The Hampton Classic Horse Internation Shw 2015 opens to large crowds and plenty of action: see Fine Art Magazine Quick photo selections

 Off To Catch the special ASPCA adoption events today at the Classic. hope to see some of you there.

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HAMPTON CLASSIC KICKS OFF

Eastenders catch, Mark Borghi, MIHAI "NOVA" POPA Sunday August 23 5-9

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Nina Torres Closing Party . Tonight 6-8 PM, Miami

Forward this Message | Trouble viewing this email? Live Performance by ROLANDO POLO Tenor of Florida Grand Opera SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 6:30PM RSVP: info@ninatorresfineart.com We make your event a work of art! Apply NOW! Nina Torres Fine Art | 1800 N Bayshore Drive, Suite CP1, Miami, FL 33132 USA T | 305.395.3599 W | www.ninatorresfineart.com E | info@ninatorresfineart.com

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Final Weekend Exhibiting in the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery/ Visit by Aug to reg. to win free Topaz Photo Package

Final Weekend Exhibiting in the Jeanie Tengelsen Gallery     "The Brush/Lens Project" Watercolors by Ward Hooper/Photographic  Art by Holly Gordon  August 8 - August 23  View colorful pairings of works comparing and contrasting the  shared vision of two remarkable artists Learn more about the exhibit Read Peter Pitzele's Art/Write on the exhibit! Read the story behind the exhibit in this month's issue of Pulse Magazine written by Bridget Shirvell Watch the interview on Verizon FIOS1 News Push Pause by video journalist Greg Blank Topaz Labs, developers of digital darkroom software and a sponsor of this exhibit, is offering a 15% discount off their software products to those who visit the gallery through August 23. Ask for your coupon code at the front desk if you don't see it in the gallery. And while there, please take a moment to fill out a ticket to be eligible to win Impressions software valued at $99.99. 2014 - 2015 Exhibition Season Sponsored by  Memorial Fund of Mary Abrams -  Norman Abrams - Artpix Studio - The Artful Circle with Debbie Wells and  Franklin Hill Perrell - Bunnye & Fred Avril - Daniel C. Brown - Dawn to Dusk Landscaping - Elan Strategy Consulting  Olivia & Harlan Fischer - Memorial Fund of Marjorie Marran Feeney -  Eleanore & Bob O'Sullivan-  Eleanor & John Perkins - Pat & Bob Ralph - Marge Sammis -  Mary & Chuck Schlapp and our Lead Sponsor   The Art League of Long Island | 107 East Deer Park Rd | Dix Hills NY 11746  631.462.5400 | www.artleagueli.org #Fineartmagazine

Fine Art Magazine -A recap from last years Video of the Hamptons Classic International Show 2014

Catch William Holman Gallery, Rebecca Bird's SYMMETRY Wednesday, September 16, from 6 to 8pm Exhibition on view from September 9 - October 10, 2015

Rebecca Bird: SYMMETRY    Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 16, from 6 to 8pm   Exhibition on view from September 9  -  October 10, 2015   William Holman Gallery | 65 Ludlow Street | New York | www.wholmangallery.com

Rebecca Bird, Helix, 2015, marbling, acrylic and oil on canvas, 50 x 30 inches

NEW YORK, August 11, 2015 -William Holman Gallery is pleased to present a second major exhibition of Rebecca Bird's new paintings and watercolors which explore the aesthetic ideal of symmetry in abstract forms, landscapes, floating geographies and waterscapes.  The works in Symmetry challenge our visual understanding of landscape and space as images that impose rationality (North is up) and subjectivity (foreground/background) on nature.  Bird has twisted the visual language of the landscape using 'double' and 'mirror' images to evoke mystical imagery and scenes from memory, cultural traces of Niagara Falls, and vast imaginary floating islands. The remarkable realism of her draughtsmanship renders many of the works as readable 'places' but they are also unsettling, surreal and reveal traces of anxiety.  The viewer becomes completely engaged in composition and detail - but is never completely secure about where she 'stands' in relationship to the work.

