artinbrooklyn.com » Painting http://artinbrooklyn.com Mon, 21 May 2012 00:46:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Artist Profile: Joseph Meloy http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/03/artist-profile-joseph-meloy/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/03/artist-profile-joseph-meloy/#comments Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:33:33 +0000 admin http://www.artinnewyorkcity.com/?p=6074 Joseph Meloy (b. 1982, New York City) has coined the term Vandal Expressionism,  to tag his personal post-graffiti spin on the abstract expressionism of the 40′s and 50′s.  Incorporating some of the more primal elements of graffiti, Vandal Expressionism utilizes the same iconography of damage and intrusion as street art,  but turns the calligraphic scribbles [...]]]> Joseph Meloy (b. 1982, New York City) has coined the term Vandal Expressionism,  to tag his personal post-graffiti spin on the abstract expressionism of the 40′s and 50′s.  Incorporating some of the more primal elements of graffiti, Vandal Expressionism utilizes the same iconography of damage and intrusion as street art,  but turns the calligraphic scribbles of the street into a medium for artistic divination. The Vandal Expressionist uses the texture and the visual cues of the incendiary as a means to create rather than destroy.

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

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/03/artist-profile-joseph-meloy/feed/ 0 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

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/03/artist-profile-ryan-dawalt/feed/ 0 Artist Profile: Douglas Newton http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/03/artist-profile-douglas-newton/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/03/artist-profile-douglas-newton/#comments Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:16:28 +0000 admin http://www.artinnewyorkcity.com/?p=5947 Artist Statement

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.

All paintings are available, except those [...]]]> Artist Statement

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.

All paintings are available, except those marked private collection. Please contact me for a price list or to view the paintings.
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
]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/03/artist-profile-douglas-newton/feed/ 0 Exhibit: Human Group Show at Manetamed http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/02/exhibit-human-group-show-at-manetamed/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/02/exhibit-human-group-show-at-manetamed/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:05:22 +0000 admin http://www.artinnewyorkcity.com/?p=5890

Manetamed is a multi-purpose venue located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It operates as a hair salon, and has exhibited a wide variety of visual artists amongst a setting of music, installation and performance. The upcoming gallery opening will celebrate Manetamed’s art show entitled “Human,” which features the visual art of several contemporary artists. The opening will [...]]]>

Manetamed is a multi-purpose venue located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It operates as a hair salon, and has exhibited a wide variety of visual artists amongst a setting of music, installation and performance. The upcoming gallery opening will celebrate Manetamed’s art show entitled “Human,” which features the visual art of several contemporary artists. The opening will also include music and comedy performances.

Saturday, March 3, 2012
8:00-10:30pm

Artists*: Jonathan Lutzky, Kevin Ragnott, Shawn Yu, Cameron Michael, Steven D’Arbenzio, Tami Novatin, Matvey Gorodisskij, Karen Tinney, Anita Brathwaite, R. Gene Barbara, Sachin Shenolikar, Jamie Mccarty, Anna Bloda

Artwork by these artists will be displayed at Manetamed until April 30, 2012.

Music by DJ Neva Dat; Charly & Margeaux

Comedy by Langston Kerman

MANETAMED
41 Havemeyer Street (between N7th Street and N8th Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
http://www.manetamed.us/

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/02/exhibit-human-group-show-at-manetamed/feed/ 0 Cecelia Rembert http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/04/cecelia-rembert/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/04/cecelia-rembert/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 21:54:50 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=1914 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 [...]]]>

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

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/04/cecelia-rembert/feed/ 0 Dawn Henning http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/03/dawn-henning/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/03/dawn-henning/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 01:00:36 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=1835 Artist Statement
My love of birds and their gift of flight is a recurring theme in much of my work often used used as a metaphor (although I rarely paint them in flight.) for life. The subtlety of patterns in natural forms and the colors as they appear in the natural world interest me. [...]]]>

Ochre & Orange

Nomadic Cowbird

Mockingbird Music

In Praise of the Pidgeons

Amanda's Warbler

Artist Statement
My love of birds and their gift of flight is a recurring theme in much of my work often used used as a metaphor (although I rarely paint them in flight.) for life. The subtlety of patterns in natural forms and the colors as they appear in the natural world interest me. That juxtaposed with my love of patterns and color in textiles and the material world is the basis for much of my visual exploration. I have always been interested in our relationship with nature.

