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Artist Profile: Jessica Polzin

Sep 8th, 2011 Comments Off

Artist Statement
My aesthetic is based on the limitless. Seeing infinite potential in all areas of design and how I can manifest them to create something with fluidity and complexity. As an artist reaching a place of balance is such an extreme rarity, Balance is often the underlying theme in my artwork, and the desire to reach harmonious proportions my underlying intent.The natural world is my tangible fantasy, with infinite variables and constant surprises. I seek perfection but delight in all the chaos and unexpected incidences that cause one to redirect thought and ideas. I enjoy problem solving and the progression of the design process.

Website
http://www.jessicapolzin.com/

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Diana Leidel

Mar 25th, 2011 7 Comments

White MOMA Chair

White Ghost Basement Chair

White Basement Chair

BAGsingle

Statement
I’ve become fascinated with the sculpted nature of chairs and the visual force they project. I photograph them everywhere, work into the images, and render them in black and white to try to get to their essence.

Website
http://web.mac.com/dianaleidel/DIANA_LEIDEL/home.html

Dawn Henning

Mar 13th, 2011 8 Comments

Ochre & Orange

Nomadic Cowbird

Mockingbird Music

In Praise of the Pidgeons

Amanda's Warbler

Artist Statement
My love of birds and their gift of flight is a recurring theme in much of my work often used used as a metaphor (although I rarely paint them in flight.) for life. The subtlety of patterns in natural forms and the colors as they appear in the natural world interest me. That juxtaposed with my love of patterns and color in textiles and the material world is the basis for much of my visual exploration. I have always been interested in our relationship with nature.

I have been Influenced greatly by my years working as a printmaker. Paper is my favorite surface to paint, and often paint in layers working with the residue of pigment that gets trapped within the fibers. City parks and the wildlife they support have been my refuge growing up in Brooklyn, they continue to be my tonic for life.

Contact information:
 henning.dawn@gmail.com
www.dawnhenning.com
blog:sketchjay.wordpress.com

Jérôme Karsenti

Mar 6th, 2011 Leave a comment

FLOW ATHANOR. 55 cm x 74 cm. Silicon Carbide an ink on wood. 2011

Statement
The painting lies within the paintbrush, seeking to come out of itself. In Jérôme Karsenti’s paintings, however big they may be, no excess. The attention is always on the detail, on the imperceptible quiver, on the as yet unseen connection. Around the curve of the ribbon everything connects and resonates: the gesture of the lithographer cleaning and graining his stone. Jérome Karsenti likes to think of the obscure origin of the wind that brushes us: a flow, a swirling current which connects us to the whole.

Today, inspired as much by the old masters as our capitals of hypermodernity, of Berlin and New York, where artists like Robert Frank and Sally Man have most recently made him shudder – Jérôme Karsenti is continuing his search in a double direction which may seem intellectually contradictory, but which is easily resolved by the brush: follow an ever growing complexity of the work whilst following its purity.

Website
www.jeromekarsenti.com

Meredith Hoffheins

Jan 23rd, 2011 Leave a comment

Statement
Meredith Hoffheins’ meandering hands create imaginative and lyrical works on paper that intuitively portray a desire for the unattainable. Her works can be spare and visionary, or abundant with internal information.

Website
http://reseda.tumblr.com/

Current Exhibit
http://extensionsofmemory.tumblr.com/

Lindsay Kolk

Jan 23rd, 2011 Leave a comment

Lattice

Shell

Vestige

Statement
Whether printed on the page, manifest in continuously looped forms, or carefully arranged structures Lindsay Kolk quietly meditates on the repeated mark. At once familiar and consistent, these marks are intuitively and carefully manipulated, obscured, even destroyed; efforts that intrinsically assign value even to that which appears as a remnant.

