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 February 20, 2009 |
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Featured Artists //
Paul Ruiz, Peter Tankey, Jescia Hoffman, S.J. Langer, Chistina Pitsch |
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Interviews //
Erin Morrison, Michael Daks, Cleon Peterson, Poster Boy, Bob Shore, Adriane Bartosh, Andrea Cote |
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Art News //
Russian Art Show postponed for better days; Shepard Fairey and Intellectual Property; The Contemporary Art Market Boom is Over (Hooray)! . . .
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Message Board //
NYAXE Gallery to open in Palo Alto on February 26, 2009. The London Calling Competition early registration deadline is March 31, 2009! |
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| Art Moscow Postpones, Hoping Things Will Perk Up By Fall
"Art Moscow, one of Russia's biggest contemporary-art fairs, has been postponed to September to tap a crowd headed for a larger exhibition, as falling oil prices and squeezed credit quell art purchases among the nation's rich." The director of the company that puts on Art Moscow, which was to have opened May 14, put it this way: "By September, everyone will have gotten used to the new reality of the crisis." Bloomberg 02/18/09 |
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| Fair Use - Shepard Fairey's Battle For An Image
"Call this pop art for the street. Call it conceptual graphics. Either way, Fairey's imagery has stood out in an era when skate-and surfer-related graphics are burgeoning, even if his work has roots in the same." San Diego Union-Tribune 02/15/09 |
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| The Art Boom Is Over (Hooray!)
"The contemporary art market, with its abiding reputation for foggy deals and puffy values, is a vulnerable organism, traditionally hit early and hard by economic malaise. That's what's happening now. Sales are vaporizing. Careers are leaking air. Chelsea rents are due. The boom that was is no more." The New York Times 02/15/09 |
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Paul Ruiz
Paul holds a Bachelor of Visual Arts Education from the University of Melbourne.
In Paul's own words "My work explores a continued fascination with mapping the observed and imagined human figure. I employ the human subject as a metaphor for creative inquiry where the figure is formed through experimentation, process and chance. What begins with drawing is often re-conceived directly on the canvas as I build or efface the image with rags, hands and palette knife. Observation, memory and imagination also play a key role in my studio process. For me human presence is consequently revealed, suggested or masked by this very physical and material ritual of painting over time. A practice which excavates and masks the human subject is central to my understanding of painting in a digital and media saturated age."
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Peter Tankey
Peter Tankey hails from Australia. His work is on display at the Jackman Gallery there. Peter's work has been extensively exhibited in solo and group shows.
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Jescia Hoffman
Jescia Hoffman is a Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate at Minnesota State University Moorhead with emphases in Drawing and Printmaking. Hoffman is a native of Mandan, North Dakota and currently resides in Fargo, North Dakota. Her narrative work is influenced by mythology, symbolism, religion and personal introspection. She is a 2-year recipient of the Excellence in Art and Design Scholarship, as well as the Freshman Talent in Art and Design Scholarship from the MSUM Art and Design Department. Hoffman has received numerous awards from juried and other regional art exhibits, including Juror's Choice, People's Choice, and Dean's Award, among others. In high school, Hoffman created an Art Club and founded an annual student art exhibit, which is now in its sixth year. Her work has been exhibited around North Dakota, including Fargo's Plains Art Museum. Hoffman plans to attend graduate school and pursue a career as a professional artist and teach at the university level.
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S.J. Langer
S.J Langer holds a BFA from the School of Visual Arts and a MSW from New York University. SJ's self description is "Writer, Psychotherapist and Photographer in New York City interested in showing people alternative ways to see the world, themselves and others."
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Christina Pitsch
Christina holds an MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. In Christina's own words "My own body of work is a hybrid of materials and techniques driven by larger conceptual questions of cultural icons and gender identification. I am interested in the relationships that people have with objects and how this radically differs between the sexes. I transform objects in a variety of ways, usually working in multiples. My hybrids have ancestry in the traditional mounting of trophy game heads infused with the decorative kitsch of a grandmother's figurine collection".
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Erin Morrison
Erin Morrison was born in Little Rock, Arkansas February 26, 1985.She attended Memphis College of Art, where she graduated with a BFA, and breifly studied at the California College of Art.Currently living in Seattle, she is represented by the William Bennett Gallery in the SoHo district of New York City. Outside of frequent solo exhibitions at the William Bennett, she participates in group shows and makes private commissions regularly....
