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The opening of the "Subtleties of Character" show is tonight. In my heart I'm going to be there while my body stays snowbound in the winter of Latvia.
To see all the wonderful selection done by Dan Barry go to the preview page here.
If you are interested in purchasing a piece from the show, call the gallery at 310.836.4992 or email.
I'll post just some of the pieces which moved me most:
Mia Makila
"Little Grace With Killer Doll"
Fred Stonehouse
"Puzzles"
Jittagarn Kaewtinkoy
"Dictator Man"
Matt Dangler
"The Honey Hoarder"
Jeremiah Ketner
"Together"
Jittagarn Kaewtinkoy
"Eliminate"
Richard J Frost
"Broken Dolls #3"
Tiffany Liu
"Swan Ride on Rainbow River"
Kevin Peterson
"Sunnyside Up"
Nouar
"The Sweet Chase"
Saratoga Sake
"Victoria"
Okay, i'll stop before i have reposted all the show.
I'm working and working and working at some wonderful curious projects now, more info coming in the near future. But for now - I'm going to have a few works in a new group show which is going to open in the 10th of December and run through 15th of January. It is curated by a wonderful artist and dear friend Dan Barry and features some truly amazing and inspiring artists. Go to the WWA gallery to be added to the preview list, and have fun being one of the first to see and acquire their new wonders!
And what is most exciting - the painting on the invitations etc. is my "The most delicious bloom"! It is such an honour to be in the front of this AMAZING lineup, as the show includes some of my very favorite artists as well as some friends!!
Beside this one, I'm going to have 3 more drawings on wood in the show, so you are very much welcome to drop in if you happen to spend the December in the sunny California!
More pictures coming after the show opens, this is just a teaser ;)
Here are some art that struck my heart from the Horrorwood show I'm currently in {I add just some, as there are so much much more of wonders to see}. I hope you would enjoy it as much as I did:
Ben Kehoe "Bad First Impression of Land"
Julian Callos "Blood Bond"
Charlie Immer "Blob"
Jon MacNair "The Undead"
Coup de Grace (Matt Duffin and Flannery Horan) "Sitting Duck"
David Chung "Finger-Crab and Gillman Try on Mustaches for His Big Date"
... for the first time in my life.
See the progress shots, in plasticine yet.
I'm having lots of fun and hard times too, but I'm enjoying this whole new process.
I have been asked about what, from the field of art, are my influences, several times lately.
What can I really say?
The world is such a diverse place, the visual language of our society is so rich and overwhelming, it is impossible to draw lines sometimes, it is impossible to say YES to this and NO to that regarding my influences, as sometimes the things that I don’t really ‘like’ or ‘feel’ consciously, actually inspire my creating id more than the things I admit to myself that I like. All the life itself plus all the art ever created influences me with no doubt, and this is ALL the background of what I am. {I hope I’m making a reasonable sense}
BUT – I thought it a wonderful {yet impossible} idea to actively credit my conscious inspirations anyway, so, I have made another blog just for a stream of a wonderful art, vintage findings, historical curiosities etc. which fall in my heart determinedly – i.e. my artistic inspirations – so, welcome to my LOVELINESSCLUB
This place still stays for news about my work, a bit about my life and also for crediting art of others which is direct references or used as hypertexts in some of my art projects.
*** Meanwhile, let's listen to a sweet little song {well, I find the imaginary friends theme fascinating, as it balances peculiarly right on the borderline between total craziness, an insight into ‘another world’ which, well, might actually exist somewhere, and some fairytale loveliness}:
Today I’m wiring and packing paintings to be shipped to US. One of them - for another wonderful group show, in WWA gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles. The show title is HORRORWOOD, set to open on Friday, October 15th, 2010, which will run through November 20th, 2010, looking for a homage to classic Horror film genre.
I’m having a mixed media painting titled „fog in Lily's room” for the show. Sneak peek detail below:
When proposed to participate in this show by the Industrial Squid team, I was thinking how to be honest in doing my contribution.. I mean, I haven’t exactly been raised with Hollywood horror films for lullabies. I wanted the reference to come from some deeper bins of my consciousness, not just from the potboiler slashers in cinema in my adolescence, visited with boys to hide by their bosom from the atrocity to be seen.
And so, I delved into my past, and it all went to the soviet animation hit ‘Hedgehog in the fog’ from 1975 which is the ‘horror film’ of my childhood, watched with a mix of delight and fright. It is classics over here, maybe not directly of ‘horror’ genre, but with some quite similar elements. And, as I find it, has a comprehensive tale about a travel of haunted soul - to find the peace of mind in the end.
I also like the idea that all the horror is found just in one’s mind – the best ‘horror’ films leave room for the viewer’s own imagination to fill in the developments and details, which is scarier than anything that is ever shown there.
The ‘Hedgehog in the fog’ by Yuriy Norsteyn.
In 2003 "Hedgehog in the Fog" won the "№1 Animated film of all the time" at "All time animation best 150 in Japan and Worldwide" contest in Tokyo, Japan. So, watch it!
A very big part of the cartoons made these days are a very easy digestible food, nicely packed and chewed, all you have to do is sit comfortably and swallow, swallow, swallow.. which is sometimes good of course. Reliable and restful. But sometimes you long for something that {being maybe not so perfectly packed at the first glance} makes your heart tremble, and blows away your mind.. don't you?
I found this little jewel today:
Music video for little Dragons “Twice” by Johannes Nyholm
I think shadow animations are especially magical, as they leave so much space for your own imagination..
