Artist’s Website
http://www.mileswickham.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mileswickham/
1. Untitled. Acrylic on canvas 18″x24″
2. Reskew in Stone, Acrylic on wood, 2′x4′
3. Animal Kingdom #1 , Gouache on paper 24″x18″
4. Technically Alive , acrylic on paper, 24″x40″
My paintings celebrate the resilience and strength of the human spirit.
I am inspired by street, urban and popular art. My work is animated with cartoon-style drawings, symbols, collage, animal and human shapes. I strive towards the use of minimal, bold brush strokes. The forms are expressive and colorful yet simple, offering just a hint of the real image.
The result is a mix of abstract and figurative elements colored with a touch of humor.
I use acrylic paint and my color palette is dominated by muscular, energetic and vibrant colors that reflect the world of cartoons and children fantasies.
I received an MFA from Florida State University. Born in France I now live in Brooklyn. Recent solo shows include the 440 Gallery in Brooklyn, Galerie ArtSud in France and Ion Studio in Soho.
Passage
36”x48”
Acrylic paint on canvas
Say Cheese!
36”x48”
Acrylic paint on canvas
Watch Out!
48”x36”
Acrylic paint on canvas
Fierce and Resolute
16”x20”
Acrylic paint on canvas
Accidental Encounter
24 x 18 inches
oil on board
Fallen Angel
24 x 18 inches
oil on board
Free For All
22½ x 18 inches
oil on canvas
Mysterious Entry
22 x 16 inches
oil on canvas
Through Her Own Eyes
36 x 40 inches
oil on canvas
Artist Statement
I am fascinated by the idea of creating still lifes that are not so still. Inspired by interests such as chaos theory, poetics and gravity, I began to paint objects falling through space. In my Accidental Encounters series, I reinvented my concept of an orderly painting, along with my ideal of an orderly world.
By adding a reflective vase, I could combine my still (or not so still) life with figures and interiors. A still life became a self-portrait in my studio, revealed in minute detail on the surface of the vase. The antique and ethnic toys I include represent joy and abandon, and suggest another time and place.
I love to travel, collecting objects and toys that I will later paint. In my work, these objects evoke stories and memories that are both personal and universal. I invite the viewer to join me as we create an “accidental encounter” between our individual aesthetics and those of other cultures.
To create this series of oils, I use a glazing technique that allows light to permeate through layers of transparent color. This lends depth and luminosity to my paintings, which often take many months to complete.
Website
www.franbeallor.com
Current Exhibit
Two paintings from the “Accidental Encounter” series are on exhibit in, “Childish Things,” at Tabla Rasa Gallery in Brooklyn through December 11, 2011.
TABLA RASA GALLERY
224 48th Street (between 2nd & 3rd Avenues)
Sunset Park, Brooklyn, NY 11220
718-833-9100
Gallery hours: noon – 5pm Thur, Fri & Sat
D or N to Brooklyn 36th St. plus one R stop to 45th St.
Upcoming Exhibit
Fran Beallor’s 2nd Annual Open Studio. The artist is pleased to open her NYC studio to visitors on
Saturday December 3rd from noon till 6pm
Sunday December 4th from noon till 5pm
Fran will be featuring works on paper from her flat files – drawings, watercolors and new works from the past year, in addition to her oils, prints and works from the “Accidental Encounters” series.
Fran Beallor’s studio
839 West End Avenue #6F
NY, NY 10025
IRT subway 1, 2 or 3 to 96th St.
Artist Statement
After working for decades with urban found objects, I came to a point where I needed to refresh. “Go back to nature” is the old advice to artists. Otter Falls is a site in the Catskills that I painted and photographed over a period of ten years. In a way it was a found object. While on the Bowery in 2001, I did a set of ink drawings to interpret my feelings of the site. These black and white brush drawings were the beginning of my current patterned work. The feeling of the original site become an “abstract” space that took on a life of it’s own. This moves me from depicting landscape to exploring Nature beyond landscape’s visual beauty: green is made of yellow and blue; earth–brown is red and black; light is white (in the spectrum, all the colors). My explorations are improvisations based on nature built with the primary colors of red, yellow, and blue –pushed to black and white expressing vibrations and waves as a play on the quantum world of “wave particle duality”. My goal is to play the visual vibrations as a musical composition.
Contact:
phone: 212-925-8126
website: www.fredgutzeit.com
email: f.gutzeit@covad.net
Sideshow Fantasy#7 (2009), archival digital print on paper–edition: 3/30, 17″ x 17″ (image size), laminated to aluminum.
