I was commissioned to illustrate the official poster for Paper Marriage, directed by Jeff Man and executive produced by Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass and Mel Eslyn. Duplass Brothers Productions and Giant Pictures just released Man’s debut feature on streaming platforms.
Mark Duplass: “[Jay and I have] been mentoring and working with Jeff for almost 15 years. Rent his feature film debut that we produced starting September 16. It’s deeply heartfelt, funny, and sad.”
With Paper Marriage writer/director/star Jeff Man
Last month, Paper Marriage screened at the historic Lyric Theatre as an official selection at Sidewalk, one of my favorite film festivals!
Sidewalk Film Festival
Opening Night at the Alabama Theatre
This year marked my fourth consecutive Sidewalk Film Festival, and it was a memorable one. Non Films founder Brian Ratigan introduced Endless Cookie at the gorgeous Lyric, a 1914 vaudeville-era theatre once graced by headliners such as Buster Keaton and Mae West. We also hosted a packed DarkRoom screening of Foul Evil Deeds, and distributed our handmade zines featuring an exclusive interview with director Richard Hunter.
Brian on stage at the Lyric
Sleep In Cinema
On September 6, Brian and I were guests on Sleep In Cinema’s show on Substrate Radio. We talked with hosts Gareth Jones and Craig Ceravolo about our favorite moments from the festival and shared our history with Sidewalk in their first post-Sidewalk Film breakdown show.
Substrate Radio — Birmingham’s leading radio station — broadcasts from Saturn, my favorite spot in the city. The venue and bar/cafe takes its inspiration from jazz legend Sun Ra, a Birmingham native.
Just like last year, we landed back in NYC from Birmingham and jumped right into hosting a DarkRoom screening in Brooklyn the very next day!
Free zines featuring my cover illustration celebrating the 60th anniversary of the release of Russ Meyer’s Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
Great news! You have more time to see my art in the group exhibit NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL: Art Inspired by Anna May Wong! It’s been extended through June 21. It’s open to the public every day between 8 AM and 9 PM and is located inside Chelsea Market (look for the corridor across from Amy’s Bread).
Along with Katie and the other featured artists, I also recently attended Pearl River Mart’s annual Sunset Celebration, held at West Edge inside Chelsea Market. I wrote about my experience for The Locavore Guide. You can read my feature to find out what I ate and learn more about the small businesses present at the gala — from Chinatown’s iconic Nom Wah Tea Parlor to newer businesses born during the pandemic like Bánh by Lauren.
My watercolor illustration of Pearl River Mart’s Sunset Gala
Sampling delicious food from over 20 AAPI businesses while celebrating community and art was truly one of my May highlights; it was inspiring to meet so many artists, activists, and entrepreneurs. Seeing the sunset over the High Line and listening to Joe Hisaishi’s Studio Ghibli film scores made the evening even more magical.
Golden Polaroid of Pearl River Mart president Joanne Kwong, artists Tiffany Liang, Mina Chacko, writer Katie Gee Salisbury, and me.
How did the first Chinese American department store in the world grow into a New York City institution? Read my interview with Pearl River Mart president Joanne Kwong here.
In the main concourse at Chelsea Market, view the many interpretations of the first Asian American Hollywood star (the exhibit is located in the corridor gallery across from Amy’s Bread — see slide 4 in my Instagram post for the map). Please take lots of photos and tag me on Instagram if you go — and eat a meal at any of the numerous surrounding restaurants!
“NOT YOUR CHINA DOLL: Art Inspired by Anna May Wong” on view May 1 to May 31 • Chelsea Market: the corridor gallery across from Amy’s Bread (75 9th Ave, New York, NY)
Sunset Celebration: on May 17, from 6-8:30pm, there will be a soirée with live jazz in the third floor space West Edge in Chelsea Market overlooking the High Line. Ticket includes an open bar and bites from Nom Wah, Jing Fong, Lady Wong Pastry & Cakes, Mokbar, Kimbap Lab, Ming River, Sanzo, Forsyth Fire Escape, Bánh by Lauren, Nguyen Coffee Supply, and over 20 Asian businesses. Buy tickets on Eventbrite or on Pearl River’s site. Come view the art with me and let’s make a toast to Anna May!
