RAW ART

This Thursday I'll be at the Estate in Boston at the RAW ART RADIANCE Showcase. Raw is a collective of artists, photographers, musicians, fashion designers and more and there's a local chapter in every major US city and Australia. This is my first showcase and there will be a lot of awesome local artists, designers and photographers (including the wondeful Raw Alum and friend, Matt Bernson) showing along with me. I will have some originals up for sale, some new items.

"Spectrum Disorder" will be one of the framed originals for sale at the show along with several other works

You can purchase tickets ($10) online to support me until 8pm tonight - just select my name on the drop down instead of General Admission, after tonight you can drop me a line to save $5 on the door cost ($15) with out having to deal with all this online hoopla.

I also made this headdress to wear that night with my new half mint green, half milk chocolate brown wig. Eee! So excited!

Out of this World!

The Zapow Gallery's group show Out Of This World: Robots, Rockets and Ray Guns opens tonight! Since I live so far away, I've never known the joys of a Zapow opening, but I encourage your to go if you live near Asheville, NC and check it out. Lauren, one of the owners, recently skyped me a nice tour of the gallery and it is HUGE and beautiful, which made me want to visit all the more. There'll be festivities for the opening, music and free beer! So stop on by and check it out! AND - You can always find a selection of my handmade items and prints at Zapow, but this is the first time I've had an original in the gallery!

Ray Guns

New work in progress for an upcoming show at the ZaPow! Gallery.

Illustration Show

sounds like: How It's Made: Trombone

3 Ravens at the Uforge Gallery Illustration Show! This illustration is now also available as a print in my etsy shop!

Friend and fellow artist Shaanti Williams of Whut Good? is also in the show! He's been working on an amazing new series of the ladies of super hero comics, check him out.

Water

Tonight the Elements group show at the UForge Gallery in Jamaica Plain is opening. The show is themed for the four elements: Earth, Wind, Fire, Water(almost Captain Planet) and will be going on through out February with an opening recephttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giftion tonight at 7pm. I submitted this piece, Um Akkeri (named after one of my favorite songs) that is inspired heavily by 1980's anime, which I've been immersing my self in. The film Legend of Sirius (シリウスの伝説) was particularly influential. The ending to this film has some of the prettiest animation I've seen in a while.

Put a Bow on It

sounds like: "Settle Down" Kimbra


I have a small piece for a small price at this holiday show at the Kraine Gallery Bar in NYC and the show is opening this evening! Art is a wonderful gift, so if you like it put a bow on it!

My Shades of Grey

We had a great time at the My Shades of Grey Craft Benefit this evening! I drew a few portraits , met a lot of great people and had some delicious food. What could be better than drawing portraits, talking about horror movies and drinking Heinekens? Not much. I also drew a new record for myself: a nine person portrait of all the employees of A Touch of Color hair salon in Lynn. It is pretty hard to fit 9 lovely ladies on one page. *0*


This kid's name was Brian and he had me draw him with his mum who he was selling jewelry with at the show too. Nerds of a feather flocked together - it only takes a Cenobaby to start up a two hour conversation about movies. :)

Tomorrow we'll be back in WMass at the Stars and Skulls Crafty Craft Fair! W00T!

Holiday Shows

sounds like: "Virus" Bjork

I'm going to be (or my artwork and crafts) will be at a number of places this month!

Tonight the SMFA Art Annual Sale opened and will be going on all weekend. I have five pieces in the sale for purchase. 50% of sales go to student scholarships!

For the citizens of North Carolina: ZaPow! Gallery is carrying a selection of my collection.

And I will be around Massachusetts for the next few weekends...

12/10 - My Shades of Gray Craft Benefit
Knights of Columbus
117 Lynnfield Street
Lynn, MA
Hours - 6-10pm

12/11 - Stars and Skulls Crafty Craft Fair
American Legion Post 271
162 Russell Street (Route 9)
Hadley, MA
10am-4pm

12/17-18 Footlight Club/UForge Holiday Show
We are Stationed at:
The Footlight Club
7A Eliot Street
JP, MA
11am-5pm

SMFA Art Annual

I dropped off 5 pieces of work to my alma mater, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, last weekend. Starting on December 8th you can purchase framed Harajuku No. 5, Red Riding Siesta, Artichoke, Hair and one of my Dr. Sketchy's Burlesque drawings of the lovely Porcelain Dalya at the Annual Art Sale.

SMFA sent along this nice little press release about the sale...
"This isn't an open house, or a tour. It's an art sale, and it's amazing. Now in its 31st year, the Museum School Art Sale is the largest art sale in New England, and features work in all disciplines from more than 400 SMFA-affiliated artists—students, alumni, faculty, staff and more. If you really want to see the incredible caliber of art that comes out of this school, we invite you to attend. This is an incredible opportunity to see what we produce; to see what we're all about.

Our opening reception is Thursday, December 8, from 5–8 pm. With performance art and music by DJ Holtie, you can browse the galleries, adorned with artwork, and mingle with the artists themselves and the collectors who attend every year. The sale is open from December 8–11, 10 am–8 pm daily. It's a great opportunity—we'd love to have you visit.The Admissions Office is open during the sale; we encourage you to stop by and say hello. The office opens at 9 am each day, and closes at 6 pm on Thursday, 7 pm on Friday and 4 pm on Saturday. Admissions is closed on Sunday."

ZaPow!

Photo by Stephen Hall
Steven Hall, creator of Doodle Divas, kindly posed for this picture with my wall at the ZaPow! Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. Steven renders darling divas doing everything from pirating to rocking out and is also an artist at the ZaPow! Gallery.


