Three of nine watercolors- scenes from Jean Luc Godard's film "Band of Outsiders". I made them for a window display at Lola, a small clothing shop in Carpinteria.

Colette- Paris, Oct. 5th
The Rodarte sisters asked some of their favorite artists to contribute work for a temporary gallery- Karen Kilimnik, Kim Gordon, and Kirsten Dunst were a few of them. Kate and Laura also had a temporary store with stuff made by David Shrigley, Jason Schwartzman, Miranda July, and more;) I made 11 books in collaboration with the sisters, also our Rodarte and Rebekah Miles for Opening Ceremony merchandise. Here are some tote bags:)

Humberto and Carol of Opening Ceremony, picking out books at Collette:)

Opening Ceremony!!!

Nancy took this one of me standing in the car filled with Rebekah Miles and Rodarte for OC merchandise. I'm holding one of the ten hand-painted lunch boxes I made to go with the back-to-school theme ;)

NY Times interview at Opening Ceremony for Fashion's Night Out, Sept. 10th
This and other Big Apple photos by nancyneil.com

The back-to-school themed merchandise for Opening Ceremony: tote bags, t-shirts, note pads, pencil case sets including erasers with tiny kurt cobain, and a series of hand painted lunch boxes. The images used all came from the books I made for Colette (Paris) for my collaboration with Rodarte.

Books for my collaboration with Rodarte for Colette (Paris). Some are still waiting for their new jackets.

bird plates, coucou!

Ballets Russes

rebekah miles for rodarte for colette :)

This quilt needs a name..!

This is my second quilt in progress. top-stitching by hand, it will probably be two months before i have it finished.

Tiny wild flowers in Joshua Tree:)

Layla and I are holding the quilt up and Olin couldn't help but peek at Nancy taking the picture:)

Basting the layers together, ie. making a quilt sandwich:)

This Picasso book was a gift for my mom's birthday. It is a collection of his work for the Ballets Russes in Paris.

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History recently had an exhibit of bird illustrations from the 16oo's to the 1800's. It was not always easy for these early illustrators to capture a life-like appearance from their taxidermy specimens..some of these birds were in the exhibit, and they looked kind of lumpy with cotton in their eyes. I have a series of plates I am making inspired by the early bird illustrations- from this turtle dove, to a redwing, to a dodo bird!

I painted the back of this mirror with a bird image that came from a calendar my mom gave me for 2008. She thought I might find the birds inspiring. The mirror is old and wooden- I would love to find more to do paintings on, but they are kind of hard to come by. Let me know if you find one..

I have made jackets for three Miro books, this version twice. The Rodarte designers, Kate and Laura Mulleavy bought the first one. No two are ever the same. Reminds me of Monet painting the hay stacks in different light.

This painting by my uncle, Steven Brown, is probably from the late 1960's. He and my aunt live in the redwoods of northern California, where he makes large sculptures from the wood burls on their property.
My plate is hanging on the right, which I based on a pattern from the mid-16th century Turkish Iznik period. I have been making ceramics at the continuing education center in Santa Barbara for the last year. Classes just started up again, and I am working on some new plates..

Magic and Alchemy

The Spanish painter and anarchist Remedios Varo, who fled to Paris during the Spanish Civil War. She was exiled from Paris during the Nazi occupation of France and moved to Mexico City in 1941. There she met Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, but one of her closest friendships was with the expatriate English painter Leonora Carrington. Varo died of a heart-attack at the height of her career in 1963.

painted on a tin cookie sheet. by my mom, emily (age 9 perhaps). circa late 1950's.