Brooklyn Art Project

EVENT: "Mixed Emotions" at Brooklyn Fire Proof

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.

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.

Ad Infinitum

Ian "Infinity" Farrell has been walking the streets of New York since the late 80s, leaving marks that represent an indeterminable end and beginning.  With orange oil sticks in hand, he laces mundane corners of building facades with symbols and equations.  He is a loose mad scientist who absolves existing layers of stencil, wheat paste, spray paint imagery and street typography to their mathematical derivatives and chemical compositions.  Black background canvases, radiating lines and primitive symbols, reminiscent of Keith Haring, contributes to a consistent execution of absolute simplification.

From graph paper to streets to canvases to installations, Ian "Infinity" Farrell's semiotics communicates warnings of forces that lurk, forthcoming circumstances, and metaphysical catalysts.  His expressive lines around infinity symbols, tridents, carbon rings and teardrops emits energy and unsettling ripples and tremors.  There is a physiological effect of viewing his work, similar to going to a death metal concert.  His choice of flourescent orange intensifies this reaction visually.  He blesses his imagery with commanding words of reverberating inquiries on purpose of existence.  Diagrammatic poetry ad infinitum.

Ian "Infinity" Farrell currently resides in the East Village, NY.  This artist graduated from The School of Visual Arts for Illustration and from University of Wisconsin (River Falls) with a BA in Literature and Fine Art.  He had a solo show titled "Heavenly Revolutions: A Resonance of the Rocks and Stars" at The Academy, Remsenburg, Long Island, NY.  Infinity is a proud member of the Endless Love Crew (Abe Lincoln Jr., Anera, Celso, Flaca, Gore-B, Meeka, Royce Bannon, Splat).  They collaborated in a piece that is currently exhibited at ADHOC ART in a show curated by Michael DeFeo called, "Behind The Seen".  Here are the details for Infinity's next show:

Infinity: going out of business
Saturday, December 15th, 2007 (and by appointment)
Reception: 7-10pm

THE GARAGE GALLERY
291 8th Street, ground floor (b. 5th & 6th Ave.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
718-768-1235
M:  F train to 4th Ave or M/R to 9th street.

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.

BEHIND THE SEEN IN BUSHWICK

Behind the Seen
a group exhibition curated by Michael De Feo
at AD HOC ART
December 13th, 2007 through January 20th, 2008
Opening Reception: December 13th, 7pm-9pm

A collection of artists and artist collectives, all who highly regard the street as their canvas fiercely decontextualized on the basis of medium.

FROM AD HOC ART:

Assembling a group of well known street artists from around the world, De Feo invited the participants to showcase work they're not typically recognized for. Behind the Seen includes personal projects, works in different mediums or styles and pieces not necessarily intended for view on the streets. The mediums include paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures by over 30 artists from around the world.

Street artists develop a level of notoriety for their originality, talent and frequency of a style or visual vocabulary.    Like most successful artists, they don't limit their creative endeavors to what they're known for.

Behind the Seen goes beyond the familiar to build upon what we already know... providing connections, challenges and insights to other facets of the artist’s oeuvre.

Participating artists include:

Aiko, Blek le Rat, Caleb Neelon, Dan Witz, Don Leicht, Elbow Toe, ELC, Ellis G., Eltono, Flying Fortress, G, Ian Stevenson, Jace, Jean Faucheur, jm rizzi, John Fekner, Judith Supine, Keith Haring, Lady Pink, L'Atlas, Lee Quiñones, Leon Reid, Lister, Mark Jenkins, Martha Cooper, Maya Hayuk, Michael De Feo, Momo, Nuria, Peripheral MediaProjets, Richard Hambleton, Ripo, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, She Kills He, Skewville, Swoon, Thundercut, Tofer

AD HOC Art
49 Bogart Street
Buzzer 22, Unit 1G
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Tel: 718.366.2466
Fax: 866.599.7270
Website:  http://adhocart.org
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Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward. 

