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vote for me?

RAWartists are holding their annual artists competition, with finalists in all categories (visual art, fashion, photography, performance, etc.) Everyone who has worked with rawartists is in the competition, so, that means me!

If you feel like it, I’d be super grateful if go to the site and vote for me – it takes just a minute, and in the [extremely] off chance that I get into finals, there’s the possibility of art space show placement, art supply gift cards, consultations and write-ups. I’d be incredulous! And I’d have you to thank!

Here’s what you can do to help:
You can vote once a day, until October 15th.
1. Go to www.RAWartists.organd click REGISTER at the top of the homepage …

2. Input a valid email address (only have to do this once) 3. Verify the email address by checking your email and confirming it 4. Log-on with your new registation and vote!

Luke Chueh – Bearing the Unbearable

Last week in the mail I was lucky enough to receive this shiny new book, hot off the press, and have been mulling over what to say about it. It helps that Luke‘s work speaks for itself, but I have to admit, it’s taken me some time to warm up to. I think it’s that uneasy feeling artists get when they see such simple, good work: that “why didn’t I think of that?” respect.

His style of painting is so recognizable, and much copied – and for good reason. Bold, simple, warm and fuzzy at first, super gory and stark at times, it’s a delicious mix of cute and off-putting. He’s been painting as a fine artist for nearly ten years now, and the book, Luke Chueh, Bearing the Unbearable, covers the years and spans the evolution of his painting style up to date. A big, beautiful picture book, it’s full of scenes from a children’s story gone wrong, most featuring the sad, black eyes of his famous bear.

If you’re into low-brow, clean, straight-forward, honest contemporary art, get your hands on this book.

Print Studio!

Home this week has suddenly become a printing studio! I’ve been wanting to make patches for ages, but after a couple frustrating, ego-shattering trials with photo-emulsion screenprinting (embarassing because I supposedly went to school for this sort of thing), and some ruined screens, I decided to move onto block printing, which has been working much better.

A dumpster-salvaged dishwasher rack makes a pretty nice drying tray!

As I don’t have a press, I use a Japanese bamboo baren, which at about $6 is perfect.

Aside from patches, there will soon be an army of little sewn-bound sketchbooks! You can never have too many!

Cendrine Rovini: delicate and disturbed

I stumbled across the work of Cendrine Rovini, and can’t get enough of it. Her drawings are small, airy, beautiful and unsettling. Her girls exist in a secret world full of fur, tears, blood, twigs, rituals and transformation – in her words, metamorphosis. They feel very personal, very intimate and raw. Go to her website to go through her stunning portfolio. You can also purchase original artwork from her etsy shop.

Le bonheur de fermer les yeux pendant la chute

From her artist statement: My work fights against the frozen imaginary of the Unique which only blossoms in violence and exclusion and in the obsession in truth or progress. Metamorphosis belongs to the multiple, to the becoming as perhaps defined by Deleuze when he described the animal-becoming, plant-becoming, woman-becoming: it is not imitation or identification but poetic scrum which makes evident that worlds are fertilized and grown on each other, swollen with life, matter and invisible.

La naissance de Bonnemort

Les semis