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SF Sketchfest Madness!

I’m so stoked to be on the last weekend of SF Sketchfest! My shows are:

Friday, February 3- 10:15- The Set Up- tickets HERE

Roster: With hosts Abhay and Richard Sarvate, and guests Virginia Jones, Fred Le, Lizzie Martinez, Joe Praino and Atheer Yacoub. 

Saturday, February 4- 7 PM- Studio Sets- tickets HERE

Roster: I get to do a show with my friend Leah Rudick, and sweetheart couple Matt O’Brien and Julia Hladkowicz!

with Alex Falcone, Julia Hladkowicz, Virginia Jones, Karthik Lavangu, Natalie McGill, Matt O’Brien, and Leah Rudick, Hosted by Alyssa Westerlund. 

Saturday, February 4- 9:30 PM- The Interruption with Dalia Malek- tickets HERE

This is one of those fun shows where they interrupt you all the time! My friends Chad Opitz and Dave Hill are on it, which is rad! with Alex Falcone, Dave Hill, Virginia Jones, Natalie McGill, and Chad Opitz

Gaultier Vs. Dame Darcy

  While wending my way home from Portland, I stopped into the De Young Museum in San Francisco to see the Gaultier exhibit that originated in Montreal last year.  JPG was a favorite designer of mine through my highschool and college years, and it’s neat to see so many of his couture pieces mounted as an art exhibition.

The show also features artists that JPG has worked with/for/collaborated with, including Herb Ritts, Andy Warhol, Pedro Almodovar, Pierre Cardin,  Madonna, Pierre et Gilles, Luc Besson, and others, both more famous and more obscure-

Creepily animated JPG introduces the exhibit- his face is projected on a white mannequin, and looks amazing!

Jean Paul Gaultier loves Leigh Bowery , and so do I.

Punkity punk punk!

The show also has a very wonderful coffee-table book with some amazing photographs and essays about Gaultier’s influences and collaborators that I recommend highly.

If you distill it all down, Gaultier’s design career has been made of:

1. Mermaids

2. Punks

3. S&M

4. Sailors

5. Dolls

6. Corsets

7. The Madonna

8. Madonna

At the exhibit, I was reminded of the obsessions of the amazingly multitalented illustrator/musician/dollmaker Dame Darcy:

1. Mermaids

2. Sailors

3. Witches

4. Horses

5. Dolls

6. Dark Fairies

7. Saints & Goddesses

8. The Madonna

9. Siamese Twins!

I think this sounds like a collaboration in the making-

Meat Cake #17 by Dame Darcy - front cover

At any rate, I heartily recommend them both!