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		<title>Blog entries from Isabel Samaras</title>
		<description>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. ...</description>
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			<title>Go Pinch Someone Else!</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-1412&quot; title=&quot;st.paddy's&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/st-paddys.jpg?w=500&amp;amp;h=375&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/isamaras.wordpress.com/1413/&quot; /&gt; &lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/delicious/isamaras.wordpress.com/1413/&quot; /&gt; &lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/stumble/isamaras.wordpress.com/1413/&quot; /&gt;Read More...</description>
			<author>isamaras@mac.com</author>
			<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>12 Step Recovery Process for Artists</title>
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			<description>&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-1410&quot; title=&quot;brushes&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/brushes3.jpg?w=432&amp;amp;h=273&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;432&quot; height=&quot;273&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#39;re calling to me....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I found the following on Aaron Nagel&amp;#8217;s blog (great show @ the Shooting Gallery, Aaron!), who says he found it on Lola&amp;#8217;s blog.  (A quick google and it looks to be written by Sylvia White and originally posted on ArtAdvice.com.  Sylvia also said &amp;#8220;Art is a verb&amp;#8221;, which I rRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:48:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Fang-tastic!</title>
			<link>/18719-fang-tastic</link>
			<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-1393&quot; title=&quot;Picture 3&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/picture-3.png?w=406&amp;amp;h=210&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;406&quot; height=&quot;210&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve been reading Fangoria since I was a kid, so I was thrilled to the gills to be interviewed &amp;#8212; John Porter gets to the beating monster heart of my work, and you can read all about it right here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/comments/isamaras.wordpress.Read More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Slack!</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m so bad, I know I know I know &amp;#8212; I still need to download my camera from NY so&amp;#8217;s I can share pics of the 5th Anniversary Show at Jonathan LeVine (and other tidbits) with you all.  Thankfully, others are on it!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-1390&quot; title=&quot;Picture 2&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/picture-2.png?w=307&amp;amp;h=279&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;307&quot; height=&quot;279&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Joan has my painting tattood on her arm!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Check out this fine visual &amp;#8220;you were Read More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:26:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Thrift Score!</title>
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			<description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8216;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&amp;#8217;t quite like that, in fact it isn&amp;#8217;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!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img Read More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:09:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Into the Jaws of Snowmeggedon!</title>
			<link>/17916-into-the-jaws-of-snowmeggedon</link>
			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-1371&quot; title=&quot;winter&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/winter.jpg?w=500&amp;amp;h=387&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;387&quot; /&gt;This is not my house &amp;#8212; I live in California, and we don&amp;#8217;t have the white stuff here, though I did have to kick a few leaves off the walkway this morning and chuck a pesky snail into the street, phew!  But this pretty much sums up the feeling I&amp;#8217;m getting from my East Coast friends and family, most Read More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Love &amp; Sex</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t do too much illustration work anymore, partly because I&amp;#8217;ve always had a sort of passive/aggressive relationship with it in the first place (I don&amp;#8217;t much like being told what to do), and also because at this point it usually feels like a distraction from the rest of my art.  But sometimes a job comes along that&amp;#8217;s just too fun to say no too, and these often pop up around Valentine&amp;#8217;s Day.  I love that people think of me at this time of year &amp;#8212; it Read More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:17:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Play Through The Pain</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-1352&quot; title=&quot;Picture 6&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/picture-6.png?w=327&amp;amp;h=105&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;327&quot; height=&quot;105&quot; /&gt;Sometimes there&amp;#8217;s pain that even a double dose of Extra Strength Tylenol can&amp;#8217;t touch.  American performance artist/composer Ze Frank posted a phone number and asked that anyone experiencing emotional pain leave him a message.  And they did.  From that raw, sincere and often distraught material musRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Anyone Can Color!</title>
			<link>/17371-anyone-can-color</link>
			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-1340&quot; title=&quot;plazm_anyone_can_color_01h-793397&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/plazm_anyone_can_color_01h-793397.jpg?w=249&amp;amp;h=320&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;249&quot; height=&quot;320&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Back in 1997 I was asked to contribute a piece to Plazm magazine &amp;#8212; they were going to make a little pull-out coloring book inside the magazine, which was a super cool idea, plus I&amp;#8217;d already done a coloring book myself, so I figured I could juRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:21:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>RIP Eclectix</title>
			<link>/16325-rip-eclectix</link>
