Frauenfelder, Sol and Estrada at Roq La Rue

Amy Sol
Catalina Estrada
Mark Frauenfelder


Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle, WA just opened a big group show called "A Cabinet of Natural Curiosities" (same name as one of my favorite books). Here are a few stand-out pieces from the show. I think they may still be available, too, if you hurry. There are many different stylistic interpretations of nature in this show. Have a look (click preview):
Roq La Rue

Artists include: Femke Hiemstra, Travis Louie, Brian Despain, Amy Sol, Lisa Petrucci, Chris Ryniak, Chet Zar, Kozydan, Junko Mizumo, Liz McGrath, Kukula, Laura Plansker, Mark Frauenfelder, Christian Vanminnen, Mark Gleason, Nathan Ota, Catalina Estrada, Sarah Joncas, Kamala Dolphin-Kingsley, John Brophy, Anthony Pontius, Jeremy Bennet, Jim Woodring, Heiko Muller, Javier S. Ortega

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Pop Drawer - Great New Blog

Aesthetic Apparatus Print

The "Pop Drawer" blog alerts people to all kinds of great new art and affordable art products.

Here's a cool print from their post about OX-OP .

They also just featured my new, framed print from Pressure Printing, "The Banana Eater" and mentioned my t-shirt -you can read it here:

"WHO NEEDS GROCERIES ALERTS"

You might want to subscribe to this blog to stay on top of the latest pop surrealist and contemporary art events and products. It is well-written and looks nice, too.

POP DRAWER

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"The Banana Eater" Print, a T-shirt, and a Ukulele

Close up of Front of Tickler Uke Number One - design by Amy Crehore

T-shirt by Amy Crehore

Amy Crehore's "The Banana Eater" print by Pressure Printing

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This has been an exciting month for me with three very special "fine art products" being released: my new t-shirt, a special framed print of my painting "The Banana Eater" by Pressure Printing and, last but not least, a brand new Tickler Uke Number Two designed by me and built by luthier, Lou Reimuller (due out in 2009). And, I added a music player to my new website and I will rotate a new Hokum Scorcher song every Sunday nite. Don't forget the "Deep Pop" show at Iona College, New Rochelle, NY. It continues until Feb. 21, 2008. I have a painting in that show and I will also be showing at Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY in July.

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Skin as Soft as Peaches

This is incredible and beautiful - another instance in which art and hokum come together. Pop surrealism, too. "Ella" is a 12-meter-long sculpture of a nude woman made from peaches, as part of a promotional campaign for an Australian skin care product company. The site has a video about its design and construction. Link

Thanks again, boingboing!

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More Adventures Starring "Pappy"

Have a look at Ape Lad's newest little film,

"Pappy, Chupacabras and a delicious foot print"

These beautiful and very funny little films have been shown on boingboingTV,

where you can find an archive of them. I tried to embed the player on this blog, but it was too big or something. So, just follow the links.

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New Prints by Pressure Printing - Glenn Barr & Amy Crehore

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Amy Crehore's "The Banana Eater" by Pressure Printing.

Pressure Printing has just released a beautifully framed Glenn Barr print (only 50 in the edition). They have also released "The Banana Eater" by me, Amy Crehore (only 40 in the edition). These prints have been hand-crafted by the best printer around and packaged to perfection. Available through my website:

http://www.amycrehore.com/The_Banana_Eater_Print.html

My art is featured on paintalicious today and the prints are on boingboing .

(This "Monkey Love" painting was in the very first BLAB Show, Santa Monica, CA 2005)

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Leon Kroll (1884-1974)

Summer New York, 1931 by Leon Kroll
Sleep, 1922 by Leon Kroll
The Young Guitarist, 1961 by Leon Kroll

Leon Kroll was a great American artist who lived a long life and did some beautiful work in a classic, realist style. He is a genius worth looking at. These three figure paintings (shown here) knock my socks off.
"Born in New York City, Abraham Leon Kroll studied at the Art Students League, with Ohio-born John H. Twachtman, and in 1903, while attending the National Academy of Design, Kroll was awarded a scholarship to study painting in Europe. When his painting of a female nude won a Grand Prix prize in Paris in 1908, Leon Kroll began a career of winning major prizes in America, and portraying sensuous nude or semi-nude women in naturalistic settings, especially in and around the several stone quarry pools in Rockport." from a biography (McDougall Fine Arts).
More Leon Kroll:

Smithsonian American Art Museum
Thanks, American Gallery for the link.

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