artinbrooklyn.com » geometric http://artinbrooklyn.com Mon, 21 May 2012 00:46:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Artist Profile: Ryan DaWalt http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/03/artist-profile-ryan-dawalt/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/03/artist-profile-ryan-dawalt/#comments Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:08:02 +0000 admin http://www.artinnewyorkcity.com/?p=6002 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 [...]]]> 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 energy patterns arranged in color and form across the plane.  When all of the materials are ready, I get one shot to compose the image.  There are more in this series available for viewing upon request.

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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Artist Statement
My small-scale paper assemblages feel like dense clusters of brightly colored forms that threaten to simultaneously explode and collapse, hugging the line between being tightly composed and loosely improvised. There is a sweetness about the work in the twee color palette and [...]]]>

Artist Statement
My small-scale paper assemblages feel like dense clusters of brightly colored forms that threaten to simultaneously explode and collapse, hugging the line between being tightly composed and loosely improvised. There is a sweetness about the work in the twee color palette and the toy-sized scale, but at the same time a fuck-all swagger in the laughably lo-fi paint handling and angular, chopped up forms. I’m not really a formalist in the sense that I agree with the Platonic undertones or the inherent Modernist dogma associated with it, but more like the 5 year old son of a formalist who is inventing a playground formalism – a formalism that is more interested in problem solving and invention rather than answer-giving or unified systems of thought.

Country musician Harlan Howard once said that all you needed to write a good country song was “three chords and the truth.” In many ways, my work follows this maxim – by taking a lo-fi and straightforward approach to artmaking, I hope to reveal some truth about my materials or my process through work that is refreshingly sincere, gracefully underworked, and guided by serendipity.

Maybe if Ellsworth Kelly, Paul Klee, Thomas Nozkowski, and Richard Tuttle were the Lost Boys on Never Land and grew up on video games, classical music, and indie pop, this is what they would make. Or maybe they would focus on fighting pirates.
http://www.alexpaik.com/

 

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1) Not yet titled, 2010 32″ x 24″ acrylic . 2) “Free as Air and Water” 2010 32″ x 24″ acrylic . 3) “Prayer Painting 1″ 2010 60″ x 48″ acrylic . 4) Not yet titled, 2010 32″ x 24″ acrylic . 5) “An Unceasing Revelation of [...]]]>
1) Not yet titled, 2010 32″ x 24″ acrylic
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2) “Free as Air and Water” 2010 32″ x 24″ acrylic
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3) “Prayer Painting 1″ 2010 60″ x 48″ acrylic
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4) Not yet titled, 2010 32″ x 24″ acrylic
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5) “An Unceasing Revelation of Divine Light” 2009 32″ x 24″ Aluminum Foil, wood stretcher
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Artist Statement
I have been interested for a number of years in how painting can address deeply personal notions through abstraction as well as representational imagery.

Aluminum foil has been a recurring subject in my work for more than ten years. I am interested in the paradoxical quality of aluminum foil – it is common and cheap with the allure of preciousness and beauty – and I am fascinated by the fact that people, like foil, are an ever-changing reflection of their environments.

Contact Information:
email:  wayne [at] waynestead [dot] com
website:  www.wayneadamsstudio.com
phone: 917.403.1619
]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/06/wayne-adams/feed/ 0 Maya Hayuk http://artinbrooklyn.com/2009/09/maya-hayuk/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2009/09/maya-hayuk/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:26:05 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=436 A PATH FOR THE LIGHT, Installation, A.L.I.C.E. Gallery, Brussels, Belgium June 11 – August 22, 2009

BLACK HOLE INFORMATION PARADOX, 144 x 72″, triptych, acrylic on canvas and wood panel. Detail from SEXY GAZEBO at Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, February 2009

HANDS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, 84 x 60″, acrylic on canvas
This painting was [...]]]> hayuk_pathlightpyramidA PATH FOR THE LIGHT, Installation, A.L.I.C.E. Gallery, Brussels, Belgium June 11 – August 22, 2009

hayuk_blackholeinfoBLACK HOLE INFORMATION PARADOX, 144 x 72″, triptych, acrylic on canvas and wood panel. Detail from SEXY GAZEBO at Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, February 2009

hayuk_imanHANDS ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, 84 x 60″, acrylic on canvas
This painting was made in collaboration with Iman’s aura, who’s image was projected by video artists, Coodie & Chike.

Artist Bio (courtesy Cinders Gallery)
Maya Hayuk is a muralist, painter, photographer, printmaker, curator, player of records, writer, performer, collector, Barnstormer, video maker, documentarian and lover of life who’s lives in Brooklyn, New York by way of San Francisco, Baltimore, Boston and Toronto. From her large-scale murals to small works on paper her obsession with symmetry and her collection of images of mandalas, playing cards, hexes, totem poles, Ukrainian Easter eggs, quilts and bandanas play out in works that espouse the traditional as well as the innovative. Embracing both sexuality and spirituality via symbolism evocative of radiantly woven geometries to the beckoning parted orifices of the body, there is something very classic rock, punk folk rainbow peace, freak out about Maya Hayuk that is very hard to put a finger on, but really it’s all about love. Her vividly bold geometric works evoke the process towards continuity and wholeness whose forces seem bent on maintaining the triumph of this love over evil. Along with her solo work, Hayuk frequently collaborates with other artists and musicians.

Website
http://www.mayahayuk.com

Upcoming Exhibit
Circle of Plenty
Sept 11 – Oct 11
Opening Reception Sept 11 from 7-10pm
Cinders Gallery
103 Havemeyer Street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
http://www.cindersgallery.com

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Good Morning Universe, 8×9.5″, 2009

Brave New World, 8×9″ 2008

Broken World, 8×9″, 2008

Stream, 10×10″, 2008

Artist Statement

I am drawn to everyday objects that are often overlooked or discarded. Using a wide range of disciplines, I transform the materials into small works. With a modern primitive style I balance [...]]]> riley-1

Good Morning Universe, 8×9.5″, 2009

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Brave New World, 8×9″ 2008

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Broken World, 8×9″, 2008

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Stream, 10×10″, 2008

Artist Statement

I am drawn to everyday objects that are often overlooked or discarded. Using a wide range of disciplines, I transform the materials into small works. With a modern primitive style I balance the positive and negative space that gives a piece a sense of beauty. Taking an unorthodox approach I embellish the surface of my work with steel nails and apply tiny circles to explore nature and its relationship with the synthetic.

Website

http://www.steveriley.artlogsites.com/

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2009/05/steve-riley/feed/ 0 Lynn Christian http://artinbrooklyn.com/2008/06/lynn-christian/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2008/06/lynn-christian/#comments Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:07:41 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=44

Lynn Christian “#12″ 18 x 24 inches, oil on canvas

Lynn Christian “#18″ 30 x 30 inches, oil on canvas

Lynn Christian “#13″ 20 x 20 inches, oil on canvas

Artist Statement

These paintings usually begin with an idea about color, and a feeling, sometimes of a memory. They evolve on the [...]]]>

Lynn Christian “#12″ 18 x 24 inches, oil on canvas

Lynn Christian “#18″ 30 x 30 inches, oil on canvas

Lynn Christian “#13″ 20 x 20 inches, oil on canvas

Artist Statement

These paintings usually begin with an idea about color, and a feeling, sometimes of a memory. They evolve on the canvas through an interplay of application and correction, based on no program or requirement. Emotion, music, subconscious, and practice, attempts to visually represent itself while aspiring to a type of balance.

Website

http://www.lynnchristianpaintings.com/

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