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Natalia Bazowska, Rodrigo Cifuentes, Jenevieve Hubbard, Keiko Miyamori, Martin Dust |
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Steven Bogart, Janice Nakashima, Olga Gouskova, Steve Litsios |
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Christian Rex van Minnen exhibits at Roq La Rue Gallery, Brian Alfred exhibits at Studio La Citta and Haunch of Venison; Zeng Fanzhi’s first United States solo exhibition at Acquavella Galleries. . .
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| Christian Rex van Minnen exhibits at Roq La Rue Gallery
"Featured MYARTSPACE artist Christian Rex van Minnen (Interviewed in 2007) is currently involved with a solo exhibit at Roq la Rue Gallery. The show, titled ‘Neo-Grotesque’, involves 10 recent works as well as several of van Minnen’s landmark pieces from 2007-2008. Van Minnen's art, as the Roq La Rue Gallery press release states, features biological monstrosities painted in portrait form with a Renaissance formality." The MYARTSPACE BLOG 03/22/09 |
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| Brian Alfred exhibits at Studio La Citta and Haunch of Venison
"Feature MYARTSPACE artist Brian Alfred (interviewed in 2007) is exhibiting at Studio La Citta and Haunch of Venison. Currently, Brian Alfred is involved with an upcoming solo exhibit at Studio La Citta in Verona, Italy. The exhibit, titled Majic Window, will involve paintings, collages, an animation, and Custom View Masters. The exhibit will explore optical phenomena and the sublime landscape. Brian Alfred’s solo exhibit at Studio La Citta opens on March 28th." The MYARTSPACE BLOG 03/21/09 |
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| Zeng Fanzhi’s first United States solo exhibition at Acquavella Galleries
Chinese contemporary artist Zeng Fanzhi (covered in 2009 by myartspace) will be involved with his first solo exhibition in the United States next month. The solo exhibit will feature Fanzhi’s recent portraits and landscapes-- this will be the first time that the works will be shown publicly. Zeng Fanzhi is one of the most celebrated Chinese contemporary artists. His work has sold for over $9 million at auction. His paintings explore social convention and personal identity." The MYARTSPACE Blog, 03/20/2009 |
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| MYARTSPACE member Carrie Ann Baade exhibits at Dabora Gallery
"Fellow MYARTSPACE member Carrie Ann Baade is currently involved with a group exhibit at Dabora Gallery. The exhibit, titled Fata Morgana: The New Female Fantasists, features 15 female artists who explore surreal / mystical worlds within their art. She was interview by MYARTSPACE in 2006" The MYARTSPACE Blog, 03/26/2009 |
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| MYARTSPACE member Matthew Lively exhibits at Red Door Gallery
"Fellow MYARTSPACE member Matthew Lively will be involved with an exhibit at Red Door Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. The exhibit will open on April 17th, 2009. The show will feature Lively’s sculpture and paintings-- which are all backdrops or set materials from a short film that is still in progress." The MYARTSPACE Blog, 03/22/2009 |
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| Piero Manzoni Retrospective at Gagosian Gallery
"Andres Serrano declared himself the champion of fecal art in 2008. However, his play on human excrement is not very groundbreaking when you consider the 90 cans of ‘Merda di’Artista’ by Piero Manzoni. Manzoni ‘produced’ the contents of the cans in 1961. Manzoni priced the cans based on the weight of gold. The artist died a few years later-- a few months short of 30 years of age. Since that time the individual cans have sold for as much as $80,000. The Gagosian Gallery is currently holding the first major United States retrospective of Manzoni’s work. While Manzoni is best known for his canned feces the retrospective shows that there was more to Manzoni than 90 cans crap." The MYARTSPACE Blog, 03/20/2009 |
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Natalia Bazowska
Natalia Bazowska is from Poland. She holds a host of degrees. She studied at the Silesian Medical University (SUM) between 1995 and 2000.
Natial did her Doctoral studies at SUM in 2006 on research in visual communications. She also studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Katowice, Painting Department. Her work is widely exhibited in Poland.
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Rodrigo Cifuentes
Born in Jalisco, Mexico in 1980, the grandson of The Spain Civil War refugees, Rodrigo Cifuentes grew up with all kind of violent stories from which he formed his pictorical character. He studied in La Esmeralda ENPEG, Mexico City.
In his own words "My main concern when producing artwork is to always surprise the observer, using everything possible within my grasp, whether it is morbid, serene, humorous or personal. No matter the subject I choose, my main objective is to provide the audience with an unforgettable experience. Fundamentally, the proposed work integrates the possible with the impossible, as well as technique and spirit, particularly developed in a realistic style that plays an important role by introducing the observer into the game, into the trap the painter has set to draw his attention."
