John Webber, Artist of Pacific Culture (b.1751-d.1793)

"John Webber, the officially appointed artist for Captain James Cook’s third voyage of discovery around the Pacific (1776-1780), along with William Ellis, surgeon’s second mate on the Discovery, provided perhaps the most comprehensive and unprecedented visual record of any of Cook’s voyages. After leaving England, Webber and Ellis drew and painted the Kerguelen Islands in the far southern Indian Ocean, and Adventure Bay in Van Diemen’s Land (renamed Tasmania in 1855), before moving on to Tonga and Tahiti, then the northwest coast of America, the Unalaska Islands and Siberia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, before returning along the coasts of Southeast Asia. The two artists made drawings and watercolour paintings of everything that came within their ambit, creating the first accurate ethnographic record of Pacific culture. Captain Cook's voyage" -
from Femme Femme Femme
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Painted Uke by Tiny Tim

Tiny Tim painted this Uke

Mark Frauenfelder T-Shirt

Speaking of T-shirts, here is a GREAT design by artist Mark Frauenfelder. It features his character Poppy of Lollypopland (a series of illustrations that Mark created for google). She is travelling inside the heart of a friendly star.

You can buy one of these lovely shirts in any size you want at

Zazzle

(via boingboing)

Wacky Wurzletod

Max Kinger art
Karen LaMonte art

Suzanne G. keeps us informed about unusual, fragile, decadent, beautiful, historical, intellectual and freaky happenings around the globe. Thanks, Suzanne.

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For someone with BAD taste she has an awfully nice nose for sniffing the good things out.

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Waterfall under the Bridge

There will be a "cool" public arts project in NYC for three months this summer -giant waterfalls, including one that will fall from the Brooklyn Bridge - a design of Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. This could be refreshing in the heat of the summer. I will be showing my paintings at Ad Hoc Art in July/August, so it will be fun to see this when I travel there for the show. (Thanks, boingboing )

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Amy Crehore in Deep Pop Exhibit, NY

"Feed the Bear Blues", an oil painting on linen panel by Amy Crehore.

This painting will be in the Deep Pop Exhibit.(From my "Blues Gal" series)
On Sunday, January 27th, 2008, the long-awaited Deep Pop exhibit, curated by Andrew Michael Ford (Ad Hoc Gallery) will open at the Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Iona College, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle NY. This historic exhibit will feature 63 incredible artists:
Scott Altmann, Anthony Ausgang, Carrie Anne Baade, Wayne Coe, Christopher Conte, Molly Crabapple, Amy Crehore, Jason D'Aquino, Inky Dreadfuls, Bonnie Durham, Lori Earley, Mark Elliot, Austin English, Ron English, Matt Feazell, Lori Field, GiL, Kelly Haigh, Matt Hansel, Julia Sonmi Heglund, Hiromi Iuchi, Sarah Joncas, Aya Kakeda, Ben Kehoe, Joshua Krause, Danielle Lamberti, Daniel Hyun Lim, Tommii Lim, Laurie Lipton, Francesco LoCastro, D. Dominick Lombardi, Travis Louie, David MacDowell, Angie Mason, Jeff McMillan, MIHA, Heiko Muller, Ryan Myers, Naomi Namba, Lilly Piri, Anthony Pontius, Jenn Porreca, Mario Rivera, Jonathan Rodriguez, Martina Secondo Russo, Frank Russo, Sean Samohey, Marcus Schafer, David Stoupakis, Kevin E, Taylor, Elisabeth Timpone, Jon Todd, Fuco Ueda, Edwin Ushiro, Mark Dean Veca, Keith Weesner, Martin Wittfooth, Jaeran Won, Nancie Yang, Genevive Zacconi, and Chet Zar.
This once-in-a-lifetime show will be an unforgettable experience for those who can make it up to New Rochelle, NY between Jan 27 and Feb 21, 2008.
"Fine art inspired by the world of pop imagery".
DEEP POP Exhibit
Iona College Council on the Arts
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Chris Anthony at Corey Helford Gallery

Photos copyright Chris Anthony 2008

Opening on January 26, 2008, from 9-11 pm, at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, CA is a solo exhibit of fine art photographs by Chris Anthony. I blogged about his Victims and Avengers show last year around this time. Who could forget his haunted, surrealistic narratives in browns, reds and black? He won the American Photo Grand Prize 2007 for them. His works are stunningly beautiful, highly imaginative, thought-provoking and mysterious. Go see "I'm the Most Normal Person I know" if you are in the L.A. area.

Corey Helford Gallery

Chris Anthony

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