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The results of the www.myartspace.com London Calling 2009 competition have been announced. The three top winners are: Marcy Mendelson, Lydia Panas, and Davide Monaldi. The three winners will have their work physically displayed at the Scream London gallery. Seventeen competitors were chosen to be digitally represented. In all 50 finalists were selected. For more information about the London Calling finalists visit, www.myartspace.com/londoncalling/winners/
The prestigious juror panel included Vanessa DesClaux ( The Tate Modern, London), Tom Morton (Hayward Gallery, Frieze magazine), and Francesco Manacorda (Barbican Gallery, London).
alexis granwell panel 1 (2009), ink on paper, 8.5” x 11" by qi peng
envoy enterprises is currently preparing for an exhibit involving the work of conceptual artist qi peng. The exhibit, titled the qi peng dynasty (we are duchampions), will involve a complex installation featuring a hybrid fusion between traditional works on paper and painting and cutting-edge new media art. The installation has been described as being based on the idea of autobiography loosely based on James Joyce’s novel “A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man” smashed with Facebook and Xerox.
qi peng combines selected “interview portraits,” which he has published through www.examiner.com as an online art project, between art professionals which he has met in real life or Facebook or Twitter or other social networking websites into a larger installation project. By delivering a cross section of the international art world, focusing on New York City and Los Angeles mostly with a small dose of his current hometown of Salt Lake City, the artist attempts to democratize how the public perceives any particular individual within this complex web of artists, art dealers, museum curators, art workers, and “slaves” who comprise this whole system of people who put together contemporary art for the audience. By displaying offset prints of these portraits like a digital version of August Sander photographs, peng attempts to humanize the art world as an antithesis to the glossy art market and blue chip players portrayed by the magazines.
edward winkleman panel 2 (2009), ink on paper, 8.5” x 11" by qi peng
This installation piece will present secondary documents that will reflect on how the artist’s first solo show in New York City became extant at envoy enterprises. Mixing together proposals, acceptance and rejection letters, critiques, as well some surprising documents that feature a Chelsea gallery, and a painting that is based on a prominent Brooklyn artist with overtones of the idea of “WWPD,” this work becomes a brave exploration of the politics of how exhibitions are created and galleries are curated.
This is a fairly dispassionate view of the artist’s subjective journey from a virtually unknown artist as a displaced New Yorker located in Utah into a slowly emerging artist as a small player within the international art world. He also highlights the challenges of an atypical Utah conceptual artist attaining both “critical affirmation” and “artistic defiance” with and against the somewhat insular New York contemporary art world reframed as the Garden of Eden.
qi peng states that there will be a surprise ending to the whole installation and a possible inclusion of the following events: an artist book signing at a table, an unexpected appearance of the Zero Dollar project by Laura Gilbert, a performance duel between Rick Herron and the artist himself, and guest appearances by famed bootlegger Eric Doeringer and collaborating artists William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton.
william powhida panel 1 (2009), ink on paper, 8.5” x 11" by qi peng
“the qi peng dynasty (we are duchampions)” is qi peng’s first solo exhibit in New York City. qi peng was born in 1976 in Queens, New York City. He lives and works mostly in Salt Lake City and sometimes in New York. His work has been exhibited at The Lab at Belmar, Anna Kustera, James Cohen/NURTUREART, Metro Pictures/Visual AIDS, modern8 gallery, and Projects Gallery. Currently he is represented by The Barbara Ann Levy Gallery in West Palm Beach, Florida.
envoy enterprises is a contemporary art space dedicated to the generation, presentation and promotion of contemporary visual arts practice. envoy enterprises' dynamic program of exhibitions, performances, concerts, artists' talks, publications, video and movie screenings, aims to provide opportunities for artists to exhibit their work within a context of current national and international practice. For more information visit, www.envoyenterprises.com
L'Imagerie Gallery, located in North Hollywood, is currently preparing for an exhibit titled When Worlds Collide. The exhibit is considered an intergenerational exhibit due to the fact that it will feature the art of Chet Zar and his father James Zar.