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Jenevieve Hubbard
Jenevieve Hubbard holds a BFA from University of Utah and lives in Utah. In her own words "I spent my early childhood years in Alaska, among the natives of the Pilot Station Traditional Village where I was lovingly and generously taught their sites, smells, sounds and stories. I can still remember the quiet beauty of an Eskimo woman skinning a seal with an Ulu on the beach. I have spent the better part of my adult life both mentally reliving the mythologies created by my childhood and creating new mythologies in a starkly contrasting urban environment.
Using non-traditional painting materials such as soil and tea as well as acrylics and inks, my paintings become a record of dualistic tendencies between my instinctual self and the part of my psyche that maintains order. In the process of creating painted mythologies, I draw from elemental themes including the interconnection of birth and death, indigenous mythologies, totem animals, gain and loss and our attempts to navigate the spiritual fall-out of a disconnected and isolated modern existence."
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Keiko Miyamori
Keiko Miyamori was born in Yokohama, Japan, and currently lives in Philadelphia. She initially studied Veterinarian Science but later earned her MFA at the University of Tsukuba, specializing in Japanese traditional painting. In 1995 she won an award to study in New York, and in 1998 she won a scholarship to study at the University of Pennsylvania from the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Tokyo. She has exhibited in Japan, United States, Germany and Korea. She recently won a Fellowship to participate in the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, and was also awarded a Transformation Grant by the Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia.
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Martin Dust
Martin holds an MFA from The City College of New York and a 1995 BFA from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, MO. In his own words "My work is about spaces we create within and experiences we keep hidden inside. I cull from the past to create representation defined according to current circumstances, situations and significance. Elements from nature and eroding structures are symbols common to my work and reflect both growth and loss, while layers of transparent fabric create murky areas that point to memory and subsequently, the ways dreams and visions can transform perception over time. I take this imagery from a variety of source material and manipulate it first by computer, then freehand to construct a vernacular resembling past experience and to serve as metaphor for human experience."
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Steven Bogart
Steven Bogart combines oil and rustoleum paints in a variety of consistencies to achieve complex abstractions. Bogart states that he finds inspiration from nature, cosmology, physics, biology, music and surrealism. His work is an ongoing exploration of spontaneous intricacies, chaos and thought. Each painting is an emotional experience in capturing something beautiful and surprising.
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Janice Nakashima
Janice Nakashima was born and raised in Northern California. She is a third generation of Japanese descent or sansei. Nakashima’s art is meditative and introspective. However, she is also concerned with humanitarian and social issues. Her paintings often explore notions of place and belonging. Nakashima has been involved with exhibits at the Haggin Museum, Triton Museum of Art, and the Crocker Art Museum.
In one series of paintings Nakashima explored the idea of home on various levels. This works explored the idea of home within ourselves, within our communities, and upon this earth-- the universal aspects of ‘home‘. Nakashima’s installation ‘Far from Home, is an expression of the plight of refugees in camps all over the world. The double cages of seven camp details are from camp images from all over the world. Refugees live in a kind of double prison—both physical and political. Many have no hope of returning to their homes and remain dependent on aid organizations.
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Olga Gouskova
Often walking hand-in-hand with controversy is the sensual female form, Russian born, Belgium based - artist Olga Gouskova certainly knows how to capture an audience with her paintings of beautiful and stylish women. Gouskova's women are sexy, melancholic and mysterious, with a powerful physical intensity and a subtleness of form which almost makes you want to caress them. Her female figures do in fact caress themselves, almost as if to emphasize the preciousness of the female body - the eternal source of life and love. The sinuous lines in Gouskova's paintings convey vibrations, memories, ambivalent feelings and deep emotion by means of the positions and expressions of the figures.
Her contemporary approach to pose, dynamic composition and colour produces paintings that are modern, proud, vibrant and uniquely individual. When painting, Gouskova uses two different techniques. First she draws the body with sepia pencil to make it look almost real - warm and soft, giving it a feeling of physical intensity and a subtleness of form, outline and volume. For the rest of each painting she uses acrylic and all kinds of pens to draw lines and small decorative details. She doesn't paint the volume, using instead flat washes of colour. The lines and patterns make the composition dynamic and complete.
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Steve Litsios
Born in 1959 near Boston, raised in Washington DC, Steve Litsios moved to Switzerland with his family in 1967. He studied art for a couple of years at Geneva's ecole d'arts appliqués before attending the San Francisco Art Institute in the late 70's, then moved back to Switzerland where he has been active internationally as an artist since 1983. He lives in the city of La Chaux-de-Fonds and can be found playing the washboard with The Crawfish Blues Band.
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