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[silverravenstudio]

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[stephensheffield]

Don’t Need Another Satellite, 14x11, collage and mixed media. #Dontneedanothersatellite #anothersatellite #planets #halo #collage #collageart #collageartist #cutandpaste #analogcollage #artbuyer #thecollageempire #artcollector #contemporarycollage #pariscollagecollective #pariscollageclub #gluepaperscissors #edinburghcollagecollective #bostonartist #newenglandartist #artist #arizonacollagecollective #brooklyncollagecollective #collageworldwide #italiancollagecollective #cohassetcollagecollective #pghcollagecollective @kanyerartcollection @kolajmagazine @phillipscollection (at stephen_sheffield_collage_art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqIeeMduI9Y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lisakellner]

Some things going on in the studio. Working with arches paper on some larger works on paper. Some thoughts and quotes gestating in and around…. - Documents of its own making - Good painting brings you in and then push you out again - Paintings we’d time to the painting - Paintings finish themselves - A painting must move beyond its subject #whyiloveabstractpainting #workonpaperart #lisakellner #artthoughts #inprogress #natureandculture #abstractart #dailypracticeofpainting #contemporarypainting #dailypainting #contemporaryart #newenglandartist #44north #dualityoflife #duality #artexhibitions #artgallery #artoftheday #artcollective #artsy #artwork #artdealer #streetart #graffitiart #instaartist #alwayspainting https://www.instagram.com/p/CqgOdO2rVQg/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[stephan-paints]

A nice place to paint. • •#birchpointstatepark #stillmanandbirn#portablepainter #watercolorandink #urbansketching #travelsketching #pleinairpainting #enpleinair #landscapepainting #stephangiannini #art #rocklandmaine #paintanyway #pleinairartist #newenglandartist #paintingfromlife #allaprima #creativeuprising#pleinairmag #paintedjournals #rocklandartcapitalofmaine#lymeacademy (at Birch Point State Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci2TBMUuBmj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[roadtripnewengland]

Beavertail Lighthouse- #watercolor of paper, 8x8 #newenglandart #newenglandartist (at Beavertail Lighthouse) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdYSYCauIMG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[draacoaventura]

These pictures got em melting panties! Love these pics. Gonna use some of them as merch to sign at shows. #musicman #newstuff #newagemusic #musicpop #popularmusic #newrapmusic #newmusic2020 #newmusical #indiepopmusic #instanewmusic #discovernewmusic #popcorns #newenglandartist #newsdasemana #newpostup #newview #newboard #newtoinsta #popularpages #musicmaker #igmusic #newsound #picoftheday #violinplayer #photooftheday #singer (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdH19OFohQ3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[secretparadiseshop]

Take our mind away from 90 degree’s already! #winterart #wintercollection #heatwave #vacation #cooloff #villagelife #newenglandlife #newenglandartists #secretparadiseshop #secretparadiseart #jewelry (at Somerset Historic Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/CgnjvIcMQ2y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[thecoffeeisblack]

Color work in progress for Quetzalcoatlus northropi.

[dorywhynot]

I've been taking another crack at gouache this month, and also have been listening to Christine and the Queens nonstop, and remembered this coincidental sketchbook gouache study I did last year. At the time I was resolving to work from photo study so I could focus on getting a handle on the medium (reference photo is art for the La Vita Nuovo EP shot by photographer Camille Vivier @camille_vivier ) As for Chris, well. I think she's real real neat.