I have been Influenced greatly by my years working as a printmaker. Paper is my favorite surface to paint, and often paint in layers working with the residue of pigment that gets trapped within the fibers. City parks and the wildlife they support have been my refuge growing up in Brooklyn, they continue to be my tonic for life.

Contact information:
 henning.dawn@gmail.com
www.dawnhenning.com
blog:sketchjay.wordpress.com

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/03/dawn-henning/feed/ 8 Anne Russinof http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/anne-russinof/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/anne-russinof/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:15:57 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=1732
Thick and Thin
Oil on Canvas
24 x 24 in.
2010


Cubic
Oil on Canvas
16 x 12 in.
2010


Urban Garden
Oil on Linen
20 x 17 in.
2010


Tapestry
Casein on [...]]]>
Thick and Thin
Oil on Canvas
24 x 24 in.
2010


Cubic
Oil on Canvas
16 x 12 in.
2010


Urban Garden
Oil on Linen
20 x 17 in.
2010


Tapestry
Casein on Paper
16 x 12 in.
2010

Statement
My work combines an expressionist tendency with a more minimalist appreciation of structure and grid. Originally from Chicago, where architecture is a preoccupation and presence, I came to New York attracted by the legacy of Abstract Expressionism. The conversation in my work is between gesture and the painting process itself, and an idiosyncratic order created by line and form.

Website

http://www.annerussinof.com/

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/anne-russinof/feed/ 0 Matthew Robinson http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/matthew-robinson/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/matthew-robinson/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 02:22:33 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=1686

Artist Statement
I construct mixed media paintings of defunct and desultory environments. They critique ‘progress’ as backwards thinking. I build a painting around pieces of photographs I have shot and cropped. I attempt to make order out of chaos by drawing and painting into the arrangements. This is [...]]]>

Artist Statement
I construct mixed media paintings of defunct and desultory environments. They critique ‘progress’ as backwards thinking. I build a painting around pieces of photographs I have shot and cropped. I attempt to make order out of chaos by drawing and painting into the arrangements. This is the way that humanity thinks; the works are a direct result of that.

Website
http://MatthewWilliamRobinson.com

Upcoming Exhibit
Industrial Society and Its Future Failure
Venue: RePop Times: Friday March 4 – Wed March 30 Reception: March 4th 7:30pm-11

Address: 68 Washington Ave (between Park and Flushing) Brooklyn, NY 11205 Phone: (718) 260-8032 Travel: Subway: G to Clinton/Washington BUS: B69 From Park Slope and B61 From Redhook or Williamsburg.

Industrial Society and Its Future Failure paintings of defunct and desultory environments of paint and other media.

Admission: Free.  Opening Friday March 4, 7:30pm to 11pm.  Closes Wednesday March 30th.

http://Repopny.com

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/matthew-robinson/feed/ 0 Susan Klein http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/susan-klein/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/susan-klein/#comments Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:22:04 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=1645 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, [...]]]>

Untitled, 2009, marker, gouache, mylar, paper, 35x13x7 in. (dimensions vary)

Untitled, 2009, marker, gouache, mylar, paper, 9x7x6 in. (dimensions vary)

Untitled (Still Life #39), 2010, oil on panel, 28x28 in.

Untitled, 2010, oil on panel, 26x26 in.

Untitled, 2010, oil on panel, 26x30 in.

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, create paintings from the photographs, dismantle the photographs to make collages, and then make paintings from the collages. The old work generates the new and explores the play between abstraction and representation. For example, the paintings are representational reproductions of abstract sculptures. However, one might argue that the abstract sculptures are more representational (in that they are the source objects) than the paintings. Besides images of my own work, there are no other references hanging on the walls of my studio. The work looks inward and is caught in the circuit of the process.

Website
http://susankleinart.com

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/susan-klein/feed/ 0 Paul Behnke http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/paul-behnke/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/paul-behnke/#comments Sat, 05 Feb 2011 03:04:02 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/paul-behnke/ 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 [...]]]>

Mjolnir #3, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24"

Asgard, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24"

Little Je-Je, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24"

Valhalla, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24"

Agent 202, 2010, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24"

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 from piece to piece. Some are thinly painted while others are more worked.

There is a suggestion throughout of flux and a strong sense of arriving at an image rather than the creation of a fixed, specific representation.

