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by Tommie Vaughn Tommie adapted her love of the stage to the love of the
page. As lead singer for the band Wall of Tom, she created This Rock in My Heart and This Roll in My Soul, a fictional book series based loosely on her experiences in the L.A. music scene. Now she’s spending her time checking out and writing about all things Santa Barbara. Reach Tommie at www.TommieV.com or follow her on Twitter at TommieVaughn1.
Oh Yes It’s ‘80s Night…
Amy King, Tiffany Haller and Rachel McNamara were looking good and having some fun. (Right on, ladies.)
Ian Cutler makes terrific spirits right in the Funk Zone. (He also made me feel quite artistic after a few tastes of his hand-crafted bourbon and vodka.)
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hen EIC Matt asked me if I wanted to cover the Atelier event at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art – coined The Earth is the Bottom of the Sky – he explained that it was all about exploring the limits of excess with an evening of optical intrigue, hedonism, mark-making in the void and other playful philosophical pursuits that were made popular during the 1980s. I heard, “Blah blah, art, blah blah, food, blah blah, free booze, blah blah, the best of the ‘80s.” My mind raced to somewhere around 1984. Visions of Area in New York City,
which some argue was a more influential club than Studio 54, surfaced from a distant archetypal past. (Area combined the ultimate Art-meets-Fab, Sex-meetsExcess culture of the day, and mixed it up with the soundtrack of the ‘80s and enough elite stars to make a young girl’s hair curl.) Naturally, I accepted the story. And I realized that my new editor knows me a little too well already. Umm, ok, yeah… I know. I live in Santa Barbara and it’s 2013. The event at SBMA was sure to be a bit more civilized than Area circa 1984.
Rachel Gantz and Gabby Dimaranan show off their Velvet Collage table creations.
Lauren Kinsley and Alyssa Johnson of Sugar Cat Studio. Sweet.
But I thought it would be a good time anyway. And I was right.
because I’m a musician, an author and a once-in-a-blue-moon painter doesn’t mean that I don’t have to Google the words Neo-expressionism and Appropriation. I know nothing, really, except if something catches my fancy and I close my mouth long enough to stop and gather what that
The Nexus of Fine Art and Jon Bon Jovi I’m not going to try and fool you into thinking I know crap about art. Just
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