Claudia Drake's Profile |
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| Age: | 29 years old |
| Sex: | Female |
| Location: | Missouri |
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| Last Login: | Jun 6, 2008 (538 days back) |
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About Me |
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www.urgentalchemy.com Current Exhibitions: Ingest Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, GA January 19, 2008 – March 22, 2008 Illuminators Koltsovo International Airport, Russia April 11 – July 11, 2008 In the Absence of Colour Strychnin Gallery, London, England May 9 – June 9, 2008 Printmaking Today Dedalo Center for Contemporary Art, Italy July 18 – 24, 2008 The Last Book The Museum of the National Library, Spain November 18, 2008 – TBA Self-trained through lessons learned from the early Surrealists and Dadaists, I'm a love child of Ernst and Magritte. www.urgentalchemy.com For Available Artwork Contact: Yasha Young yasha@strychnin.com Strychnin Gallery : Berlin, London, New York |
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My Interests |
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| Analyzation, Odd Constructions, Antique Engravings, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Delvaux, Art History, Dada, Joseph Cornell, Francis Picabia, Edward Gorey, Juxtaposition, Piranesi, René Magritte, Hermann Hesse, Surrealism, Tom Waits, Anais Nin, David Lynch, Hans Bellmar, Photomontage, Contrast, Antiques, H.P. Lovecraft, Alchemy, Self-inflicted cages |
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I'd like to meet:Antiquarians, Artists [visual, audio, written], Curators, Art Historians, Time Travelers, Art lovers, Galleries, Collectors [supporters of the arts!], fellow Surrealists, misplaced Victorians.. you! |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| Occupation: | Artist |
My Blog |
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Lewis Mumford, 1938, excerpt |
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| "Steadily, for the past generation, a transformation has been going on in every department of thought: a re-location of interest from mechanism to organism, a change from a world in which material bod... Posted by Claudia Drake on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:02:00 PST |
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Bureau of Surrealist Research |
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| "Surrealism is not a poetic form. It is a scream of the mind finding itself again and it intends to desperately crush its shackles with artificial hammers, if need be."Bureau of Surrealist ResearchJan... Posted by Claudia Drake on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:12:00 PST |
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Pierre Reverdy, March 1918 |
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| "The image is a pure creation of the mind.It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities.The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realit... Posted by Claudia Drake on Sun, 28 May 2006 04:31:00 PST |
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'Letters to a Young Poet', Excerpt |
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| "....As I read it now, in the great silence of these distances, I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, even more than I was in Paris, where everything echoes and fades away differently bec... Posted by Claudia Drake on Thu, 11 May 2006 01:46:00 PST |
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My Friends |
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Tom Waits, Nicolas, Art Warrior, NovaBelgica, Ray Caesar, Leonora Carrington, Sophie Vogt - Museum Director, Art of Surrealism, Louise Brooks, hugues gillet, Parasyte Of Knowledge, automatism, alex, Mashinka, David, Dances of Vice, Bleu Family, Lovely Sweetred, Phoenix Creations, Honkbarn!, Red Heart Cult, quote_your_mind, volatility, walking, olga, ~Dee Italia~, S, ZaSu Pitts, iON, Les amoureuses, Hello Hollywood, undRess Béton, andrea schroeder, Wolfgang Lehmkuhl, Blätter für die Kunst, Nico Icon Fantasia, BLACKEMPIRE ART, ikeda toshitaka, Ex Voto, Iced*Icon, the SPANISH GYPSEE, jaan, Robert Mann, GiggleWater Doll 1920, andré, Matthias, Kristi Ahlers, courtney, ELFISH, Manéo, Typhon, yoryis pappas, Cenin a.k.a. Light Year Eater, Que Sera, Sarah, mizuya, carlo moretti, HIM's Paratiisi/Lisa Valo (Of. Il. St. Tm.), Paolo Pedini [artist], Russell Freeman, ElArteDelManuZ, germaine caillou
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Claudia Drake's profile has been tagged with the following keywords. Click a tag to search for profiles with the same tags. giorgio de chirico, early surrealists, printmaking today, francis picabia, paul delvaux, anais nin, antique engravings, edward gorey, h p lovecraft, strychnin gallery, joseph cornell, art historians, bellmar, hermann hesse, time travelers, networking www, berlin london, antiquarians, photomontage, gallery london |
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