some of last weeks etsy additions and SALE items!!

Here are some new things that have been added to the shop. Lots of 80s goodness this week. Also check out the new sale items.

METAFORAS-Manuel Miranda

Had Manuel Miranda's solo exhibit this weekend entitled "METAFORAS." The turn out was good and four paintings were sold! It will be up until the 21st.

new stuff in shop...finally

i'm finally adding some new stuff this week to my etsy shop, including a couple of 80s rompers, a pretty vera top, and an adorable gunne sax dress. i think i'm beginning to get better at this lighting business. who ever knew photography was so damn tricky?! will be posting more stuff up this week...

"experimental procedures"-phyllis evans

our last exhibit at manichaus was entitled "experimental procedures" by phyllis evans. this is what she had to say about her work:

"I draw much of my artistic inspiration from the work of the Surrealists, who defied rationality and combined seemingly incongruous elements often using chance occurrence and automatic thinking process," Evans said. "My process of working with digital media disallows a truly automatic or subconscious approach to my work, but I try to be as instinctive as I can and rely as much as possible on my subconscious whims when making my initial reactions, selections and choices."

My affinity for the work of Frida Kahlo fuels my work for I share her “black sense of humor,” and her “taste for the gothically shocking.” Kahlo also referenced medical texts in her paintings, “to explain the mechanical part of the whole business” as she sought to come to terms with her physical condition and the medical treatments she endured. Like Kahlo, I frequently combine mechanical and organic forms, emphasizing the most unpleasant aspects of both.

"Echoing Kahlo’s distrust of the machine, my own strange hybrids of suggests to the viewer something ominous and draws upon our collective anxieties in a world where potential biological catastrophes loom large, where good science is halted by irrationality, and where bad science is encouraged by the market place, in our current political climate in which ethics go largely ignored," Evans commented.

the turn out to the event was good, even though it's the middle of summer. sorry no close ups of the encaustic paintings yet. see her work at: http://phyllisevans.com/

flip in & flip out

pictured above are some favorites from our skateboard show last month. you can see all of them at www.manichaus.etsy.com. we had a great turn out, lots of new faces. sorry no pics from the actual event. our next show is just around the corner though and this time i'm remembering to bring my camera. :)

Avant Garde Music Nite @ Manichaus!

ok so i've been a bad blogger and should have posted this weeks ago. :( these are some shots from our last music show. it was a nice mix of performances. bands/people pictured are: Jillian and the Whole World, Fightsongs, Vicente Victorio. not pictured: I Killed Techno and Ronnie Garza. sorry about the blurry pics, for some reason people like to move during music shows. :)

new sale items!

just marked down lot's of items in my etsy shop: www.handpickedvintage.etsy.com