Visitation, 2009
7 layer/14 impression silk screen
25 x 33 inches
edition  of 25

Found, Gowanus, 2009
oil, pastel and wallpaper
18 x 22 inches

Along the Way, 2008
pastel on paper
31.25x 69.25 inches

Horizontal Triptych II, 2009
oil on linen
30 x 36 inches

Book, 2008
7 layer/14 impression silk screen
25 x 33

Artist Statement
The complexity of the art world is curious, it has spawned many different artists in so many directions in the last century. Looking back I discovered that the direction I related to is “. . .free art from the burden of object.” — Kasimir Malevich. I appreciate the pure and simple aesthetic and I have always related to a spontaneous approach to painting and printmaking.

Website
http://www.artbrooklyn.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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Arroz con Pollo

Theories of Evolution and Connection

Hen Diagram

Adaptation Module One

Artist Statement
Drawing is my way to explore ideas and develop an understanding of concepts that seem remote or abstract. When I juxtapose different ideas in a drawing, it allows me to think about those ideas and the relationships between them.

“Evolution + Connections” was prompted by last year’s food shortages and riots, in Haiti and elsewhere. The idea grew when I began to think about: what we think of as food; how we grow food to feed to animals that we think of as food; what animals eat; and the evolutionary and other connections between humans and other animals. Children often refer to how “chickens evolved from the dinosaur” and I’m interested in the way chickens are singled out, when there are so many more connections that can be made. We learn about food chains, but on closer examination those chains turn into webs, with many layers of cooperation and competition.

The drawings too have many layers, some with more obvious narrative content than others. Ultimately each drawing evolves from the initial idea and travels a path that follows its own internal logic.

Website
http://rejinleys.com/

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Anonymous #15, 2008
34″H x 22″W
Computer punch tape

Anonymous #16, 2008
40.5″H x 22″W
Computer punch tape

Anonymous #10, 2008
48″H x 22″W
Computer punch tape

Artist Statement
Identity/Anonymity Series
These portraits are of people that I do not know. They are based on pictures of people from old photographs that I found in flea markets and antiques stores. While collecting these old photos, I found that there was something haunting and inherently sad about the faces that looked back at me. While anonymous to me, these photographs were a lifetime of cherished memories for someone else. I wondered about these people, who they were, what the occasions were where the pictures were taken, and why these photographs which served as the representation of these moments were ultimately discarded.

I began to imagine what the lives of these people were like. I wanted to know that these memories that seemed discarded were in fact not forgotten. I enlisted help from others to help me re-invent these events, and to ensure that a happy ending was enjoyed by everybody in these discarded memories. I asked people to look at these portraits and invent facts about these people. I was to weave these facts into stories for each of these people, creating new identities that would save these memories from obscurity.

At the end, the reality is that these images were discarded. I will never know who they are, and I can never be sure that their lives ended happily.

These portraits are composed strips of computer punch tape, an obsolete technology that was commonly used during the time when these original photographs were taken. The strips are assembled by hand and adhered to the wall.

Ultimately, the series is about information access and my quest for a resolution that I could never find: people whose information I want but don’t have access to, rendered in a data format that can no longer be read.

Website
www.HenryChung.com

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lines 001: 9″ x 9″; ink, paint marker, automotive paint, on paper

bagtag 006: 9″ x 9″ ; found printed paper and glue on paper

lightning: 24″H x 36″W; found printed paper and shellac on canvas

jellyfish: 72″W x 48″H; housepaint, acrylic and shellac on canvas

Artist Statement

my work is about the mechanical expression of natural phenomena. I’ve heard my studio described as the CERN lab of patterns, as if i am actually getting all these individual visual elements moving near light speed and just smash them together on a canvas, looking for the birth of a new universe.

that actually doesn’t sound bad.

each of my pieces is the result of dozens, hundreds or thousands of actions taking place in the same space. each actions bends and transforms the next, adding layers and layers of richness to the surfaces. i have almost found the secrets to bending these forces to my will. almost.

Website
www.scottfaucheux.com

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Artist Statement:
Excavations and Adaptations is a series of more than sixty small works that combine ink drawings from my sketchbooks (through the use of xerox transfer) with collage. The drawings are mostly based on photographs, both found and personal, with a few drawn from direct observation. The collages vary from simple swaths of color to complex abstract patterns.

About five years ago I started to collect old photographs, and then I began to draw from them. I find these photographs at flea markets, in antique and junk shops. They are often family snapshots, from the 1920s through the 1970s, or studio portraits from the last quarter of the 19th century. I find it strange that these documents are for sale as part of a consumer market place, instead of being in albums on bookshelves in the homes of the families of those in the photos. I find myself at the intersection between a fascinated voyeurism and a determination to know these documents as well as humanly possible in order to give them new, longer life.

Website
http://www.simkinberke.com/

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