Happy Hitchcocktober! I’m having an ALL MONTH sale. 15% off EVERY item (Hitchcock and non-Hitchcock) and a FREE Psycho tote bag if you spend over $85. My store now has 136 items. Let’s celebrate the master of suspense, his fair-haired leading ladies, and the month of horror culminating in Halloween! Prints, originals and magnets from my 13 Hitchcock Blondes series are on sale. Prints are available in FIVE different sizes.
My series of 13 Hitchcock Blondes is now also sold in two different size sets. If you can’t decide, you can get all of the prints for a lower price than buying them all individually. For now, sets are sold in sizes 9×6″ and 6×4″. This purchase comes with a FREE Tippi Hedren Birds magnet.
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We all go a little mad sometimes… My very roomy Vera Miles: PSYCHO tote and Cesar Romero: JOKER tote is perfect for fitting Halloween candy, your laptop, groceries, books! I always carry a ton of things with me and this is just the right size for fitting everything. Plus, it’s got THREE side pockets! Every JOKER tote has lips hand-painted red by me for a personalized touch!
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Halloween, Horror, and Hitchcock Lovers. Shown here is my 14 in. x 11 in. print Janet Leigh: Psycho print, my Vera Miles: Psycho magnet, Janet Leigh: Psycho magnet, Tippi Hedren: The Birds magnet, and Vera Miles: Psycho tote.
Need a gift? For that vintage-loving classic film fan in your life? Your very own femme fatale? Or just yourself? I have something for you! Whether you love film noir, Hitchcock heroines, European cinema, or 1960s Batman, there are 136 choices in my shop to choose from.
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I ship internationally too! All limited edition prints are signed and numbered by me.
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CAT LOVERS: I have about half a dozen cat-related art in five sizes and two types of paper for every cat person out there!
Very excited to announce I will be participating at this week’s New York Comic Con! I’ll be at booth #1061 every day, signing limited edition prints of my Hitchcock paintings. My Tippi Hedren: the Birds print will be sold (an original and a blue version).
Tippi is part of an ongoing series I am doing of the leading ladies in Hitchcock’s films. Stay tuned for more!
Escape this blistering cold and join me for some hot cocoa, candlelight, and eros on Sat, Dec 5th, at 7pm! At Home Art Gallery in beautiful Port Jefferson, Long Island (only a few minutes from where I live, right next to the Long Island Sound,and near Stony Brook University, which I graduated from a few years ago), I will be exhibiting several of my paintings.
For those who weren’t able to make it to my debut show in October, this is your chance to see my Alain Robbe-Grillet inspired acrylic and ink paintings, which are my interpretations of scenes from the first four films of French filmmaker, writer, and genius Alain Robbe-Grillet.
Other paintings will also be on display, as well as older artwork (abstract pieces), which explore the same themes present in the Robbe-Grillet series: namely, pleasure & pain. The exhibit will be up until the New Year.
In other exciting news, I also just opened my store on Society 6 so you can purchase gallery quality Giclée prints and canvas prints starting from $15. Don’t miss out on the Black Friday Sale! Click below to be directed to my page.
As December nears, I will be adding more prints and stationary, as well– so you can order Marquis de Sade birthday cards and erotic holiday cards for your beloved… I will keep you all updated, as always <3.
Last Saturday was the day of my Eros And Afterexhibition at Holyrad Studio! Thank you everyone for coming. It really meant a lot to me for people to brave the terrible weather. I hope you enjoyed my paintings inspired by Alain Robbe-Grillet‘s first films (L’Immortelle, The Man Who Lies, Trans-Europ-Express, & Eden and After) and the screening of Trans-Europe-Express.The storm outside kept blowing against the building but to be inside Holyrad Studio and Alain’s world was such an intimate experience. We had candles burning and wine flowing! Here are some photos taken by me from my low-quality smartphone camera (I really need to buy a real camera!) unless otherwise noted– many are taken by my friend Natasha Bluth who did a beautiful job. The studio had extended the exhibition to Sunday, Oct 4, but select pieces are still on view until the end of October. Contact Holyrad Studio if you’d like to take a look or purchase anything.
