Kipling West is a local artist who has carved a space for herself in the local art scene both as an artist and a curator. Her work is often quite sweet while retaining a playfully dark tone, reminiscent of vintage Halloween toys dropped into a technicolor world.

Influenced by everything from 20's advertising imagery to tarot cards, Tim Burton to 70's toys, her work is rendered in a distinctive style, with bold, sensuous linework combined with a muted jewel tone palette.

Andrew Brandou uses the moniker "Howdy Pardner" when showing his paintings in galleries. A very accomplished commercial artist (he just finished animation work on the Henry Darger documentary that recently screened at Sundance), Brandou's fine art is catching up in popularity. His last show at Roq la Rue ("A Sweet Sickness") sold out within an hour of the doors opening!

Andrew will be showing two series of works in this show. The first is a delightful take on wildlife illustration, entitled "After Audubon". These are ink drawings tinted with watercolor to mimic Audubon's etchings (which were done after paintings). Greatly inspired by the popular Japanese "Fruits" magazine in which fashion-forward youth have their outlandish costumes or 'plumage' documented, Andrew dresses his animal subjects in exact replicas of costumes found in the fashion tome and then drops in characters based on his own collection of pop detritus, namely vinyl figures and toys.

The second series is modeled on children's book illustrations of the 40's-60's (particularly Little Golden Books) gone awry.