La Luz de Jesus Presents Danni Shinya Luo

Danni Shinya Luo

"Soft Candy"
February 14 - 26, 2012
Book Release & Signing Party: Valentine's Day
Tuesday, February 14th; 7-10 PM

A special signed & dated book plate will be issued with the first 100 book purchases.

Shanghai-born Danni Shinya Luo presents a collection of brand new drawings, paintings and illustrations. Luo has emerged as one of the most important female voices in contemporary symbolic art. Turning the pages of this dainty 7" x 7" art volume is like stealing glances into a beautiful young woman's salon -- the voyeuristic reward of forbidden access. Watercolor, ink and graphite give rise to Luo's vision of sexuality, innocence and whimsy over 200 full color pages behind a foreword by art impresario Billy Shire (of Soap Plant, Wacko and La Luz de Jesus Gallery). This new collection explores shifting perspectives of beauty, attraction, lust and decency presented through alluring and decadent images of the female figure. Visions of nymphs in a myriad of suggestive contexts are divided into five distinct chapters -each acknowledging a different aspect of sensuality as expressed through food, frailty, fetish, fauna and fantasy. The notion of eye candy is emblematic of the capacity to sense flavor, and Luo's gift for capturing the soft, subtle sweetness of young adulthood is often erotic but always tasteful.

Shinya's art is whimsically feminine, and her watercolor paintings are meditations on the female figure. The colors are fresh and luscious, her line work fluid and organic, and her composition engaging and impactful. Psychological tension and emotional torsion fill the images, binding love and lust. SOFT CANDY is an irresistible temptation that satiates the hunger of desire.

At first blush, Danni Shinya Luo would seem to be the unlikeliest source of the sexually charged material in Soft Candy. A sweet and invariably good-natured Chinese girl, she can disarm you with her bubbly personality while her paintings all but clobber you over the head. Her primary subjects are nubile nymphets; as wrapped in allegory as they are naked. They are both innocent and in your face. While the natural inclination of many artists is to paint naked women, most of Danni's contemporaries (and a great deal of her predecessors) have managed to miss the sublime femininity that seems to come so easily to her. Sensuality and fragility, enacted simultaneously, don't battle on her arches –they dance. Whether in her watercolors or in her sketches, which encompass both the doe-eyed and the deadly, the graceful lines of her figures boast that most prized of artistic commodity: intuition.

All of the drawings in this show were created specifically for (and published in) the Soft Candy art volume (published by Last Gasp Books, and available now).

Soft Candy:
The Girls of Danni Shinya Luo
Hardcover, 200 pages
7" x 7"
$25.00

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4th of July Party Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 9" x 9" $185.00	After the Show Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 7" $185.00	*Bang Bang* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 7" $200.00
*Beached Beauty* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" $185.00	*Club Girl Sketch* Graphite on moleskin drawing paper 9" x 7" $165.00	Coco Angel Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 9" $165.00
*Cop Girl Sketch* Graphite on moleskin drawing paper 9" x 7" $165.00	*Demon Girl 2* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x8" $185.00	Girl From the Other Side Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" $185.00
*Girl Next Door* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 7" $185.00	*Go Go Girl Sketch* Graphite on moleskin drawing paper 9" x 7" $165.00	*Hula* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 8" x 8" $185.00
*I'm From the River* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 9" x 9" $185.00	*Little Sprout* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 8" $165.00	*Looking For Me?* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" $185.00
*Magician's Assistant* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 8" $185.00	*A Moment* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" $185.00	*Obey Me* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 7" $185.00
*Sauna Sketch* Graphite on moleskin drawing paper 9" x 7" $165.00	*Shakti Girl* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" $185.00	*She's a Biker* Red pencil, ballpoint pen on moleskin drawing paper 12" x 8" $175.00
*Skinny Dipping* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" $185.00	*Smoke* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 10" $200.00	*Special Care* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" $185.00
*Tribal Princess* Pencil, ballpoint pen on marker paper 11" x 6.5" $185.00	*Tropic Lust* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" $200.00	*Yes, Master* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 9" $165.00
*(Do) You Wanna Hold Me?* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 12" x 8" $185.00	*On the Grass* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 8" x 10" Sold	*Our Sins* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 14" x 11" Sold
*Flirty Red Head* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 9" Sold	*Forget Me Not* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	Game Night Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
*Girl Stretching* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Lollipop* Red pencil, ballpoint pen on marker paper 9" x 9" Sold	*Kinky Games* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
A Drink With Her Graphite on marker paper 13" x 11" Sold	Bubble Park Blue pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Lazy Afternoon* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
*Valentine* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 8" Sold	*Vintage* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 8" Sold	*A Breeze* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
*Come Closer* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 8" Sold	*Cows Ate My Shorts* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 9" Sold	*Drying Off* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
*Out of the Water* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 8" Sold	*Rachel* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Rooster Girl* Red pencil, ballpoint pen on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
*Satan* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Shy Koi* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	Sisters Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 15" x 11" Sold
*Dip* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Southern Summer* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Spring Break* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 9" Sold
*Squid Balls* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Sun Bathe* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Teddy Bear Love* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
Going Out Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 14" x 11" Sold	*Going to the Club* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 8" x 8" Sold	*Farmer's Daughter* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 14" x 11" Sold
*Archer Angel* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 9" x 9" Sold	*Indian Party* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 9" Sold	*Joyce* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 7" Sold
*Last Touch Up* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 7" Sold	*Let's Go To Hawaii* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 14" x 9" Sold	*Little Dragon* Purple pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 8" Sold
*Fantasy Cowgirl* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Pool Sketch* Graphite on moleskin drawing paper 9" x 7" Sold	*Princess* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
*School's Out* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 10" Sold	*Siberian Kitten* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Monsters Get Shy, Too* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
*So What* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 10" Sold	*Stretching* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 12" x 10" Sold	*Vice* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 12" x 10" Sold
*Waking From a Nap* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 8" x 10" Sold	*White Riding Hood* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 10" Sold	*Woof* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
*Tipsy Blonde* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*A Song For You* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Demon Girl* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
*Costume Party* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Dancer* Grahite on marker paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Faux Hawk* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold
*Mythical* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 12" x 8" Sold	*Playmate* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 8" Sold	*Silly Sketch* Graphite on moleskin drawing paper 9" x 7" Sold
*Ex-Cheerleader* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 10" x 7" Sold	*Taking a Measure* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 11" x 8" Sold	*The Look in Her Eyes* Graphite on cold press watercolor paper 7" x 7" Sold
*Pizza* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 8.25" x 11.75" Sold	*Like This?* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 8.25" x 11.75" Sold	*Water Bondage* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 8.25" x 9.75" Sold
*Snow White* Graphite on moleskin drawing paper 8.25" x 9.75" Sold	*Munki Cutie* Purple pencil, ballpoint on moleskin drawing paper 9" x 9" Sold	*The Fortune-Teller's Daughter* Blue pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 8.25" x 11.75" Sold
*Tramp Stamp* Red pencil, ballpoint pen on moleskin drawing paper 11.75" x 8.25" Sold		*Bunny Hug* Red pencil, graphite on moleskin drawing paper 12.25" x 11.75" Sold