 Serena Toxicat will have pieces in Constantly.Consuming.Culture-The Art Show. Toxicat is a singer, musician, dancer, writer, translator, actor, model, a domestic violence counselor, an NLP life coach priestess in the Fellowship of Isis, a psychic reader, an energy healer and, as you might expect, an artist. She lives and works and is from San Francisco working on her own recording projects, Protea and Starchasm (with Mitsuo Unno). She has been published in various anthologies, magazines and has written a novella, plays and poems in English and French. But the important part for our purposes are her paintings. CCE (Cute Cat Emergency) , pictured above will be part of the show. The below painting will not be as Toxicat is participating in Manulfest at the same time as the Constantly.Consuming.Culture-The Art Show. HELP WITH THE KICKSTARTER
 The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago has a limited edition photo porfolio sale to benefit the museum's exhibitions and programming. The pieces, curated by Susanne Ghez, are 30 + 3AP, with all images matted on 24 x 28 inch archival board.
For more information, visit our the society's website,
The portfolio includes images by:
-Darren Almond
-Lothar Baumgarten
-Jean-Marc Bustamante
-Willie Doherty
-Stan Douglas
-Fischli/Weiss
-Rodney Graham
-Arturo Herrera
-Zoe Leonard
-Laura Letinsky
-Thomas Struth
-Jeff Wall
 Public Works Gallery (1539 N Damen Ave, Chicago, ) is set to release Image Structure, a limited edition book related to the recent exhibit Image Structure-- Sonnenzimmer. There will be a publication release event at 7 p.m., Friday, May 17, 2013. The artist talk by Club Club starts at 7:30 p.m. This will be followed by Sonnenzimmer. Limited edition prints by Club Club—published and produced by Sonnenzimmer (an artist duo made up of Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi) will be available for purchase. Club Club is an architectural practice of Cyril Marsollier and Wallo Villacorta. The two originally ome from Paris and Lima. Find out more about Sonnenzimmer HERE. Find out more about Club Club HERE. For more on the gallery head to www.publicworksgallery.com.
 Julia Hamilton's skull sculptures first caught my eye when I saw a completely silver skull with silver flowers wound through the horns. I regret not having a photo of that piece (to say nothing of having the piece itself). Hamilton is the first confirmed artist for the Constantly.Consuming.Culture Art Show. You can check out the Kickstarter for the show HERE. This is a smaller piece --and one of her only finished ones that hasn't been sold. Her work uses antlers skulls and other pieces of the once animate to create sculptures that make you forget about the what is used to create them. Hamilton makes them new.Like many artists who will be part of the Constantly.Consuming.Culture. Art Show, Hamilton has a "real job." She has a degree in communications from DePaul University and, among many other things, runs www.prettywindycity.com.
Live in Madison, Wisconsin? Going to be there Saturday, April 27, 2013? Take advantage of Tandem Press moving to a temporary location. To help make the move less painful the fine folks at Tandem are having a sale.
We have written about them at numerous fairs and they always have great prints. If you are in the area and in the market for some art? Checkk the above flyer out.
 Onessimo Fine Art, PGA Commons 4530 PGA Blvd, Ste 101, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida has new works by Jean DuQuoc. Duquoc is a French artist (from Britanny). His work has its roots in his native region. He captures the soul, the heart, the rocks and the earth of Britanny. The theme of his work often involves the disapearing traditional Breton way of life. His work is tough to label and fit into a specific genre, school of art. That is usually a good thing isn't it?
 First of all do not get on ME for the name of the gallery juxtaposed against these Yoruba pieces. I do not think the Yoruba people are primitive. I am likewise sure the folks at Primitive Gallery do not think that either. It is the name of the gallery, not an editorial comment (I write this after previous messages!) The piece shown is a Yoruba beaded crown. These were worn by Yoruba kings (sort of like Greece the Yoruba had a number of kings ruling city states….but I studied all that a long time ago so I have no more details for you). The crowns are covered with two symbols from Yoruba culture—birds and mysterious faces. The faces are a representation of the creator god, Oduduwa and the birds, called Okin, represent women. Apparently the king, by wearing the crown, acknowledges that he cannot rule without the support of god…and women. This particular piece sells for $1995 (on sale from August 1-5). For more info head HERE.
 Remains of the Bog, Connemara Work by Kenneth and Susan Webb will be exhibited at W. H. Patterson, 19 Albemarle Street, London, from July 18 through August 17, 2012. There will be a preview evening Tuesday July 17 as well (you will need to RSVP to the gallery for an invite. You can view and purchase paintings at the gallery website, www.whpatterson.com. Kenneth Webb’s paintings are mostly of Western Ireland (particularly Connemara). Susan Webb’s paintings are usually of horses—and they display an intimate knowledge of the beasts and their behavior, their mannerisms.
Ladies at their Leisure
 New work by Terri Hallman is at Onessimo Fine Art in Palm Beach ( PGA Commons 4530 PGA Blvd, Ste 101 Palm Beach Gardens, FL). Hallman, a native of Wisconsin, is an artist and designer. Hallman goes to great lengths to get the color "right." She uses dry pigments, in powder form, that she applies to paper. When the colors are what she wants she sprays with clear acrylic. She then applies layers of pigment, using tape and applying pressure. She doesn’t use a brush. Then she scrapes away areas to get to color laid down earlier and removes the tape. Sometimes she applies acrylic mediums using the same masking off and tearing up technique. Sometimes she uses color washes and a mix of oil and dry pigment on top of surfaces. I am sure I am muddling how she does this a bit but you get the idea—it is laborious and exacting. It varies with the piece. You can find out and see more on Hallman at www.terrihallman.com.
 MacKenzie Thorpe has a new hand-painted, cast resin sculpture available. The sculpture is entitled Bee Boy and you can get it via Onessimo Fine Art. Is this outside what we normally write about? Yep. And that is precisely why I am posting this. Onessimo will have a limited number of these shipped right from the foundry. The cost is $3,350. All told there will only be about 200 of these. For more info go to www.onessimofineart.com.
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