Song Shimin Between reality and fantasy

Sara Blake (aka ZSO)

"Hello, I'm ZSO. (On paper you may also know me as Sara Blake.) I'm an Interactive Art Director, Designer, and Illustrator living and loving in New York City.

ZSO is a collection of letters that I find aesthetically and phonetically beautiful. Together they make sound much like “so,” the adverb which means "to such a great extent.” I am a person of extremes, for better or worse (most often the latter), so the ring of it was fitting, and the moniker has since stuck for good.

I graduated from New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study with a concentration in Graphic Art and Postmodern Studies—I've been working in design and art direction ever since.

http://www.hellozso.com/

Tokyo Love Hotel photography by Nathalie Daoust

Tokio Hotel Story

Nathalie Daoust’s latest project, Tokyo Hotel Story, continues her exploration of female sexuality and subversion of gender stereotypes. Spending several months in the Alpha In, one of the biggest S&M “love hotels” in Japan. Daoust photographed 39 women in their private rooms, surrounded by the specialist equipment and dressed in the regalia that define their trade. Her work takes the viewer beyond taboos while showing the universal human desire to escape reality and create fantasy worlds that often oscillate between dream, reality and perversion.

Eva Lake

Eva Lake
I work in both photomontage and painting.

My exhibition history is here.

Currently I am in the August 2010 group show Thunderbitch, featuring female rock and roll poster designers of the Pacific Northwest in Seattle. The show is at Tether Gallery, curated by Daniel Smith. Please come to the First Thursday reception on August 5th if you are in Seattle.

Targets was my most recent solo exhibition - at Augen Desoto in June 2010. A few are also showing currently at Best at Crussell Fine Arts. The Targets also showed at the Helzer Art Gallery at PCC and Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn in 2009.

Augen Gallery has held three solo painting shows for me - in April 2005 (Vive Chrome), in August 2006 (Take Off) and 2007 I showed the Richter Scale, a painting installation. In 2008 and 2009 I also showed paintings with Jeffrey Crussell in California.

Currently I am host and producer of Art Focus on KBOO. Past interview ventures include W+K Radio, Artstar Radio at KPSU and a channel on Youtube. I am also contributing reviews to Visual Art Source.

http://www.lovelake.org/