Andie de Roux - Art Blog

Modeling Spring 2011

2011-09-15T01:46:00.000-07:00

With model Stella Vaughn
Photography by Penumbra Productions.

2011-05-11T11:31:00.000-07:00

A recent photoshoot I did with the very talented Corwin Prescott. http://corwinprescott.com/

2011-01-02T11:00:00.000-08:00

2010-11-14T18:47:00.000-08:00

LUST" - Model: Andie deRoux, Photography Assistant: Erik Christensen, Art Director and Post Production: Lady Eden

2010-10-07T13:54:00.000-07:00

Photos from my recent shoot with Corwin Prescott.

It was such a thrill to work with him, and I love what we created.

2009-10-29T13:11:00.000-07:00

Debora Spencer recently took some amazing photos of me. She is a stunning photographer and one of the sweetest you'll ever meet!

Go see her photography here: www.deboraspencer.com she also posts daily on facebook!

2009-07-20T01:09:00.000-07:00

Banksy Versus Bristol City Museum

Bristol City Museum & Gallery.
13th June - 31st August 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRai9x8aD3A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFM8Gnmwdug

2009-05-18T23:39:00.000-07:00

Ken Robinson, (TEDTalks) - Do schools today kill creativity?
Ken Robinson, (TEDTalks) - Do schools today kill creativity?

2009-05-05T12:47:00.000-07:00

Dear Lawmakers, Legalize Everything, Throw the Wall Street Crooks in Prison and Solve the Country's Financial Crisis!

It's your body, so you should be free to abuse it in any way shape or form you want without the government's intervention ever. NOTE: To the United States Government: KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF OF MY BODY and EVERYONE ELSES..

I read this story today and it sickened me to know that another person is going to jail due to the drug laws in the states.

It also saddens me to know that 1/2 a million of our current prison population are there because of antiquated drug laws and non-violent offenses. It would save us $21k per person, per year to just release them! 500,000 x $21k each = $10,500,000,000 per year savings. Who knows how much more in savings by eliminating stupid programs the Bush & Reagan administration created.

No one has died from smoking pot or taking LSD, Mushrooms, ect... I am not advocating massive drug abuse by the population, but you should be able to take responsibility for your own actions without government intervention. It's your body, take care of it, or not, that is your very own personal choice, NOT someone else’s...

The Crooks on Wall Street have already stolen billions of dollars illegally through their manipulations and payoffs. They are as true a criminal as any violent offender, and should be imprisoned because they have detrimentally affected millions of families well being for their own selfish gain, not someone who is fighting the nausea of cancer with some cannabis or someone trying to put food on the table by selling some herbs to friends...

2009-04-03T12:22:00.000-07:00

Seattle Times - First Thursday features Northwest artists

First Thursday features Northwest artists
Seattle artists Christopher Martin Hoff, Thomas Wood and Andie deRoux open Seattle shows on First Thursday, April 2.

Local is a hot concept these days — even at the upcoming First Thursday Art Walk, where the work of a number of intriguing Northwest artists will be on view. Among them:

Christopher Martin Hoff captures corners of the city you might ordinarily overlook, including alleyways and traffic circles (pictured here: "Only"). A solo exhibition of his work, titled "Physical Graffiti," opens Thursday at Linda Hodges Gallery, 316 First Ave. S., and remains on view 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays through May 2 (206-624-3034 or www.lindahodgesgallery.com).

Thomas Wood has lived in many corners of Washington state and he recalls its beauty in paintings and prints of Northwest locales (pictured: "Summer Night at Cypress Head"). His work is presented at Lisa Harris Gallery, 1922 Pike Place, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. every day except Tuesday, beginning next Thursday (206-443-3315 or www.lisaharrisgallery.com). The show closes May 2.

Andie deRoux mixes painting, photography and resin to create diaphanous images of nature and architecture (pictured, a detail from "Garden"). DeRoux's exhibition, "Unfolding," opens Thursday at Friesen Gallery, 1200 and 1210 Second Ave., and runs 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Mondays- Fridays and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays through April 30 (206-628-9501 or www.friesengallery.com).

Receptions for all three artists will be held on First Thursday at their respective galleries — starting at 5 p.m. for deRoux, and 6 p.m. for Hoff and Wood.

Seattle Times staff

2009-03-23T11:45:00.000-07:00

Everyone Matters: Dignity and Safety for Transgender and Transsexual People

2009-03-12T08:27:00.000-07:00

The book "GOTHIC - DARK GLAMOUR" is now available at Kinokuniya bookstore in Seattle. It's the companion to the Gothic show at the FIT NY. I thumbed through it yesterday in the book store and it's a really beautifully done book.

Amazon book link:
http://www.amazon.com/Gothic-Dark-Glamour-Valerie-Steele/dp/0300136943
29.70 instead of 44 at Kinokuniya

Exhibition link
http://www3.fitnyc.edu/museum/gothic/videos.html

My friend Carmina's blog about the show:
http://www.lacarmina.com/blog/2008/09/gothic-dark-fashion-exhibit-opening-fit-fashion-institute-of-technology/

2009-02-25T02:34:00.000-08:00

I tread forward to see the light of the new dawn, and all I see is something I've seen before.....tonight however was different....

2009-02-18T18:25:00.000-08:00

Some Artists I like...in no particular order.

Josef Albers
Diane Arbus
Francis Bacon
Balthus
Matthew Barney
Jean-Michel Basquiat

Louise Bourgeois
Marc Chagall
Dinos and Jake Chapman
Judy Chicago Chuck Close
Joseph Cornell
Salvador Dalí
Marcel Duchamp
Eric Fischl
Alberto Giacometti
Nan Goldin
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Eva Hesse
Gary Hill
Damien Hirst
David Hockney
Jenny Holzer
Robert Irwin
Frida Kahlo
Anish Kapoor
On Kawara
Paul Klee
Gustav Klimt
Jeff Koons
Barbara Kruger
Yayoi Kusama
Sarah Lucas
Brice Marden
Paul Mccarthy
Piet Mondrian
Takashi Murakami
Alice Neel
Louise Nevelson
Isamu Noguchi
Georgia O'Keeffe
Chris Ofili
Nam June Paik
Grayson Perry
Jackson Pollock
Richard Prince
Marc Quinn
Robert Rauschenberg
Man Ray
Gerhard Richter
Jenny Saville
Miriam Schapiro
Julian Schnabel
Cindy Sherman
David Smith
Kiki Smith
Hiroshi Sugimoto
James Turrell
Bill Viola
Andy Warhol

2009-02-10T23:53:00.000-08:00

PROP 8 MAPS - A mash-up of Google Maps and Prop 8 Donors.
"Proposition 8 changed the California state constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage. These are the people who donated in order to pass it."
You can find out exactly where these Haters live. http://www.eightmaps.com/

2009-02-08T23:44:00.000-08:00

Upcoming Exhibition APRIL 2nd 2009: Andie DeRoux - New Work
A Solo Exhibition of new work by Andie deRoux will be shown at the Friesen Gallery in Seattle from April 2nd-30th, 2009.