Website
paulbehnke.net

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/paul-behnke/feed/ 0 Vincent Romaniello http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/vincent-romaniello/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/vincent-romaniello/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 03:06:51 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=1629 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/

Related PostsArtist Profile: Grace Markman

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/

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/02/vincent-romaniello/feed/ 0 Lindsay Kolk http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/01/lindsay-kolk/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/01/lindsay-kolk/#comments Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:30:47 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=1546 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 [...]]]>

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/

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/01/lindsay-kolk/feed/ 0 Martha Hayden http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/01/martha-hayden/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/01/martha-hayden/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 03:48:23 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=1482 Artist Statement
My painting is both realistic and abstract, it is on that elusive edge between there and not there.  On first look everything is in place, then all dissolves.  I want realism and abstraction to take turns.  I want a painting sometimes very evocative of time and place, sometimes overwhelming in abstract, structural [...]]]>

01. Self Portrait, 2005, oil on linen, 54 x 70

02. Book I, 2009, oil on linen, 50 x 42

03. An Allegory of Grief, 2010, oil on linen, 42 x 40

04. The Allegory of Painting, 2006, oil on linen, 54 x 70

05. Still Life, 2010, oil on linen, 20 x 22

Artist Statement
My painting is both realistic and abstract, it is on that elusive edge between there and not there.  On first look everything is in place, then all dissolves.  I want realism and abstraction to take turns.  I want a painting sometimes very evocative of time and place, sometimes overwhelming in abstract, structural logic.   My painting is concerned with spaces.  It is analytic in terms of distance and volume, expressive, rhythmical, and fluid in terms of color.  It is ordered volume, surprising color.  I want a big interior space that draws the viewer in with logic of its own.  I try to create excitement while ordering chaos.   My painting is also about surface, about color and marks, about thick and thin paint, about using the tools of the craft.   In themselves, my subjects are not important.  I am concerned with painting as a formal problem.  I try to show depth on a flat surface without destroying that surface.  I am concerned with the relationship between realism and rendering.  I ask questions.  Is there such a thing as perspective, or is there another kind of relationship between near and far?  These are traditional concerns, but I want nothing static.  Every mark, every color, every direction, changes everything done before.  I try to make my shapes and color say something in themselves.   I look for a surprise, a drama, a different way of seeing.  Each painting is a new work.  I look for the relatedness of everything, trying not to see anything for itself alone, but as a part of the whole.   I try to relate my work to history, to make paintings that are unusual, to push boundaries.  In this context, my subjects take on meanings other than the accustomed ones.  They are more than still life and landscape; they are comments on thinking and seeing.

Website
http://www.marthahayden.com/

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2011/01/martha-hayden/feed/ 0 Becky Yazdan http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/12/becky-yazdan/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/12/becky-yazdan/#comments Sat, 04 Dec 2010 01:55:01 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=1275 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 [...]]]>

Coming Apart at the Seams, 9” x 12”, oil on clayboard, 2009

Brooklyn, 14” x 18”, oil on canvas, 2010

Dispersion Cloud, 18” x 24”, oil on canvas, 2010

My Mother is a Fish, 11” x 14”, oil on clayboard, 2010

Summer Love, 9” x 12”, oil on clayboard, 2010

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 conversations, expressions, and events. When I paint I try to find the balance between intuition and intellect, so that the process of painting becomes an active dialogue with the phenomena of nature. By not dictating the end result I am receptive to a deeper understanding of the world around me. The paintings are like dreams – the events of the day reorganized and combined with other events and memories until a new, often surprising, reality has taken shape.

Website
http://beckyyazdan.com/

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/12/becky-yazdan/feed/ 0 Melissa Staiger http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/11/melissa-staiger/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/11/melissa-staiger/#comments Sat, 13 Nov 2010 02:50:32 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=1210
Red Background, Acrylic on Canvas, 30” x 30”, 2010


Florescent Triangle, Acrylic on Canvas, 24” x 24”, 2010


Rebel Girl, 5′ x 5′, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010


Constructivist, Acrylic on Panel, 12”x 12”, 2010


Fractured, Acrylic on Canvas, 30” x [...]]]>
Red Background, Acrylic on Canvas, 30” x 30”, 2010


Florescent Triangle, Acrylic on Canvas, 24” x 24”, 2010


Rebel Girl, 5′ x 5′, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010


Constructivist, Acrylic on Panel, 12”x 12”, 2010


Fractured, Acrylic on Canvas, 30” x 30” 2010

Artist Statement
Being an American, I am a mixture of heritage but far removed from the original lineage.  In the past six months I have been put in touch with my roots in two ways.

