| Iskon Temple Paintings |
| 03.20.13 | No Comments |
Category: animals |architecture |drawing |folk |history |India |mythology |painting |photo by Seze |portraits |psychedelia |snapshots |spirituality
| 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 |
| James Jean |
| 05.24.09 | No Comments |
Category: abstraction |death |design |drawing |erotica |gothypants |painting |too beautiful for words
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
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 |
Category: abstraction |amazing women |collage |color theory |drawing |op art |painting |too beautiful for words
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
lit firework residue, collage on paper 41 3/4 in x 29 1/2 in
| 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 |
Category: amazing women |drug culture |girl culture |gothypants |music |mythology |painting |playlists |spirituality
In honor of May Day, I made a Faerie Folk mix. Here is the tracklisting:
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Akron/Family – I’ll Be On The Water
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Angels Of Light – Sunflower’s Here To Stay
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DANIELLE DAX – Here Come the Harvest Buns
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The Rolling Stones – In Another Land
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Dolly Parton – Love Is Like A Butterfly
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KATE BUSH – Cloudbusting
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LOCUST – Summer Rain
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DAME DARCY – Honey Time
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Cibelle – Dedans Le Lapin
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Coco Rosie – By Your Side
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Animal Collective – The Softest Voice
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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 |
Category: animation |design |funny |girl culture |gothypants |humor |mythology |op art |painting |pop culture
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 |
Category: amazing women |color theory |death |drawing |drug culture |fashion |gothypants |mythology |painting |Photography |spirituality
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.