Work featured will be a culmination of Andie's work last year on the East Coast, inspired by Harvard's Arnold Arboretum (designed by Friedrich Olmsted), and travels to Siena/ Rome Italy. The body of work will feature large format Floral & Abstract Neo-Art Nouveau resin paintings.

Color palette will be predominantly high-contrast ink-black and antique-white, with subtle color washes and tinting. The work will feature bold brush strokes and is highly detailed.

Artist Reception & Exhibition Opening April 2nd, 2009. 5-8pm.
Afterparty at the artist's studio. 9-12pm.

Exhibition Runs April 2nd- 30th, 2009

Friesen Gallery - Seattle
Washington Mutual Tower
1200 and 1210 Second AvenueSeattle, WA 98101
Call 206 628.9501 to schedule a preview of the exhibition artwork.
http://www.deroux.com
http://www.friesengallery.com

2009-02-02T22:25:00.001-08:00

An Open Letter to Juergen Teller.

Dear Juergen Teller,

Please don't take any more horrible photographs of celebrities and models. Your portraits are just atrocious. Seriously. They are painful to look at. Flat, awkward, almost like the assistant took them as lighting tests.

Please let me buy you a camera and get you some photography lessons. Throw whatever horrible "lucky" 35mm point and shoot camera your using and get something that actually works. If I were Tilda Swinton, Lily Cole or Victoria Beckham I would not be the least bit thrilled with the results!... And please leave Marc Jacobs alone!

I love reading Vogue and W every month, but I have to go through every issue and rip out every one of your horrible photographs before I can even start reading them!

The only reason I know who took the atrocious photographs, is because you plaster your name on every one!...Like it's a seal of gold or something.

Anyways, let me know if you want a new camera and I'll send you one. Your doing a great job at being awful... really awful. Maybe try working on your timing, it seems to be off.

Your friend,

-Andie deRoux

2009-02-02T14:45:00.000-08:00

Artist Trust ART CARNAVAL Art Auction

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Fisher Pavilion, Seattle Center 6pm Doors Open
GALA AUCTION: Curated original artwork
Art Experiences of studio tours, salons and more
Festive feast and luscious libations

All proceeds benefit the mission of Artist Trust to support individual artists. http://www.artisttrustauction.org/

Link to my piece: http://www.artisttrustauction.org/details.php?id=40

I will have a gorgeous epoxy resin painting in the LIVE auction this year. Below is an image of my piece. Hope to see you there! -Andie

2009-01-11T13:06:00.000-08:00

Tangled in Blue - Group Exhibition - Friesen Gallery Seattle, January 8th-31st, 2009

Flowers in Light II

63"x29", Epoxy Resin, Pigments, Ink, Watercolor, Acrylic, on Panel, 2008

Other artisits included in the Seattle exhibition: Doris Chase, Dedrick Ward, Ford Crull, Enrico Embroli, Rielly Jensen and Catherine Eaton Skinner.

http://www.friesengallery.com

Washington Mutual Tower 1200 and 1210 Second Avenue Seattle, WA 98101Hours: Monday - Friday 10:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M., Saturday 11:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.Always Open by Appointment 206 628.9501

2008-12-15T09:34:00.000-08:00

Space Needle at 2nd & Bell in Seattle's Belltown

Circa 1994/1995. Space Needle by Andie DeRoux is now showing at 2nd and Bell.

A zoetrope sculpture I made for the owner of the downunder nightclub in the mid 90's is now planted in an abandoned lot at 2nd and Bell. It looks pretty damaged, but also part of the urban landscape of Belltown. How it got there is a mystery to me. -Andie

Link to Seattle PI: http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/154272.asp

Link to The Stranger: http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/12/15/out_of_his_hands

2008-12-12T07:30:00.000-08:00

Flowers in Light I, 2008

48"x19"

Epoxy resin, Mixed mediums on Panel

Artist Trust Art Benefit Auction item.

Mark Your Calendar:

Saturday February 7th, 2009

6pm Fisher Pavillion, Seattle Center

Seattle WA

www.artisttrust.org for more information

2008-09-15T17:25:00.000-07:00

A museum turn for Gothic style

Gothic fashions from designers and from the streets share the spotlight at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

Now Through Feb 21st 2009

The spectacular show features more than 75 dark-and-lovely looks from designers including Rick Owens, Thierry Mugler, Anna Sui, Jean Paul Gaultier and Yohji Yamamoto, and more!

LA TIMES article

2008-08-14T11:23:00.000-07:00

What Is the Future of Suburbia?

Blog Link: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/what-is-the-future-of-suburbia-a-freakonomics-quorum/

By Stephen J. Dubner

Photo: Peter Katz

On a forum at the Chicago outpost of City-Data.com, a certain JohnDoe2008 asked suburbanites:

Why do you like suburbs over [the] city? Be honest please, I never understood it, still don’t. I might have serious problems, because I hate even looking at pictures of suburbs.

Respondents cited backyards, quiet and cheap living, and congestion-free commutes — the very sort of suburban characteristics that have started to change due to higher gas prices, more single-person households, and even refugees.

What will the future hold for suburbs? In an interesting article about Clifton Park, a suburb of Albany, N.Y., that has swollen mightily in past decades (and where I, during one long, hot summer, helped build new houses), here’s what a local architect and urban planner, Dominick Ranieri, thinks may happen to suburbia: “If we don’t change the patterns, we’re in for a long and slow and arduous collapse.”

