“Still Life With Stapler”

“Summer BBQ”

“Quality Beer”
Artist’s Statement
I started painting after years of cartooning and graphic design. Simply put, I do it to record people and things I appreciate: a performer, a street scene, an icon, a message, old signs, a moment in time, a song or a dream. It’s an exercise, and the process satisfies in me a need to create the old fashioned way: with my hands.

When painting, I often concentrate on design elements and layout. I pick my colors to enhance and fit the mood of a subject. Humans are keenly tuned in to patterns, balance and color, so I leverage them to intensify mood and stimulate the eye.

Website
http://www.tebeau.com

Exhibition
Simple Pleasures opens at the Art Bar in Manhattan’s West Village in November and runs through Feb. 15. The opening is 6-9 p.m. Nov. 19 at Art Bar, 52 Eighth Ave., near Horatio Street.

House Beautiful, October 2008

Bio

Barbara Ensor is an author and artist whose words and pictures have been praised in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vanity Fair and elsewhere. A graduate of Brown University, Ensor’s previous careers include stilt walking, and journalism. She is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, has two children and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Website
www.BarbaraEnsor.com

Exhibit

Opening party for Thumbelina, Tiny Runaway Bride, an exhibit and a book.
WHERE: The Old Stone House, Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets, Park Slope Brooklyn
WHEN: Saturday November 8th, 6 to 9 pm
MORE INFORMATION. OldStonehouse.org

Visit the exhibit throughout the months of November and December during these hours:
Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 4 to 6 pm
Thursdays 4 to 8 pm
or by appointment (917) 604-8732

From the New York series

From the Avenue Nights series

From the Reflections series

Artist Statement (excerpt)

My artistic practice is engaged with exploiting the ambiguity of visual experience–the disparity between what we see and what we think we see creates a surprise of metaphors. I want to engage the viewer in the place where the collective intersects with the individual’s consciousness. The work draws from many different visual elements such as the role of the structural, the system, the technological, the biological, the ephemeral, the fabricated, and the decorative, and for me, it is a meditation on the complexity of experiencing an increasingly dense environment of elements.

I work here in New York City and find the people, places, and objects of the city are the building blocks I am using.Many of the photographs reflect an interest in certain types of actors and their visual performances: people as reflected in and by the architecture of the urban landscape, bits and pieces of patterns and textual material, and how it all expresses itself visually.

Website

http://www.tombovo.com/

Exhibit

Showing at the Double Exposure show at the Gallery of the Museum of Computer Art from November 4 - 26, 2008. There is an opening reception, Saturday, November 8, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Museum of Computer Art
139 11th Street (between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)
Brooklyn, New York City 11215

Warm Liquid Reliquary

Drown

Additive Inverse

Artist Statement (excerpt)

Where do the images come from? I cannot possibly know. I can only know that it is my task to make them.

I use a number of methods in the process of translation. Most of these are based on Surrealist techniques- automatic writing, recording of dreams, and some techniques like grottage.

When I start to make notes for the images, they are part words and part picture. They are never brought entirely into the conscious realm. When processing the film, I use several kinds of tools to mutilate and remove some sections of emulsion. I use sandpaper and various objects to scratch the negatives before printing. In processing some of the prints, I use additional chemicals like iodine bleach, or I apply paint to them. For some of the prints, I’ve used infrared film stock.

Website

http://www.jmomalley.com/

REST IN PIECES
Limited Edition Color Photograph of original sculpture by Carol Quint
10″ x 8″ photo

Artist Statement
The foundation of my work is the exploration of archetypal imagery. The images become surrogates for a broad range of emotional experience. They are grounded in symbols that elicit recognition on a subconscious level.

Currently, I am building sculptures that are in themselves artifacts, evidence of my efforts, which are now in the past.

My process involves creating, recycling and reconstruction. The content and function of these works reflects both a sense of time past and time present, qualities that are in the nature of a relic.

Website
http://www.carolquint.com/