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Michael Daks
Michael Daks is an English photographer recently returned to London after 15 years in NYC. His book of nudes JUST GOOD FRIENDS (photographs of his friends naked) is being published in 2009 by adelita. His portraits of Dennis Potter and Kenneth Branagh are in the National Portrait Gallery permanent collection. He has worked for the past 25 years as a fashion and portrait photographer in London, Milan, Paris and New York, with clients including The New York Times Magazine, The Tatler, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, VIBE, Blender, Levi's, SONY, Energie Jeans and The GAP. He is currently working on 'IN HINDSIGHT - A personal landscape' : A 30 year retrospective of his landscape photography. He also teaches a course in fashion and magazine photography at Southampton University, England...
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Cleon Peterson
Cleon Peterson is an LA-based painter and graphic artist. Peterson’s paintings depict a world in chaos-- characters in the paintings are shown committing random acts of violence within environments where riots appear to be the rule of law. These clashing figures symbolize a struggle between power and submission and reflect aspects of social frustration that can be found just under the surface of contemporary society. In his paintings the brutality is raw-- no actions are concealed and there is no fine line between winners and losers. Cleon took some time from his schedule to answer a few questions for the Myartspace Blog...
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Poster Boy
The street artist known as Poster Boy has been turning heads in New York City. Poster Boy, who has chosen to remain anonymous, has been described as being a rare breed of visual revolutionary who can't be bought. Poster Boy will make any street art purist proud-- his work is fresh considering that so many before him-- Shepard Fairey, Ron English, and Banksy-- have ended up meshing money with their social message. I don’t blame them-- once older even a street artist must think about his or her financial future, true? I suppose with the old street/urban art vanguard we can stomach the contradictions. That said, it is exciting to see that a young street artist like Poster Boy is starting to make waves without a dollar attachment.
Poster Boy captures a youthful energy with his work. The 20-something artist has stated that he strives to establish an art movement-- he hopes that others will use the Poster Boy alias in order to add to the dialogue on the streets. Of the movement Poster Boy has said, “No copyright, no authorship. A social thing, as opposed to being an artist making things for bored rich people to hang above their couch.” It will be interesting to observe how this movement grows...
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Ariane Bartosh
Ariane Bartosh is a figurative painter with a background in interior design. Her earlier work involved candid photos of her friends that she would then compile and use as references for her paintings. Bartosh’s newer series involves ideas that are already drawn out. Bartosh describes her current process, “I pick a person in my life, then I find photos of objects, wallpaper, and furniture that remind me of them. Then I collage everything together with photos of the person I have taken specifically for the painting. After all that I paint.”.
Bartosh has stated that her earlier work was focused on social commentary about youth, specifically young women in our society. In a sense, her work explored the beauty and awkwardness during the transition between youth and adulthood. A time where freedom, independence and self expressions is highly valued. For this Bartosh examined her own experiences and observed the actions of her peers. These paintings reveal the chaotic process of coming into ones self possession...
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Bob Shore
Bob Shore is a printmaker who is originally from Dublin, Ireland. Shore has had solo exhibits at the Manhattan Graphic Center and Berlitz Gallery in New York. His work can be found in various private collections both in the US and India and at the Newark Public Library. He is an artist who is focused on process...
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Andrea Cote
Andrea Cote is a multi-disciplinary visual artist living in New York. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally at venues including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Islip Art Museum, Rotunda Gallery, Delaware Art Museum, Abrons Arts Center, Jack the Pelican Gallery, The Rochester Contemporary, Maryland Art Place, Art Center South Florida, The Print Center, The Moore Gallery, and 911 Media Arts Center.
Her performances have been presented at The Philadelphia Fringe Festival, The Neuberger Museum, Chashama, Scope Art Fairs, The Dumbo Arts Festival, and Photo Buenos Aires . Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Miami Herald, The New Times, Newsday, Artinfo.com, and Wynwood Art Magazine.
Andrea received a video residency from the BCAT/ Rotunda Gallery and a Fellowship from the Center For Emerging Artists. She is represented by PanAmerican Art Projects in Miami, Florida...
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