			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-1335&quot; title=&quot;Picture 1&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/picture-1.png?w=500&amp;amp;h=87&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;87&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another victim of the crap economy falls &amp;#8212; fabulous and fun Eclectix Gallery is closing it&amp;#8217;s doors.  Patricia Zemanek ran a great space and always hosted rollicking fun openings.  This is a sad, sad day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;They are selling everything at deep discount right now, including collectibles, vRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:03:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>New Brow in the Northwest</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;re up in the Seattle area, don&amp;#8217;t miss this chance (several chances actually) to see the fab documentary &amp;#8220;New Brow.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-1330&quot; title=&quot;newbrowfilmtitle&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/newbrowfilmtitle.png?w=216&amp;amp;h=162&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;216&quot; height=&quot;162&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;New Brow presents interviews from artists, galleries and collectors who initiated and gave momentum to the New American Art MovRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:35:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Cheery, Cherry Day</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don&amp;#8217;t matter and those who matter don&amp;#8217;t mind.&amp;#8221; Dr. Seuss&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-1313&quot; title=&quot;IsabelSamaras&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/isabelsamaras.jpg?w=500&amp;amp;h=318&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;318&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Goldy goes to the bears....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was tickled to find out this morning that my show &amp;#8220;Into The Woodz&amp;#8221; is on the Juxtapoz 100 Best Moments of 2009 listRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:46:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Frankensteinia</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just found a fabulous blog, Frankensteinia, which tracks all things Frankenstein (you probably would have figured that out on your own but maybe you haven&amp;#8217;t had your morning cuppa yet so I thought I&amp;#8217;d spell it out for you).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I knew I was about to lose at least an hour when I saw this post about a fantasy craft book &amp;#8220;Things to Make and Do with Boris Karloff.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-1307&quot; title=&quot;cover&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.worRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:45:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Double Drawin’</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-1292&quot; title=&quot;Photo 182&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/photo-1821.jpg?w=432&amp;amp;h=324&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;432&quot; height=&quot;324&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Workin&amp;#39; Hard or Hardly Workin&amp;#39; ?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;So yesterday my buddy Marc &amp;#8220;Island Boy&amp;#8221; Sanchez came over so we could have a big Art Day here in the studio and knock out some sweet stuff for Clam Lynch&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8220;CUT THE CRAP&amp;#8221; show at 63 Bluxome St. Gallery &amp;#8211;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter siRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:08:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Happy T-Day!</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-1273&quot; title=&quot;bake_0&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/bake_0.jpg?w=432&amp;amp;h=324&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;432&quot; height=&quot;324&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Any day I can fire up the fire orange Kitchen Aid mixer is a good day.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sorry I haven&amp;#8217;t had time to post proper for a couple days &amp;#8212; been gettin&amp;#8217; my bake on.  Knocked out three pies, my favorite of which is pictured here &amp;#8212; the &amp;#8220;chocolate ganache w/ toasted pecans in a toffee butter crust&amp;#822Read More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>LA LA LA…</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-1226&quot; title=&quot;i_heart_LA_2&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/i_heart_la_2.jpg?w=234&amp;amp;h=263&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;234&quot; height=&quot;263&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Okay, finally found the cable for my camera and was able to download photos (supplemented with several from the incomparable Lee Jordan).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was happy to see that Los Angeles really rolled out the red carpet for Lisa Petrucci and I, there was definitely a buzz in the air and I could feel tRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:28:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Home Sweet Home</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;aligncenter size-full wp-image-1213&quot; title=&quot;home&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/home.jpg?w=500&amp;amp;h=232&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;232&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;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&amp;#8217;ll post a little travelogue of the uber-fabulous Double Trouble signing with Lisa Petrucci in LA.  Here&amp;#8217;s a quick snap from the roof of the Standard Hotel,Read More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Double Trouble for Friday the 13th!</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;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&amp;#8217;ll be signing sizzlin&amp;#8217; copies of &amp;#8220;Kick Ass Cuties&amp;#8221; and I&amp;#8217;ll be scribbling in &amp;#8220;On Tender Hooks&amp;#8221; .  As a special treat for anyone who can make it down, we&amp;#8217;ve created a special-to-this-event very Limited Edition Button Set!  Six 1&amp;#8243; pins on a custom card that will be signed andRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:41:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Black Wednesday</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is a black, black, BLACK day my friends.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-1194&quot; title=&quot;1860'S CIVIL WAR MOURNING DRESS, VEIL, BONNET &amp;amp; ORIGINAL HOOP.JPG&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/1860s-civil-war-mourning-dress-veil-bonnet-original-hoop-jpg3.jpeg?w=228&amp;amp;h=432&quot; alt=&quot;1860'S CIVIL WAR MOURNING DRESS, VEIL, BONNET &amp;amp; ORIGINAL HOOP.JPG&quot; width=&quot;228&quot; height=&quot;432&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;1860&amp;#39;s Civil War Mourning Dress, from http://19thcenturyartofmourning.com&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;If IRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:56:00 +0100</pubDate>
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			<title>Super Burners</title>
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			<description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-full wp-image-1183&quot; title=&quot;3334607350_e2db5e4b77&quot; src=&quot;http://isamaras.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/3334607350_e2db5e4b77.jpg?w=500&amp;amp;h=453&quot; alt=&quot;3334607350_e2db5e4b77&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;453&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;The Mona Lisa&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;re in the Bay Area this Saturday there&amp;#8217;s some pretty cool FREE stuff going on over at the Shooting Gallery &amp;#8212; a Stencil Workshop (spray paint provided by Montana) and you can bring t-shirts and stencils from home or creaRead More...</description>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
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