Hello to all Brooklyn Art Project members:
You may have been directly or indirectly affected by the evacuation of 475 Kent Avenue. There have been a few articles that have covered this misfortune, please read the Gothamist and the New York Times article. If you have not already done so, please sign the petition:
http://www.petitiononline.com/475Kent/petition.html
"Bon Courage" (hang in there)
Image courtesy of imjustsayin at Flickr
The Video Taping of Alan Ket :: How a graffiti vet beat the system that almost beat him
By Michael Vazquez Photography by KET
Opening: Friday, February 1, 2008
Exhibition open until March 23, 2008
Venue: Brooklyn Fire Proof
Show: Mixed Emotions, group show curated by Sophia Dixon
Brooklyn Fire Proof is pleased to present Mixed Emotions, a group show curated by Sophia Dixon.
Muffy Brandt
Arrington de Dionyso
Antonia Dixon
Max Eisenberg
Andrea Lilienthal
Haley O'Connor
Rob Rhee
Erika Somogyi
Quinn Taylor
Alice Valenti
Jacques Vidal
Mixed Emotions is a gathering of drawing, sculpture, installation, video and collage concentrating on the complicated nature of desire and the nebulousness of artistic communication...
Gallery hours are Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm, and by appointment.
101 Richardson Street, Top Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11211
By subway
L to Lorimer Street or G to Metropolitan Avenue.
Walk north on Union Avenue or Lorimer Street towards raised BQE.
Right on Meeker Avenue, walk beneath the BQE.
Left on Leonard Street at El Tio Mexican Restaurant.
Right on Richardson Street. BFP is the ground floor double green door on the left, next to parking lot and directly across from gas station.
From Bedford Avenue
Walk north, turn right on N11th.
N11th becomes Richardson across Union Avenue.
Walk 2 blocks and pass Leonard Street.
BFP is on the left after Leonard and before the raised BQE highway.
Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.
Travis Lindquist is a member artist based in Brooklyn, NY. He grew up in idyllic seaside communities of Cape Cod. Lindquist committed himself to the arts and graduated from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He is primarily a painter but has branched out into other mediums, including sculpture, video, photography, sound, collaboration, and digital animation. His newer pieces reference Baroque painting with street art sensibility and a focus on the anti-aesthetic.
He began his artistic career in Boston, and from 1987 to 1997, he showed in many preeminent Boston venues, including The Institute of Contemporary Art, the Harbor Art Gallery at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, The Museum of Urban Art and Culture, the Boston Architecture Center.
In 1997, he moved south to Austin, Texas, where he worked as an animator on Richard Linklater's movie Waking Life, as well as exhibited his digital work in a number of showcases with the Austin Museum of Digital Art. During that time he also continued to actively pursue painting and showed at the Texas Fine Arts Association now the Arthouse at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art (Austin), the Conduit Gallery (Dallas), and the Four Seasons Hotel (Austin).
Lindquist relocated again in 2002, this time to New York, where he reunited with former Boston collaborators David Hochbaum and Colin Burns and gave birth to the Goldmine Shithouse (“GMSH”), a collaboration group that focuses on instillation performance art while still creating art objects (e.g., painting, drawing, collage, photo, and sculpture) that are relics of the performance process. Although collaboration has always played an important part in Mr. Lindquist's work, it has never been as profound as with the GMSH. Since the inception of the GMSH, the trio has been traveling extensively both domestically and internationally, creating exhibitions in Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Miami, Salt Lake City, and Stockholm. Future exhibitions are planned for Berlin and London. In addition to his considerable efforts with the GMSH, Lindquist remains committed to continuing his extensive solo art career.
Upcoming shows:
Life Partner a collaboration with Jason Douglas Griffen at McCaig Welles gallery Brooklyn, opening March 1, 2008. Tuff Love a collaboration with Colin Burns at the Grey Gallery Seattle WA opening on March 13, 2008. Solo show at McCaig Welles in September 2008.
For more information on Travis' work please visit his member site,
http://www.brooklynartproject.com/profile/stresslife
Image Featured: "Chem Trails for Kids", 2006, mixed media on board, 24" x 30"
Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.
IN THE PRIVATE EYE
January 18 – February 29, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, January 18, 6-8pm
Curatorial talk with a performance by Nin Brudermann:
Friday, February 8, 6-8pm
ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION
555 Broadway, Basement Floor, New York, NY 10012
(Between Prince and Spring Street)
Tel: 212-925-1649 Fax: 212-226-9362
www.isefoundation.org
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11-6 pm
Closed on Mondays, Sundays by appointment
Participating artists:
Nin Brudermann
Carlos Motta
Trevor Paglen
Dannielle Tegeder
Anna Von Mertens
Amy Westpfahl
Curated by Yaelle Amir
ISE Cultural Foundation is pleased to present In the Private Eye, a group exhibition curated by Yaelle Amir, and featuring works by the artists Nin Brudermann, Carlos Motta, Trevor Paglen, Dannielle Tegeder, Anna Von Mertens, and Amy Westpfahl.
These six artists continuously challenge the conventions of artistic practice, as they adopt an investigative approach to give form to matters that are either inherently obscured or altogether overwritten by time. Aided by modern technology that affords them unlimited access to information—they seek to unearth truths that illuminate various aspects of our current reality.
