Brooklyn Art Project

KET Interview by URB

The Video Taping of Alan Ket :: How a graffiti vet beat the system that almost beat him
By Michael Vazquez Photography by KET

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.

Vinyl Designer Jorge Oswaldo // video profile

An inside look at how Vinyl Designer Jorge Oswaldo goes from concept to finished art piece.

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)

 

Sleep on the street in Brooklyn this weekend - for art's sake

Ever wondered what it would be like to live on the street and still hold onto your hipness? Now's your chance.

Artists, adventurers and everyone else up for a day and night of collective relaxation, discussion, games, storytelling, cooking, crafts, aerobics and napping are invited to come out for a celebration of our vibrant urban community.

The Urban Homesteading Project will create a temporary residence on the sidewalk near Union Docs in Brooklyn at 322 Union Street for twenty-four hours, starting at dawn on Saturday November 3rd, 2007.

Laura Chipley, Francisca Caporali and Pilar Ortiz will be creating, eating, drinking, exercising and sleeping on this corner for 24 hours. The trio created the Urban Homesteading Project in 2007 with the goal of exploring the the act of making temporary public living areas as a means for creating positive interactions within a community.

The group will provide a temporary living room, dining room, kitchen and sleeping area and is asking attendees to help furnish their public living space. Bring along your furniture and household items that you want to discard or trade, as well as food, beverages and artwork that you want to share.

Starting at dawn on Sunday, November 4th, every single item brought to the temporary living space will be available to all for the taking. Suggested items to bring along include:

- blankets, pillows and sleeping bags
- tables and chairs
- lamps, extension cords and power strips
- rugs
- forks, knives, plates and cups
- pots and pans
- books
- games
- musical instruments
- personal artwork
- food and beverages
- working televisions, stereos and DVD players

Through the creative utilization of discarded, donated and traded living resources, the UHP seeks to promote non-exclusive spaces for public discourse and leisure, while maximizing the potential of our city's vital street economy. Hillevi Loven and Union Docs curated the event for public consumption.

When:  Saturday, November 3rd, starting at 7am, until Sunday, November 4th, 7am
Where:  On the sidewalk in front of Union Docs (http://uniondocs.org)
322 Union Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211

Directions: L train to Lorimer Street / G to Metropolitan Aver Exit subway and walk south on Union Ave (away from the BQE)

Posted by Joyce Manalo // New York City based Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and Founder of ArtForward