The press release states, “This is a father and son show that is amazing in it's polarity of imagery. You would be hard pressed to visually discern that both painters are related-except for their astounding facility with a paintbrush and clarity of their respective vision. This is more than a father/son exhibit, it's a visual polemic of antipodean aesthetics, contradictory world-views and a personal glimpse into the genetics of visual creativity.”
Drawing inspiration from his love of horror films, Chet Zar (the son) creates characters that capture feelings of fear and anxiety. There is degree of isolation about his paintings. The viewer senses danger as he or she views the nightmares that stem from Zar's wonderfully creative mind. When I first observed his work I thought about the horrors of what a nuclear attack may result in.
Chet Zar also draws inspiration from his career as a special effects make up artist, designer, and sculptor for the motion picture industry. Chet Zar has designed and created creatures and special effects make up for such films as, "Planet of the Apes", "The Ring", and "Hellboy". His work can also be observed in the critically acclaimed music videos for the art metal band, Tool.
James Zar (the father), also referred to as the 'Still Life Magician', has been an established artist for decades. He has befriended celebrities and star athletes... a far cry from his humble roots in a hard-working fishing community. However, James still embraces his roots with honor and respect. He shares the same integrity for his work that those who influenced him had shown when he was young. This strong work ethic can be observed in his images, artistic practice, and interactions with people who are interested in his work.
James Zar creates paintings that allow the viewer to travel to another world. A place full of vibrant color and lively beings. His work is marked by a bold use of color, mastery of composition, and playful spirituality. They offer the viewer the perfect visual escape from a long day at work.
James Zar has been involved with major movie studios where he worked professionally and became friends with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone. He also befriended Frank Sinatra, Jack Palance, Don Rickles and Hal Holbrook. His paintings have been displayed in their private collections. Mr. Zar has remained humble even though he has had great success with his art.
The L'Imagerie Gallery exhibit-- When Worlds Collide-- opens on May 16th, 2009 and is scheduled to come to a close in June. For more information visit, www.limageriegallery.com
The Reenactment of the Death of Jade Goody (video still) - Mark McGowan
Mark McGowan’s recent performance/installation, titled The Reenactment of the Death of Jade Goody, took place at the Guy Hilton Gallery in East London on May 3rd. For the performance/installation McGowan recreated late British reality TV star Jade Goody's deathbed.
The depiction of Goody’s dying moments has been deemed a controversial exhibition by the media. However, McGowan has stated, “It was not ironic, funny, shocking or disturbing. It was a very emotional experience and of the many people who attended, two people openly cried. Not for Jade, but for their own loved ones who they stayed with and held their hands as they passed away.”
Mark McGowan says, 'It was absolutely extraordinary and beyond expectation, everyone was incredibly emotional. The cardboard boxes that Jade, Jack Tweed and Jade's mum Jackiey wore, were really inspired and captivated peoples imagination.”. The set features a bed on which the artist playing Goody lies while those depicting loved ones sit at the bedside holding Goody’s hands. The performance involves no dialogue or sound in that it is designed to be a tableau representation of what Goody’s final hours may have looked like. The performance/installation, which lasted just over two hours, was attended by over 200 people.
Mark McGowan: Kick George Bush's Ass. Photo courtesy of Charlie Smith, London
Mark McGowan’s work is often provocative. For example, at SCOPE NY 2007 McGowan performed his infamous Kick George Bush's Ass performance during the Collector and Press Preview. However, McGowan has made it clear that The Reenactment of the Death of Jade Goody is a tribute to Goody, who died of cervical cancer at the age of 27.
Concerning criticism over the performance McGowan has stated, "I understand it's provocative and sometime that is my aim, to provoke people. I've been accused of jumping on the Jade Goody bandwagon, but the truth is I think people are just too hung up about death in this country.”.
Fellow www.myartspace.com 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.
