Iskon Temple Paintings
03.20.13 | No Comments

 

Udaipur, wall paintings
03.04.13 | No Comments

 

Will Cotton
05.17.12 | No Comments


Will Cotton
Crown
80″ by 68″
oil/linen
2011-2012
Mary Boone Gallery

Happy New Year!
12.31.11 | No Comments

Cat and Girl
11.08.11 | No Comments

By Trixis

James Jean
05.24.09 | No Comments

James Jean’s portfolio site: www.jamesjean.com

James Jean’s blog: www.processrecess.com

Michael Jackson Strange Auction Items
04.30.09 | No Comments
Category: painting

Holy cow this is creepy!


from Paulscheer’s photostream on Flickr

Dame Darcy
11.20.08 | No Comments


A painting Dame Darcy made of us knitting each other’s hair,

Rosemarie Fiore
10.29.08 | No Comments
This is the most beautiful thing I have seen today:
“Firework Drawing #14″ 2005
lit firework residue, collage on paper 41 3/4 in x 29 1/2 in
Zina Saunders
10.14.08 | No Comments


Zina Saunders, “Playing House” for The Nation, 2008

www.zinasaunders.com

When Perfect Is Not the Goal
07.11.08 | No Comments

When I was a kid my mom let me draw on the walls and furniture too.


Pamela Bell, one of the four original partners in the Kate Spade brand, has dedicated her house to her children. NY Times article

The Princess and the Pea
06.19.08 | 1 Comment

My dreamlife is so rich and full of amazing imagery, it is often very hard for me to wake back into this world.

The Real Princess, Edmund Dulac

The Princess on the Pea
By Hans Christian Andersen
Translation by Jean Hersholt

Once there was a Prince who wanted to marry a Princess. Only a real one would do. So he traveled through all the world to find her, and everywhere things went wrong. There were Princesses aplenty, but how was he to know whether they were real Princesses? There was something not quite right about them all. So he came home again and was unhappy, because he did so want to have a real Princess.One evening a terrible storm blew up. It lightened and thundered and rained. It was really frightful! In the midst of it all came a knocking at the town gate. The old King went to open it.

Who should be standing outside but a Princess, and what a sight she was in all that rain and wind. Water streamed from her hair down her clothes into her shoes, and ran out at the heels. Yet she claimed to be a real Princess.

“We’ll soon find that out,” the old Queen thought to herself. Without saying a word about it she went to the bedchamber, stripped back the bedclothes, and put just one pea in the bottom of the bed. Then she took twenty mattresses and piled them on the pea. Then she took twenty eiderdown feather beds and piled them on the mattresses. Up on top of all these the Princess was to spend the night.

In the morning they asked her, “Did you sleep well?”

” Oh!” said the Princess. “No. I scarcely slept at all. Heaven knows what’s in that bed. I lay on something so hard that I’m black and blue all over. It was simply terrible.”

They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate. So the Prince made haste to marry her, because he knew he had found a real Princess.

As for the pea, they put it in the museum. There it’s still to be seen, unless somebody has taken it.

There, that’s a true story.

Geometry as Image at Robert Miller Gallery NY
05.28.08 | No Comments


John Pai meticulously joins welding rods into open steel structures that develop organically as they occupy space.
Photo by Seze


Detail, Photo by Seze


Ilya Bolotowsky Trylon , 1977 (left)
Kenneth Snelson Easter Monday , 1977 (right)
Photo by Seze
more info

Goodbye to my Grandfather of Collage
05.13.08 | No Comments

Robert Rauschenberg, Titan of American Art, Is Dead at 82


Robert Rauschenberg, “Solstice” 1968

Faerie Folk Mix
05.01.08 | No Comments

In honor of May Day, I made a Faerie Folk mix. Here is the tracklisting:

  • Akron/Family – I’ll Be On The Water
  • Angels Of Light – Sunflower’s Here To Stay
  • DANIELLE DAX – Here Come the Harvest Buns
  • The Rolling Stones – In Another Land
  • Dolly Parton – Love Is Like A Butterfly
  • KATE BUSH – Cloudbusting
  • LOCUST – Summer Rain
  • DAME DARCY – Honey Time
  • Cibelle – Dedans Le Lapin
  • Coco Rosie – By Your Side
  • Animal Collective – The Softest Voice
  • RASPUTINA – Sister Sleep

While searching for images of Fairies I found these gorgeous painting by Josephine Wall. Take a look at her site, her work is very intricate and lush. www.josephinewall.co.uk


My Lady Unicorn, by Josephine Wall


Heart and Soul, by Josephine Wall

Rainbow Jello
04.30.08 | No Comments

This is so pretty even though I never eat gelatin.
Photo and source from the Adventures of Food Slut Blog, thanks for the link Abigail.

Awesome Period Action Heros
04.30.08 | No Comments


Forgive me I don’t have a credit for this one…

Marcel Duchamp
04.30.08 | No Comments


The Large Glass at the Philadelphia Museum of Art,
photo by Seze

While studying art at Bard College in upstate NY in 1996, I made a trip to Philadelphia just to see the Marcel Duchamp room at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. He was that important to me, and he still is. I made my second trip to the Duchamp room yesterday, 12 years had past and I was still just as thrilled to see his work again. But the real treat was to see his haunting installation Étant donnés that is only visible trough a peep hole.


Étant donnés interior view
From Wikipedia:

Étant donnés is Marcel Duchamp‘s last major art work which surprised the art world that believed he’d given up art for chess 25 years earlier. It is a tableau, visible only through a peep hole in a wooden door, of a nude woman lying on her back with her face hidden and legs spread holding a gas lamp in the air in one hand against a landscape backdrop.

Duchamp worked secretly on the piece from 1946 to 1966 in his Greenwich Village studio while even his closest friends thought he had abandoned art.

It is made of an old wooden door, bricks, velvet, twigs, a female form made of leather, glass, linoleum, and an electric motor. Duchamp prepared a “Manual of Instructions” in a 4-ring binder explaining and illustrating how to assemble and disassemble the piece.

It wasn’t until 1969 that the Philadelphia Museum of Art revealed the tableau to the public.

Frida Kahlo, Patron Saint of Art Girls Worldwide
04.30.08 | No Comments

I had a chance to see the gorgeous Frida Kahlo exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Seeing the exhibit made me want to watch the beautiful film Frida (2002) starring Salma Hayek again. The film is based on “Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo” by Hayden Herrera (who also helped to curate the Philadelphia exhibition). I read about two thirds of the book but I had to put it down because her life was just too painful to keep reading about. Seeing the exhibit was great, I had a chance to see some old friends (paintings that I have loved since my teenage years) and I started some new friendships (with some rare photographs and paintings that were included in the show)


Frida Kahlo, Self Portrait with Monkeys, 1943 is one of my favorites

Twins by Damion Romero
04.13.08 | No Comments

One of my oldest and dearest friends (and long time pen pal from LA) Damion Romero makes beautiful minimal noise music. He used one of my watercolor paintings for the entire gatefold image in his new double LP “Twins.” The original record looks amazing and it is my eleventh record cover collaboration with a musician and my first gatefold image ever.

Damion Romero – Twins
Inside watercolor painting by Seze Devres
PTapes/Tone Filth Records & Tapes, 2007
LP, edition of 500
Here is another release we have collaborated on:
Romero, Damion – Medium
(CD, edition of 500, each with a unique cover photogram)
P Tapes, 1996.

and other CD & Record covers I have worked on.