Women Images

Sarah Bereza

Carina, 2008 oil on canvas on wood, 60" x 32"

Colin Dodgson: Cadaver Corpse at Space 1026 Gallery

Colin Dodgson is part of the Cadaver Corpse Show at Space 1026 Gallery, opening tommorow night.

Models love working with Colin - his photos are all about exploring unseen worlds and pushing boundaries.

And he has the best hair & dance moves.

And he is from Oxnard, California (THE OX), home of SRH and the DGAF lifestyle.

Colin's work can be seen at ColinDodgson.com

Space 1026 Gallery is my favorite venue for contemporary artists on the East Coast - their shows have a long history of being presented family style, with a focus on nurturing excellence.

Alison (Lazy Eyes), 2008:

Alison (Yellow Eye), 2008:

7.03.09
7:00PM CADAVER CORPSE Joshua Abelow, Matias Arganaraz, Derek Aylward, Dessarae Bassil, Ben Bauman, James Connolly, Moira Connelly, Garrett Durant, Ry Fyan, Kathy Grayson, Patrick Griffin, Maureen Gubia, Ghazal Hashemi, Bjorn Hegardt, Cody Hudson, Christopher Ilth, Bruce Ingram, Aislinn Jefferies, Billy Kang, Leslie Kulesh, Alex Lengyel, Chris Lux, Kristen MacGregor, JJ Manford, Orion Martin, Eddie Martinez, Mario Martinez, Jude MC, Christopher Milhausen, Zane Morris, Jayson Musson, Jordan Nickel, Aliza Nisenbaum, KC Ortiz, Angel Otero, Eric Perkins, Lucy Perutz, Matt Phillips, Tyson Reeder, Max Roseglass, Kid Sister, Thomas Stavnes, Greg Stimac, Ola Vasiljeva, Justin B. Williams, Josh Young and more.Curated by Tessa Perutz
At Space 1026, a gallery and art collective located on the 2nd & 3rd floor of 1026 Arch Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
phone #215.574.7630
July 3rd - 31st, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, July 3rd, 7 - 10pm

V Magazine issue #60 – The Beauty Issue preview: Valeria Dmitrienko, Photo: Sharif Hamza

V Magazine “Donatella After Dark”– http://www.vmagazine.com/
The queen of evening glamour has never shed away from making a statement – in her work or her personal style. For women who want to embody the fearless VERSACE spirit this season, there’s no shortage of ways to do it

Sharif Hamza photographed Valeria Dmitrienko for V Magazine on June 6, 2009 on the Upper East Side of NYC with stylist Beat Bolliger.

V Magazine issue #60 – The Beauty Issue
Model: Valeria Dmitrienko
Photographer: Sharif Hamza
Stylist: Catherine Newell-Hanson
Hair: Jordan M
Makeup: Asami Taguchi

Special thanks to Austin Smedstad at Starworks.

La sirène du Mississipi / Mississippi Mermaid (1969)

Last night I saw La sirène du Mississippi (1969) at BAM with a friend who is much more knowledgeable about French cinema than I.

Another friend had recently recommended François Truffaut's Jules and Jim....and since then it is always on my mind.

Mississippi Mermaid left me reeling. It had elements of Mulholland Drive (beautiful blonde woman who changes name/character, yet remains the same multi-faceted woman), and the lyrics of Tina Turner ("Whats Love Got To Do With It?" + "Private Dancer"). That sounds messy, and it is. But it has searing flashes of brilliance that burned me with its emotional stabs.

Jules and Jim was all about kindness, fragility, sexual exploration, and honesty. Mississippi Mermaid is all about cruelty, coarseness, sexual exploitation, and deception. Both movies tell a fascinating story about human nature.

Wikipedia info:

Mississippi Mermaid (French: La sirène du Mississippi) (1969) is a French film directed by François Truffaut. The film is adapted from the 1947 William Irish (Cornell Woolrich) novel Waltz into Darkness. The film features Jean-Paul Belmondo, Catherine Deneuve, and others.

Plot:

Truffaut juggles an Hitchcockian suspense/thriller with deepening sexual obsession. Louis (Jean-Paul Belmondo) owns a tobacco plantation and cigarette factory on Réunion Island, but it's lonely work — so he sends away for a mail-order bride.

Much to his surprise, the beautiful young Julie Roussel (Catherine Deneuve) arrives by ship (the Mississippi Mermaid of the title), looking nothing like the picture he had received by mail. Louis quickly falls for Julie, while discovering that she is decidedly not the woman with whom he had been corresponding.

La sirène du Mississippi is playing at BAM Rose Cinemas on Fri, Jul 10—Sun, Jul 12 / Mon, Jul 13—Thu, Jul 16.