Rambling Meat

2009-06-03T12:14:00.000-07:00

Howdy Pardners!

If you are feeling the need for a mad sugar rush AND want to come see some new robot drawings by moi, come on down to Trophy Cupcake In Wallingford on June 3rd! The opening reception is during Wallingford’s art walk from 6-8pm. Fancy punch and some tasty cakes will be there- AND if you are someone that likes to kill two birds with one stone, you can just order one of Trophy’s trés delicious cupcakes COMPLETE WITH ONE OF MY DRAWINGS ON TOP!

Come pig out with your wig out! Or do a cool robot dance!

The work will be up all month as will my “signature” cupcakes!

Wednesday June 3rd form 6-8pm at

Trophy Cupcake in Wallingford

1815 N. 45th (located in the Wallingford Center)

http://www.trophycupcakes.com/

Thanks!

Jessixa

Vermillion Gallery

2009-04-26T08:52:00.001-07:00

Hey campers!
Just a heads up that the remaining available work from my "Grew" series is currently being show at Vermillion Gallery in Capitol Hill. Check it out if you haven't seen the work in real life yet! Vermillion Gallery is located at:

1508 11th Ave,

Seattle, WA. 98122

Hours:

Open Every Day @ 4:00 PM until Late.
(Closed Monday)

For more info go to the Vermillion Gallery site:
http://www.vermillionseattle.com/

Show runs through...5/10/09!

I hope you can get out to see it.
-jx

Completely Rattlesnake

2009-04-09T08:34:00.000-07:00

Yo Yo Yo!

What are you doing on this gray Thursday? I know, you are going to go out and see new art by Seattle artist (and my husband) Aaron Bagley! Bagley is showing his latest work from his cutout series at Faire Gallery and Cafe (1351 East Olive Way in Seattle). The show is a bizarre romp through Bagley's exploration in nature, shapes, and familiar textures in an unfamiliar form.

The opening is from 7-11pm, cookies will be provided.

Come if you dare or just come altogether!

You can see more of Aaron Balgey's art at www.aaronbagley.com

-jx

CHOP SUEY APRIL 30th

2009-03-27T08:53:00.000-07:00

Hey dude and dudettes!

Here is your chance to be cool! My friend Matt Cory will be playing with his band Half Acre Day at Chop Suey on April 30th. It's only 7 bones and the doors are at 8:00. They really put on a great show! Think New Pornographers, but less sunbeams and more space ships.

Matt ended up using an image of mine for their poster for the show.The actual drawing is like 3 1/2 feet by 4 1/2 feet. The poster is poster sized. The music is bigger than it all!

Here is a link to their website!

http://www.halfacreday.com/

Come out for a good show and maybe some fake and/or real mustaches.

-jx

Gibson won and Gibson too

2009-03-06T10:05:00.000-08:00

Hey campers!

So my friend Gibson is a crazy performance artist dude who is always doing really cool, totally non-sequitter type of "examinations of life" I guess is what you would call them.

For instance, once he wore a pair of red pants for 30 days and wouldn't tell people why or what he was doing. All the while he was documenting the process of wearing red pants for 30 days and then recorded it into a book and had a website made for it.

Then he walked from his home in Greenwood Seattle to his place of work that was 20 or so miles away, just to see what it would be like- all the while documenting in photographs his trek up north.

One of his more recent art attacks involved him and a good friend Matt Cory. The two invited all of their friends to an art show called "Do Narwhals have Blowholes?" at the Hiawatha Lofts in Seattle. We all showed and admired framed and mounted art that Matt had illustrated that accompanied the story (words by Gibson.) At a certain time everyone present was asked to be seated where they proceeded to show a slide show of the story as Gibson read it. Then he announced to the room that it was actually a book and they published it, and it was for sale! (And totally awesome I must add! And you can buy it at Amazon.com)

http://www.amazon.com/Narwhals-Have-Blowholes-Gibson-Holub/dp/141965487X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1236363693&sr=8-1

Those are just a few of the cool projects he has done. And he is now launching another project: Gibson vs. Gibson which will be a series of "events" I guess involving him and his Australian counterpart (also Gibson) in feats that are meant to temp fate, gravity and the space time continuum.

The first flirtation with destiny will commence Sunday March 8th at 0030 GMT, where each on their own continent, will simultaneously jump off of a swing.

To follow the madness, check out the blog:

http://gibsonvsgibson.blogspot.com/

Kick ass.

-jx

Bussssss

2009-02-21T19:51:00.000-08:00

So I ride the bus all the time now and I see the craziest stuff. I see disgusting stuff, scary stuff, stinky stuff, etc. But one morning a few weeks ago I bumped into something so strange I had to record it. I got onto the bus carrying a box, so my view was a lit obstructed and the bus was really crowded so I was mostly concerned with just finding a seat- not who was on the bus. So I managed to nab a seat right up in the front and as I sat down I bumped into the guy next to me, as I turned to say I'm sorry, I looked at what was in his hands and it was a sculpture of this.

It was about a foot long and it was of a male doll reaching towards it's other arm attached to a some sort of cube. The doll looked like a black G.I. Joe that was taken apart.

He later got off at the stop for the Art Institute of Seattle.

Time Magazine!

