“De/Con/Struct”
2009
Mixed media on canvas
24″ x 36″

“Pile of Homes”
2009
Mixed media
4′ x 5′ x 4′

“The New”
2008
Mixed media on canvas
36″ x 48″

Artist Statement
What appears simple just demands a different kind of patience than what is scraggly and complex.

Website
http://malinabrahamsson.com

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New Age Blondie
Painting
30″H x 30″W

Muffin Trespassing in the Garden of Ideal Beauty
Acrylic on canvas,Photo Dyes,found photo
40″H x 36″W

My First Grade Coloring Book
Large hand-colored print
24″H x 24″W

Artist Statement
Emerging, Mid career & Near-Death

The title reflects the rigid categories set by the art establishment which refers to emerging, middle and mature stage artists . Like fruit fly larvae I guess. When one is really really old in this culture –like 68– the last stage of artistic development must be Near-death. So this latest work reflects ithe near-death stage of my career.

Critics have labeled my work Retropop, Grandpop and Folkpop Art. Whatever, as the kids say. The work is derived from actual images and words found in printed ephemera — snapshots, ads, postcards, comics, coloring books etc. from 1867 -1950’s. Every word in the mixed-media work appeared in print somewhere. I invented none of it.

I am interested in subjects ranging from the origin and perpetuation of stereotypes to the death of civility. My work looks at the impermanence of individuals and the long afterlife of their prejudices and foibles.

Website
http://www.peterjketchum.com/

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subway station

donut shop, 7th ave (Park Slope)

Pavilion movie house (Park Slope)

uninterrupted brownstones (Prospect Park SW)

electric rocking horse (Prospect Park W)

Artist Statement
Afton Gayle is a self-taught photographer who clings to film the same
way some writers cling to typewriters: he strongly believes in the
power of the medium and its ability to shape the subject matter he is
shooting. He is a primary contributor at Brooklyn Prints, which is the
sole distributor of his work.

Website
http://brooklynprints.com/

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When: Sunday, January 17th, Noon til 9pm

Where: CastleBraid 114 Troutman Street (between Central and Evergreen) Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY J/M/Z to Myrtle-Bwy or L to Morgan Ave.

$10 min. suggested donation at the door

RSVP: http://www.castlebraid.com/haiti

50,000 feared dead 3,000,000 injured or homeless and the ground’s still moving. COME OUT FOR THE CAUSE! Dancing, Drinks, Donations ALL PROCEEDS from the event go to the EMERGENCY RELIEF EFFORTS OF THE RED CROSS

***All ages! (21+ to drink) ENTRY INCLUDES: ***Happiness that you’re HELPING! ***Brooklyn Brewery OPEN BAR! ***Free RAFFLE TICKET! (***more can be purchased for more chances to win while donating to the RED CROSS for HAITI) ***

Performances by: Jaleel Bunton of TV on the Radio Yellowbirds (myspace/yellowbirds) Aman Ellis (soundcloud.com/amanellis) VulpesVulpes (www.sonicbids.com/vulpesvulpes) Green Street Records (greenstreetrecords.blogspot.com) Photon Dynamo & the Shiny Pieces (myspace.com/photondynamo) Ellis Ashbrook (Ellisashbrook.com) My Cousin the Emperor (mycousintheemperor.com) and many more… stay posted! ***Short Film Premieres: Jason and Helena Madera, “The Little Birth that Could” Andrew Raab and Co., “The George Series” ***

2 TIER RAFFLE…. LEVEL 1: $1 CASH tickets will be sold to win Level 1 prizes LEVEL 2: $4.99 “TEXT TO ENTER” donations for Level 2 prizes YOU CHOOSE what you try to win! ALL WINNERS ANNOUNCED & WILL RECEIVE PRIZES @ the event!!! UP FOR GRABS: -8 hours of free engineered recording studio time from Castle Braid (www.castlebraid.com) -Book Package from Mark Batty Publisher (www.markbattypublisher.com) -A cut and color at L’atelier de Laurie (www.latelierdelaurie.com) -Multitude gear & skate deck (www.multitudenyc.com) -Pleasure Chest gift card (www.thepleasurechest.com) -Work generously donated by Artists and MORE! (check back for updates!)***Flipbooth – Get a personalized photo flip book made by Michael Sherriff

$10 min. suggested donation at the door Even if you can’t make it, you can help! Text HAITI to 90999 to make a donation to the Red Cross!

http://www.castlebraid.com/haiti

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Lurgee, oil on canvas, 36 x 60 inches, 2007

The Persistence of Painting Too, oil on wood, 40 x 48 inches, 2005

Red Gold Green, oil on canvas, 30 x 48 inches, 2006

Redglo, oil on wood, 38 x 48 inches, 2007

June, oil on wood, 24 x 36 inches, 2007

Artist Statement
I continue in an abstract painting tradition by creating a fluid dreamscape of light and depth with iridescent pigments on a dark background. By mixing powdered pigments with diluted painting medium and by shaping the pigments with compressed air, I am able to transfer an affinity for the spontaneity of watercolor to rigid surfaces.

Often reminiscent of underwater scenes, my paintings are constructed with a simple but effective compositional architecture of overlapping forms, and positive and negative space, combined to produce a dimensional effect. Paintings are not planned in advance; rather they are worked out on the canvas where each additional layer of forms is a response to the last. I work with transparent colors and shapes that include a circular window in order to preserve the “history” of this process.

These glowing paintings and their fiery bursts of color are a salute to painting, and to the perseverance of myself and other painter colleagues who continue in this traditional medium in an art world environment more attune to technology, media and pop-culture.

Website
http://www.nicholasbattis.com

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Hidden Treasure

On Second Thought… Panic

Mom, Listen to the Sea

Artist Statement
My son’s birth has meant an encounter with a completely new form of experiencing life and interacting with the world. Since the moment I knew I was pregnant, parenting has been an existential experiment –an involuntary, uncontrolled one– marked by the encounter with a being that was, first, a part of me, but then became an Other, becoming ever more different from me with each second, becoming more Other. Motherhood has been, for me, the progressive development of an I that opens to an Other in a process marked by a bittersweet recognition and simultaneous estrangement. It has brought the opportunity to experience the Other not by means of a confrontation, in time and space, of two different persons, but through the gradual separation of one in two.

I’m Open to You is a series of photographs –taken and digitally altered by the artist– in which some of my son’s favorite objects and toys appear. These objects have invaded every space of my everyday life, as a symbol of my son’s existence installing itself in my own existence, as well as in his father’s. I experience this existence as open to me, and at the same time as a door to revisit my own existence, an opportunity to formulate fantastic hypotheses to explain places and things that had become common for me over the years. Many of these photographs are also the telling of the act of daring to open and be open to something, with the hope to make an unexpected discovery through an irreversible process, like maternity itself.

Website
http://www.rebecaolguin.com/

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