The Street (detail)
Biography
“A creative mind not content to simply sit back and observe- her work is alive.”
Linda Zacks has a passionate love affair with words and letters. Her signature is the way she uses type in her art – clever verbiage drawn from her trusty stack of sketchbooks. She uses words like artillery, firing back Life as it whizzes by your nose.
Linda’s work- part poetry, part paint reflects the adoration, anxiety, filth, fear, and visceral energy of just being alive and aware, and that makes its way into each picture. Tension. Calamity. The urban obstinance that turns a jackhammer into a musical instrument. That’s what it’s like. If it’s not cathartic, it’s not in her artistic vocabulary.
Her creations capture the essence of a restless mind- clever commentary about the world we live in: the wonders of being female, America the strange, Love & Hate and the twisting of traditional concepts, such as beauty and war. Every moment has the potential to be captured in a painting or a unique handmade book.
Nothing is out of the question: old wood, torn paper, rusty metal, ink, duct tape or a scribbled-over Polaroid. And the textures–gloppy skid marks, bumpy nodules and crusty scabs smother the surface.
Linda spent much of her life moving around – including living overseas in England as a young child and attending high school in Holland. Before moving to New York City in 1995, Linda graduated from Brown University studying semiotics and creative writing and spent her junior year across the street at The Rhode Island School of Design. This unique blend of studies led her to a career as an accomplished designer and fine artist.
Website
http://www.lindazacks.com
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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 with a pre-established language of beauty pervasive in popular culture and attempts to establish a complicated link to a mythological world. My work is about obsession and beauty.
Bio/Resume
Born in Florida, and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Francisco López has been based in New York since 2001. He graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 1999. His work has been exhibited at the Boston ICA, Trieste Film Festival in Italy, Sala Mendoza in Caracas, and Transhudson Gallery and Momenta Gallery in New York. In 2004 he showed a video installation as part of the Young Architects Program at PS1 MOMA in New York and his video “Telepathic Numbness” was exhibited at the British Council Electric Earth Show in Caracas, Venezuela. He has lectured at the California Institute of the Arts and Fashion Institute of Technology in 2009.
Website
http://www.mogollon-ny.com/
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Saturday, May 1st and Sunday May 2nd, 2010 from 12–6 pm
Screwball Spaces, Gowanus Canal’s newest addition of artists’ studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn, opens its doors to the public for a rare glimpse into the work spaces of New York’s contemporary artists.
http://openstudios.screwballspaces.com/
Henry Chung, Studio 50, Anonymous #23, 36″ H x 24″ W (framed), Computer Punch Tape
http://www.HenryChung.com
Enrico Miguel Thomas
Studio 90
Miranda Maher
Studio No. 56
http://www.miranda-maher.com
miranda_maher@hotmail.com
miranda@miranda-maher.com
347-431-5275
Cat Celebrezze Studio 39
Title: Birds are Dinosaurs
Media: Laminate; Paper; Socket Head Screws
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Leoworks, Studio 27
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Joetta Maue
waking with you, 2010, hand embroidered, appliquéd, and painted re-appropriated linen, and queen size bed, 60in x 80in. x 15in.
www.joettamaue.com
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Yasha Butler, studio 80, Title: Off Circle, Media: Porcelain and Glaze / wheel-thrown and altered, Size: 6.5″h x 10″ x 10″, www.yashabutler.com
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Nathan Gwirtz; ceramics arena #12; oval dish, 2010, porcelain, underglaze sgrafitto, glaze;
nathangwirtz.com.
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Joshua R. Marks, studio 97, “Epoch”mixed media, 36″h x 19″w x 11″d, 2010
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Lydia Reinhold, Studio 77 Screwballspaces, acrylic on canvas,2010, 47″X 63″, detail.
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Kyoko Sera, Studio 44, Title: Seeking an Unfragmented Life: Cross Model 0-4, Installation; acrylic on cloth, canvas
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Julia Whitney Barnes, studio #74; La Jardiniere, 2009, 120 x 310 x 15″ (dimensions variable), mixed media (porcelain, stoneware, earthenware, glaze, oxides, gold luster, wood, epoxy, wire and acrylic paint);
www.juliawhitneybarnes.com.
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Michael Sorgatz, studio 43; Union Square Farmers Market, 16″ x 20″, Acrylic on Canvas;
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