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Jerilyn Babroff
serves high tea to "The Couple". A fruity concoction of Justin
Love and Carmen Miranda if there ever was one, and there is now
I'll have mine
with milk and sugar, please, two lumps.
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chariot.
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Dave Channon (what a guy)
gets out the armor piercing hubcaps and bends some gender with "Ben
Her", the high fashion stone age doll and her zoomin' chariot.
Whoah, Bessie!
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This painting by
Anonymous Blonde reminds me of the last scene in Total Recall, where
the ice volcano on Mars erupts atmosplere and makes the planet inhabitable.
Some scientists say "The Ice Age Cometh" and some say the
poles are melting in a collossal methane tundra fart. Either way, Arnold
will save us in the next sequel, 20.000 years from now.
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Fill 'er up
and check the oil. Kevin Green makes good use of stuff we normally melt
down in "Metal Day #2".
holiday shoppers
take note- this one got snatched up for an incredible, unbelievable
bargain price.
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Brrr. It's a
cold morning for a "Country Walk" by Annette Janet. The fresh
watercolor washes are crisp as the frosty air.
Hot cocoa anyone?
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O.K. O.K. I
did her last month, I know.
Tough nuggies.
Babette Kiesel's
Duchampian reverso tit box reveals a complex inverted multiple reflection
of earthly hemispheres (when you make like a mam and peek into the maidenform
nipple apertures.)
I suggest Babette
make future creations out of wood instead of cardboard boxes. They are
too great to disintigrate.
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Here's what I saw... A
world torn in half with ice caps punched out, and snared in a collossal
NO!
Your results will vary.
"To Be Or Not To Be"
is a chilling, succulent reminder that we have only one planet.
And turns you into a boob
head at the same time.
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Nina Lasky flings a mean
charcoal stick.
Her bodaceous solo show
of oversize drawings, paintings and alabaster figurines prove that
talent runs in the family.
I had a hard time picking
one, but "American History 101" just jumped out and bit
me.
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Speaking of
jumping up and biting, Richard Treitner pulls out his Eskimo dangle
poker in "Fish Hunter".
Why do Eskimos
fish? Because they're Inuit.
The sharp. barbed
wit penetrates easily but doesn't come out.
Unlike Richard
himself.
Fortunately,
igloo living tends to reduce annoying inhibitions like modesty.
Dangle away!
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While on the subject of fish,
Ian Warpole is too coy. But "Two Koi" is a magically delicious
painting that borders on photo realism jazzed with juicy strokes of
color that would make Wayne Thiebaud salivate.
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Lynn Fliegel has
quite a few lovely paintings in this show but I picked "Landscape
2" because the mellow rosy sunset twilight glow warmed me like
a sip of Armagnac by the fire.
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And now for something completely different.
In the opposite direction altogether rushes Jesse Owen
headlong into a furious storm of mashed color titled "Study of
Man's Head".
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"Blissed
Out" is the spin art version of a Warhol Hare Krishna on LSD.
COLORS!
I'M TRIPPING!
Thank you for
this moment of bliss,
I'm melting,
Steven Russel.
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I am always intrigued and beguiled by Lora Shelley's quietly contemplative
paintings and the eerie almost non human quality of her characters.
"Seeing Double With Cat's Head" displays
a different side, a Degas stage lit pair of very human, emotionally
asymetric egos bound by a single feline instinct.
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Kenn Whyte gives
us a "Sign at Tivoli".
Give us a sign!
The streetlights (or trainlights as the case may be) bear hooded visors
like cigar smoked bookies in a betting parlor.
A wiggly web
of shadows echo the anthropomorphic ganglion of lanky brackets.
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Last but not
least, this truly best bargain of the entire show was snatched at the
opening,
Ricky Sanchez
hits the nail on the head with "Untitled", a gilded statement
about poverty, hunger and desperation in the great American wasteland.
It is ironic
how large the waists are in this wasteland. We ain't wasting away, that's
for sure.
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It was great to have your eyeballs on my Art Safari, but do bring
along your whole body to the next openng at The Arts Upstairs on
Saturday, December 20.
More Art Safari >>>
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