Glass, Cinder and Thorns - Opens March 20th

Glass, Cinder & Thorns an all female group show, with an uber talented line-up, opens this month at 323 East in Royal Oak. The show was curated by 323 East's April Segedi and in addition to her own work the show will feature new art from Audrey Pongracz, Rudy Fig, Hidden Eloise, Tina Tourikis and Jessamyn Patterson.

April's statement for the show, "As children our parents would read to us bedtimes stories of little mermaids, sleeping beauties, and little red riding hoods. These innocent stories often had evil lurking beneath the pages. What Disney failed to tell you is that, the mermaid dies, multiple suitors defiled sleeping beauty and the wolf ate grandma.

There are a lot of horrible things in our reality today and we all sometimes wish for a place or time where things are simpler and better. We find ourselves wanting the warmth of our childhood beds, the calming voice of our parents sending us of to sleep with our favorite story. Yet even in fairylands of beauty and glitter, evil things creep about in false glamour’s, such as the evil witch living in the gingerbread house or a beautiful sea nymph singing you into your watery grave."

Glass, Cinder and Thorns opens Saturday, March 20th from 6-11pm

Bunnies in the Machine

The Art-o-Mat, the awesome art dispensing vending machine made from an old cigarette machine, is now home to some Kill Taupe bunnies! Each bunny was individually painted and illustrated. There are fifty in the series and no two are the same. Some of these critters can be found nestled in the Art-o-Mat inside Solid Grounds Coffee in downtown Northville.

Other swell items currently stocked inside the machine are pewter cast saltine crackers by Herbert Hoover, handmade paper you can plant from Katy Dement, a series of collage and painting combos from KT Goodlove (Took Gallagher and Kettle) and more!

There are currently 82 Art-o-Mats featuring many different artists throughout the country. Find one near you!

*Kerplunk*

Drawing a day - Week 7

This will be my last weekly recap for the Drawing a Day project. Recaps will now be posted monthly. Follow Kill Taupe on Twitter or Facebook to see the drawings posted daily!

Art on Vinyl - March 12th

The aptly named group show Art on Vinyl Records opens next week at Everybody Get Up in Alameda, California. The show will feature a ton of cool work, all of which is done on old records.

Opening reception is Friday, March 12th and starts at 6pm.
The show runs through April 4th.

I Heart Jetpacks - mixed media on record 2010