Monday, September 19, 2011
Anna Ullman
Donated from Leslie Rutledge, by her daughter Anna Ullman . Anna just graduated from RISD with a degree in printmaking. Thanks Leslie and Anna!
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Show postponed due to Hurrican Irene
Hello Friends,
Due to Hurricane Irene we will be postponing Try2 Art Show and Silent Auction until a later date. Please tell your friends and family and i will be in touch as soon as I know where and when we will be moving it to. Until then, you can look at all the great art that's been donated:
www.trybenefitartshow.blogspot.com
Thank you
Jacob and Isobel
Due to Hurricane Irene we will be postponing Try2 Art Show and Silent Auction until a later date. Please tell your friends and family and i will be in touch as soon as I know where and when we will be moving it to. Until then, you can look at all the great art that's been donated:
www.trybenefitartshow.blogspot.com
Thank you
Jacob and Isobel
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Andrew Chan
"Boogie Down"
2011
11" x 15"
ink and water color
part of "end of days" hipster apocalypse series
Australian artist Andrew Chan has a B.A. in Architecture from RMIT in Melbourne and an M.A. in art from NYU. Based in New York since 1999, he has received grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and his work been featured in TIME, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and on CNN. In 2011 his work can be seen at the Bronx Museum as part of Aim 30 and at Randall’s Island where he has installed a 15foot high sculpture on the grounds. His essay on TV cooking shows as pornography is included in The Gastronomica Reader (University of California Press, Feb. 2010) and was presented at the College Arts Association conference in Chicago and at the Gourmet Voice conference in Cannes.
STATEMENT
In my drawings, the basis of all my works, I use line to assimilate and create representations—in some cases, bordering on caricatures—of people and objects where the form of the subject is distorted merging the organic and the inorganic creating anthropomorphic beings set in distorted cityscapes. In creating my works I gather information from the media, along with documenting my subject with a sketchbook and/or camera, the results of which are fused together with my own remembered and actual experiences.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Alan Ruiz
"Hole"
Metallic pigment print mounted on aluminum
26.5 x 19.5
2011
Alan Ruiz’s work exists at the intersection of visual perception, abstraction, architecture, and digital rendering. He received his MFA from Yale University (2009) and his BFA at Pratt Institute (2006). His work has recently been exhibited at the Bronx Museum, and Y Gallery, as well as featured in the Wall Street Journal. In 2011 he was a participant in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Forthcoming group exhibitions include “Transregional Aesthetics” at the Castle Inn Gallery in Delaware Water Gap, and “Navigating Darkness” at the Tape Modern, Berlin. Alan Ruiz was born in Mexico City, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
www.alanruiz.net
www.alanruiz.net
Kira Greene
Flowers
12"x18"
In my recent paintings and drawings, I depict images of food surrounded by complex patterns that represent the plurality and the multiplicity of my identity. I paint estheticized food found in glossy coffe table cook books and magazines as well as everyday food that I serve for my friends and family. The patterns are derived from historical fabrics used in women’s fashion and domestic interiors, which are symbolic of the roles woman have had in various cultures. The patterns from both eastern and western cultures are the background that enhances and suffocates the food. The food is the body and the surrogate for the desire to consume and control women. The resulting images are self-portraits that represent the plurality and multiplicity of my identity as an Asian-American immigrant woman.
Densely packed and precisely hand-painted patterns simultaneously create and interrupt the space where the still-life is presented. The rhythm of the patterns is echoed in the composition of the still-life and natural patterns found in the food. A complicated interweaving of foreground and background, created by patterns, icons, and still-lifes painted in many different styles and mediums, generates a confounding spatial ebb and flow and increase the spatial tension. The surface of my painting is varied to creat the maximum complexity and to enhance the sensuality of the paint while the divergence of styles imbues the image with collage-like dissonance. The result is a work that attracts viewers with overwhelming sensuality and the beauty while simultaneously disorients and repels them.
While the images of the food are reminiscent of the Dutch still-life tradition, the divergent styles, collage-like dissonance and the breaking of the picture planes acknowledge the practice of painting in a post-modern era. At the same time, through a labor-intensive process, I cast a critical eye on the mechanical reproduction and proliferation of imagery in our daily lives.
www.kiragreene.com.
