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LOS ANGELES, CA - September 3, 2005
"I'd wear those shoes," one of the girls said over my
shoulder.
"You would?" I asked. I take a good look at the
cookie I'm very seriously icing. Bright orange, lacy blue piping,
radioactive yellow accents on the vamp. I was rolling out dough most of
the time, but with the last batch in the oven, I thought I'd cross over
to the other
side of the hall.
"It's cute."
Yes, okay. Now that you mention it, it is kinda Marc
Jacobs-seque.
"Thanks," I said. I
looked around the table to see what I could add.
More sprinkles can only make it better, right?
The girls on the Teen Titans crew, Jenny Gase-Baker, Chu-Hui Song, and
Brianne Drouhard were taking part in the Girl Show, a gallery show
featuring about thirty female artists. When Jenny asked if I would like
to join the cookie party the night before, I felt like a pre-K kid
getting invited to a princess party.
So six of the artists plus one baked, decorated, and chatted until just
about 2am. As talented as they are in their professional artistic
media, the results were. . . not representative of that talent. They
were fun and cool, but one could say they looked like cookies on crack.
I was looking
forward to seeing what the girls would show at the gallery. Since I had
seen Brianne's portfolio and
self-published sketchbooks, I knew a little about
her work. Jenny
and Chu-Hui have been on the Titans' crew since the beginning, but I
had
only seen maybe a couple backgrounds when I'd visit the Warner
Brother's
Animation building, and not much in the way of personal work.
I like the artists personally, but it is without nepotism that I
say I was impressed. Their work had a sense of charm and bittersweet. A
sadness to them and at the same time, very strong.
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