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Live at the Hive: L.A. animators art opening

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In Your Dreams painting for Hive Gallery Oct. 3, 2015 opening in L.A.
Bev Hogue’s In Your Dreams painting for Hive Gallery Oct. 3, 2015 opening in L.A.

It’s another trip to L.A. but this time with a twist. For the opening at Hive Gallery’s “Secret Art of Animators 2” show on Saturday, Oct. 3, I decided to send a representative in my place — an 11 in. x 14 in. acrylic on canvas painting titled In Your Dreams.

The show highlights the artwork of the movers and shakers of the animation industry. Among the featured guests: Simpsons art director Andrew Brandou, Model maker Tory Bellici (The Matrix) and Mythbusters host and M5 model maker Kari Byron, among many others.

I was asked to submit a piece for the accompanying show that plays on ’90s animation favourites. Ren and Stimpy were too hard to resist. They pose (as still as they can possibly be) American Gothic style, bookending a portrait of one of my blue women. She has the expression of one of my favourites, Deer Prudence.

I like the piece and I hope it goes to a good home.

Hive Gallery, Bev Hogue
Secret Art of Animators 2 show at Hive Gallery in L.A.

 

 

Los Angeles

15 minutes in blue fame

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Actress Natalie Martinez on the set of TV pilot Warrior, with Bev Hogue painting Suffragette in background of this shot.

Some Hollywood set designers took an interest in a few Bev Hogue blue paintings for an upcoming pilot earlier this year.

After some back and forth on the cast of paintings, Suffragette, Boot Camp, Undercover Girl and Passion Flower were chosen to be positioned in the bedroom of actress Natalie Martinez for a TV series called Warrior.

We heard that director Phillip Noyce loved the paintings. I recall how the Australian director  brought us to the edge of our seats in the film Dead Calm, the open-ocean thriller that brought Nicole Kidman international attention.

Alas, the series is not to be, but these Bev Hogue paintings got to strut under the lights for a few weeks of  shooting in the spring.

It’s not true that these girls are feeling blue. They feel pretty good to have been chosen to appear alongside kick-ass martial arts crime fighter Kai Forrester (Martinez).

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Bev Hogue paintings Passion Flower and Suffragette on the set of TV series pilot Warrior
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Faster Pussycat Kill Kill!

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Faster Pussycat by Bev Hogue for Tura Satana tribute show in LA. December 2014.

Tura Satana: an actor,  force of nature, and now object of art.

When the buxom Hollywood B-movie star died, her many fans mourned but the world awoke to her power and beauty.

Bev Hogue chats with LA artist Johnny Coffin at Tura exhibit at Lethal Amounts gallery, December 2014.
Bev Hogue chats with LA artist Johnny Coffin

Many tributes, including one in L.A. in late 2014,  helped tell Tura’s story. At a time in cinema when women were getting slapped around on screen by leading men, her chilling portrayal in the Russ Meyer  flic Faster Pussycat Kill Kill! turned the tables  and launched the era of powerful ass kickin women. Quentin Tarantino would go on to base his Kill Bill character on Tura.

I was honoured to be invited by Tura’s manager Siouxzan Perry to produce a tribute piece for the December 2014 show. The piece, “Faster Pussycat” was in good company at the show, surrounded by G0-Go dancers and Tura’s on-screen co-stars.  At Lethal Amounts gallery I got a chance to connect with fellow artist Johnny Coffin and his partner, musician Linda Kay Parker,  and the amazing Siouxzan Perry. Great people, great show!

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Tura Satana’s  manager Siouxzan Perry, left, and Bev Hogue at Lethal Amounts Gallery, L.A., December 2014.