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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Tubac Festival of the Arts
Leg Timchenko's Come Together
LEG TIMCHENKO'S COME TOGETHER
Oleg Timchenko, Dilema, 2011 (Acrylic on canvas, 100x100cm.)
Oleg Timchenko
COME TOGETHER
October 25 - November 6, 2011
Opening reception: October 27, 2011 6-9 P.M.
Fragmented from this famous song, Oleg Timchenko’s exhibition, Come Together symbolizes reflections of variable subjects, themes, and emotional moods. With his works, Oleg Timchenko, invites us to visit an entirely new world of possibilities.
Timchenko’s paintings confront ambiguity and guide us to a state of being and belonging. This duality can be sensed in the apparently lonely context where his characters are situated, some anxious and uncertain, some exuberant and merry. As titans fighting against each other and loosing strength, figures riding hieratically looking for a path, children running to eternity and loneliness surrounded by wealth - these are all part of the complexity in his paintings. However, the visible desolation in each ouvre is stabilized with an atmosphere of hope. Here is the expressive power in the art that develops poignant tension and emotional force that is equally balanced with the desire to discover and live in a world full of love, camaraderie, ecstasy and light.
Oleg Timchenko’s works pull spectators away from reality into the great unknown. We get a glimpse of his imagination through the lines and colors that create an intimacy that leaves you with dreamy nostalgia and a subtle feeling of unrest while at the time invites us to join him on his journey of love and harmony.
So lets “come together”
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Oleg Timchenko
In 1917, due to the noble origin of his heritage, Oleg’s family was forced to flee their
homeland for fear of repressions shortly after Russian revolution.
Oleg’s Grandfather, Evgenyi Gulitskii, was a famous businessman who aided the first Russian aviators and various progressive hi-tech projects of his time, while his brother Konstantine worked in a royal chancellery for Emperor Nicholas II.
His father Ivan Timchenko was originally from Vitebsk, graduated from the Geological Institute, and worked in Caucasus where he met Oleg’s mother – his future wife and stayed to live in Tbilisi. Oleg Timchenko was born in old district of Tbilisi in 1957 where he went to local public school, and in 1982 he graduated Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts.
1987 through 1991, Oleg worked as a painter in the Marjanishvili Theater. There Timchenko and his friends created theatric group “10-th floor” and several years later created the painters’ group “Marjanishvili” which immediately attracted the attention of critics and professionals in 1980’s when staged performances, installations and actions involving men from the street.
His work has been exhibited across Europe from Georgia, Prague, Budapest to Berlin, Paris and the UK. His works are in the permanent collections of prestigious museums such as Tsaritsino Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, Tbilisi Museum of Contemporary Art and Ludwig Museum, Budapest , Hungary. His artworks remain in private collections coveted by private collectors such as Wolfgang Flatz, President Saakashvili, and Badri Patarkachishvili - among others.
Oleg Timchenko
COME TOGETHER
October 25 - November 6, 2011
Opening reception: October 27, 2011 6-9 P.M.
Fragmented from this famous song, Oleg Timchenko’s exhibition, Come Together symbolizes reflections of variable subjects, themes, and emotional moods. With his works, Oleg Timchenko, invites us to visit an entirely new world of possibilities.
Timchenko’s paintings confront ambiguity and guide us to a state of being and belonging. This duality can be sensed in the apparently lonely context where his characters are situated, some anxious and uncertain, some exuberant and merry. As titans fighting against each other and loosing strength, figures riding hieratically looking for a path, children running to eternity and loneliness surrounded by wealth - these are all part of the complexity in his paintings. However, the visible desolation in each ouvre is stabilized with an atmosphere of hope. Here is the expressive power in the art that develops poignant tension and emotional force that is equally balanced with the desire to discover and live in a world full of love, camaraderie, ecstasy and light.
Oleg Timchenko’s works pull spectators away from reality into the great unknown. We get a glimpse of his imagination through the lines and colors that create an intimacy that leaves you with dreamy nostalgia and a subtle feeling of unrest while at the time invites us to join him on his journey of love and harmony.
