7 Sisters Flesh Dolls

By Saul Zanolari

Artist Bio:

Saul Zanolari was born in Mendrisio, Switzerland in 1977.  He first exhibited in 2005 in a small gallery in Milan and now has works in permanent collections in New York, London, Paris, Milan, Basel, Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo. His subjects are stars, friends, famous drag queens, and icons of a fantastical world.

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"let me go"

By childishpropaganda

ECHOGRAPHY OF CHANGE - LADY GAGA & JULIE ANDREWS

by Saul Zanolari

Artist Statement:  Saul Zanolari presents his brand new portrait "Echography of Change" before the 2011 scheduled shows in NYC and Rome.

The subjects of this work are Lady Gaga and Julie Andrews. The artist plays on the oxymoron between tradition and transgression as represented by these two icons. This portrait has a Disney background but on the lower side the reading key becomes surgical and medical with an echography of a new Gaga "creature."

The original artwork is 79'x70' (200x180 cm), digital painting and acrylic on canvas.

Soon available a 100 limited edition print on paper 20'x18' (50x45 cm) on www.wollipeye.com.

Artist Bio: visit www.saulzanolari.com or www.wollipeye.com for more details.

Untitled Painting

by Jarrad Dickson

Artist Statement: The use of blood from a so-called "mentally ill" person, mis-diagnosed with schizophrenia, fits a significant theme in Lady Gaga's work: to rectify those with disabilities. Jarrad Dickson has painted Lady Gaga in his own blood, in an effort to reclaim what is his. This painting was created in mid-2010.

Artist Bio: Jarrad Dickson received his BA in Latin at the University of Auckland. He is the author of Rose Blood: Chapter of Rose Croix (Chipmunkapublishing, 2010-one of three books being literary endearments to a suicide), The Chamber of Diseases (Dark Harvest Occult Publishers, 2011-forthcoming) about psychiatric corrosion of the ego leading to selflessnes of the mentally ill. He also has written a work named Mystical Metaphors: Psychotic Pathways to the Source on what Deikman labeled mystical psychosis with Dan L. Edmunds, a psychotherapist from PA. He is an aspiring author, artist, and occultist. He has his own Lady Gaga academic project forthcoming, on the occult references in her work. He was misdiagnosed with schizophrenia, and has been incarcerated for over one year in psychiatric hospitals altogether since the age of 20, now 24, and was chemically lobotomised by the typical antipsychotic Haloperidol. He is writing his first commercial novel, Stop, the Ambulance with a ex-Scottish Rite Freemason of 32degree being its symbologist about the cabbalistic "crossing of the abyss" in a horror setting. He has visions, and induced them into books to form a new term of his "literary psychosis." He lives in New Zealand.

A Special Variety of Soft-Skinned Dangerous Game

 

Artist Statement: "A Special Variety of Soft-Skinned Dangerous Game” is a series of photographs and video that has developed from an ongoing investigation into camouflage, performativity and the grotesque. My particular interest in camouflage is where art, fashion and warfare overlap, its formal properties and social function. This work is visually aggressive, humorous and sexual. It utilizes visual tactics of camouflage and disguise to rewrite the skins surface in order to exaggerate the process of identification through the psychology of vision. The “Gagaesque” protagonist looks out from a body that desires the viewer’s gaze, from a complicated ever changing, non-classical body that is in the process of understanding its own parameters. The two-in-one body that is represented mimics one of the fundamental tendencies of grotesque imagery, that is it exceeds its own limits. She goes further than her own meatiness; she gives birth to herself over and over again!  

Artist Bio: Jemima Wyman is a contemporary artist who lives and works between Brisbane and Los Angeles.

Wyman's art practice incorporates various mediums, including installation, video, performance, photography, and painting. Her most recent artworks utilize these mediums to specifically focus on visual-based resistance strategies employed within contemporary 'irregular military,' in an aim to explore the formal and psychological potentiality of camouflage in reference to collective identity.

In 2007, Wyman graduated with an MFA with an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, made possible with the support of a Anne and Gordon Samstag Scholarship.

Jemima is represented by Milani Gallery and has exhibited throughout Australia and internationally. Past exhibitions were held at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne), Museum of Contemporary Art (Sydney), Plimsoll Gallery (Hobart), Westbeth Gallery Kozuka (Japan), 40000 (Chicago), and Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery (Los Angeles). Her work was exhibited in 17th Biennial of Sydney - The Beauty of Distance: Songs of Survival in a Precarious Age. Jemima recently completed a residency at The Elam School of Fine Arts in Auckland.

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Artist Bio: Caspian Carter (b. 1982) is an artist, writer and educator living in Los Angeles.  He recently received an MFA in Writing and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. His work engages with notions of ethical subjectivity within a world of collapsed metaphor, linguistic slippage, and self-exploitation.  His blog is www.hystericallyreal.com.

