Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing
Modern Art in Brazil

Publisher NY Art Magazine: Abraham Lubelski

The post Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil appeared first on NY Arts Magazine.

Jairo Alfonso, 386, 2

Dear Abraham,

Gallery 8 New York opens in Harlem next Thursday with an inaugural exhibition 17 Cuban artists from FACTION Art Projects.

The exhibition, All That You Have Is Your Soul (Feb 2 – March 10) curated by Armando Marino and Meyken Barreto is a group show of 17 artists, all of whom are tied together by their responses to building identity within a foreign land. The exhibition uses the link of heritage between the artists to present artworks that celebrate difference in identity. Each artist in the show has some relationship to Cuba, some island-born emigres, some with careers developed in Cuba and others with more distant descendants. This starting point, a key point of identity for some, but not for others, offers a tangible bond in their linked roots, but the overriding premise is that as a group they mean to redefine themselves within their unique circumstance.

Artists exhibiting:

Alejandro Aguilera, Anthony Goicolea, Armando Mariño, Ariel Cabrera Montejo, Elsa Mora, Enrique De Molina, Ernesto Pujol, Geandy Pavon, Jairo Alfonso, Juan Carlos Quintana, Juan Miguel Pozo, Juana Valdes Maria Magdalena Campos Pons, Marc Dennis, Maritza Molina, Marta Maria Perez, Pavel Acosta, Quisqueya Henriquez

Throughout the show FACTION will seek to engage with local communities of the Harlem neighborhood. This will include a series of School Workshops, Curators’ Talks, a Neighborhood Welcoming Day, Artist Workshops, Panel Discussions and a Cuban Cultural Evening.
FACTION provides artists with promotion and opportunity to access collectors and a wider audience, with all the support of a gallery but without the constraints of the traditional model. FACTION is a new flexible collective, from the team behind the hugely successful Gallery 8 and Coates & Scarry in London, who in this, their foray into the US, are adapting a unique model for artists and gallerists to work together.

All the very best,

Anna

Thanks and congratulation on a significant program and exhibit.

Abraham Lubelski

Editor / Publisher

Press Release

Geandy Pavon, Wrinkled Wing, 201

The post 17 Cuban artists: All That You Have Is Your Soul appeared first on NY Arts Magazine.

Image courtesy of Gagosian Paris.

Piero Golia was introduced to Abraham Lubelski shortly after he arrived in New York. He was instantly given his first opportunity to exhibit at Broadway Gallery as well as contribute to the design and editorial side of NY Arts Magazine. Piero has since catapulted to the upper crust of the art world, and has been featured in shows all across the globe alongside some of the largest art stars of today. His latest body of work, a promising series including a number of clever miniatures, is set to open tomorrow, February 28th at Gagosian Paris. We continue to follow his dynamic, independent, and whimsical views of society and ourselves as we wish him as always the best. A significant number of Golia’s early drawings remain part of Abraham Lubelski’s personal collection.

For more information click Here.

The post Celebrating Piero Golia appeared first on NY Arts Magazine.

Recent work by Adam Chodzko. Image courtesy of the Benaki Museum.

You’ll see; this time it’ll be different is a site-specific working by the renowned UK artist. It takes place within the framework of the series “Artists in Dialogue with the Benaki Museum”, a collaboration with the British Council, which started in 2011 and aims to bring together artists from Greece and Britain.

For his project, Adam Chodzko stages a retrospective exhibition of imaginary Benaki Museum posters from the near future, installed along the liminal space of the Pireos building’s ramp. Through this poster series, the Benaki Museum is seen to have spread into surprising and awkward venues across Greece, ending up scattered and yet whole. Accompanying this collection of future exhibition posters is a video which documents the various ‘private collections’ that have been custodians of these records of the museum’s activities. Revealing a series of ordinary domestic spaces where these posters have hung – and acquired their ‘aura’ from traces of age and use – we see that, rather than originating from official and national sources, they are on loan from diverse, remote and unexpected places.

Adam Chodzko considers the museum as an emotional and idiosyncratic living being, which becomes increasingly hybrid and integrates into daily life. He imagines the moment where it reflects on its recent activities and challenges us to reconsider and deconstruct stereotypes regarding both its audience and its exhibits. This process leads us to make assumptions about who a museum might be for and who defines the meaning and value of a nation’s culture and thus takes responsibility for preserving and promoting it.

In the spirit of the ‘Artists in Dialogue with the Benaki Museum’ programme, the installation You’ll See; This Time it’ll Be Different thus reflects on the role of the museum in the representation of history, memory, knowledge and tradition, as well as on the conditions of viewing and on the relation between artistic production and the institutional space of its reception.