So lets “come together”
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Oleg Timchenko
In 1917, due to the noble origin of his heritage, Oleg’s family was forced to flee their
homeland for fear of repressions shortly after Russian revolution.
Oleg’s Grandfather, Evgenyi Gulitskii, was a famous businessman who aided the first Russian aviators and various progressive hi-tech projects of his time, while his brother Konstantine worked in a royal chancellery for Emperor Nicholas II.
His father Ivan Timchenko was originally from Vitebsk, graduated from the Geological Institute, and worked in Caucasus where he met Oleg’s mother – his future wife and stayed to live in Tbilisi. Oleg Timchenko was born in old district of Tbilisi in 1957 where he went to local public school, and in 1982 he graduated Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts.
1987 through 1991, Oleg worked as a painter in the Marjanishvili Theater. There Timchenko and his friends created theatric group “10-th floor” and several years later created the painters’ group “Marjanishvili” which immediately attracted the attention of critics and professionals in 1980’s when staged performances, installations and actions involving men from the street.
His work has been exhibited across Europe from Georgia, Prague, Budapest to Berlin, Paris and the UK. His works are in the permanent collections of prestigious museums such as Tsaritsino Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia, Tbilisi Museum of Contemporary Art and Ludwig Museum, Budapest , Hungary. His artworks remain in private collections coveted by private collectors such as Wolfgang Flatz, President Saakashvili, and Badri Patarkachishvili - among others.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The National Portrait Gallery of Kessa: The Art of Arabella Proffer
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Famed Interior Designer Juan Montoya Designs Art Miami VIP Lounge
FAMED INTERIOR DESIGNER JUAN MONTOYA DESIGNS ART MIAMI VIP LOUNGE
Art and Design will intersectthis year at Art Miami’s 22nd edition
MIAMI, FL – (October 24, 2011) - Art Miami (www.art-miami.com), Miami’s longest running contemporary art fair and anchor fair to the City of Miami has partnered with its official host hotel, Mandarin Oriental, Miami to engage interior designer Juan Montoya to design an incredible VIP Lounge at Art Miami’s 22nd edition, which will run November 29 – December 4, 2011.
Inspired by the modern and contemporary artwork showcased annually at Art Miami, Montoya will transform a 2,000-square-foot space that’s located in the epicenter of Art Miami’s state-of-the-art pavilion where VIP collectors, sponsors and art dealers connect to network, entertain and host client meetings.
Sponsored by Mandarin Oriental, one of the most luxurious five-star hotels in the city, the VIP lounge will combine the sophistication of Miami, with the cultural heritage of the Far East — filled with rich, yet muted tones and exotic furnishings from Indonesia. The centerpiece bamboo sculpture will entice Art Miami VIPs into the interior private seating area for more intimate conversations. A specially created bar topped with custom Indonesian wood will provide the ideal social setting for networking, whilestriking cowhide rugs will blanket the floor, accenting the overall décor.
“Since Art Miami exhibitors display high quality art work, I felt that it was important to give the VIP audience an opportunity to have a place that’s equally as sophisticated so they can discuss art,” Juan Montoya said. “I wanted this space to be unique — something that had not been done before. The statement pieces, furnishings and fabrics all beautifully complement the artwork featured at Art Miami.”
With more than 110 prestigious international galleries participating, Art Miami is a “can’t miss” event for collectors, curators, museum professionals and art enthusiasts to acquire some of the finest and most important works of art that the contemporary market has to offer. The fair will include modern and contemporary paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and prints from Europe, Asia, Latin America, India, the Middle East and the United States. Distinguished for its quality, depth, and diversity, Art Miami maintains a preeminent position in America’s contemporary art fair market.
“We are really looking forward to seeing Juan Montoya’s vision of the Art Miami VIP Lounge come to life, courtesy of the Mandarin Oriental, Miami,” said Nick Korniloff, Director of Art Miami. “Art Miami is truly a venue that inspires artists, collectors and interior designers alike and that’s evident in Juan Montoya’s elaborate design.”
