art diva studios visuals and verbiage by Rachelle Díaz
photography
Electric Seance
While I’m not super-impressed with how these shots turned out, I’m still glad I did this. Taken the day before Christmas Eve in the “Pecan Bottom” by Rocky Creek near my parents’ house. Assistants: Set-up from a month ago, Thanksgiving weekend. Yes, these are the same painted sticks from this piece. I was disappointed that [...]
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.
Purple Rain photoshoot with Jerry Jordan
Photos are by m’ mate Jerry, one of my fave art buddies ever. We both share a love of contemporary pop-surrealism, the practices of portraiture, painting, photography and graphic design, black & white ephemera, and electronic musical tastes. These images were shot in a basement in downtown Tucson on January 15, 2010, as notated by [...]
Photo Opportunities: Object or -ness?
After conducting an online keyword search and sifting through photo sharing sites, Swiss/French artist Corinne Vionnet carefully layers 200 to 300 photos on top of one another until she gets her desired result. We are looking at a monument that we somehow already know. As a part of knowing that we have also been there, [...]
Phototelephone
More long-distance collaboration and low-tech photographic adventure with my friend Molly of Maxed Art, now based in Charolotte, North Carolina. Here are a few of my favorite shots from our first ever film exchange [click the thumbnails below to view the full uncropped image]; the full set can be viewed on my Flickr. There will [...]
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 [...]
No Wave [autoritratti]
![No Wave [autoritratti]](http://www.artdivastudios.com/database/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/nowave3-310x150.jpg)
After a creatively dismal 4th Quarter 2010, 2011 is already off on a highly productive note. I’m really interested in listening to music again, constantly, which as a general pattern with me indicates that sparks are a-flyin’! Scroll down for some recent hair/make-up/photog woodshedding. [inspired by ZE Records' Mutant Disco vol. 1]
Tucson Meets Austin in West Texas
I celebrated my husband’s birthday and New Year’s with my besties from Austin and Tucson in Alpine (’cause it’s cheap[er]) and a side trip to Marfa (my first real visit after driving through several times). Here are some of my favorite shots from the weekend:
Disco à la mode
Ring in your New Year with some disco… check out my Disco à la mode mix! Part 1: [download] 1. High On Disco (LeBaron Edit) – Nytro 2. That’s hot (Instrumental) – Jesse Gee 3. Something’s Up (Love Me Like The First Time) – Wayne St. John 4. Having It So Bad For You (Edit) – [...]
27-6
27-6 Reception: Saturday, February 27, 6-9pm Open Gallery: Sunday, February 28, 12-5pm Candelabra Gallery, 412 E. 7th St., Tucson, Arizona You’ve seen 27 online, now it’s time to see the show! 27 is how different artists approach the same theme. 27 is to be excited and inspired by photography. http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxed27/ ***Come to the Saturday reception [...]
Bohemian/Goth/Patrick Nagel self-portraits
Started off attempting to makeup inspired by Patrick Nagel. Duran Duran’s Rio remains one of my most favorite albums for both music and cover art and, although I didn’t know it at the time, his illustrations of men and women were ubiquitous in all the pastel-hued hair salons my mom drug me in tow to [...]
27
27: International group art project The 27th of every month. 2009. We began this project to make ourselves grow as artists, and to see and interact with what other artists are doing. 27 is more than just a picture-taking/picture-looking project. We pick themes that are strong in their simplicity. Themes that you can shoot on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
somos todos de papel
Click on the photos to download desktop size images (2272 x 1704 pixels).
Black Candy
Black Candy Digital photographs and spray paint on rice paper October 2008 This is the final concept of Black Candy. It is not so much of a diptych as a magazine spread-type concept. The idea was to, of course, make a poster-size painting for a blacklight art show, but also to evoke a strong emotional [...]
Candy Warhol
Candy Warhol, Alter Ego #3 September 2008 Photography and digital image The musical one. I’d thought about this character when I was doing my Alter Ego shoot for a show earlier this year, but hadn’t quite fleshed out the idea yet. Inspired by on the Red Room Italo blog and some of the album covers [...]
Mirror
Mirror, 2008 Digital camera anomaly