Several months ago, we ran a quorum here about urbanization, pegged to the fact that more than half of the world’s population now lives in cities. Given the economic changes of the past several months, particularly those in the housing market and in energy prices, it seemed like a good idea to run a new quorum on suburbia, even if it might cover some of the same ground. (Indeed, we even invited two participants from the first quorum to respond to this one as well.) So we gathered up a group of smart people — James Kunstler, Thomas Antus, Jan Brueckner, Gary Gates, John Archer, Alan Berube, and Lawrence Levy — and asked them the following:

What will U.S. suburbs look like in 40 years?

Their answers are informative and often fascinating. As always, Kunstler is vastly entertaining as he advocates what one critic calls “apocalyptic utopianism,” while Antus gets a bit Swiftian on us. Brueckner and Archer are far more measured (and, if I had to lay money on the future, closer to reality), although Archer borders on his own utopianism. Gates takes a surprising and compelling angle, Levy is brutally realistic, and Berube is prescriptive in a way that I wish political candidates could learn to be. I hope you enjoy their replies, and learn from them, as much as I have.

James Kunstler, the author of The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century, World Made By Hand, and three books about suburbs and cities: The Geography of Nowhere, Home From Nowhere, and The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition.

“The suburbs have three destinies, none of them exclusive: as materials salvage, as slums, and as ruins.”

There are many ways of describing the fiasco of suburbia, but these days I refer to it as the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

I say this because American suburbia requires an infinite supply of cheap energy in order to function and we have now entered a permanent global energy crisis that will change the whole equation of daily life. Having poured a half-century of our national wealth into a living arrangement with no future — and linked our very identity with it — we have provoked a powerful psychology of previous investment that will make it difficult for us to let go, change our behavior, and make other arrangements.

Compounding the problem is the fact that we ditched our manufacturing economy for a suburban sprawl building economy (a.k.a. “the housing bubble”), meaning we came to base our economy on building even more stuff with no future.

This is a hell of a problem, since it is at once economic, socio-political, and circumstantial.

Here’s what I think will happen: First, we are in great danger of mounting a futile campaign to sustain the unsustainable, that is, of defending suburbia at all costs.

In fact, it is already underway. One symptom of this is that the only subject under discussion about our energy predicament is how can we keep running all our cars by other means. Even the leading environmentalists talk of little else. We don’t get it. The Happy Motoring era is over. No combination of “alt” fuels — solar, wind, nuclear, tar sands, oil-shale, offshore drilling, used French-fry oil — will allow us to keep running the interstate highway system, Wal-Marts, and Walt Disney World.

The automobile will be a diminishing presence in our lives, whether we like it or not. Further proof of our obdurate cluelessness in these matters is the absence of any public discussion about restoring the passenger railroad system — even as the airline industry is also visibly dying. The campaign to sustain suburbia and all its entitlements will result in a tragic squandering of our dwindling resources and capital.

The suburbs have three destinies, none of them exclusive: as materials salvage, as slums, and as ruins. In any case, the suburbs will lose value dramatically, both in terms of usefulness and financial investment. Most of the fabric of suburbia will not be “fixed” or retrofitted, in particular the residential subdivisions. They were built badly in the wrong places. We will have to return to traditional modes of inhabiting the landscape — villages, towns, and cities, composed of walkable neighborhoods and business districts — and the successful ones will have to exist in relation to a productive agricultural hinterland, because petro-agriculture (as represented by the infamous 3000-mile Caesar salad) is also now coming to an end. Fortunately, we have many under-activated small towns and small cities in favorable locations near waterways. This will be increasingly important as transport of goods by water regains importance.

We face an epochal demographic shift, but not the one that is commonly expected: from suburbs to big cities. Rather, we are in for a reversal of the 200-year-long trend of people moving from the farms and small towns to the big cities. People will be moving to the smaller towns and smaller cities because they are more appropriately scaled to the limited energy diet of the future. I believe our big cities will contract substantially — even if they densify back around their old cores and waterfronts. They are products, largely, of the 20th-century cheap energy fiesta and they will be starved in the decades ahead.

One popular current fantasy I hear often is that apartment towers are the “greenest” mode of human habitation. On the contrary, we will discover that the skyscraper is an obsolete building type, and that cities overburdened with them will suffer a huge liability — Manhattan and Chicago being the primary examples. Cities composed mostly of suburban-type fabric — Houston, Atlanta, Orlando, et al — will also depreciate sharply. The process of urban contraction is likely to be complicated by ethnic tensions and social disorder.

As petro-agriculture implodes, we’ll have to raise our food differently, closer to home, and at a finer and smaller scale. This new agricultural landscape will be inhabited differently, since farming will require more human attention. The places that are not able to grow enough food locally are not likely to make it. Phoenix and Las Vegas will be shadows of what they are now, if they exist at all.

These days, an awful lot of people — the production builders, the realtors — are waiting for the “bottom” in the real-estate industry with hopes that the suburban house-building orgy will resume. They are waiting in vain. The project of suburbia is over. We will build no more of it. Now we’re stuck with what’s there. Sometimes whole societies make unfortunate decisions or go down tragic pathways. Suburbia was ours.

Thomas E. Antus, township administrator of Freehold Township, N.J., since 1994 and a township employee since 1984; member of the New Jersey Municipal Managers Association, International City Managers Association, and Central Jersey Managers Association; guest lecturer at Rutgers University and Princeton University.

“To pay for the expanded services taxes will also increase exponentially to the point where individual pay checks are made payable to the government and deposited directly in the general treasury.”

In 40 years I could see living in the world’s largest city, a megalopolis, extending from New York City to Philadelphia and engulfing all of New Jersey. New Jersey could change the state motto to “The Overdevelopment State.” As we already have more cars per square mile than any other state, we could change the shape of the license plates from a rectangle to the outline of a car.

Government services such as police, fire, health, and public works will increase exponentially. To pay for the expanded services, taxes will also increase exponentially to the point where individual paychecks are made payable to the government and deposited directly in the general treasury. All individuals will have to use credit cards for all living expenses, going into massive debt and having to work until they are 90 years old, thus saving our Social Security system.

With a massive increase in the population density there will be a traffic light on every single corner. Smart individuals will have seen this coming and invested heavily in the firms that manufacture and install traffic lights, creating a new class of wealthy Americans (the “stop light rich”).

Developers won’t be impacted by the megalopolis as they rival Bill Gates in wealth and purchase the entire state of Wyoming. The first act of the new Wyoming legislature will be to abolish development so the developers can live in peace and quiet.

Jan Brueckner, professor of economics at the University of California, Irvine, and former editor of the Journal of Urban Economics.

