipster Puppies: The Book.” I am looking forward to reading the snarky caption!
“The Internet phenomenon that unleashed “adorable emo puppies with bed head, ironic sunglasses, and snobby musical tastes.” (Entertainment Weekly)
They spend their time sniffing around local farmer’s markets, pawing through stacks of vinyl at the record store, and making biting remarks at the café. They’re hipster puppies-and they’re always snarky, impeccably accessorized, and undeniably adorable.
From the site hipsterpuppies.tumblr.com comes never-before-seen photos of these pupsters at play, as well as some of the blog’s most popular shots. With their oversized egos-and sunglasses-they run the gamut from music festival fauxhemians to ironic trucker-hat-wearing vegans. And they’re guaranteed to melt readers’ jaded hearts.”
About the Author
Christopher R. Weingarten is a professional music critic whose work has been published by the Village Voice, RollingStone.com, Spin, Revolver, Nylon, The Source, Decibel, and many more. His first book was a study of Public Enemy’s “It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.” His Twitter account is @hipsterpuppies.
Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again features works on used Metro cards.
The opening reception for “Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again” is Thursday, March 17th from 5 to 9pm. The exhibition runs March 18th through the 26th.
Sloan Fine Art
128 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002
http://www.sloanfineart.com/
The piece I submitted is a study for Roosevelt, Row Your Boat Ashore.
Women: Relationship and Identity was curated by Sarah Rust Sampedro and Rachel Epp Buller.
My two pieces in the show are Paper Doll Pin-Ups and Ode to Ub. Paper Doll Pin-Ups was also selected for the Juror’s Choice Award.
Opening reception: Friday, January 14, 2011 6-9 pm
Exhibition dates: January 14-29, 2011
Artist conversation: January 25, 7 pm
The participating artists are:
* Amy Anderson (Minneapolis, MN)
* Paige Crosland Anderson (Provo, UT)
* Megan Brigham (Atlanta, GA)
* Polly Gaillard (Greenville, SC)
* Emily Isenberg (Minneapolis, MN)
* Danielle Rene’ Khoury (Fort Worth, TX)
* KimyiBo (Minneapolis, MN)
* Jasmine King (Minneapolis, MN)
* Cassie Rose Kobeski (Dunmore, PA)
* Danielle T. Kutscheid (Minneapolis, MN)
* Amy MacLennan (Germantown Hills, PA)
* Noelle McCleaf (Minneapolis, MN)
* Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette (Fort Collins, CO)
* Rachel Orman (Minneapolis, MN)
* Carol Radsprecher (Brooklyn, NY)
* Sarah Rust Sampedro (Minneapolis, MN)
Kid Icarus received a grant from Lackawanna county to put out a new record on vinyl through our label Summersteps Records. I created the artwork for Imaginary Songs and Aluminum Hits with an oil painting and collage. I think it is their best record to date and is a steal at 12 clams including shipping. The LP is available for pre-order now and also comes with a digital download card. Check out a free mp3, Dig Architecture, from the LP now.
Some new Oil Paintings on Canvas and Panel
Little Black and White Sketches
These are little photo studies that inspire me and foster ideas for paintings and drawings. I also have made a series of transfer prints of some of the images on handmade rag paper. Like so.
A few years ago, I came upon a small dusty cardboard box at a local auction. Laid out inside, as if they had their own miniature mausoleum, were three tiny penny toys. One boy, one girl, and one spotted dog in faded war time attire looked up at me with chipped eyes and there began my recent obsession. My current body of work was initiated by my vastly growing collection of bisque dolls and animals labeled Japan or Occupied Japan. My paintings and drawings have become both portraits and still lives of the figures arranged in a different context, allowing them to have a new voice.
After the war, while the Allies were still stationed in Japan, these tiny bisque icons of American children were being produced, and sent back for American families’ consumption. Amongst all of the atrocities between these two countries, these smiling frozen in time depictions of children or animals were world travelers. The bisque children, not only depicted American children, but other ethnic stereotypes as well. The little white-faced dolls don togas, head dresses, kimonos and speak of a time when “the other” was both feared and romanticized.
I have taken the “American by way of Japan” children and placed them in the setting of a Japanese print, which ties back into the stylization of a more cartoon universe. They also appear in thoughtful interactions with the “other women” of WWII, culled from men’s magazines dating from the 1940’s. This is seen below in Paper Doll Pin-Ups. I enjoy juxtaposing flat and decorative patterns with slightly more modeled effects, using color combinations of the brilliant Japanese woodcut artists who gloriously depict the landscape, and referencing iconography of nature and childhood. I have also used a wood burning tool to carve outlines and mimic a wood block as seen in Frozen Charlottes on the Shore. The work may appear to have a lighter content than some of my previous. Yet there is often some sense of pending doom out of the viewer’s focus, as the objects gaze to a visual cue left for the viewer to project their own perceptions of war.
Paper Doll Pin-Ups
Frozen Charlottes on the Shore
