{"id":34655,"date":"2011-11-07T11:35:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T18:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=34655"},"modified":"2011-11-07T20:49:18","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T03:49:18","slug":"allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-riding-the-red-vine-express","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis%e2%80%99-kitsch-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-riding-the-red-vine-express\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis\u2019 Kitsch O\u2019 The Day \u2013 Riding The Red Vine Express"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My friend,\u00a0Jason Mecier<\/a>, brilliant junque drawer portrait artist and whose edible art we stand in front of in the tableau above, did this portrait of me a couple of years ago when I first opened The Allee Willis Museum Of Kitsch at\u00a0AWMOK.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n\"\"\n

It’s made out of junque I had lying around my house and storage garage, plus some of Jason’s own stash peppering the green background. I constantly collected tons of found objects because the art I did myself, mostly in the 1980’s and early 90’s, consisted of found objects incorporated into my paintings<\/a>. This is by no means my favorite and looks all jumbled so small (actually 36″x48″) but it’s the only one I could put my hands on right away:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

A couple of years ago I also used some of my junque when I collaborated with my alter-ego<\/a>,\u00a0Bubbles the artist<\/a>,\u00a0who I managed during her six-year career selling over 1000 paintings and ceramics. Although not as junque-covered as I would like to show here, this one’s hanging in my hallway which serves the purpose of easily sliding it into this post.<\/p>\n<\/a>\"\"<\/a>\n

Since Jason’s portrait of me has hung in my house it’s become de rigueur to be included in any press photos I do, like this one from The\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/a> a couple of weeks ago when I did my Soup to Nuts Party Mix live show<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

As Jason took found object assemblage to a whole other place I gladly bestowed some of my most precious junque upon him for the portrait.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Now Jason has incorporated an entirely new medium into his portraiture, one of my favorite substances on earth and a staple here at Willis Wonderland, Red Vines. In his show at Iam8bit<\/a> last Friday night,\u00a0\u201cLicorice Flix, Edible Movie Mosaics\u201d, he interpreted the movies thusly:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Here’s me and my date for the night, Storm Lee<\/a>, singer extraordinaire, with Jason:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

And here we are with another good friend of mine as she arrives at the opening, Angelyne<\/a>:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Lots of good friends in attendance, observing brilliant art and munching on the Red Vine “paint”. From L-R, Storm, me, Jason, Adam Ansel<\/a> and Daniel Franzese<\/a>.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I first met Selene Luna<\/a>, co-star of Margaret Cho’s The Cho Show, through Jason and Adam:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I usually get bored at art openings, but between the art, the place – yay iam8bit -, the featured gourmet treat and medium, Red Vines, I was a happy gal Friday night. \u00a0I now leave you with Jason’s Nomi slobbering up a stripper pole in the kitsch klassic, Showgirls:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

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My friend,\u00a0Jason Mecier, brilliant junque drawer portrait artist and whose edible art we stand in front of in the tableau above, did this portrait of me a couple of years ago when I first opened The Allee Willis Museum Of Kitsch at\u00a0AWMOK.com: It’s made out of junque I had lying around my house and storage … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,413,53,131,165,87,193,29,249,1075,37],"tags":[61,251,2939,2937,2940,2935,2934,3232,3245,2943,2936,2942,2941,2938,2279],"class_list":["post-34655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebrity","category-creative-process","category-creativity","category-food","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-party","category-people","category-sculpture","category-self-expression","tag-allee-willis","tag-angelyne","tag-danile","tag-edible-movie-mosaics","tag-franzese","tag-iam8bit","tag-jason-mecier","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-klumps","tag-licorice-flix","tag-nomi-showgirls","tag-red-vines","tag-selena-luna","tag-storm-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}