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About Me

Los Angeles based Retna, removes corporate advertisements of women from illuminated signs and embellishes them in a style that not only recalls Mayan and Egyptian hieroglyphs but even the aesthetic heights of Byzantium with its mosaic tiling of Christ and other deities. In one work, the well-known and ill-fated r’n’b singer, Aaliyah, gazes upwards while colour explodes like jewelled fragments around her. Retna’s intervention in these advertisements elevates the perception of the mostly anonymous females - fodder for representing desire and selling other objects - to a form of idolatry. PICA Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. Australia. Marquislewis.com You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

Music:

www....com/playlist/additem/1693542pac fifty....fresh beats...Al Green... ambient eclectic...some 80s funk house......some dope violin....cultural tribal music...world music n what disco dizzy plays for me on the ones n twos...............

Movies:

city of god, crash, sequestros express, wild style, style wars,syriana, Munich, Memoirs of a Geisha, Empire of the Sun, Bronx Tale, Maria Full of Grace, Motorcycle Diaries, Passion of the Christ, Gangs of New York, Colors, Menace to Society, Boys n the Hood, Malcolm X, Natural Born Killers, Devils Advocate, Heat, Godfather,

Television:

mtv, cnn. history chanel,

Books:

The Alchemist, Basquiat, Ellen Von Unwerth, Frida Kahlo, Keith Haring, The Deception Point, Angels and Demons. The Da Vinci Code. digital fortress. the celistine prophecy. the art of war. See No Evil. Leonardos Swans. Girl with the Pearl Earing. Million Pieces. Brazil. The Lost Painting. The Number.

My Blog

RETNA DESIGNS COVER FOR NY BASED PLAZTIK MAG

Retna featured in this issue of www.plaztikmag.comclick image to see link...
Posted by RETNA on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:05:00 PST

Magic

At MAGIC tradeshow in Vegas, one minute you're perusing the latest baby blue gators from Stacy Adams and the next you're grill to girl with the Game, shilling Hurricanes - and there are a million dude...
Posted by RETNA on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:56:00 PST