First, by being included in an art exhibition where I was the only artist who showed up. The show was titled “Contemporary Traces in Native American Art” curated by Ginny Butera.  I was honored when Juane Quick-to-See Smith (one of the artists in the show) contacted me.  Feeling extremely humbled by the experience, she empowered me to connect to my Cherokee roots and understood how my connection was severed because my great-grandmother had to powder her face to look white.

That was in the spring and at the end of the summer, I went to Switzerland.  (This being the second way).  I went there to meet my partner’s family and was blown away by the landscape and felt very connected to it, almost like I had been there before.  I felt like each mountain seen was digested in my psyche.

These two very real experiences have lead me to create a new body of paintings and work on paper. The paintings on canvas and panel are made with acrylic paint, glitter, textured mediums and varied metallic and pearlescent surfaces.  I use tape to create clear lines for triangles which makes sharp points to reinforce their presence.

I use color to create pulsating combinations.  Experimentation with hues and surfaces pushes the work in constant new directions. Triangles, color, composition, and space are ideas I use to build a painting. I paint intuitively so if that doesn’t formally work, I paint over it and leave the under paintings as traces behind as texture and history.

The triangles can be viewed as mountains, trees, direction, the idea of balance, teeth, and or devil horns.  All of which I think about and then don’t at the same time.  I feel if I start to give the painting a theme in the begging of its creation, it will lose out.  Each of the paintings holds a variety of information, which ends up being very formal.

I give the paintings titles, to clue in the feeling and emotion that they communicate to me. “Rebel Girl” is titled after a Bikini Kill song, which has place in riot grrrl history or rather herstory.  I gave the painting this title because the blue was very rebellious against the red.  The big red triangle reminded me of “The Dinner Party” by Judy Chicago which to me is significantly about presence.  That same idea of presence is what I think about with each shape and color I paint.

Upcoming Exhibit
Melissa’s work will be included in a group show titled “Vicariously Through You” at the Wilmer Jennings Gallery 219 East 2nd Street, in NYC. The exhibition opens on Wednesday, March 9 with a reception on Friday, March 11 and artist talks on Sunday, March 13. There will be a color catalogue of the exhibition with an introductory essay by art critic, Jonathan Goodman

Website
www.melissastaiger.com

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/11/melissa-staiger/feed/ 2 Arthur May http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/09/arthur-may/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/09/arthur-may/#comments Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:11:38 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=1054

all works are 24″ x 24”  oil on canvas

Artist Statement
The work is comprised of abstract carefully crafted paintings. These images deal with reality but at a studied distance. They are involved in formalist issues such as, balance, proportion, [...]]]>

all works are 24″ x 24”  oil on canvas

Artist Statement
The work is comprised of abstract carefully crafted paintings. These images deal with reality but at a studied distance. They are involved in formalist issues such as, balance, proportion, and scale. Color is used for it’s emotional impact. Space and spatial resolution are primary criteria. A level of spatial ambiguity is sought, serving to expand perceptual possibilities. We are creating a group of paintings that can serve to reassert the case for a non-minimal abstract art.

Biography
Although Arthur May is essentially a self-taught artist, he holds degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Pennsylvania where he studied painting with George Rickey, and Neil Welliver. He is a fellow of the American Academy in Rome where he presented a one-man show of paintings and drawings at the completion of his fellowship.

Contact
a.may@amaystudio.com

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/09/arthur-may/feed/ 0 Maggie Tobin http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/08/maggie-tobin/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/08/maggie-tobin/#comments Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:24:28 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=985 Artist Statement
I have spent several years drawing trees from observation; studying how their branches twist and turn, reach and retreat, linger… My new paintings are of trees painted from my imagination. A line becomes a branch, then a line again; it spurts, stops, twists, then breaks. The limbs are sometimes graceful; other times [...]]]>

First Snow

Thanksgiving

Mornings

Green

Fontenelle

Artist Statement
I have spent several years drawing trees from observation; studying how their branches twist and turn, reach and retreat, linger… My new paintings are of trees painted from my imagination. A line becomes a branch, then a line again; it spurts, stops, twists, then breaks. The limbs are sometimes graceful; other times they are awkward, coarse, entangled gestures. Tension exists in reading the marks as both nature-based and pure abstraction.

The trees are painted in oil on translucent vellum stretched over mirror creating a subtle luminous quality and 3-dimensional effect. I try to capture the sublime quality of the Hudson River Luminists as well as the sense of limitless space in twelfth century Chinese Southern Sung landscapes. Within my paintings there are no cultural references; I aim to reflect the timelessness of nature in a fleeting moment.

