art diva studios visuals and verbiage by Rachelle Díaz
Recent Work, Reception & Art Blowout Sale
I have new never-displayed-before & recent work up at Cafe Zope thru the end of July, so please stop by, grab a cold ‘n’ tasty beverage, a delicious crêpe and check it out. Cafe Zope 344 N. 4th Ave.Tucson, AZ July 13-30 Tu-Fri 9am-3pm Sa-Su 8am-5pm ***RECEPTION*** ***SATURDAY, JULY 17, 5-9pm*** Snacks catered by Café [...]
A Musical Homage to My Pops
My dad’s musical taste in rock from the late 60′s and early 70′s inspired me enormously in my early teens, and still does to this day. So as a Father’s Day tribute, I made him a mix CD — I wanted to make it all prog/proto-prog but it came out as more of a mish-mash [...]
Re-post from TuScene – Open Questions on Artistic Practice: New Releases
Re-posting a few questions I posed on Tu Scene earlier today because I was kind of ready to ask them in terms of my own personal artistic practice lately (see the TuScene comment further down), although I felt given the conversation with my friends about local Tucson art, it was a good idea to start [...]
Colorspaces
Quite possibly one of the most challenging drawings I’ve ever done. The drawing bit itself is only about 4″ x 4″ but the unanticipated intricacies took about 6 months of various re-dos and psyching myself up that I could finish it. [...]
Colorbars set
Exploring another facet of screens, color science, art/creativity, what the human eye sees/absorbs/interprets/reproduces in this set. Specifically the idea of art as decoration, like wallpaper, as a receding into the backdrop of living spaces, not really serving an intellectual/spiritual/emotional purpose except to compliment the furnishings. [...]
video/painting/portrait
I was finishing one of the last of the colorbars paintings, working directly from my computer screen. On a whim, I decided to fire up photobooth and shoot a video of me painting (I’m always firing up photobooth on whims!). I was hoping to get the painting on the desk in the frame since I [...]