“If [gentrification] continues in a significant way, large numbers of suburban households looking for urban stimulation may end up switching places with minority central-city dwellers, stirring the ethnic pot in both places.”

Urban economics tells us that cheap gas, lots of investment in highways, and rising incomes created the suburbs that we now see in American cities.

The first two forces made it affordable and convenient to commute from far out, and greater affluence made people covet big houses, which can be built for less on inexpensive suburban land. Lately, these suburbanization forces are being reversed by “gentrification,” with well-off, empty-nester households lured back to city centers by improving urban amenities (restaurants, museums, etc.) and the renewal of crumbling downtown housing stocks.

Over the next 40 years, these forces will continue to operate, with some new twists thrown in. Skyrocketing gas prices will lead some households to reconsider their long commutes, introducing an “anti-suburbanization” force that favors denser, more compact cities. Boosts in auto fuel economy will soften this blow, but the push for suburbanization will nevertheless slow. Urban densification will also mean a different look for some of our neighborhoods: single-story ranch houses, the hallmarks of past suburbanization, will increasingly give way to denser, two-story suburbs, as is already happening in many cities where land prices are high.

Suburbanization has shown a white bias, with most minority households yet to acquire their nice house in the suburbs. Some of this difference may reflect a history of housing-market discrimination, but lower suburbanization by minorities is mainly a result of lower incomes. As the black and Hispanic middle classes continue to grow and get richer, they are likely to follow the same suburbanization path as white households before them, restrained somewhat by higher gas prices. So U.S. suburbs 40 years hence will look much more ethnically diverse than they do today.

Although some cities, such as Chicago, have seen dramatic recent gentrification, the future path of this phenomenon remains unclear. If it continues in a significant way, large numbers of suburban households looking for urban stimulation may end up switching places with minority central-city dwellers, stirring the ethnic pot in both places.

Gary J. Gates, a Senior Research Fellow at the Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, and co-author of The Gay and Lesbian Atlas, has written extensively on the demographic and economic characteristics of the lesbian and gay population.

“The Will and Grace version of gay America — urban, wealthy, and white — is starting to look a bit dated.”

While Ward and June Cleaver and their two boys might still be around in the suburbs in forty years, my guess is that their neighbors will be Olivia and Harriet and their twin girls. The Will and Grace version of gay America — urban, wealthy, and white — is starting to look a bit dated.

Suburban locales like Decatur, Georgia (Atlanta), Takoma Park, Maryland (Washington, D.C.), and Ferndale, Michigan (Detroit), are joining urban neighborhoods like Castro, Chelsea, and West Hollywood as gay meccas. Lots of lesbians and gay men now view the suburban home with a white picket fence and a family with 2.5 kids as their version of gay equality.

In 1982, Gallup found that only 32 percent of Americans considered homosexuality to be an acceptable “alternative lifestyle.” Their 2008 poll shows the figure at 57 percent. With greater social acceptance, gay people are coming out of the closet, and many are doing so outside of urban America.

From 2000 to 2006, the number of same-sex couples in Montana, Wyoming, Iowa, and Utah increased by more than 140 percent. That’s nearly five times higher than the national increase in same-sex couples and 23 times higher than the general population increase. Since there’s little evidence of a mass migration of gay folk to Montana, these big increases probably reflect more willingness of lesbians and gay men to be visible in the heartland.

Not surprisingly then, the proportion of same-sex couples living in large cities has been halved from 45 percent in 1990 to only 23 percent in 2006. Houses are a lot cheaper in Ottumwa than Manhattan. Perhaps that explains why home-ownership rates among same-sex couples have increased from 52 percent in 1990 to 70 percent in 2006. With marriage now available to same-sex couples in Massachusetts and California, lesbian and gay couples are making it legal — more than 11,000 in Massachusetts so far and an estimated 5,000 just in the first week it was possible in California.

Suburbs, home ownership, and marriage — what’s left but the kids? In 1990, fewer than one in ten same-sex couples had children. Today, it’s more like one in five. In states like Mississippi, South Dakota, Alaska, South Carolina, and Louisiana, it’s one in three. The gay-by boom is alive and well in small town and suburban America. And these new parents are largely non-white. African-American and Latino/a lesbians and gay men are two to three times more likely than their white counterparts to be raising kids.

So back to the question at hand — my vision of suburbia circa 2050. Lesbian and gay families will be a much more visible community fixture. They’ll probably be married, own their homes, be raising a few kids, and will very likely not be white.

John Archer, chair of the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota and author of Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000.

“Suburbia will be flexible, it will be smarter, and it will be hybrid.”

First of all, forget the personal helicopters. Frank Lloyd Wright promised them to us in the 1930’s, and the Jetsons reinforced the idea in the 1950’s, but they are one futuristic vision of suburbia whose proponents just got it wrong.

Nevertheless they do embody fundamental aspects of suburbia that are going to persist well into the future, as they are endemic to Western, and now global, society. Modern suburbia evolved in the early eighteenth century along with Enlightenment ideals of private selfhood and capitalist economics. As such, suburbia — not the city — became, and remains, the perfect social and geographic apparatus for bringing fundamental ideals and principles of our culture to fruition, for better or worse.

Ideals of privacy, property, and selfhood — overoptimistically embodied — in those helicopters, are splendidly realized in the single nuclear-family detached house, set in its private surrounding yard. And no matter the threats of global warming or energy shortages, the solutions that we pursue are going to adhere to those ideals.

Nevertheless, as we look to the future, suburbia is evolving in three key directions — not incidentally, along the same paths already being paved by global capitalism; suburbia will be flexible, it will be smarter, and it will be hybrid.

For example: one of the troublesome consequences of the tract-house boom of the 1950’s and 1960’s is that the housing stock of that era no longer suits current needs and desires. Except in the most expensive housing markets it is economically unrealistic to retrofit those houses, resulting in worries over the rise of suburban slums.

There is, however, an optimistic vision. With advanced methods of modular construction and individualized product design, suburbia, like capital, will learn to be flexible: instead of holding the same shape for 60 years, at the mercy of demographic shifts and mortgage-finance crises, houses can become resizable and reconfigurable to suit residents’ changing needs. Neighborhoods will evolve, instead of turning over, thus enhancing community and social capital.

Planning will become flexible as well, so that infrastructure of all scales can smartly adapt to changing demographics and advancing energy, water, transportation, and other technologies. Again, the flexibility of capital as an investment will be registered in the form of more flexible real-estate instruments — which, as different clusters and neighborhoods evolve in different ways over time, will afford more occasions for aesthetic and demographic diversity.