Website
http://www.MaggieTobin.com

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/08/maggie-tobin/feed/ 0 Laura Newman http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/07/laura-newman/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/07/laura-newman/#comments Wed, 14 Jul 2010 01:04:14 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=948 Shards. 2010, 56 x 72″, oil on canvas
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Highbeams, 2010, 32 x 42″, oil on canvas
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Winter Scene, 2009, 64 x 52″, oil on canvas
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Jello Combat, 2010, 56 x  72″, acrylic on canvas
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Pavilion, 2009, 52 x [...]]]> Shards. 2010, 56 x 72″, oil on canvas
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Highbeams, 2010, 32 x 42″, oil on canvas
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Winter Scene, 2009, 64 x 52″, oil on canvas
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Jello Combat, 2010, 56 x  72″, acrylic on canvas
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Pavilion, 2009, 52 x 6″oil on canvas

Artist’s Statement
I am interested in a kind of space that is fresh, airy, vast and open. For a long time, I’ve felt that a painting is alive when I can feel the space in it. I would like to be able to paint air, but in order to paint air I need to paint the things in it.

I aim to locate the point where form takes on meaning—where a triangle can be read as a road in perspective, for example. Each painting suggests a model or diagram, even as it evokes a particular, fictional place.

Website
lauranewman.com

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/07/laura-newman/feed/ 3 Rebecca Litt http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/06/rebecca-litt/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/06/rebecca-litt/#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:57:39 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=931 Maybe This Will Stop The Tide,   18” x 20”,   oil on linen,  2010 Relative Safety, 18” x 20”,   oil on linen,  2010 They Stood Their Ground, 42″ x 60″,   oil on canvas,  2010 Warehouse Waiting Game, 48″ x 60″, oil on canvas,  2010
Maybe This Will Stop The Tide,   18” x 20”,   oil on linen,  2010
Relative Safety, 18” x 20”,   oil on linen,  2010
They Stood Their Ground, 42″ x 60″,   oil on canvas,  2010
Warehouse Waiting Game, 48″ x 60″, oil on canvas,  2010
No Swimming, 42″ x 48″, oil on canvas, 2010

Artist’s Statement
The people in my paintings are unsettled.  They perch on rooftops, power lines, and fire escapes, inhabiting dreamlike, imaginary cities. Expectations cloud their vision, and, like people in a magical realist novel, they unquestioningly accept the absurd as normal.

Although I use the visual language of a perceptual painter, I mainly work from memories, filtering experiences and bits of autobiography into invented scenarios that would be unlikely, if not impossible, in the real world.  Maintaining an element of fiction is important to me because I am trying to describe psychological places, where characters’ inner worlds shape the physical space and architecture around them. For me, the illogical situations my characters find themselves in embody the frustration of not being able to see clearly.

I work mainly from my imagination; with the help of mirrors, studies from life, and photographs. I usually start with an improvised drawing, through which the imagery evolves organically and spontaneously. The drawings suggest a loose narrative for the paintings – not a sequential story, but a series of related vignettes about the same or similar characters.

Contact
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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 [...]]]>

Pandemic Logistics

Measureable Phantasmagoria

Itemized Pandemonium

Analytical Anarchy

Quizzical Framework

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 color function to shift and ultimately disrupt the viewer’s perceived ability to conclude that a form is fixed and nameable as perhaps an insect larvae, a piece of candy, an environmental contamination, or some other recognizable object. The impulse to identify and label the forms, and to force a system into the visual disorder in order to create a tidy, decisive, pictorial sense, becomes impossible as the viewer gives in to the realization that his or her decision making is a shifting, contingent interpretation of the visual information presented. Ultimately, these paintings reveal the extent to which our labels and fictions create an artificial simplicity, which guards a more complex and meaningful truth.

Website
http://lisacorinnedavis.com/

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/06/lisa-davis/feed/ 0 Francisco Lopez http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/06/francisco-lopez/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/06/francisco-lopez/#comments Thu, 17 Jun 2010 01:04:55 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=912

Artist’s Statement
Film, obsession and beauty
The focus of my work is in the chance union of forms, symbols, images and colors. It is through cosmetics, in the sense of making up the world in an almost shaman-like manner, that my work plays [...]]]>

Artist’s Statement
Film, obsession and beauty
The focus of my work is in the chance union of forms, symbols, images and colors. It is through cosmetics, in the sense of making up the world in an almost shaman-like manner, that my work plays with a pre-established language of beauty pervasive in popular culture and attempts to establish a complicated link to a mythological world. My work is about obsession and beauty.

