Chelsea Rose Fine Art: art show

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Sunday, November 16, 2014

I Am Therefore I Think & Bling group Art shows

This month I am in two group shows around town:

"I Am Therefore I think" at Peoples Art of Portland Gallery, and "Bling" at Splendoporium Gallery

I created four paintings for "I Am therefore I think" which is a social commentary art show:

"Devastated"

11x14

original acrylic painting on canvas board

by Chelsea Rose

This painting was a nice change in subject matter/intention then my usual art. I was still able to paint the sacred feminine, but did so in a setting and environment that expressed my own unease and misgivings about mankind's disregard for the planet we inhabit.

"War Is Over"

6"x6"

Original Acrylic Painting on canvas board

by Chelsea Rose

"Justice"

6"x6"

original acrylic painting on canvas board

by Chelsea Rose

"Not Asking for It"

6"x6"

original acrylic painting on canvas board

by Chelsea Rose

These three mini paintings were created as a mini series expressing three major issues that women face in global society. I chose the issues of War, Inequality and Rape Culture. It was important for me to try and show a verity of ethnicity in these three paintings which I feel I managed to accomplish by featuring a Middle Eastern woman, a Black woman and a White woman.

Here they are drying on my easel:

And here are some photos from the art opening:

Here I am posing by one of my protestor mini paintings. The opening was a day before Halloween so I wore my dreadlocks in Sailor Moon style hair buns.

And I had to take a photo of this lady dressed as one of my all-time favorite female artists, Frida Khalo, as she sat below my "Devastated" painting.

As you can see by these small sections of wall in the photos, there was sooo much art on those walls, it was practically floor to ceiling.

The show is still up, and will remain so till the first of December, so go check it out!

And then I have one painting in the "Bling" show at Splendorporium Gallery:

"Gems in the Heavens"

original acrylic painting on wood

by Chelsea Rose

The show will be up till January 5th, so you have plenty of time to have a look.

I am also working on my five paintings for the Big 500 show, opening Dec.13th.

...as well as getting several of my acrylic paintings on records submitted to the vinyl record art show at Future Shock.

And if you are looking for an opportunity to buy a bunch of prints, or original art from me you will have the chance to do so at the 6th annual Splendorcraft gift sale, where I will be sharing a booth space with Silly Weird Things.

So come visit us Friday the 5th, Saturday the 6th of December and collect some art!

Thanks for the support!

-Chelsea Rose

The High Priestess, Tarot Show at Splendorporium

I have been getting involved in more group shows lately. I find themed shows very helpful in challenging me to draw and paint outside of my usual conceptual directions. One such recent group show that I participated in was a Tarot card themed art show at Splendorporium Gallery in Portland Oregon. I have always been drawn to Tarot cards and other divination tools so I was super stoked to pick a Tarot card to paint in my own style.

I chose to do The High Priestess Card:

(9"x12" Original acrylic painting on wood cut by Chelsea Rose)

Here is what a standard High Priestess card looks like:

So yes, I took a LOT of liberties in making this card my own. But I did keep some aspects the same, like my Priestess( who bares a striking resemblance to the caterpillar from Wonderland) is blue, while the card has the priestess in blue robes. My priestess also sits on a throne of sorts, but they are huge purple mushrooms. I also incorporated the black and white towers into my painting. And instead of having my priestess hold the Tora, I have her holding another book of knowledge that has a down pointing triangle( which is a symbol of the sacred feminine) which I adorned with an all seeing eye.

All in all, it was a great deal of fun getting to research the meaning behind all the symbols present in the card and It has me really considering doing an entire Tarot deck in my style!

And here are a couple photos from the opening reception at the gallery:

It was very interesting to see other people's interpretations of various Tarot cards. Some were literal kinda like mine because they incorporated some of the traditional symbols from the cards, and others were very abstract.

Here is a photo of my friend Darci, Silly.Wierd.Things card:

She did "The Moon" Tarot Card and I think it came out beautifully in her style.

And here I am with my painting at the opening reception. As usual I am too short to manage a photo with my art that is not entirely awkward :)

The show is up for the remainder of the month so go check it out if you are in Portland!

Blessings,

-Chelsea Rose

Art Show September 5th and you are invited!

I am excited to invite you to my art show opening September 5th at Future Shock in Portland Oregon:

I have been painting nonstop in preparation for this show so that I could treat you to a bunch of new paintings, many of which will be making their debut at the opening.

