Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Monday, February 11, 2013
Sunday, February 10, 2013
ARTmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the Week- Amy Stein & Stacy Merhfar Tall Poppy Syndrome@ Clampart Gallery
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| David at the Salesyards
Dubbo
Signed and numbered, verso2010 Archival pigment print 30 x 40 inches (Edition of 3) $2200.00 24 x 30 inches (Edition of 5) $1800.00 10 x 8 inches (Edition of 15) $300.00 Please note prices increase as editions sell. Work by Amy Stein / Stacy Arezou Mehrfar
There is such great image selections of this series available @ the 8'' x10'' size for only $300.00
Highly collectable!
A perfect Valentine's gift for a loved one.
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Saturday, February 9, 2013
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Michal Chelbin -Sailboats and Swans @ Andrea Meislin Gallery
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Michal Chelbin. Nadia. Women's prison, Ukraine, 2010 Image courtesy of Andrea Meislin Gallery |
DO NOT miss seeing this show!
Michal Chelbin is color pallete and portraits are breathtaking!
Sailboats and Swans
Michal Chelbin
October 18, 2012 - January 19, 2013
“Chelbin is always looking, drawing what is hidden to the surface. She captures—we shudder.” A.M. Homes from her essay in Sailboats and Swans For Immediate Release Media Contact: Maureen Sullivan maureen@redartprojects.com, 917.846.4477 Exhibition: Andrea Meislin Gallery, NYC, 534 West 24th Street, October 18 – January 19th, 2013 Publication: Twin Palms Publishers, featuring 62 full color plates on 120 pages; essay and interview by acclaimed writer A.M. Homes with Michal Chelbin and her partner Oded Plotnizki. PDF available for media review now; advance print copies available in September. Michal Chelbin’s latest body of photography, shot in seven prisons in the Ukraine and Russia over the past six years, explores what it means to be locked and constantly watched – and to be looking back at such a person in this surreal world within a world. Chelbin’s portraiture is renowned for it visual contrasts – old and new, odd and ordinary, fantasy and reality –and for unmasking the legendary qualities not immediately apparent in individuals. The title, Sailboats and Swans, refers to the idiosyncratic, and almost mocking, bucolic and fantastical murals and wallpaper backgrounds she found throughout the prisons. These contradictions of life in prison abound in girls’ flowery dress prison uniforms, murderers working as nannies to other women’s babies in the new mothers’ prison, young girls serving time alongside grandmothers – perhaps witness to their own futures, and the mesmerizing human blend of fear and cruelty in the boys’ and mens’ prison - where big tattooed bodies are now zombie-like, worn down by the daily travails of trying to survive being locked up in a world devoid of hope. For the past decade, Michal Chelbin has been traveling to shoot in the Ukraine and Russia, the countries of her ancestors, drawn to the extreme contrasts and mythological qualities. Through the connections she made, she gained incredibly rare access to create portraits of the prisoners. Never asking the crime until after finishing the portrait allowed the artist to see the individual through her lens, not the prisoner, in sittings that sometimes lasted for hours until the mask wore down. “I usually photograph people outside the mainstream, and I look for faces and eyes that express the complexities of life and for a gaze that transcends from the private to the common,” stated Chelbin. All of her projects have been centered on a group who share something in common - Strangely Familiar focused on the small town circus performers, The Black Eye is comprised of portraits of wrestlers and athletes, and those locked up are her subjects in Sailboats and Swans. In Chelbin’s work there is always a sense of mystery and multi-dimensional narratives. Nothing is obviously resolved, and questions linger for the viewer to struggle with as she does: who is this person? Why is he dressed like this? What does it mean to be locked? Is it a human act? Is it fair? What do we see when we look at a locked person? Do we punish him with our eyes? Does a killer still look like a killer? Is it human to be weak and murderous at the same time? Michal Chelbin Sailboats and Swans will be on view from October 18 – January 19th, 2013, at Andrea Meislin Gallery, 534 West 24th Street, NYC. www.andreameislin.com The Artist Israeli-born and based artist Michal Chelbin’s work is in many prestigious private and public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Jewish Museum, New York, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, The Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, The Portland Art Museum and The Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel. Her work has been short-listed for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Competition at the National Portrait Gallery in London. She previously had solo shows at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel and Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York who represent the artist. In addition to Sailboats and Swans, previous publications include Strangely Familiar and The Black Eye.
http://www.andreameislin.com
Saturday, November 24, 2012
ARTmostfierce Affordable Print Pick of the week- David Wojnarowicz for Printed Matter
This one is a must have! Get yours now!
