ALIA PENNER

SPOOKS

2012-01-30T16:34:00.000-08:00

Awhile back I was invited out to N.Y. Fashion Week to create a life size dollhouse for designer Rachel Antonoff. She wanted a dream/nightmare house complete with a standing piano, animal graveyard and knife collection. Here are a couple photos from the show & some behind the scenes madness.

POW!

2011-08-03T08:04:00.000-07:00

I had 6 hours to paint a mural in colette & here are the results. A colorful cartoon star explosion of POW! BANG! BOOM! It was so clean & white in there, I felt like a little kid that might get caught for drawing on the walls. I love the Mary Katrantzou dresses at the top of the stairs with the alia POP behind them. Also the Smurfs have taken over the entire store, they are everywhere! & to the right of my painting is the only black, evil smurf in colette... just thought you should know :) XX

AUTRE

2011-08-03T07:47:00.000-07:00

My lovely, amazing & talented friend, Adarsha Benjamin, started a quarterly called AUTRE. Here is my colored in cover i made in Paris for the release party. Also I decorated my walls here with its pages, the gun is by James Georgopoulus & I added a rainbow touch. The flag is printed horizontal but when i pulled it out Adarsha spread of James was on the other side & looked perfect!

SNAPSHOTS

2011-07-18T08:38:00.000-07:00

Here are some CLOSE UPS of the collage I made from my friend David Mushegain's snapshots. It's behind the register at colette in Paris, I made it the day before the opening & drew on every single picture. He gave me years & years of photos to choose from and I must say, I know him a lot better after seeing his life behind the lens. XX alia

MOMBI

2011-07-14T09:13:00.000-07:00

My friend Katie Casey & I have started making dresses with digital prints of my collages on them!

There is a Sail '77 & Cosmic Love dress! For more info go to MOMBI

COLETTE

2011-07-06T02:27:00.000-07:00

DON'T CALL IT COOL photos by David Mushegain @ colette. I made the poster & a giant photo collage behind the register at colette! My paintings & dresses will be sold upstairs until the end of August! XX

LULA #12

2011-06-10T15:16:00.000-07:00

Issue on stands now!
FEASTING ON RAINBOWS a lovely article about the legend Mary Blair by Lizzie Brandt. I spent a whole day riding It's A Small World taking polaroids for the story, Thank You LULA! xoxo

OBEY + ALIA

2011-05-28T13:38:00.000-07:00

CHECK OUT my new collaboration with OBEY clothing!!!

STAY OPEN

2011-05-08T23:18:00.000-07:00

My hand stars in this short film I created with Schwartz & Sons in NY.
LOOK!

iLOVE

2011-05-08T18:47:00.000-07:00

iLOVE magazine in China did a feature on my artwork. Too bad if you don't read Chinese because I wrote some pretty funny behind the scenes stories of how i made these works. pg 56-75
Photos by Jeaneen Lund
iLOVE magazine

POP APP

2011-05-06T15:41:00.000-07:00

POP! POP! POP! All created with the app Picture Show on the iPhone 4

STYLELIKEU

2011-05-06T13:59:00.000-07:00

take a tour of my house on Stylelikeu!

SCHOOL'S OUT

2011-05-04T18:21:00.000-07:00

I got to work on a kids H&M campaign recently with the talented David Mushegain! I had one day to paint the side of this 1952 bus in the back of Powerplant Choppers on Melrose. I wish I could of seen this baby driving down PCH! But here it is my first art car, hopefully many more to come.