Ephemeral Show at Jiro Miura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan- Sept 14-29th, 2019

My Tickler Ukulele Girl painting ©Amy Crehore 2018 

is currently part of the third 

Ephemeral Territory of Girls exhibit in Tokyo, Japan. 

Here is the link: Jiro Miura Gallery

The show which features 36 women artists

 opened on Sept. 14th and continues through Sept. 29th, 2019. 

I have been part of all 3 shows which happen every 2 years.

Catalog available. (My painting has sold.)

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Amy Crehore T-shirts and postcards on sale thru Valentine's Day!

Happy New Year 2019!!

Beautiful original silk screened design © by Amy Crehore available in ladies and men's sizes.

Postcard set of 12 recent original paintings ©by Amy Crehore.

I am extending my website sale on these items thru Valentine's Day! 

(Free shipping within the USA, my secure website uses secure paypal.)

I am already working away on paintings for my upcoming solo show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in L.A. (opens Nov. 1, 2019). I'll be showing in Tokyo, Japan as well - my third group show at Jiro Miura Gallery (Sept. 2019). Follow my progress on instagram. 

LINK to website:

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Holiday Special - Art of Amy Crehore

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Happy Christmas Eve!

From now until December 31, 2016 midnight PST you can use the discount code

HOLIDAYBREAK for 10% off in my online SHOP where

I have original drawings and painted illustrations available from my flat files, like this surreal

oil painting of a hot pepper van that I did for Playboy in 1995.

Free shipping in USA.

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NEW: Shop Amy Crehore

(Above: "Venice on Foot", oil on canvas by Amy Crehore 2002)

Original art from my flat files: drawings and painted

illustrations are now available in my new online shop.

More to be added in the future!

The painting above is one I did for Islands magazine illustrating a story about

Venice, Italy and a little boy with a soccer ball.

Have a look-

www.amycrehore.bigcartel.com

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Works in Progress- Amy Crehore, June 2016

Forgive the lack of blog posts, but I have been quite busy.

I recently finished painting an illustration for boingboing.net 

(which I will show you when the time is right) 

and I am currently working on this piece of bathers (progress shown above) 

for one of two group shows in Sept. (Chicago and L.A.). 

Watch this blog for more details soon!

Also, here's the beginning of a 

commission for a very special collector (girl and monkey):

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Online shop with special items and originals coming soon. 

Contact amy@amycrehore.com 

to join my email newsletter.

Sorting through Archives (Illustration)

 Stacks of Playboy Magazines from 1991 - 2002 that my illustrations are published in.

A spread I did for Playboy, issue Jan 1992. My photo appears in the middle of the Playbill.

Here's an example of an illustration I did for Esquire magazine in 1991. 

A story by Robert Stone (who just died this year). 

I have done plenty of illustration work over the years for magazines and book publishers. 

Just look at the stack of Playboys alone that my work has appeared in (above). Eleven years of regular assignments.
Kerig Pope at Playboy was the first art director for a "big" magazine to call me in 1991, followed by Rhonda Rubenstein at Esquire. 

I have many more big name magazines and drawers of original illustrations to
sort through and catalogue like the example of Esquire above.

Right now, my website shows only part of my career history 

with an emphasis on my fine art.
I am working on it and I am working on writing a better bio of my entire art career.

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Some Links for You

Shown here: Just a detail of a larger illustration that I did for The Magazine . Art by Amy Crehore 2013.

(My original illustration art for this has now been sold, oil on wood)

 



I recently did an illustration for The Magazine (digital subscription magazine)

Issue 24 August 29, 2013

LINK 

Article is Hacked Off by Rosie Spinks. Editor Glenn Fleishman @GlennF

 

Here are some more links for fun:

1. How Video Games Revived the Dying Art of Japanese Woodprinting, article John Brownlee Fast Company Design LINK
2. 1972 Interview with Moe Howard of Three Stooges LINK 
3. Vent Haven Museum in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky has tons of ventriloquist dummies on display LINK
4. Crazy French Clown Photos1900-1930s LINK
5. Pre-Raphaelite Mural uncovered in William Morris' Red House LINK
6. Magritte cover art for Minotaure issue 10 1937 LINK
7. French staircase, early 19th century LINK
8. Hilarious Mennen Talc Ad from 70s LINK
9. Leo Dohmen, photographer with surrealist period 1929-1999 LINK

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My Painting for Garrison Keillor's article

Nostagia Man painting by Amy Crehore 1996 9 1/2" x 10 1/2"

Over the course of my career, I painted many illustrations for top American magazines. My illustration for Garrison Keillor's 1996 article for the New York Times Magazine called "The Future of Nostalgia" now accompanies a brand new article published today by Matt Novak on Smithsonian Magazine's blog PALEOFUTURE. 

Read the article here: Garrison Keillor's 1996 Predictions for the Future of Media.

Shown above, the surreal oil painting I did in 1996 for the original article in the New York Times Magazine. It certainly was fun illustrating something that Garrison Keillor wrote.

I'm calling it "Nostalgia Man".

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P.S. The many magazine (and book) illustrations that I did over the years are not currently on my website. I am still organizing them and I hope to add them in a special section sometime in the future. You will, however, find many other paintings on my site, such as the fine art works in my previous blog post. (Follow link above)

This is Hanging in My Kitchen

These are Victorian trade cards -which I blogged about some time ago. The top one, "Brooks Spool Cotton" happens to be an image that I live with everyday. I have a metal repro-sign hanging on the wall of my kitchen. It makes me smile when I make my coffee in the morning. The trade cards for the sewing industry are among my favorites. Here's one for J & P Coats thread featuring cats teasing a vicious dog (bottom image). Right up my alley!

Thanks for reminding me of this great art BibliOdyssey .

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