Gluttony Weekend

Art shows, music shows, and copious amounts of food. It was a glutton trifecta!

Following is an overview. 

Friday.

Met up with Ruth in downtown LA. 

We attended a curatorial walk-through of the current exhibit at A+ D Museum, Come In! DTLA (up until 6/23/16).
Chris Francis, Jessica Fleischmann, and Lawrence Azerrad spoke about their installations. 

Chris Francis with his collection of Brutalist shoes.

Jessica Fleischmann with her interactive books of grid chips.

Lawrence Azerrad and his work for LAD Design.

Afterwards, we had dinner at Hodori.

The sides to our Korean dinner. Good thing we didn't crack the egg -- it was for Ruth's bowl of soup to be cooked in the broth.

Saturday. 

Picked up Severo at LAX. He was hungry.  We went to Dulan's Soul Food Kitchen in Inglewood. 

Mac and Cheese, Black-eyed Peas on Rice,  Pork Chops for him.

Meatloaf, Corn and Okra, Steamed Cabbage for me.

Fortified, we sallied on to Claremont to deinstall #myshittycommute. 

Kelly showed up!

[3 weeks later] Did we eat dinner? I don't remember!
I know we had delicious baked goods that Severo scavenged in Claremont from Some Crust Bakery.

That night we went to the Cinema Bar to see Adam Marsland and the Chaos Band.
They played 3 sets, the final one a 10-song tribute to Prince.

Sunday, two things on the agenda: 

1) Squeeze in a Pinoy Brunch at Chef Mayet's pop-up at The Point (sadly, Bobby Bognar's swan song for the venue). 

2) Smithereens gig at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano.

The Brunch:

Severo and The Menu

Bobby delivering the goodness.

What we ate.

The Coach House:

Leslie dancing up a storm.

The view from stage left.

Whew. I needed another weekend to recover from the weekend.

Gluttony in NYC, Day 2

It was just the two of us, Manhattan as our oyster, on our second day in the city.

We started with dessert-for-breakfast from William Greenberg Desserts,
within walking distance of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

I was determined to see China: Through the Looking Glass and was pleased that Severo was willing to join me.
We scarfed down our goodies as the line became longer and longer.

The China show was AMAZING (seven posts about it on SpyGirl) and then we walked the John Singer Sargent show, also incredible.
I find Sargent's painting style very inspiring.

John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Hugh Hammersley, Oil on canvas, 1892

I was so preoccupied with the exhibitions, I lost track of the fact that I went for four hours fueled by only one coffee and one hamentashen. Needed food, STAT.

What better cure for my hunger pangs than some New York style thin crust pizza,
from our favorite place: Pizza Suprema at 31st and 8th.

Ahhhh. Relief.

I was then fortified to take on more sock shopping at Jack's.
Severo shopped vicariously through me.

Severo loves a good bargain.

After all that excitement, naps were needed.
And dinner:

Lobster Roll, Lobster Elote, Salad, Lobster Mac-n-Cheese, at Red Hook Lobster Pound

And dessert at M'o Il Gelato:

Mango Sorbetto, Limone Sorbetto, random cookies

Jammin with The Glutton

Various jam paintings and prints in my studio: 

3 Peach Marmalade oil on canvas from March 1996 

2 Strawberry oil on canvas from 2002
4 Raspberry digital watercolors on paper from May 2015 

This has been a productive year for my utilization of creative challenges on social media.

An A-Z Blog Challenge lead to a large portion of my recent exhibition at TAG Gallery.
Now I have three pieces in a group show in Claremont that came from an Instagram Challenge.

The challenge is called The 100 a Day Project aka #the100dayProject.

(can't locate source. found it on Instagram)

I decided to do digital watercolors of food using the Waterlogue App, which magically turns photos into paintings.
Little did I know that I would end up doing another series of Jam paintings!

Below are the three that will be in the "All U Can Eat" show, hosted by Bunny Gunner Gallery.
Exhibition is at Garner House Gallery in Memorial Park
840 Indian Hill Blvd, Claremont, CA 91711
Hours open: Saturday June 6th 2pm - 10pm and Sunday 12pm - 4pm.

I'll add a Facebook link for the event as soon as it gets posted.

Plus, I made a new batch of models raspberry jam this morning to get another set into work.

Here's a link for my #100daysofGluttony