About Art Miami:
Miami’s longest running contemporary art fair, Art Miami will run from November 30 – December 4, 2011. As the anchor art fair to the city of Miami, the fair will return with a compelling array of modern and contemporary artwork from over 110 international galleries and prominent art institutions. Art Miami will be held in a state-of-the-art 125,000 square foot pavilion in Miami’s burgeoning Wynwood arts district. Art Miami’s highly anticipated Opening Night VIP Preview, on Tuesday, November 29, 2011, will benefit The Lotus House Women’s Shelter. $25 donationpayable at the door or purchased in advance online.
About Mandarin Oriental, Miami:
Contemporary in design and with a prominent waterfront location, the luxurious Mandarin Oriental, Miami features 326 elegant guest rooms and suites – offering dramatic views of the bay and the Miami skyline. Amenities include two high-energy restaurants, M-Bar – a dynamic cocktail lounge and martini bar, an award-winning tri-level spa, Oasis Beach Club, the luxury boutique ShanghaiTang and extensive meeting and business facilities. For more information onMandarin Oriental, Miami visit www.mandarinoriental.com/miami
About Juan Montoya:
One of the most acclaimed and prolific interiordesigners in the world today, Juan Montoya was born and spent his early years in Columbia. After studying architecture in Bogota, he moved to New York, where he graduated from Parsons School of Design. Following two years of work andstudy in Paris and Milan, he returned to New York, where he founded the design business he has presided over since 1978. His firm specializes in residential and contract interior design, with projects located throughout the United States and abroad. He also designs and markets an extensive line of furniture. A member of the Interior Design Hall of Fame and recipient of the honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Parson School of Design, his contributions to the field of interior design are widely recognized.
South Miami Rotary Art Festival
South Miami Rotary
Art Festival
Art Festival
Call to Artists
Deadline Approaching - October 29, 2011
What: South Miami Rotary Art Festival
Where: Downtown South Miami on Sunset Drive between Red Road and US#1
When: February 25-26, 2012, Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM - 6 PM
General information:
*Fees: Application - $30
Booths - $295, $350,& $395
*Drive-up to booth space for load in and out
*Coffee and donuts Saturday morning
*Booth sitters available
*Prizes - $3,250
*Cost to public: Free admission
Festival Timeline:
Deadline - Oct. 29, 2011
Notificationemailed - Nov. 19, 2011
Booth fee due - Dec. 17, 2011
Refund deadline - Jan. 7, 2012
Festival setup - Feb. 25, 2012, 6 AM
Festival breakdown - Feb. 26, 6 PM-8 PM
This is the 28th annual festival presented by the Rotary Club of South Miami on the main street of vibrant downtown South Miami. In an area of unique shops and restaurants with high pedestrian traffic, the show attracts approximately 30,000 visitors. There is free artist parking nearby, ample on street and garage parking for visitors, and fine South Florida weather,
Advertising includes newspaper, radio, magazine, online, street banners, pole banners and social media. The festival program is a newspaper insert distributed one week in advance as well as at the festival.
Apply at www.zapplicaton.org
Visit us at www.southmiamiartfest.org
Email questions to info@southmiamiartfest.org
Allegra LaViola Gallery - Die Like You Really Mean It
Allegra LaViola Gallery
Erik Benson, Paul Brainard, Pia Dehne, Hiroyuki Hamada, Elizabeth Huey, Erika Keck,
Emily Noelle Lambert, Frank Lentini, Eddie Martinez, Brian Montuori, Bryan Osburn, Kanishka Raja, Erika Ranee, Tom Sanford, Christopher Saunders, Kristen Schiele, Ryan Schneider, Oliver Warden, Frank Webster, Eric White and Doug Young
October 26 – December 3, 2011
Opening Reception: October 26, 6-9PM
Allegra LaViola Gallery is pleased to present Die Like You Really Mean It, a group exhibition on view from October 26 – December 3. The exhibition is curated by artists Paul Brainard and Frank Webster and features new paintings and sculpture by over twenty artists living in the New York metro area.
