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Being in Mexico City is reminding me how indebted

Being in Mexico City is reminding me how indebted I am to Frida Kahlo. She was my main inspiration when I first started painting in 1995. I began by painting members of my family, and then saw the beautiful Chinese exhibition Reckoning with the Past which showed at the Otago Museum. Somehow the freedom of those Chinese artists freed me up to explore more of my own kind of psychedelia. This painting is Song of the Grey Ghost which won me a residency at the Red Gate Gallery in Beijing. The guiding light behind the residency, Brian Wallace, called it the Crook Family Residency and made us all feel equally welcome and important. While we were there Brian made field recordings that became the basis of our Grapefruit release Vivid Cloud Lucky Din, and we all loved being immersed in Beijing for 3 months. I feel so grateful for these experiences and for being part of a tradition of art and music and the people we are lucky enough to meet because of these passions. Here in Mexico we are treated so graciously wherever we go, I’ve always wanted to come here and everyday we are stunned by the beauty and soul of the people and the landscape ❤️ @redgategallerybeijing

My first moth painting “Hiding in the Light”,

My first moth painting “Hiding in the Light”, 2003, which partially ended my moth phobia...I was messing around and painted the patch of light and thought moths would land on that...and painted these little creatures on it. If you ever see this painting at a friend’s house tell them I’d like to know them..! It sold in Christchurch and I never knew who the buyer was. My moth phobia really ended when I was bathed in moths onstage one night under the lights in Wondervalley...Happy Halloween!!

“The Sorrowful Eye: Iris Susanna” 2004. This w

“The Sorrowful Eye: Iris Susanna” 2004. This was when my obsession with the mourning iris began...my friends who bought this painting ran down the road carrying it out of their Lyttelton home during the February earthquake!

The Madonna and the Bitter Truth

The Madonna and the Bitter Truth

Pastel Hell (work in progress)

Pastel Hell (work in progress)

Detail of House of Occlusions, showing at Kiwis in

Detail of House of Occlusions, showing at Kiwis in LA, Santa Monica Saturday 5th October...

Showing new paintings in Santa Monica at this Kiwi

Showing new paintings in Santa Monica at this Kiwis in LA art exhibition and wine tasting...come and hang out Saturday 5th Oct if you’re in town!!

Windy’s book signing DTLA! @windychien #theyearo

Windy’s book signing DTLA! @windychien #theyearofknotsbook

Happening now at Poketo Row DTLA, Windy Chien’s

Happening now at Poketo Row DTLA, Windy Chien’s book signing, “the Year of Knots” We love the way this dearest of friends has turned her passions to beauty and success again and again, from her first movie which premiered at Sundance way back when, to running the legendary Aquarius Records in San Francisco and now to the humble knot which she reinvented again and again, creating vast walls like circuit boards in the lobbies of places like IBM...in her tear of knots Windy made a new knot everyday and now she shares this journey with us in her gorgeous new book. @windychien #theyearofknotsbook ❤️

So happy to be featured in this cool Parisian zine

So happy to be featured in this cool Parisian zine! Thank you Morsure, looking forward to seeing your new edition! @morsuremagazine @heyheyheyteam @hallesaintpierre #heymodernartandpopculture

Everything is Dreaming (no. 2) I was inspired by u

Everything is Dreaming (no. 2) I was inspired by unexpected fog in the desert after a heavy rain. Hadn’t realized how much I was missing mist.... #coyotemist #wetdesert

Note time change for this evening...6 - midnight 🔥💥💜 Playing two sets with Eric and Brian 1st set starts 7...

Had such a lovely time with this sweetheart yester

Had such a lovely time with this sweetheart yesterday 💜 here she is sitting in front of the Svetlana Shigroff @scrapsbysveta work in progress at the @inheroeswetrust gallery downtown la

the casual grace of @inheroeswetrust new space in

the casual grace of @inheroeswetrust new space in downtown la…in the old 1906 king edward hotel building…RP and I drove in some paintings, listening to music and talking all the way, and then hung out while beautiful people like Robert, who is deaf and teaching himself to play the trumpet, called in; Roger hung the work on the beautifully crumbling walls and mixed GnT’s while RP played with Mia, Sharon’s daughter. in heroes we trust have a way with people and spaces, bringing ideas and images together in a way that could not exist without this synthesis….it’s a loving creation, helmed by goddess Neely, in the backless jumpsuit…! I am so proud to have my work hanging right beside the awesome work in progress by the stupendous @scrapsbysveta , bountiful and wild in her creations, beyond time and space…💥⚡️☄️💫🔥💜 #downtownla #contemporaryart #lowbrowart #maryrosecrook #therenderersandrosapontour #thelittlealiensofla

House of Occlusions, showing now at the Halle Sain

House of Occlusions, showing now at the Halle Saint Pierre gallery, Montmartre, Paris until 2nd August @heyheyheyteam #heymodernartandpopculture

We all so enjoyed meeting @osvaldoramirezcastillo

We all so enjoyed meeting @osvaldoramirezcastillo ... his work is incredibly poignant..,conveying somehow a sense of mysterious optimism, even though the imagery mixes symbols of control and alienation, such as the recurring loud speakers and military uniforms, with the delicacy and sensuousness of flowers, rendered with such sensitivity that you can almost detect their fragrance coming off the artworks. Part of the diaspora from El Salvador, the artist emits a healing energy with these works; complex, delicate and loving; and the backdrop of the dark past of his country makes these luminous artworks all the more extraordinary. These works can be seen at the Halle Saint Pierre gallery at the steps to the Sacre Coeur, Paris, until August 2nd @heyheyheyteam #heymodernartandpopculture

We loved this crazily compulsive psychedelia by Ni

We loved this crazily compulsive psychedelia by Nils Bertho; like a cross section of the thing we all try to keep at bay, or the thing we simply wish to dissolve into...figures bleed and melt into each other, others are composed of kaleidoscopic mixtures of other creatures, like the enormous tongue wielding god of Yokai Arena whose body is swimming with seemingly unaware beings, each completely autonomous...anyway, the mashup of pop culture, medieval sensibilities, manga and all else that we adore makes these works incredibly compelling...on now at the Halle Saint Pierre Gallery at the steps to the Sacre Coeur, Paris until August 2nd... @nilsbertho @heyheyheyteam #heymodernartandpopculture

Couldn’t resist one more @quanwansanit image, th

Couldn’t resist one more @quanwansanit image, this one’s a detail. these incredible pieces are hard to photograph well but so rewarding to gaze into @heyheyheyteam @quanwansanit #heymodernartandpopculture

Like portals into an uneasy hybrid universe of med

Like portals into an uneasy hybrid universe of medieval gravitas and 50s 60s loopy spiritualized sci fi, these pieces by Davor Gromilovic just floored us...so beautifully complex, hilarious and chilling...just loved them. The exhibition @hey#4 is on at the Halle Saint Pierre gallery in Paris until August 2nd...Davor shows all over the world but this is a great opportunity to see some incredible examples of his art....! @davorgromilovic @heyheyheyteam #heymodernartandpopculture

We were totally enthralled by these tiny theatres

We were totally enthralled by these tiny theatres of creatures, “dioramas of the gardens of hell”....by Quan Wanasit Delouis...Quan was so beautiful and gracious, so lovely to hang out with, and these pieces which are a distillation of time spent since childhood in the company of her family of shamans from Thailand. You can peer very deeply into these works and still see more to surprise you ❤️ @quanwansanit @heyheyheyteam #heymodernartandpopculture #hallesaintpierre

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