Brooklyn Art Project

Baroque Remixed - Travis Lindquist

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.

Street Smart - Garrett Robinson

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.

 

Beware - Jane Yohnson

Member artist, Jane Yohnson is based in Seattle.  Her work's surreal and nightmarish element is deepened by living in Washington's rugged and forlorn terrain. Yohnson's affinity for graphic books has influenced her to create compositions with strong narratives. Characters drawn with simple, clean lines are conscious of its existence in her tale. Some of the themes are about being confined, chased, abandoned, and revisiting pre-adolescent fears.  Although her paintings appear quaint, they are both innocent and dark.  Lynchian tales unfold...


Although she has no formal artistic background, the innate influence from her parents, have proved her ability to create compositions through her own visual language.  Currently her work is exhibited at Stumptown Coffee Roasters in Portland.  Her other solo shows were held at Velouria, Seattle, and Cupcake Royale, Seattle.  She was also inlcuded in group shows at Cupcake Royale Madrona, Seattle; Brooklyn Art Project, Brooklyn, New York, and at 20Twenty, Seattle.

For more information on Jane's work please visit her member site, http://brooklynartproject.ning.com/profile/janeyohnson.

Image Featured (top):  "Old Ballard Fashion", 2007, ink and gouache on newsprint and arches paper , 9" x 12".

Image Featured (bottom):  "I was a Prime Number", 2007, ink and acrylic on cambric, 24" x 36".

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.

Doing What I Love - Kim McCarthy

Kim McCarthy a.k.a. SOULE is one of the most prolific member artist on Brooklyn Art Project.  She is based in Seattle, WA and has exhibited her work at the early age of 16.  This past year, this artist executed 14 paintings in one day.  Originally her canvas were facades of buildings on the streets of Spokane and Seattle, her medium ranged from stencils, wheat pastes, stickers and spray paint.  She currently focuses her hand to create work on stretched canvas and wood panels, as well as legal walls.   She has an affinity for photography and paper cutouts.  This dual process enables her to design her stencils.  SOULE's "skillz are mad transferrable", from designing apparel, buttons/pins, shoes, skateboards to home decor.  She is indeed doing what she loves.

SOULE is praised for her stencil work, and she applies the medium or the process itself to all her oeuvres.  The series that she has worked on include famous people and friend portrait stencils spray painted on canvas and wood panels; porcelain white characters adorned in black and white stripes that are watercolors on clayboards; skull and skeleton stencils with army green, rich coppers, and reds; and Japanese inspired characters spay painted with bright colors.

Kim "SOULE" McCarthy completed her Fine Art and Design in Spokane, WA and Printmaking in Astoria, OR.  Due to her renegade self-promotion, four galleries represent her work in the United States and one in the United Kingdom.  She has recently exhibited her pieces as a solo exhibit at Doc's Lounge, Behrd Studios, and Squid and Ink.  Her most recent group show was at Twilight Gallery, with member artist Brad Strain and Justin Hillgrove.  Her work is also featured in the book called, "Stencil Nation" that will be released on June 2008.  Fearless self-promotion is paying off, she is an inspiration to us all.

For more information on Kim's work please visit her member site, http://www.brooklynartproject.com/profile/Soule5675, or her main website, soule5675.mosaicglobe.com/

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.

Home is Where the Heart Is - Brad Strain

Brooklyn Art Project member artist Brad Strain is based in Seattle since 2002, a Kiwi, hailing from the cultural capital in Australia, beautiful Melbourne.  Splendidly, he's a self-taught painter with a strong photography and film background.  His latest "Home" series is both playful and dejected, in that it stirs childhood dreams of treehouses, and various adult provocations of "building a nest". The theme of moving from city to city reverberates throughout each piece with pairs of wing appendages on houses.  The image above is titled, "State of Grace", 2007 (24" x 24"), Most recently, he has used Polaroids as his canvas, below is "Polaroid-Mix 1".  They are very interesting as it showcases, Brad's mastery in perspective and mixed media.

The medium combination is street inspired, spray paint, latex paint, paint pen, and sharpies on panel.  He paints houses with wings in the sky, forcing the viewer perceive the subject matter looking upward, figuratively pointing at it.  Nuances are sweet and strong, like the coffee he loves to consume.

Brad Strain is painting his ass off, thank you caffeine for being the catalyst to powering artistic energy and aid in visibility.  His pieces are being exhibited in Hotwire, Verite, and Bird on a Wire in Seattle.  Whino Gallery has also taken interest in Brad's body of work in Washington, DC.

FRESH IN: Tomorrow night, Brad, Kim McCarthy (active BAP member), and Justin Hillgrove are in a group show called, "Twilight in the Junction" at Twilight Artist Collective's new space in Pike Place Market, Level 3, Suite 321, Seattle, WA.

To find out more about the artist's paintings and new works, please visit his BAP member site or www.scaredofgenre.com

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.

The Year of 1000 Drawings

If the first 1000 are the hardest, then BrooklynArtProject.com member 0H10M1ke should have it pretty easy for a while. He recently completed 1000 drawings in 365 days, most of which will be on display as projected images accompanied by an installation of hundreds of originals in collage form at Artland starting on December 14th from 5-9pm. The show continues through January 10th.