Doubling as researchers, scientists, historians, or detectives, these artists are prompted by far-fetched clues and minuscule details buried in the vast and peculiar nature of our culture. Over time, they amass bits of information, which enable them to construct a visual narrative that bears both individual and collective implications. By employing bold and unconventional methods, they ultimately broaden our understanding of historical, cultural, and scientific issues. A celestial pattern, a desolate weapon-testing facility, a forgotten cemetery, a deserted cabinet, a combat training school, and mysterious disappearances of individuals—have all led to the development of each of the six comprehensive projects included in this exhibition.
With curiosity and motivation serving as the artists' catalyst to delve further into diverse realms, these works expose a history of a place, an object, or a life—thus making visible that which could have otherwise remained permanently concealed.
Image: Carlos Motta, SOA: Black and White Text (detail), from the series SOA, Black and White Tales,chalk on board, dimensions variable, 2006
Posted by Joyce Manalo // New York City based Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and Founder of ArtForward
"Countenance"
Paintings by Jonna Twigg
January 10-February 21, 2008
Mazi's in Lower East Side
Mid-exhibition Opening
Thursday, January 24, 2008 from 7-9pm
112 Suffolk Street (b. Delancey & Rivington Street)
Metro: F to Delancey and J,M,Z to Essex
Featured Above: "Hollowed", 2005, India ink, enamel, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 80"
Jonna Twigg's paintings are filled with fleeting, tumultuous emotions and indistinct events. She is able to carry out her expression through the use of India Ink. As a curator, I conducted this interview about her aesthetic and her inspirations.
Joyce Manalo (JM): How would you describe your work?
Jonna Twigg (JT): I would describe my work as loose narratives of my life that fluctuate between abstraction and representation. They are both gestural and fluid, while maintaining a certain geometry that I feel describes the way in which one might move through life. At times they can be reminiscent of Japanese brush painting, cartoon animation, African sculpture, or street art.
JM: You've been living in New York, for 5 years now. How do you think your art has changed from the time you were in living in Columbus and now?
JT: I think my work has become more layered and maybe more fluid. As my life and environment changed so did my work. More complexity was inevitable for me.
JM: How did you discover your love for India ink? Why do you gravitate towards that medium more than oils?
JT: I came to India ink as I was looking for a way to express my ideas in a more rapid and immediate way. India ink allows my to paint as I would write or transcribe. With oils my process always feels more deliberate, mainly due to drying time. It takes a lot of the spontaneity out of it, but that could always change.
JM: There are faces that appear and disappear into the canvas in your pieces, are these pieces at all representational?
JT: Yes they are representational, each face or figure contributes something to the overall narrative of the piece. Collectively they convey a single emotion or visual experience, but individually, through their body language, posture or facial expression, they represent the varied and often nuanced feelings that make-up the larger picture or story.
JM: Most of your pieces contain birds or make references to their wings, what does it symbolize for you?
JT: Birds came into my work when I started incorporating landscapes. They gradually became more prevalent. I think birds can symbolize many things, for me it has a lot to do with migration and change. Moving through a period of time, experience or season in one's life.
Jonna Twigg is a Brooklyn based artist who grew up in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from the Columbus College of Art and Design with a major in painting and printmaking. She has shown her work at Skylight Gallery in Brooklyn, Mahan Gallery in Columbus, Art Gotham in New York, and ROY G BIV Gallery in Columbus. Her work was also part of the Yili Art Foundation Annual Show. Artist that inspire and influence her Ralph Steadman, Takashi Murakami, Yoshimoto Nara, and Inka Essenhigh.
"Countenance" is presented by ArtForward in collaboration at Mazi's:
ArtForward focuses on unconventional collaborations with the art community and business ventures outside the visual arts, to elevate emerging artists and their works to the forefront. It is deeply rooted in working with local art councils, artist studios, alternative spaces, galleries, auction houses and contemporary museums to widen the channels for exhibition opportunities and cooperative projects in tandem with dispersing appreciation in the arts.
Posted by Joyce Manalo // New York City based Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and Founder of ArtForward
An inside look at how Vinyl Designer Jorge Oswaldo goes from concept to finished art piece.
Member artist Garrett Robinson is based in Oakland, CA. He has been on the streets beautifying property with spray-paint. He is a self-taught artist, who has been drawing since he was a child. He no longer practices his skills on the street. Instead, the street has become a resource for finding great wooden panels on the sidewalks and empty lots. Garrett often time uses pen, ink, acrylic, and found wood to create his pieces.
His work is heavily influenced by his old craft, graffiti. You can see major outlines and fill-in techniques. Some of the portraits that he has painted, have pronounced wrinkles. Garrett Robinson's other outline work revolves around his environment; neighborhoods, and construction equipment. He also has collage work, one of them is made up of magazines and stickers that reference women, diet, household, family, marriage, happiness, candy, flowers, beauty, pets, war and Kennedy. Thematically, his pieces are references to the unveiling of life's progression-aging, domestication, and politics.
For more information on Garrett's work please visit his member site, http://www.brooklynartproject.com/profile/pischtoph
Image Featured (top): "Bear", 2005, ink and acrylic on found wood, 24'' x 36''
Image Featured (bottom): "Untitled", 2007, ink and acrylic on found wood, 24'' x 48"
Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.
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