Charlotte Tarantola
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Charlotte Tarantola Roofless Gallery
Elysian Floral, by Charlotte Tarantola
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Oil on 9x12 cotton paper, unframed 2018
From our still life painting workshops at Earthbaby Flowers, a flower shop tucked in the Topanga Canyon.
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Cabazon Dinos, by Charlotte Tarantola
9" x 12", oil on hardboard panel, unframed 2018
Painted from life and on-site at the iconic Cabazon Dinosaurs, as part of our Palm Springs Painting Retreat in November 2018.
CHARLOTTE TARANTOLA is an honor and summa cum laude graduate from NYC’s Fashion Institute of Technology. After moving to Los Angeles, she continued to diversify her fine art background with studies in painting. Her work has been featured in several shows around the city. She’s an active member with Roofless Painters and represented in their online gallery. charlotte.roofless@gmail.com
CABAZON DINOSAURS is a roadside attraction in Cabazon, CA built by sculptor and theme park artist Claude Bell in 1964. It features two steel-and-concrete dinosaurs named Dinny the Dinosaur and Mr. Rex. Located just west of Palm Springs, the 150-foot-long Brontosaurus (Dinny) and the 65-foot-tall Tyrannosaurus rex (Mr. Rex) are visible from the freeway to travelers passing by on Southern California's Interstate 10.
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Mojave Sands at Night, by Charlotte Tarantola
11" x 14", oil on hardboard panel, unframed 2018
Painted from life and on-site at Mojave Sands Motel, as part of our Joshua Tree Painting Retreat on November 2017.
CHARLOTTE TARANTOLA is an honor and summa cum laude graduate from NYC’s Fashion Institute of Technology. After moving to Los Angeles, she continued to diversify her fine art background with studies in painting. Her work has been featured in several shows around the city. She’s an active member with Roofless Painters and represented in their online gallery. charlotte.roofless@gmail.com
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Andreas Canyon, by Charlotte Tarantola
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9" x 12", oil on hardboard panel, unframed 2018
Painted from life and on-site at the stunning Andreas Canyon, as part of our Palm Springs Painting Retreat in November 2018.
CHARLOTTE TARANTOLA is an honor and summa cum laude graduate from NYC’s Fashion Institute of Technology. After moving to Los Angeles, she continued to diversify her fine art background with studies in painting. Her work has been featured in several shows around the city. She’s an active member with Roofless Painters and represented in their online gallery. charlotte.roofless@gmail.com
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Daddies' Girl, by Charlotte Tarantola
Oil on 12" x 16" cotton paper, unframed, 2019
YEAR OF ESTHER IN DRAG is a painting series inspired by 2019 Lunar New Year on February 5th. This year is going to be the #YearOfThePig, and we can’t think of a more famous pig than @estherthewonderpig. We’ve been following her since her two Canadian dads got her, gave up their careers to care for her, and raised money to open up an animal sanctuary. They love to dress Esther in drag once in a while, so we thought the best way to properly observe this special Lunar New Year would be by painting portraits of @estherthewonderpig in drag.
A percentage of the proceeds from any sales of the portraits will be donated to Esther. All images by @estherthewonderpig.
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Hillbilly Goldmine, by Charlotte Tarantola
Oil on 12" x 16" cotton paper, unframed, 2019
MEMENTO SACKLER is a painting series inspired by the work that artist Nan Goldin has been doing through P.A.I.N. (@sacklerpain) to raise awareness of the devastating effects of the opioid epidemic that the drug Oxycontin helped to create. The Sackler family, who led the company manufacturing Oxycontin, has made billions on a drug that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the course of two decades. Inspired but Memento Mori paintings, reminders of mortality, we juxtaposed bottles of Oxycontin on newly rendered vanitas still lifes.
A portion of this sale will go to support P.A.I.N.
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Tires' End, by Charlotte Tarantola
Oil on 12" x 16" cotton paper, unframed, 2019
Ode to a Pothole
by Jennifer Wheelock
O’ swallower of tiny cars
slopper of coffee
purger of purses
teeth to our tires
cat crouched then HISS
compeller of curses
ruiner of shocks
shocker of drowsy drivers
fountain of filthy water
drencher of benches and bus riders
thrower of gravel
lover of havoc
hewer of highway
delighter in decay
bully with a boot out
bucker of babies
plague of the pavement
petulant, mocking menace
jolter of spines
thank you
for reminding us
rough journeys
make art of our arrivals.
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Splish Splash, by Charlotte Tarantola
Oil on 9" x 12" hardboard, unframed, 2019
The series is of paintings was created during a painting retreat in Palm Springs in November 2018.
Lorraine and Randy, the current owners of Elephant Car Wash, allowed us to set up our easels in across the street from the mid-century structure, where we painting the iconic sign from life.
Elephant Car Wash has been an institution in the Coachella Valley ever since it opened in the mid 60s. The current owners take stewardship of the world famous sign very seriously. They are also environmentally conscious: the car wash uses environmentally-friendly products, sends used water to a treatment facility, and makes sure everything recyclable gets actually recycled.
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Treetop Hideaway, by Charlotte Tarantola
Original oil on 12x16 cotton paper, unframed, 2019
PAINTING SERIES: BONSAI TREES.
News of a dramatic Bonsai heist in Japan caught our attention on February 2019. This slightly cheesy sentence in the New York Times article reporting the news was the inspiration for this week's painting series: "Keeping a bonsai tree is as much an art as making a painting of one."
❓ Why did the writer use such analogy?
❓ Are there many examples of bonsai tree paintings throughout art history?
❓ Is painting a bonsai tree really as hard as raising and caring for one?
❓ Is the writer also a painter?
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Friendship, by Charlotte Tarantola
Original oil on 9x12 gessoed hardboard, unframed, 2019
Painted on site and from life at the Korean Friendship Bell in San Pedro, March 2019.
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Marsha's Martini, by Charlotte Tarantola
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Original oil on 12x16 cotton paper, unframed, 2019
On June 28, 1969, Marsha P. Johnson threw a shot glass at a mirror in the torched Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village and screamed: "I got my civil rights!" It was an iconic moment that defined the beginning of a battle for equality for a then invisible, disregarded, and heavily targeted minority within a minority.
At the closure of a discombobulating 2019 #BlackHistoryMonth marked with disturbing fashion designs and fake police reports, among a string of other baffling pears, we paid homage to this unsung American hero with a portrait painting series inspired by the many iconic, nonconforming images she left behind.
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Roosevelt Rooftop, by Charlotte Tarantola
Original oil on 9x12 gessoed hardboard, unframed, 2019
Painted on site and from life at the rooftop of the Hollywood Rosevelt Hotel, in Hollywood, March 2019.
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