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[silverravenstudio]

Looking through the archives & drawn to these ‘Powerful Adornments’ from 2018 ✨ Should I bring this style back? ✨

[stephensheffield]

Two Times A Day, 14x11", collage and mixed media. #brushyourteeth #twotimesaday #halo #collage #collageart #collageartist #cutandpaste #analogcollage #artbuyer #thecollageempire #artcollector #contemporarycollage #pariscollagecollective #pariscollageclub #gluepaperscissors #edinburghcollagecollective #bostonartist #newenglandartist #artist #arizonacollagecollective #brooklyncollagecollective #collageworldwide #italiancollagecollective #cohassetcollagecollective #pghcollagecollective (at stephen_sheffield_collage_art) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqQHxtUuIzw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lisakellner]

Magnetism I; 40 x 40 inches; oil on canvas. I’m constantly trying to excavate a space, building up layers of patterns and marks, one on top of the other. Always being aware of how adjacent shapes interact. #painting #composition #oilpainting #spatial #insituartroom #artwork #oncanvas #layeredpainting #geometric #forartlovers #artist #newenglandartist https://www.instagram.com/p/CktTawQrWIK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[munduwigoapothecary]

Enjoying a cigar on the porch during today's white out. Love that cold New England air and Flathead 770. Check out the St. Patrick's Day flag a friend made for me. Happy Saturday everyone. Stay safe! Stay Sassy! BTW my beard smells of The Elder God beard Balm! It's selling out fast! Get it here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1166787264/the-elder-god-beard-balm #cigar #cigarlife #cigars #cigaraficionado #beard #beardlife #beardedmen #newengland #newenglandartist #MunduWigoApothecary #stpatricksday #whiteout #snowedin #snowday #flannel #goldenshadow #popicon #marccoderre #massachusetts (at Collinwoods 1209) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaLWp_CLmeE/?utm_medium=tumblr

[coveredinpaint]

Here's the final commissioned painting—a hungry autumn brook trout tempted by a muddler minnow. 10" x 8" watercolor *SOLD* • #brooktrout #muddlerminnow #brookie #letsgofishin #watercolorist #watercolorpainting #commission #watercolortrout #flyfishing #brookfishing #fishpainting #trout #newenglandartist #fishing #gonefishin #illustration #illustrator #newenglandpainter #watercolorprogress #llbean #orvis #elysedeneige https://www.instagram.com/p/CZeqiL_rb64/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bowiesbutt]

𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚊 𝚙𝚒𝚎𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚞𝚣𝚣𝚕𝚎. 𝙽𝚘𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚕𝚒𝚏𝚎 𝚋𝚢 𝚖𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎. 𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚒𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚝𝚜. 𝙳𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚞𝚗𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚎𝚍. 𝙵𝚒𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜. 🍄✨🎨🌈𝕋ℝ𝕀ℙℙ𝕐𝔸ℝ𝕋🌈🎨✨🍄 *𝕊𝕆𝕃𝔻* 𝔸𝕔𝕣𝕪𝕝𝕚𝕔 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕖𝕣 𝕠𝕟 ℂ𝕒𝕟𝕧𝕒𝕤 𝕓𝕠𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝟝” 𝕓𝕪 𝟟” 𝕊𝕙𝕚𝕡𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕧𝕒𝕚𝕝𝕒𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕟𝕠𝕥 𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕝𝕦𝕕𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕖. ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕞𝕚𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤 𝕠𝕡𝕖𝕟. 𝕄𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕞𝕖. ℂ𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕜 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕪𝕟𝕜 𝕚𝕟 𝕞𝕪 𝕓𝕚𝕠 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕡𝕦𝕣𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕤𝕖. https://www.Instagram.com/bowiesbutt https://www.Depop.com/bowiesbutt https://www.Facebook.com/bowiesbutt #art #artist #trippy #tripout #trippyart #newengland #painting #newenglandartist #trippyartist #trippydrawing #bowiesbutt #supportlocal #supportsmallbusiness #supportart #supportartists #artistsoninstagram #artwork #artofinstagram #massachusettsartist #mandelbrot #trippyartwork #trippyvibes #massachusettsartists #viral #maartist #10kartist #worcester #worcesterma #centralma #worcesterartist (at Worcester, Massachusetts) https://www.instagram.com/p/CM5mPC7BBN_/?igshid=13iw37sjmz7nz

[emilyrosebass]

Life Is a Drag / ‘Life Is Drag’ @ 3S Artspace

Sham Payne, Courtesy of the artist and 3S Artspace

I miss drag.