Artland // 609 Grand St at L0r1mer // W1ll1amsburg, Br00klyn.

DIRECTIONS: L Train to Lorimer. Exit Lorimer St. Walk south 5 blocks. Turn left on Grand. 609 Grand... or just follow the matchbooks...

You can check out more of 0H10M1ke's illustrations at www.flickr.com/photos/art0h10m1ke      

Helio and Phillips

Brooklyn Art Project member artist Sarah Nicole Phillips recent series on solar power consciousness rekindles nostalgia for science and progression towards sustainability.  Since 2006, she has executed three site specific installations that would have Auguste Mouchout tipping his hat to Phillips.  This man is known to have directly converted solar radiation into mechanical power.   A little background check tells me that he was a math teacher from Lyce de Tours who lived in the late 1800s.

The artist's latest work from her "Solar Series" is called "I (heart) PV" in 2007.  These are not typical solar powered lights that line foot paths of suburban homes to the front door.  They are graphic design inspired solutions to the city's dependency on electricity.  Phillips proposes, "photovoltaic technology in New York could be "commonplace as Milton Glaser's logo and Louis Vuitton knock-offs have become on our streets."

In 2006, she artistically demonstrates the phenomena of heliotrophism and energy generation from compost.  "Heliotropia" is an edition of 14 solar-powered digital prints connected to artificial foliage that rotates via small wall-mounted electric motors.  The plants simulate their reaction to the sun's position in the sky by spinning.  "Vermicast"  is a permanent installation of PV solar cells mounted into sculpted clouds, motors, artificial worms.  It simulates the energy that can be harnessed simultaneously from the sun, and the breakdown of organic waste to augment plant growth.

Phillips indeed "let's the sunshine in" with her helio-centric oeuvres.   In addition to these three dimensional, site specific works, she also creates prints.  The subject of her editioned and unique works on paper are also about the state of our environment and objects that consumes us.

Sarah Nicole Phillips graduated from University of Toronto for visual studies and continued to Brooklyn College for her MFA on printmaking.  She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.  In 2006-2007, Phillips was awarded a keyholder residency in the Lower East Side.  Some of the places that the artist has exhibited were at Solar One at Stuyvesant Cove Park - New York, NY, Walsh Library Gallery (Seton Hall University) - South Orange, NJ, and Marlon Solar Memorial Solarium at the Lancaster Avenue Autonomous Space (LAVA) - Philadelphia, PA.   

To find out more about the artist's installations, and new works, please visit her BAP member site or www.sarahnicolephillips.com.

Sarah Nicole Phillip's piece, "I (heart) PV", 2007 was part of Solar One's projects in Stuyvesant Cove Park.  Solar One's mission is to empower people of all ages with the vision, knowledge and resources to attain a more environmentally sound and sustainable future.  So take mass transit (M23 bus) to east river and go green!

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.

 

Nature Meets Design

Jill Dryer is a BAP member artist based in Chicago.  She recently left her day job of 16 years to pursue her art full-time.  Her acrylics on canvas pieces are various types of animals that one would see in back country.  From flying fish to elk, these creatures have a curious and reverent encounter with the likes of Eames, Calder, and Wegner to name a few.

Her inspiration comes from great design, nature and people who do what they love.  Dryer's latest works is called, "Design Meets Nature".  This is a series of paintings will be featured in the spring 2008 at an exhibit at the Design Within Reach store in downtown Chicago.  Her holiday card design "Trees of the Architects" is being featured in three international fashion/design magazines this holiday season (Hong Kong, Turkey and the Ukraine).  The Orange County Art Musuem is carrying some of her "Eames" prints this fall during a midcentury modern exhibit called "Birthplace of the Cool".

If you would like to see more, please visit her website www.themustardpeople.com.

Featured Images:
Top:  "Flying over Eames", 2007, Acrylic on canvas, 24" x 30"
Middle:  "Wegner's Elk", 2007, Acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 20"

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.

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New work by Art by DNA, a talented member team based in NYC comprised of international artists Aaron Almendral and Mariano Delgado. Definitely recommend a visit to their site.

Fear of Flight by Kerst Cobain

Title: Fear of Flight
Media: mixed media
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Brooklyn Art Project Member name
    Kerst Cobain (tsrekone)
    Male
    United States

First Name
    Kerst

Last Name
    Cobain

Sex
    Male

Age
    25-34

Which of the following best describe you?
    Painter

What city are you in?
    NY

What country?
    US

How often are you the first among your friends to try something new?
    Very often

Would you be interested in re-mixing your art with other artists?
    Yes

What do you want people to know about you?
    I am a New York born artist. I am a mixed media painter although not always. I use spray paint, acrylic, paint marker, pastels, charcoal, house paint and anything else i can possibly put to work. I show regularly with the Antagonist Art Movement in the East Village. The shows are every thursday. www.myspace.com/kerstcobain3095

What is your website address?
    web.mac.com/kerstcobain

How did you hear about Brooklyn Art Project?
    Erik Von Ploennies