Photo from ZaPow! Gallery
Behind the creators of Zapow! in this picture, on the wall, is one of my favorite drawings of mine I made on a brown paper bag! XD

An excellent selection of my work is available at the gallery including prints, jewelry, hair accessories and the Make Your Own Grave plush. ZaPow! Gallery is Asheville's newest and coolest art gallery that represents a selection of illustrators and pop artists, provides studio space for locals and is in general really awesome. I'm kinda sad they haven't invented the transporter yet so I could check it out. If you're in the Asheville area you should!

ZaPow!

Tonight at the ZaPow! Gallery in Asheville, NC is the Merry Everything Holiday Spectacular! A selection of my work is available at the gallery along with Stephen Hall's Doodle Divas and many more talented illustrators and pop artists! If you be in the Asheville area stop by and check it out!

Here's the info:
ZaPow! Gallery
Merry Everything Holiday Spectacular
Small Works Show Original art from $6-75
21 Battery Park Ave., Suite 101
November 26, 2011 7:00 - 9:00 pm

FREE French Broad Wee Heavier on Tap
Live Gypsy Swing performed by The Busk Box Players

visual lyrics

sounds like: "GIBBS" Tokyo Jihen Electric Mole


Photo by Meg Dubno
@ Uforge Gallery Visual Lyrics Show!

Psssssttt!!!

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Last week I was in NYC to see the PSSSsssT! group show at the Kraine Gallery Bar before the show closed on the 2nd. I snapped a few pictures of it's delights~ and there were so many!

There was another Kristy Lynn in the show! Our pieces were besides each other as seen above! <3<3 My name is very uncommon and I've only met two other Kristilyns (in varying spelling formations). A true treat.

strawberry cake!

Tomorrow is Jamaica Plain's First Thursdays and the opening day of the Visual Lyrics group show at the UForge. My piece is "Naked Man, Naked Man Calm Down! I'll Give You Some Strawberry Cake!" from the Sugarcubes' song Fucking in the Rhythm and Sorrow. Come out and see it! The official opening is next Saturday, November 12th!

strawberry cake!

It's coming along...

strawberry cake!

Something new I'm working on based on the Sugarcube's song "Fucking in Rhythm and Sorrow" for the November UForge Show:

A divorced lady arrives home from a bar
Guess, guess what she sees, sees there
There is a naked person in my flat!
He's got a weird expression on his face!
Oh my god and jesus as well!
W-what are you doing here?
Are you hurting your chest?
Offending yourself?
Forcing yourself into pain and sorrow like there is no tomorrow?
You should use the pain and sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour!

He looks at me hopeless with tears in his eyes
Goes out of the window and up on the roof
Naked man, naked man calm down!
I-I'll give you some strawberry cake!

Don't act like there is no tomorrow
You should use the pain and the sorrow
To fill you up with power
Life's both sweet and sour!

Rose

There's a lot going on in the upcoming months - here is the low down:

September 24th I'll be at the Massachusetts Independent Comic Expo (M.I.C.E.) at Lesley University and will be sharing my table with the ever talented Shaanti Williams of Whut Good?.

September 30th you can catch me drawing amazing live performance acts at Org: Asylum at Oberon. I will be drawing live onsite and also selling my drawings as well!

October 12th through November 2nd the above drawing, 'Rose,' will be at the Psssst! Group Show at the Kraine Bar Gallery in New York City. This show will be _excellent_.

October 14th through the 16th is ROCK & SHOCK at the DCU Center in Worcester. I'll have a table full of SHOCK and will be hanging with Gary Busey and Rrrrrrobert Englund!

November 6th I'll be vending at a local Record and Craft Fair: JP Rocks & Rolls! No location yet, but it will be in Jamaica Plain.

And currently, I'm showing in Chanel Vs. Harajuku at the UForge Gallery until the end of the month.

And of course... there will be MORE as we approach December!

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Photograph by Cat Craig

The opening reception for Chanel Vs. Harajuku was a grand time! There were a ton of people who came out include a few classes from SHOWA. Cat took some great pictures of the reception that you can see on her flicker stream.

Many thanks to the UForge Gallery for creating such a fantastic show!

STUFF!

There was an excellent write up in Stuff Magazine about the Chanel Vs Harajuku show. Here's a snippet about my piece:

"In Harajuku No. 5, artist Kristilyn Stevenson reimagines a famous Chanel No. 5 advertisement that featured Marilyn Monroe dabbing the fragrance on her décolletage. 'The imagery flips the ideas of Chanel upside down and signs it with a street-fashion twist,' says Stevenson. She replaces the original's black-and-white photography with a cartoon-like combination of bold ink lines and gouache paint. And instead of a blonde bombshell, Stevenson portrays a fanciful femme who looks like Princess Toadstool gone 'Sweet Lolita,' a Harajuku style with an especially childlike take on the whole sexy-schoolgirl look. (Think: pink. And kind of creepy.)"

Read the whole article here...

If you're Boston local, come to the UForge Gallery this Saturday for the opening reception of the show!

Harajuku No. 5

I'm in the Harajuku vs. Chanel show coming up at the UForge Gallery in JP. It will be up tomorrow at JP's First Thursday through September.

With Uforge's September theme of Harajuku vs. Chanel artists were faced with the fantastic challenge of creating an image that melded a fashion district known for it's fast and unusual teen trends and a fashion label that built it's name on timelessness and elegance. I've always been a fan of Harajuku fashion, even before Gwen Stefani marched back into the pop scene clad in super cute Japanese girls, so my piece features an Elegant Sweet Lolita (one of the many styles of Harajuku inspired by the Rococo era) striking the iconic pose of Marilyn Monroe in the famous Chanel No. 5 perfume advertisement.

The opening reception is on September 10 - check out the details here.