Gritty Surrealism

All things change in a dynamic enviroment

2014-09-29T17:10:00.000-05:00

11x14, oil on canvas, 2012

Even a simulated experience or a dream is simultaneously reality and fanatsy

2014-09-24T14:56:00.001-05:00

11x14, oil on canvas, 2012

2014-01-29T14:16:00.002-06:00

All things change in a dynamic environment, oil on canvas, 11x14, 2012

If the dolls also had voices, I bet they would have screamed, "I didn't want to become human."

2013-03-31T21:59:00.000-05:00

Alice Gardner-Bates, If the dolls also had voices, I bet they would have screamed, "I didn't want to become human.", 24x36, oil on canvas, 2008-2012
The title is a quote from Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence.

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2013-02-14T11:07:00.001-06:00

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Innocence Is Life

2012-09-06T16:59:00.000-05:00

Alice Gardner-Bates, 'Innocence Is Life', oil on canvas, 11x14, 2011

The title is a quote from Ghost in the Shell II:Innocence.

I carry a sense of my own destiny

2012-08-23T22:31:00.001-05:00

Alice Gardner-Bates, 'I carry a sense of my own destiny', oil on canvas, 11x14, 2012
Title is a quote from Ghost in the Shell.

You Talk About Redefining My Identity. I Want A Guarantee That I Can Still Be Myself.

2012-08-18T02:22:00.003-05:00

Alice Gardner-Bates, You talk about redefining my identity. I want a guarantee that I can still be myself, oil on canvas, 15x20, 2012

The title is a quote from Ghost in the Shell.

I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries

2012-08-09T05:25:00.000-05:00

Alice Gardner-Bates, I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries, oil on canvas, 11x14, 2011

The title is a quote from Ghost in the Shell.

This painting was selected to be in 500x's 'Fresh Meat' show. The judge was Eric Swenson!

Perhaps It's a Protest Against Their Own Obsolecence

2012-08-02T02:13:00.001-05:00

Alice Gardner-Bates, oil on canvas, 48x24, 2011
Title, quote from Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence

2012-07-28T01:44:00.000-05:00

Photos from the opening on July 20th at UTD. Work not by me is by Jessi Wirski and Yun Jung Lee.

Music by Pam Todd Hobart!

My doll collector friends came, and we posed our dolls under my painting of dolls!

And one final picture of me with most of my paintings!
Dress by Atelier Pierrot
Shoes by Metamorphose Temps de Fille

I lack the most basic processes inherent in all living organisms

2012-07-27T01:12:00.001-05:00

Alice Gardner-Bates, I lack the most basic processes inherent in all living organisms, oil on canvas, 22x28, 2012

Spring Show

2012-06-20T11:55:00.003-05:00

From the student spring show. The two paintings on bottom won me the Dean's Award. They were selected by great local artist and curator Heyd Fontanot!

WIP

2012-01-28T06:24:00.000-06:00

These will be made into paintings for my series of women. I believe it will have twelve paintings. Five are painted. Hopefully I will have four more done by then of the semester.

Figure Drawing

2011-11-19T22:57:00.000-06:00

It's been a while since the last update. All I can do is get back on the horse. There's a new painting coming very soon!

Work in progress

2011-10-31T07:20:00.000-05:00

This piece was started when the sheet of vellum fell perfectly over the words. Normally I don't do such spontaneous things, but it looked perfect.

Fresh Meat Opening @ 500x

2011-10-22T04:12:00.000-05:00

Finished?

2011-10-14T06:02:00.000-05:00

Do you think this is done? I was going to make her intestines more glistening, but I thought without it reminds me of Francis Bacon. What do you think?

Fresh Meat at 500x

2011-10-07T18:19:00.000-05:00

My piece from the previous post got accepted! I'm really honored that they choose me for one of the 30 spots, and I will be the only student from UTD. My first thought when I saw that was "Did Frank Tringali and Yaseen Benhalim not enter?" Other than that it feels very strange and I'm nervous about it. Hopefully I can make UTD at least look crazy and violent.

Fresh Meat

2011-09-28T09:22:00.000-05:00

This would be painting number four. It's starting to look like a series. I feel terrible that it's been so long between posts. At least now I have a glut of work that will keep me posting regularly for the nest few weeks.

Bio-manner-ish

2011-07-30T16:42:00.000-05:00

I just realized I hadn't posted this painting. It's about a year old. I was trying to emulate Hans Bellmer and Henmaru Machino's way of turning the body into an abstraction.

What I've been up to

2011-07-23T04:08:00.000-05:00

One finished commision for my neighboor.

And I'm reworking this painting. It's coming along nicely.

Disengage Grey Blog

2011-06-21T12:00:00.000-05:00

Disengage Grey is a blog run by a local lolita. Even If you're not into the fashion she has lots of pretty pictures, and links to where you can see more pretty pictures. Currently she's doing a giveaway/contest, so check out her blog for me BECAUSE I WANT THIS NECKLACE!

Sad news

2011-06-19T22:25:00.000-05:00

Deborah, whose health was my excuse for irregular postings, passed away a few days ago.

As I was worried that I didn't take a nice enough portrait of her while she was alive, I snapped this picture of her (still living) sister Maria.

A new doll

2011-06-07T12:36:00.000-05:00

Used the money from my commission (photos coming shortly) to buy an Elfdoll Hana. Her foot immediately broke. >.< That is my cursed touch on elfdolls, it happened exactly the same way to Ryung as soon as I bought her, too. Her she is after some epoxy therapy.

I've named her Diana Barry for her sweet smile and raven black hair.

Her former owner said she had trouble standing, but she did just fine with me.