Check out the catchy art and music video on YOU TUBE  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgKJbPo1tNU featuring artworks, including my dress, "Aim High", made out of recycled plastic Target bags, in the upcoming MOMENTUM SHOW, 2012 National Juried Exhibition, presented by the Women's Caucus For the Arts' 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Juror Rita Gonzalez, Curator, of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles, from February 17 - March 2, 2012.

Elise Cheval's mixed media artwork, "Northwest Passage", selected out of 400 entries, for the Elements Show,by Juror, Maria Medua, Director of the SF MOMA Artists Gallery, at Artworks Downtown in San Rafael.  Catch the Opening on March 9 during the 2nd Friady Artwalk.    The show runs March 9 to April 27, 2012.

Our video of the performance I created with Robin Elliott, called "A Sea Odyssey:2012", draws awareness to the impact of plastic pollution on our oceans and human health.  The ethereal quality of the cymbals, gongs, tubes and triangles is in huge contrast to the industrialized man-made world of plastic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-LJUjKQsjw&list=UUjeqXrALHs59AsMERRPU9mQ&index=1&feature=plcp

With paintbrush in hand, an armload of canvas and a backpack full of oil paints, I am launching my career as a Painter... and saying "Au Revoir!" to pthalogreen paint on my carpet at home. 

In keeping with my goal to improve Mother Earth, I rescued this canvas from the trash and painted white horses on it.  I happened to be wearing the same colors as my painting!!!

Solo Show and Performance Event:  "A Woman For All Seasons", at the O'Hanlon Center For the Arts, February 7-28.

“A Woman For All Seasons” is an apt name for the body of work of Elise Cheval, fiberartist-painter-singer, including wearable haute trash fashion, sculptures, wall hangings and life-sized paintings.  She sounds her call, to herald in her message that the “new green is blue” and awaken her audience to the effect of plastics on our environment and human health during her Opening Reception, on February 7, 6 – 8 pm.  Ms. Cheval will be accompanied by Robin Elliott, new music performer and composer with Bleffert metal instruments, formerly of the SF Opera, and Founder of the Singing Association of the School for Uncovering the Voice (www.sasuvna.com).  Wearing her Nickles For Non-Profits Special Prize classic suit Sew-La-La from Whole Foods Market Marin, Ms. Cheval will catapult you into the 4th dimension with her glorious voice, clever rhyme-singing, storytelling and music concrete.  With the juxtaposition of her crunching vinyl suit and Elliott’s new music instrumentation, Cheval transforms the toxic to the beautiful, and expresses the contrast between the man-made and natural world in the well-lit Loft Gallery at the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, in conjunction with the Red Show, from February 7 – 28 during Gallery hours, 10 am to 2 pm.