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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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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– [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Module Assembly Factory
Untitled (Aerial View)
Alchemic Transmogrifier For Distressed Emotions
Where The Wilderness Evolves
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 [...]
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