East to West and The Beautiful Dreamers

So I made the biggest move ever in my life. At the end of 2013, with the assistance of my highway companion and darling angel, I drove across the country to the beautifully grey wasteland of Lemoore, California. It's really....hot. Though, to be honest, I get out as much as I did when I lived in Va. Feels just like home. I recently updated my resume and it along with my work has really seen some big changes. I'm pretty proud of the direction things are going. Though I am still working hard to make a solid footprint out here, I think it'll all pay off in the end. 

The series I imagined in my head is growing as the months pass and I have a small pile of beautiful dreamers to show for it. It had it's beginning with the Peruvian mummy girl I had read an article about and since being invited to paint Frida for a tribute show at ChimMaya Gallery in LA, I have added her to the dreamers. 

Beautiful Dreamer 18x24 acrylic and oil on masonite

       The 3 Graces- Beautiful Dreamer, Dreaming gracefully 9x12 acryilc and oil on masonite

 

  once someone loved me-8x10 acrylic on masonite

  I dream in color -9x12 acrylic on gesso board

 

 I suppose I often imagined leaving Virginia and though it hasn't always been easy being far from people I love, it's a very good life we're living here together. 

You can currently see most of my work at Fresno Art Museum Partnership Gallery at Arte Americas in my solo show titled "Beautiful Dreamer", also at ChimMaya Gallery in East LA in Frida 2014

and in Chicanitas The Cheech Marin Collection in Las Cruces,New Mexico Las Cruces Museum of Art
 

Jeannette L Herrera - Resumé

Jeannette L Herrera 

Insta - @joodeebfk

https://facebook.com/TheArtOfJeannetteLHerrera

Art Shows:

April 2023 - AASH Vol7

               Arcadia Theater Tyler, TX 

March 2023 - Persistence Five Annual juried all women's exhibition 

               D'ART Center Norfolk, Va. 

February 2023 - Women in art 2023 

               Las Laguna Art Gallery

               Laguna Beach,Ca. 

January 2023 - Arte Latino Now 

              Queens University of Charlotte, NC.

June 2022 - Inaugural Opening ‘The Cheech’

               Riverside ,Ca. permanent collection

September 2021 - Affordable Art Fair 

Chelsea NY

March 2021 - Affordable Art Fair 

Chelsea NY

June 2020 - Proud+

              The Studio Door San Francisco, Ca

June 2019 - Proud+

              The Studio Door San Francisco, Ca

Dec 13 2019 - Final Show

              Chimmaya gallery Los Angeles Ca

August 2016 - Tiny works and more

              Kasum Contemporary Fine Arts - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

September 18, 2015 through January 3, 2016 Chicanitas The Cheech Marin Collection

               Corpus Christi, Texas – Art Museum of South Texas

June 6 through August 1, 2015- Chicanitas The Cheech Marin Collection

              Los Angeles, California – Vincent Price Art Museum

June -August 2015- Here comes the sun-collaborations & individual works with east coast friends

               Fresno Art Museum Partnership Gallery at Arte Americas

               Exhibition curator and participant

Sunday, May 3rd 2015 - 10th Anniversary Exhibition /Opening Reception

               Chimmaya Gallery - Los Angeles Ca

March 27 through Sunday, May 17, 2015 Chicanitas The Cheech Marin Collection

              Topeka, Kansas – Mulvane Art Museum

Mar 10th, 2015 - Apr 5th, 2015 - Chicanita on the Plains

               Kasum Contemporary Fine Art Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

January 27 through Sunday, March 8, 2015- Chicanitas The Cheech Marin Collection

              Eureka, California – Humboldt State University, First Street Gallery

November 15th 2014 - Inside out - solo show Mayer Fine Art Gallery Norfolk, Va

October 3 through December 14, 2014 Chicanitas The Cheech Marin Collection

               Lubbock, Texas – Texas Tech University School of Art, Landmark Gallery

July 2014-Frida 2014

              ChimMaya gallery 5283 E Beverly Blvd, LA,CA

June 2014- Fresno Art Museum Partnership Gallery at Arte Americas

              solo show - Beautiful DreamerMay 2 through July 19, 2014 Chicanitas The Cheech Marin Collection

              Las Cruces,New Mexico Las Cruces Museum of Art

March 2014- Sagrado Corazon, Sacred Hearts show

               ChimMaya gallery 5283 E Beverly Blvd, LA,CA

December 2013-March 2014 Chicanitas The Cheech Marin Collection

               San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego California

October 2013- Arlington Arts Center Day of The Dead

               Arlington,Va

October 2013- Latin Heritage Month, book signing Cheech Marin "chicanitas"

