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Interstice of Meaning
Acrylic and mesh on cradled board, 16" x 20"
Not For Sale

Moths to the Flame
Acrylic and giclée on cradled board, 18" x 18"
Price Upon Request

NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition
March 12th - May 30th, 2010

MoCCA - Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
594 Broadway, Suite 401
(btwn. Houston and Prince)
New York, NY 10012
[map] | [moccany.org]

Featuring: (I've taken the liberty of linking those I was familiar with, and could find the website for.)

Charles Addams • Ray Alma • Peter Arno • Mark Badger • Liz Baillie • Peter Bagge • Ralph Bakshi • Isabella Bannerman • Disney Studio Artist, signed by Carl Barks • James L. Barry • Charles Barsotti • Josh Bayer • Alison Bechdel • Jordi Berbetm • Ellen Berkenblit • Nick Bertozzi • Mark Beyer • Michael Bilsborough • R.O. Blechman • Ruben Bolling • Vaughn Bode • Doug Bratton • Barbara Brandon-Croft • Kevin Breslawski • Jeffrey Brown • Gary Brotmeyer • Ivan Brunetti • Brendan Burford • Charles Burns • Tim Burton • Karen Caldicott • Sabin Michael Calvert • Bob Camp • Milton Caniff • Al Capp • Joey Cavalieri • Mark Chamberlain • Roz Chast • Nicolas Cinquegrani (nicocinque) • Bob Clampett • Rob Clarke • Daniel Clowes • Al Columbia • Dave Cooper • Leela Corman • Erik Craddock • Ann Craven • Robert Crumb • Howard Cruse • Marguerite Dabaie • Farel Dalrymple • Henry Darger • Geof Darrow • Melissa DeJesus • Angelo DeCasere • Kim Deitch • Guy Delisle • Mike Diana • Liza Donnelly • Julie Doucet • Don Duga • Tom Duncan • Caroll Dunham • Ryan Dunlavey • Mickey Duzyj • Will Eisner • Steve Ellis • Austin English • André Ethier • Neil Farber • Jules Feiffer • Jessica Fink • Ken Fisher • Joe Flood • Hilary Florido • Jack Forbes (hebrewgod) • Rick Geary • Joe Giella • Stephen Gilpin • Sarah Gllidden • Stan Goldberg • Emma Claire Goodman • Jonathan Gray • Spencer Green • Roberta Gregory • Cheryl Griesbach • Rick Griffin • Bill Griffith • Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) • Richard Hahn • Peter Halley • Tomer + Asaf Hanuka • Joe Harris • Tom Hart • Rory Hayes • Glenn Head • Jaime Hernandez • Gilbert Hernandez • Matt Hickling (Matty Burns) • Syd Hoft • Seonna Hong • Scott Hug • Humayoun Ibrahim • Al Jaffee • Frances Jetter • Phil Jimenez • Ryan Johnson • Anton Kannemeyer • Ben Katchor • KAZ • June Kim • Denis Kitchen • Hank Ketchum • Mike Kelley • Walt Kelly • Jack Kirby • Denis Kitchen • Keith Knight • Ed Koren • Peter Kuper • Harvey Kurtzman • David Levine • Alice Meichi Li (alicemeichi) • Yali Lin (ylin29) • John Liney • Jason Little • David Lloyd • Matt Loux • Lee Lorenz • Jay Lynch • Matt Madden • Derek Mainhart • Sakura Maku • Kerry James Marshall • Stanley Martucci • Joe Matt • Brendan McCarthy • Dan McCarthy • Winsor McCay • Patrick McDonnell • Ted McKeever • Taylor McKimens • Bill Malendez • Tony Millionaire • Mike Mignola • Moebius • Andrei Molotiu • Victor Moscoso • Tom Motley • Stanley Mouse • Tony Murphy • Josh Neufeld • Marc Newgarden • Diane Noomin • Hiroki Otsuka • Grace S. Pak • Gary Panter • Tintin Pantoja (tinpan) • Rick Parker • Chari Pere • Raymond Pettibone • Brad Phillips • Rina Piccolo • Nate Powell • Hugo Pratt • Ted Rall • Archie Rand • MK Reed • Ad Reinhardt • Fred Rhodes • Chris Roberts-Antieau • Jerry Robinson • Trina Robbins • Spain Rodriguez • Dave Roman (yaytime) • Alex Ross • Virgil Ross • Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (or studio of) • Fay Ryu • Bud Sagendorf • Richard Sala • Jim Salicrup • David Sandlin • Frank Santoro • Elizabeth Sayles • Mell Scalzi • Charles M. Schulz • Dana Schutz • J.J. Sedelmaier • Maurice Sendak • Seth • Marie Severin • Dash Shaw • Jim Shaw • Gilbert Shelton • David Shrigley • James Siena • R. Sikoryak • Shel Silverstein • Josh Simmons • Jeff Smith • Raymond Sohn • Art Spiegelman • Charles Steffen • Leslie Stein • Saul Steinberg • James Sturm • B.K. Taylor • Raina Telgemeier (goraina) • Craig Thompson • Jodi Tong (j3t) • Mike Townsend • Carol Tyler • Steve Uy • Fred Van Lente • Jhonen Vasquez • Chris Ware • Lauren Weinstein • Rudolph Wendelin • H.C. Westermann • Eric White • Gluyas Williams • Skip Willamson • Connor Willumsen • Laura Wilson • S. Clay Wilson • Ivan Witenstein • Jim Woodring • Thomas Woodruff • Basil Wolverton • Sylvia J. Yi

