Thursday, May 5, 2011

hallie bateman, superstar

Some people believe in eating locally. I believe in consuming local art. My latest and maybe greatest find occurred not too long ago, when I stumbled across an art exhibit at Beyond the Bridge Cafe in Tacoma. It's not even my usual coffee house hangout! I've been going to Metronome mostly. But for whatever reason I went to Beyond the Bridge that day and saw the exhibit by local artist Hallie Bateman.

Not sure if you've checked out the link to the Ridiculous Sister website (it's right over there), but that site belongs to Hallie and has plenty of her cool art. She's currently a senior at University of Puget Sound, which is less than a mile away from my crib, and will be graduating real soon. The piece that I liked the most at her art exhibit (a crocodile in a wedding dress) was already sold, which distressed me, but soon thereafter I came up with the idea of commissioning an art work for my friend B-Phat's "man cave" (check out the link for Concords Are Better - it's right over there). I got in touch with Hallie and sold her on the idea, so to speak, and the results were staggering. Just look at that smile on B-Phat's face! You can tell he likes his man cave picture.

At any rate, check out her website, and think about commissioning something for yourself. It's the gift that keeps on giving ...





3 comments:

Hallie Bateman said...

Thank you so much for the kind words, Trevor! But true gratitude, of course, is expressed in a blog post! http://ridiculoussister.blogspot.com/2011/05/blushing-iguana.html

Trevor said...

Hallie, how the $!%$*# did you know I blogged about you? Did I even tell you that I had a blog? Did this pop up on Google somewhere? Looks like you're some sort of a tech whiz, as well as an art whiz ...

Hallie Bateman said...

haha! it's a miracle of the very-useful blogger "stats" section - a tab in the dashboard where you can see where your hits are coming from.

also the internet is just full of magic.