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rachel bess

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About Me

www.rachelbess.com
I'm a painter. I infrequently make comic books too. I used to teach life drawing at an arts school. In addition to rachelbess.com, I have a very sparse blog of my paintings in progress and several drawings, I will be updating it much less frequently than what I should. It's at http://rachelbess.blogspot.com. I recently started a little blog about my garden too, yes, I'm so nerdy that I blog about my plants and chickens: http://rachelstinyfarm.blogspot.com/

My Interests

painting, drawing, reanimation, survivalism, gardening, my chickens!, my new bike, collecting dead things, D.I.Y., having parties with my husband and our cats that hate each other, baking cookies cakes and pie!, experimental taxidermy, my expanding hall of necrodiversity, power tools, making clothes, science experiments, forensics, good surprises, centenarians, ebay.

I'd like to meet:

exciting people with interests. Please note that if you post a ridiculous amount of bulletins, I will delete you. It's not personal, I just don't like my bulletin board cluttered up with 4 different things by the same person about how you're bored or have a new favorite quote or whatever. Thank you in advance for your economic use of bulletins.

Music:

christian death (rozz), skinny puppy, misfits, ministry, imperative reaction, VNV, brighter death now, nick cave, sisters of mercy, cure, depeche, portishead, Assemblage 23, Mesh, peter murphy, Oneroid Psychosis, mazzy star, anything cold meat industry, most ant-zen, old punk, industrial/noise, goth, 80's, metropolis records etc.

Movies:

pi, brothers quay, city of lost children, The cook the thief his wife and her lover, the jerk, donnie darko, spinal tap, Sin City, V for Vendetta, Comic book movies that don't suck, John Hughes movies

Television:

The Office, Tales from the Crypt, Simpsons, The Venture Brothers, Aeon Flux, PBS Gardening shows, He-Man.

Books:

art books, comics, medical textbooks, antique books, gardening books, books about natural history and survivalism

Heroes:

Dwight Schrute

My Blog

Write up on Juxtapoz.com

The Last Rites show got a brief write-up supplemented with LOTS of pictures on Juxtapoz.comEdit: For whatever reason the link I posted wasn't working (thanks Noah) so here's the url:http://www.juxtapo...
Posted by rachel bess on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:10:00 PST

Rachel Bess show opening TONIGHT! (Fri. 4/11) from 5-9

I'll have over 20 paintings at Cattle Track tonight, Timothy Chapman and Jon Gipe will have work up too. Here are specific directions to avoid construction: Get to Scottsdale Road and Lincoln, Go East...
Posted by rachel bess on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:07:00 PST

"Transgression" show at Last Rites in NYC

I am happy to be taking part in the Inaugural show at the Last Rites Gallery in NYC. Here is the info, check out the artist list, there are so many incredible people on it! I'm going to try to make it...
Posted by rachel bess on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 09:12:00 PST

4 page spread in Stretching Canvas Magazine

I am really excited to be a part of the first issue of International Tattoo Art's "Stretching Canvas" magazine. It's a new glossy devoted to pop surrealism, underground, low brow etc. Amy Young wrote ...
Posted by rachel bess on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:07:00 PST