artinbrooklyn.com » acrylic http://artinbrooklyn.com Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:18:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Rosa Ruey http://artinbrooklyn.com/2009/10/rosa-ruey/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2009/10/rosa-ruey/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:22:15 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=489 1-rueyModule Assembly Factory

2-ruey

Untitled (Aerial View)

3-ruey
Alchemic Transmogrifier For Distressed Emotions

4-ruey
Where The Wilderness Evolves

5-ruey
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 and hope. I look at everyday problems on a emotional, physical and social level and imagine new possibilities and solutions for them. I think of my work as the sketches or plans of a mad and naïve inventor creating fantastical machines, passageways, bus stops, transportation devices and shelter from a playground of transformed shapes and bright colors that stems from the ordinary.

Website

http://www.rtimesr.com

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Wedding, acrylic on canvas, 18×18″

watts_sid

Sid, acrylic on canvas, 16×8″

watts_mccarrenpark

McCarren Park, acrylic on canvas, 18×18″

watts_dawn

Dawn, casein and acrylic on canvas, 8×10″

Artist Biography

I paint because I feel I must urgently create a record. I am cataloging the significant people and scenes in my life. I am consumed by the idea that I have a limited time to express myself, or that I will not remember things the way they are now.

The subjects of my current work are the people in my community. I live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn and my friends and neighbors are glamorous, interesting and engaging. There is palpable electricity in my world and I want to capture it indelibly.

I paint on canvas using acrylics, casein, mica and gold leaf. I am fascinated with the way the Baroque painters captured extreme contrasts between light and dark using golds and blacks. I am working toward this goal with modern neon, pearl, metallic and mica colors.

I am self taught.

Website

http://www.vanessawatts.com

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“Jiva” 2007, Watercolor on paper, 9″ x 12″

schiffman_water-small-web1
“Water #1″ 2006, Watercolor on paper, 15″ x 8″

schiffman_framedfeet2web
“Framed Feet” 2006, Watercolor on paper

Bio

I graduated from Cooper Union in 2004, moved back uptown to my parents house and started a zine/blog about The Upper East Side called The UES Journal. I have worked part-time at Guild & Greyshkul Gallery on and off for the last five years.

Since 2000 I have been making chainmaille jewelry and recently launched a jewelry line called IMK.  I also now maintain a blog about pigeons called The It-Pigeon, and a blog about Vanity Plates.

In 2008 I recorded my second album To Be Good for a Day with Mike Musmanno in DUMBO, Brooklyn.  It will be available on iTunes January 28, 2009.

Music
This song is “Untitled,” from Rebecca Schiffman’s sophomore album “To Be Good for a Day.”

Website
http://www.rebeccaschiffman.com/
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choy-12

choy_6

choy_13

Artist Bio

I am an illustrator living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Things I think about on a daily basis include sandwiches, Tina Fey + 30 Rock, monograms, masking fluids, humidity, laundry, NYTimes Science Times, and microns.

You can contact me at suzan@obokchoy.com.

BFA from Pratt Institute.

FUN FACT// Suzan is pronounced as Suzanne and not Susan, Susanna, Suzy or Suzie Q.

Website

http://www.obokchoy.com

Upcoming Exhibit

“Reflection”
Opening July 30th – August 30th

Destination
32-36 Little West 12th Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10014
tel: 212.727.2031
http://www.destinationny.net

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