Isabel Bites the Big Apple

I’m heading off to NYC this week for a couple fun events — please do come if you can, both are free and I’d love to see your smiling faces!

Thursday, Sept. 17th
“From Adaptation to Mutation: Contemporary Narrative Artists Remix Popular Culture”
Panel & slide show w/ Nora Krug, Isabel Samaras, and R. Sikoryak
Moderated and Introduced by Bill Kartalopouluos
Sept 17 at 7 – 9pm
The New School
66 W 12th Street, Room 404
New York, NY 10011
Free and open to the public

*and*

Saturday, Sept. 19th
Book Signing w/ Isabel Samaras
3 – 5pm
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 West 20th Street, 9th floor
New York, NY 10011
212-243-3822
(If I can get all my packing done, I might try to make some spiffy button sets to sell to first-comers.)

I’ll also be in Tompkins Sq. Park at some point playing ukulele with the incomparable Reggie Wingnutz, but as I haven’t played in months and he’s going to totally smoke me, that date and time is secret.  You could just loiter around the park and listen for something that sounds like a uke getting run over by an ice cream cart.  That would be me.

And lastly, if there are any must-see museum shows, galleries, events, the best shoe store on earth, or the most fantastic dessert you ever tasted that you think I need to check out, please do let me know.

Retinal Delights

 

If you live anywhere near Laguna Beach or have some frequent flier miles to burn, get thee to the Laguna Art Museum for “In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor,” curated by Meg Linton. It’s a vast, amazing collection of goodies — 150 artists! From the museum’s site: “For the last decade the art establishment (collector, curator, and critic) has argued that the idea, or construct, of an art movement is outmoded. This exhibition explores the idea of a ‘Juxtapoz Factor.’ Is it an organized movement operating under a singular manifesto? Or is it a wave of talented overlooked artists who decided to reach out to the public and create their own canon?”

The show is up through October 5th, go check it out and then take a nice long walk on the beach and let the images settle into your brain.  Here’s some snaps from the very crappy little camera that fits into my teensy purse…

 

 

My lovely traveling companion Miss Pamela Hobbs, myself and the super swell Mark Murphy

 

Some of the groovy art, including the Charles Krafft Hitler teapot

 

Jonathan LeVine, curator Meg Linton, Tim Biskup and some dizzy redhead

 

Todd Schorr -- a stunning and humongous painting

 

Yakking it up for a TV crew (the lights over my painting behind me were burned out, oh well!)

 

More groovy art -- that lower image is all one amazing Eric White painting

 

Debbie from LImagerie Gallery and her lovely assistant