Stacy Lande is a contemporary
lowbrow painter.
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Biography
Stacy Lande was born in Granada Hills, in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles
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, California
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.[ From an early age she took pride in both stage performance and her art. Lande was formally trained in art at California State University, Northridge. After graduation from art school, she began doing performance art at clubs like Sin-a-Matic and LACE (]Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
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History
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Lande has painted more than 120 portraits of both men and women in deified and dramatic light.][ In her book ''Vicious, Delicious and Ambitious'', Sherri Cullision describes Lande as creating "demons and she gods, hinting at both their ‘phantastical’ pasts and immortual futures.”
Lande's work has been featured in various magazines, including ]Juxtapoz
''Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine'' (pronounced ''JUX-tah-pose'') is a magazine created in 1994 by a group of artists and art collectors including Robert Williams, Fausto Vitello, C.R. Stecyk III (a.k.a. Craig Stecyk), Greg Escalante, and Eric ...
, Juxtapoz Erotica, Detour magazine, and Petersen's Hot Rod Deluxe, as well as in the film '' Gone in 60 Seconds''.[ She has been interviewed on ]National Public Radio
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's Airtalk with Larry Mantle. In addition to her own book ''The Red Box'', Lande's work is also included in lowbrow compilations ''Vicious, Delicious and Ambitious'', and ''Weirdo Deluxe'', by Matt Dukes Jordan (Chronicle Books, 2005). Her work has been seen in solo and group shows in Billy Shire's La Luz de Jesus
La Luz de Jesus Gallery is a commercial art gallery located in Los Angeles, California. It is closely associated with the Lowbrow Art Movement, Kustom Kulture, and pop surrealism.
History
La Luz de Jesus Gallery was established in 1986 in Lo ...
Gallery,Bergamot Station
Bergamot Station Arts Center is a Santa Monica facility housing many different private art galleries and appears in most tourist guides as a primary cultural destination. Opened September 17, 1994 as Bergamot Station the campus-like complex is ...
. Her work appears in collections in Japan, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and England.[
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References
Further reading
* Stacy Lande. (1999) ''The Red Box, The Phantasma Allegorical Portraits of Stacy Lande''.
::Published by Last Gasp Press, San Francisco, CA.
* Matt Dukes Jordan. (2005) ''Weirdo Deluxe: The Wild World of Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow Art''.
::Published by Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA.
* Sherri Cullison. (2002) ''Vicious, Delicious, and Ambitious: 20th Century Women Artists''.
::Published by Schiffer Press, Atglen, PA.
External links
Article on Stacy Lande
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Living people
American women painters
Painters from California
People from Granada Hills, Los Angeles
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women artists