New Paintings New Work

New Paintings New Work

New Work Here’s all the new work that I’ve finished so far this year. Some are old projects that I finally completed (after years of being stalled) and some are just recent work that I wrapped up. Some are digital illustrations, some are color pencil...
Art Show in Strasbourg

Art Show in Strasbourg

J’ai présenté à l’atelier Pour la Vie deux posters édités en tirage limité (50 exemplaires, 100×70 cm) par Venomen. J’ai aussi exposé une sélection de peintures originales de différentes époques et formats. C’était l’occasion pour les visiteurs d’acquérir...
Recurring Symbols in my Paintings

Recurring Symbols in my Paintings

Here are some of the recurring symbols that I use in my paintings: Eyes Fauvres Shoes Tattoos and Tattoo Symbols (Boats, ships, Anchors, rope, Skulls, Hearts Roses) Butterflies Death Dice Mouth of the beast Water Hybrids- mermaid, flower woman, cat woman, spider woman...
Stella Grassman

Stella Grassman

  Tattooed Women Tattoo History Stella Grassman is the 9th in my series about the history of the tattooed lady. Grassman was a tattoo artist and a tattoo attraction. Like many of the famous tattooed ladies, Nora Hildebrandt, Emma de Burgh, Maude Wagner, Annie...
Sci Fi Western 20 Years

Sci Fi Western 20 Years

20 Years Anniversary of the Opening Party for the Sci Fi Western Art Show Sci Fi Western is an art movement, also a video documentation of a huge art opening, first shown at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco, California on January 23rd, 2003. The art opening was...
Artoria

Artoria

  Women have always been involved in modern tattooing. Some were married to tattooers, some were circus performers. Don’t let anyone lead you to beleive that this is masculine job. Women play an important part. Our bodies have been the best billboards for this...
Dice and Luck or Good Luck vs. Merit

Dice and Luck or Good Luck vs. Merit

Dice and Luck in My Art Dice and luck, why this obsession? I started to ruminate about good luck vs. merit. Maybe I believe I’m not worthy of glory and abundance, so I hope I’ll be lucky instead. Maybe I want something for nothing like all degenerate gamblers. And yet...
Halloween Season 2022

Halloween Season 2022

Visit from Sara Purr This October season, I got a studio visit from Seattle tattoo artist Sara Purr, and she gave me this little painting. We talked a lot about where tattooing is right now and esoteric stuff, especially Madame Blavatsky. It was such a nice visit. Go...
Recent Museum Visits (and not so recent!)

Recent Museum Visits (and not so recent!)

Chinese Funeral Art~ Quai Branly The art of paper offerings for Chinese funerals. June-Oct 2019 Prince°ses°s des Villes~ Palais de Tokyo Artists from DACCA, LAGOS, MANILLE, MEXICO et TÉHÉRAN June – Sept 2019 Tapan Das, Promotesh Das Pulak, Ahmed Hossain, Rafiqul...
Summer CAMP~ Artist Residency in the Pyrénées

Summer CAMP~ Artist Residency in the Pyrénées

CAMP This summer I had the extraordinary chance to do an artist residency in the south of France. In the Pyrenées mountains just near the Spanish border. Florence Peake was our guide. Peake is known for her visceral, somatic body movement, installations and paintings....