Flying South - Miami Aqua Hotel (4 of 4)

2007 holds the count for 22 satellite art fairs that are taking place in addition to Art Basel Miami Beach.  Sensory overload is a luxury.  Art fairs certainly provides an insight to trends in painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance.  In addition to trends in mediums, it also allows you to see art from a multitude of cities around the world.  An absolute treat!

Some of the trends in medium were intricate ink and graphite drawings, flashe paint, animation, collage, cutouts.  In terms of sculpture, porcelain, taxidermy, felt and found objects.  Some booths were also dedicated to a single artist.  This year, the galleries really stepped up and presented very well curated open cubes.

Aqua Art Miami - Hotel is located at 1530 Collins Avenue.  (Aqua Art Miami - Wynwood inaugural is located at 42 NE 25th Street-not covered below)  Here are a couple of highlights:

Alexander Heaton @ Lounge/Monika Bobinska
"Rifflesee", Oil on linen, 64" x 56"

Charles Kraaft @ Roq La Rue
"Assasin's Kit Series" (Smith & Wesson and Switchblade), 2007, Delft hand-painted porcelain, life sized, comes in black velvet lined case

Travis Louie @ Roq La Rue
"Walter and Larry", Acrylic on board, 8" x10"

Jason d'Aquino @ Roq La Rue
"Phineas Gage", 2007, Graphite on matchbook, 3" x 1"

Micaela O'Herlihy @ Hotcakes
Various works of wallnut ink on wooden logs, 7" x 5"

Meredith Dittmar @ Hotcakes Gallery
"Let it through ", 2007, Polymer Clay, plexiglas & laminate, 16.5" x 10"

Michael Caines @ Katharine Mulherin
"El Dorado (ravens/bunny/cowboy)", 2007, Ink and gouache on paper, 22" x 30"

Chris Knight @ Katharine Mulherin
"When a mother wants a daughter but gets a son", 2007, Oil on prepared paper, 7" x 5"

Christy Langer @ Katharine Mulherin
"Double Bunny", 2007, Resin, fibreglass, oil paint, 3" x 9" x 2.5", Edition of 3

Laura Ball @ Morgan Lehman
"The Circumnavigating Chariot Caravan", 2007, Oil on canvas 40" x 30"

William Powhida @ Platform Gallery
"James Drawing: Goals", 2006, Graphite and goauche on paper, 22" x 15" (not exhibited)

Debbie Lawsen @ Nettie Horn
"Oasis", carpet, 62" x 85" x 15"

Kate Street @ Nettie Horn
"Ring Piece" (From Little Death Series), 21" diameter x 4" deep

Elaine Bradford @ Art Palace
"Mongolian Knotted Deer", 2007, Taxidermy Mongolian deer and crochet(not exhibited)

Jonathan Marshall @ Art Palace
The Book of Lenny, 2007, DVD, 7 mins

Máximo González @ Haydee Rovirosa
Multiple paper cutout on walls with various world currency that are out of circulation

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.  Please contact me, if you would like to receive ArtFWD-Quarterly Newsletter (December 2007-Miami Satellite Fair in Depth)

Flying South - Miami SCOPE (3 of 4)

2007 holds the count for 22 satellite art fairs that are taking placein addition to Art Basel Miami Beach.  Sensory overload is a luxury.  Art fairs certainly provides an insight to trends in painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance.  In addition to trends in mediums, it also allows you to see art from a multitude of cities around the world.  An absolute treat! 

Some of the trends in medium were intricate ink and graphite drawings, flashe paint, animation, collage, cutouts.  In terms of sculpture, porcelain, taxidermy, felt and found objects.  Some booths were also dedicated to a single artist.  This year, the galleries really stepped up and presented very well curated open cubes.