The NeoIntegrity Manifesto
by Keith Mayerson

1. Art should be reflective of the artist who made it, and the culture in which it is produced.

2. Art is aesthetic, and whether ugly, beautiful, or sublime, it should be interesting to look at and/or think about.

3. Art is not necessarily commodity, and commodity is not the reason to produce or appreciate art.

4. Art is about ideas, the progression of ideas, the agency of the artist to have ideas, the communication by the artist to the world of their ideas because agency and ideas are important and what art is.

5. Art communicates via its own internal language, and by the language the viewer brings to a work of art. But this language is not entirely textually based, and being an aesthetic object (or image[s], idea[s], comic, or happening[s]), the work communicates in such a way to be transcendent beyond language, and traditional constructs of textually based ideology. Therefore the work of art remains a deep communication between artist and viewer, and withholds the possibility of the sublime.

6. Art is rather than tells, it is about itself; it shows itself to be about what it is rather than being an illustration of what it isn’t.

7. Art is important because it reminds us that we are human, and ultimately, that is its function.

8. Art can be, and should be sublime, in that it is able to produce images directly from the mind and imagination of the artist, producing tangible realities from the fertile imaginings of the conscious and unconscious of the artist, triggering responses from the same in the viewer via form and light and color, that transcends language and received ways of looking at things, that, while ideological, comes closest to directly communicating from one animal to another in the most broad, base, but considered aesthetic language possible.

9. Art should be alive, have a life of its own, transgress intended meaning or hand or wit of the artist in that it arranges, via form, light, color, and space, other worlds that are optical and transmit cognitive reactions in the mind of the viewer that cause an ineffable schism between belief and reality that cause the work as to appear to be breathing life.

10. Art can indeed be windows onto other worlds, windows into the soul, able to capture dream space/time unlike any other medium because they are produced by the mind, gesture, hand and intellect of the artist, who consciously or unconsciously cannot hope to ultimately control the meaning, interpretation, or event described by the hand and mind of the unconscious.

11. Art should be experienced: a good work of art cannot be successfully reproduced or explained, indeed, that is ultimately the only reason art is important in the age of corporate commodity culture: it has an aura that cannot be contained-it is a result of a peculiar man-made alchemy that comes closest to recreating the soul.

