Painter of Monkey Love, Little Pierrot , Blues Gals, Dreamgirls Series
Keep up to date with Amy Crehore, west coast pop surrealist painter. Her solo show, "Dreamgirls and Ukes" opened at Thinkspace Gallery on Feb. 13th, 2009 Los Angeles, CA. It featured many new oil paintings and hand-painted, restored antique ukuleles called Tickleroos. The Hokum Scorchers, Amy's band, played vintage tunes at the opening. Recently, Ms. Crehore revealed her latest design: the number two Tickler brand ukulele, a pineapple art uke built from scratch by luthier Lou Reimuller. Look for more surprises in the future.
links
- The Art of Amy Crehore
- Amy Crehore's website gallery of paintings, drawings, prints, news. Constantly updated.
- Little Hokum Rag
- Amy Crehore's art blog with news of upcoming events, gallery show photos, her art progress, plus other interesting art and music tidbits.
- Interview at Art NYC
- Marshall Sponder does a two-part* interview with Amy about her paintings and what they mean.
*Part 3 of interview was just published, Dec 4, 2006! - Celebrity at Work Interview
- A philosophical question answered by Amy Crehore
- The Blab! Show- Number Two
- Blab! Show 2006
See 8 new paintings by Amy Crehore
online here. All SOLD OUT opening night. - NEW:ArtNYC Review of Blab Show
- Marshall Sponder has written a couple of posts about the 2006 Blab! Show, plus you'll find a press release of the show at artNYC
- OZOUX
- New blog reviews Amy's Blab! Show Paintings
- "Roaming Tomcat Rag"
- Boingboing features a painting from
Amy's new Blues Gal Series called "Roaming Tomcat Rag" - "The Creature"
- Mark Frauenfelder buys "The Creature" painting
- "Banana Eater"
- "Banana Eater" painting makes news
- "The Tickler"
- "The Tickler" painting at Roq La Rue in the "Sweetest Taboo" Show
- "The Flower Muncher"
- "The Flower Muncher" painting featured on boingboing
- "The Two-timer"&"The Nibbler"
- Two more Monkey Love paintings featured on boingboing
- "The Teaser"
- "The Teaser" painting featured on boingboing
- Monkey Love Prints
- Mark Frauenfelder of boingboing.net says Monkey Love Series is "astounding"!
- Little Pierrot Prints
- Mark Frauenfelder of boingboing: Little Pierrot Series "psychosexual".
- Monkey Love Store
- BUY Amy Crehore "Monkey Love" Limited Edition, Signed Giclee Prints in
the Monkey Love Store.
6 to choose from! Only 100 in each edition. - Little Pierrot Store
- BUY Amy Crehore "Little Pierrot" Limited Edition,
Signed Giclee Prints in the Little Pierrot Store.
5 to choose from! 250 in each edition. - Teenar Girl Guitar
- Boingboing picks up the story about Lou Reimuller's Mannequin Guitar from Amy's blog, "Little Hokum Rag". Lou is the other half of the "Hokum Scorchers", hokum band w/Amy.
- New "Blues Gals" series
- Mark Frauenfelder says Amy's new "Blues Gals" paintings are "stunning" and buys one.
- Amy Crehore BoingBoing Page on Google
- BoingBoing links about Amy Crehore- all on one page of Google.
- "Snake Tamer's Ditty"
- Brand new painting "Snake Tamer's Ditty" featured with links to other boingboing posts about Crehore (May 1, 2007)
- NEW PRINT: Blues Gal #1
- "Roaming Tomcat Rag" limited edition, signed giclee print is now available! - recommended by boingboing.net
- New!! Tickler Ukulele T-shirt
- Amy's new t-shirt available on her new website- seen on Drawn, boingboing, J-walk, ukehunt, artNYC blogs,etc.
- New! Print release by Pressure Printing
- Feb. 7, 2008 - Pressure Printing releases Amy Crehore's "The Banana Eater" (first seen in the Blab Show of 2005, Santa Monica, CA) as a limited edition, framed, signed giclee on canvas.
Only 40 prints in edition. - NEW! Sadie Magazine Interview
- Read a new interview with Amy Crehore (12/08) with details about her upcoming
solo show at Thinkspace Gallery, Feb 13-March 6, 2009. - NEW! Amy's Recent Studio Photos!
- See behind the scenes studio photos of Amy's show, "Dreamgirls and Ukes", to be held at Thinkspace in Los Angeles, CA on Feb 13,- March 6, 2009.
Follow links. - Tickler Ukulele Number Two
- Photos of Amy Crehore's brand new uke design! Lou Reimuller built this uke from scratch. May 2009
News
Upcoming/recent events and other exciting developments
Jan. 2007- "Blab! 17" published (featuring 2005 "Banana Eater" painting)Feb.10-17, 2007 the Corey Helford Gallery - CHARITY BY NUMBERS
May 1, 2007 - "Snake Tamer's Ditty" is featured on boingboing.net.
June 1, 2007- New feature article on Amy's art at www.monovita.org
June 8, 2007- "Venus" group show at Roq la Rue Gallery, Seattle, WA
July, 2007 - FIRST TICKLER UKULELE UNVEILED. Built by Lou Reimuller and designed and painted by Amy Crehore
August 11, 2007- opening of "Literartistry" group Show at Corey Helford Gallery,
November 17, 2007- opening of the "Green" Show at Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA curated by Mark Murphy
December 2007- Miami Basel with Mark Murphy's "Know" exhibit.
January 2008- Deep Pop Show curated by Andrew Michael Ford, New Rochelle, NY-"Feed the Bear Blues" painting.
January 2008- New Tickler Ukulele Artist T-shirt
February 2008- New Print release by Pressure Printing of Amy Crehore's "The Banana Eater"
May 2008- Group Show M Modern gallery, Palm Springs, CA
July 2008 - 5-person show at Ad Hoc Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
plus, Las Vegas Hard Rock Hotel- M Modern Gallery Show
Dec 4-7 2008- Gen Art Vanguard -Miami, FLA Art Basel with Murphy Design AND Thinkspace Gallery.
Jan 2009- INKED magazine feature/interview w/ Amy Crehore (Feb issue)
Feb 13 2009- Opening of Amy Crehore solo show at Thinkspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Dreamgirls and Ukes"- featuring new paintings and painted, vintage ukes. Amy's band Hokum Scorchers will play at the opening.
Feb 14 2009- Opening of "Movers and Shakers" group show, L.A.
March 26- May 2, 2009 - SICA Black Pop Surrealism show, Long Branch, NJ
Little Hokum Rag
Amy Crehore's Blog
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