Artist Statement
Love Letter To Brooklyn is literally showing love to downtown Brooklyn through the memeories and feelings of one of its prominent sons, Dave villorente. Dave grew up on De Kalb avenue, Saw santa at Macys as a kid, Worked at macys as a teen, just bought socks at macy’s last week. In addition to Dave’s story, I painted some romantic pick up lines in the hopes that they are used to increase the population of brooklyn, and I have depicted a local couple, living room johnson and his wifey Katiya and their newborn baby. Finally there is a tribute to dollar vans and 99 cent stores that are the lowest common denominations on the block the macys garage occupies
Website
http://www.firstandfifteenth.net/
Artist Statement
My work has continually been about constructing imagined environments that delve into the dark inner reaches of the mind, conveying a sense of romantic melancholy and isolation. Through specific color choices and deliberate composition, I create spaces that point to the gothic and eerie—the darker sides of personality—while still calling to mind the contemporary nature of technology. Whether icy, lifeless subjects drawn from 17th-century genre painting or flat, morphing and dripping patterns, the resulting images offer a glimpse of decay while also retaining a sense of hazy lightness. Through my paintings, I aim to create or inspire a mood, a feeling, of memory or place, rather than construct a specific narrative.
Website
www.sserpick.com
Still Life 1
Still Life 2
Still Life 3
Strange True Stories Dammit
The Sovereign Order
Artist Statement
I was born in Tucuman, Argentina. Growing up, I took every opportunity I had to create art. In the early 90′s, I was an exchange student in New York City. From the moment I arrived, I was stunned by the city’s art scene and knew that one day I would come back to pursue a career as a professional artist. After a short stay in the US, I returned to Tucuman and enrolled in medical school. I completed all 5 years of intense study, but decided not to become an MD. Instead, I packed my bags and moved to New York City to pursue a career as an artist. Soon after my arrival, I began taking classes at The Art Students’ League of New York, where I had the pleasure to study with Larry Poons (one of my mentors), Kikuo Saito, and Knox Martin, among others. As I moved through the different stages of an artist’s education, I learned a great deal of technique and, most importantly, I learned great deal about myself as an artist.
I put myself through art school working as a consultant for Wingate, Russotti & Shapiro, a law firm that specializes in medical malpractice law. In addition to analyzing medical records and prepared detailed reports on the medical aspect of the case, I prepared all trial exhibits, which included technical drawings, photography, charts, etc. During this time, I also engaged in freelance projects, which allowed me to experience other areas of the art and design world.
My work is very colorful and has a myriad of icons. I paint on whatever I can get my hands on: walls, furniture, canvas, clothes, etc. The media are mostly acrylic, spray paint, and silkscreen prints. Although the sizes of my work vary, I prefer working on large pieces. I particularly enjoy working on installations, which allows me to transform a space completely by using different materials and objects.
IMURI
A few years ago I started IMURI, a Brooklyn design studio, committed to producing colorful work for people’s walls (and much more). The company handles the business part of my art. Like all start-ups, there have been great moments and scary ones too. www.imuriproject.com
At this time, most of IMURI’s work consists of large-scale installations for both commercial and private spaces. Additionally, I have started developing mass produced works, which are sold through IMURI’s online store: http://imuriproject.bigcartel.com/
Some of the publications that featured IMURI’s work are Harper’s Bazaar, Elle Décor, Tokion Magazine, ThrilList Magazine, and in a book called Paint Style by Smallwood & Stewart.
Jungle Time
Riddle 1
All I Wanna Do
Fishing Dreams
Shifting to Suit the Moment
Statement
Although the principle behind my creative work is framing, my intention is the realization of an unexpected use of the photograph. Leaving aside the obvious path, the one indicated in the manual, creating my own manual of the new technologies. My intention when creating is to manage to generate a work-spectator game in which habitual perception is replaced by a new perception. Either by taking almost ignored elements from daily life and placing them in the spotlight in the piece or from photographs of distant places I have visited– seeking to reproduce the surprise in the visitor in the face of the new space to walk around, assimilate, take in. My work is a kind of experiment with elements which, on their own, cannot attain what they manage when they are interrelated. A sort of socialist utopia is thus created, which is realized effectively on canvas. Reciprocal relationships, equality, the possibility of creating a ‘whole’ from the ‘parts’. Something that seems to be further and further away of really coming to happen in present-day societies after the complete loss of the sense of ‘tribe’ or ‘community’ and the advancement of the every day more predatory decaying capitalism that fractures everything and upsets the balance. My reply to such phenomenon is to seek balance in a virtual manner, inventing an answer for the deficiencies of real life in my work, something like a parallel society or a more peaceful world to inhabit in which we can see ourselves reflected and which we might feel inspired to turn into our reality.
