SATURDAY MARCH 8TH!! We're excited to announce the opening of our new show "Blue Lotus Flower, Floating On The Water" with works by Exene Cervenka and Jill Emery from 7-10pm at Artlands in Downtown Redlands!

Exene Cervenka is a singer, song-writer, visual artist, and poet. She is the singer and co-founder of the pioneering punk rock band X, one of the most influential Los Angeles bands to emerge from punk rock. Exene's strong artistic drive has drawn her to a wide range of creative projects. Adulterers Anonymous, the first of four books of poetry written with singer/ poet Lydia Lunch, was published in 1982. Her art has been shown in the Santa Monica Museum of Art, DCKT Contemporary in New York, and in galleries throughout Los Angeles and elsewhere. In 1989, Cervenka recorded Old Wives' Tales, the first of six solo albums she would put out by 2011.

Jill Emery is a self-taught artist/musician from California, where she started playing bass in her teens in LA punk bands, eventually becoming a part of Superheroines, Hole, Mazzy Star and others. While she enjoyed the collective creativity of bands, she found visual arts to be a great solitary creative outlet. As a folk expressionist, she explores themes of life, death, spirit, favorite bands/people and giving voices to animals. Jill says her process through imagination keeps her laughing and gives life to many of her pieces.

She's had art shows in the USA and Europe. Her art is also featured on records such as Hole's "Pretty on the Inside", among others.