Bio/Resume
Born in Florida, and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Francisco López has been based in New York since 2001. He graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston in 1999. His work has been exhibited at the Boston ICA, Trieste Film Festival in Italy, Sala Mendoza in Caracas, and Transhudson Gallery and Momenta Gallery in New York. In 2004 he showed a video installation as part of the Young Architects Program at PS1 MOMA in New York and his video “Telepathic Numbness” was exhibited at the British Council Electric Earth Show in Caracas, Venezuela. He has lectured at the California Institute of the Arts and Fashion Institute of Technology in 2009.

Website
http://www.mogollon-ny.com/

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/06/francisco-lopez/feed/ 0 Jake Messing http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/06/jake-messing/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/06/jake-messing/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:38:26 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=904 Artist Bio
Jake Messing was born in Northern California in 1982. He graduated with a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design in May 2006. Messing works in a wide variety of media, ranging from silkscreen to pen and ink to paint and collage. His work has been shown in galleries and art [...]]]>

Revolutions

Divine Madman

Work Horse

Rude Awakening

Listen Up

Silence

Artist Bio
Jake Messing was born in Northern California in 1982. He graduated with a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design in May 2006. Messing works in a wide variety of media, ranging from silkscreen to pen and ink to paint and collage. His work has been shown in galleries and art fairs across the US, Canada and Europe. He has been invited to lecture at numerous prestigious universities and design studios. Messing recently returned from a two-month residency at CAMAC Center D’Art in France preparing work for his most recent solo show. He presently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Website
www.jakemessing.com

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/06/jake-messing/feed/ 2 Spring Hofeldt http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/05/spring-hofeldt/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/05/spring-hofeldt/#comments Fri, 28 May 2010 23:41:21 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=879
Tough Love
2009
acrylic on masonite
11” x 17”


Rapunzel
2008
acrylic on masonite
18” x 24”


out of sorts
2010
acrylic & colored pencil on masonite
10.5” x 7.5”


affordable housing
2007

Tough Love
2009
acrylic on masonite
11” x 17”


Rapunzel
2008
acrylic on masonite
18” x 24”


out of sorts
2010
acrylic & colored pencil on masonite
10.5” x 7.5”


affordable housing
2007
acrylic on masonite
18.5” x 12”


people watching
2008
acrylic & colored pencil on masonite
12” x 11 ¾”


Sneaky Pete
2009
acrylic & colored pencil on masonite
7.5” x 6”
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ARTIST STATEMENT
The heart of my painting always starts with an animate or inanimate object that bears a spunky and alluring nature.  While my interpretations make light of situations we go through, and simply illustrate the quirks of life that we might otherwise pay little attention to, the natural expression and shape is never altered or exaggerated from how I found them to be.  More often than not I play/work with these objects until I pinpoint the perfect metaphorical setting to place them in. Capturing and translating every character role in the piece is important… such as a disposition of a creature, the morphed nature of a reflection in glass, and the overall sentiment that a marriage of two such elements create.

WEBSITE
www.springhofeldt.com

PRINTS OF MY WORK
http://www.etsy.com/shop/springhofeldt

]]> http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/05/spring-hofeldt/feed/ 1 Amy Talluto http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/05/amy-talluto/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2010/05/amy-talluto/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 00:45:04 +0000 Mike http://artinbrooklyn.com/?p=856

Artist Statement
I work exclusively with landscape in my oil on canvas paintings, using that theme as a platform to explore new ways of representing space and form. I am also interested in using psychological content and color to investigate the impact of nature, and natural [...]]]>

Artist Statement
I work exclusively with landscape in my oil on canvas paintings, using that theme as a platform to explore new ways of representing space and form. I am also interested in using psychological content and color to investigate the impact of nature, and natural space on the mind. Individual works describe scenes that are sometimes bright, lush and flowering, or sometimes dissonant, murky and foreboding. Tree branches twist and writhe, color turns acidic, and sky flattens to meet form and then deepens back into space again. A shifting psychological mood pervades the group as a whole, moving between realms of sparkling beauty, anxiety, and the sinister and mysterious.

Website
http://www.amytalluto.com

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