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Soft Power

NURTUREart Non-Profit is pleased to present Soft Power, a group exhibition curated byAmanda B. Friedman and Elizabeth Hirsch, featuring artists: Phillip Birch, Mike Calway-Fagen, Jillian Conrad, Jeff DeGolier, Bethany Fancher, Christina Leung, Duncan Malashock, and Alina Tenser.   Just as the political strength of an idea can be derived from its identification as ‘apolitical,’ the […]

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Cinematography of Urban Madness

Pietro Reviglio – Cinematography of Urban MadnessAddress:  COLUMBIA UNIVERSITYITALIAN ACADEMY FOR ADVANCED STUDIESThe Italian Academy1161 Amsterdam Avenue,New York, NY 10027 Date:  April 6 – May 3 2011 Opening Reception and book signing: Wednesday April 6, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.Rsvp at www.italianacademy.columbia.edu       Cinematography. Doubt. Folly. Rationality and irrationality merging across the background […]

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Mollyne Karnofsky

“I have an affinity for found objects and found spaces. It seems to me a creative plus to utilize objects in the environments of my own Found Spaces such as broken and discarded objects or transform the space with my Paper Environments.”. Mollyne Karnofsky, Open Deck, City is Situ, 2007. Mixed media and paper, 11 […]

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Peer Kriesel

Peer Kriesel is shocked about this crazy world.     Data protection and an apparently increasing confusion within the society, the conflict between traditional aesthetics, old values and the new beauty – these are some of the topics the artist Peer Kriesel is dealing with in his work.Since years, the artist concentrates on these issues […]

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Laura Moore

Laura Moore creates work with an intimate understanding of the materiality.     Laura Moore creates work with an intimate understanding of the materiality.  Using stone, wood, and drawing she pushes the boundary between sculpture and environment.  Her thoughtful pieces cause us to reflect on our physical embodiment of the space around us.  Collectively, her […]

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Claire Phipps

Bold colors and graphic black line-work cascade across the canvas Bonnie Gloris Bold colors and graphic black line-work cascade across the canvas, defining forms at once supple and sculptural. Figures breathe life and movement as they create startlingly emphatic compositons. With sinuous lines, animals and people are frozen within moments of sublime intensity and spirit. […]

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Scott Musgrove

Musgrove’s style of figural surrealism carries themes of environmental issues and endangered wildlife concerns with unique humor, depicting anomalous extinct (and fictitious) animal species. The artist’s imaginative work is painted and sculpted with inventive attention to the anatomical details of his subjects. Through a combination of biological attributes both real and imagined, Musgrove’s work illustrates […]

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Yoko D’Holbachie

Animals, insects, fish, and toys… These things used to be close to me when I was a child. I like to take these in my design. Maybe it is because my childhood memory is vivid, or I am still childish. I love long tentacle-like shapes with stripes or dappled patterns, such as octopus tentacles and […]

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Screwball Spaces

Saturday, April 30th and Sunday May 1st, 2011 from 12–6 pm Brooklyn, New York — March 15th 2011 — The artist community of Screwball Spaces is please to announce it’s spring 2011 Open Studio Weekend. Over 70 artists will open their studios to the public. Paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, mixed media and a few things […]

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B r e a t h i n g

Curator Soo Jung Hyun / Asst. Curator Sung Ho Choi                              March 29 – April 26, 2011Tuesday- Saturday11:00 am – 6:00 pmReception: March 29, Tuesday, 6-8 pm   In recent years the art world has under gone tremendous changes involving expanded varieties of multimedia form. Diverse categories, such as modernism, avant-gardism, post-structuralism, and multiculturalism have given […]

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