As many “new urbanist” and “new suburbanist” projects demonstrate, suburbia is becoming a hybrid place that melds desirable traits of city living (activity, diversity) while still maintaining allegiance to primary suburban ideals of selfhood and domesticity (and, one might add, consumption).

Still to be realized, but now on the horizon, are greater opportunities for aesthetic hybridity. Left behind will be master planning codes that leave critics complaining about the aridity of suburbia. In part motivated by the continual need to adapt to ever greener technologies, as well as the need to make “smarter” capital investments, Americans may well realize the advantages of a more adventurous range of housing types, scales, styles, colors, landscaping, and so forth, in any given locale.

One of the least recognized truths about suburbia is that it has always been more extensively segregated by class than it has by race. Affording the flexibility to make local modifications in response to changing desires and conditions can result in a more dynamic and diverse aesthetic that, instead of eventually becoming old and tired, sustains healthy growth and change for the person, family, and community alike.

Alan Berube, research director and fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, which he joined in 2001.

“… in 40 years perhaps we’ll get beyond our fixation with “the suburbs” (love them or hate them) and develop a richer vocabulary for what lies beyond the city limits.”

In 40 years, “the suburbs” won’t exist.

With all their current heterogeneity and further changes on the horizon, chances are we’ll have retired the phrase from popular lexicon by 2050.

That’s not because they’ll depopulate — the nation will need to accommodate at least another 100 million people during this period, and not even $10-per-gallon gas will send the majority of Americans scrambling back to cities. But “suburbia” will be an even less useful descriptor in 2050 for the diverse range of communities in which the majority of Americans will continue to live. An educated guess at what we’re likely to see:

New physical forms. Just as America’s first suburbs sprouted up along the streetcar lines built in the early 20th century, the first half of the 21st century will see the growth of “light rail suburbs” (even in areas that don’t have the rail yet).

High oil prices and the imperative to address global climate change will help spur denser residential development along transit corridors outside of cities. We’d see more of it today, if supply kept up with demand. Chris Leinberger estimates that walkable suburban communities served by transit today command anywhere from a 40 percent to 200 percent price premium over conventional drivable suburban development.

New demographic profiles. Suburbs of 2050 will be a far cry from the Ozzie and Harriet communities a century before. Already, most immigrants in the nation’s newer gateways — metro areas like Sacramento, Charlotte, Minneapolis, and Washington — skip the city and head directly for suburban communities. These regions boast a far-flung ethnic patchwork, with a tremendous diversity of national origin groups. Meanwhile, as the Baby Boom generation “ages in place,” the suburbs of several major metro areas are projected to have larger elderly population shares than their cities by 2030. And even today, there are more poor Americans living in the suburbs of major metro areas than in cities.

New governance. Diversifying populations and changing infrastructure needs will demand a less parochial, more regional approach to public decision making. Small suburban jurisdictions can’t finance and manage transit systems, public hospitals, or affordable housing on their own. A move toward more metropolitan collaboration on these issues, borne of economic necessity, may further blur the traditional political boundaries that define suburbs.

“Suburbia” is an oppositional concept — in Latin, it’s literally “under city.” But as the people and places that define suburbia look more and more like those we associate with the city, and less and less like one another — in 40 years perhaps we’ll get beyond our fixation with “the suburbs” (love them or hate them) and develop a richer vocabulary for what lies beyond the city limits.

Lawrence C. Levy, executive director of the National Center for Suburban Studies at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY, and a Pulitzer Finalist as senior editorial writer and chief political columnist at Newsday.

“It depends — on how smart and bold we are willing to be.”

In my former life as an editorial writer at a great suburban newspaper, I hated when politicians or even academicians (as I am now at Hofstra University) would answer one of my questions by saying, “It depends.” And I swore I wouldn’t do that to other journalists, as well as their viewers and readers, when I found myself at the other end of a question.

So I guess I will have to hate myself: How the suburbs will look in 40 years depends … on everything from local, state, and federal policies to the price of a gallon of gasoline.

One thing for certain is that most suburban communities — wherever they are — won’t look like they do now. There will be more clusters of taller buildings, surrounding more public transportation, and populated by people who don’t look a lot like — or earn as much at least at first — as those now living next door.

The suburbs are the locus of change in America — dynamic demographic change that is being driven by migration from nearby cities, counties, and, in a shift from prior generations, directly from other countries. (My family spent a generation after leaving “the old country” before moving to the “new suburbs.” Now, legal and illegal immigrants alike are bypassing that cramped apartment in a central city for a cramped subdivision, or sometimes, a subdivided house in suburbia.)

Overall, although not always, this change is pushing out in waves that are changing each subsequent suburban ring.

For nearly two decades, the inner-ring suburbs have been looking more and more like the cities they surround. They are nearly as physically dense, politically Democratic, and, unfortunately, socially and educationally dysfunctional. In more recent years, more of the outer rings of suburbia have acquired more of the characteristics of the inner rings. A recent study by the Brookings Institution, which is drawing attention to the need for cities and suburbs to work together to create stronger metro areas, found that there are more poor people in suburbia than the central cities.

These demographic trends should continue but not all of them have to be a negative for the people living there, rich and poor. The challenges of the changing suburbs can lead to smarter solutions that could transform the suburbs into cleaner, less congested, more liveable, more economically viable, and more welcomingly diverse communities for old and young, black and white, English speakers and non English speakers.

The energy price crisis, which is battering suburbia harder than other areas because of its dependence on the car, has hastened a trend toward building higher rise housing in village downtowns near commuter rail lines — aka “transit oriented development.”

The units are more affordable because builders can acquire land in depressed village downtowns more cheaply than in other areas and because they are usually allowed to build more units per acre. The affordable apartments in hipper, walkable urban-style neighborhoods become a magnet for young, well educated workers that many suburbs have been losing. Independent elderly couples, who no longer need or want a big single family house, also are drawn to these cheaper, more interesting neighborhoods.

And so it goes — a cycle of survival and renewal that will save the suburb from itself.

Success will breed success and courage. As more of these new suburban spaces succeed, without substantially changing the single-family home character of most of the rest of the community, they will become easier to sell politically. And as NIMBY uproar diminishes, politicians will more likely approve projects that they wouldn’t have dared let through a generation or even a year ago.

