Article on Bitch Buzz about Pin it up, Babycakes

My friend Kate Kotler interviewed Jessica and I about the show. Her article is up on Bitch Buzz!

You can read about our adventure here: http://culture.bitchbuzz.com/fishnets-tarts-the-art-of-the-modern-tease.html

My Art for Pin it up, Babycakes

"Kitten on the Keys"
16x20"
Oil and Swarovski crystals on canvas gicleé
$500


"Catherine D'Lish"
16x20"
Oil and Swarovski crystals on canvas gicleé
$500


"Dirty Martini"
16x20"
Oil and Swarovski crystals on canvas gicleé
$500


"Sweet M'alice self portrait"
30x40"
oil on canvas
$1500


"Sweet Cheeks"
30x40"
oil on canvas
$1500


"Bombshell Betty"
30x40"
oil on canvas
$1500

Pin it up, Babycakes: Fishnets, Tarts and the Art of the modern tease

It's been a year in the making! The red hot pinup & burlesque art exhibition everyone has been waiting for is almost here.

The art is outstanding!
The performers are delightful and decadent and half naked!
The film will be filled with shimmying black & white vintage boobs & perhaps a little beefcake!
The sexy vendors are busily making their wares! For you! For your Valentine's sweetie!

Mark your calendars for Opening night: February 5th

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Curated by me (Alice Stribling) and Jessica Whiteside.

Artists:
Alice Stribling
Jessica 'Tink' Whiteside
Emma Mount
Shaunna Peterson
Tanem
Darling Propaganda
Molly Crabapple
David Perry
Bombshell Betty
Kirsten Easthope

Opening Night Event:

Burlesque Performers (more to be announced!):
Bombshell Betty & the Burlesqueteers
Tinky Sparkle
Dottie Lux
Bunny Pistol

MC and bawdy musical entertainment:
Kitten on the Keys

Vintage film:
Stephen Parr of Oddball Film

Thee Merry Widows play at midnight!


Press release - For Immediate Release - January 2009

The pinup girl holds a titillating place in history. She and her sister, the burlesque queen, have long been American icons, evolving with the changing tastes of popular culture.

The Gibson Girl of the Gay Nineties may have been fully clothed, but her poses in popular magazines were racy by the standards of the day. She became a superstar whose name is known even today. The Vargas Girl peeking over her shoulder in magazines of the Forties may have worn fewer clothes, but her popularity was perhaps greater than the Gibson Girl. Vargas Girls graced calendars in gas stations and on barrack walls. She flew hundreds of WWI missions on the noses of fighters and bombers. In burlesque houses across the country, the pinup pose moved to the stage with tauntingly slow strip teases and 'oops-what-happened-to-my-clothes' wardrobe malfunctions. The biopic about Fifties pinup star Bettie Page, released in 2006, highlights the current popularity of burlesque and pinup.

The spirit of pinup and burlesque continues to influence new artists. Lingerie clad ladies doing provocative burlesque bump-and-grind pinup poses inspired "Pin It up, Babycakes", an art exhibition created by Alice Stribling and Jessica Whiteside. The show will hang at 111 Minna Gallery from February 5 -28, 2009.

Stribling and Whiteside met in January of 2008, and were excited to find that both were pinup inspired artists. Both artists made the transition from admiring pinup to performing burlesque, and found themselves dancing in Bombshell Betty's burlesque class months later. Sometime between doing the hip bump and tassel twirl, the two discussed the idea of doing a show together. "Pin It up, Babycakes" is the result.

The work in the show ranges from sexily clad Samurai sword swinging chicks on hot rods, to charmingly naughty illustrations with a Victorian flourish. Shelves will be stocked with cheeky cowgirls on bowling pins, along with pinups 'advertising' products like Catwoman's whipping cream, purrrfect on pie.

Opening night festivities will be MC'd by the fabulous Kitten on the Keys, and will include tantalizing burlesque performances. Vintage burlesque film clips hand crafted by Stephen Parr of Oddball Films Archive will be shown. And there will be Sexy Merchandise ... just in time to make you or your Valentine sweetie squeal with delight.


111 Minna Gallery, SF / www.111minnagallery.com
Exhibition Runs February 5-28 2009
Opening Night: Thursday, February 5
6pm-LATE / Must be 21+ / $5 after 9 p.m. for burlesque
www.pinitupbabycakes.com
Sponsored by Dollhouse Bettie Vintage and Pinup Lingerie

2008 accomplishments, 2009 goals

Every turn of a year I take some time to reflect on the previous 365 days and think about what I would like to accomplish with the year ahead. I have a handmade book which I specifically use to document this process. It was given to me by my friend Flannery Bateman in 2006 for my birthday and it is half full, yay!

A few of my accomplishments from 2008:

• Many pastels, drawings, and paintings: link
• Participated in the 111 Minna Gallery January show and am curating the highly anticipated Pin it up, Babycakes art exhibition: link
• 2 weeks in France making pastels and cafe drawings with Diane Olivier: link
• Barcelona with handsome Bill: link
• Purchased a DSLR and photographed Tease O Rama: link
• performed solo burlesque as Sweet M'alice: link
• performed with Tramp le Monde in her solo debut!: link
• Fell in love with my bike!



A few goals for 2009:

• Focus on art as a satisfying life pursuit: both financially and emotionally
• Set up a potentially naughty 2-3 person exhibition and/or solo show
• Photograph pin ups and burlesque for painting reference: most likely on bicycles, perhaps more erotic
• Sever my mild addiction and lingering flirtation with cable TV and TV in general
• Family, friends, love, life, boobs!!
• Studio space
• Face my fear

Inspiration for 2009






Alice Austen and Gertrude Tate 1891


Alice Austin and ladyfriend


Vintage bicycle ad