narwhale

narwhale , originally uploaded by kristin rae.

last painting of the year. bye 2008!

happy new year baby

my good friend marie made this little guy. happy 2009! 

happy holiday!

LA Paint interview

At long last... here's the audio slideshow interview I created with Philip Linhares, curator at the Oakland Museum: http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=23769
watch it!

new fave

Esther Pearl Watson is my new favorite artist.
She makes 'zines and paintings.
Check her web site and her 'zine site.

I saw her work in the LA Paint exhibit at the Oakland museum. I interviewed the curator of the exhibit and will be posting a podcast about it soon.

Here's one of Watson's paintings, "1985 Garland Texas," love it:

awful mountain review

at white walls through Dec. 7th.

review here.

below: Jim Houser, "Worse"

sf

painted ladies, originally uploaded by kristin rae.

axe

Lydia Fong interview

by far the most awesome project i've ever worked on:
click here and then on 'play video'.

love boat

let's paint

puppy + kitty

painted these for my nieces.

bright!

young jerks

i interviewed some young artists at hamburger eyes photo epicenter and made this audio slideshow: http://www.kqed.org/arts/visualarts/article.jsp?essid=23439

fruit babies

Chicago

went to Chicago and saw some art. my favorite was the Crown Fountain in Millenium Park by Jaume Plensa:

show table

a photo of part of my table at the show at Terra Gallery on 7.26

thanks to all my pals who came by! xo

fox + airplane

new york

i went to nyc and saw heaps of art. i wrote about it here (in two parts) with more photos.

jeff koons yellow dog on the met

special deliveries

owl family

knock knock

owl calling

dragon homes

this dragon is a commission for Jenna W. She likes dragons and the color pink. 

air-lifting the palligator

discarded to divine

Here are some photos of the dress I made for St. Vincent's annual Discarded to Divine benefit auction -- the photos are from the preview at the de Young Museum on Friday and the auction is April 26th at the Academy of Art's fashion week. 

last days in new orleans

here's the end of my photos from my trip to new owleans. 

a house

New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center
Ralph Lemon artwork below

parade aftermath
more houses

pinky

Saturday in San Jose

i am showing 73 paintings (including the 50 owls) at an art party in San Jose this Saturday, March 1. Artists, art cars, free food and drinks, and my paintings displayed in a bright pink bathroom with a golden crystal chandelier.
more info here:
http://web.mac.com/amsconberg1/Site_3/Home.html
If you can't make it, stay tuned for photos. Should be a site for sore eyes.

i painted 50 owls

flora & fauna

i've been making dresses for st. vincent's wearable art benefit show, "discarded to divine" for the last three years.
here's 2008's creation, part of my animal collective series. it's titled "flora and fauna".
see it in person at the de Young museum on april 4.

sad mountain

why, yes...

that is a rat on a cat on a dog. i saw it with my own eyes.

then i showed it to urban artists mythos and zoso and they immediately returned to a gallery where they were about to start a live painting gig and created the grossly fantastic piece in this video: