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Temporary Shelters by A Wrecked Tangle Press

Jul 25th, 2011 Comments Off

Temporary Shelters is a book object built into a landsnail shell. The text begins curled into the shell as one long scroll to be unfurled and, ulitmately, detached completely by the reader. Each book is encased in dirt in a cardboard box, from which the reader is instructed to fill the emptied shell with dirt and plant a seed. Equipped with a gold chain to hang it from, the shell/book which begins as a shelter for the text becomes a home for a new plant. The theme of the book confronts the idea of homemaking as an instinctual response, where a detached narrator observes the habits of people and animals in attempts to understand their own relationship with the temporal body.

http://www.intermediapoetry.com/2011/07/temporary-shelters-by-wrecked-tangle.html

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Robin Antar

Jun 11th, 2011 Comments Off

My passion as a sculptor involves a technique I uncovered more than 20 years ago — the precise art of creating “virtual records” of contemporary culture — capturing common, everyday items in stone. Essentially, I replicate these items on a real life-scale, complete with meticulous detail. I achieve this absolute realism by incorporating parts of the actual object, as well as custom-made stains, paints, plastics and gold leaf. It’s more than art imitating life, it’s art mirroring life.

My abstract work is a reflection of my experiences combined with emotion. Each abstract creation is one of a kind, and has a unique significance, which emanates an essence and an aura of its own. The life-like creations from stone, chiseled meticulously to perfection, form a visual extravaganza as well as an intellectual playground of wonderment. Each time you look at apiece, you see something different, allowing you to draw in its beauty through your individual perspective. The true beauty of abstract art is not just what appears to the naked eye, but what lies beneath the surface.

Email:  info@rantar.com
Web:   www.rantar.com
Blog:   www.stonesculptures.org

 

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Cat Del Buono

Apr 30th, 2011 Leave a comment

1)”Your Face Here,” 2010. This interactive video/sculpture aims to incite viewers to examine the cultural constraints put upon their self-image, to question our definition of feminine beauty, and to encourage a dialogue about excessive and unnecessary surgery, implants, and augmentation.

2) “Peel/Pluck/Primp,” 2010. This video piece examines the tactics women go through to obtain beauty. With the subject performing various “grooming” techniques with exaggerated sounds, I attempt to emphasize the oddness and humor of these strange rituals and to comment on how we define beauty.

3) “Pressure/Release,” 2010. This video is a collaboration with Miami-based performance artist Antonia Wright. As Antonia tediously inflates balloons one by one, she becomes exhausted and engulfed by the very balloons she creates. Her release comes from popping each one, freeing her from the balloons and all the effort she put into them. The balloons represent the overwhelming abundance and acceptance of fake breasts in today’s society.

After being formally trained as a filmmaker and photographer, I began experimenting with displaying the moving image in alternate ways. Rather than using the traditional single-screen format, my videos are displayed with multiple monitors and projectors or as part of a sculptural element. By not limiting my work to a strict definition of a format, I challenge myself technically while aiming to make a statement and engage my viewers. A recurring theme in recent projects is challenging social and identity issues, such as nationality, gender, and stereotyping. An important part of my creative process includes collecting images, experimenting, and collaborating with other artists.

www.catdelbuono.com

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Jason Brammer

Mar 22nd, 2011 1 Comment

“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

Vincent Romaniello

Feb 1st, 2011 Comments Off

1. Name Tags, 2011, paint, paper, glassine, each piece 3x4 ft

2. Pink Slip (Waste Not), 2010, paint on seamless backdrop paper, 53x84 in

3. Last Straw (Waste Not), 2010, paper, paint, foam, extruded acrylic, 12x8x120 in

4. May Wave, 2010, zero voc house paint on canvas, 36x42 in

5. Big Spill, 2010, zero voc house paint on canvas, 84x64 in

Current Exhibitions

Process: Abstract Painters
Brooklyn Artists Gym
January 29-February 10
168 7th Street, Brooklyn, NY

An Art Exchange with Sol Lewitt
January 20-March 5
300 Nevins St, Brooklyn, NY

Website
http://vincent-romaniello.blogspot.com

Blog
http://romanblog2.blogspot.com/

Elena Yamamoto

Jan 23rd, 2011 Leave a comment

Statement
Elena Yamamoto’s works are thoughts bound up in sources, process, and materials: photos made from negatives that my father took when he was just a few years older than myself; the sun-soaked cyanotype prints with their natural, distinctive, and seductive blue; silk in its softness, its play in the light, its living quality; cedar with its scent and preservative property.

All of these materials, all of these things, each personally important and meaningful, are tied and pinned and sewn together—slowly, quietly, meditatively—in order to become a collection of intimate, personal objects. These objects are manifestations of time spent with ideas, created by a repeated motion of the hand, thought on and thought about. Some of them are just small musings, haphazard thoughts made big through the time it took to meditate and make them, while others are those big ideas of family, legacy, intimacy, and relationships, made small and manageable through their expression in the physical.

