LOUD: Music, Art & Party featuring live painting by Leslie Diuguid is July 8 at The Sandbox, 2406 Leavenworth Street starting at 9p.m.
Leslie Diuguid: Power Tower is on display at the Bemis Underground, 724 S. Artists can blur whatever lines they want not be scrutinized for it.
On the coasts I feel like there is a certain pressure for men to make macho work and women to be feminine that doesn’t exist here. I love glitter, fashion, and America’s Next Top Model (guilty pleasure) all of those influences have a big impact on my work.ĭo you think Omaha/the midwest is a good place to be for female artists? I know it does, but I figure if I were born as a boy (my mom would have named me Yogi) I would have been the gayest boy in the universe. If anything being a girl has helped my art career thus far.ĭoes being a female have any impact in your work? So do you think being female has had any impact on showing your work or did it in school? If everyone who worships God has been “saved” during the Rapture, then what will the rest of us revere? Athletes, sports, and supermodels Hallelujah! Since 2012 is around the corner and the Rapture on May, 21 st already happened, I figured now was a great time to present this crazy idea. I’m basically showing my version of the Apocalypse.
I have twenty-five collage-drawings and two installations at the Bemis. Tell me about what you’re showing at the Bemis Underground. Sometimes I’ll reveal my opinion about what’s going on in the titles, which are usually quotes from movies. I like leaving room for the viewer to make their own interpretations. I don’t have a specific message with most of my work. Images will be broken down into layers, transparencies, and flats. I hand make most of my work, but as I do it I pretend like I’m still using Photoshop. There is a lot of tracing, projecting, and transferring that goes into the final product. Lately, I’ve been using Photoshop and Illustrator to compose reference sketches. More specifically I’m inspired by fashion and how it relates to trends in the art world. I like combining unlikely pairs into one image to make people look at things in a different way. During that time I became obsessed with process and fell in love with screen-printing. I went to the Kansas City Art Institute and majored in printmaking. I think those contests really shaped my idea of what art is. My mom (the judge) usually chose mine as the winner because my drawings were so strange and unpretty. The other girls were eleven and thirteen and drew very well. I was 4 years younger than the other girls so my drawings always ended up with gigantic heads and misplaced nostrils. We’d draw girls from Vogue and Elle after my mom finished looking at them. In the summertime my sister, Adrianne, and our neighbors, Susan and Sheri, would have drawing contests on our back porch. I grew up in the suburbs of Kansas City, MO. Diuguid will also be showing her talents live at the Sandbox July 8 (details below yes, painting live!). Here she chats with Les Femmes Folles about growing up having drawing contests on her porch, being inspired by glitter and fashion, her obsession with the process of printmaking, her random process for titling work, and how Omaha is a great place to be an artist. Through July 2, artist Leslie Diuguid exhibits her installations and collage-drawings of her “version of the apocalypse” at Bemis Underground (details below).
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