THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT tour - CULVER CITY

the last stop of the national tour ‘the kids are alright’ featured in lebasse gallery in culver city

nate frizzell is the headliner and he is amazing - so you should check out the gallery sometime!

“hell hath no fury like a woman’s scorn.”   12″x12″   acrylic on canvases.    $450

the story of rangda: rangda is a balinese queen who was exiled from the kingdom for practicing sorcery. she took revenge by killing half the empire before she was stopped by a holy man. her name means ‘widow.’ i really want rangda as a tattoo.

TAROT CARD SHOW - THE HIVE GALLERY

the tarot card show - the gallery curator picked twenty artists to contribute to the show. he shuffled the card deck for fifteen minutes and dealt cards accordingly (this way each artist’s true card comes up)

my card is the sun - in the story: after a very long and arduous journey, the fool comes across a little boy in a field of sunflowers. amidst the field, the fool finally feels happy and experiences ecstasy. the boy walks with the fool, asking questions like why the sky is blue. after a while, the fool turns around and asks the boy, who are you? and the boy answered, i am you. the boy began to float up into the sky and disappeared towards the sun. the sun card means pure happiness.

“i am you.”    11″x14″    acrylic on canvas,      $200

THE HIVE GALLERY & STUDIOS

729 south spring street, los angeles ca

SYRUP DESSERTS

i have a bunch of paintings in Syrup Desserts, a waffle shop that serves amazing sweets. every artwalk i stop by to greet customers and show off work, so if you are in the area please stop by.

i have a series of deer i painted specifically for syrup - i cleaned up my style for the shop in order to preserve ambiance.

series of deer.   acrylic on canvas.  will display names and prices later.

SNEAK PEEK

i will be showing off more work next month, friday the 13th with Box8 - very excited! heres a snippet of what i am working on

i once had a dream about a phoenix that swooped me up into the sky and i returned back as a corpse. will elaborate later

so this is me in a nutshell in terms of my painting life. other than that, i am still teaching at vision21 (foundation, illustration, sometimes concept and fashion illustration) i love my students! i am also  working on a bunch of freelance projects and i work promo in hollywood for visionshock. busy busy busy! and very very happy

for the ‘kids are alright’ tour - show coming up ….. acrylic on wood .

“the caretaker” acrlyic on wood, 16″x16″ $450

toronto gallery

big fan of EMPTYKINGDOM.com! and im honored that they have me as a featured artist on their site! yay yay! check it! <3

other updated portfolio: asiaengart.carbonmade.com

and check out the black maria gallery this weekend! i already sold “sun god”

ive been swamped recently, fighting to keep my head above water.

last friday i drove at 5am and left la and got to the bay area at 10am. 12noon i went to pueblo nuevo gallery in berkeley to help set up my solo show “run-on sentences.”  saturday rolled around and i was there for 6 hrs. here are some of the few pieces i had for the show:

“fish” (brush pen, 11″x14″)

“battle” (brush pen, 11″x14″)

“dollfaced” (brush pen, 11″x14″)

“there’s a storm in my heart” (brush pen, 11″x14″)

“hummingbird spring” (brush pen, 11″x14″)

“hannah” (verathin pencil, 11″x14″)

“fun!” (verathin pencil, 11″x14″)

“my garden” (acrylic, 36″x72″)

my show was called “run-on sentences” because that’s how i build up my work, i freehand my art so i never know where im going. i may mess up or come across obstacles in my work, but learning how to fix things within composition is part of discovering beauty. this is a reflection of the life i live, it is organic and extremely unpredictable, and whether obstacles or discoveries, they can turn into all things beautiful and create stronger character.

if anyone is in the bay area and still interested in looking at my work, please call pueblo nuevo for an appoinment:

ask for plinio at 510 452 7363

to check out photos from my show, you can go to :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tffny_eng/sets/72157621411024317/

this weekend is the opening reception for “the kids are alright” tour shown at “black maria gallery.” each artist from the kids tour submits two pieces in black and white:

“(how now) sun god” (brush pen, 18″x24″)

“hannah noir” (acrylic, 18″x24″)

opening reception is this weekend:

BLACK MARIA

July 18th through August 8th, 2009

Opening Reception: Saturday, 18th of July, 7:00 - 10:30pm

3137 Glendale Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90039
323.660.9393
info@blackmariagallery.com

http://www.blackmariagallery.com/

if you are in the area, the show looks AWESOME~!!! go see it!!!

it stopped me in my tracks.

what the fuck am i doing here?

i sat down, still shaking. i ran my fingers under my eyes to make sure the tears didnt strip away my eyeliner. my hands were unsteady and i was afraid to go back out there, but i took a deep breath and threw on a fake smile and finished my shift.

this weekend, i passed up $200 vip tickets to the annual rave 'electric carnival daisy' to make some cash. it hurt, but i knew it was better to be responsible and bring home the dough rather than having fun. i worked friday and saturday nights at the korean club called kar nak, where i was a promotional model for crown royal's cask 16. my job was to get people's attention at the door, let them know about the special promotion with the new product, take pictures, go around the floor and quizzing people so that they could win prizes. friday was rough because i worked by myself on a packed night - it was exhausting.

that first night on friday amidst handing out prizes, i was in the middle of walking away from a table when a guy grabbed my ass. i was very close to hitting him, but kept composure.  i was pretty steamed and i should've done something, but i remembered how embarrassed the company was when i cussed someone out on stage the first time i represented them.

i stormed out of the lounge area and i told my boss that i almost smacked someone but i stopped because i didnt want him to look bad. he felt horrible and gave me permission to cuss out teh customer the next time i saw him. i went home pretty angry, wishing i defended myself the way i wanted to, but it was in the past and there was nothing more i could do.

four hours later i woke up. every saturday is a fourteen hour work block for me; i teach for ten hours and then i have enough time to get dressed and work the nightlife scene. i was developing red eye and i was going to take a nap before the last class of the day but i locked my keys in my car and had to wait for aaa in 95 degree heat. straght after teaching i did my hair and threw on some fake eyelashes and went back to kar nak.

the night was a breeze compared to friday except for another mishap. amidst handing out small samples and prizes, a guy's head fell out of his booth and he grabbed my thigh a little shy of my short cuffs. i was furious. i made sure i knew what the guy looked like and yelled at security to do something. it was too loud and he couldnt hear me. i was afraid they were not going to do anything, and i was very close to walking out of the club and going home. as i desperatly needed that money, if i cant even stand up for myself i dont even want it, because i cant put a price on my dignity. i couldnt help it but i started crying. as i sat there, i was thinking, what the fuck am i doing here? im a fucking teacher - how can i be a positive female reinforcement in a place like this?

security pulled the guy outside to apologise to me. he was drunk stupid and said he didnt even recognize me. i started cussing at him and he was cussing back, which made me even more furious because he was spitting at me while slurring. the club decided that his drunken babble of 'who the fuck are you?' was a decent apology and sat him back at his booth. we worked for twenty more minutes and we all went home.

i know i take my job too seriously as a part time teacher, but during the course of this job i realized the things i do and say, no matter what the content, adheres to them. one of them told me i was her role model, and because of that i am inspired to be a better person. i discovered how much bigger the world is compared to myself, and i feel compelled to do more...  like learning motherhood without the stretchmarks. haha. 

everything happens for a reason. we would like to think, with time comes maturity but it doesnt necessarily come hand in hand. i am chosing to evolve.

i have a lot more to think about.