Miss performance, miss creativity, miss community, and maybe most of all, I miss costumes. 

Life Is Drag—a virtual exhibition at 3S Artspace celebrating New England’s alt-drag scene—reminds me of the best of these things. And not in a way that feels hollow, like a desolate bedroom Zoom rave. The exhibition elicits an unexpected joy, like digging up a time capsule or running into a childhood best friend. A welcome reminder of the happiest moments from “before.” 

Life Is Drag is the most recent project by multimedia artist (and absolute badass) Rachel Rampleman, whose profiles of female bodybuilders, burlesque dancers, latex maskers, and toddler pageant queens magnify the performative aspects of gender. Her subjects redefine spectacle, pushing presentation to the extreme, yet their portraits never venture into voyeurism. Rampleman graces each collaborator with a divinely empathetic eye, making her the perfect candidate to pull off an authentic, compelling exhibition about the people behind drag. 

During a winter residency at Portsmouth, NH’s 3S Artspace, Rampleman collaborated with 21 of New England’s finest (and freakiest) performers to capture their fresh approaches to drag. While the physical exhibition of these videos, interviews, and photographs planned for April 10-May 31 was halted by the Coronavirus crisis, Rampleman is premiering these works in a digital version of the show at galleryat3s.org, now on view through June 4. 

Serendipitously, the project is perfectly suited to live online. While some artworks lose something in the digital form, Rampleman’s videos somehow become stronger, more focused. Without the distraction of a gallery attendant looking over your shoulder or the time constraint of your nearing lunch plans, it’s easier to truly dive into the performances. Whether you choose to binge the whole lot in one sitting or savor a few each day, the ~3 minute routines feel sacred, special, like private concerts. 

Zayn-X, Courtesy of the artist and 3S Artspace

Be it opulent glamour or dark humor, spoken word or comedy skit, the exhibition covers every drag niche imaginable (and a few you’d never dare to imagine), from the grotesque horror of Zayn-X’s hair-raising body modification (Spoiler alert: There’s a staple gun involved.) to Bunny Wonderland’s banishing ritual likening drag shows to religious ceremonies, to Kitty Willow’s Us-themed dance set to Carly Rae’s “Cut To The Feeling,” complete with scissors and cut paper chain. 

Life Is Drag masterfully counters the notion that drag is one-size-fits-all. Drag is not a monolith, although it’s often portrayed as one (Hey, RuPaul!)—a sentiment proven by Rampleman’s collaborators, diverse in nearly every aspect. The group includes an immunologist, a high school senior, an ex-Navy officer, a Two-Spirit Passamaquoddy activist, and a Boston-based father to 46 drag sons, to name just a few. And much to my delight, performers of all gender identities and presentations are represented—Yes, finally, an exhibition with drag kings! 

Bender Bluefish, Courtesy of the artist and 3S Artspace

When I’d originally planned to review Life Is Drag back in February, all I could think about was how exciting it’d be to see a thoughtful exhibition about drag make it into a respected gallery. To see an art form so often pushed underground, relegated to the basement or the dive bar, presented to the larger public in a considerate (but still fun!) way. To bring drag performers across New England together, and to invite newcomers into their world. Rampleman and the team at 3S (including Bunny Wonderland, the aforementioned ritualist and 3S’s program manager) planned a holistic schedule of events to welcome 3S’s community into the drag world and the drag community to 3S—showcases, bootcamps, campy movie screenings, and more. 

While mourning these events, I find myself even more grateful for the exhibition now because it gives something precious back to our community. We all need a little spectacle in our lives right now, and Life Is Drag delivers when it’s most needed. The exhibition is an invaluable reminder of queer joy, queer innovation, and queer adaptability. 

At a time when there’s not much to look forward to (Dare I say it...Life is a drag.), I’m thankful we still have drag.