Chodzko’s work is the third project realized in the framework of the ‘Artists in Dialogue…’ programme. In its inaugural year (2011), UK artist Andy Holden engaged with the context of the Benaki Museum’s ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, while in 2012, Greek artist Antonis Pittas created a sensory installation using the interior ramp of the Benaki Museum’s Pireos Street building.

Adam Chodzko was born in London in 1965 and today lives and works in Whitstable, Kent, UK. He studied Art History at the University of Manchester and Fine Art at Goldsmiths College. His context-specific works in a wide range of mediums, from videos to installations, performance and painting, focus on the intersections between fiction and reality and on the traces of reality shifts in objects, places, but also audiences and networks of people. For this particular project he was mostly interested in using archival material from the Benaki Museum to imagine a transposition of roles among the custodians of works of art, but also of their meaning outside a certain context, and speculate on the potential of the intuitive reactions they trigger.

Text courtesy of the Benaki Museum

The post Adam Chodzko the Benaki Museum appeared first on NY Arts Magazine.

Image courtesy of the artist.

Caught in creativity, the past 10 years mainly made me paint-study-paint, feeling like a mirror when expressing our BEING in the wonderful nature which our globe is offering, nature which is fathering my work and constantly wants to be discovered anew. Extensive travels have allowed creating on-the-spot of over 20 little travel-sketch books, some excerpts of which will be shown at the Broadway gallery vernissage in the near future. Here some thoughts which arise while viewing this work: Evaporatrion—the eternal circle of steaming is painted here: sun hits the watery surface of the oceans, makes steam rise in convergence and gives it all back to us in form of rains, snowflakes, hale prior to flowing back into the oceans.  Little me, I feel very much like the recipient making valuable use of it.

In summary, the beauty and the width of both the ocean (my watery sea) and the desert (my sandy sea) are highly important factors of impression and expression for my work.

traute-macom.eu

The post Traute Macom appeared first on NY Arts Magazine.

Image courtesy of the artist.

As an artist working with many mediums, I have also developed a special interest in mixed media paintings. I enjoy incorporating multicolored material layers—silk, ribbons, beads, and various fabrics to create a three-dimensional affect for cityscapes, sky lined against rich, vibrant watercolor skies. My watercolors can take up to fourteen layers of carefully applied individual hues. I use my own photographs of my favorite city, Melbourne, to capture the different times of day and the colors that the city displays. I also have produced a number of mixed media creations of other cities for commissioned work.

agili.com.au

The post Agnes Parcesepe appeared first on NY Arts Magazine.

Image courtesy of the artist.

My individual realist style combines painting with drawing, juxtaposing stark black and white graphite images on paper, with opulent acrylics on canvas. My somewhat oversized canvases transport the viewer to rambunctious inner-city settings, where counter-culture characters wearing street inspired dress, and reflecting an abrasive, yet nonchalant attitude, aggressively confront and engage with the audience. Abandoned brick buildings adorned with colorful graffitti messages and imagery, evoke the underground intrigue and dangers of revolutionary artistic critiques of culture. My graffitti imagery is not only meant as mere adornment to enhance the hardcore atmosphere of the inner city compositions, but also as symbolic codes and challenges to the overbearing power structure and the politically correct world in which we live. In my new “Forgotten Faces” series, I want to remind the viewer of those whom our society has forgotten, particularly, the countless homeless veterans. My visual compositions often include messages meant to engage the viewer, and hopefully prompt them to think as well as to enjoy the artistic merit of the composition.

malluber.com

The post Mal Luber appeared first on NY Arts Magazine.

Image courtesy of the artist.

I enjoy creating digital art. Most of my digital work is created with Ultra Fractal and Mandala Maker. I use Paint Shop Pro to modify images including photographs.  

mario-carini.html

The post Mario Carini appeared first on NY Arts Magazine.

Image courtesy of the artist.

All my stories are from the chaos of imagery I’ve gained from the world, people, and from my unknown self. I paint stories in the purest form with my own visual language.

flowerwellart.com

The post Yirang Kim appeared first on NY Arts Magazine.

Image courtesy of the artist.

With a background in therapy and an active practice, I draw heavily on her understanding and experience of the wide range of human emotions to capture a rawness and deep understanding in her paintings. Here, I take feelings, sensations and observations of human experience, and transforms them into stunning compositions rich in color, texture, movement, and form. I want to translate emotions, psychological and complex emotions, that we have every day.

oliviaboa.sitew.com

The post Olivia Boa appeared first on NY Arts Magazine.