Lucy Kim
"facade"
9"x11.5"
Gouache, graphite on paper
2006
Lucy Kim's work investigates the boundaries of object and image. Her process combines aluminum foil, the kind commonly used in cooking, with oil painting and molding/casting techniques to create works that play with the surface of objects and figures in formulations influenced by pop imagery. Lucy Kim received her BFA from RISD in 2001, and her MFA from Yale in 2007. She received the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend the Yale Norfolk Summer Progam in 2000, and in 2007 received the Carol Scholsberg Memorial Prize from Yale University. She has held residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Studios Midwest, and the MacDowell Colony. She has recently exhibited her work at Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia), Regina Rex (Queens), Haskins Research Lab (New Haven), Vaudeville Park (Brooklyn), Slag Gallery (NYC), and the Wassaic Project (Wassaic).
www.lucykim.com
Betsy Odom
Soccer Ball
2010
Carved cork
9 x 4 x 4"
Betsy Odom was born in 1980 in Amory, Mississippi (pop. 6000). She left Amory to study first at the United World College in Montezuma, New Mexico, then at the San Francisco Art Institute where she earned her BFA in 2002. Odom completed her MFA in sculpture from Yale University in 2007. She has exhibited nationally in several group- and solo-shows, including recent solo exhibitions at Three Walls Gallery and at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, IL. She lives and works in Chicago.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Allison Sexton
"Untitled, (Sandwich #2)"
2006
16"x20"
Archival Pigment Print.
Edition 1/15
Estimated Value: $500
Allison Sexton lives and works in Greenfield, MA; she received her BFA with highest distinctions from California College of Arts in 2003 and went on to receive her MFA in Photography from Yale University in 2006. Allison has been in several group shows, including My Gay Uncle at Kate Werble Gallery, 2009; Prague Biennale 4, Karlin Hall, 2009; The House Project, Westport Arts Center. Her work explores her complex relationship with Western Massachusetts—documenting the moments that happen in between the extreme and the aftermath, and explores a deeper sense of reality within her hometown and family.
Friday, August 19, 2011
D'Ette Nogle
2011
Acrylic and Silkscreen on Canvas on board
16" H x 12" x .5" D
edition 3 of 12
Los Angeles artist D'Ette Nogle's work investigates the meaning and processes of making art and is most often realized in installations that involve video and performance as well as material objects that act as surrogates for the ideas and themes she explores.
The quote that comprises both the title and the composition of the painting was found in a now defunct shelter magazine among a list of decorating tips.
Nogle has taken the advice and produced the object described in a literal fashion.
The project will be completed when the idea/object goes home with a collector and its reproduction is published once again in a decor magazine.
Randal Wilcox
Self-Portrait (Template)
Ink, correction fluid and saliva on paper
17 x 14 inches
2008
Estimated Value: $500
Randal Wilcox is an artist who was born and is currently based in Bronx, New York. His work has been exhibited at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Artists Space, Anthology Film Archives and is in the collections of The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Museum of New Art (Detroit, MI). Wilcox is a Trustee of The Alvin Baltrop Trust; exhibitions that he has curated include “Alvin Baltrop: Photographs 1965-2003 (with Yona Backer) at Third Streaming, LLC, New York, NY (2011) and “Alvin Baltrop: Color Photographs 1971-1991” (with Kevin Regan and Ellen Lechter) at Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY (2010).
www.randalwilcox.com
Adrian Meraz
Woods #2
2011
Ink, acrylic, paper, glue, wood, thumbtacks, beeswax
10"x12"x1 1/2"
Adrian Lives and Works in Brooklyn, NY
Veronica Frenning
Untitled
2011
digital foil print on vellum
(1/1 unique print)
5x5"
Veronica Frenning is currently an artist-in-residence at the Abrons Arts Center/Henry Street Settlement and a SIP fellow at The Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. She recently participated in Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum for the Arts. This Fall, Veronica will attend a residency at Bamboo Curtain Studio in Taipei. She has been awarded a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and a recipient of a Jerome Travel and Study Grant. Recent shows include “Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial” at Glyndor Gallery/Wave Hill, “AIRspace2011” at Abrons Arts Center, “Naming the Animals” at Curious Matter in Jersey City, and “An Exchange with Sol LeWitt” at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. Veronica received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
www.veronicafrenning.com
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Amy Jean Porter
Lion, 2011
gouache and ink on paper
10 x 7 in.
