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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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They're calling to me....

I found the following on Aaron Nagel’s blog (great show @ the Shooting Gallery, Aaron!), who says he found it on Lola’s blog.  (A quick google and it looks to be written by Sylvia White and originally posted on ArtAdvice.com.  Sylvia also said “Art is a verb”, which I really like).  Without further ado, here is:

12 Step Recovery Program for Artists

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I’ve been reading Fangoria since I was a kid, so I was thrilled to the gills to be interviewed — John Porter gets to the beating monster heart of my work, and you can read all about it right here.


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I’m so bad, I know I know I know — I still need to download my camera from NY so’s I can share pics of the 5th Anniversary Show at Jonathan LeVine (and other tidbits) with you all.  Thankfully, others are on it!

Joan has my painting tattood on her arm!

Check out this fine visual “you were there” from Fecal Face.

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‘Kayso, you know those stories about someone who finds a Jackson Pollock painting in a thrift store?  And it turns out to be worth bazillions and that person gets to be on the news and sometimes they even make documentary films about their attempts to get the thing authenticated?  Well this isn’t quite like that, in fact it isn’t much like that at all, but someone in NYC just found one of my old Devil Babe paintings in a thrift shop and picked it up for one dollah!

Miss Behavin'!

He emailed with a picture to see if it was, in fact, An Actual Real Live Samaras Devil Babe Painting, and I had the great pleasure of telling him yes it really, truly was.

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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.