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Artist Bio: Caspian Carter (b. 1982) is an artist, writer and educator living in Los Angeles.  He recently received an MFA in Writing and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. His work engages with notions of ethical subjectivity within a world of collapsed metaphor, linguistic slippage, and self-exploitation.  His blog is www.hystericallyreal.com.

Two Portraits by Kimiko Yoshida

Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Balthazar Castiglione by Raphael). Self-portrait, 2010  COURTESY PACO RABANNE

Kimiko Yoshida, Painting (Queen Marie-Antoinette in a Court Dress by Elisabeth Vigée Le Bun). Self-portrait, 2010 

COURTESY PACO RABANNE

Artist Bio: Kimiko Yoshida studied photography in Japan and in France, where she has lived and worked since 1995. 

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Artist Bio: Caspian Carter (b. 1982) is an artist, writer and educator living in Los Angeles.  He recently received an MFA in Writing and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. His work engages with notions of ethical subjectivity within a world of collapsed metaphor, linguistic slippage, and self-exploitation.  His blog is www.hystericallyreal.com.

Just Dance

Artist Statement: Just Dance is a call and response reaction to Lady Gaga's song "Just Dance."  First an abstract object was made to "dance" and then the artist mimicked the object’s movements. The whole act seems part puppeteer, part Jazzercise, part youtube spectacle. Gaga's original command to "Just Dance" becomes more abstracted as the video progresses calling into question other ambiguities in the video such as the gender and intention of the artist. The lines between joke and a sincere commitment to the call are continually coming in and out of focus as the artists body cycles through an awkward and tender negotiation with fatigue, boredom, and authenticity. 

Artist Bio: J.R. Uretsky has exhibited her work throughout California including venues such as The Grand Central Art Center, The National Steinbeck Center and Azusa Pacific University. Uretsky received her BFA at BIOLA University in Los Angeles and is currently working on her Master's of Fine Arts at the University of Connecticut.

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Artist Bio: Caspian Carter (b. 1982) is an artist, writer and educator living in Los Angeles.  He recently received an MFA in Writing and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. His work engages with notions of ethical subjectivity within a world of collapsed metaphor, linguistic slippage, and self-exploitation.  His blog is www.hystericallyreal.com.

Take a Bow

by Burnt Filament

"It is in the theory of perception that we have established our bond. Or, the lie, I should say, for which we kill."

—Lady Gaga, The Manifesto of Little Monsters

In browser windows,

you hoof past airport

security :

               In our minds,

gloved hands

probe your ass

as you don shades

& blooded lips :

princess who picks

scabs like sequins

from our eyes glazed

like hams, we marinate

in your whiskey

breath that pervades

FM waves,

MP3 compress

-ion, smoke-ring

-éd vinyl rotation :

You, Y-Generation-

distraction, glitterati-

Xeroxed-erection

reflection :

                 eyelashéd, gauze-

wiggéd, impressionistic-pop-

pianist with Dada gravitas—

You, Gaga, are the hologram

as much as the shadow.

Because your tits

are as sweet as rock

candy, as loaded as guns,

we hold our tongues

to the barrel.

No matter what you feed us,

we will pray for a cock

duct-taped back

behind latex

as we bend

over united.

Author Bio:

Burnt Filament blogs at burntfilament.tumblr.com.

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Artist Bio: Caspian Carter (b. 1982) is an artist, writer and educator living in Los Angeles.  He recently received an MFA in Writing and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. His work engages with notions of ethical subjectivity within a world of collapsed metaphor, linguistic slippage, and self-exploitation.  His blog is www.hystericallyreal.com.

rixatrix

by Angela Simione

Artist Bio: Angela Simione is a multi-disciplinary artist working in San Francisco, CA. She received her BFA in Painting and Drawing with High Distinction from California College of the Arts in 2008. Her work is held in both private and corporate collections, most recently The Microsoft Art Collection.

Her creative work explores the nature of loss by examining the act of redaction and erasure as both fact and metaphor. She creates her own 'redacted documents' as a way to explore  events of loss as a major component in identity construction.  Her projects focus on presenting the experience of loss as a site of new hope where understanding and compassion become possible.

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Author Bio: Caspian Carter (b. 1982) is an artist, writer and educator living in Los Angeles.  He recently received an MFA in Writing and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. His work engages with notions of ethical subjectivity within a world of collapsed metaphor, linguistic slippage, and self-exploitation.  His blog is www.hystericallyreal.com.

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Author Bio: Caspian Carter (b. 1982) is an artist, writer and educator living in Los Angeles.  He recently received an MFA in Writing and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. His work engages with notions of ethical subjectivity within a world of collapsed metaphor, linguistic slippage, and self-exploitation.  His blog is www.hystericallyreal.com.

Gaga Monster and Tours of Teacups

by Jacqueline Lesik

Artist Bio:

Jacqueline Lesik was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1981. She currently lives and works in South Beach, Florida. She received a BA in Graphic Design from the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale after attending the University of Massachusetts for two years.