art diva studios visuals and verbiage by Rachelle Díaz
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Hippy Fit (a zine) – now available on etsy
A personal photographic essay reconciling art, fashion and fitness through a bizarre combination of sports marketing and psychedelic illusions. All photography, graphic design, verbiage, digital printing & staple binding personally completed with love by yours truly in Austin, Texas. 24 pages 5″ x 7″ signed limited first edition of 31 prints Yours for a mere [...]
Show Recap
Since me & Gerardo‘s show was a one-weekend-only affair, I made sure to document everything. Although we installed our work at separate times, we coincidentally had a similar vision for the gallery space: crazy giant mural surrounded by minimalism. All in all, I thought it was a nice-lookin’ little show. Thanks to all — good [...]
New Work Preview
Drawings, zines, photography, graphic design, sculpture [click pics for full image]… a few samples of new work for the show at Satellite Studios on Friday.
Women In Psych mix
[download] World of Dreams – The Cake Sally Go Round The Roses – Grace Markay* Hide & Seek – The Feminine Complex What A Way To Die – The Pleasure Seekers Twilight Dreamer – Earth & Fire*** Little Sadie – Trees** Beauty – Mad Curry*** Tuesday – Birtha Hard Chargin’ Woman – Zephyr Lottery – [...]
Digital Manifestations
I don’t have a iPhone and didn’t care too much about owning one, till some of my favorite bloggers and tweeps starting using Instagram earlier this year. Now I want one specifically to use that app! But alas, such a purchase is not in my financial future, so I will just have to ignore my [...]
FeminiNRG mix & digital costume
Not your run-of-the-mill “ladies of the 80′s”! A mix of energetic ItaloDisco and sweet Euro synth-pop. Be sure to watch the youtube links too, you won’t regret it! DOWNLOAD 1. Upside Down – Vanessa (recommended youtube-ing) 2. Shine Up – Doris D And The Pins (recommended youtube-ing) 3. Menhungry – Maxine Dee 4. Instant Love [...]
Thru A Scanner
The theme for this month’s 27 project was “Portraits.” After being in front of the camera twice in the last couple of weeks, I actually didn’t feel like attempting any self-portraits. (Can you believe it?!) I turned my cheap HP scanner on its side and scanned my friends and dog in. I’m calling this method [...]
DON’T FREAK OUT
Sorry for the vulgarity — this is inspired by this Conan O’Brien version of the “Keep Calm and Carry On” poster my cousin posted on Facebook earlier this afternoon. #1) Sometimes I feel like I’m the only white person who’s annoyed by the ubiquitous adage. I mean, seriously? Would you truly do that in a [...]
For Sale [Foreclosure]
I’m not much into party politics, but I find the Supreme Court’s recent ruling highly disturbing. In the vein of the Passing the Buck piece I did several months ago, I just made these two flags, inspired by this Adbusters flag.
Houses I’ve Lived In
All the houses I lived in through childhood via Google Street View & Google Maps. 1980-1984 1985 1986 1987 1988-1992 1989-1990 1992-1993 1993 1993-1997 1997-1998
Black Candy 09
Revisiting photo/painting diptychs I made a year ago called Black Candy. Black Candy 09 Photography & digital collage September 2009 What Now, Wise Guy? Photography & digital collage September 2009
Chocolate cake, chocolate cake
i love you so much i want to marry you and live forever in the flavor of your brown
Space Vomit Desktop
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Mystery Hed
How it was: How I saw it:
Brownsville
Lowrider: check Palm trees: check Streetscape: check Stunning flora: check Quinceañera: check Santa Muerte: check The only thing missing’s a taco. Layers of cities, mirage cities, ephemeral cities, black hole cities, particularly border cities; the splendor of the hidden city. [1024 x 768]
Tucsonphotomanip
Did this really quick today for zee blog. Been in Tucson for 1 year now. And what a year! Lately I’ve been slowly and quietly working on new paintings, clothing pieces for fall, writings and Pop Up Spaces projects, all currently in the “drudgery” phase of the creative cycle, between the fun parts of inception [...]
TV Screen
(needs some photoshop tweaking, not a very good photo) Acrylic on wood June 2009 part of the Staring at Screens series Heard this on NPR yesterday: As TV Changes To Digital, White Noise Fades Away A familiar sight and sound is disappearing as digital TV takes over from analog: television snow and the “white noise” [...]
Staring At Screens original photos
Just realized I hadn’t posted the original photos for this new series. Artist statement for this project is here and here.
One down…
The first painting in my Staring at Screens series is down, several more to go. Acrylic on canvas 2009 Here is the original photo, doctored in Photoshop for exposure/saturation to create the painting: My digital camera has been dying a slow death since the summer of 2008. Finally, back in March 2009 I couldn’t get [...]
Cindy Sherman Idol
Wind Digital April 2009 If there was ever a Cindy Sherman Idol, I would totally be into that. But really, what’s the point of the self-portrait? I mean, what’s the effing point? Our ancestor artist-shamans painted vales full of game. Historical mythology brought us images of gods, saints/bodhisattvas/hench(wo)men, heaven, hell, the in-between. Then I recall [...]
Gewgaws
Digital Collage December 2008
Imaginary Love Story
Digital Collage December 2008
Cabinet
Digital Collage December 2008
