Oil paint and the movement of brushstrokes play an active role in the development of my imagery and composition.  Forms move through the paint and are transformed by the process.  I use sandpaper to erase, building up layers of color that contribute to the final form.  It is both an additive and subtractive process that takes many months.   I draw  using watercolor to discover new imagery and often draw while painting to complete a composition.   My work is often serial with forms recurring and reconfigured in new work. Color is vital for me; I visualize color as specific form.  My paintings utilize large shapes in a small-scale format.

I was born in Paterson New Jersey.  My B.A. in Studio Art is from Fordham University and I hold an M.F.A. in painting from Bard College. I have exhibited my work for over twenty years in numerous groups shows both upstate and in New York City.  I have been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center and Byrdcliffe.   My drawings were included in “ Winter Selections 2001” at The Drawing Center.  I had my first one person show in New York City, “Squirm”,  in the Spring of 2003 at Holland Tunnel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  My second  solo show at Holland Tunnel, “Rainbow Twist”, was in the Fall of 2005.  My home and studio are in Brooklyn.

Float

Launch

Orange Car

Pink Plane

Plane and Rocket

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Ignoring the traditional distinctions between the abstract and the figurative, Joseph’s work often delves into the impulses of the subconscious, pouring them out onto canvas and paper in an otherworldly yet distinctly urban visual language.  Rorschach-test ambiguity leaves plenty of room for interpretation, making for an engaging experience that invites the viewer to stop and explore both the work before them as well as their own interpretations.

There is no rigid moral or sociopolitical agenda. Ultimately, Joseph’s work is about making marks, whether they’re made with a pencil, a paintbrush, a digital stylus or a camera, the ends justify the means in Vandal Expressionism, and there is a definite sense of “paint first, ask questions later.”

http://www.facebook.com/vandalexpressionism

Explosion At Sea

Wired

The Coming Together of Many Things

Entangled

More Portraiture

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Website
http://local-artists.org/node/102099

Work details
19.75″x19.75″, ferromagnetic pigment on linen, 2011-2

French Open

Hawaiian Shaved Ice

Manhattan Afternoon

Red Bud

Weave

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I paint the things around us: fruits and vegetables, household items, toys, all the objects of everyday life. I also have a series on candies and their wrappers, focusing on their translucency and reflections. In all these paintings, my emphasis is on light, color, texture and atmosphere.

A to Z, 40″ x 40″, oil on canvas, 2010

Golightly, 22″ x 28″, oil on canvas, 2010

Heirloom Tomatoes, 18″ x 14″, oil on canvas, 2010

Garlic and Lemons, 20″ x 16″, oil on canvas, 2009

Two Fish, 24″ x 30″, oil on canvas, 2011

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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″

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.

http://www.helenemukhtar.com

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

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.

Contact:
phone: 212-925-8126
website: www.fredgutzeit.com
email:  f.gutzeit@covad.net

“Giggle Hollow, Later” (with detail),  1990, watercolor on paper, 30″ x 40″

“Otter Falls, #3″, 2001, ink on paper, 18″ x 24″.

“Ott 21.1″, 2006,  acrylic on canvas, 32″ x 56″.

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/

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 19^th.

Interior with Window, 60 x 64 inches, Oil on Linen, 2011

Eulogy, 42 x 42 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2008

L'Estate, 20 x 24 inches, Oil on Canvas, 2009

Beneath Glass, 58 x 58 inches, Oil on Linen, 2008

Closing the Tear, 60 x 60 inches, Oil on Linen, 2008

Artist Statement
I make paintings, usually medium to large, with oil paint, and occasional other materials. Over time, I have developed a personal visual language that I use to communicate and to evoke. My paintings occupy the role of vessel for ideas and emotions: akin to keeping a diary. They are memorials to events and losses, they are markers of what I have thought and dreamed of.

The idea of a personal language is dear to me and informs my evolution and direction as a painter. I am also interested in the idea of a memorial, or a physical space which serves as a marker or vessel for emotions often nuanced and complex. The idea of the stand-in or placeholder is relevant to my use of painting as a surrogate for my own complex emotions.

I seek in my work to occupy the grey area between “representation” and “abstraction”– or rather, to carve out a place which is neither. I am interested in making paintings which do not illustrate ideas but rather embody them, an idea I describe as “being-ness”.

My future goals are simply to continue.

Website
www.rembert.org

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“Time Machine LXI” Acrylic, Plaster, Antique Hardware, Salvaged Velvet, and Metal on Wood, 2010 Size (H x W): 18” x 11.5” (total size)

“Time Machine LXIII” Acrylic, Plaster, Antique Hardware, Copper, Recycled Leather and Wood on Canvas, 2011 Size (H x W): 21.5” x 22” (total size)

“Time Machine LX (Entering The Pasture)” Acrylic, Plaster, Antique Hardware, Wood, Tubing, and Copper Pipe on Masonite, 2010 Size (H x W): 40” x 24” (total size, including attachments)

“Time Machine LI” Acrylic, Plaster, and Cable on Canvas and Hand-carved Sign Board, 2010 Size (H x W): 42” x 48.5” (total size)

“Time Box XI” Acrylic, Plaster, Antique Hardware, and Cable on Masonite 22” x 18.5” (Total Size)

Statement
My “Time Machines” series is a collection of mixed media paintings incorporating 3-dimensional, sculptural elements. The pieces, at their core, are paintings on canvas or masonite that I create by applying acrylic paints, colored plasters, and transparent glazes using a combination of airbrushing and traditional painting techniques. Then, at various stages of creating the painting, I attach real objects, such as antique or salvaged hardware, cables, and carved wood pieces, to the edges and/or the face of the painting.

My “Time Machines” evolved out of my love for turn-of-the-century aesthetics as well as the mechanical, futuristic environment that surrounds me in Chicago. I create these “machines” to look like they were constructed in 1901 by a time traveler who was renting a room from my great grandfather. As the story goes, this traveler disappeared one day and the contents of his boarding room became the possession of my great grandfather. These articles were transferred to me through a will and now I am repairing the machines and they are beginning to work again. In any case, I want my “Time Machines” to give the experience of glimpsing into another era, dimension, or lifetime.

I recently got the chance to exhibit a couple of my “Time Machines” at the Verge Art Brooklyn fair with Firecat Projects from Chicago, IL, where I am from. I really enjoyed being a part of the fair, getting to know the arts community in Dumbo, and meeting a lot of  interesting and supportive people in Brooklyn. I hope to be back soon and to show more of my work in this awesome city.

Website
www.jasonbrammer.com

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