Abe’s Penny Presents the Art of Lost Utopia in September Issue
Abe’s Penny features photographer Niall O’Brien and writer Francesca Gavin in its September series inspired by defunct utopian societies. Each week during the 9th month, the famed Brooklyn art and literature publication will deliver to subscribers its post-card sized segments with O’Brien’s photographs and Gavin’s accompanying text. The series is ...
Artist Profile: Pato Paez
Artist Statement
I was born in Tucuman, Argentina. Growing up, I took every opportunity I had to create art. In the early 90's, I was an exchange student in New York City. From the moment I arrived, I was stunned by the city’s art scene and knew that one day I ...
Sheena Hisiro
Artist Bio
Sheena Hisiro has been drawing since she could hold a pencil. She currently lives in Brooklyn, where she is still drawing and loving every minute of it. She earned a BFA in Communications Design from Pratt Institute. She recently illustrated a ...
Artists’ Open Studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Saturday, May 1st and Sunday May 2nd, 2010 from 12–6 pm
Screwball Spaces, Gowanus Canal’s newest addition of artists’ studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn, opens its doors to the public for a rare glimpse into the work spaces of New York’s contemporary artists.
http://openstudios.screwballspaces.com/
Henry Chung, Studio 50, Anonymous ...
Daniel McDonald
Visitation, 2009
7 layer/14 impression silk screen
25 x 33 inches
edition of 25
Found, Gowanus, 2009
oil, pastel and wallpaper
18 x 22 inches
Along the Way, 2008
pastel on paper
31.25x 69.25 inches
Horizontal Triptych II, 2009
oil on linen
30 x 36 inches
Book, 2008
7 layer/14 impression silk screen
25 x 33
Artist Statement
The complexity of the art world is curious, it ...
Rejin Leys
Arroz con Pollo
Theories of Evolution and Connection
Hen Diagram
Adaptation Module One
Artist Statement
Drawing is my way to explore ideas and develop an understanding of concepts that seem remote or abstract. When I juxtapose different ideas in a drawing, it allows me to think about those ideas and the relationships between them.
“Evolution + ...
Jessica Baker
Centerpiece
Multiple Leaf Print
Leaf Relief
Pile of Maples
Ginkgo Leaf Circle
Artist Statement
In 2007, while walking home from my studio on a rainy Fall day and looking down at sidewalks covered with leaves, it occurred to me that the damp, resilient surface of a recently fallen leaf might be able to hold the image ...
Luis Blackaller and Andy Cavatorta
“Honey I Shrunk Red Hook” at Lucky Gallery is a collaboration between Luis Blackaller and Andy Cavatorta, who aim to start a creative discussion about Red Hook, the inhabitants and folklore. The mission of this project is to bring together a diverse mix of members of the Red Hook community ...
Maria Tanikawa
title: relativity-6
medium: Japanese pigment/metal-leaf/sumi-ink on wood panel
dimension: h60” w24”
title: vicissitude
2009
medium: collagraph
dimension: about h24” w36”
title: relativity-twisty
2008-2009
medium: PAINTING(Japanese pigment/metal-leaf/sumi-ink on canvas)
dimension: h8” w10”
Artist Statement
I was born in 1978 and raised in Japan. After obtaining a BFA at Tama Art University in Japanese Painting Fine Arts in 2005, I moved to New York ...