I interviewed Carrie Ann Baade for myartspace.com in 2006. Since that time Carrie has helped me with one of my youth art education fundraisers. In my opinion, Baade's art is a perfect example of what a surrealistic painter can accomplish today. Carrie's paintings have been called "Imaginative Realism" due to her strong skills in traditional painting. Her body of work captures the essence of Master works while embracing the heart of surrealism. This mix of 'old and new' comes together to create images that are both beautiful and alarming at the same time.
There is a mysterious beauty about Carrie Ann Baade's work. In my opinion, the world she creates is one of harlequins and jesters cloaked by a shroud of danger that can be observed just beneath the surface. When viewed as a collection, Baade's paintings become a masquerade: Anger, fear, humor, sadness, humility, and joy all wear their respected mask. They beg for the viewer to peer beyond their guise. Will you be so bold as to take a look?
Dabora Gallery and Phantasmaphile's Pam Grossman are proud to usher in the spring season with the group show "Fata Morgana: The New Female Fantasists," on view from March 14th through April 12th, 2009.
In literal terms, a fata morgana is a mirage or illusion, a waking reverie, a shimmering of the mind. Named for the enchantress Morgan le Fay, these tricks of perception conjure up a sense of glimpsing into another world, whether it be the expanses of an ethereal terrain, or the twilit depths of the psyche. The artists of "Fata Morgana: The New Female Fantasists" deftly utilize the semiotics of mysticism, fantasy, and the subconscious in their work, thereby guiding the viewer through heretofore uncharted realms - alternately shadowy or luminous, but always inventive.
About the Curator: Pam Grossman is the creator and editor of Phantasmaphile (www.phantasmaphile.com) the premiere online destination for art aficionados with a passion for the surrealand the fantastical. An internationally beloved art and culture web log, it features daily spotlights on artists and events, as well as interviews with such visual luminaries as Thomas Woodruff, Nils Karsten, and Richard A. Kirk.
Phantasmaphile was written up two years in a row on the Manhattan User's Guide Top 400 New York Sites list, and has also fostered rich relationships between Pam and numerous artists who have been promoted on the site. "Fata Morgana" is Pam's first curatorial effort.
Fellow www.myartspace.com member Joanie San Chirico will be having an exhibit at The Ocean County Artists' Guild this April. The Ocean County Artists' Guild is a non-profit organization working to promote the arts in Ocean County drawing in artists and patrons from around the region. Their mission is to serve the artists and community; to provide an outlet and training for artistic talent, to enhance the quality of life for the residents and thereby attract newcomers, and to provide an attraction to draw tourists to the community. For more information visit www.ocartistsguild.org or www.joaniesanchirico.com.
Joanie San Chirico's work is unique in that it incorporates painting on canvas, photography, or stitching on textiles in such a way that challenges the viewer to decipher how the work was made. More than simple paintings, she combines these media to portray natural surfaces using imagery of this planet's fragile beauty. The work depicts ordinary objects, perhaps some lichen, rocks on a beach, dead vines; images from the artist’s travels or even her back yard.
Quoting the artist:“These little things are beautiful, and I never know when I'll find an interesting image or texture that I'll save for use in my work at some point. Please take care of these little things, as they will eventually affect the BIG things. My art is about raising awareness of the fragility of our environment.
Since 1982, a two-phase Superfund environmental remediation project has been ongoing at the Ciba-Geigy Site, now owned and operated by Ciba Specialty Chemicals, in Toms River, NJ where I live. As a result of the spill into the drinking water in the 1970’s, a cancer cluster developed which affected some children in the area. It is essential that we prevent incidents like this in the future.”
Fellow www.myartspace.com member Nancy Pirri is currently involved with an exhibit at Lillstreet Gallery in Chicago, IL. Pirri also has an upcoming exhibit, May 29th, at Serene la Femme. She will also be involved with a charity event on April 17th-- check her website for updates-- www.npgraphx.com.
