Author Archives: mauri
You Are Here, Ken Nintzel at BAM
Ken Nintzel‘s You Are Here is a modular installation that recreates the constellations of the night sky in physical form, as they are depicted in celestial atlases, and suspends them overhead to create a life-size stellarium. You Are Here, Ken Nintzel September 17 – December 22, 2013 BAM Brooklyn bam.org
5×5 Real Un Real
Featuring: Nathan Anspaugh, Nayari Castillo, Zhivago Duncan, J. Henry Fair, Richard Garet, Pepe López, Justin Maxon, Yucef Merhi, Juan Carlos Rodriguez and Daniel Shea. 5×5 Real Un Real November 7 – 30, 2013 Opening: November 7, 6 – 9pm One Art Space 23 Warren Street New York City vaearts.org
Jaana Houessou
I am a Finnish visual artist. I work partly in Finland, partly in Benin, West Africa. Locating myself continuously between the Scandinavian and African cultural atmospheres reflects strongly in my pieces. Often my paintings observe the happenings, views and thoughts of everyday life. I paint and draw overlapping layers of images, colors, characters and texts. […]
Albert Ortega
For the past three years I’ve been combining street art with fine art in an attempt to unify the two. The addition of bright colors and traditional Mexican artwork helped me bring my heritage to canvas. All of my most resent subjects are from the surrounding area of the southwest. They have ranged in many races […]
OK Seo
One of lifetime subjects for my art is to investigate the desire of a human being as the origin of his or her own suffering. An excessive desire seems to be the major reason for the unhappiness of a human being. My first work The Flower of Evil describes the greediness stemming from the strong […]
Painting Impossible
Featuring: Todd Bienvenu, Katherine Bradford, Jim Herbert, Arnold Mesches, Karen Schwartz Painting Impossible November 8 to December 22, 2013 Reception: November 8, 6:00 – 9:00 pm Life on Mars 56 Bogart St. Brooklyn lifeonmarsgallery.com
Tribute to Errors and Leftovers with Konrad Smolenski and Daniel Szwed
Dressed only in balaclavas and pants, Daniel Szwed and Konrad Smolenski unleash a dynamic three hour sound explosion as part of Performa 13. Fresh from representing Poland in the Venice Biennale, Smolenski sets the tone in deafening fashion with his custom electric instrument modeled after a tomahawk missile, while Szwed mounts a particularly violent assault […]
Gianni Caravaggio and the Essence of the Image
For years now Gianni Caravaggio’s work has insistently been posing a single question: what is the essence of an image? Posing this question at the end of postmodernity means freeing oneself from any fears of comparisons with the past, shedding all neo-isms, post-isms, and trans-isms to expose oneself to an original gesture, to an initial […]
Alessandra Ricci
Artistic action posits a relationship with the spectator that prompts emotions and reflections through visual content.Through my art, I express concepts and emotions that are tied to my life experiences. After months of meditation, I impress my conceived images on canvas using varied and new techniques. My double canvas paintings represent explicit messages where the […]
