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Tonight local artist Bethany Cisco, otherwise known as “Vicious Velvet,” will unveil her latest work: a giant painting of Elvis on velvet. Once they pull the sheet off this baby it will supposedly be the largest velvet painting ever created.
This got us thinking, considering we never realized velvet paintings existed in the first place. But not only do they exist, apparently it's your patriotic duty to own one that prominently features the president's package. We also learned that velvet Elvis paintings are quite popular. Considering this one trumps them all in size, we guess it could be considered “the King.” Wah wah waaaaaah.
Tattoo Factory Gallery, 4443 N. Broadway, 7 p.m to 12 a.m. Free food and drink.
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Ah, the Velvet Elvis. Chuy's (a tex-mex chain that I visited in Houston) had the largest velvet Elvis I'd ever seen -- it was 8 feet tall!
And, who doesn't remember the "abandoned corner lot" or ""gas station corner" vendor-in-a-kidnap-van that would appear weekly all over the Chicagoland area displaying their wares, which often included velvet paintings, often of Elvis, but sometimes of Jesus. Or the Marvin the Martian.
Aaaaah, memories. * sigh *
in case it's a common problem, i clicked on bethany's name, and it shut my firefox down. but anyways, i saw an image of this piece with her standing next to it yesterday online somewhere. it's friggin huge! how does one transport it?
12 by 12!!!
but look at this
http://www.flickr.com/photos/indignico/924160553/