Nancy Pirri (b. 1963) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and currently lives in Chicago, IL. She has dabbled in every art form since childhood, discovering clay to be her true passion in 1991. For the fifth year, she is represented as a House Artist in a local Michigan Gallery and also Xanadu Gallery in Scottsdale, AZ. She exhibits at many different venues including charities, and even curates her own group shows.
Her work is about women and how they survive through time. She works in several different clay bodies utilizing techniques that result in 'aging' textures. Ceramic print techniques continue this 'antiquity.' She fires her work in atmospheric kilns including soda firing… transpiring her art further into history as if her pieces were buried underground for centuries.
The Ceramic Print is an exhibition of work by artists who integrate traditional printmaking techniques like etching and silkscreen printing into ceramics. Exhibiting artists include Eric Jensen, Matt Harris, Nancy Pirri, Paul Wandless, Thomas Lucas, Marcia Adler and Nancy Anderson. Paul is also the author of Image Transfer on Clay, published by Lark Books. Lillstreet Gallery • 4401 N. Ravenswood • ChicagoReception: Saturday, March 28, 5 - 8 pm
Serene La Femme This collection of work is a contemporary twist on the timeless beauty of the female form as a muse, featuring innovative techniques in platinum photography by Ted Preuss, ceramic methods and figurative sculpture by Audry Cramblit and Nancy Pirri, and paintings by Mary Qian. Show will exhibit for 10 days.
Percentage of sales will be donated to The Union League Civic & Arts Foundation which develops and promotes programs that support education, civic responsibility and the arts for children and young adults in the Chicago Metropolitan Area.
For more information please visit serenelafemme.com or contact Nancy Pirri.
Fellow myartspace.com 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.
Featured www.myartspace.com 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.
In recent years there has been a resurgence of artists exploring subjects that are traditionally considered repulsive or unattractive while at the same time revealing the figures in a sympathetic manner that is enforced by aspects of traditional painting techniques-- this has been coined 'Neo-Grotesque'.
In Christian's work aspects of alchemy and automatism are linked together in the cognitive creative process. As he has stated, intention becomes line, line becomes shape, shape becomes form, and form becomes content. In his work Christian finds himself either suppressing or indulging his own desire to associate personal narrative to the raw visual information inherent in the material and process. Construction, destruction and reconstruction are symbiotic elements in the creative process allowing the image to fluctuate between abstraction and representation, truth and illusion, personal and archetypal.
Christian Rex van Minnen‘s profile on myartspace.com.
Also on exhibit, according to the Roq La Rue website, is a very small show of work by Japanese painter Yoko d'Holbachie. D’Holbachie’s work has been described as “Jim Woodring on acid“. Her work, like van Minnen, reflect a "grotesque" style. However, her works are more humorous and sweet in nature. Find out more at the Roq La Rue website-- www.roqlarue.com. Also visit, www.seevanminnen.com, for more information about Christian Rex van Minnen.
Golden Hour – 2009, acrylic on linen, 40,6x50,8 cm. By Brian Alfred
Feature myartspace.com artist Brian Alfred was interviewed by myartspace.com in 2007. 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.
Brian Alfred received his Masters of Fine Arts from Yale University in 1999. Since that time he has enjoyed solo exhibitions at the Mary Boone Gallery, Max Protetch Gallery, Sandroni Rey Gallery, SCAI the Bathhouse, and Haunch of Venison. Alfred's work has garnered many awards including a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. His work is represented in many important collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other prestigious collections.
According to Studio La Citta, Brian Alfred is known for working fluidly between painting, collages, digital drawing and animation. He has worked extensively collaborating with electronic musicians creating and designing catalogs for which these musicians created songs in relation to the artist's work. His animations have been shown in film festivals internationally. The collages are made from Color Aid paper cut with an X-acto blade. The artist works with collage paper to create "paper drawings". These collages are made in a similar fashion to the computer drawings and paintings. The small scale and tactile nature of the collaged paper give them a more intimate feel.
Brian Alfred will also have a solo exhibit at Haunch of Venison in New York this fall.
