Photography, Painting, architecture, Travel, Paris, Europe, Music, Muses, Italy, Italian boys, Isle of Capri, Venice, Cabaret, Burlesque, Barcelona, Beauty, Food, French and Italian speakers...
Music
I like a wide array of music. I especially love French Cafe music. But I am also just as happy listening to Reverend Horton Heat, Lucinda Williams, Johnny cash, The Beatles, The Doors, Tori Amos, Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd, Hole, Sonic Youth, Ween...the list goes on and on. If it is good it is good, I don't care what genera.
Movies
Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, The Secretary, Henry and June, The Dreamers, Swimming Pool, City of Lost Children, Rocky Horror Picture Show
Television
Books
Some of my favorite authors are Anais Nin, John Kennedy Toole, Hermann Hesse, Henry Miller, Tom Robbins, Jeanette Winterson, Michelle Tea, Mary Karr, J.D. Salinger... to name a few.
Heroes
Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Ingres, Degas, Tamara de Lempicka, Modigliani, Antonio Gaudi, Cézanne, Rodin, Camille Claudel, Artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Vermeer...
Tulane University Of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Art History
Minor: 19th Century French Art
University Oklahoma Main Campus
Norman, OK
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: BFA in Art History
Minor: Photography
About me: "What I love most about painting is that it gives me the ability to reimagine the world in the way I wish it were. To create a reality that is more interesting to me."
"If I have learned anything from my study of art history, it is that you don't make art to make money, you make art because you can't help yourself."
Emily Painton grew up in Norman Oklahoma. By the age of eight she was sitting in on art history classes with her mother at the University of Oklahoma, and at fourteen she began a series of art saturated journeys to Europe.
While earning her BFA in Art History and Photography at OU she furthered her studies and travels, spending an extended period studying in Paris, where she had easy access to works by many of her favorite artists. She also fell in love with the city’s architecture, history, art and culture. She spent a summer in New Orleans at the age of twenty, photographing the city and living and working in the French Quarter.
After graduating college in 1995, she moved to Austin Texas, where she continued to dabble in painting, drawing and photography, while also trying to make a living. In 2000, she once again moved to New Orleans to accept a full tuition scholarship to earn an MA in Art History at Tulane University. She concentrated her studies in the area of 19th Century French art, which culminated in her thesis titled “A Break with the Tradition of Ingres and Degas: Toulouse-Lautrec’s Humanizing Vision of the Women of the Maison Close.”
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina pushed Emily back to Austin Texas, where she happily resides at present.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I would love to hear from you. If you are interested in purchasing anything on this site I will be happy to provide you with a price list. Most of my paintings are for sell. You can also email me off Myspace at emily@paintongallery.com
Who I'd like to meet: Other art makers and art lovers, and my definition of art is very broad. Muses and patrons...
Hello, it's me, Ruby Jane.To those who don't know me, I am a 14 year old fiddler, songwriter. I have some songs posted that are fresh out of the studio. Let me know if you like the new songs..be one of the first to hear, even before they are released!Thanks! new videos too! Ruby Jane
”Up
until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in
the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and
doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings.”
Benjamin Franklin House 36 Craven Street London WC2N 5NF
Following
on from their sell out shows at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, The Red
Velvet Curtain Cult shall inhabit and haunt the Benjamin Franklin House
with site specific art, performance, film, oddities and happenings from
13 artists. Set in a Georgian house where layers of history unravel
from behind panelled walls and deep-set fireplaces whisper ashes of
deeds past, the artists will engage with and draw inspiration from the
history of the space, including its most famous inhabitant Benjamin
Franklin, he of keys and kites….
Expect spinning tops, glass
armonicas, trepanning games, story telling, ceremonial mythologies,
muffled whisperings, cyclical wanderings, all serenaded by the sound of
a haunting electric cello…
Curated by Lili Spain and Sarah Grainger-Jones
www.benjaminfranklinhouse.org
Email info@redvelvetcutaincult.com Please see www.redvelvetcurtaincult.com for details of artists and past events
This is a Time for US all to Reflect and Remember the ones who have given the most, so we can enjoy the Boogie Woogie, BBQ, Cold Beer and just the Groove we Hold Dear! Have a Great Weekend and say a little Prayer for the Men and Women who have paid that Price for Freedom and the ones Today who are all over this Rock we Ride doing the Grunt work of Freedom. Our Brothers, Sisters, Fathers, Mothers, Cousins, Aunts and Uncles...They are a Part of Us all! Turn It Up and let it Roll!
Dance Umbrella Presents Catalan choreographer Sònia Gómez performs with her mother at Long Center’s Rollins Studio Theatre.
Friday, May 08, 2009 8:00 PM - Saturday, May 09, 2009 1:00 PM ( reception following performance) These performances mark the first American Tour of this major figure of the Catalan contemporary dance scene with engagements at NY’s Baryshnikov Arts Center and here in Austin.
"The most honest performance to be seen in Madrid this season" -Revista Diagonal
Choreographer Sònia Gómez is known for bringing her personal experiences to the stage with honesty and boldness and in “Mi Madre y Yo” she shares the stage with her mother Rosa Vicente. Set to the music of The Beach Boys, Tina Turner and Kraftwerk, “Mi Madre y Yo” (in Spanish with English subtitles) incorporates text, movement and video projections with theatrical flare to portray the difficult, hostile, absurd, generous and tender moments of an intimate relationship between daughter and mother.
Special Event – In honor of Mother’s Day, Dance Umbrella is offering a special $30 ticket for the Saturday matinee which includes a ticket to “My Madre y Yo” and a Special Luncheon at Z’Tejas with Sonia Gomez and her mother Rosa Vicente following the Saturday Matinee performance.
Tickets for “Mi Madre y Yo” are $12 - $18 (+sc) and are available through Dance Umbrella www.danceumbrella.com or The Long Center www.thelongcenter.org or by calling 512-454-LONG. For additional information on the event call Dance Umbrella at 512-450-0456 or visit www.danceumbrella.com.
It's Friday and the Weekend is at hand, wanted to Fly in and make sure you unleash your Mojo and let that Hot Groove Flow! So glad your on this Groove Train, it makes my Mojo more Colorful and in doing that...The Boogie Woogie comes Alive! Slide on some Ballerina Shoes and take a stroll across my site...Turn it Up and let the Boogie wrap it's Power all over ya'!
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