Elvis Tribute Night and Karaoke Party
Be There, Monday, August 16th 2010
On Monday, August 16, exactly 33 years to the day since Elvis retreated to his Memphis mansion bathroom - and never returned, the Official Bad Art Museum of Art and Café Racer will be having an evening of memorial tribute to Elvis, the Man and the Memory.
OBAMA Birthday Celebration!
A Luau Birthday Celebration at the
Official Bad Art Museum of Art
Wednesday, August 4th, 7:pm – Cafe Racer/OBAMA
5828 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle WA 98105
Cafe Racer specials featuring Food and Drink of the Islands
Music by The Ukadelics
Wednesday August 4th is the birthday of President Obama, and because Obama is a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, and because we at O.B.A.M.A. are looking for an excuse to have a party, and celebrate the Hawaiian and Tiki Culture, we’re having a Luau inspired party to celebrate OBAMA! Wear a muu-muu or Aloha shirt, have a fruity cocktail, get lei’d!
• GALLERY •
To make art donations to the museum or for press information, contact Marlow@UnusualLife.com or JoDavid@UnusualLife.com
• This is a partial gallery of the Museum’s collection •
Click on thumbnail views for larger images
• Official Bad Art Museum of Art Opening Night
If you missed the opening, don’t worry, you can drop by anytime to the Official Bad Art Museum of Art at Cafe Racer because it’s now open from 7am until 2am, 7 days a week. Stop by for lunch or dinner or a cold one after work and view the stupendous art.
• Video by Marlow •
• Also check out the Fun Photos of the Opening Party •
• OBAMA in the News •
• The Official Bad Art Museum of Art gets down with its funky self!
Bad so art it’s good on KING-5 TV Evening Magazine
The Stranger’s Jen Graves calls us a Bad Art Temple
Bad Art in Seattle: When it’s bad it’s better by Regina Hackett
Can’t Miss OBAMA on Seattlest
Museum offers eyefull of Bad Art from North Seattle Herald
Marlow interviewed on Jack E. Jett radio show
Marlow interviewed on Peter Anthony Holder’s radio show
OBAMA in the News from Scoutabout
Sweet Mention from Mr. and Mrs. Pixel
Cafe Racer Revue from Project K-Bar
Bad Art Museum to Open in Ravenna from Citizen Rain
OBAMA featured on RoadsideAmerica.com
We’re HOT in Seattle Magazine’s “IN” List
Diaper Babies Gone Wild
• Lovingly rendered in bold paint strokes, this Free Spirited romp in the wild by a young Adam and Eve provokes many questions…
• Is that what a bunny really looks like to you?
• Will that girl face her demise in the swift river’s current?
• When does a rainbow have only two colors?
• Where are your parents and where are your pants?
This is one of the Museum’s recent finds without pedigree.
Much like these children, unceremoniously dropped off by someone for a neighborhood garage sale, this homeless unsigned castaway has found a warm home for the winter. Please come and welcome it to the Museum.
It’s whopping size of 51″x27″ underlines the artist’s commitment to telling his/her story of the Diaper Babies Gone Wild.
Upon closer inspection, it looks as though the artist has cleverly signed the piece hidden in the forground as grass shadows. How clever! Who would have ever thought of that. It looks like ’something O’Dell’, see it?
We respectfully request your opinion, who better than you to be the judge and critic. Educate us! Please comment on this masterpiece below to tell us what you think could be going on here in this major new acquisition of the Museum…
• Francis Bacon Jr •
• Another new aquisition to the museum this month. A truly important piece. Completely dreadful!
• An unsigned wonder, so power-packed with angst and oppression as to beg the question…?
Life frankly and brutally portrayed. Look carefully at the menacing shadow suggested in the corner, the symbolism of formal parental dominance, the existential fetal pain and isolation, moving in it’s nature, and so common in it’s truth. Feel it? Who among us has not? Tiny Face, Silent Scream! Right?
This powerful new aquisition is on loan from the collection of James Crespinel, and as an untitled and unsigned piece, was aptly nicknamed “Francis Bacon Jr.” by art expert, author, and owner of Roq La Rue Gallery, Kirsten Anderson.
Oh my God, each time I look at it, the face is more contorted than before, turning, changing, morphing, becoming each of us.
I hear moaning from that corner of the room at night.
I woke up asleep again today.
Help me understand all this with your comments below.
Please visit this outpatient at the Museum for full effect.
Unsigned, but not unrepentant
Oil on canvas
24″x36″
And because our main mission here at Official Bad Art Museum of Art is the visual arts education of the masses, here’s an info link to the famous English figure painter Francis Bacon.
…And here is a link to an image gallery for the amazing art of Francis Bacon.
• Jesus of Peeps •
Jesus of Peeps
by Janet Galore
494 marshmallow Peeps with wood frame
4.5ft x 3.5ft
photos by Janet Galore
• Clown •
Clown
A. Paradies
Oil on canvas
15″x19″
Donated by Jane Kenoyer
Phill and Jane turn over the clown to the Museum
They brought this find to us on a recent visit from Nevada.
This wonderfully rendered subject exhibits several given criteria of Bad Art:
• Way off-center
• Juicer on head
• Bad
• A CROSS-EYED SOT
“A CROSS-EYED SOT”
by AGUMAR R.P.
Oil on Stretched Canvas 24″ x 36″
PROVENANCE: Aquarium Art Gallery - Balibago, Angeles City, Philippines via ESTATE AUCTION Pacific Galleries Seattle
Collection of Charles Iver Anderson, Seattle
• Pant-by-Number
Pant-by-Number
artist unknown
Oil on canvas board
8″x10″
From the collection of Bill Blair
• My Name is Steve and I am an Alcoholic
My Name is Steve and I am an Alcoholic
Oil on canvas
18″x24″
From the collection of Jen Ralston
• You’ve Got To Be Kidding
You’ve Got To Be Kidding
Oil on canvas
18″x24″
From the collection of Jen Ralston
• Lobster Lady
Lobster Lady
by Buckner
Acrylic on Canvas
24″x30″
From the collection of Marlow Harris and Jo David
A fine dumpster find
An enigmatic masterpiece!
• Elvis and the Dancing Girls
Elvis and the Dancing Girls
Oil on leather scroll
14″x18″
from the collection of Marlow Harris and Jo David
• Ghoulfriend
Ghoulfriend
Jerry Louderback
1970
Oil on canvas
12″x18″
From the collection of Danny Eskenazi
• Study in Gold & Blue •
Study in Gold and Blue
Paint on Black Velvet
24 x 36
by P. Ortiz
From the collection of Danny Eskenazi
• Glitter Elvis •
Glitter Elvis
Paint and glitter on panel
11 x 14
Zerrin Koch
On loan from the Dead Elvis Lounge
From the collection of Marlow & JoDavid