These objects—reliquaries, even—contain elusive, ineffable thoughts. Words and sentences and explanations tend to limit our understanding of things, failing to capture ideas and experiences in their entirety, reducing the complexities of feelings and emotions to mere sentiment. And so here instead, I, with cautious hands, tug and pull to lay bare my quiet, personal thoughts and moments for you to ponder.

Website

http://www.elenayamamoto.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/

Romy Scheroder

Oct 17th, 2010 Leave a comment

Moco Jumbie, 2009

Broko Foot, 2009

Skin, 2008

Shuck and Jive, 2009

Biography
Trinidadian born artist Romy Scheroder received her BFA in Ceramics from Florida Atlantic University and her MFA in Sculpture from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In addition to having worked more than a decade in the gallery and museum industry, Romy has taught at a number of institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania and currently at Green Mountain College. She has exhibited in a number of venues domestically and abroad, including The Asian Arts Initiative, Brunei Gallery, Exit Art, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Woman Made Gallery and university museums including Norwich University, the State University of New York at Brockport, The University of the Arts and the University of Tennessee.

Artist’s Statement
As a Trinidadian born artist, themes of identity and displacement run through my current sculptural work.  As a sculptor and conceptual crafter my process is meditative and time intensive.  It involves removing the functionality from domestic objects and furniture, transforming their utility through a complex process of embellishment and alteration. I am drawn to marrying materials and objects that can upset or distort reality, alternately evoking disquiet, sentimentality, and the sense of the strangely familiar.  In my recent work the chair has been the dominant form.  This is because it is suggestive of the human body, and the female form in particular due to its connotations of domesticity and utility.  I am interested in exploring how this form may be skewed through displacement, and how emotion may be communicated through structure and material.

Website
www.romyscheroder.com

Robert Raphael

Oct 9th, 2010 Leave a comment

Le Petit Trianon

Le Petit Trianon detail

Narcissus

Narcissus Detail

Warm Brothers

Artist Statement
The decorative is often seen as superficial, but I believe in its power to seduce us into greater depths. Anyone can reflect upon the decorative arts, whether experienced through the mediums of architecture, furniture, wallpaper, or manicured gardens. My sculptural works draw on the history of decorative art and how it is perceived. My use of the decorative becomes the code for my language of desire, sexuality, gender, and pleasure.

In my most recent works, I am constructing structures and wall elements out of lumber, a traditional material for building. The sculptures refer to architecture and construction, but are imbued with elements and processes that incorporate the decorative. I create ornate visual surfaces using materials such as porcelain, ribbon, wood, and paint. Within the work, I am creating a dialogue between the viewer’s understanding of structure and ornament: masculine and feminine. The viewer is confronted with the formal language of sculpture, while the ornament and pattern are experienced pervasively. My sculptures provide a forum for the viewer to use their understanding of my materials and processes to make associative connections.
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Website
www.robraphael.com

Lisa Dillin

May 4th, 2010 Leave a comment


1. Award Plaque for H. Waldenford – 2009 – Laser-engraved brass, cherry laminate, MDF – 10″ x 8″ x .5″

2. I’d Rather be Fishing – 2009 – Custom-printed ceramic – 4″ x 5.5″ x 3″

3. Window A – 2010 – Aluminum, formica laminate, fluorescent lighting – 42″ x 62.5″ x 4″

4. Under the Desk Escape Unit – 2010 – Found objects, mixed media, and video (interactive)- 65″ x 108″ x 30″

5. Untitled Ad for Roar Design – 2009 – c-print, 20″ x 30″

Artist Statement
This work re-presents a mental landscape, an office-scape, used as a symbol or stand-in for contemporary culture at large. Stemming from an interest in the exploration of the psychology of the individual in contemporary culture as contrasted with the primitive psychology of man, this work offers a synthesis that highlights the latent tension between our former modus operandi and our current structured status. While this lifestyle transformation may be recognizable in the lives of the majority, I focus on a specific grouping of individuals, those living in a maximal built environment, the urban environment, cut off from the natural world. This new normal position removes the sights, sounds, scents and behaviors integral to life in the natural world and replaces it with a myriad of man-made objects and experiences centering around the idea of function or purpose in relation specifically to the human being. No longer residing in a subsistence-based communal setting where a reactionary attitude to our environment is part of our survival technique, we now plan for our survival in a construct based in politics and the economy.

The Arts provide a unique escape from this practicality, this need for function or popularization in a market-driven economy for both the fabricator (or art practitioner) and the viewer/collector. To recognize this fact is to provide evidence of the enduring appetite to witness an idea, a feeling, or an aesthetically driven combination of color or pattern that stretches beyond the rigidity common in other areas of our experience. To some extent, the strong economy of the art market itself is evidence of the desire for the unique or rare object, rare because it was not mass produced and is not readily available. On the other hand, it must also be recognized that art objects themselves are now bought and sold purely on the basis of commodity value.

Humor, absurdity, or dysphoria may be an element present in my work in it’s often-times futile attempt to provide a response to the predicament of life in contemporary culture in the form of simulated nature. It is through this lens that my work investigates the tension between our past and out present modes of conduct.

Website
http://www.lisadillin.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
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