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Norweigan fashion magazine VIXEN just did a feature on me for their current issue…out now…Jean-Paul Gaultier’s muse Omahyra Mota is on the cover and Sonia Rykiel is in it too!

They conjured up a fictional underwater tea party in the appliqued Chromium Dumb Belle universe with guests…Kaisik Wong (my love!) and Barbara Hulanicki, Merlin (of course), Gary Glitter and Alice Cooper eating Chromium Dumb Belle embroidered cakes…I would seat Kaisik and Merlin together for sure…. Barbara would be stoned to hell with her Sea Shades on….

heres a link to a peek…VIXEN

Click on current issue to flick thru pages….

Old fantasy art to wear clothing is my most favorite subject and this week i’m gonna post tons of all my favorites that i stash away for secret…

dream pie slices from heaven…

Been lazy…

…Ultra super gems to post tomorrow….but for now…

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Our friends new band Dangerous Boys Club last night…so good….

My sweet friend Reeza came to visit me at the Xtabay vintage today and took these snapsssssss…..

Look at Liz’s tiny pearl carriage on my wrist in one of the pics….so dreamy….

Some snaps of us doing the green screen with Fiona for the CDB video….she looked so pretty moving in the marine snow while it really snowed outside….

Its been a few months since i had any Chromium Dumb Belle available for sale, as im sure you know it takes a little while to make these pieces, especially a whole collection. I know a few of you are waiting for newer stuff and im sorry ive taken much longer than anticipated. Ive been busy taking my time on the newer stuff as well as working on new techniques and ideas but in the next 2 weeks im going to have a few things that have been tucked away for sale again, embroideries and body pieces along with a couple of new things too ….and come November all my NEW, new secret stuff will be revealed and for sale too..in time for blah blah blah….

I have a few pieces back at the Alphonse Berber Gallery this month as well as my first Portland shows coming up in November…

Ill let you know more about stuff for sale in the next week or so…X

WE TOOK THESE…

I’m showing a large selection of work in a group show at the  Alphonse Berber Gallery in Berkeley, CA from next friday July 31st- August 29th. I will also be in town so come hang out at the opening on friday! I will be showing some new pieces too like the body-piece pictured below…

Alphonse Berber Gallery is pleased to announce its new group exhibition, Not as a God, but as a God Might Be, opening July 31 at 6 pm, and running through August 29.  The show presents the work of seven artists whose concerns, as diverse as their origins, include religion, the environment, racism, pop culture, television, and personal mythology.

What their work shares is a playful audacity of conception, form, and material. One sees this, for example, in the zany pipe-cleaner sculptures of Don Porcella, whose subject matter ranges from bathers in a pool to a beheaded and disemboweled figure surrounded by snack foods.  Similarly, the sculptural installation of Christina Empedocles blends the fanciful and serious in a dismembered and reassembled tree replete with colorful acrylic Grackle birds.

Not as a God, but as a God Might Be, like the Wallace Stevens poem from which the title is taken, boldly announces itself as a vigorous departure from previous ways of looking at the world– in this case, from that which is easily recognizable as “museum art”, and from art that is conscientiously “anti-establishment” but is nonetheless embraced by the establishment because of that very fact.  Each artist substitutes his or her own obsession in the place where religious themes had been found in the Old Master paintings.

Not as a God, but as a God Might Be opens July 31 and runs through August 29.  Alphonse Berber Gallery is located at 2546 Bancroft Way in Berkeley.  For more information, call: 510-642-9492, or visit: alphonseberber.com

Artists are-

Chromium Dumb Belle- Joanne Burke

Alexander Demaria

Christina Empedocles

Michael Mersrau

Andy Nizinskyj

Christina Pierson

Don Porcella