my art show opens in NYC this saturday!

i was nominated for best DIY designer of 2010 by venus magazine (please vote for me!) (yay!!!)

i am in poppytalk handmade this month!

the exquisite book (i am in) is released tomorrow! (amazon link) *

my sparkling sea noteblock is available today! (amazon link)

my song is used in this video for the book “creative, inc”, a fantastic book about freelancing! coincidentally (completely) it is a song about when i first started freelancing.

and that is a little slice of what is new in my life these days!

* and totally star-struck that a project I participated in has anything to do with dave eggers, by the way.

Giant Robot writes about the show:

Susie Ghahremani creates patchwork-inspired illustrations that are simple in design, complex in execution, and all-around pleasing to the eye. In addition to making two-dimensional art, she crafts tote bags, buttons, wallets, stationery, and other goodies. The RISD graduate has contributed work to Nickelodeon, Chronicle Books, and The New York Times, and was featured in the 2010 The Exquisite Book art book. Inspired by patterns, crafts, and the natural world, Susie is creating super-detailed works for the show. With approximately 50 new works showcased in “Out and About”, the cool, retro-colored collection will also include paintings from Susie’s recent stationery collection with Chronicle Books.

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Saturday, September 4th (less than two weeks away!), I have an art show in NYC titled “Out and About” at Giant Robot, 437 E. 9th St, NYC with Kelly Tunstall. I think it’s my strongest work to date, and includes many originals from my forthcoming publishing projects. Hope you enjoy! Reception begins at 6:30 and the show will run through the month. More info at http://grny.net — postcard image below!

The Boygirlparty Shop just had its grand reopening, and it’s chock full of new indie goods for the fall made by me, including:

Finch t-shirts, starry owl tote bags, and treetops journals are all back in stock as well, so come visit and see the array!
http://shop.boygirlparty.com

Ok, there’s more to share but this blog post is plenty long. So, coming soon – sneak peeks from the NYC art show…

My art opening will be hosted by Warp 9 Imaging at 3820 1/2 Ray St. I’ll be showing 25 new miniature paintings and some older works as well! The opening runs from 6 – 9pm. A preview of the work I’ve made for the show is below!

If you’re unable to make it to my San Diego show, you can also check out my work online in the Enormous Tiny Art Show at Nahcotta currently running.

Thanks for keeping in touch with me and my work!

check out this inspired & amazing use of my treetops journal on the SF MOMA blog!

also, it’s been awhile since the last Snoozer update, probably because there hasn’t been much to update. so here’s a sort of recent Snoozer song. It was recorded at the Habitat and my awesome friend Roy plays the drums on it.

new in the shop: lots of buttons! (see below) & lots of t-shirts! (see below) …a.k.a. lots of fun!

thanks for reading!

So is it April already?? a little birdie tells me you may or may not be able to find a painting by me produced as a limited edition print on Tiny Showcase tomorrow! And you may recognize it from over here! A portion of the proceeds from the print sales will benefit Project Wildlife, a wildlife rehabilitation non-profit here in San Diego that I have volunteered at.

New in the shop! Glass magnets of many sorts: like these and these & perhaps most exciting, my new collection of buttons produced by Badge Bomb over here! Some new giclee prints, t-shirts, and other fun things are new to the shop as well, enjoy!

Then, some upcoming events! On Sunday, April 25th I will be signing books & giving high fives at the LA Times Festival of Books at the Giant Robot booth (#360) from 3:00 – 4:30pm– More info over here on my facebook page! Then next month I will have some mini paintings in the Enormous Tiny Art show curated by Nahcotta in June, and a show with Kelly Tunstall in New York at Giant Robot in September. Good times.

Well this has become a very long update so now I’ll end it with a couple photos.
Thanks for keeping in touch!

If you’re in the LA area, I have work in a group show this Saturday, March 13th titled “Patchwork” at Giant Robot, a collection of small works on fabric. More info on the show here & attached is a sneak peek at my work in the show…

Today I updated the shop with tons of new stuff like these magnets & this art print & this hoodie. Check out all the latest additions: http://shop.boygirlparty.com

Also, thought this would be fun to share…it’s an illustration from the vaults. I created it a few years ago for a project where different artists were asked to create a portrait of a different president! I got first dibs on Lincoln (I am, after all, originally from the land of lincoln / illinois…) There was a lot of runaround on the project and the ball was dropped by the person putting it together (hey, it happens), so my illustration never went to print, but I just found the file on my computer the other day, so here it is for you to see many years later! Enjoy!

I thought it’d be fun to do something inspired by old school composition books, so while they’re much more quirky and portable (4 x 5.5″) than a composition book, hopefully it will remind you of them as you take a look. I’m really proud of the artwork I created for these… I did nothing but eat, sleep and breathe these absurdly detailed paintings, and they turned out exactly as I hoped. It was just a project I loved working on, I hope that comes through…

The clear carrying case holds all three journals, folds up and is enclosed by an elastic band. I call this set the Land + Air + Water Triptych because each journal features a different animal / landscape: Bears/Land, Owls/Air and Octopi/Water. (and triptych means 3) Of course, my favorite part is a little secret when you open the inside cover of each journal…perhaps not as useful, but far more fascinating, than the kind you’d find in your average composition book.

’cause seriously…did you know a group of peacocks is called an ostentation?!!

I hope you enjoyed this little sneak peek! Speaking of sneak peeks, here’s another:  two miniature paintings I submitted for “Year of the Tiger” a show at Giant Robot in LA opening next Saturday, Feb 13 & benefitting an animal rescue.

2010 has been off to a slow start as i battled some kind of flu, but this year promises lots of fun collaborations, shows and projects that i can’t wait to share! stay tuned for all kinds of exciting announcements soon. thanks for checking in on me and my little site!

here’s a snapshot from just one week ago, when i was making friends with sea lions on the galapagos islands: