In Julie's Gallery from August 4 to October 4 will be Old Notions featuring Ken Davis & Marin Camille Hood. The Opening Party will be on Friday, August 12 from 7 to 9 p.m.
The work in Old Notions showcases two artists, Ken Davis and Marin Camille Hood, who use traditional techniques and mediums to express and explore modern and innovative themes and designs. They are both aesthetically old souls enjoying Victorian architecture, antique books, and vintage ephemera.
Ken Davis and Marin Camille Hood also share a meticulous dedication to their crafts; from exacting brush strokes to stitches both artists transform the seemingly old-fashioned into intriguing and beautiful pieces of art.
Ken Davis created a series of terror eye commemorative plates using traditional sign painting one-shot enamel. The terror eye is a reoccurring image in Davis 's work and installations. An obsessive quality emerges when the plates are arranged together in the show. There is also an absurd nature to the use of plates as a canvas for a youth-driven punk rock iconography.
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Marin Camille Hood works with themes that push the boundaries of traditional feminine art forms. Her pieces include images of animal and human bones, vintage erotica, cuts of meat, and deer dressing and hunting scenes. Marin's works contrast between subtle and intimate white embroidered vintage pin-ups on ivory antique handkerchiefs to large-scale quilted creations blending humans and animals.