The curators have assembled an energetic and dynamic show, where each work registers as a highly charged expression of the individual artist. Brainard and Webster have maintained a special interest in choosing works that register not as intentionally ironic but rather as sincerely and at times viscerally rendered. This exhibition celebrates painting as a healthy, living, and variegated mode of art making in New York.
The works included in this exhibition are often resistant to purely formalist and conceptual concerns, engaging themes that extend beyond the material media of painting. Figurative and scenic elements may invite narrative readings while color is used forcefully, liberally, or selectively. The expressive qualities of color among the works range widely from Oliver Warden’s transformative explosions of color, to Hiroyuki Hamada’s restrained, bi-chromatic capsule-like wall reliefs. Also of concern among the works is the relationship between the human being and its environment, exemplified by Erik Benson and Kristen Schiele’s depictions of inhabited indoor and outdoor settings, Pia Dehne’s complex compositions in which figure and ground are enmeshed through lyrical patterns of line and geometry, and Kanishka Raja’s use of pattern to unite various specific locations depicted in the same visual space.
Atypically, this show exalts in its contrasts. The works of Chris Saunders and Brian Montuori could best sum this up. Saunder’s paintings are slick and calm on the surface but belie an unsettling and subversive content, while Montuori’s vision is a veritable disgorgement of expressionist storm and bluster. Each artist pushes the medium with equal passion, but in radically different directions, with starkly different results. This passion however is one thing all of the artists in Die Like You Really Mean It share in common.
—Paul Brainard, Kristen Lorello and Frank Webster
Allegra LaViola Gallery | 179 East Broadway | New York, NY 10002
T917.463.3901E gallery@allegralaviola.com
www.allegralaviola.com
Q & A with Miguel Gonçalves Mendes
Q & A with Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, Director of the Documentary "José & Pilar"
As part of Saramago's Week in New York
Thursday, October 27, 8:30pm at Rooster Gallery
190 Orchard Street, Manhattan
Followed by Iberian Screening featuring Portuguese & Spanish Short Films
10pm at Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue, Manhattan
For additional information please visit: www.roostergallery.com
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
A Dickens Store
A Dickens Store!
Nov. & Dec.
Nov. & Dec.
We are still taking applications for our
Pearl Street Mall Location!
Pearl Street Mall Location!
"You set it up... We do all the rest!
*Spaces 4' X 8' to 6' X 8'
*Cost $400 - $600 and only a 30% commission.
*Cost $400 - $600 and only a 30% commission.
*The Pearl Street Mall gets 10,000 people a day. We're in the center of the mall.
*You set your booth up and we run it like a fine arts & crafts gallery.
*Vendors do not need to be at the store at all, but are welcomed to man their booths at their leisure!
*Vendors do not need to be at the store at all, but are welcomed to man their booths at their leisure!
*We're there 7 days a week 10 - 12 hours a day selling your products during the busiest time of the year!
*We are all artists and craftspersons that started this, so we know what you need!... see more photos and apply online!
Trick or Treat SPECIAL: Mention this ad and get $100 Off your Booth Fee if signed up by Halloween!!!!
BOO! Humbug! A deal even Scrooge would love!
For More info Call or check out our website below!
Booths will fill up fast so sign up over the phone.
Tim Newberg
A Dickens Store
1107 12th St #233
Boulder, CO 80302
Beat Nite - Bushwick Art Spaces Stay Open Late
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Concrete Sound: An Installation by Audra Wolowiec
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Jim D'Amato
The Art Dossier Market Presents: Jim D'Amato
"Entity 2", 2011. Hand pulled serigraph on 100 % rag paper. Signed, open edition. 16.75" x 11". (50 USD).
Click here to purchase and to see more works by the artist.
