Will you please step forward. Grace and Ease please come to the front of the line. Please bring two forms of identification and proof that you are alive. We require one pint of red blood to make sure you were born from a human. This is not a joke, we need to make sure you …
In 2013, I decided to go after my dream of becoming a successful artist. I started off selling prints at Oakland’s First Friday Event and then “graduated” to farmers markets. I was constantly trying to make money as an artist. And while I made bits of money here and there it was never enough. I …
I don’t really know her story. I just started fostering Stella, my favorite pitbull. Sometimes I think I am training her but most often it is the other way around. I was the fourth girl and through strange and unusual events, I remained at the bottom of the food chain. There were two more kids …
While the good girl in me, would say salad on the side. I am learning to access and include the hugh part of me that I kept in the basement of my sole. Fuck that, is a sole where the me resides or is it in my ego self. Me thinks it is the ego. …
So the day started like any other until it didn’t. Sometimes I wake up in the same bed, with cloths scattered, and it looks pretty similar to my life. However looking back at the last 4 years something changed. While it appeared to be the same, I somehow ended up in the modern day Orwellian …
So my friends, who are just figments of my imaginational simulation, I have to putter on regardless of a point. Pointlessness is the most rewarding quality. As a painter, I find painting so much more difficult to meander pointlessly. As there is no little green smily face to lure me out of my hum drum brain and into the steam of consciousness.
Its been a bit of time since I last posted. I have been working on a new nft collection. It’s funny that I was trying to come up with a way to sell my art more in line with art philosophy. And bam I discovered NFTs. I love the idea of decentralized platforms however navigating …
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The strange thing about today is that it was no different from any other day, until it was. It seemed like it was a dream that I woke into rather than woke out of. The wind was blowing in the trees. The water was flowing in the creek. And I realized that I was Truman. …
While lying in a hot springs looking up at the billions of stars, I began to question if there was a deeper meaning to life. For most of my life I have thought there was. I call myself a pagan, buddhist, witch. And ironically I always thought it was the little punk in me that …
Waking up in a coma was mind blowing. I saw and felt and participated with all the interactions people had with me although they did not know it. It puzzles me to hear and smell so many familiar smells. As opposed to the sterile ones of the hospital. Sometimes in this state I wake up. …
Somehow I find my happiness not in this reality. I find it in dreams, imagination and painting. Having my sun and mid heaven in Pisces could be why. Or I could just be tortured by the real world because I am lazy. However I am not lazy, I just cannot understand humanity at this moment. …
“The Welfare Mother” one of the paintings in my Working Women Series, I painted in the early 90’s. Somehow even though I grew up in a white middle-class family in the midwest, I never understood the culture. I mean trying to make sense of the values was extremely difficult for me. My mother was almost …
“Santana’s Maria Maria” is playing in my head on my way to check out the S.F. MOMA today. Recently I drove across the United States from California to South Carolina. I had plenty of time to ponder my existence. I realized I have this need to slap my ideas up the side of peoples head. …
I saw her across the room, standing alone talking to herself. I looked up from the mirror and thought I’d seen a Ghost. A ghost of the future? past or present? The answer floated away like a cloud on a sunny day. As always I began searching for something, which I always find. One distraction …
“Seven Year Bitch- riot grrrl” an Amalee Original Read More »
I painted this painting of “Metallica” after I got this idea. The idea was to paint a bunch of paintings of rock bands so I could possibly get into Rolling Stone Magazine. This was inspired by a juried show called Metal Bands. “Metallica” was the first of my musical group paintings. While I have not …
If you are interested in my painting process-check out the you tube video below, which you can access by clicking on this post. This video gives you access to the painting process of an artist. After watching this video on the painting of “Lou Reed”, you will feel empowered to try and paint yourself. Seeing …
Grace Jones-A painting of comic hero, showing us how to be ourselves and save our world. At that moment I was considering my options. I saw her off in the distance. While I couldn’t work out simple problems , I could simply see the answer to complex ones. Granted it never came when I needed …
“Grace Jones- The comic hero” A new Amalee Original Painting Read More »
Great new Amalee orginal of David Bowie-The man who fell to earth. Captures the androgynous intensity of a futuristic man of the past. I relate…
I was painting this painting of Nina Simone during a live painting session at Spressa Coffee Bar. This woman came up and said “I like that painting just the way it is.” Live painting is great. The first time I heard the music of Nina Simone, I was working at the Clarion Cafe. A small …
As I stood in the grocery line on my taped X on the pavement, I reflected on a dream I had that morning. I started to get confused as to which was the dream and which was not. The funny thing about my relationship to Kurt Cobain is that I hated his music when I …
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This painting “Relative Reflections” was selected to be part of the online juried show “Reflections”. The juror gallerist Shelly Barry choose the works to be included in the national juried show of Arc Gallery in San Francisco. I am pleased to be part of this online show starting May 16th, 2020. As an artist, I …
Welcome to the secret post. First I would like to apologizes to Angela Davis for calling my painting of her “Angee. I only did it because I want to have a post for people who already know of her. In fact fans of hers. I want to celebrate her amazingness with like minded people. …
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Where Klimt and Homer collide, journey to the underworld. You will not get to see this whole painting until you become a patron. I am still working on this painting, so as a patron you would get to see the progress. Influence the outcome, possibly. Although I am stubborn and I am a bit slow …
Where klimt and Homer collide, Journey out of the underworld. Read More »
Seems like a theme of mine! Good bye my (fill in thew Blank) , Goodbye! While I say good ridden to “my pleaser”, it is more difficult to say Goodbye to my studio. While I do not paint there that often, because I have a studio in my house, I will miss it. It was …