But the future of the suburbs depends (sorry about that word again) on more than the actions of local village, town, and county officials.

If the federal government reduces incentives for sprawl (by shifting funds from highway building, for instance, to mass transit or to sewer construction necessary for “densifying” suburbs), the so-called “smart growth” movement will hasten and spread deeper into suburbia. If the oil cartels and our own consumption habits keep energy prices high, consumers will pressure builders into putting up smaller and “greener” units that may not look like my parents’ split level. Highways may not be as congested or at least they may be safer because people will be driving slower to save on gas. Increased purchases of hybrids and other energy-saving moves will reduce pollution and the “carbon footprint” of suburbia.

And with environmentalists and builders, along with politicians, agreeing on less sprawling tract housing and more “clustered” homes that preserve large swaths of land, the outer “ex-urban” rings may not look like the Levittowns of my parents’ generation that grew out of fields that once bore potatoes.

So how will the suburbs look in 40 years? It depends — on how smart and bold we are willing to be."

2008-08-14T05:56:00.000-07:00

LA TIMES - "One of the contestants on the upcoming season of "America's Next Top Model" is transgender, according to Us Weekly. "My cards were dealt differently," Isis, a 22-year-old former receptionist, told the magazine in its current issue. The model describes herself as "a woman born physically male."
"We applaud Tyra Banks and the CW for making this historic visibility of transgender people possible," Neil Giuliano, president of GLAAD, told Us."

2008-08-10T06:27:00.000-07:00

Marijuana: It’s Time for a Conversation Video
hosted Rick Steves. 30 minutes
http://www.marijuanaconversation.org

A local provincial TV station (KOMO TV) in Seattle is currently refusing to air the video, even though it was filmed in their studios..

These laws need to be repealed and the public use of Marijuana needs to be decriminalized. Billions of dollars are wasted every year on the frivolous enforcement of provincial Marijuana Laws. Hundreds of thousands of good US citizens are being unjustly incarcerated. What a shame and an embassrassment to us as a country.

2008-08-08T04:33:00.000-07:00

Dita Von Teese & Marilyn Manson....Voted most changed...

Class Reunions are coming up for some of my friends...although I'd never attend my class reunion..ever. I don't really care to re-visit my high school classmates, although it would be interesting to get to know the ones I didn't know back then. People that maybe I'd connect with now. There are a few that I have fond memories of, but not a lot.

I've always felt like a chameleon of sorts, constantly changing and re-inventing myself as I go though life. You would see this, if you've ever known me for any length of time. Often I feel like I've lived many lives, and sometimes my past feels very foreign to me. I think it's that I embrace the notion that we are always in a state of change, and in order to keep growing, I acknowledge this with open arms.

Instead of dreaming a life, why not live a dream. I think that is the difference between living, and being alive.

I would be on this list too....

2008-08-05T04:21:00.000-07:00

Thai school offers transsexual toilet

By Jonathan Head
BBC News, north-east Thailand

"A new toilet sign has been created at this Thai school
With its spacious, tree-lined grounds and slightly threadbare classrooms, there is nothing obviously unusual about the Kampang Secondary School.

It is situated in Thailand's impoverished north-east, and most of the pupils are the children of farmers.

Every morning at 0800 they all gather outside to sing the national anthem and watch the flag being raised.

Then they have a chance to use the toilets, before heading off the first classes of the day.

Kampang is proud of its toilets. Spotless, and surrounded by flowering tropical plants, they have won national awards for cleanliness.

But there is something else about them too. Between the girls' toilet and the boys', there is one signposted with a half-man, half-woman figure in blue and red.

This is the transsexual toilet, and outside, in front of the mirrors, some decidedly girly-looking teenage boys preen their hair and apply face cream.

'Uncomfortable'

The headteacher, Sitisak Sumontha, estimates that in any year between 10% and 20% of his boys consider themselves to be transgender - boys who would rather be girls.

The transsexual pupils are delighted with their own facilities

"They used to be teased every time they used the boys' toilets," he said, "so they started using the girls' toilets instead. But that made the girls feel uncomfortable. It made these boys unhappy, and started to affect their work."

So the school offered to build the transgender boys their own facility, and they welcomed it.

Triwate Phamanee is a slightly built 13-year-old who is adamant that he will one day change his gender.

"We're not boys," he told me, "so we don't want to use the boys' toilet - we want them to know we are transsexuals."

Vichai Saengsakul, 15, agrees.

"People need to know that being a transsexual is not a joke," he says, "it's the way we want to live our lives. That's why we're grateful for what the school has done."

Normal treatment
The transgender boys in Kampang tend to stick together as a group, practising their somewhat exaggerated feminine mannerisms together and generally camping it up.

They still have to wear male uniforms, make-up is not allowed (although some manage to sneak in a touch of lipstick and mascara), and of course sex-change surgery is out of the question at this age - the youngest self-declared transsexual is 12.

But they appear to be treated perfectly normally by other pupils and teachers alike.

I asked the headmaster whether they were not too young to be making decisions about their gender.

The pupils have to wear boys' uniforms, but use feminine accessories
He said that, in his 35 years of working in the Thai education system, he had come across many boys like this, and they never changed. Many go on as adults to have sex-change surgery, while others will live as gay men, he said.

Thailand is well known for its tolerance of transgender men, and they are very visible in everyday life. Sex-change surgery has become a speciality of the Thai health industry, and it is relatively inexpensive; patients come here from all over the world for the operation.

'Sweet and soft'

The Kampang school's initiative, far from stirring up controversy, has instead prompted a discussion in other schools over whether they should be providing the same facilities.

A ratio of 10% to 20% of boys calling themselves transsexual in a provincial high school does seem very high, but Mr Sitisak assured me that in his experience it was not unusual.

When [the pupils grow up] they won't want to go into a transgender toilet because they will want to be accepted as a woman - so they will go to the women's toilet

Suttirat Simsiriwong
Transgender campaigner

Which brought up a question that has been rattling around my head ever since I first lived in Thailand seven years ago: Why do so many Thai men want to become women?

I asked Suttirat Simsiriwong, who became a campaigner for transgender rights after she was barred entry to a nightclub at an international hotel in Bangkok last year.

Poised, articulate and very feminine, it is hard to tell that she was not born a woman.

"Maybe the numbers of gays, of people with sexual identity issues, might be the same as in other countries," said Suttirat, "but because Thai society and culture tend to be very sweet, very soft, and the men can be really feminine, if we tend to be gay, many of us tend to be transgender."