DeviantArt - My go-to site. A Daily Deviation early on got me tons of exposure, so I can depend on having an audience. (Sadly because it was on one of my earlier works, not as much exposure as one would expect.) I also really like the Contest and News features, as well as the ability to Fav News Articles whenever one of my artworks is mentioned in someone's article. The Contests are also great. It has the most organized feedback system I've seen, detailed Stats for your gallery, and the ability to sort according to popularity -- something I often use to get a feel for which ones of my artworks I should be promoting more.

It also offers a Print Shop feature, which I used briefly but then stopped because I figured it would be cheaper on my patrons (and more profitable for me, since DeviantArt takes 50% of your cut) to create my own PayPal print shop.

Main Site | My DeviantArt

Behance - I just started this one earlier this month because I heard of quite a few people getting jobs through it. It seems to be a promising up-and-comer, but I haven't seen any results yet. We shall see.

Main Site | My Behance

Flickr - I'm not on this nearly enough to really take advantage of various contests I see floating around. It seems to be more of a "thing" with my photographer friends, as one can expect.

Main Site | My Flickr

Creativestem - Invite-only portfolio site. Small and tight-knit, I joined because a significant amount of artists I knew were on it. Perhaps because it's a smaller pool, one of my artworks ended up gracing the front page as a "Featured Work" for a few months? Other than that, I haven't seen much in the way of results thus far.

Main Site | My CreativeStem

MySpace - I actually got into 2 exhibitions via MySpace years ago in the pre-Facebook days, and it's still a pretty decent tool for me to contact some of my favorite musicians. Unfortunately, it's also long since been overrun with party publicists and other spammers as most of the real people flocked to Facebook. Still, I try to keep my blog there updated just in case.

Main Site | My MySpace

Facebook - Started out as a more personal friend-to-friend profile, and now hybridized into promoting my art as well. Perhaps I should create a separate group for my art? Not sure. It's good to keep my friends and various contacts up-to-date about my artistic happenings, as well as getting to know fellow artists better.

Main Site | My Facebook

Livejournal - Similarly to Facebook, it started off as a personal journal that has been mostly re-purposed for artistic matters. The journal provides a more exhaustive archive of art-related news than I can fit on my portfolio site, and the Friends-only entries features allows me to update those who are closer to me with non-art matters if I ever decide to write about them.

Main Site | My Livejournal

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So preview it, love it, buy it, and support the awesome band who hired me. ;)

"The Blood Dumpster, a NYC-based art collective, celebrates another year of art, beauty and mayhem with a pre-Valentine’s bash in Brooklyn. The event, entitled Dumpster of Love, will bring together the creative class in Brooklyn with great drink specials - $3 Yuengling drafts and $5 Absolut cocktails, an all-night raffle and more creativity then may be legal in most states. The party is part art show that will feature many members from the collective’s wide range of visual magicians. Expect artwork on display from Melissa Dowell, Rebecca Memoli, Jeff Moore, Aubrey Roemer, Nate Bear, Laura Galbraith, Vincent True, Tim Kellen, Katelan Foisy and many more.

"The Blood Dumpster is bringing along a few artists of the musical persuasion for this one. Funk House DJs, Jason Orrell and Tobeytech start the night off right, leading up to Rhinostrich’s 8-bit inspired melodies, then on to Epileptic Peat, a bad ass 8-string bassist armed with an artillery of pedals, the band Skullbuggery, a sea shanty styled child of the Reverend Billy choir, and Belltone Suicide, a Massachusetts noise artist. Not to mention, an appearance of Memo the Clown! Dumpster of Love takes place Friday February 12th, 2010 from 9pm and lasts until closing, at TBD, 224 Franklin Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Arrive early for free swag and to scoop up some raffle tickets, the prizes get only get better as the night goes on.

"Take the G train to Greenpoint, exit at India street."