Amy Jean Porter has drawn more than one thousand species of animals for her ongoing project "All Species, All the Time." She has had solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Paris, and her drawings have been featured in Cabinet, Flaunt, jubilat, Meatpaper, and elsewhere. Her first book Of Lamb, a collaboration with poet Matthea Harvey, was recently published by McSweeney's.
amyjeanporter.com
Katherine Daniels
Blue and Orange Blossoms
2008
glass, pencil, and watercolor on paper
Katherine Daniels work explores the archetypal ideals of a garden in paradise through her sculptures, installations and public art.
Ms. Daniels uses repurposed items, recycled materials, sewing notions, and fabric with traditional craft techniques such as weaving, sewing, and beading to create her body of work.
These paradisiacal gardens represent the human need to counter our acts of destruction by creating and cultivating beauty.
Katherine Daniels is currently exhibiting work in Bronx Calling at the Bronx Museum and Flow 11 on Randall's Island.
She is currently working in a chashama in Harlem and has also been awarded AIM 30 participation at the Bronx Museum, a PS. 122 Project Studio, an Artist-in-Residency at the Henry Street Settlement, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation The Space Program grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting. She holds a B.F.A. in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and a M.F.A. in Painting from Johnson State College.
Marina Zamalin
Cityscapes N3
2009
archival print
4in x 6in
Marina Zamalin is a photographer interested in studying historical, social and psychological aspects of urbanization. She was a recipient of the IDMI Institute scholarship and a Graduate Assistantship in Photography from NYU Poly. In 2010, she participated in the Bronx Museum AIM program. Most recently, her artwork has been exhibited at the Flux Factory's Shakeout show, Bronx Biennial, Sacred Gallery, Governors Island Figment Sculpture show, K&K Gallery and Brooklyn Historical Society. She holds a Master’s degree in Integrated Digital Media from NYU Poly. Marina currently resides in Brooklyn.
Project Statement:
Cityscapes is a series of photographs that explore industrial enclaves of Brooklyn, New York. This project is a study of the present-day function and purpose of such places in increasingly post-industrial environments.
Marco Menendez
AFTER GLOW
2005
oil on aluminum
16” x 24”
Estimated value: $500
In this particular series, I am exploring the routine phenomena of the urban landscape at night: street lights, car lights, florescent lights, light emanating out of peoples’ homes and all the glow and shadow that these things produce. The intangibility of these elements plays a major role in my work. I am attracted to the way in which they can take over objects and change, not only our perceptions of their physical make-up, but our whole experience with them. I first photograph and then paint these settings. I see this practice as a way of distancing the image from its original reality and enhancing it with further layers of illusion.
Marco Menendez holds a BFA in Painting from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. He spends his time driving the open road, visiting obscure historic sites and “chatting it up” with the local residents. When he is not doing this, he lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Iannis Delatolas
Hell's Kitchen
2002
Photo
20"x20"
Estimated Value: $1000
Estimated Value: $1000
Iannis Delatolas is a Greek photographer who lives in New York City. For the last ten years he has been working on "Darkness Visible" an exploration of the medium under low light conditions. Shot mostly past midnight in the outskirts of urban and industrial sectors, Darkness Visible is an attempt to find meaning in the shadows within as well as the darkness that surrounds us. His work has been shown at Kouros Gallery in New York, at PDNB in Dallas, at the Greek Embassy in DC and at the Upcoming "Curve" group exhibition at the Center, Santa Fe NM.
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Romy Scheroder
Hypnogog, 2010
graphite on paper
9.5" X 6"
Hypnopomp, 2010
graphite on paper
9.5" x 6"
Artist’s Statement
As a sculptor and conceptual crafter my process involves removing the functionality from vintage chairs, transforming their utility through a complex process of cutting, altering, sanding and reassembling. I am attracted to the chair as a medium because it is suggestive of the human body--and the female form in particular--due to its connotations of domesticity, utility, and the possession of both emotional and physical attributes.
