"Incognito Witch" Magick Continues in New Paintings and Video by Mollie Kellogg

SAN DIEGO, March 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Artist Mollie Kellogg will present the next phase of her Incognito Witch Project in April in San Diego. Kellogg's new paintings and music video continue her series celebrating hidden magick that began in 2009.

Her award-winning semi-nude and draped Incognito Witch paintings reveal her subjects' hidden psyche – suppressed to adapt to societal pressures. The portraits are stunning mixed-media-on-canvas that cast mere mortals as magickal beings draped in mysterious fabrics, adorned with jewels and leaves. Incognito Witches are hard to miss. "They wear messy lipstick and nature adornments in their hair," says Kellogg. "They have a signature flash of color under their eyes, and the female witches love their jewels."

The new works place the witches in outdoor settings. In the evocative You Me Us, a woman poses with her two daughters, heads adorned in flowers, the mother clutching a gilt hand mirror. Sunrise depicts a voluptuous young woman draped in shag leather in a field of flowers; the portraits, Kellogg says, "are about allowing yourself to be vulnerable and the power that comes with self acceptance." 

"There is a raw, powerful, and beautiful eloquence to these women," says Bob Hogge, the former director of Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery in New York City, of Kellogg's paintings. "They haunt the viewer long after you walk away from them."

Titled "Paint My Life," Kellogg's accompanying three-minute music video features G the Incognito Witch, a character inspired by Kellogg's paintings. In this newest installment, Kellogg returns as G, who confronts her inner child and finds herself surrounded by other people who may be witches themselves.

Kellogg has received emails from fans who say that the first G video, the quirky Nobody Loves Fat G, moved them to tears. "They write that she's telling their story," Kellogg says. G also resonates strongly with children, and the first video has been accepted to show in schools in India.

Kellogg's new work will be on exhibit April 2 through May 5 at the First Unitarian Universalist Church, Bard Hall, 4190 Front St. in San Diego, CA. The public is invited April 8 at 6-8:30 pm to the artist reception, video screening, Q&A and discussion.

For information, email [email protected] or visit www.incognitowitch.com.

Images:
You Me Us 60"x48" mixed media:
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Paint My Life production still:
http://www.molliekellogg.com/pr/paintlife-vid_KELLOGG_9in-300dpi.jpg  

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