Gratitude Designs by Tara Dixon is a company based on acknowledgement and gratitude. Tara Dixon is a painter from Brooklyn, NY who started a series of paintings in the Spring of 2010 with the words “thank you” inscribed into the final layer of wet paint. The colors she uses are vibrant jewel tones and the...
Temporary Shelters is a book object built into a landsnail shell. The text begins curled into the shell as one long scroll to be unfurled and, ulitmately, detached completely by the reader. Each book is encased in dirt in a cardboard box, from which the reader is instructed to fill the emptied shell with dirt...
Artist Statement My love of art stems from my early childhood in India, where I was exposed to a conglomeration of art ranging from traditional Indian to contemporary western. I find myself synthesizing images from places I visit into themes of urban decay, renewal, and everyday life. I am always attempting to find a pathway...
Statement My mind’s eye sees the destination for the content in my paintings as abstraction. Before this happens, subjects like Georgian interiors at a 1760’s mansion in Philadelphia or formal landscapes at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden seem to have a magnetic attraction. Besides a personal interest in American history and flower gardening, it’s because these...
Saul Sudin and Elke Reva Sudin are two Boerum Hill artists reclaiming their heritage and making a name for contemporary Jewish art. Named “power couple” by the Jewish Week, the Sudins started SUDINmagazine and JewishArtNow.com to promote contemporary Jewish art and design. Saul Sudin, filmmaker and critic, writer for Chud.com and JewishArtNow.com, advocates for new...
My passion as a sculptor involves a technique I uncovered more than 20 years ago — the precise art of creating “virtual records” of contemporary culture — capturing common, everyday items in stone. Essentially, I replicate these items on a real life-scale, complete with meticulous detail. I achieve this absolute realism by incorporating parts of...
Artist Biography Fernand Barbot was born in 1930. He grew up in Paris, France. He moved to Brooklyn, New York
1)”Your Face Here,” 2010. This interactive video/sculpture aims to incite viewers to examine the cultural constraints put upon their self-image, to question our definition of feminine beauty, and to encourage a dialogue about excessive and unnecessary surgery, implants, and augmentation. 2) “Peel/Pluck/Primp,” 2010. This video piece examines the tactics women go through to obtain beauty....
The subjects should be seen in the larger context of dislocation and cultural hybridization. Living in New York City, I