Moths to the Flame, the album whose cover I worked on, should be released on iTunes by 1/25. Astronaut Down are playing at Crash Mansion in celebration of it, so please join us. :)

Start Time:
Friday, January 22, 2010 at 9:00pm

End Time:
Saturday, January 23, 2010 at 12:00am

Location:
Crash Mansion
199 Bowery
New York, NY
(go to map)

* * * RSVP Here! * * *

Open bar from 9pm - 10pm!

So come and watch me get smashed off of one drink (I'm a total lightweight) and then party all night to some awesome music. I'll have some cool magnets and postcards of my art on me, so -- freebies for all! (while supplies last)

(As an aside, I am simply tickled by the fact that I can see my artwork next to a MySpace song on my profile. "Starfall" is a great song, as well!)

Moths To The Flame
Acrylic and Digital | BUY PRINT | iTunes | Amazon.com

The concept was pretty straightforward, harking to the album's title. Simultaneously, the client also expressed a desire to see a girl amidst an oppressive, scary environment -- with only a flame keeping the darkness at bay.

The flame is subtly drawn to evoke the shape of a phoenix -- a personal symbol I incorporated, and felt it wove into the evocation of the Dark Night of the Soul and consequent rebirth.

( Click here for sketches, process, and details! )

Luna-Sea
Acrylic and Photoshop | Buy Print

I just noticed I made her hair look suspiciously like Rogue's from X-Men. Hmmm. My childhood obsessions are coming back to haunt me.

More new work coming soon!

A print of one of my pieces, "Capsicum", will be on display at the Canopus Performance as a part of a holiday-themed art exhibit later this month. The event is being organized by Thesia Arts and curated by the lovely Kristen Terrana. Partial proceeds from the sale will be donated to Free Arts NYC.

EDIT: My piece was sold. :)

Sunday, December 20th
2:00pm - 3:00pm: Concert and Exhibit

Advent Lutheran Church
2504 Broadway, between 93rd and 94th.
New York, NY 10025

Unfortunately, I will be out of state so I will not be able to attend personally. But I hope everyone can go and show their support of a great cause. :)

Carly Smithson of We Are the Fallen and American Idol, with a poster of my painting. :)

EDIT: I *just* got this in an E-mail... The one of the band's posters, framed. Thanks, Marty!



Buy yours here! (does not come with this awesome frame, unfortunately)

We Are The Fallen

All I see is black and cold
As I try to pull you down
To the ground, the ground

You bury me alive
And everybody's got to breathe somehow
Don't leave me, die
Too consumed by your own emptiness and lies

My friend Ben's new band. :) Support them! http://www.wearethefallen.com

The butterfly is a classic symbol of rebirth after death. I thought it was appropriate, considering the history of most of the band members.

This and many other prints of my artwork can be found at my store: store.alicemeichi.com

Fairytale of New York
Stars' rendition of the classic song.

Read the original article here: "Embracing the Inner Bimbo" for The Weekly Planet
Buy My Inner Bimbo TPB: Amazon.com

Front Cover


Back Cover, with quote

Naturally I was quite excited, as Sam Kieth has been one of my comic-creator heroes for about 14 years now since The Maxx first came out. :) Go and buy the graphic novel! It's totally worth it.

Cover


Interior Tearpage

Female Summoner Neutral

As the name implies, I wanted a neutral balance between the Good and Evil Female Summoners.

London is Burning
Acrylic and Digital

"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."

"A woman drew her long black hair out tight
And fiddled whisper music on those strings"

Inspired by T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", with subconscious recollection of John Constantine's appearance in Sandman (Pointed out by my husband, who found the subject matter similar).

John Constantine, Hellblazer, and Sandman are © DC/Vertigo Comics.

Aensland
Acrylic and Digital

The Aenslands, Morrigan and Lilith, drawn for Udon/Capcom's Darkstalkers Tribute book contest. It wasn't chosen this time, but I had fun doing this because it was a new direction to explore. :)

Arisugawa Juri
Graphite

The Utena-ness has been palpable lately. This will change soon.