Kismet Arts Tangent
Art Collective
Category: Painting
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This piece is called Eryth. I love its dreamy quality. It feels like rainbows, valleys, stars and suns, and shooting stars and mysterious waves. I worked on this canvas on my birthday and invited some friends at the party to paint on it and then I finished it by myself later. It felt cool having…
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Jon Axtell of the DIY Venue DIRT offered me a show in his gallery space. The show was installed just this last week. I was so happy to see my pieces hang together like this. The opening ceremony consisted of Andrew Rose, Zoe Donnellycolt, and Hannah Ayasse (of Psychobotany at Planthaus fame). A similar approach…
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A version of psychobotany called “Psychobotanikon” was mounted at the Center for New Music in San Francisco. It was an interesting experience for me because it felt like PlantHaus for adults (there was a grand pianist as the closing act and Michael Dooley performed at both). Among other things, what was different about “Psychobotanikon” was…
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I had the privilege of painting Annikah and taking some photographs and video. We put on The Knife’s new album, Shaking the Habitual. I worked with Annikah on psychobotany over a year ago. And did some projection art at her wedding! It was nice to paint her body while we talked about our lives at my…
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Klanghaus event, WitchHaus was chill. I had my worries because I think that witchcraft is an often disrespected religious orientation. Made into stereotypes and misunderstood. But, it was fine. It was smooth and bright. I brought my face paints and enjoyed making the event a little more festive. I handpainted the WitchHaus banner at the front…
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Klanghaus event, Forever Seminar was a hit. The art collective I’m in, Klanghaus, had a retreat to Detroit (that I couldn’t attend due to financial reasons), created a show collectively and polished it up for a reprise in Oakland at Teddy’s house. I enjoyed collaborating with Ben Unger on a rave room using blacklight! I also…
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One of my favorite collaborators mailed me two shirts for me to petal. I got this set of dyes from Flax arts store. And it’s been really special seeing different shades of colors creating depth and variety to the blooms. I use a 7 inch plastic hoop to hold the fabric while I paint. A shirt…
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Last Night, I created a painting with two other artists (Nathanael Card and Kaitlin McSweeney) for a fundraiser for The Flight Deck. Process videos (to come). It was neat spending three hours in the lobby of a local black box theatre painting a five foot by six foot canvas with two other painters while they…
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