2008-12-27T08:13:00.000-08:00

Hey all!
Yesterday was a HUGE day for my husband, Aaron! The issue of Time Magazine in which a piece of his art is in just came out! Aaron made a label for a bottle of champagne for election day if Barack Obama won. The fake champagne label was an homage to Obama's victory in the style of the Dom Perignon. A friend of his at work, Maika Keuben, was contacted by Time Magazine when the saw the picture she took of the bottle on her flicker. It's their Person of the Year issue and the bottle is among other artists' works dedicated to Obama. So check it out! You can see the label up close on page 37 and then the pull bottle on page 45. I'm so proud that Aaron's art is in a major national magazine AND also proud because we got to drink the champagne in celebration!

November is HOT HOT HOT!

2008-11-15T12:08:00.000-08:00

Hey all
So as you may be fully aware (by the title) this November is steaming with goodness. The presidential election is over- woo hoo! -and ended well I might add. AND the latest issue Nickelodeon Magazine is out where you can see a gag comic that I did (of the Statue of Liberty). November also hosts my 2nd wedding anniversary-woo hoo!- AND Thanksgiving. Who could ask for anything more? Toyota.

kiss kiss
jx

Coverage!

2008-09-25T19:44:00.000-07:00

Howdy!
Last week I had work on the cover of Seattle's "The Stranger" weekly alternative paper for their back to school issue. Work from my "Grew" series was featured on the cover as well as four other pieces accompanying the feature article.

To read the article and see more of my work, click on the link below:

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=673801

Also, late next month keep your eye out for the new issue of Nickelodeon Magazine- I have a comic in the upcoming November issue!

more to come...

AND WE'RE BACK!

2008-06-20T17:08:00.000-07:00

So you can probably see that my website is back in smooth and running order! woo hoo! Well, it was actually back up later that same day...I am still just getting used to this whole "blogging" thing and staying on top of it, so there you have it. So it's business as usual at Camp Jessixa! Thank you for your patience!

--jx

WEBSITE ALERT!

2008-06-16T08:42:00.000-07:00

Hey All
I just wanted to make a quick note for anyone that might see this who has tried to visit my website recently. I am having some technical difficulties with my website working with the new version of Flash, so until we get this resolved, if you want to see the work on my site, you will have to go directly to each section, you can use the following links:

Bio:
http://www.jessixa.com/bio.php

Books:
http://www.jessixa.com/books.php

Comics:
http://www.jessixa.com/comics.php

Hotdogs:
http://www.jessixa.com/hotdogs.php

Robots:
http://www.jessixa.com/robots.php

Miscellaneous:
http://www.jessixa.com/misc.php

Paintings & Prints:
http://www.jessixa.com/painting.php

Resume:
http://www.jessixa.com/resume.php

Contact Info:
http://www.jessixa.com/contact.php

Sorry for the inconvenience. I hope to get my site up and in running order soon! If you need to reach me, email me at: jessixag@gmail.com

--jx

Old Fart, New Website!

2008-05-27T13:11:00.000-07:00

Ho! Ho! Ho!

Is it X-mas all ready? Well it must be because my wunderbar husband has just become the Gatekeeper AND Keymaster to his website! He has just revised and spruced up is already nifty site and has reformatted and added some new stuff!

So, for a good time, visit: http://www.aaronbagley.com/

Here is a picture from the future of my old man in action!

Cowabunga, dudes!

Hot in the city!

2008-05-05T09:31:00.000-07:00

Hola! Happy Cinco de Mayo!

Just thought I'd be a good blogger and give a quick update on my blog of the latest "haps" that are going on with me. The latest issue of Seattle's The Stranger features a collaborative drawing that my husband Aaron Bagley and I did for an article about life in Seattle from a non-Seattleite's perspective by Tao Lin. Here is the link to the article: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=567821&hp and here is the image.

Aaron and I frequently collaborate on drawings in a series that we call "Duet."We've been drawing together so long now, most of the time we can't tell who drew what on each drawing. We try to have a show of new work about once a year. You can see more work from "Duet" on my website as well as Aaron's, www.aaronbagley.com. You should check out his website anyway, he's got lots of great drawings, paintings and comics on there.

We currently have some collaborate sculpture's of little galleries for sale and display at The Hideout, our favorite hidden bar in Capitol Hill (located at 1005 Boren Ave, Seattle). The work is in The Hideout's new art vending machine called E.A.R.L. Check it out if you are in the neighborhood, or go out of your way to go there if you are not in the neighborhood. The Hideout is a great place for great drinks, clandestine meetings in dim light, and floor to super-high ceilings of amazing art. Here is a link to The Hideout's website:http://www.hideoutseattle.com/

Well, that's all I have for now. More updates soon!

jx

Huzzah! My blog is up!

2008-04-04T09:21:00.000-07:00

Hey everybody!

This is officially the new blog feature for my website! I can now inform you of the latest "haps" that are going on in the world of Jessixa. Until some other structural changes to the website are made, I will be reporting all upcoming shows, events, publications, announcements, recipes, math equations, dance moves, mental ramblings etc. right here.

If you have any questions for me or want to be on a mailing list of some kind please feel free to send me an email: jessixag@gmail.com

Um... What else? I don't really have anything else to say at this point. Um... I can also now officially update my resume and bio myself, thanks to my fabulous web manager Peet.

Um... I've been keep up with the current season of America's Next Top Model.

I uh... tried almond milk for the first time today.

Okay, that's really all I have to say at the moment. But stay tuned for more (hopefully more interesting) posts to come!

"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist."--Friedrich Nietzsche

--jx