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A CALL TO BROOKLYN ARTISTS “GOWANUS BASIN: A SENSE OF PLACE”. DEC.5-22, 2008

Nov 28th, 2008 Leave a comment

A CALL TO BROOKLYN ARTISTS

“GOWANUS BASIN: A SENSE OF PLACE”. DEC.5-22, 2008

The Gowanus Canal Conservancy (GCC) invites visual artists to
participate in a benefit art exhibition and sale, “Gowanus Basin: A
Sense of Place”, on December 5-22, 2008. This event has come about
very quickly, due to the imminent availability of a new retail space
in Gowanus, on Bond Street between Union and Sackett.

The primary objectives of this exhibition are to raise funds for GCC,
to bring focus on Gowanus as the center of northwest Brooklyn
neighborhoods, to generate public interest in the preservation of the
Gowanus landscape, and to foster opportunities for local artists.

Very prompt action is requested by interested local artists — the
Opening Reception will be on Friday, December 5, 6-8:30 pm. Regular
gallery hours over the following 3 weeks are Thursdays 3-8 pm, Fridays
3-6 pm, Saturdays and Sundays 11 am – 7 pm. There will be a Final Day
Sale on Monday, December 22, 11 am – 7 pm.

Submitted artwork should be representational views of streetscapes,
landscapes, or interiors, and specifically of locales in the Gowanus
Basin area of Brooklyn [the neighborhoods of Gowanus, Park Slope,
Carroll Gardens, Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill]. Artwork must be 2-
dimensional media: painting, photography, original prints, etc. and
must be framed or canvas edges painted or taped.

For more information please visit www.gowanuscanalconservancy.org, or call Lauren Collins
at the Conservancy office, 718-858-0557.

Nuria Rabanillo de la Fuente

Nov 23rd, 2008 Leave a comment

Materialismo, Nuria Rabanillo de la Fuente

Artist Website
www.rabanillodelafuente.com

Rooftop Films is now accepting submissions for the 2009 Summer Series!

Nov 23rd, 2008 Leave a comment

Rooftop Films is now accepting submissions for the 2009 Summer Series!

Submit your movies! We are currently accepting submissions for the 2009 Summer Series. In May 2009 we will begin celebrating our 13th year of bringing the best underground films in the world outdoors and to the rooftops of New York. Submit your films and videos now and participate in one of the most unforgettable, unique, filmmaker-friendly, independent film events in the world!

•    A complete list of rules and regulations are available on our website
•    Films can be submitted via Withoutabox.com or directly to Rooftop Films
•    General deadlines and fees have changed since last year: Earlybird: $9, postmarked by January 5, 2009;  Regular: $13, postmarked by February 02, 2009; Late: $16, postmarked by March 1, 2009; Without A Box Extended: $16, April 1, 2009 (Without A Box members only.)
•    Rooftop continues to accept films year round, but if you want to guarantee that your films will be considered for the 2009 Summer Series please make sure to submit them on or before the deadlines.

THE FESTIVAL:
The 2009 Summer Series will run from May through September and will feature more than 200 daring new films, all screened outdoors, in front of big, loyal audiences in parks, along the water, and on rooftops overlooking the greatest city on earth. More than 15,000 people attended Rooftop screenings in 2008, making it one of the most popular festivals in New York City. The 2009 Summer Series will surely feature even bigger crowds, even more beautiful venues, and more incredible films.

SUBMITTING TO ROOFTOP:
Rooftop Films is committed to helping filmmakers get their films screened and we believe that it is the responsibility of a film festival to make it as easy as possible for filmmakers to submit their films and get them screened. That is why we don’t demand that filmmakers send us exorbitant submission fees. There is a recommended early submission fee of $9.00 per filmmaker or curator for any films postmarked prior to January 5th, and for that fee you can submit as many films as you like without paying additional submission fees. Our early submission fee is the same as our regular ticket price, and every filmmaker who submits to Rooftop will get TWO free passes to any regular Rooftop Films show (a value of $18). We try to keep the cost to filmmakers as minimal as possible and though we can’t show all the films sent in to us, we hope that all the filmmakers that submit come out to our shows—and the first one is on us.

If you have any other questions—please email Program Director Dan Nuxoll at *submit at rooftopfilms dot com*

John Tebeau

Nov 10th, 2008 2 Comments

“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.

Barbara Ensor

Nov 4th, 2008 Leave a comment

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

Dmitry Borshch

Nov 4th, 2008 Leave a comment
Untitled, 2008
Ink on paper, 15 x 15 ins.
The work of Dmitry Borshch will be shown in the following exhibits:
“Common Threads: Artists in Spite of Retail”  at the Brecht Forum
November 7-31, 2008
“Allied Artists 95th Annual Exhibition”  at the National Arts Club
November 14-December 2, 2008

Tom Bovo

Nov 2nd, 2008 Leave a comment

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