Mondo Bizzaro treats.

Open until December 4th at Rome's Mondo Bizzaro gallery is a show featuring new work by the bizarre and delicious favorite favorite, Junko Mizuno. Her lovely ladies always have elements of the erotic mixed with tasty treats, blood and nurses wielding giant needles.

After the Mizuno show closes, another favorite of mine, Amy Sol, opens her new show "Smoke and Water". Her work is usually created on wood panels and for this show, she's switched to using watercolors and graphite on paper. The rest of the show is up here before it opens next month. The piece above reminds me of  "The Dark Crystal." Although both their styles and color palettes are different, there is something of the lone female here, accompanied only by creepy or cuddly creatures.

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Bloodbath McGrath

    The above photos are from Liz McGrath's new show "Tears of the Crocodile," at Iguana Pop in Barcelona, Spain, which to me is like the city of youth, everyone there is young and half naked....Anyway, I've been a big fan of Liz's for awhile and got to see one of her originals a looooong time ago at Fuse gallery in NYC, but have yet to have the luck to see anything new. Her husband, Morgan Slade, added the tattoos on some of the creatures......I love collaborations.

Here's an older piece I dig as well, the house fits on to the Siamese deer and buckles shut:

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Midnight at the Mutter Museum

(a few shots from my halloweenie wedding)

Phantasmagoria

Lately I've been trying to figure out what direction my new body of work will be taking. As always, I focus on the particular experiences of the feminine heart, and more specifically, what provokes my personal passions. My early notes for my upcoming shows were more focused on a body of 'sideshow freak' carnivale portraits....but my newly re-kindled love for all things Vampire has turned my work towards the darkest side of the supernatural. While researching a proper title, I stumbled upon "Phantasmagoria"....which is the name given to 'Magic Lantern' shows from the late 1790's (and will be the subsequent title of my show in Feb.) The shows were designed to project ghastly images of the supernatural onto the walls, including ghosts, demons, werewolves and vampires. My new works will be focused on this theme and I'll post my progress from time to time......

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Lovely Ladies

Here's my finished painting......a lovely lady in Max's wolf suit. There are prints of it in my Print Shop.

Here are a few lovely pictures of Morgan who owns 'Seasonal Demons' and 'Ultra-Violence'. The voyeur in me loves to see my work out in the world. I recently went to a party here in Philly and ran into a girl wearing one of my necklaces.....I was too shy to say anything but it was very thrilling. 

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Where The Wild Things Are

I was recently invited to join in on a group show with the theme of "Where The Wild Things Are" by the lovely Tina of Topstitch. Since the deadline is soon, I started working on a piece tonight.....this is very early in the progress and is on a nice piece of wood. I decided to do a girl with Max's hooded cat costume because I loved it so much when I was younger, I wished I had my own! This book was holds a special place in my childhood, as I'm sure it does many others....which makes the upcoming Spike Jonze rendition of it for the big screen so exciting......Here are a couple stills I found online......

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The Howling

I can't resist sharing these new earrings I just created.... They are wolf teeth that I purchased over the summer at a Native American Pow-Wow. I hate thinking of parting with them! Slide over to my Shop to read more about them.

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Goggly Goggly

Movie Poster

I love movies. Ever since I was little I would fall in love with a movie and become fixated on it. I would watch it again and again, and just as my father recently told me, each time I would watch it, it would be like the first time again; I would still be excited as if I didn't know the ending. The movies of this mentioned childhood were mainly fantasy oriented: 'Willow', 'The Dark Crystal', and 'Legend' among others. I firmly believe these fantastical movies shaped my current aesthetics...which leads me to "The Fall". I had desperately wanted to see it when it was out in theathers in May and never got the chance. ( I really wish now, more than ever, that I had gotten to see it on the big screen.)

'Mae West' Salvador Dali

Besides the brillant and moving writing, the imagery is sensational. There were touches of Dali's landscape/portrait double paintings as well as hints of 'The Cell' (which the visionary  Tarsem also directed) 

The masked bandits. I love this look. I'd really like to incorporate it in my new paintings series that I'm starting.

Charles Darwin. I love the patterns in this still....such lovely and precise detail!

I know this movie will become one of the films I watch again and again. Rent it, buy it, watch it now!!!

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Basic Grey Newsletter

Despite my name being misspelt a few times, I'm very grateful to have my work featured in this newsletter. Basic Grey is an amazing paper company, I use alot of their paper in my work.... Visit my Print Shop on Etsy for more.

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The Drawing Room

Audrey setting up her installation in the front room of Think Space. 

Like many of us "pop surrealist' art collectors out there, I have a special type of hysteria reserved for the highly talented Audrey Kawasaki. Upcoming this friday night at PS mecca ThinkSpace gallery in CA is a show featuring drawings by Miss Kawasaki and an entourage of her equally talented friends, some who have established art careers and others who are recieving their much deserved spot in the lime light. 

Photo Via Juxtapoz.

I especially adore this wood drawing by Audrey. I have been following her career since college on her LiveJournal and am lucky to own a few of her prints and to have been able to see her breathtaking work in person when she showed here in Philly through the now defunct Lineage gallery. (R.I.P)

Liza Corbett is a fellow member of the Etsy team I belong to, Cabinet of Curiosities. I greatly admire her work and dig her Etsy shop where you can buy prints and originals.

Fumi Nakamura is another lovely lady I followed on her LiveJournal years ago. I have a lovely original from her and love to see that she's doing so well. She works mainly in colored pencils, a medium that is one of my favorites. 

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Future stories and loves.

Two major events have recently rose in my life....the first was being married this past weekend to my love and the second, which will effect everyone, was the election of Barack Obama as President. Here in Philly I could hear horns honking and people literally screaming his name in the streets well past 1 a.m. In a drastic change from the election last year, I felt EVERYONE went out and voted and I received many phone calls from friends and family reminding me to vote. These two events have made me excited for the future.....& as I stumbled on this photo on artist Ann Wood's blog, of her handmade cardboard castle, I felt it summed up how I was feeling; like an enormous castle filled with multitudes of excitement and anticipation. I hope everyone is as well as I find myself these days, I'll have a BIG shop update at the end of next week.

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