              ChimMaya gallery 5283 E Beverly Blvd, LA,CA

September 2013- The art of political change

               MOCA DC Georgetown, Washington DC

September 2013- Art Crimes

              The Dunes 1402 meridian place, Washington DC

August 2013 Hothouse installations- The art of the superhero

              Capital Skyline Hotel Lounge SW, Washington DC

April 2013- Affordable Arts Fair

NYC

AAF NY Spring 2013 Metropolitan 

               Pavillion, NYC

March 2013- Yuri's night out/Voltron's corpse

 Washington DC 

Artisphere 2013- group show-

               Arlington, Va

December 2012- Aqua 13 Art Miami

 Miami, FL 

Aqua Hotel 2012- participating galleries 

Miami, Fl

November 2012- Creating a Legacy-Exhibition with paintings and drawings by Manon Cleary

               tribute group show 39thstreet Gallery Brentwood, MD

October 2012- Mid Atlantic Juried Competition Hoyt Center for the Arts-group show 2nd place winner for "I Scream, You scream" 16x20 acrylic on masonite

 New Castle, PA

October 4-7 2012- Affordable Arts Fair

                emerging artists, The tunnel Chelsea, NY

October 3-6 2012- (e)merge art fair

               Rubell Family Capitol Skyline Hotel Washington DC

September 14- November 4 Ojos En Los Borders

               Art Collective Latino American Project Takoma Park Community Center, MD

September 2012- RSVP 2012

               juried group show NWAA- New Wilmington Art Association Wilmington, Delaware

July-August 2012- DCAC Wall Mountables

              group show Adams Morgan, Washington DC

July 2012 19-22- Hamptons Art Market emerging artist/group show/art fair

              Bridgehampton, NY

July 2012- international AIDS conference 2012-Sex drugs rock&roll art exhibition

              Iron horse taproom, Washington DC

June 18-August 10 2012- The Art Libs show

               juried art exhibit Harmony Hall Regional Center Fort Washington, MD

 April 2012 18-22 - Affordable arts Fair

               emerging artist/group show/art fair NYC

October 2011 Black Rock Center for the Arts

               small scale works- group show Germantown, Maryland

July 2011- DCAC group show Wall Mountables

Adams Morgan DC

October 2009 Torpedo Factory Day of the Dead

Old Town Alexandria, Va 

May 2009- Art-O-Matic 

Washington D.C.

September 2009 Ganymedes Art Festival

Washington DC

February 2009- The Phantom Gallery group show It came from the 80's

Orange, Ca 

December 2008- The Phantom Gallery group show - A tribute to Cthulhu

 Orange, Ca

July 2008- The Elipse Art Center juried- group show

 Arlington, VA

May 2008 - Art-O-matic 

Washington DC 

November 2008 The Gallery Paradiso. group show - Blue Squared

 Portland, Oregon

June 2006 Stacey's Arthouse solo show 

Falls Church, VA

Write ups:

May 28, 2008- Daily Campello Art News

July 4, 2009 Daily Campello Art News

              top 10 artists of 2009 AOM

April 2012- Tespis Magazine

              Arte latino en la Affordable Art Fair 2012+highlights

May 21, 2012- The Sentinel newspapers

               viewers, artists create storyline in 'Art Libs' exhibit

Dec 2012- Art Basel Miami- Aqua part 1

               http://ahomina.com/art-herd/art-basel-miami-aqua-part-1/5215/

Dec 2012- Test Press-Jefe aka Johnny Chiba provides lowbrow highlights of all that is cool and

              all that is great at the annual Miami South Beach event ART BASEL 2012

Oct 2013- Hola cultura-dcs latino cultural hub

               Ofrendamos a la catrina

July 19th 2014 - The Fresno Bee- 

Munro- For Herrera , art captures a colorful intense and messy stew called life

Jan 2015- The Fresno Bee- 

Donald Munro's top 20 valley cultural art picks of 2014 (#8 on the list)

May 28 2015- The Fresno Bee-

 Pushing Boundaries: Some art isn't meant to soothe

Sept 2022 - Artillerymag.com

 Cheech Marin’s next move An Explosion of Chicano Art in Riverside, by William Moreno

"You might have some issues" More Rorschach paintings 2012-2013

Once I was asked to bring my portfolio to someone for a review and he said to me"you might have some issues with sex" Though I wouldn't call it an "issue" so much as a deep seeded and not entirely unwelcome preoccupation. So what...I like to paint giant veiny ones and boobies. Lots of boobies! Any black panel painting of mine does not begin with sketches but instead is created through a stream of consciousness that I can only compare to what someone would see in an instant upon viewing a Rorschach inkblot. In essence I am my own therapist. And not a very good one, I'd say. I might have stopped myself about 40 veiny ones ago if I took my patient's mental health seriously at all! Which I clearly don't......

