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Make Me Swoon

American artist Shelbi Schroeder makes photographs that have a sort of old world breathlessness to them. Her recent White series

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Swoon

It’s hard to reinvent the nude, but former Las Vegan Shelbi Schroeder has done just that—turned the same old body

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Not Kid Stuff

Las Vegas-based Iranian artists Ali Fathollahi and Nanda Sharifpour landed in Istanbul, Turkey, the day before the terrorist attacks at

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Mermaids stroll thru the Joshua Tree, California for artist Aaron Shepard's inaugural parade, Bearded and Shucked. Image by Laura Henkel

Mermaid Parade

Paint This Desert, an arts and culture blog, published my experiences of attending the 1st annual mermaid parade, Bearded and

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The 705 Erogenous Zone

The 705 Erogenous Zone Las Vegas, NV 2017 2,000+ sqft mural (Video) Dr. Laura Henkel, Sin City Gallery (curation) Alison Chambers, The 705 (building) “Downtown” Steve Franklin, The 705 (building) Brian “Paco” Alvarez, Zappos (materials donation) Aaron Sheppard has a complex. Well, a few of them. But on this warm

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Bend Your Mind

I think of the artist Aaron Sheppard as the person who is willing to jump off the rocks into the water first, the height does not scare him, nor the sensation of cold ocean water, or whatever lurks beneath the choppy waves…or maybe it does, but he is still determined

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Strange Glove Entices and Intimidates

You can look but you can’t touch. The rubbery, wet-looking pieces in Chris Bauder’s “Strange Glove” solo show at Sin City Gallery ask to be interacted with, but there’s a reason the fleshy assault rifles are protected behind a glass case. He likes the idea of people wanting to interact

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Exhibit Gives In To Sin

A toy gun and an old computer mouse sit on a shelf, their plastic shells encased in salmon-pink latex. At least that’s what one can assume they were before artist Chris Bauder transformed them into aesthetically glutinous pieces for his latest exhibit, Strange Glove. The mouse, titled “Backlash,” now resembles

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Make Me Swoon

American artist Shelbi Schroeder makes photographs that have a sort of old world breathlessness to them. Her recent White series is made up of landscapes of pristine clouds, the subjects caught at the moment of snowy solitude and purity. Still others show the moment of sexual pleasure, where memories, rivers

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Swoon

It’s hard to reinvent the nude, but former Las Vegan Shelbi Schroeder has done just that—turned the same old body we’re so used to seeing into something fresh, mysterious and vital. Swoon features nine works in 12-by-12-inch frames, each exhibiting a single Fujifilm Instax Mini color instant photo of a

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Not Kid Stuff

Las Vegas-based Iranian artists Ali Fathollahi and Nanda Sharifpour landed in Istanbul, Turkey, the day before the terrorist attacks at Ataturk Airport this summer, finding themselves once again in a heightened political landscape where violence shakes and defines reality. As jarring as it was, it was familiar terrain for Fathollahi,

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Creating Questions with Art

Ali Fathollahi is an Iranian-American artist based in Las Vegas. All his experiences, from being an expatriate of Iran to moving from city to city, have influenced his work and inspired him to create more than “beautiful.” He has a bachelor’s degree in graphic design and a master’s in fine

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Mermaids stroll thru the Joshua Tree, California for artist Aaron Shepard's inaugural parade, Bearded and Shucked. Image by Laura Henkel

Mermaid Parade

Paint This Desert, an arts and culture blog, published my experiences of attending the 1st annual mermaid parade, Bearded and Shucked, in Joshua Tree, California with artist Aaron Sheppard and a group of adventurous souls. > Read More    

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