All work is up for sale NOW! >>> > >>you can get it here<<< << <<<

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June 25, 2010

Working on "Flirting With Disaster"

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June 21, 2010

This weekend, the Los Angeles Midnight Ridazz (myself included) stormed into Portland, Oregon for their yearly bike festival Pedalpalooza. During my stay I learned a few things about the people who reside there. Portlanders love four loco, Portanders wear furry hats, Portlanders wrestle in the mud until they're bleeding, Portlanders get naked and ride tall unicycles, Portlanders live in firehouses and make excellent brownies, but most of all Portlanders are inspiring, friendly and creative. Thanks Portland! We'll be back next year!

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June 8, 2010

Petal Power was amazing! Pictures on my flickr. Thank you again everyone who came out, it was a blast! Now, I must work on relocating to LA and the Munkao/Eric Nyquist show at GRSF! More details to come.

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May 22, 2010

Work from the GRSF Tree Show is now for sale online here.
And here is the facebook group for my solo show at Subrosa, "Petal Power". All are welcome!

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May 17, 2010

I'll be working vigorously on my solo show at Subrosa for the next few weeks, you can find me in my room surrounded by miscellaneous craft/art supplies and tons and tons of fabric scraps, paper cutouts, and my ukulele.

Speaking of which, here it is!

One more thing, Giant Robot is doing this really awesome thing called Craft Bar at the Museum of Craft and Folk Art. It will be like a mini GR store and gallery for the running of Clare Rojas' solo show (which is also amazing and worth checking out). The opening of the pop up store and craft bar is on June 3, the first thursday of June! Go, be crafty!

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May 10, 2010

Santa Cruz is beautiful, it's going to be hard to leave this place.

Shows coming up soon in San Francisco and Santa Cruz. This saturday at GRSF off of haight st. on shrader, I will have some drawings in "Tree Show IV" featuring works by some of my idols; Deth P. Sun, and Evah Fan, please come check it out if you can!

Also, I'm working on a solo show at Subrosa Infoshop in Santa Cruz, featuring a hand painted ukulele (which I may perform a few songs on...)! Stay tuned lovelies.

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April 23, 2010

New section with old interests added under "drawings", titled "watercolors". Watercolors make me feel nostalgic like William Eggleston's photographs.

Coachella was beautiful - thank you to everyone who made it happen! Thank you to everyone who puts ridiculous amounts of time and energy into making people happy, you win!

Another group show coming up this Saturday, the 23rd of April called Bike <3 at Exhibit [A] Gallery in Long Beach. I will have three pieces up, one of them is for sale, the others are dear friends for keeps. Also, I was just invited to show some work at the Museum of Folk Art and Craft!! - alongside an amazing show by Clare Rojas. More details when I have them...

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April 12, 2010

IF YOU'RE GOING TO COACHELLA, take a picture with my recycling bin and send it to me!
my e-mail is louise@louisechen.com.

here are more pictures of it again.

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April 6, 2010

Recycling bins finished!

More pictures here. See them in person at POVevolving Gallery or Coachella. I think they're auctioning off the little ones at Coachella, more info soon.

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April 1, 2010

New section added: LINX! Portals to the minds of the people who are in my life and inspire me daily. Also, images from my last two shows, "Patchwork" and "Small Favors" are available here and here, respectively. All works are available for purchase through the Giant Robot website.

Lastly, if you're in the downtown LA area next weekend, check out my custom recycling bin at POVevolving gallery on Friday April 9th. Pictures and more details soon...until then, back to Los Angeloose for the weekend!

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March 11, 2010

I have two shows coming up! "Patchwork" at GR2 opens this saturday, the 13th. "Small Favors" at GRNY opens on March 26th. Check them out if you can. There will be tons of amazing works by tons of amazing artists!

I'm also working on numerous other projects at the moment, including but not limited to - painting a 96 gallon recycling bin for TRASHed (globalinheritance.org), working on a bicycle themed art show, a solo show in santa cruz, and illustrating a book and a calendar. Phew!

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January 22, 2010

Just got back from NYC on wednesday! The show went really well, everyone's work was amazing and I met a lot of beautiful people. Thanks to everyone who put Playful Extremities together and to my friends who housed me and showed me a great time! Also, I've uploaded drawings that were in the show - they'll be under "Playful Exremities".

Photos from the opening night are here, and here
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January 10, 2010

Happy New Year! I'm starting this year off with a bang.

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December 3, 2009

Tomorrow, (Friday) is Open Studios at the art department at UCSC - the last one I will ever participate in as I will be graduating next week! I'll have some drawings up from my mixed media and special topics classes in the new DARC drawing room. Come and look at a variety of excellent art work and mingle with the students and faculty, 12-4pm at Basking Visual Arts.

Also, I added a new section, "Monsters".

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November 8, 2009

WE ARE ALL ANIMALS 2009-2010

A multifaceted year long art project/event involving a boat load of artists, bringing people together to build community and to explore the animal in all of us.

Accepting submissions now! Drawings, paintings, or sculpture! The works will be exhibited at Felix Kulpa gallery in February 2010. Events will be held leading up to the final gallery, so start thinking about what you're going to make now!

If you are interested in participating, e-mail me with a heads up or questions or whatever.

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October 11, 2009