Innocence Is Life

Alice Gardner-Bates, 'Innocence Is Life', oil on canvas, 11x14, 2011

The title is a quote from Ghost in the Shell II:Innocence.

I carry a sense of my own destiny

Alice Gardner-Bates, 'I carry a sense of my own destiny', oil on canvas, 11x14, 2012
Title is a quote from Ghost in the Shell.

You Talk About Redefining My Identity. I Want A Guarantee That I Can Still Be Myself.

Alice Gardner-Bates, You talk about redefining my identity. I want a guarantee that I can still be myself, oil on canvas, 15x20, 2012

The title is a quote from Ghost in the Shell.

I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries

Alice Gardner-Bates, I feel confined, only free to expand myself within boundaries, oil on canvas, 11x14, 2011

The title is a quote from Ghost in the Shell.

This painting was selected to be in 500x's 'Fresh Meat' show. The judge was Eric Swenson!

Perhaps It's a Protest Against Their Own Obsolecence

Alice Gardner-Bates, oil on canvas, 48x24, 2011
Title, quote from Ghost in the Shell II: Innocence

Photos from the opening on July 20th at UTD. Work not by me is by Jessi Wirski and Yun Jung Lee.

Music by Pam Todd Hobart!

My doll collector friends came, and we posed our dolls under my painting of dolls!

And one final picture of me with most of my paintings!
Dress by Atelier Pierrot
Shoes by Metamorphose Temps de Fille

I lack the most basic processes inherent in all living organisms

Alice Gardner-Bates, I lack the most basic processes inherent in all living organisms, oil on canvas, 22x28, 2012

Spring Show

From the student spring show. The two paintings on bottom won me the Dean's Award. They were selected by great local artist and curator Heyd Fontanot!

WIP

These will be made into paintings for my series of women. I believe it will have twelve paintings. Five are painted. Hopefully I will have four more done by then of the semester.