Paper Prescription

Pieces for this September's show at Remedy Cafe and Gallery in Oakland...

If you are up in Portland, OR check out Mona Superhero's new show, "Slow Moving Dreams".

Mona Superhero - solo art show
Slow Movin’ Dreams
August 4th – September 4th 2011
OPENS: Thursday August 4th, 2011 / 6pm - 9pm
Berbati Restaurant 19 SW Ankeny, Portland, OR
For more information, please visit http://www.monasuperhero.com or call (503) 413-0468
 
Fresh off her latest showing in San Francisco, CA, Portland utility tape artist Mona Superhero comes home with “Slow Movin’ Dreams” - celebrating her first solo show in Portland in five years.
In Slow Movin’ Dreams, Mona Superhero travels through both space and time to re-imagine her own Texas upbringing as a bleak sci-fi rock opera with the underlying threads of violence and isolation that underpin small town youth culture. Cowgirls, snakes, guns, leering horses; suspended symbols mash up like raw snapshots right from dreams.
 
ABOUT MONA SUPERHERO
Mona Superhero is a utility tape artist based in Portland, OR. Her work is reminiscent of sixties style silk-screened pop art that is comprised entirely of tape and carved with the precise strokes of an X-acto blade. Layer upon layer of relief-cut, brightly colored duct tape is used to sculpt images that are dangerously sexy and thought provoking.
Mona is the official muralist for Voodoo Donut and has done album art for Hillstomp, Failing Records and Eric McFadden. The Willamette Week named Hillstomp’s “The Woman That Ended The World” 2005’s best album of the year calling Mona’s cover ‘gut-wrenching’. She also has exhibited her work in fine art galleries in San Francisco, New York, Portland, Boston, and Seattle.
Mona was born in Abilene, TX in 1970 and raised in Austin. Although she has no formal training she has been active in the Portland art scene as a co-founder of Danzine magazine and as the writer, director and producer of a series of acclaimed cabarets.
She has been featured and/or interviewed by CODE (Amsterdam) Willamette Week, Portland Tribune, Seattle Weekly, Barfly and the Oregonian and will be featured on an episode of Oregon Art Beat airing in the fall.

A few pieces from the show...

"There Must Be Something More To Know"

Love Me Or Not

the Coupons For Bonsai show was amazing! Thanks to everyone who came out to support the Bonsai Warriors, Jake, Mona, and myself. Thanks to Jake and Mona as well for sharing their natural born artistic talents, warm personalities, and awesome friends and family. Many thanks to Curator Flynn who provided the initial opportunity and curated a gorgeous show. The size and color of the pieces are very complimentary to the space. The show will be up for two months. Stop by the Glama-rama! and see it for yourself. Maybe even get a new hairdo. It's time for a change, no? :)

The show is hung and it looks FIERCE!!! Hope to see you tonite at the opening. 6-9pm 304 Valencia St. SF

Me and Mona would love to see your smiling face this evening.

The pieces for the June 5th opening at Glama-rama! are coming together so nicely. Here is a sampler. More proper promo mats very soon!

Mona Superhero Duct Tape Artist

Jake Hout Subversive Paintings

Mike Kabler Paper Collage

Czech born conceptual artist, Pavel Bucher is currently in a group show at the Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art NYC-April 6-May 8. He has made a series of collages derived from ripped up pieces of art discarded by their makers. The group show is called, Under Deconstruction and explores the role of destruction in contemporary art.

http://www.swissinstitute.net/exhibitions/exhibition.php?Exhibition=107

Awesome opening. Thanks all who came out on the first nite of the World Series!

I Just finished this piece. Paper Collage 13"x 12". it will be up in the Pirate Cat Radio Show. Cant think of a name for it!

Another piece for the show. "Store Coupon" paper collage 5" x 7".

Opening October 28th 8pm. Proceeds from one piece will go towards the Station's FCC broadcast permit

Here are some links to the Station and Cafe...
From the NYT's "36 Hour" series...
http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/california/san-francisco/70724/pirate-cat-radio/restaurant-detail.html

Anthony Bourdain visiting the station...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aguMoJq44XY -