When we first met Jim D’Amato we were visiting an art fair in Miami, we had a brief and friendly introduction and both parties were on their way. When we met him again we were at another art fair, this time in New York, and after this we ran into him at just about every other art event we went to. He is a busy man and supports his fellow artists in anyway he knows how, whether it is showing up, word of mouth or most recently curating his own show that included work from 12 of his peers. The man is everywhere not because he is a busy body but because he genuinely cares about his fellow artists, the state of the art world and supporting the artistic community as a whole. Above all this, he cares about educating his own eye and forging meaningful relationships with the world around him.
This commitment to his fellow artists translates ten fold in his commitment to his own work. Jim is an artist through and through, he is not a part time artist who dabbles in a bit of this and a bit of that, he lives and breathes art. He is constantly looking at what others are doing; constantly evaluating his own work and understanding how to make it grow and adapt, and looking at what has worked in his past work and what has not.
Part science fiction, part automatic drawing, this edition of silk-screen prints created exclusively for The Art Dossier exemplifies all of this. When we had our first studio visit with Jim, we fell in love with his intense, layered, thick, snaking, abstract paintings. These silk-screens are a smaller manifestation of those paintings and they are available exclusively through The Art Dossier Market at a price that makes them accessible to most.
Click here to purchase and to see more works by the artist.
When we first met Jim D’Amato we were visiting an art fair in Miami, we had a brief and friendly introduction and both parties were on their way. When we met him again we were at another art fair, this time in New York, and after this we ran into him at just about every other art event we went to. He is a busy man and supports his fellow artists in anyway he knows how, whether it is showing up, word of mouth or most recently curating his own show that included work from 12 of his peers. The man is everywhere not because he is a busy body but because he genuinely cares about his fellow artists, the state of the art world and supporting the artistic community as a whole. Above all this, he cares about educating his own eye and forging meaningful relationships with the world around him.
This commitment to his fellow artists translates ten fold in his commitment to his own work. Jim is an artist through and through, he is not a part time artist who dabbles in a bit of this and a bit of that, he lives and breathes art. He is constantly looking at what others are doing; constantly evaluating his own work and understanding how to make it grow and adapt, and looking at what has worked in his past work and what has not.
Part science fiction, part automatic drawing, this edition of silk-screen prints created exclusively for The Art Dossier exemplifies all of this. When we had our first studio visit with Jim, we fell in love with his intense, layered, thick, snaking, abstract paintings. These silk-screens are a smaller manifestation of those paintings and they are available exclusively through The Art Dossier Market at a price that makes them accessible to most.
Read below to learn more about Jim in Jim’s words as he discusses his process, his background and what went into creating this series of work. We hope you love them as much as we do.
1) You created this work especially for The Art Dossier, tell us a bit about your concept for this series of work.
This series of serigraphs explore a primal, multidimensional space, which has haunted my work for several years. They’re comprised of intricate, visceral forms that have evolved over time.
2) Can you talk about your process and methods used for creating this series.
It was important that the images could take on many permutations via their reproduction. I sought to create images that were graphically intense. In order to achieve this I made detailed black and white drawings, which eventually became images used in the silk screening process.
3) What is unique about this series of prints?
Every print is hand pulled and printed on 100 % rag paper. These are also the first open editions I’ve ever made. Recently I’ve become intrigued by the possibilities of infinite reproduction.
4) What are your traditional methods of working? How is this series similar and how is this dissimilar?
At times creating this series has typified my traditional process, and at other times it has forced me to work in opposition to it. All of my work is labor intensive, and comes from drawing. However preparing these images to be printed forced me to push myself, refine my process, and be patient.
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Jim D’Amato (born 1978) is an American abstract artist. His work has been exhibited internationally in both galleries and museum stores. Jim attended the School of Visual Arts in New York, and studied with legendary artists Jack Whitten, and Mary Heilman, among others. He has been included in group exhibitions with Richard Serra, H.R. Giger, Alex Grey, and more.
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