Website
http://www.celestenajt.com.ar/
"Musings: Urban Spaces 4", Mixed Media, 23x44
"Musings: Urban Spaces 1", Mixed Media, 23x44
"Paradigms: One", Mixed Media, 44x23
"Paradigms: Four", Mixed Media, 44x23
"Paradigms: Six", Mixed Media, 44x23
Artist Statement
My love of art stems from my early childhood in India, where I was exposed to a conglomeration of art ranging from traditional Indian to contemporary western. I find myself synthesizing images from places I visit into themes of urban decay, renewal, and everyday life. I am always attempting to find a pathway to incorporate these images into my work, bridging the gap between traditional and contemporary art. I create my own visual language, combining my interests in photography, printmaking and drawing into images that reflect both abstraction and realism at once.
I usually begin by picking a random selection of photographs that I have taken, and these become the basis of the final work. I either incorporate these photographs directly into paintings by transferring them onto the surface or draw portions from them that reflect the theme of that work. Onto this I apply layers of paint, ink, oil pastel, graphite, screen prints and additional photographic transfers until the work reaches the desired composition and texture.
Growing up in the bustling city of Bombay, urban landscapes were first an inspiration and then a fascination. A focus on more minimal and sparse compositions represents a departure from the nature of the city, but the city remains integral to my theme. The resulting work reflects these nuances.
Website
www.artaditya.com
Through the Roof 2009, watercolor on paper, 52" x 70"
Pathway 2010, watercolor on paper, 52" x 68"
Climbers with Blues 2010, watercolor on paper, 52" x 69"
5000 Rosebushes 2010, watercolor on paper, 45 " x 69"
January Crimsons 2011, watercolor on paper, 45" x 57
Statement
My mind’s eye sees the destination for the content in my paintings as abstraction. Before this happens, subjects like Georgian interiors at a 1760’s mansion in Philadelphia or formal landscapes at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden seem to have a magnetic attraction. Besides a personal interest in American history and flower gardening, it’s because these places and spaces provide the panoply of design elements, patterns and compositions with which to play. My color palettes are imaginary (not realistic.) The manipulated perspectives look slightly outside of the realm of the real world.
Recently released print edition
Through the Roof is available as an archival print at 20×200.com.
http://www.20×200.com/email/web/edition-announcement-405-tamara-thomsen.html
Website
http://tamarathomsen.com/index.html
Saul Sudin and Elke Reva Sudin are two Boerum Hill artists reclaiming their heritage and making a name for contemporary Jewish art. Named “power couple” by the Jewish Week, the Sudins started SUDINmagazine and JewishArtNow.com to promote contemporary Jewish art and design.
Saul Sudin, filmmaker and critic, writer for Chud.com and JewishArtNow.com, advocates for new Jewish film. Saul is currently working on Punk Jews, a documentary which explores Jewish creatives with an unapologetic Jewish identity. Trailer for Punk Jews
Elke Reva Sudin, known for series “Hipsters and Hassids” exploring the two sides of Williamsburg and showing how much they have in common despite their obvious differences in order to create awareness for the commonalities we all share. She is now exploring the urban landscape as universal elements that shape the urban lifestyle and effect the cultures within it.
You can view more about their work at www.elkerevasudin.com, www.saulsudin.com, check out their publication at www.sudinmagazine.com and follow their blog www.jewishartnow.com.
You can visit Elke’s work at the Seventh Heaven festival in Parkslope (7th Avenue, Flatbush – 18th Street) on June 19th.
Artist Biography
Fernand Barbot was born in 1930. He grew up in Paris, France. He moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1957. He has attended art classes in drawing and painting, be he is for the most part self-taught. His early paintings reflected his taste for abstract art, but developed into primitive art. Mr. Barbot has received considerable awards and recognition throughout the New York area. As the President of All Communities Art, he has contributed to the completion of outdoor murals for Citibank’s Kings Highway Branch, Crawford, and Martin’s restaurant all in Brooklyn.
Contact
fernbar80@yahoo.com
347-409-8957
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