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Category: Printed Matter Edition Dimensions (Height x Width x Depth): 21.5 x 28 cm. Process: letterpress Color: black-and-white Edition 100 Signed: Signed and Unnumbered Price Info: $250.00
http://printedmatter.org/catalogue/moreinfo.cfm?title_id=92729
Untitled (One day this kid . . .) New Edition with the Estate of David Wojnarowicz Launch on Wednesday, November 28, 5-7PM Printed Matter has worked with the estate of David Wojnarowicz and PPOW to produce a new letterpress edition of Wojnarowicz’s iconic work, Untitled (One day this kid . . .). The work features an image of Wojnarowicz as an innocent child encompassed by angry bold text describing the abuse that he will inevitably endure in his life because he is gay. The words provide a very powerful and moving autobiographical story of Wojnarowicz's life, giving readers a small insight into the life of this enigmatic East Village artist. Originally published in 1990 as a Photostat, 30 × 40 1/8 in. Edition of 10. This new edition is produced as a letterpress print, in an edition of 100 with 10 Ap's printed by Coeur Noir studio in Williamsburg. Each print has an authentication stamp from the Estate of Wojnarowicz on the back. Printed on a thick 8.5 x 11 inch card the piece feels like a tablet. The embossed texture of the image and text gives this edition a further three dimensional quality. The edition will be launched on Wednesday 28th November from 5pm - 7pm with a small reception at our Chelsea store front. In conjunction with this edition release we have curated a selection of editions, publications and ephemera by and about David Wojnarowicz.
The edition can be purchased here.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Open Letter to Encourage Mutual Citizen Support New York City Artists Unite to Support the Rockaways and the Flooded Areas of New York City
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| No Regrets'' 2012 , Rockaways, NYC. © Ruben Natal-San Miguel |
The Rockaways geographically, as you know, are the area that is breaking the waves between the Atlantic Ocean and JFK Airport and New York City in general. Demographically, it is very diverse and not a privileged area. In recent years, the Rockaways became an incredible inspiration and haven for the artists and creative community of New York. As the Rockaways are, at their best, a melting pot between the local community and the creative energies of the city, it is a location where New York is anticipating and creating the images and dreams we all live on. Hurricane Sandy completely devastated the peninsula, and a couple of days after the storm, families with children are still standing next to their destroyed and ruined houses trying to keep warm without food, water, electricity, heat, or internet. The artistic community is sending you this letter to support the city in your amazing, monumental efforts in all boroughs to save our city and to encourage the creative communities in New York to invent exemplary ways of helping our neighbors and fellow New Yorkers!
Respectfully yours,
Marina Abramovic, Doug Aitken, Francis Alÿs, Darren Aronofsky, Tauba Auerbach, Matthew Barney, Klaus Biesenbach, Adrien Brody, Giada Colagrande, Francisco Costa, Anthony D. Curcio Jr., Willem Dafoe, Anna Deavere Smith, Roe Ethridge, James Franco, Lady Gaga, Antony Hegarty, Jonathan Horowitz, Spike Jonze, Steven Klein, Terence Koh, Padma Lakshmi, Madonna, Laurel Nakadate, Gwyneth Paltrow, Richard Phillips, Jonathan Pierce, Rob Pruitt, Terry Richardson, Rockaway Artists Alliance, Cynthia Rowley, Cindy Sherman, Jenny Shimizu, Patti Smith, Michael Stipe, Mickalene Thomas, Ryan Trecartin, Liv Tyler, Gus Van Sant, Martha Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright, Rachel Weisz, and Italo Zuchelli
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