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Isabel Samaras is best known for lush and meticulously painted riffs on Old Masters that send up pop culture icons of the '70s. Her ribald images are a form of visual story telling – witty, mysterious, and tender, woven with references to classic horror movies, ancient mythology, cheesy television, and childhood fables. Her painted narratives, classical in technique and pop in content, revolve around issues of secret love, unrequited lust and making things end the way we wish they would. See more in the newly released Chronicle book “On Tender Hooks: The Art of Isabel Samaras.”
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Back from LA, and as soon as I download the camera (I swear my camera cable snakes off and slithers under the couch as soon as I turn my head) I’ll post a little travelogue of the uber-fabulous Double Trouble signing with Lisa Petrucci in LA.  Here’s a quick snap from the roof of the Standard Hotel, in the groovy “pods” by the swimming pool.  (They have very gushy round water beds in them — shortly after this photo was taken I tumbled backwards into the pod and had quite the struggle getting out again.  Stupid pencil skirt!)


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If you’re in the LA area, make sure you come and see Lisa Petrucci and I for our Double Trouble book signing at La Luz de Jesus, Friday the 13th at 6pm. She’ll be signing sizzlin’ copies of “Kick Ass Cuties” and I’ll be scribbling in “On Tender Hooks” .  As a special treat for anyone who can make it down, we’ve created a special-to-this-event very Limited Edition Button Set!  Six 1″ pins on a custom card that will be signed and numbered by both of us.  Talk about kick ass!

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I Heart My Button Maker

The sets will have three designs each by Lisa and myself and were lovingly hand assembled by moi over the last couple of nights.


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It is a black, black, BLACK day my friends.

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1860's Civil War Mourning Dress, from http://19thcenturyartofmourning.com

If I had it laying about, this is the outfit I’d be wearing this week.  Those of you on Facebook already know — I knocked my godforsaken external hard drive off a shelf, it fell about a foot, the reader head ground the disc as it was spinning and that’s it — at least a solid year of work, but much worse, ALL the photographs (family, travels, everything) just went up in smoke.  And no, it wasn’t backed up because I am catastrophically dopey.

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"The Mona Lisa"

If you’re in the Bay Area this Saturday there’s some pretty cool FREE stuff going on over at the Shooting Gallery — a Stencil Workshop (spray paint provided by Montana) and you can bring t-shirts and stencils from home or create stencils there and work on a giant wood panel they’re installing in the alley beside the gallery.  That fun will be followed by a Street Art Lecture with Apex, Vulcan and Neonski talking about their signature “Super Burner” murals (some of which have as many as 500 colors in them).

All the deets are right here.

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I've been doing this face for two days now...

Well I was going to post some great pics from Halloween but I dropped my external drive, where all my photos for the least several years live, and it’s totally bunk now, has to be shipped off to a hideously expensive data recovery place.  AAAAARGH!  I’ve taken my head out of the oven (at least temporarily) and if the Gods of Computers are willing, they will recover the images (aaaaaall the images, which are not backed up, I know, I know, bad bad bad) and I’ll be able to post something… eventually.  (Along with the huge backlog of other stuff I’ve been meaning to post pictures of, like APE, etc.  Sigh…)  Say a little prayer for my drive!

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Fri Nov 20 @16:00 - 07:00PM
Ben Walker and Ingrid Marrero @ Paradise Perks, Irvine - Paradise Perks, 15475 Jeffrey Rd STE 450, Irvine, CA 92618
Fri Nov 20 @20:00 - 11:00PM
It Came From Left Field @ L'KEG Gallery, LA -
Fri Nov 20 @20:00 - 10:00PM
Nikki Lau - Pinata Living Room @ Medicine Agency Gallery, SF - Medicine Agnecy 1262 Mason St San Francisco CA 94108 (at Jackson)
Sat Nov 21
Incarnations of Matahari @ Home Restaurant, LA - Home Restaurnat/Bar, 2500 Riverside Dr. , Los Angeles, CA 90039
Sat Nov 21 @08:00 - 12:00PM
SEALEGS @ Frequency Productions, Orlando, FL - 1121 N Mills Ave | Orlando, FL 32803
Sat Nov 21 @10:00 - 05:00PM
DesignerCon 2009 @ Pasedena Convention Center, LA - Pasadena Convention Center
Sat Nov 21 @17:00 - 08:00PM
Winged Things & Improbable Machines @ Gifts Inn BoonsBoro, Boonsboro, MD - Maryland
Sat Nov 21 @17:00 - 08:00PM
Earth Engines @ Johansson Projects, Oakland - Johansson Projects, 2300 Telegraph Ave. Oakland CA 94612
Sat Nov 21 @19:00 - 10:00PM
'Euphoria Left The Room' @ Scion Installation, LA - Scion Installation LA
Sat Nov 21 @19:00 - 10:00PM
Birds of a Feather 2 @ Super7, SF - Super7 Store

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Art galleries, shops/galleries, and museums that we like, organized thus:

New York (Brooklyn, New York City, etc.)

Northern California (Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, etc.)

Southern California (Los Angeles, etc.)

Elsewhere in the U.S. (Listed by state, alphabetically)

International (Listed by country, alphabetically)


 To submit your gallery for our guide, please send the following information to katie@juxtapoz.com
Gallery name, URL, street address including city, state, country, postal code, and phone number.