While at Art Center Huizenga joined Hard Place as singer and keyboardist, and the group developed a cult following stretching to Europe. After that outfit dissolved, she founded Wet Look. Nowadays her solo act features both Hard Place alum Freddy Christy on electric guitar and Wet Look alum Chaz Windus on keyboards.
Both can shred, but it's clearly Huizenga who is running the show. "I'm turned on by playing shows and working," she says.
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Before returning to L.A. this month for gigs, she's floating around New York and Europe, shooting the third and fourth installments in a series called Soft Rock, video art pieces that combine live sex on camera with original Actually tunes. She's filming the works along with her romantic interest, photographer Socrates Mitsios. She's also searching for management and preparing to release her album independently.
It's probably not surprising that Huizenga has had difficulty finding representation. Her talents are not easily summed up in a press release. Her recorded music, in fact, doesn't really get to the heart of what she's all about; to really appreciate her you need to see her unpredictable live shows. To this day, she remains underground-legendary for a performance five years ago at L.A. gallery White Slave Trade. Clad in a swimsuit with a high hip cut, she proceeded to rub cherry pie all over her body. She then adjourned to a shower at the back of the venue, turning on the water as the pie began dribbling down her legs and eventually began to resemble blood and guts. It was sexy. It was grotesque. It was great spectacle. It was everything Ashley Huizenga is about.
Huizenga performs at King King on April 19.
I think a big part of what she is doing is evident in an interview question that didn't make the final piece. For those of us that need it to be illicitly stated:
On rules:Everything is related to sex. The rules are always related to sex, against sex. Rules about movies, rules about society, the law, the side-saddle. They're trying to keep life in check and control nature. Control the female. It goes back to the rib. Too much emotion and too much power.
i still fail to see the "intelligent" part. her body is her "artistic medium" and she doesn't eat for days to slim down for shows? cherry pie and a shower? and what's this about "self-made beats"? i thought that other guy in hard place was the one who made all the music. i guess it must be "art" because, you know, for all her blatant sexuality, it's not very sexy at all. it just seems like another rich, art school drop out and her mindless, attention-seeking, extremely ego-fueled pet project.
Another bombshell who sings music that's "made for fucking" or "porn pop", who proceeds to prance around a stripper stage and act as a whore; who also admits to not eating much of anything for days at a time and thinks the dangerous side affects feel good. "When I don't eat, I just get dizzy," she says. "I think it feels kind of good." Just the perfect new role model we need, but hey, she's an intellectual.
She's an artist- not your fantasy role model, CricketBoogie. A sense of humor would probably increase your understanding of this artist as well as your general enjoyment of life.
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