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Featured Artist ||| Chloe Edwards (Bowling Green, KY)

This week’s featured artist is Chloe Edwards. She holds the title as the youngest artist to be featured on Paint Pens in Purses. As I am about to turn thirty, the mantra that age doesn’t matter, is sounding better and better. However, I mention her age because this young lady, who is only nineteen years old, is extremely productive! She has a wide array of prints, a style of her own, and great characters. 

She is inspired by the anatomy of animals, horns, and fur. She incorporates vivid colors and line patterns with watercolor to create a cartoon and dream like quality to her creations.

Her future projects include some large scale collage pieces, involving wheat pasting, and a portrait watercolor series. Chloe Lee Edwards was born in Bakersfield CA, and was raised across the country, from Maryland to Bowling Green, KY. To see more of her work check out her website and her online store. 

 Article written by: Shayna Yasuhara

San Francisco Friends! Paint Pens in Purses will be at Artmrkt San Francisco Art Fair and ArtPadSF this weekend to check out all the galleries in town for the busy art weekend! Write up to follow…

OakCatVidFest x PPP 2013 Photos

Here are some of the photos from the Paint Pens in Purses Cativities table at the Oakland Internet Cat Video Fest. We loved all the fun cat creations that were made and we promise to make waaayy more cat cut outs for next year! 

Here is a quick little preview from the Paint Pens in Purses room; which is part of Big Umbrella Studios’ Third Mind Show. Stop by tonight for the Divisadero Art Walk or tomorrow for the official opening!

Oakland Internet Cat Film Festival ||| Oakland, CA ||| This Saturday 5.11.13

The Great Wall of Oakland is collaborating with the Walker Art Center to bring the Internet Cat Video Festival to Oakland! On Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 3-10pm, an estimated 5,000+ cat-lovers and friends will be celebrating felines and exploring the low-art of Internet cat videos together, in real-time, as we transform West Grand between Telegraph and Broadway into a cat-lovers wonderland. Proceeds benefit the East Bay SPCA!

Paint Pens in Purses will have an activity table - come by and draw cool cats with your favorite female art collective!

Hurry & get your tickets here before they are sold out!

Here is the full article from ScopeArt Magazine on Tofusquirrel, Allison Bamcat, Veronica Fish, and Jennifer Lewis. 

The Third Mind: An Art Show Featuring 5 Bay Area Collectives @ Big Umbrella Studios, San Francisco (THIS FRIDAY)

The theory of the Third Mind suggests that an unexpected and visionary ‘other mind’ emerges as a result of collaboration. In the spirit of collaboration  On Friday, May 10, from 7-11 pm, we invite you to contribute to the Third Mind. The show will also be previewed on Thursday, May 9, from 5-11pm, during the Divisadero Art Walk.

The collective included are: Arc Gallery & Studios, Big Umbrella Studios, Paint Pens in Purses, Rock Paper Scissors Collective, Three Point Nine Art Collective

The Paint Pens in Purses artists to include: Crystal Gonzalez, Shayna Why, Denise Laws, Lauren Napolitano, Kelly Rose Dancer,Angeline King, Ytaelena Lopez & Shayna Yasuhara

Big Umbrella Studios will also host a variety of collaborative activities and projects during the show. Individuals can creatively engage with others through Exquisite Corpse, a Surrealist parlor game favored by Andre Breton and Marcel Duchamp. 

Be sure to RSVP here. 

My work uses science and mass media as metaphor for our emotions about the inner chaos of our world. I aim to reflect the isolation of those who may be ignored or shy but still want to be seen. The beauty is there, waiting for be discovered, but we don’t see it because we cannot shed our prejudices.

Paint Pens in Purses newest featured artist is Shantell Martin; an artist who is not afraid to draw big and live thoughtfully. You can read her bio here and follow her latest events on Tumblr.

From London to Tokyo to New York, internationally acclaimed visual artist Shantell Martin is expanding conventional definitions of drawing and animation to transform visual experience in the design, fashion and music industries. Her dazzling light projections have been featured in iconic spots such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the megaclubs of Tokyo and Russia, and on the enormous screens at Shibuya and Harajuku crossings in Tokyo. Martin has quickly infiltrated popular culture stateside — she’s been cast as herself on quintessential New York show Gossip Girl, interviewed on CNN, appeared on an NBC morning show, and deemed a muse of super-hip design blog, PSFK. She was named by French Glamour as New York’s “coolest it girl” in 2011, and her hand-illustrated bedroom walls graced the cover of the New York Times home section in May 2012.

Martin has collaborated with celebrity photographers and brands alike; her notable work includes a project with celebrity photographer Nigel Barker, where she created digital sets for a 10 page Tatler Asia editorial with supermodel Christina Garcia. Martin’s latest brand collaborations include transforming the New York custom denim store 3×1 into a Martin inspired wonderland, a screening in Dell’s 2011 experiential pop up workspace, and package design for luxury fragrance brands, to name a few. In February 2012, she was one of four artists commissioned by Nike iD to make a piece of work and a limited edition shoe to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Nike Cortez. She also creates murals in a range of contexts – from the private homes of celebrities to the faces of models and friends.

The Mission Spring Open Studio - Highlights

Over the weekend I went to check out The Mission Wide Open Studios. This event, which is organized by the Mission Artist United group, is quite an endeavor. With approximately ten major art studio buildings, each made up of lots of stairs and rooms, and easily over a hundred artists on the participation list, it’s hard to be sure you’ve seen it all. 

I took the challenge and came back with a handful of postcards, and a list of a few of my favorites, to share with you nice people. From top left to right: Liz Hickok’s jello city series, Denise Laws’ hair collages, Meredith Hudson of Clandestine Press, large-scale paintings by Kellen Breen, the intricate & surreal worlds of Michael Kerbow, drawings by Sarah Newton, painting and taxidermy by Michael McConnell of ArtFarmSF, and paintings by Paul Morin.