Summer Lovin'

Hello all! Its been a long hot summer, but I have a few things to share with you;
above is the flier for my solo show in October. I decided to, tentatively, call the show "Vagtastic", since it is a word that might adequately describe the work in the show. I created the flier in Illustrator; I like the ad so much I might have difficulty changing the name.

The illustration above was for my original advertisement, when I was going to call the show "give hed to survive". I've since expanded it into a larger project with more frames; this is just a taste of the action.
This image, above, is a first look at the 'rainbow conversion machine' I've been working on this summer. I was thinking about prisms, so I created a form that looks vaginal and converts 'White Light/Power' into a...rainbow. The piece is about four and a half feet high.

This lovely lady, above, started out as the delightful sketch below. I've been trying to brush up on my computer skills, so I used both Illustrator and Photoshop to tweak the line work and colorize the image. The breast-sack turned out great!

The final thing I would like to share is a video I made in Flash, utilizing a collage similar to the 'give hed' one above. Its amateur, but I learned a lot from my experience. Enjoy!

p.s., This video has only 12 views and already one dislike! It's hard to say what they could have disliked about it............j/k

Thanks for reading!

End Of Graduate School - Year 1

Welcome all!


Well, it's been a long crazy year. Time for updates!
The two above paintings we made in the first half of the semester. The above painting (Gender Coercion) was exhibited at Art Alley Gallery in Lansing during late February. Also exhibited was my BFA series Calendar Girls, as well as the work of Deborah Wheeler. Photos of Calendar Girls are available at my website www.carbonmade.rebekahzurenko.com, and photos of the exhibition are available on my facebook page. Check it out, it looks pretty awesome.

These two photos/photo collages are from an elaborate photo shoot that took place this semester. The below photo features the Dyke suit that I created out of a repurposed cover all and a bedazzler. Bedazzling is much more labor intensive than the commercial makes it appear. This is the Dykon, an elaboration of an earlier designed character. Dykon = dyke + icon, and yes, they are a superhero/ine. This character is also featured in the short film I hope to upload below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZEvYHiqUwc

Well, there's the link anyway.

Finally, these two images are of my most recent painting, one I've been referring to as the "vag painting". It technically belongs to what I hope will become my Orifice series.

Thanks for checking it out! Summer starts soon and I should have a ton more work to post!

Public Installation

Hello again!
These photos and video are from a public installation. The figures are wood cut outs and were installed in front of the Kresge Art Museum before a "Private Art Event".
Enjoy!



This clip is surveillance footage from the event:

Thanks for viewing! I should have more stuff in a few days, enjoy!

MEGAPOST

Hello all: this is a MEGAPOST. I haven't updated in a LOOOOONG time, so here is an absolute deluge of projects I've been working on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pYFGjkaBO0

Check it out on my youtube account. This is a video completed for my graduate Seminar class last semester. It explores issues of textualterity and sexuality. CHECK IT OUT!

Here are some images of recent works as well:












One more, a realization of an earlier sketch:

Another update soon!
Thnx

More Sketches!

Madness.

I have discovered the joys of vintage Men's magazines today, and I have not seen anything so ridiculous in a looooooooong time. Nostalgia can be a funny thing.

Here is my men's magazine inspired exhibition sketch.

Exhibition.

There's an exhibition coming up in a few months!

Here is a digital sketch of what I've been working on:

Can you tell that I've been reading a lot of comic books lately?

Recent additions to my book collection are:

The Education of Hopey Glass by the wonderful Jaime Hernandez

How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way by Stan Lee and John Buscema, originally published in 1978 = old school shit.

And, a crazy manga drawing book that is written entirely in Japanese. Thank god they illustrated it in English.

Are you telling jokes? I love jokes...

Update!

Here is a sketch from my latest project. Two Whale Girls. Would make a sweet tramp stamp.