In selecting a chair, I look for lines and forms that resemble the human form such as soft curves, delicate joints, and visually appealing textures. My process involves skewing or exaggerating these features in a way that upsets or distorts reality, alternately evoking disquiet, sentimentality, and the sense of the strangely familiar. I am interested in generating emotion by exposing the underlying structure and raw material of my subjects. Recently I have used these chair forms to examine the body in public space and how the body navigates and communicates when space is compromised.
Monday, August 15, 2011
Karla Wozniak
"Taco John's, Jackson, MN"
watercolor paper, 11 x 15 inches
2011
Estimated value is $700
Karla Wozniak makes paintings of the American landscape that play with tactility, abstraction, spatial illusion and typography. She received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Wozniak’s distinctions include a NYFA fellowship, participation in the Artist in the Market Place, Bronx Museum , a Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Grant , two MacDowell Colony Fellowships. Her work has been noted in a number of publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The San Francisco Chronicle, the Village Voice, and Harper’s. Wozniak is represented by the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco.
karlawozniak.com
Matt Frieburghau
All-Purpose (artist proof)
Digital Print
18" x 12"
2011
Matt Frieburghaus is an artist living in the Hudson Valley and is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Matt earned an MFA in computer art from Syracuse University and a BFA in animation from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. His work is created using digital processes that investigate and manipulate captured sound, video, and other forms of data. He has exhibited work across the U.S. and in numerous areas around the globe.
Estimated Value: $200.00
www.mattfrieburghaus.com
www.mattfrieburghaus.com
Michael Clyde Johnson
Untitled
2011
MDO, MDF
24" x 36"
Estimated value: $400
Michael Clyde Johnson (b. 1981, western Nebraska) currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. In 2009, he received his MFA from Hunter College, New York. His work has been exhibited widely, at venues including Socrates Sculpture Park, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, all in New York City, as well as a two-person exhibition at the CAS Arts Center in Livingston Manor, New York. In 2010 he participated in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum and was shortlisted for the Public Art Fund’s In the Public Realm competition. Recently, he was awarded a residency fellowship at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York.
Saturday, August 13, 2011
Lee Clarke
BLUE HAIRED PINK BOY WITH LARGE KNUCKLE, 2011
OIL ON PAPER 14" X 11"
POINTILLIST CHILD SKELETON WITH FEMUR RATTLE, 2011
OIL ON CANVAS 22"x28"
Lee Clarke received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design and his MFA the University of Southern California. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Mark Roeder
Mark Roeder
Noncommittal, Antipainting (Unwelcoming, Oppressive and Uncharismatic -- Central Coast, #1),
2010
acrylic, graphite, and ink on polyflax
18 ¾ x 23 ¾ in.
Starting bid $200
All of these paintings are titled “Noncommittal, Antipainting …” as a means of first expressing my hesitation about making paintings, and in order to communicate that the work is not about painting or making images, but, rather about using images. I paint each one twice, and they are all black and white. First, I make the initial painting, then paint out some of the image with white. Then, I try to make the same painting again. Each is from a series of ‘California Landscape Paintings.’ The parenthetical parts of the titles use words used to describe California by early explorers/settlers followed by a descriptor of the place the image depicts (ie., places I’ve surfed, hiked, etc.)
Cecile Chong
Instructions, 2011
Encaustic and mixed media on canvas panel
7 x 5 inches
Estimated Value $150
Gabriel J. Shuldiner
Gabriel J. Shuldiner
1. what now [g0717] _ 2011
pbk_g “post_apocalyptic black”™ | modified + re|mixed + recycled acrylic polymer emulsions | inorganic synthetic carbon black | japanese kishu binchotan charcoal | alkyd resins | epoxy resins | gesso | spray paint | dust | spit | bayer lexan® polycarbonate resin thermoplastic sheet.
overall dimensions variable, approximately
8.25 x 12.75 x .75 in. [21 x 32 x 1.9 cm.]
