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Just over six years ago I moved to Cortona, a small town in Tuscany.  A few months later I moved to Perguia, Umbria where my painting was the best it has yet to be.  This morning as I was looking through my photos for thesis references I came upon the painting below.

This painting is of my roommate and wonderful friend, Bettylou.  She sat for hours for me while I painted this.  Looking back, it was actually a decent painting but I wasn’t satisfied with it and painted a huge pineapple over it which inspired yet another huge pineapple.  I am very happy where I am in my life as an artist and creative (and person) but running into photos from this time in my life definitely makes me nostalgic for oil painting and my little studio in Perugia.

Jenny Saville

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Another one of my morning reads is Art Daily.  This morning I read an article about Jenny Saville’s new exhibition at Gagosian Gallery.  I think because of my recent post about Alex Meade I immediately wondered if Saville’s figures were painted bodies.  Saville is known for painting and drawing bodies at dramatic angles on huge canvases.

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I tried to find Saville’s website, instead I just found many gallery descriptions of her work.  A short excerpt of something Saville said about her work jumped out to me.  my work and research is about the body and moments of un-doing and mixing “conventional” gender.  Of the painting above Saville says, “With the transvestite I was searching for a body that was between genders. I had explored that idea a little in Matrix. The idea of floating gender that is not fixed.” Click here to read the rest.

Paintings for Sale

I finally stretched some of my paintings from my residency in China.  Now I am in the process of posting them for sale on Etsy.  If your walls are hankering for some fruit this is perfect for you!  Click here to view my Etsy shop. Check back regularly as I post more paintings!

The two closest to the camera are on Etsy–Adrienne’s Mangostein and Green Apple, Purple Plate.  Enjoy looking!

Alexa Meade–Body Painting Illusions

I just ran across Alexa Meade’s work.  She creates installations that look like paintings but are in fact people painted.  This is the articles where I learned about her work and here is her website.

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