TEXTA QUEEN

"Texta" is Australian for felt-tip marker and Arlene TextaQueen likes her tips felt. She spends her life as a marker superhero, exposing real women and queer performers, un-dressed-up in accessories and surrounds of their own desire. Depicted in life-size line and vivid color she re-con-texta-ualizes the tradition of the salon nude as she intimately uncovers the unique character of her subjects.

Texta's pin-up portraits have been seen as playing card series, shown in Australia's Museum of Contemporary Art, as animation on SBS TV and in the Australian Centre for the Moving Image and commissioned for surfboards, murals and tapestries. TextaQueen has flaunted felt-tip renditions of fabulous friends in exhibitions and performances from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Berlin, Germany, Los Angeles, Portland(OR), Chicago, and Montreal, Quebec. In 2005 she undertook a six month artist-in-residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in Manhattan, New York and had a solo show in Brooklyn in 2006. She lives, scribbles and curates an artspace in Melbourne, Australia

Astrological Sign: Sagittarius
Hometown: Melbourne, Australia vs Montreal, Quebec
Favorite Road Snack: Lamingtons!
Favorite Vice: Karaoke vs Scrabble
First Concert: Ratcat
Writer You're A Groupie For: John Waters
Visit www.textanudes.com