estimated value: $950.00 usd
statement:
combining elements of minimalism + punk attitude, the idea is to [re]mix unmatchable elements + slash boundaries + create a [beautiful]tension between [opposites]:
a sort of “post_postmodern + post_punk + post_rap + post_rave + post_medium + post_apocalyptic + post_existential zen meditation, at times deceptively sardonic + cynical + nihilistic…”
equal parts masculine + feminine, my work emanates from that black void
where the “subversive avante_garde” + “post_altermodern chic” merge; where quantum theory becomes spiritual + meanings + classifications dissolve…
the distortion of context + meaning; layers + layers of information seen + unseen.
i remain fueled by the ironic + powered by black: the most mysterious + powerful + misunderstood color…
gabriel j. shuldiner | s2011
about:
gabriel j. shuldiner is born + raised + lives + works in manhattan, new york city. he received his mfa from parsons the new school for design in 2009 and was most recently selected for the bronx museum of the arts prestigious artist-in-the-marketplace program.
a direct + natural extension of his artistic practice, gabriel launched his fleurs du mal collection of jewelry + accessories in 2010; think “tiny” versions of his larger highly conceptual all black sculptural paintings.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Tiana Peterson
Tiana Peterson
Eagles, seven
2010
cut and pasted eagles
10 3/4 x 11 3/4" (framed)
www.tianapeterson.com
Joell Baxter
Joell Baxter
Loose Ends, 2010
screenprinted paper, hand cut and woven, push pin
47 x 11 inches
Biding Starts at $50
Joell Baxter is a sculptor/drawer/printmaker who was born in Washington DC, raised in Evanston, Il, and currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Her work explores cyclic systems of color and form, and the relationship between illusion and object. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2000 from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was awarded a University Fellowship. She has recently exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; International Print Center, New York, NY; Regina Rex, Queens, NY; and the Visual Arts Center, Austin, TX. She is a 2011 participant in the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and has been awarded a 2011/2012 residency in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's Workspace Program.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Meghan Wilbar
Interstate, oil on linen, 10 x 12 inches, 2010,
Meghan Wilbar was born and raised in Pueblo, Colorado. She received her BA from Knox College, IL in Studio Art with a minor in French. During undergraduate study she spent a year abroad at L’Ecole Des Beaux Arts in Besancon France as well as a semester in Chicago. She obtained her MFA from the New York Studio School and completed a summer residency at the Chautauqua Institute Intensive Studio Program. In the fall of 2010, she was an artist in the Bronx Museum, Artist in the Marketplace program (AIM 30). She currently lives and works in NYC.
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Hein Koh
Form #1
burnt canvas
20" x 15"
2010
starting bid $50
Hein Koh is an artist based in New York City, who received two BAs from Dartmouth College, in Studio Art and Psychology, and an MFA in Painting from Yale University. Her awards include the Wolfenden Fine Arts Prize, Carol Schlosberg Memorial Award, Mid-Atlantic Foundation Artists and Communities grant, and she was recently selected for the Bronx Museum Artists in the Marketplace program in 2011. Her work has been reviewed and/or published in the New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Brooklyn Rail, and is currently on view at Wave Hill, as part of “Bronx Calling,” the first AIM biennial curated by Jose Ruiz and Wayne Northcross. She has also taught or lectured at the 92nd Street Y, Tyler School of Art, Dartmouth College, and Maryland Institute College of Art. www.heinkoh.com
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Gregory Reynolds
les souhait étaient des chevaux (if wishes were horses), 2010
9x12 image 13.5x16 sheet
Gregory Reynolds is a Brooklyn-based artist. His work is currently on view in New York in Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial, at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and on Randall's Island as part of Flow.11, an outdoor sculpture exhibition on view until November 2011. This year he completed the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace program. Reynolds grew up in Canada (in Victoria, British Columbia) and lived and exhibited in Vancouver, Halifax and Toronto, before moving to New York City in 2007.
www.gmreynolds.com/home.html
Leigh McCarthy
Leigh McCarthy
Now is a ship
2011
ink monoprint on mulberry paper
9 3/4" x 13 3/4"
Leigh McCarthy lives and works in San Francisco. She has been acurately describes as "slightly obsessed with shipwrecks" for years and is not sure why. (So please don't ask.) Incidentally, she is the type of person who never outgrew listening to sad breakup songs because they make her happy. She recently participated in the Open to the Elements residency at Headlands Center for the Arts and worked with the collective, Observatorium, who were really inspiring. She is also part of the kickass collective called LA Art Girls the Institute of Glacial Risk Managmement and the LA Art Girls.