Website
http://elmehr.wordpress.com/

Current Exhibit
http://extensionsofmemory.tumblr.com/

James Chen-Feng Kao

Oct 30th, 2010 Leave a comment

Artist Statement
I want my work to capture the viewer and take them elsewhere. I provide the impetus for this journey without dictating the destination. I do this through drawings, sculptures, and installations that present suggested stories and abstracted characters. I render characters using Chinese calligraphy ink strokes, I paint a pattern titled “Skullscape” onto character sculptures, and I place figurine multiples into specific formations. All these actions mix the element of abstraction with the cartoon, and add an extra layer of masking but suggest fragments of stories and personalities. My art lies in the moment of interaction between the viewers and the work: when they decipher and realize what they see is not what they expect, and this moment takes them to another place from present consciousness.

Website
http://www.jianfone.com/

Lisa Bauer

Sep 12th, 2010 1 Comment


“Where I Stay”
Mixed Media
14 X 17 1/2 Inches
2009


“The Marcy Projects”
Ink
9 X 9 Inches
2009


“Suffering By Gigolo in the LES”
Oil on Panel
14 X 29 Inches
2010


“Inners”
Ink
4 X 6 Inches
2009

Artist Statement
Lisa Bauer is a multi disciplined artist specializing in printmaking and has been living in Brooklyn, New York (11206) since 2006. Many of her pieces are short narratives of her life in different moments in time. She draw inspiration through the places and strangers. For further research about Lisa go to http://lisagbauer.tumblr.com.

Maria Baraybar

Aug 29th, 2010 Leave a comment

Biography
Peruvian native Maria Baraybar came to the United States at the age of 8 with white sand in her shoes and a head full of questions. The youngest of an immigrant family moving around in the US shaped a young Baraybar’s sensitivities. Trying to answer those questions through poetry, she found her self-expression through the Visual Arts.  A coping mechanism soon turned into a lifeline. Eschewing conventional art school studies, Baraybar opted for broader education, embracing non-traditional channels to creativity.

Baraybar’s work has been featured in several NYC galleries and is currently on view at Brooklyn’s Nu Hotel. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, with her partner Allison Tray and their cats Julio and Gertie.

Artist Statement
The inspiration behind Artie’s Red Shoe Diaries came out of a personal situation. I’ve had to endure the difficult process of becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen all my life in the states. 20 yrs of hiding in the shadows with an unresolved immigration case left me with one choice: survival. Survival became more important than self, more important than happiness, more important than my dreams. Faced with my life’s own unique set of absurd trials and tribulations, I created an imaginary friend named Artie. This genderless character became my own life force. These unique experiences opened up the opportunity to document the often “peculiar” way of life in suburban America while exploring the juxtaposition of absurdity and meaning through travelogue note-type drawings.

Website
 www.mariabaraybar.com

Linda Zacks

Aug 1st, 2010 Leave a comment

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

Cynthia Sparrenberger

Jul 18th, 2010 1 Comment


Empty House

Muse

Psychic Carnivale I

Psychic Carnivale II

Sanctuary
Artist Statement
These mixed media “drawing/paintings” find their roots in the exploration of unconscious images.

That” inner landscape” of the  human soul where the boundaries of reality seemingly merge with the uncontrollable “netherworld” of dreams, visions, and nightmares.

Executed in pen and ink, as well as pulverized graphite, oil paints, oil sticks, pastels, charcoal and collage on both canvas and paper, the intention is to leave space for the viewer  to individually engage, seeing or not seeing in relation to their own imagined perceptions of the images before them.

Website
http://sparrenbergerstudio.com/

Lisa Corinne Davis

Jun 21st, 2010 Leave a comment

Pandemic Logistics

Measureable Phantasmagoria

Itemized Pandemonium

Analytical Anarchy

Quizzical Framework

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 color function to shift and ultimately disrupt the viewer’s perceived ability to conclude that a form is fixed and nameable as perhaps an insect larvae, a piece of candy, an environmental contamination, or some other recognizable object. The impulse to identify and label the forms, and to force a system into the visual disorder in order to create a tidy, decisive, pictorial sense, becomes impossible as the viewer gives in to the realization that his or her decision making is a shifting, contingent interpretation of the visual information presented. Ultimately, these paintings reveal the extent to which our labels and fictions create an artificial simplicity, which guards a more complex and meaningful truth.

Website
http://lisacorinnedavis.com/

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