Cuchifritos Gallery/Project Space
120 Essex Street
New York, NY 10002

Saturday, March 8th
12:30pm - 5:30pm

Between Delancey and Rivington inside the Essex Street Market, South end. Closed Sundays.

I'll be at the benefit opening from 12:30pm - 3pm because I have previous engagements scheduled for later in that day. I hope to see you there. :)

Capsicum

Death & Dream

I designed their clothing to pay homage to little revelatory symbols about their characters.. Such as how the "Death" card in the Vertigo Tarot was holding a blue rose, and Daniel was often pictured with poppies (symbolic of dreams for its narcotic nature). This also obviously includes the ankh sigils, Daniel's emerald (as opposed to Morpheus' ruby), and the ruby sleeve design I always loved from his original costume. Toss in a dash of Visual Kei/Gothic Lolita (especially because I love those cute little EGL tophats) inspiration, and here we are. I've got tons of love for the classic 80's punk look, but I figure they'd want to update their wardrobes a bit since then.

Set in London because the Death film will be, and I always loved the view of the Houses of Parliament across the Thames.

She suggested the frame, which was reminiscent of studded leather that's so prominent in rock/goth culture.. The black on it was also distressed to show hints of red underneath that picked up the red in the portrait. I found it very fitting.

Designer Genes
(Oh-ho, I'm so pun-ny.)

The possibility of genetic engineering producing artificially generic supermodel-esque people.

CMYK 38 is on newsstands now, featuring two of my pieces. One of them even made it onto their featured works webpage.

Also Artist's Interpretation 2, featuring "The Fountain" on the cover, is now available for purchase at ComiXpress.

Galapagos Art Space - Williamsburg, Brooklyn
("Lilith" and "Endymion" on the wall)

( + more pics of art and music )

Live music, live art. What more can you ask for? The musical selection is all trip-hop/downtempo/chillout -- with artists I absolutely adore, like Natalie Walker! I am quite excited to be shown at this event.

I know I'll see Karyn (belladonnastrap) there.. Who else is going?

I actually did meet up with Terry at another concert after this DVD was released and playfully chided him about accusing my print of coming from Wal-Mart. He swore he was joking. I guess I'll let him off the hook this time.

In between various jobs, it's difficult to find the time to work on my personal art rather than commission work. But I'll have some more up soon-ish, I promise. Social life be damned! It's been work-work-work-Michael-work for me every day lately.. If only I didn't have to sleep.

The Fountain

"Now the Serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, 'Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every Tree of the garden?'" - Genesis 3:1

"Noli me tangere." - John 20:17

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The overall shape is partially inspired by the shape of a word balloon (I had to include some element of comics in it, of course), and the "futuristic" grey is influenced by a near-future renovation of the store which will involve stainless steel register "Pods".

I've had a few requests to do freelance webdesign, but I just don't want to pursue that field.. I'd much rather be painting.

AliceMeichi.com

I also switched my store over to a simpler PayPal system. It was fun to use the backdoor PHP technology in the eCommerce software I installed, but I didn't have as much control over the layout as I would have liked.

Last, but not least: new artwork.

This would be a final piece for my rockstar series -- my favorite element, Quintessence/Spirit.

Yunyu
Spirit. "Am I in your troubled mind, ever ever more?"

Portrait of yunyu, a good friend of mine. Give her music a listen, especially if you love twisted fairytales, Poe, and psychosis. She's amazing. :)

And a sequel to Luna, even though I managed to kill her off in Ares. It's hard to kill gods, you know.

Endymion

Serene and silent sky
Rays of moon are dancing with the tide
A perfect sight, a world divine
And I...
The loneliest child alive
Always waiting, searching for my rhyme
I'm still alone in the dead of night
"My Selene" by Sonata Arctica

(Poor Endymion shouldn't have been standing around in the middle of I-94. He probably wouldn't be in this pickle.)

That's about it for now, lovelies. Hope you enjoy.

30 minutes
ballpoint pen


20 minutes

My former professor, James McMullan, used to wax poetic about capturing the tensions and pressures in the muscle during a pose. In this pose, I think I found it mostly in the twisting and stretching of her abdomen and the flattening of the fat of her thighs. It's nice to apply his advice again after nearly three years now.

( +2 under the cut )

The model was very pretty (e_apollo said she's half-Afghani, half-German) and at least attempted ambitious short poses, but she kept getting tired and letting her arms drop halfway through and her long poses were too similar to each other. Ah well.

Afterwards, e_apollo, Duane, and I headed over to Park Slope for Japanese tapas (♥) and the best chocolate cake in NYC. Yum.

I'm leaving for home in a few hours. :) Be back in NYC by January 2nd for more fun and mayhem.

e_apollo

30 minute pose, ballpoint pen

Digital photograph, because I lack the desire to scan in my huge 18x24 drawing pad.

When I was a child, I would sit in the dining room of my parents' restaurant drawing landscapes of castles, princesses, and graveyards in a BiC ballpoint pen on the back side of the paper placemats that had Chinese Zodiac sign descriptions on the front.

Occasionally Mom and Dad would complain about how much paper I went through in a day, but I would go on my merry way. Sometimes a waitress or customer would come over and critique my work, and recommend I use pencil instead of pen.

I'm rediscovering why I rebelled against the pencil, hah.

Among many reasons, it forces me to look and learn from my mistakes instead of quickly erasing it and denying it existed. (Which, I think, is a good skill to have for life in general.)

yunyu

e_apollo

Michael in ballpoint pen

I suppose it's about time I updated my art, even if it's slight.

HSBC Bank
101 Park Avenue (Between 41st and 40th)
New York, NY 10178