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How totally typical that I would plan a cute valentines show by booking a sweet couple...and then in perfect dramatic darling form, the couple splits!!! Much like how I have been sabotaging all my own recent dating ventures, just in time for this hallmark holiday!!! But don't be weary, the art is amazing, the show is to die for, and the couple of artist are working it out. So all you cute people come on down to my pretty little Gallery, drink some champagne and maybe flirt with all the recently broken up, attractive people that will surely be in attendance(as it seems break-ups are the seasons trend). If no-one there will make out with you, I will.
xo

A Valentines celebrations featuring two local artist and formal lovers who present works created both together and apart. Missed Connections.

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Alex Steele

Alex Steele relocated from Miami to San Francisco to study at The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI). A recent graduate, she now works at The California Academy of Sciences museum in Golden Gate Park, and continues to make art. She has shown at Gallery 666, The Diego Rivera Gallery, and participated in a traveling group show that moved from the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to Seokyoung University in Korea. She will be showing pieces from her "See How They Smile When They Kill".

An imagined Mirage Hotel tiger habitat in ruins meets the story of Grey Gardens. Wild tigers are juxtaposed with Big Edie and Little Edie (the Beales) of Grey Gardens, relating their territorial instincts and untamed nature. In hued, apocalyptic imagery, white bengal tigers from Sigfried & Roy's tiger habitat at the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas remain dominant of their once enclosed territory. The story of Little Edie's burden to stay in Grey Gardens with her mother, Big Edie, is similar in restriction; she is free to go, but lingers in volunteered captivity. The work demonstrates a pull between domestication and innate wildness, and the fall from riches to ruins. The relationships of the characters to their environs evolve into an absurd situation where the Beales become as wild as their home and the white tigers transition into feral beings.

Lafe Eaves

Art is a meditation process that I'm obsessed with. Similar to the effects that Lysergic acid has on the brain I create patterns out of meticulous line work to build a universe based off my own imagination. Within this universe I've made for myself, Animals, geometrical patterns, relics of dark magic, astrological space and temples all come together to interact in a dialog of psychedelic proportions. By using these themes I've allowed myself to sift in and out of consciousness of my own reality and make work that is largely autobiographical but work that opens itself up for the viewer to interpret the piece through their own eyes. That way the interaction between the public and my art becomes something sacred to them based off their own assumptions of what the work is about.

We were planning on putting up a gothy kind of pretty valentines day window, but then I got obsessed with these pretty flowers when I was shopping and decided to just do a pretty spring window!!! So here a few pictures from the install and the final product! Come by and check them out!!!

A view in to the life of our glamorous photo-shoot ala BellJar!!! We have been tirelessly working on the website, which includes a whole slew of boring things such as data entry, but it also involves photoshoots- Luckily I'm not only a master style maven, but I'm also a stylist, a make-up artist and a purveyor of all things lovely. And Jasmine dear is an expert at documenting our goings on! After a long weekend of selling you all pretty frocks and a little bit of whining (yes actual whining, not drinking wine) and dinning on our parts, I give you a sneak peak of our recent shoots! xo

Mandy Darling and I had dinner at Maverick, which is so amazing if you have not been please go! WE had a few glasses of wine with dinner and an amazing cheese plate for dessert and then promptly ran out of the shop to fetch the Pig and head home. There was a monsoon outside and we had the tiniest of all tiny umbrellas and by the time we made it back to BellJar we were soaking wet. I had this scratchy throat all week and I woke up this morning with what appears to be a full blown cold. Damn you weather! So much to do! I was planning the BellJar Valentines Day window and it must be installed today! So in honor of getting motivated to do my window with this nasty cold here is some inspiration!

So boy's and girls it's that time of year take time to give appreciation to those that we love and adore. Since Sasha Darling and BellJar are the epitome of girlie,  pretty glamour what better place to buy your sweetie something special. Here are a few ideas special picked by the Darling girls!