So does building a special toilet in school advance the cause of winning wider acceptance for transsexuals?

"At that age it's good for them to have a specific place," she said.

"But when they graduate from school or university, they will know how to have medical treatment. They won't want to go into a transgender toilet because they will want to be accepted as a woman - so they will go to the women's toilet."

Discrimination remains

Tolerance, said Suttirat, is not the same thing as acceptance.

Despite their high profile in Thailand, transsexuals complain that they are still stereotyped - they can find work easily enough as entertainers, in the beauty industry, the media, or as prostitutes, but it is much harder to become a transgender lawyer or investment banker.

And their biggest complaint is that they cannot change their legal status.

Despite a proposal during the drafting of a new constitution last year, to allow them to change the gender on their identity cards, this has not yet been approved."

2008-07-11T08:09:00.000-07:00

Orlando - Virginia Woolf
"Orlando tells the story of a young man named Orlando, born in England during the reign of Elizabeth I, who decides not to grow old. He does not, and he passes through the ages as a young man ... until he wakes up one morning to find that he has metamorphosed into a woman -- the same person, with the same personality and intellect, but in a woman's body. The remaining centuries up to the time the book was written are seen through a woman's eyes."

Sometimes I feel like a Modern-day Orlando..perhaps I am.... One of my favorite books and films.

2008-05-16T10:55:00.001-07:00

Boycott Beijing China Olympics 2008

2008-04-29T11:44:00.000-07:00

Grayson Perry at NEW YORK's ARMORY SHOW 2008

I saw Grayson Perry's work at the Victoria Miro gallery, London. http://www.victoria-miro.com/ He's one of my favorite artists and I am so glad to have gotten to see his work in person. It's truly amazing.

2008-03-28T06:30:00.000-07:00

om mani padme hum, 24x24, resin, mixed mediums on canvas, 2008

2008-02-13T10:01:00.000-08:00

McCarthyism Again.

"McCarthyism is the use of unscrupulous methods of investigation against supposed security risks and the creation of an atmosphere of fear and suspicion. Joseph McCarthy was a US senator for Wisconsin from 1946 until his death in 1957. He is remembered for his demagogic crusade between 1950 and 1954 to root out alleged communists and spies in American public life. As chairman of the Senate Government Operations Committee conducting investigations, he appalled observers by his coarse and brutal behavior. Witnesses were remorselessly bullied, currency was given to wild and unsubstantiated charges, and evidence falsified. As a result of his actions, a feeling of national fear was created and the international reputation of the United States suffered."

Fifty years later we are dealing with this again as a country, with our appalling president, George Bush JR.

2008-02-13T06:10:00.000-08:00

New Resin Artwork - Untitled - 2008, 14"x47.5", 36cm x 120.7cm, Epoxy Resin, Mixed Mediums on Panel

My visitors from the last couple months.

2008-02-11T19:27:00.000-08:00

New York - February NY FASHION WEEK & MOMA

I spent the morning having a fabulous $4 brunch with Lisa, and then we both had $6 Manicures in Astoria NY. They wanted to give us both Mani-Pedi's for $9 each, but we didn't have time. I'll definately go back to Kiki's Nail Salon!

I spent the rest of the morning in Central Park after exiting NY City's fabulous subway system

I adore central park in it's magestic trees and winding pathways. A truely magical place indeed.

Central park was designed by Fredrich Olmstead( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted), the same person who designed the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle, where I grew up and played as a child, and the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain/ Boston where I live now. I have an intimate understanding of a park like this. It is pretty magical and very familiar to me on many levels.

I traveled down 5th avenue with my next destination being MOMA.

http://www.phillipscollection.org/

I passed the http://www.saintthomaschurch.org/ St. Thomas Church on 5th avenue. It being ash wednesday, everyone around me had ash on their forhead. Small crosses marked on the skin. Some of it smeared. Some you would not expect, and others you would. I didn't get annointed, but I appreciated the ones that did.

Andie deRoux & Andy Warhol at MOMA
http://www.moma.org/

Jackson Pollock- One: Number 31, 1950. 1950

link: http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A4675&page_number=19&template_id=1&sort_order=1

I love Alberto Giacometti's work too. My friend Sam Chen has an amazing animated documentry on his life: Eternal Gaze

Bryant Park - NY Fashion Week

Backstage Entrance - Diane von Furstenberg leaving the main tent. (below)

Many of the photographers there did not know who she was, which I found odd, as she is so striking.

http://www.instyle.com/instyle/package/fashionweek/photos/0,,20173386_20175855_20402886,00.html

2008-02-09T11:29:00.000-08:00

NEW YORK CITY February

This last week I traveled down to New York City I visited my good friend artist Lisa Mei Ling Fong, who is moving soon. She is participating in the Dances of Vice Festival this week featuring Rasputina.Her artwork is really amazing, and if you have a chance to see it in person, it is really worth it.

We had lunch at Moby's Teany Cafe. I recommend getting the afternoon tea with the delicious vegetarian sandwiches.

90 Rivington Street New York, NY 10002 (212) 475-9190

We stopped by the Stellan Holm Gallery in Chelsea to see the exhibition Larger Than Life.(STELLAN HOLM GALLERY 524 West 24 th Street NY 10011) The exhibition is pretty amazing from a technical standpoint. The pieces are very large, and exquisitely painted. And I did love a couple of the pieces conceptually.

Jason Brooks "Emily"

Dwayne Moser's Untitled Backdrop (Site of Nicole Richie DUI arrest)

and Till Gerhard's "Hölle der Saison" (review: The Brooklyn Rail)

Across the street at the Marianne Boesky Gallery (509 West 24th Street, New York, NY 10011) we saw the exhibition "THE MASKED PORTRAIT" curated by Midori Nishizawa. This show featured Japanese artists Yayoi Kusama, Nabuyoshi Araki, Motohiki Odami ,Yusamasa Morimura, Takazhi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, and others....

Motohiki Odami (Whole Lotta Love) (with artist Lisa Mei Ling Fong -right)

Exhibition View

I would have liked to see Shirin Neshat's show at Barbara Gladstone. If you get a chance, check it out before February 23, 2008

We stopped by MarieBelle for Hot Chocolate and Truffles.

