artinbrooklyn.com » paper http://artinbrooklyn.com Mon, 21 May 2012 00:46:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Artist Profile: Alex Paik http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/03/artist-profile-alex-paik/ http://artinbrooklyn.com/2012/03/artist-profile-alex-paik/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 22:04:13 +0000 admin http://www.artinnewyorkcity.com/?p=5909

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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Untitled (Aerial View)


Alchemic Transmogrifier For Distressed Emotions


Where The Wilderness Evolves


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 [...]]]> 1-rueyModule Assembly Factory

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Untitled (Aerial View)

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Alchemic Transmogrifier For Distressed Emotions

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Where The Wilderness Evolves

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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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House Beautiful, October 2008

Bio

Barbara Ensor is an author and artist whose words and pictures have been praised in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vanity Fair and elsewhere. A graduate of Brown University, Ensor’s previous careers include stilt walking, and journalism. She is a [...]]]>

House Beautiful, October 2008

Bio

Barbara Ensor is an author and artist whose words and pictures have been praised in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vanity Fair and elsewhere. A graduate of Brown University, Ensor’s previous careers include stilt walking, and journalism. She is a dual citizen of the United States and the United Kingdom, has two children and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Website
www.BarbaraEnsor.com

Exhibit

Opening party for Thumbelina, Tiny Runaway Bride, an exhibit and a book.
WHERE: The Old Stone House, Fifth Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets, Park Slope Brooklyn
WHEN: Saturday November 8th, 6 to 9 pm
MORE INFORMATION. OldStonehouse.org

Visit the exhibit throughout the months of November and December during these hours:
Tuesdays, Saturdays and Sundays from 4 to 6 pm
Thursdays 4 to 8 pm
or by appointment (917) 604-8732

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