Our Awesome Kitchen!!!

If you haven't been following either of Zoe or I on instagram (and you really should, btw), you may not have heard about our most recent project.  We hated the walls in our kitchen, which were plastered with faded, stained pages from an outdated atlas.  So, we decided to make and install our own wallpaper!  The design is a pattern of glitter and rock candy.  To create the pattern, we scanned in actual pieces of candy & glitter, so the wallpaper has a really cool 3-D effect to it.  

Blake's Instagram
Zoe's Instagram

Clockwise from top left: The finished product, our buffalo inspecting the work,
Blake painting over the old wall, and the original wall

SOFT MATTER in Manchester!

Some of Blake's work is going to be a part of the group exhibition, Soft Matter in Manchester, UK!  

Several of his illustrations were selected to be included in a hardback book, produced specifically for this event.  

The book contains the works of 15 artists and 13 writers (28 in all), responding to the theme for the exhibition.  The show takes place between 6th - 8th of May; after the event, a reprinted magazine edition of the publication will be available.

...more info to come, as we get closer to the opening!

Have You Seen Our Wallpaper!?!?

The modern woman knows that your nails should always kinda match the wallpaper! #wallart #wallpaper #wallpaperdesign #glitterhome #glitterdesign #confetti #dyiwallpaper #giltternails #design #pattern #printmaker

A photo posted by Zoe (@astrozoe) on Apr 13, 2015 at 7:00pm PDT

@astrozoe and I are inspecting our new #bombass #wallpaper we #designed and #made - #installation soon! #design #modern #confetti #blue

A photo posted by Blake (@blakep83) on Apr 13, 2015 at 6:53pm PDT

OUR NEW SHOP and STUFF FOR SALE!!!!

Hi Everyone!  

Apologies, Zoe and I haven't been blogging much recently, but you should check out each of our Instagram pages - we've been working on a lot of different projects!!!  Here's a link to Zoe's, and here's a link to mine (Blake)

Serge Stops for a Smoke, by Zoe Phillips & Blake Peterson 2015

On our Instagram feeds, you'll find:

Zoe and I have been setting up our own in-house screen printing studio, making new animated videos, and drawings, amongst many other things.  We try and update our pages on a daily basis with new material, as we're working on it.

We have a new shop!

We were also given the opportunity to be a featured brand on a great new website, Lective.co.  It's an online marketplace where you can shop directly from the lookbooks, OOTDs, floor sets, looks of the day, and other cool content that brands and stores photograph & upload daily.  There's also a nice marketplace where you can even mix-and-match brands.  

But wait - there's MORE!

AAAnnnddd.... not only that - we opened up a shop on Print All Over Me! 

Zoe and I have purchased material from them before, and really liked the experience.  By choosing to work with them, we can very quickly take our patterns & format them for many different types of apparel 

Pom Pom

Kaleidoscope Pom Pom Bra Animation!!

A short video loop for an installation, by Blake Peterson and Zoe Phillips (c) 2015

Z Says, No No No

No, no, no - Blake Peterson with Zoe Phillips (c) 2015

Digital photomanipulation

New work by Blake Peterson and Zoe Phillips, digital print, 24" x 24" (c) 2014
Available for sale soon.

Orange; blake peterson & zoe phillips; photomanipulation, mixed media; 24" x 24"; 2014

More figures to come

"Messengers between humans and the spirit world" (image 2) by Zoe Phillips and Blake Peterson (c) 2014

The illustrations are studies of Hopi Katsinam Dolls.  Zoe made initial drawings while we were visiting a native art and craft exhibit at the Portland Art Museum.  Blake made revisions and colored the figures.

Messengers between humans and the spirit world

We are in Portland.

"Messengers between humans and the spirit world" by Zoe Phillips and Blake Peterson (c) 2014

Pink Mountains - Preview

We have been going through our archives, and uncovering new works.  Here is one gem we've uncovered... and we'll be using it for an upcoming project!

Mini Pink Mountains by Zoe Phillips (c) 2014

Pink and blue pattern design!

Another wallpaper/fabric design by Blake and Zoe!

New work, let's see where this goes!

Zoe and Blake are working on a few new things!

Here's a new work from over the weekend.

Pink Landscape 01 - Zoe Phillips and Blake Peterson (2014)

Wallpaper

Blake and Zoe are now working on a new project... wallpaper!  New designs, preview pictures of the paper installed, and purchasing info coming soon!

Here's a teaser for our first design.

Wildflowers, Foxes and Furry Friends by Zoe Phillips and Blake Peterson (c) 2014

Patterned books

New book design by Zoe Phillips (c) 2014

Zoe at the OCCCA

Zoe's work, '925 Evergreen St.' was selected for inclusion in the upcoming exhibition, "HÔME" at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art!

The opening reception at the OCCCA is at 6pm on Saturday, July 5th.  The exhibition runs from the 5th, through the 26th of July.

The work, '925 Evergreen St.' is a part of Zoe's "Foamless = Homeless" series, which 'create[s] a narrative featuring an ambiguous  coming disaster, which could be natural or man-made.  Homes, and the notions of everyday life are threatened, so a solution is developed and propagated: cover your home in foam.' (ZP, 2014).  

Follow the links for previews to: the full series when it was installed in San Francisco, was featured in SF Art Enthusiast, related images, the "Foamless=Homeless" book, and an early, in-studio snapshot.

But remember to go and see the work in person, at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art!

'925 Evergreen Street' by Zoe Phillips (c) 2013

A Preview of Our New Project!

Hi all!  Here is a little preview of our new project.  We are going to be publishing a magazine.

Each issue will feature new images and short literary works, collected by theme.

Zoe + Candy [Low Resolution Preview] (Zoe Phillips Blake Peterson © 2014)

Blake's Artwork in LUCY'S

Last month, we mentioned that Blake was asked to provide a selection of his artwork for a new Swiss-based arts and cultural Magazine, Lucy's.

We now can share a link to the publication's recently launched website.  Click Here.  

The magazine is available both online, and in print.

cover of pilot issue of "Lucy's"

Golden Raspberries

Over the weekend Zoe and I made a new video!  
We also have a few other projects coming along as well...

Preview: selections from Blake's print series in "Lucy's"

My work is being featured in a new Swiss publication, titled Lucy's.  I am not fluent in German, but as I understand it, the article pertains to "the culture of drug use in Switzerland."  We'll have photos of a printed copy later, but here's a low resolution preview of the first two pages for now (the full article features 6 of my prints/ drawings) :

Happy Valentine's Day (MORE FABRIC!)

Guess what just came in - more fabric!  

This is a super soft, cotton / silk blend fabric that we are using for another project (in addition to the leggings) that we are making.

Zoe created the fabric pattern.  The design is based on her multi media work "I Love You Honey, But It'll Never Work Out."