According to Nancy, MarieBelle has the best chocolate truffles in all of New York City. The Hot Chocolate was definately the most amazing cup I've ever had. It was almost like chocolate mousse and sex.

More New York Pics

To be Continued.......

2008-02-08T07:23:00.000-08:00

Exhibition at Yokohama Museum of Art: GOTH: Reality of the Departed World

"The phenomenon described as goth / gothic exists in various cultural fields including music, fashion, movies and literatures. It originally referred to a style of art in Europe in the Middle Ages, however, today it functions as a term indicative of a certain lifestyle. Body modifications, such as tattooing or piercing, and a focus upon death and illness are not merely a matter of taste, but instead are an expression of the self trying to stand up against a conservative world. The exhibition introduces goth / gothic in contemporary art through approximately 250 works, including sculpture, painting, video, and photography by 6 internationally active artists. Works by these highly respected artists will provide us with the opportunity to think afresh about the nature of goth / gothic, which resonates especially with a young generation. "

http://jiu.ac.jp/yma/goth/eng/artist6.html
Masayuki Yoshinaga talk on Feb 11th.
"Girls dressed like antique dolls walk around urban areas like Tokyo or Osaka. Youngsters dressed in black get together for a night on the town. His photographs follow these teenagers, called "goth" and "Lolita", who are in search of their own place."

2008-01-28T12:29:00.000-08:00

On Top of the World, 21" height x 82" width, ( 53.5cm height x 208.3 cm width)Resin, Pigments on Panel, Andie deRoux 2008

2008-01-13T11:37:00.001-08:00

New York Solo Art Exhibition featuring Swedish Painter Ulrika Minami Warmling's Gothic & Lolita Paintings - November 2007

Les Jardins Noirs" at Stellan Holm Gallery in New York November 2 - middle of December, 2007 http://www.warmling.se/

In November we traveled down to New York to see Ulrika Minami Warmling's first solo exhibition at the Stellan Holm Gallery in Chelsea. The larger than life oil paintings are truely amazing in person. They remain very painterly, yet have a realism that reaches out to you and touches you intimately inside. the Paintings have a life of their own. We have been friends for a couple years, and this was actually the first time we met in real life. She is one of the nicest people I have ever met, and truely a very talented painter. I hope that we get to see her later this year with a trip over to Europe.

You can see more of her work on her personal website http://www.warmling.se/ and the gallery has fantastic photos of her exhibition!

Stellan Holm Gallery

524 West 24th street

New York, NY

2008-01-04T14:03:00.000-08:00

Happy New Years Everyone! We got some snow in Boston and celebrated with a small group of close friends! I hope everyone had a fabulous New Years Eve Celebration! I'm really excited for 2008! Lots of things are being planned!

2007-12-24T08:21:00.000-08:00

Last weekend we went for a walk through Forest Hills Cemetary with Showshoes. The snow was 2 to 3 feet deep in some areas! And we even found Marie Antoinette's grave!

"Before humanity built snowshoes, nature provided examples. Several animals, most notably the snowshoe hare, had evolved over the years with oversized feet enabling them to move more quickly through deep snow."

We'll we didn't see any rabbits, but Nancy and I had tons of fun!

2007-12-06T23:03:00.000-08:00

Victorian Cemetary - Pink Path

Artist Andie deRoux & Miu in Forest Hills Cemetary, Jamaica Plain, MA http://www.foresthillscemetery.com/

Forest Hills Cemetery is one of the finest examples of the rural cemetery garden in the United States. It was designed in 1848. This 275-acre greenspace and arboretum features Victorian landscape design, meandering paths, scenic vistas, and a lovely small lake. Many prominent historic and cultural figures are buried here, including inventors, entrepreneurs, civic leaders, artists, and social activists.

Miu & "Gracie"

Kate & Joel Blackthorn, Nancy deRoux & Miu
Kate & Joel Blackthorn

2007-12-06T11:10:00.000-08:00

musings about art Current mood: creative
Hello from Boston,

As you may already know, I've reloacted to the East Coast to pursue my art career. I've kept my Seattle Studio, as I'm traveling back there about every month.

Recently I've been working on some large paintings in my Boston studio. I call them paintings for your sake, but to me they are sculptures. I don't think like a painter, and my pieces may be flat at times. but they are very layered and sculptural in their essence. Perhaps that is what gives them depth and life..

When I work on artwork. often it is a very difficult journey. sometimes heart breaking, other times it makes the whole world make sense to me and sing the most beautiful poetic song that brings tears to my eyes.. this is what makes the journey worth it. Another thing I have learned is that the more you you put in your art, the stronger & more powerfull it is. Stronger as-in boldness, composition, use of visual elements. powerfull as-in content and how it speaks to you and the world.

Good art, stands on it's own and has it's own life beyond the hands that made it. It changes and grows with time, people change and their idea about a work grows too. I think my obligation in being an artist, is to make art that makes people think, laugh, feel comforted, optimistic, cry with sadness, and weep with joy. To make art that has as much me in it as possible. When I say "me" I do not refer to the ego, part of "Me", but rather I refer to the "me" that is found in private moments( even if others are around), when tears fills your eyes because you are so proud of what you have done....what you have said, and the truth that you have conveyed in your art. That is what an artist is.

I hope you enjoy my artwork. I'm just getting started. -Andie

2007-05-14T22:51:00.000-07:00

May - New Work at the Friesen Gallery in Seattle

MIGRATION

24" H x 36" W

mixed mediums on panel

GARDEN OF LIGHT

49" H x 28.5" W x 2" D

mixed mediums on panel

TREES IN SILVER

47.5" H x 24" W x 2" D

mixed mediums on panel

LIGHT I

47" H x 24" W x 2" D

mixed mediums on panel

LIGHT II

24" H x 48.5" W x 2" D

mixed mediums on panel

2007-05-08T16:30:00.000-07:00

New work at the Friesen Gallery in Seattle Washington this month.
Go see if your in town! -Andie

LIGHT II, Epoxy Resin Painting

48.5" W x 24" H x 2" D

Epoxy Resin, Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Acrylic on Wood Panel

Friesen Gallery - Seattle

Andie de Roux - Art Blog

Modeling Spring 2011

GOTHIC LOLITA TWIN GIRLS PHOTOSHOOT, UNDEAD JAPANESE BJD DOLLS. ANDIE DEROUX ART STUDIO IN SEATTLE.

A museum turn for Gothic style

What Is the Future of Suburbia?

NEW YORK CITY February