The last days to see Blab! show in Seattle

"Dream of Father Gregory about his naughty altar boy Tim two weeks before Christmas"

*sold*

There are just a couple of days left to see the BLAB! Show in Roq La Rue gallery.


Blab! is an annual book, anthology of visual art, produced by Chicago based art director Monte Beauchamp. He is also the curator of the show.

See all the wonderful artworks, many still available, on the Gallery preview page.

Voice of the Nightingale

by Wladyslaw Starewicz (in 1923)

spiritual portraits

Check out this lovely portrait of me by the wonderful American surreal portrait artist Buddy Nestor (visit his page and see more women artists portrayed)
  

Jana Brike

Acrylic, Spray, and Graphite

16" x 20"

2010

SUBTLETIES OF CHARACTER show preview

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.

Go to the preview page to see/buy more wonders.

Here are my lovely contributions:

"The Most Delicious Bloom"

"The Magical Beast of Miss Emily"

*sold*

"Mr. Tomy's Night of Wonders"
*sold* 

"Lady Who Wanted to Hide in a Forest"

*sold*

HORRORWOOD artworks

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"

David Ball "The End"

JAW Cooper "His Father's Eyes"

And, here is my contribution:

Jana Brike "Fog in Lily's Room"

profound feelings

Wonderful magical things, coming straight from the hearts of other people {called art, or culture}, do kindle our passion and inspire us a lot, don't they?

 One of my today's findings is a subtle bewitching video made of paintings by an amazing American artist Anne Siems. Here it is:



... between the lines a dream is hiding ... from Robert Campbell on Vimeo.

Her paintings are incredibly magical on their own as well..

{Anne Siems "Roost" 2008}

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The second "finding" was actually presented to me by a sweet wise friend who's sharing my passions as it seems {there's a thin line between real friends and network friends now. I cross it!}.

It is 'just' a trailer of a film. But it is so magical that pulls at my heartstrings more than the very most part of full movies usually do..

{Searching for the full film now}

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And my third finding of the day is to be seen below. Adopted them {for couple of dollars} in the local flea market. Will use for petting, inspiration and installations.
Here is the lovely threesome:

The lady in the middle lacks one leg. I'll have to do a wooden one for her I guess.

I particularly am fond of this little guy. He's made of wood, has prickly flaxwaste hair and creepy sweet painted face..

Nice aren't they?

LAST DAYS animation

suggestive animation

I'm  drawn to this incredibly animated stunning inspirational short from a Tokyo ‘Ultra Technologists’ group TEAMLAB {you can go, wander and explore yourself all the strange wonderful diverse things they do, at their webpage}.
This one sounds a bit like club music from nineties conveyed to now.. well, I wanna dance in swarm with those animals... :)


Last Days from TEAMLAB on Vimeo.

ABOUT CRAYFISH

suggestive animation

For today's inspiration, I stumbled across this beautiful russian animation about a young lady who fell in love with a devil.. If you watch it to the end, it is sad and painful. Yet it makes me wonder, how is it possible that such an old tale can be so contemporary and touch the soul so fairly.



{"About Crayfish" Made by russian animator Valentin Olshvang }