www.leighmccarthy.com
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Thomas Bangsted
Untitled
2006
Trial proof
Archival Pigment Print
14.6"x10"
estimated value $50o
Thomas Bangsted (b. 1976, Denmark) is an artist working with photography and currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art and later received a graduate degree from Goldsmiths College, London and an MFA from Yale University. Bangsted has exhibited his work at The Prague Biennial, The Barbican Centre (London), The Liverpool Biennial, Danziger Projects, and most recently at Galleri Tom Christoffersen in Copenhagen (solo). He has received several awards and fellowships for his work, including a 2010 NYFA Fellowship in photography, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, and a Tierney Family Foundation Fellowship.
www.thomasbangsted.com/
Laura Kaufman
Laura Kaufman
Stereovision, 2011
Watercolor; 20 x 26"
Bidding Begins at $50
Kaufman was a 2011 participant in the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program and is included in the Bronx Calling: The First AIM Biennial. She will exhibit in 2012 as part of Randall's Island Flow outdoor sculpture project. Kaufman grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Houston and now lives on a small lake in New York.
www.laurakaufmanstudio.com
Matthew Conradt
2010
Mixed Media on mylar
12" x 12"
Starting bid $50
2010
Mixed Media on mylar
12" x 12"
Starting Bid $50
Matthew Conradt received his Masters in Fine Art from Pratt Institute in 2008 and his Bachelors in Fine Art from Iowa State University in 2005. In 2008, Matthew was an Artist-In-Residence at the Cooper Union School of Art, and in 2010, he was a participant in the 30th year of the Artist-in-the-Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Matthew currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Artist Statement:
My work addresses the narratives of American culture propagated through the imagery consumed from mass media and through the internet. I am interested in the way ideas, both real and fictitious, are communicated and contribute to a larger sense of what it means to be a contemporary American. Growing up in the mid-western rust-belt, with its decay and, paradoxically, its rapid suburbanization, I saw the unraveling of the American dream for my parents and those around us. Wood paneling in trailer homes, giant parking lots, and conversely, elaborate, wealthy interiors all become portents. Using this material, I create collages by photo-transferring appropriated found images; fragmenting and reconstituting a new image from multiple sources. I use repetition and omission as ways of changing the context and meaning, allowing for more ambiguous interpretations. What emerges from all of this is an American counter-narrative, searching for meaning and steeped in contradictions.
www.matthewconradt.com
Chris Bors
Chris Bors, Bad Brains Logo, 2009,
acrylic on paper, 5" x 7"
estimated value: $200
Chris Bors is a New York-based artist who received his MFA from School of Visual Arts. Solo exhibitions include Envoy Gallery in New York and Go North in Beacon, New York. His art has been exhibited in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1, White Columns and the Bronx Museum in New York, Casino Luxembourg in Luxembourg, Bahnwarterhaus in Esslingen, Germany, Bongout in Berlin and Archimede Staffolini Gallery in Nicosia, Cyprus. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Brooklyn Rail and PAJ, as well as being featured in Vogue Italia, K48, zingmagazine and Old News. Awards include the Artist in the Marketplace program at the Bronx Museum, LMCC’s Swing Space and Artists Space’s Independent Project Grant. www.chrisbors.com
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Ketta Ioannidou
Blow Out, 2009, oil on paper, 15" x 11", estimated value $850.
Bio:
Ketta Ioannidou received a BA from Central Saint Martins in London and an MFA from School of Visual Arts. She represented Cyprus in the 9th International Cairo Biennale and the 24th Alexandria Biennale. Solo shows include chashama in New York, Go North in Beacon, New York, and Diatopos Center of Contemporary Art in Nicosia, Cyprus. Her art has also been exhibited at the Bronx Museum, the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum and the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art. She was awarded residencies at LMCC’s Swing Space and the Artists’ Enclave at I-Park and was selected for the AIM program at the Bronx Museum. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, Flash Art and The Brooklyn Rail.
