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Due to silly life stuff it had been awhile but I finally cleaned the dust off the old had to throw half of them away  hard as rock paints and reorganized my studio to start creating art again.  I've done several new pieces and hope to get pics uploaded soon. For now there's alot  of pics of older work in the gallery. Thanks for your support!  Wishing you a day of smiles and giggles!

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I hope you enjoy these ! Send me an email or twitter me and let me know what you think.

April 27, 2009

Something to Save Us!

Why this series?


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The world is a crazy place spinning more out and out of control.  My original concept was that we all needed something that makes us stop and smile, something that when your day has sucked or you're feeling blue you turn and hey, there is my Xena doll, oh I love her, if she was here right now, she would swing that damn of swords of hers and save me, you smile and laugh at the sillines and forget about the sucky blueness even if for only a minute. Even if we don't believe in something bigger than ourselves that saves us I would love to believe we all have that psychological need to feel safe. So this series is my quest to create artwork based loosely on this concept of salvation.

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10 x 6, Brush with Death. Collection of Dr. Eugene Rogolsky M.D.

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6 x 6, Jesus is Missing. Collection of Michael Barnard, filmmaker.

"these obsessively crafted works confront our darkest fears through their sheer simplicity and utter silliness." - Kuiland-Nazario, LA Weekly

"work is infused with her own wicked sense of humor, social commentary, dry wit, childlike innocence and cutting irony." -  Pleasant Gehman

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ARTWORK PRICES

If interested in anything, please let me know, prices vary depending on size and time but are very reasonable. Prices currently range between $25 and $200 dollars.

GIFT CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE!
Give someone an SOS wooden gift certificate and they can trade it
for a piece of art. Certificate avaialble in any amount you want.

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DeSantis Studio
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18th Street Arts Center
1637 18th St., Santa Monica, CA 90404

310-980-7859
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Artist

cindy

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Los Angeles outside artist who loves assemblage and cartooning and lives in a silly imaginary world and loves to hammer found objects and used toys and mix it up with text.  Read more

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  • my dads artwork 
  • my cat twitters

Galleries

  • Mr. Mrs.
  • Highways Performance Space
  • 18th Street Arts Center
"crazy, wacky, wild." - Lisa Kudrow's set designer

Below is a pic of a new work, this hangs on the wall if anything to remind me cause I forget laughter is the best medicine sometimes and when I yell at myself "SMILE BITCH!", it makes me laugh.

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smile / photo by kuiland-nazario

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325 ART COLLECTORS HAVE BEEN SAVED AS OF 4/1/2009

"blessed are the cracked for it is they that let in the light." - Somebody somewhere at sometime

"not funded by the Andy Warhol foundation for the Visual Arts but I think Andy would "get it."   IMy big orange striped tabby is named after him , I wanted a reason to yell his name everyday so that I would remember to create something everyday. "  - the artist

Commissions are welcomed!
Have an idea of something or gift idea for someone, contact me. I  am willing to work out any reasonable request. I also have alot of artwork in stock at the studio so do ask if you have any requests.

We use recycled stuff!
Alot of the toys used in these artworks are gathered loose from yard sales, ebay, thrift stores and lifted from friends kids toy boxes when no one was looking. We try and use scrap wood when we come across it from the trash, lumber yards and construction throwaways. 

NEEDED FOR CURRENT ART PROJECT!

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Looking for well used paint brushes and tools that are just ready to go into the trash.  Don't throw them out!  I can give them a second life.

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