Here is a collection of Rorschach paintings from end of 2012 up until now.

Pussywagon 

4x4' acrylic on masonite

 

Conjoined turkey lobster devil babies 

3x3" acrylic on wood

 

Nice helmet!

3x7"acrylic on wood

 

I'd do anything to be your everything

5x7"acrylic on masonite

 

Don't forget your baggage  

4x6" acrylic on wood

 

Ain't nothin gonna break my stride 

5x7" acrylic on masonite

 

Come with me my darling and I'll show you a whole new world

5x7 acrylic on masonite

Love will always save your soul

9x12" acrylic on canvas panel

Musically inspired

One of my main inspirations is music. I am a girl of the 80's and so it goes without saying that 80's music is huge when it comes to what movies me to paint. I love hardcore, metal, opera... I'll give most things a chance  except that damn screamo crap!  While some are more obvious than others, my mind takes me to some odd places when I listen to music. Here are some of my musically inclined pieces. 

"Mercury Rising" 9x12 a tribute to Freddie 

"rick rolled"5x5 never going to give you up, thanks for getting stuck in my head. Freakin ginger 

"some day love will find you"   5x7
yes, I love Journey

"Ever since we met you've had a hold on me"  2x3 inspiration-Dusty Springfield

"This is the end" 9x12" inspired by soul crushing divorce and The Doors. Thank you Mr.Morrison

it is also a play off of a Dennis Hopper photograph that I love. They seemed to me to be very indifferent. It felt like the end of something to me.

"and then he kissed me" 2x3" - The Shirrelles 

"Being the hunted one is no fun" 2x3" -Cypress Hill 

oh , the 90's! 

"Cracklin Rosie" 11x14" - Neil Diamond. This song makes me as happy as that guitar humming!

"shiny and new" 8x10" -Madonna- like a virgin

"Peel Diamond" --Sweet Caroline

"springtime for Jeannette and Germany" from my trip to Germany and Mel Brooks always making laugh about Germans hahaha! 

"Police Story" 8x10 - Black Flag

"little china girl" 6x8    David Bowie

"when the doves cry ----purple rain" 8x10" 

no one loves Prince more than I do

"If i were the man" 11x14  John Prine and Cowboy Junkies

video

ArtLibs---- June 18- August 10

   The ArtLibs show opening was put on hold by the big storm and the power outages...but they're still gettin' press! 

the Sentinel article

The reception is rescheduled for Saturday July 21 at 3-5pm.
Stop in and play along with this Mad Libs style art show. All thanks to Sherill Anne Gross of SAGworks for curating this and letting me be a part of it!

BFK events calendar for JULY

July 19-22 --------artMRKT Hamptons Art Fair

Lots of things are brewing for BlueFaceKiller! I just finished the last of 15 new Rorschach mini paintings for the artMRKT Hamptons Art Fair - July 19-22, 2012 on Bridgehampton Historical Society Grounds.  

Below are a few of the images that will be showing there.

"and then he kissed me" 2x3"acrylic on wood

 "feed me all night long" 2x3"acrylic on wood

 "Surprise!" 2x3"acrylic on wood

JULY 24th ----- Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n Roll DC---Ironhorse Taproom 6-9pm

Also at the tail end of July I have the honor of taking part in a benefit/fundraising event for HIPS.org

http://www.sexdrugsrocknrolldc.com/

Tickets for this event are $20 and can be purchased by following the link above. It's sure to be a good time."Sunshine Pussy" will be there and just a few others!

Proceeds of the sales( I am donating 50% of my sales) to http://hips.org/

HIPS is a nationally recognized program that meets the needs of sex workers and assists them in their efforts to eliminate the transmission of HIV, increase sexual health, and reduce violence and harm associated with sex work and drug use.HIPS programs serve an estimated 2,000  sex workers a year on the streets and in our drop-in center, providing a full spectrum of programs to address basic & immediate needs, long-term goal setting and life skills development.

This is sure to be a good time. Drink, Be merry, Buy art and Support a vital organization! 

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