From the monthly archives: June 2010
Maybe This Will Stop The Tide, 18” x 20”, oil on linen, 2010 Relative Safety, 18” x 20”, oil on linen, 2010 They Stood Their Ground, 42″ x 60″, oil on canvas, 2010 Warehouse Waiting Game, 48″ x 60″, oil on canvas, 2010
Artist Statement
Stemming from my own experience as an African American woman of mixed heritage, my work has been an exploration of the divisions and relationships between contemporary ethnic groups. Signs, representations, and abstractions reveal themselves in implied geography, cartoonish shapes, exoskeletal forms, spores, cancer cells, flora, fauna, and so on. Size, shape, and [...]
Artist’s Statement
Film, obsession and beauty
The focus of my work is in the chance union of forms, symbols, images and colors. It is through cosmetics, in the sense of making up the world in an almost shaman-like manner, that my work plays [...]
Artist Bio
Jake Messing was born in Northern California in 1982. He graduated with a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design in May 2006. Messing works in a wide variety of media, ranging from silkscreen to pen and ink to paint and collage. His work has been shown in galleries and art [...]
The Fifth Annual Brooklyn Blogfest was held last night at the Brooklyn Lyceum. Blogfest is a gathering of local bloggers, and like any family there is plenty of squabbling and bickering. It’s a group of people with diverse interests and outspoken opinions. Overall, I’d have to say that the event was a huge success. It [...]
1) Not yet titled, 2010 32″ x 24″ acrylic . 2) “Free as Air and Water” 2010 32″ x 24″ acrylic . 3) “Prayer Painting 1″ 2010 60″ x 48″ acrylic . 4) Not yet titled, 2010 32″ x 24″ acrylic . 5) “An Unceasing Revelation of [...]
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