Upcoming woodcut show at Yard Dog Gallery, Austin, opens February 13, 2010
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Louis Armstrong, Maria Callas, Lead Belly
2009 woodcuts (carved in cherry, walnut, and 100 year old salvaged Douglas fir)
Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria
Joan of Arc, Mother Teresa, Dalai Lama, Mahatma Gandhi
Nixon, Malcolm X, Kim Jong Il, Fidel Castro, Sonny Bono
Maria Callas, Johnny Rotten, Virginia Woolf
Dorothy Parker, Maria Callas, Elvis Presley, Joey Ramone, Tennessee Williams, Michael Jackson
Cher, Ringo Starr, Frank Zappa, Liberace, Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday
Einstein, Fellini, Ali, Pope Benedict, Archie Bunker, Che Guevara
CANADIANA
Don Cherry
Celia Franca, Sam Livingston, Oscar Peterson, Neil Young, homesteader, RCMP
Rocket Richard, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Stompin' Tom, Jacques Plante, Sam Livingston
Margaret Atwood, Buffy Sainte Marie, Bubbles, Rex Murphy, Mr. Dressup Ernie Coombs, Joni Mitchell
RCMP, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin / Edith Prickley, Leonard Cohen, Donald Sutherland, Steve Nash
Glenn Gould, Leonard Cohen, Stompin' Tom, Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Hull
Yooko Bayliss, David Suzuki, Guy Lafleur, Rex Murphy, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood
Prime Ministers Diefenbaker, Pearson, Trudeau, Clark, Mulroney, Campbell, Chretien, Martin, Harper, and PM 23 Michael Ignatieff
QUIEN ES MAS MACHO AMERICANO?
Hunter S. Thompson
Cary Grant, Jack Palance, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Paul Newman
Buck Jones, Jimmie Dean, William S. Burroughs, Gary Cooper, Paul Newman
Perez Hilton, Jack Kerouac, Peter Fonda, David Bowie, Roy Scheider
Mick Jagger, Woody Allen, Martin Luther King Jr., Allen Ginsberg, Johnny Cash
THROWING OF UNDERPANTS STRICTLY PROHIBITED
Tom Jones, Neil Diamond, Gene Simmons, Arthur Fonzarelli, Jimi Hendrix
Kojak, Engelbert Humperdinck, Detective John Shaft, Fabio, Angus MacGyver, Frank Poncherello
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Donny Osmond, Roger Daltrey, David Suzuki, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash
Barry Manilow
TAKE ME TO YOUR LEADER
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Nikolai Rerikh, Tammy Faye Bakker, Jim Jones, Reverend Moon
2008 woodcuts:
SIDESHOW
Titana the Giantess
Try Ventriloquism, The Amazing Giraffe-Neck Woman from Burma, Fat Lady & Skinny Man
JoJo the Dog-Faced Boy, The Great Regurgitator, Miss Annie Jones, Zip the Pinhead, Baby Thelma
Major Mite, La Femme Bartola, L'Homme Maximo, Lionel the Lion-faced Man, Hirsute Albino Escape Artist
PATSY GANDHI DOLLY DALAI
HONKY TONKIN' HONEY, BABY
Jane Russell, Buck Jones, John Wayne
2008 QUIEN ES MAS MACHO?
Godfather: Pacino, The Assassin, Humphrey Bogart, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando
Sean Connery, Queen Elizabeth, Charles Bronson
Self Portrait with Steve, Steve McQueen, Bullitt
QUIEN ES MAS MACHA?
Nana Mouskouri, Sophia Loren, Edith Piaf, Sophia, Maria Callas
Femmes a Moustaches
PRETTY BOYS & PRETTY BIRDS with NERDY NANA
Aviv, Sean Connery, Nerdy Nana, Mister Sears
Calgary Bridge Banners
2007 woodcuts:
TELEPHONE COMPANY EMPLOYEES ca. 1972
PM series
Candyman, Ironman, and Bunnyking.
NUDIST series
Miss Bettie Page
SERIOUS BOBBY
with friends
ARCHIVE 1995-2006
New World Monster woodcuts toured with the Alberta Foundation for the Arts exhibition "Hybrids" 2005/ 2006
Grind 1995 private collection
woodcuts 1995 private collection
bare arms woodcut 1995 private collection
Tweed 1995 private collection
Monsterpoodle with Fleabeetles 4'x5.5' 2006 / Turkeysnake 32"x21" 2006 / Misterpoodle 2005 private collections
Locust 2005 private collection
Man Eating Chicken 2004 private collection
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Camilla Engman's dog Morran wearing a salmon wool toque.
The secret to a groovy life is wearing salmon wool.