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Featured Artist ||| Jessica Fortner (Toronto, Canada) 

This week’s Featured Artist is Jessica Fortner, an illustrator from Toronto, Canada. Her focus is on editorial, advertising, and children’s illustration. She works in both traditional and digital media.Jessica’s illustrations have appeared in publications such as Juxtapoz, Ammo Magazine, Digital Arts, and Pork & Mead. She has also been considered one of  HOW’s Top 10 Sites for Designers, and recently featured on Communication Arts: Fresh online.
 
She is also the co-founder, editor, and designer of the online arts magazine, Squidface & The Meddler, and founder of the arts site Tangled Fingers. As a design enthusiast, she’s particularly fond of sustainable design, interface design, and typography. She is a contributor on FormFiftyFive, a design blog showcasing the best work from artists and designers.
 
To see more of her amazing artwork check out her website! 

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Here are few favorites from the 2013 artMrkt at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. I was surprised to see so many of these great galleries were based right here in San Francisco. Here are the artists and galleries from left to right, top to bottom.

  1. Hyon Gyon Park, Shin Gallery (New York, CA)
  2. Taro Hattori, Swarm Gallery (Oakland, CA)
  3. Joel Daniel Phillips, Spoke Art Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
  4. Jess Hess, Spoke Art Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
  5. Andy Diaz Hope and Laurel Roth, Catharine Clark Gallery (San Francisco, CA)
  6. Laurina Paperina, Fouladi Projects (San Francisco, CA)
  7. David Mach, Forum Gallery (New York, NY)
  8. Todd Hildo, Stephen Wirtz Gallery (San Francisco, CA)

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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

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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!

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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. 

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Featured Artist ||| Ytaelena Lopez (San Francisco) 

When I hear about people who claim they have the ability to see energies and auras; I imagine it would be something like seeing Ytaelena Lopez’s work. It is like her line work can literally capture the connection between people; a sort of visual E.S.P. Ytaelena’s artwork is personal and captivating. The images collected here are part of the Wildlines series of work. For other projects from this versatile artist please visit her website. 
 
Paint Pens in Purses is very pleased to announce Ytaelena Lopez’s work would be shown at Big Umbrella Studios’ May show entitled, “Third Mind”, a collection of Bay Area art collectives. She was chosen as one of seven artists to represent Paint Pens in Purses. The opening reception is next Friday, May 10th. Please RSVP here for entry.
 
Artist Statement: 
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.
Art is a way to connect with the world as an intelectual exercise. My journalistic background allows me to explore even the most obnoxious situations and discover an untold history or astonishing image.  Sometimes I get my epiphanies from the kitsch, because that’s where the wisdom of the street is. I use my artistic practice to shape our perception about reality, using the objects of our desires to focus the attention in what is relevant, but we would prefer not to be aware of.  That is why I feel attracted to conceptual ambiguities, aesthetic paradoxes and dark irony.

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Kelly Rose Dancer is a pet portrait artist by day and a fine artists/puppeteer by night. We first fell in love with her Meme Cat portrait series and are thrilled to be the very first to share her newest series. Her newest collection of work, ”Pet-rifying Cults”, was inspired by Kelly’s interest in cult films and includes some of her favorite characters.

You can catch Kelly Rose Dancer at the Oakland Internet Cat Festival on May 11. You can also see more of her work, or commission her to draw your lovely furry friends through her website or on Facebook. 

Did you guess all the characters? Left to right: Big Lebowski, Barbarella,  Clockwork Orange, Bladerunner, Death Race 2000, Eraserhead, Gray Gardens, Faster, Pussy Cat! Kill! Kill!, Rocky Horror Picture Show, & Pink Flamingos

 

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Featured Artist ||| Jennifer Parks (Portland, OR) 

This week’s Featured Artist is Jennifer Parks. She is an illustrator, cartoonist, and co-owner of the Pony Club Gallery, currently living in beautiful Portland, Oregon. She loves nature, art, and all things magical. She is inspired by dreams, nightmares, and the beauty and mystery of life, death, and the ever expanding cosmos. 
She has a solo show at Redux Art Gallery in April, and at Pony Club Gallery in September. She is also working on a weekly online comic featured on Study Group Comics, called “The Lone Wolf”.

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