Friday, July 29, 2011
Kaveri Nair
Kaveri Nair makes loosely geometric abstract paintings with a focus on material, gesture, and process. She received her MFA in 2007 from Rhode Island School of Design. Kaveri has participated in residencies at Anderson Ranch Center for the Arts in 2009 and Yaddo in 2010. Kaveri was born and raised in New York City and currently lives and works in Brooklyn. For more information and more of her work, see her website, www.kaverinair.com.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Hannah Smith Allen
2011
12.5" x 12.5"
website: http://www.hannahsmithallen.com
Bio:
Hannah Smith Allen earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She is the reciepient of an Individual Photographer’s Fellowship (IPF) from the Aaron Siskind Foundation (2008) and an Artist Fellowship in Photography from The New York Foundation for the Arts (2010). Allen's photographs have been exhibitted at The Griffin Museum of Photography, The Photographic Resource Center, and The Photographic Center Northwest. In spring 2011, she completed an AIM artist residency at the Bronx Museum of Art. A selection of images from her new series, Battlegrounds, are on view this summer in “Bronx Calling,” The Bronx Museum of Art’s first AIM biennial exhibition. Allen lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches at Adelphi University.
Laura Braciale
Laura Braciale has donated
Ziploc (green + yellow + blue)
2009
9" x 7"
Gouache on paper inside a ziploc bag
Bio:
Laura Braciale makes representational paintings that pose as abstractions. She was born 1983 in St. Louis, MO. Laura received a MFA in Painting from RISD in 2007 and a BFA from Cornell University in 2005. Residencies she has participated in include, LMCC's Workspace program in 2009 and the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace program in 2010. More work can be found on her website: laurabraciale.com
Christine Gedeon
Christine Gedeon has donated
The Bra Shop, blueprint drawing, (edition of 10), 2006
Christine Gedeon lives and works in New York City. She was an artist
in The Bronx Museum, Artist in the Marketplace (AIM 30) program last
year, and is now participating in the group show "Bronx Calling" at
the museum. Solo and Two-Person shows include: Chashama, Harlem, NY,
The Catskill Art Society, in Livingston Manor, NY, A.I.R. Gallery,
NYC, where she was awarded an Emerging Artist's Fellowship in 2005-06,
and And/Or Gallery in Dallas, TX. Group shows include: Kulturmöllan,
Sweden, The Diva Fair, Miami, and Vertex List, WIlliamsburg. She is
currently doing a residency on Governor's Island through Gallery Ell.
Rachel Frank
Born and raised in Kentucky, Rachel Frank received her BFA from The
Kansas City Art Institute and her MFA from The University of
Pennsylvania. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including
grants from The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The Elizabeth Greenshields
Foundation, Franklin Furnace Archive, and residencies at The Marie
Walsh Sharpe Foundation, The Women’s Studio Workshop, and The
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Currently, she lives and
works in Brooklyn, New York.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Anton Cabaleiro
Southern Fried Chicken. 2011.
Bio:
Anton Cabaleiro (Spain, 1977) is a visual artist who currently lives in New York City.
He received his undergraduate Fine Arts Degree from the University of Vigo, Spain (2002), his MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York City (2008), his PhD in Art, Design and Technology at the Complutense University in Madrid and his Master in Landscape Design in Columbia University.
Cabaleiro's video works explore personal imagery based on the hybridization of different digital techniques. Conceptually, his work focuses on everyday life and the effects of technology and media on the conventional behaviors of the socialized contemporary individual.
He has exhibited extensively throughout Europe and the United States.
Past exhibitions include: Bronx Calling. Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, Armory Show, King Juan Carlos Center at New York University, Gabarron Foundation, New York, MAD (Museum of Art and Design) New York, Under the Bridge Festival, Dumbo, Brooklyn, MARCO (Museum of Contemporary Art) Vigo, Spain; the CAAC (Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art) Sevilla, Spain; ARCO (International Fair of Contemporary Art) Madrid; The Cervantes Institute Beijing, China and Lisbon, Portugal; Marisa Marimon Gallery, Ourense; Marlborough Gallery, Madrid; La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Loop International Fair of Video, Barcelona; and the
Visual Arts Gallery, New York.
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