Photo by Meghan Harlow.
If you want to know about my process, my interest in Alain Robbe-Grillet, and what’s next for me, check out my recent interview with Liz von Klemperer on Art Report.
Eros And After exhibition
Here I am in front of my paintings inspired by scenes from Alain Robbe-Grillet’s films L’Immortelle and The Man Who Lies. Photo by Meghan Harlow.
Photo by Natasha Bluth.
Photo by Natasha Bluth.
The first half of my Eros And After series. Starting with Alain Robbe-Grillet’s first film L’Immortelle.
These art students were among my favorites. They had really perceptive comments and asked great questions about my paintings. They brought up things I’d never noticed before in my own work and totally understood the whole concept for my show. It was a pleasure talking to them– one of them said she would write about my show for a class assignment.
Damian, my other favorite painting subject, next to his favorite painting, “Assassin’s Kiss.” The one on the end (one of my favorites too) depicts a scene from Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Trans-Europ-Express.
Liz von Klemperer, Sean, and other guests Saturday night after the Trans-Europ-Express screening.
Liz in front of my “Eve In Chains” painting, depicting a scene at the end of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Trans-Europ-Express. Guests were treated to an intimate, cozy screening of the film that night. It made me so happy to see what a crowd-pleaser it was. A huge hit!
Watching Alain Robbe-Grillet’s L’Immortelle before Trans-Europ-Express. This gorgeous, haunting scene (clearly) inspired the second painting pictured here.
The studio radiates warmth, especially during the terrible, rainy, windy, chilly weather!
Natasha came by to take some photographs of my show on Sunday. She interviewed me the week before for an article she’s writing about my show. Here she is standing in front of her favorite painting in the Eros And After series, “Eva,” which depicts a scene from Alain Robbe-Grillet’s film Trans-Europ-Express.
“Choke Hold,” “Eve In Chains,” and one inspired by Eden And After, “Untitled.”
“Choke Hold,” the climax of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s film Trans-Europ-Express.
The second half of my Eros And After series. 10 paintings on one side, 10 on the other, so 20 in all– perfectly symmetrical which was unintended! These color paintings (and the last black and white painting) depict scenes from Alain Robbe-Grillet’s first color film Eden and After.
Photo by Natasha Bluth. The last painting, “A Kiss is the Beginning of Cannibalism,” is my personal favorite. It made sense to end with that painting for so many reasons.
Sunday was sunny!
The garage door/window open during the few sunny hours on Sunday. Everyone who came to my reception the previous night sat in those comfy seats to view Alain Robbe-Grillet’s film Trans-Europ-Express.
Photo by Natasha Bluth.
Photo by Natasha Bluth.
It’s hard to tell in this photo but we posted some sexy stills from some of Alain Robbe-Grillet’s films on the door of Holyrad Studio, opened the garage door/window next to it to let in fresh air, got my jazz playlist going since the weather became relatively warm for a few hours, and a lot of people dropped in! It was absolutely fantastic to interact with everybody.
The “O” symbol of Holyrad Studio framing the climax of Trans-Europ-Express.
Art director Jacqui King Wack and I thinking about becoming a comedic duo due to our height difference.
Photo by Natasha Bluth.
Before Eros
Holyrad Studio owner Daryl Oh behind one of my paintings inspired by Alain Robbe-Grillet’s film L’Immortelle. Last Thursday during our layout testing.
The Trans-Elizabeth-Express (my brother’s car) arrived in Brooklyn from Long Island the Thursday afternoon before my weekend show with all my paintings on board. Here are half of my paintings laid out at Holyrad Studio waiting to be unwrapped and suspended from the ceiling. My framer, Michael Choi of the Home Art Gallery in Port Jefferson, Long Island, did an absolutely beautiful job.
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