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MATTHEW PORTER'S GIANT ROBOT CAT COMMISSIONS
A giant robot cat destroying your choice of city or landmark? New York, London, Paris, San Francisco or maybe the Chinese Theater, Big Ben or The Great Wall of China. Anything you can dream up.
ORIGINAL COMMISSION: 24" x 30", acrylic paint on wood, $850.00
Please get in touch via e-mail with your interests - [email protected]
Turn around time is about 2 weeks
Photos are welcome for inspiration
A small deposit will be required
Payment plans are also available
GICLEE PRINT: We are also offering this image as a giclee print. Sizes range from 8" x 10" to 24" x 30" on various quality papers. Framing is also available. Basic prints prices range from approximately $25.00 - $65.00.
Purchase your print of this image here: http://matthewporter.imagekind.com/
If you have any questions please feel free to get in touch. [email protected]
Matthew Porter - http://www.matthewporterart.com
Icons - Andrea Heimer
Runs: May 1 - 30, 2008
"Icon" is a series of portraits of female saints by Andrea Heimer. By definition patron saints are people who lived extraordinary lives and were chosen as special protectors over areas of life. Early records show that women were inducted into sainthood as early as the fourth century. These female saints became the earliest type of known celebrity: icons deemed larger than life. Heimer's narrative paintings present a group of saints and their stories in a disarming, sometimes humorous light.
"Both Sweet and Illicitt"
New Works by Amy Rice
Runs: June 1 - 28, 2008M
“Both Sweet and Illicitâ€: that is how Minneapolis based mixed media artist Amy Rice describes the box of antique love letters she has been painting on for her upcoming solo show of mixed media work on a variety of nontraditional surfaces at Bluebottle Art Gallery.
Serendipity played a large part in the direction Rice’s work has taken over the past year. First there was her acquisition of a gocco printer forgotten in a small town craft store. Gocco printers are small, self-contained, screen-printing machines sold as toys in Japan. At one time one in every three Japanese households owned a gocco printer, but with the advent of computers/printers they fell out of use. American crafters have just begun to discover this remarkable tool, but the printers are hard to come by. Rice has been using her gocco printer in much of the same ways she has utilized hand-cut stencils…as the starting point for mixed media paintings. She has been making small one-of-a kind works based on some of her most popular stencil paintings with her gocco.
Rice also discovered of a box of handwritten journals written in the 1930’s by a young girl named Emma at a flea market. She bought them to use with her gocco printer but quickly realized she could use her stencil/spray paint method successfully on antique paper as well. Rice has always been attracted to found objects as “canvasâ€; exploring the sense of history and connectivity between the object and the imagery, she expands on the objects sentimental nature. Rice has become obsessed with antique handwritten documents and has collected and painted on old love letters (both sweet and illicit), library checkout cards with the names and dates checked out going back 70 years, recipe cards yellowed and evidently well used, as well as the pages of handwritten song lyrics of tunes popular in the 1930’s written out by Emma.
Thematically Rice’s work continues to be inspired by the urban community in which she lives, childhood memories (both real and imagined and sometimes exaggerated with time), vintage botanical prints, her dog Ella, bicycles, street art, random found objects, collective endeavors that challenge hierarchy, acts of compassion, downright silliness and things with wings.
Bluebottle Art Gallery, 415 East Pine Street. Galley, Seattle, WA, 98122.
206.325.1592, [email protected]
Hours are Tuesday - Sunday 12 - 7
Always free admission
Bluebottle Art Gallery: www.bluebottleart.com
