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Name: Aaron Wooten Location: Chicago, IL Website: http://web.mac.com/aaronrwooten Brief artists statement: My work strives for the absurd. From political cartoons to erotica, I think humour is best and the most powerful way to display a message. How did you become an artist? Did you always dream of a life in the art-world? Through trial...
Name: Nathan (Tobey) Freedman Location: New York City Website: http://www.saatchionline.com/buy-art/all?query=natey+freedman Brief artists statement: I am a 77 year old retiree who took up painting after a long career in TV and radio news reporting, journalism, public relations, and lastly retail store ownership. How did you become an artist? Did you always dream of a...
Leaning over the wash-basin, where I normally do my thinking and, therefore, little of it. I contemplate having just volunteered to go to the Athenian arm of Gagosian’s continent-spanning galleries and review Damien Hirst’s most recent foray into exhibitionism. I’m most definitely of two minds about this review since my first piece for Flaneur was...
Die Freche Muse is a London-based alternative events company who organise themed vintage parties every six weeks or so. Starting off from humble beginnings in Dalston, over the past three years they have grown in fame and popularity but remain true to their routes and have not sold out to the commercial sphere which is...
Name: Sarah Taylor Silverwood Location: Birmingham, UK Website: http://www.sarahsilverwood.com/ Brief artists statement: I make drawings and text-based works about cities, looking at the relationship between humans and architecture. I draw from a range of influences including the idea of the ‘flaneur’, comic books and writings about modernity. It’s interdisciplinary – I think it fits...
Damien Hirst The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 – 2011 Gagosian Gallery Hong Kong: January 12th – February 18th 2012 “Imagine a world of spots. Every time I do a painting a square is cut out. They regenerate. They’re all connected.” – Damien Hirst Taking place simultaneously across each of the Gagosian Gallery’s eleven locations in...
Greenwich Dance has just embarked on a trial run of three themed tea dances. While Tea Dances have been held every Saturday in the Borough Hall for decades, they have become increasingly popular with younger attendees, and so GDA have responded with a set programme of themed events, with live music, decorations and refreshments to...
Venue: New Alexandra Theatre Birmingham Date: 27th and 28th January 2012 Company: Theatre Productions Limited I have to admit that up until watching this musical, I did not know a lot about Eva Cassidy or her music. Throughout the production I learnt a lot about her early life, and her attempts at getting into...
Name: Charlotte Hopkins Hall Location: London Website: http://www.charlottehopkinshall.com/ Brief artists statement: Like so many painters before me I have a very real curiosity of man’s idiosyncrasies and relation to reality. From this I paint a form of psychological drama, shaped by a desire for my paintings to interact with the viewer by creating a...
Since I was introduced to photography as an art form, I have repeatedly been drawn to architecture as subject matter. Burgeoning from an interest in form and composition in college, this fixation is now being honed into a more focused interest on certain issues and topics. Therefore, it is the intention of this; my first...
The Dare2Draw is a mentoring and networking platform for all artists, an opportunity to connect with each other, face-to-face. Established artists and arts organizations meet in a supportive setting, putting the art back in sequential art. There are contests and prizes, with a fun and engaging game show vibe. The Big City Dare2Draw, a monthly...
The WW Gallery’s fourth Patio Project is Australian artist, Kirsty Tinkler’s Face Off: ‘a mute dialogue between two buildings’ which explores society’s relationship, and reflection in, architecture. On the day that Kirsty finishes her install I head out in the cold after work to Hackney to interview her. Kirsty’s work challenges directly the old argument...
Lately, I have been painting using the merry-go-round as a motif. While searching for a unique object that resembles my innocence and extraordinariness well, I decided to paint the sensibility-provoking carousel in an amusement park right next to my apartment in Korea. In my work, I imagine the merry-go-round as the zoo and a unicorn’s...
This painting is inspired by an image from a Polish newspaper during a national debate on the health care system. The painter Marcin Krupa wanted to catch at a glance an aspect of daily life which affects all society.Those nurses are not simply an image of the middle class workers but indeed the picture of...
Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24th Street, New York I stumbled off walking the High Line in Downtown Chelsea, NYC and into the Gagosian on West 24th Street on an unusually warm January day. The corporate, milky, frosted-glass frontage is ubiquitous in the area, acting almost as a psychological barrier to any riff-raff even thinking of...
When I came in Berlin, first steps on ground I had a feeling that I was walking in a silent black and white picture. There was nothing that could remind me of the blue friendly vibe of my land. Silent. White. Grey, then again Silent. Bricks, factories, smooth shapes walking lonely on the streets. This...
Where my real life anxieties, phobias, and compulsions are acted out in dream scenarios is where I find my most inspiration. The pieces here belong to different phases of my development, and consequently they each belong to their own particular series. All of my work is narrative; allow me to briefly describe the narrative in...
Name: Emilee Lord Location: Santa Fe New Mexico Website: http://emileelord.com/ Brief artists statement: Multiples: The repetition creates a flock. Aesthetically I prefer things that are broken, smudged, burned, torn, empty, forgotten, mislaid or sorry. These objects carry their own weight, but like a thread into a tapestry or a word into a novel when...
This was written when I was in Halifax, Nova Scotia and I was working alongside other new Canadians. One of the couples there were refugees from Bosnia. The lady’s husband told me that they had chosen to come to Halifax because his wife wanted to be able to touch the Atlantic as that way she...
MAshRome Film Fest is in its inaugural year and with your help, we would like it to become the first Italian festival dedicated to Mash Up and cinematic Remix. The creative universe of Mash Up is very rich and we want to explore it with all of you. The festival will be the perfect place...
A recurring dream is a particular dream that is experienced by a person multiple times over the course of their life. This dream is always the same. The same setting, the same characters, and it is derived from the same emotion. Some of the common ones include: being chased, finding yourself in a public place dressed in...
The thing that annoys me most about Oxford Street is this: not the tourists, who wander at snails pace along London’s busiest shopping stretch and then stop, abruptly, in great swarming packs to take a picture of each and every tube station sign from the middle of the pavement. Its not the ‘model scouts’ who...
Name: Vinothini Satchithananthan Location: California Brief artists statement: I find drawing as a powerful tool to express and calm my inner self. Drawing is a way for me to have access to something that has no welcoming through any other process. It could grant access to a fragment of my history, my ever-changing state...
Alicia Araya is an artist living in Marshall, USA. She is seeking funding for an Epic Painting project through the site Kickstarter. She picks up the story… I propose to paint 90 landscape paintings in 90 days. I’m basing them on a book titled Turner at the Tate which shows all the Turner pieces in the...
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