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 [...]
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 [...]
No Wave [autoritratti]
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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]
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) – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Arizona Daily Star Caliente feature
An interview with yours truly and Tucson familia (PLAY, MAXED ART, Dinnerware Artspace) in the feature article of this week’s Caliente, the Arizona Daily Star‘s arts/entertainment section. Check out the slideshow, too! There’s an intro and 4 different sections. Intro PLAY’s black light art show in March (all my quotes are here) 7UP Performance Art [...]
Black light portrait of César
This is a portrait of my husband, César. Photo was taken in tungsten (regular) light. I used to have a black light, but can’t find it. Featured in a black light art show at PLAY in Tucson, AZ. Acrylic and black light-reactive paint March 2009
Before their time
Before their time Pencil on paper May 28, 2008 In art class, my junior year of high school, we were asked to fill up a 100 page sketchbook over the course of the semester. This was the year when I starting thinking seriously (as seriously as a 16-year-old can) about art as a career. I [...]
Alter Ego
I was invited to be in an art show called Alter Ego. For several months, I’ve had the idea to do some art/fashion portraits of the regular characters I inhabit in the theater of my head. I wanted to show the inner alter egos we all have, how we see ourselves in fantasies, daydreams, and [...]
Lush
2006 Acrylic and puff paint on vintage fabric, 18″ x 24″ $175
Giggle
This piece is based on a photograph I took of myself in 2003. 2006 Acrylic on cloth, 18″ x 24″ $300
I’m So Glad To Grow Older
I did this painting coming out of a bad relationship. The title is lyrics from a Morissey song: ‘I’m so glad to grow older / to move away from those awful times / I’m in love for the first time / and I don’t feel bad.’ 2000 Acrylic on canvas, 20″ x 28″ $250
