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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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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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Button-y Goodness!

After about a hundred buttons I get what I call “Dented Thumb” from putting in the pin backs…

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Fortunately it's not permanent

You know you want to snatch up one of these sets!  Wait till you see ‘em all pinned on their fancy signed and numbered custom color printed cards!

Lisa Petrucci & Isabel Samaras’ Double Book Signing

Friday, Nov. 13th, 6:00 – 9:00pm

La Luz de Jesus Gallery, 4633 Hollywood Blvd., LA, CA


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