SCOPE is located at Roberto Clemente Park, 101 NW 34th St.  Here are a couple of highlights:

Boris Hoppek @ Helium Cowboy Artspace
Various works on paper and plush toys, and installation at SCOPE entrance

Mike Swaney @ Iguapop Gallery
Various collage and sculpture

Moritz Schleime, Christrian Achenbach @ WENDT + FRIEDMAN
Oil on canvas, Various drawings (34 pieces)

Dan Baldwin @ Forster
Title not available, Mixed Media, 27.5" x 27.5"

Ted Tucker @ Christopher Cutts Gallery
"The Oath of Beeratio", 2007, Oil and acrylic on canvas 36" x 36" in

Pepe Lopez @ Hardcore Art Contemporary Space
Found objects from Miami on shopping cart installation, dimensions not available

Hiroyuki Matsuura, Showichi Kaneda @ Tokyo Gallery + BT
Acrylic on canvas, 36"x36" / Acrylic lacquer and decals on FRP, 25.5" x 14" x 12"

Thorsten Brinkmann @ KUNSTAGENTEN
(Self)Portraits of a Serialsammler, C-Prints, Various sizes (full booth installation)

Ling Jian @ Galerie Volker Diehl/Diehl Projects
"Communist Sisters-Tear of Idealism", 2007, Oil on canvas, 30" x 46"

Jose Legaspi @ The Drawing Room Gallery
Untitled, Pastel on paper, 39" x 27.5" (3 pieces exhibited)

Daniel Alcala @ Arroniz Arte
Various titles, Paper cutouts, Various sizes (full booth exhibition)

Kate Clark @ 33 Bond Gallery
"Well, well", 2007 Mounted Hyenas, Clay, Thread, Pins, Rubber Eyes, 42" x 42" x 38"

Ryan Brennan @ Witan Projects
Various titles, Assemblage found objects, various dimensions, video

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.  Please contact me, if you would like to receive ArtFWD-Quarterly Newsletter (December 2007-Miami Satellite Fair in Depth)

 

Flying South - Miami PULSE (2 of 4)

2007 holds the count for 22 satellite art fairs that are taking place in addition to Art Basel Miami Beach.  Sensory overload is a luxury.  Art fairs certainly provides an insight to trends in painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance.  In addition to trends in mediums, it also allows you to see art from a multitude of cities around the world.  An absolute treat! 

Some of the trends in medium were intricate ink and graphite drawings, flashe paint, animation, collage, cutouts.  In terms of sculpture, porcelain, taxidermy, felt and found objects.  Some booths were also dedicated to a single artist.  This year, the galleries really stepped up and presented very well curated open cubes.

PULSE is located at 2136 NW 1st Avenue.  Here are a couple of highlights:


David Herbert @ Postmasters Gallery
"Beautiful Superman" , 2007, Mixed media sculpture, wood, styrofoam, fabric, plexiglas, paint, 144" x 30" x 14"

Kristin Lucas @ Postmasters Gallery
"Breakout", 2007, Digital print on backlit film, lightbox, 36" x 36"

   
John Rappleye @ Jeff Bailey Gallery
"Guardian", 2007, Cast vitreous china, ed. 9, 17.75" x 20" x 12"
Ma Jun @ Galerie Michael Schultz
"TV", 2007, Acrylic on wood, dimensions unavailable (transported in 3 pieces)
Edwina White @ Kinz, Tillou + Feigen
"Marie, Antoinette", 2007, Pencil, ink, gouache and collage on paper 11" x 15" (9 pieces exhibited)

Royal Art Lodge @ Perugi Artecontemporanea Gallery
Mixed media on wood

Erik Sandberg @ Conner Contemporary
"Courage", 2006, Oil on panel, 84" x 36" (not exhibited)

ASGAR/GABRIEL @ Galerie Ernst Hilger/ Hilger contemporary
"Blue Yonder"+ "Marble Heart", 2007, Oil on canvas, 87" x 52"

David Hevel @ Heather Marx Gallery
"Chinese Babies are Very Popular…Amongst Celebrities, that is", 2007, Deer taxidermy form & mixed media, 55" x 65" x 28" (not shown)

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.  Please contact me, if you would like to receive ArtFWD-Quarterly Newsletter (December 2007-Miami Satellite Fair in Depth)