Artists Acquisition Club

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1744 Griffith Park Blvd Los Angeles, CA, 90026-1054

EIN Number: 82-2223971

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Hours: Closed

Mon - Fri 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM (PDT)

Sat Closed

Sun Closed

Website: https://artistsacquisitionclub.org

Email: contact@artistsacquisitionclub.org

NTEE Code: A90: Arts Services

MISSION - WHAT WE DO

We are a group of artists, writers, and members of the Los Angeles art community who aim to honor artists that have greatly impacted us by collectively purchasing and gifting a significant work of theirs to a major Los Angeles institution. Through small donations towards individual artworks, we offer members of our community, who do not ordinarily have the means to collect, the opportunity to participate in the museum acquisition process. We seek to celebrate “artists’ artists” and ensure that their work enters a public institution for future generations.

SERVICES - HOW WE DO IT

Fixed Wave is a mermaid painting and also a reflection on the mythic “green goddess” or the embodiment of nature. She is marked by a symbol of her reproductive system seemingly branded on her skin, revealing her generative power. The waist-to-yoni teal green figure sports a solid oil paint teardrop belly button adornment, and blue water pubic hair in the form of fixed waves. A fixed wave is a cresting wave arrested in motion. It is a popular Southern California reference, and a platitude in scenic painting. I grew up with the nurturing seascapes my mother painted, translucent cresting waves reflecting full moons. I wanted to create my own version of a fixed wave and tie it to something other than the landscape. The overall surface texture is made through a process of embankment, where viscous paint is pooled on the canvas, then pressed repeatedly with a brush to create the dimpled appearance of skin or water. To further emphasize figural dimension, I peaked the paint with a small brush (pulling the paint upward to a pointed ridge) along cross-contour lines to enhance the curves of the woman. The female reproductive system is an emblematic, heraldic form, reminiscent of a horned animal. It has been the subject in a number of my works, and was originally inspired by a diagram of the endometrium at the four stages of the menstrual cycle, in the landmark feminist book “Our Bodies Ourselves,” published in the 70s.

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