I’m pleased to announce that Laurie Lipton, a fellow www.myartspace.com member, is currently displaying art with Santa Monica’s Copro Nason Gallery at the Pulse Art Fair in NYC. A piece by Lipton has sold to a museum for $38,000. If you visit the art fairs in New York be sure to check Lipton’s work out at the Pulse Art Fair. You can view Laurie Lipton’s art on myartspace.com, HERE .
I interviewed Laurie Lipton in 2007. The price of her work has drastically increased since that time. Lipton was born in New York. She was the first person to graduate from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pennsylvania with a Fine Arts Degree in Drawing (with honours). She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany and France and has made her home in London since 1986.
Inspired by the hyper-realistic paintings of the 15th-Century Flemish masters, Laurie's drawings are known for their intense detail. In a sense, pencils are her paint and paper is her canvas. Her work is smooth and appears to be almost photographic at first glance. However, a closer look reveals the intricate detail of her work. From thousands upon thousands of distinct, precise, cross-hatched pencil-strokes, Laurie builds up rich, monochrome tones. It is rare to find an artist who can draw as she does- I consider her to be a contemporary master.
I’m pleased to announce that Fernando Mastrangelo, a fellow www.myartspace.com member, is currently involved with a solo exhibit at KUMUKUMU-- a contemporary art gallery in New York. The solo exhibit, titled ‘LoVE is a smoke made with the fume of sighs…’ will be open until March 22nd 2009.
I interviewed Fernando Mastrangelo in 2007 shortly after being introduced to his worke at SCOPE. Since that time Mastrangelo has been exhibited widely in the United States, South America, and Europe. Mastrangelo recently exhibited at Moti Hasson Gallery in New York. His work will be exhibited at Volta this month. If you visit the art fairs in New York be sure to check his work out. You can view Fernando Mastrangelo’s art on myartspace.com, HERE .
Fernando Mastrangelo From the KUMUKUMU press release:
“KUMUKUMU is proud to present New York artist Fernando Mastrangelo's first solo exhibition, "LoVE is a smoke made with the fume of sighs…" The title comes from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." Pursuing his overarching mixed media investigation of society, history, politics, and literature through conceptual precepts, the artist here transforms the gallery into a three-room replica of a sea vessel, including a corroded anchor, a fragment of a battered raft, and a sculpture of the lower half of a woman's severed body, made of cast sugar. The black heart carved into a sugar wall in the gallery's back room shores up the show's lovelorn underpinnings.
Overall, the installation evokes a lost-at-sea, wreckage-of love ethos, simultaneously romantic and dangerous. Positing the three elements of art as death, life, and love, Mastrangelo plays the dual role of the broken-hearted and sensitive lover and the macho, tattoo-sporting seafarer. The show includes a series of love tattoo drawings set in circular frames of cast sugar. Together, they dot the side walls of the gallery like portholes. Here again, the inevitable evaporation of love's sweetness is reiterated.
Conceived of as part of a continuum, "LoVE is a smoke…" draws on past projects in which the artist has used other symbolic materials often dealing with commodity culture. Staples like sugar, rice, coffee, and corn, as well as coal from regions of Kentucky, have been deployed in his work to specifically address energy issues as well as the wider abuses of political power. Through his metaphoric use of material, Mastrangelo is able to evoke myriad universal references as well as the particular relationships of objects and meaning across different strata of place and time.”
The results of the www.myartspace.com London Calling 2009 competition have been announced. The three top winners are: Marcy Mendelson, Lydia Panas, and Davide Monaldi. The three winners will have their work physically displayed at the Scream London gallery. Seventeen competitors were chosen to be digitally represented. In all 50 finalists were selected. For more information about the London Calling finalists visit, www.myartspace.com/londoncalling/winners/
edward winkleman panel 2 (2009), ink on paper, 8.5” x 11" by qi peng
william powhida panel 1 (2009), ink on paper, 8.5” x 11" by qi peng
Mark McGowan: Kick George Bush's Ass. Photo courtesy of Charlie Smith, London
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Fernando Mastrangelo