Artist Statement
These works are composed with handmade pigments-a ferromagnetic material which is colored and then cast on linen backed by a magnetic field. Each piece has a unique color play. The paintings have actual magnetic lines that run through the pigments before they are fixed. The resulting image is like a fossil of [...]
Thick and Thin
Oil on Canvas
24 x 24 in.
2010
Cubic
Oil on Canvas
16 x 12 in.
2010
Statement
My studio practice is based around the idea that process and experimentation instigate creation. The work is self-referential, in that I may make drawings, cut up the drawings and build sculptures, take apart the sculptures and create collages. Or I may collect scraps of past drawings, form sculptures, take photographs of the sculptures, [...]
Statement
The desire to capture space, time, emotion and experience cannot be fully realized on canvas. As a result my works are suggestive rather than representational.
Through my painting process I create a unique pictorial vocabulary— using color to impart a strong emotional charge.
The way in which the paintings are made varies considerably [...]
Artist Statement
In the series "Fingerprints" I’m looking for a reinterpretation of reality, namely urban elements taken from the places I explore. Walls, floors, garbage trucks or any other terrestrial material, which are the basis for my work, [...]
Artist Statement
Each of my paintings tells a story. They are based on things I see, read about, and watch on TV, as well as memories of events, feelings and colors – the pink of my favorite childhood bathing suit, the first time I told a lie. Color, form and pattern combine to become [...]
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 [...]
Equation Study (Field), 18” x 26”; Oil, paintstick, wax, and alkyd on linen. 2008
Particle, 8” x 10”; Oil and alkyd on aluminum. 2009
Shoji I, 21 ¼” x 17 ½”; Oil, paintstick, wax, and alkyd on aluminum. 2009
Artist Statement
Objects can be mental states, and mental states can be physical.
Paintings are physical objects. When I make a painting I try to follow this physicality as far as I can, starting with making my own paint from pigment and thinking very specifically about the stretcher and canvas. By really following [...]
1. Brooklyn: An Art Community, BedStuy, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas and Paper, 34″ W x 26″ H (framed), 2009.
2. Brooklyn: An Art Community, Bushwick, Acrylic and Oil on Canvas and Paper, 34″ W x 26″ H (framed), 2009.
3. Brooklyn: An Art Community, Fort Greene, [...]
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
[...]
Exhibit at Sweet Lorraine Gallery, contact artists for viewing information.
Alex Downs – Vessels
Email: downs2681@gmail.com
Web: http://www.flickr.com/photos/downs2681/
Phone: 347-387-2382
Laura Gibson – Drawings
Email: bella.gibson@gmail.com
Phone: 718-775-1557
Chad Rimer – Sculpture
Email: chadrimer@yahoo.com
Phone: 718-775-1556
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