July 6

Tomoko Konoike

In honor of July 4th!

Design Sponge's "Best Of" List: Red, White & Blue

Girl crush! : Rachel Niffenegger

Oooooh my gosh.....

July 1

June 24

I'm still plugging away at my new group of paintings...I don't really like showing process pictures of them until they're finished and I can show them all at once...it sounds weird but showing them in an in-between phase feels like I'm showing something really private (that im not ready to show) because i haven't been able to emotionally and mentally work through them yet .. and it also makes me feel stagnant and stuck..it's like I need to have my secluded fight and victory with it before I can present it..

I love these by Cande Aguliar:
"Flowerville", 2005. 72" * 96". Mixed media.
"American Capital", 2009. 120" * 96". Mixed media.

June 22

Installations by Alicia Martin

June 21

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in year sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain

June 19

Olson House, 2010. James Welling photographed the Maine house that appears in Andrew Wyeth’s "Christina’s World", 1948.
(COURTESY THE ARTIST AND DAVID ZWIRNER, NEW YORK)

This made me laugh

works IN PROGRESS!!!

"Trophy Wife"- Art Con's "Mounted" Show

Saturday, June 8, at Mokah Art Gallery is Art Con's spring, juried art auction, "Mounted"!! The theme is taxidermy because we are in the great state of Texas, after all.

I thought making a Trophy Wife would be a good subject for a 'mounted'/ 'taxidermy'-themed show: the dual-meaning that's present of her being "the trophy", herself, and the eerie question begged of how she physically became taxidermy, (what happened to her in her life as a trophy wife). I definitely wanted to make a sculptural piece for this because of the theme, but also wanted my career as an abstract, oil painter to be represented. I used a lot of pink to play into her juxtaposition of glamour and femininity with creepiness and solemnness.