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Francisco Lopez

Jun 16th, 2010 Leave a comment

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/

Sheena Hisiro

May 7th, 2010 Leave a comment

Artist Bio
Sheena Hisiro has been drawing since she could hold a pencil. She currently lives in Brooklyn, where she is still drawing and loving every minute of it. She earned a BFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute.  She recently illustrated a children’s book that is being released this summer and is very excited about it!  She is currently working on a greeting/gift card line featuring limited color palettes, floral prints, patterns (lots of stripes), detailed line work, and little hand-made envelopes to match.

Website
 http://oodlesofdoodles.tumblr.com/

Artists’ Open Studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn

Apr 25th, 2010 1 Comment

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
2010
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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
Studio #2

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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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Susan Heller, Studio 15, “Layered Form”. I am in Studio # 15, http://www.susanhellerceramics.com
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Linda Tharp, Studio #64, Oil on Panel, 12″ x 24″, www.LindaTharp.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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Lake Lahontan, 17 x 22″ poster from the Siting the Geologic series, 2009.
Jamie Kruse / Elizabeth Ellsworth
smudge, studio #37
smudgestudio.org | friendsofthepleistocene.com
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Lydia Reinhold, Studio 77 Screwballspaces, acrylic on canvas,2010, 47″X 63″, detail.
http://www.lydiareinhold.com
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Kathleen Collins, Studio #96; Gates, Central Park, contact:  kathc@juno.com
website:  www.kcollinsphotography.com
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Megan Berk, Studio 93, Pool Party, 2010, acrylic on panel, 42″ x 34″, http://meganberk.com/
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John Tebeau, “Monopoly Smackdown”, Studio 43, http://jctebeau.etsy.com
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Andy Mister, Studio #89, Title/Dimensions: Tate, Graphite on Paper, 40 x 50 ins.
Website: http://registry.whitecolumns.org/view_artist.php?artist=9489
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Brendan Donleavy, Studio 62, The Tinker, Oil, bdonleavy@gmail.com
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Dana Atherton, Studio 62, Abstract Collection, Oil dana.a.atherton@gmail.com
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Spring Hofeldt, Studio 2, “tough love”, acrylic on board
spring@springhofeldt.com
www.springhofeldt.com
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Dave Marin
Image:Untitled, 20 x 20 Digital Photo Print, 2009
Studio  #92 Screwball Spaces, Websit:e davemarinart.com, Email: davemarinart@gmail.com
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John Shorb; Rowan Oak IV, 2010, 30″ x 11″, Transfer on paper; http://www.johnshorb.com
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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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Akiko Kato, Studio #86, Title: emergence + re-emergence, Media: Sterling Silver 0.925, 18KYG Vermeil; Contact Info: info@beroepbklyn.com, www.beroepbklyn.com
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Peter Patchen, Studio 76, http://www.peterpatchen.com/

Hearken, 2009, Media: 3D Print, Bronze/Iron Patina, Software: Maya
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Michael Sorgatz, studio 43; Union Square Farmers Market, 16″ x 20″, Acrylic on Canvas; www.mikesorgatz.com

Daniel McDonald

Feb 15th, 2010 Leave a comment

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

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

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

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

DMcDonald_book silk screen_lr
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

Rebeca Olguin

Jan 3rd, 2010 1 Comment

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On Second Thought… Panic

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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/

Rejin Leys

Dec 17th, 2009 1 Comment

Rejin Leys Arroz con Pollo 500 pix

Arroz con Pollo

Theories of Evolution and Connection 500 pixels

Theories of Evolution and Connection

Rejin Leys Hen Diagram 500 pix

Hen Diagram

Rejin Leys Adaptation Module One 500 pix

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/

Henry Chung

Dec 6th, 2009 1 Comment

chung-01

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

chung-02

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

chung-03

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

Scott Faucheux

Nov 29th, 2009 1 Comment

faucheux_001_lines2lines 001: 9″ x 9″; ink, paint marker, automotive paint, on paper

faucheux_bagtag_006

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

faucheux_lightning

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

faucheux_jellyfish

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

Lauren Simkin Berke

Nov 1st, 2009 Leave a comment

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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/

Rosa Ruey

Oct 10th, 2009 4 Comments

1-rueyModule Assembly Factory

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Untitled (Aerial View)

3-ruey
Alchemic Transmogrifier For Distressed Emotions

4-ruey
Where The Wilderness Evolves

5-ruey
Chrono-Particle Processor

Artist Statement
For my work I’ve created a concept called Fantastic Functionalism. This concept involves creating an alternative reality filled with objects and environments which are imbued with extreme idealism and hope. I look at everyday problems on a emotional, physical and social level and imagine new possibilities and solutions for them. I think of my work as the sketches or plans of a mad and naïve inventor creating fantastical machines, passageways, bus stops, transportation devices and shelter from a playground of transformed shapes and bright colors that stems from the ordinary.

Website

http://www.rtimesr.com

Soraya Marcano

Sep 18th, 2009 1 Comment

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Exile
This is a “book” of paper, ink, acrylic, and thread. It was created in
1998 and appeared in the December/January, 2002 issue of the British
magazine Art-Review. It is also featured in the book A tale of two
cities (Impact press, 2001.)

Website
http://sorayamarcano.blogspot.com/

http://www.neoimages.net/artistportfolio.aspx?pid=509

David Kassan

Sep 6th, 2009 1 Comment

kassan_01Metronome, Oil on Wood, 50×60 inches

kassan_02Approaching Noise (in progress), Oil on Wood, 40×34 inches

kassan_03
Lucas at 3 Months, Graphite on Bristol

kassan_04
Head Study, Oil on Wood, 18×14 inches

Artist Statement

As an expression of his own calculated observation and visual consumption of surrounding environment, introspective glimpses of reality imbue the art of David Jon Kassan. By immersing himself into his subject matter, Kassan is able to infuse his painting with life and realism. Kassan’s direction of realism follows the philosophies emplyed by the Ashcan School of American Realists. Kassan’s influences are varied; citing Robert Henri and John Sloan as his primary influences on philosophy and subject matter. As for style and technique he cites Antonio Lopez Garcia, Mark Rothko, Franz Kline and Clyfford Still as influences as well.

Website

http://davidkassan.com/

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