So are you coming? Check out the event page to see peeks of some of my new work for the show. Hope to see you there!

Artists on Board

If you are more then a casual follower of my work you may have noticed my love for painting on broken skateboard decks. Well, I recently got involved with the people at Art Deck Co and their touring skateboard art show known as Artists on Board, and thus ended up painting a full deck! To kick off the tour they had a massive art bash that featured close to 300 artists and their paintings on skateboards.

Here is the skateboard I painted for the show:

"Keepers of the Seed"

original acrylic painting on skateboard deck

by Chelsea Rose

original available through ArtDeckCo for $200

Here I am posing with my board at the show:

I had so much fun! There were so many amazing deck paintings it was very difficult to pick a favorite. And to top it all off they had MearOne visiting from LA doing a live painting on stage. All in all, I was pretty stoked to be a part of the show and I am excited that my board will be traveling as the show does its tour circuit.

In other news, a sellecton of my paintings and art pendants are up at Nectar Cafe for the next month and a half:

So...if you happen to be in Portland, come have some coffee or tea and take a moment to look at my art.

Blessings,

-Chelsea

Sticker Nerds III and Space Lady Mural

I had the oppertunity to get involved with an awesome pop up art exhibit that happened in Portland late last month called Sticker Nerds III. The event was touted the biggest sticker art installation show ever created in the US and was self described as "a celebration of adhesive art with contributors from all over the globe."

I submitted a sizable pile of my own hand screen printed/block printed stickers as well as a few hand painted posters:

(acrylic paint on poster paper)

(lino cut block prints on acrylic painted sticker paper)

(screen prints on adhesive vinyl)

Knowing some of the organizers of the event, I volunteered to help with the install which meant pealing and sticking hundreds of submitted stickers on walls, old TVs and computers, pillars, vending machines, news paper stands, mirrors, toilets and more for days leading up to the event.

At some point during the install I was asked to paint a mural on one of the wooden pillars.

A request I most happily accepted.

Here are a few work in progress photos:

I was able to rope in two of my favorite local artists to add elements of their own into the mural, thus creating an awesome collaboration. Silly Weird Things added the ray gun, and the lil rooster aliens manning space ships( which we lovingly call "space cocks) Mewt added the creatures encapsulated in blue planet like orbs as well as much of the background details.

The finished result:

I really love how it turned out and its inspiring me to find more mural projects to do in the near future!

The Sticker Nerds III event was crazy, in a good way.

People waited in line for hours to see the exhibition which was allowing 20 visitors in at a time.

Our space lady mural watched over the "collab" station, which consisted of two couches and a coffee table set up in the middle of the event space. The table was stacked full of sticker paper and pens so that the visitors, if feeling inspired, could make some stickers of their own.

Some close ups of some of my work around the exhibit:

I had a few "fine art" pieces on the walls too.

One piece sold before I got a photo, but here are the remaining two:

"Green Faery" acrylic on canvas

"Pot Head"

Acrylic painted skateboard deck with screen print.

And here are some random photos of the rest of the installation:

I highly recommend checking out the article that the Portland Street Art Alliance wrote about the exhibit ( this article features some real quality photos of the event also.)

Read it here!

All in all, I am just super stoked to have been in on this crazy masterpiece and am super thankful for everyone who made the event possible as well as the visitors who came through the install to bask in the spectacle.

July Art Show and tree goddess Mural!

So this happened and was great fun :

I got to paint a mural for the show, which will be up for the month of July:

I painted a tree goddess of sorts and enjoyed the process so much! I did the background with spraypaint, and then went in with black and white acrylic to create the creature.

I also did the smaller wall to the left in similar process, but with my spirally patterning.

Then it came time to hang everything up! Here I am figuring out what to put where.

Putting the final paintings on the wall and making sure everything is straight.

All done!

A couple close ups:

And then it was show time!

This is the other side of the gallery which featured one of my favorite Portland Oregon female artists: Laura Borealisis.

Another photo from the opening:

It was great fun, and a total success and will be up for the month at HomeBass PDX, so if you are in the area stop on in!

Big thanks to my hubby, Danny Ebru, for kindly documenting the mural creation, art hanging and show with these beautiful bright photos.

I will be updating on here soon about my Earth Goddess body art series, I have A LOT of material to share!

So stay tuned :)

With love and light,
-Chelsea Rose