Rebecca Bird, Descent, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 72 x 72 inches

Descent, (72 x 72 inches) is an exquisite and surreal landscape painting in which hundreds of gaudily colored discarded shoes spill over the dusty walls of a crumbing Egyptian building in a composition based on Rembrandt's Descent from the Cross.  The sumptuary painting of the shoes suggests the brief life of consumer goods, while the indistinct urban setting suggests the obscure final destination of discarded products.  The missing half of the story appears in Sour Grapes, 2015; a New York storefront full of plastic fruit, packaging and display William Holman Gallery                           Subways:  65 Ludlow Street                                      F/M or J/M/Z to Essex/ Delancey New York, NY 10002                                B/D to Grand Street 212.475.1500 #fineartmagazine

‘Scapelands’, Sonia Mehra Chawla, Preview | Thursday, 20 August, 2015 | 6pm , till 16 September, 2015

Preview | Thursday, 20 August, 2015 | 6pm onwards Exhibition continues till 16 September, 2015 In her ongoing project, ‘Scapelands’ (2014-2015), supported by a residency grant endowed by the Charles Wallace India Trust and the British Council India, Sonia carries her preoccupation with germinative and gestational energies into a robust engagement with the landscape. ‘Scapelands’ has allowed her the latitude to deepen her research into the resources and possibilities of the axial element of her artistic practice, printmaking, at the London Print Studio, where she experimented with the photopolymer gravure or solarized intaglio fine art printmaking process. “Although photopolymers have been used in industrial processes for several years, their use in fine art printmaking is relatively recent,” writes the artist. “A drawing or photographic image on transparent high quality film is placed on the photopolymer plate and exposed to ultraviolet light in varying degrees. It is then developed and hardened at different stages before it is ready to print. ” This process bears an affinity both to traditional engraving techniques such as aquatint, which emphasizes effects of tone rather than line, and to early photography conceived literally as 'drawing with light' . Fluidly combining the phases of expedition, research, documentation and meditation in ‘Scapelands’, Sonia moves outward into diverse terrains of the natural world and simultaneously inward into the history of artistic practice, renewing landscape as a genre. Her project title is instructive: she inverts the two elements of the genre appellation, ‘landscape’, generating a semantic shift. ‘Landscape’ announces itself as artifice, for it does not exist in nature; it is the artistic imagination’s proposal of a particular way of representing or symbolizing the natural world, of transforming nature into subject. Its mirror twin, ‘Scapeland’, turns this relationship between subject and artifice around, making the ‘-scape’ the focus of inquiry, engaging with the internalized aesthetic concepts and art-historical categories that form an integral part of our lifeworld. The resulting findings constitute a territory that belongs equally to the cartographer and the psychonaut, at once geographic and oneiric. The images gathered together to form ‘Scapelands’ act both as entries in a journal, shaped within time, and as a cycle of archetypes standing outside the flux of time. Sonia Mehra Chawla’s prints and video works elude the tourist’s simple categorizations; instead, they record a pilgrim’s encounters with a universe that retains a measure of unfathomable otherness. Excerpt from Mystery and Inquiry: Reflections on Sonia Mehra Chawla’s ‘Scapelands’, a catalogue essay by Ranjit Hoskote. Supported by the The Charles Wallace India Trust and in collaboration with  #fineartmagazine

Looks Like this wil be late Summer Fun: SUMMER SENDOFF BBQ & BREW free event series every Thursday in September

Think Tank Gallery is proud to announce its SUMMER SENDOFF BBQ & BREW free event series every Thursday in September Think Tank Gallery invites award-winning BBQ by Deaf Man's Sauce, exciting local artists, and a weekly art panel and music show for community get-together everyThursday in September. Our lineup for the first week is an exciting one:

Headlining Artist Baker’s Son September 3, 7-11PM FREE ENTRY RSVP here.   Baker's Son is a hyper-realistic watercolor painter with a pop art mentality and some at-times dark undertones who produces more work than any artist we know. On September 3rd he is having a "garage sale" with dozens and dozens of impressive works.

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AFA Haute Debutante | Exhibition of Paintings to Coincide with NYC Fashion Week, September 5th-September 27th, 2015

NEW YORK, NY | AFA Gallery is pleased to present Haute Debutante, a solo exhibition of thirteen paintings and six drawings by Nataly "Kukula" Abramovitch.  Exhibition Dates September 5th-September 27th,  2015 Free and open to the public Reception for the Artist  September 12th, 2015 6-8pm RSVP requested Gallery Address AFA, 54 Greene Street (at Broome) in SoHo, NYC   Gallery Hours Monday-Saturday: 10-7pm Sunday: 11-6pm  Haute Debutante is a celebration of creative women who use their knowledge and skill to transcend accepted conventions. This collection of new work offers a unique glimpse into the opulent and fabulous world of Kukula's psyche. ABOUT THE ARTIST | Kukula (née Nataly Abramovitch) was born in a relatively isolated village about an hour north of Tel Aviv. After receiving her degree in illustration in 2003 from Vital-Shenkar in 2003, Kukula moved to the the US where she lives now.   FOR MORE INFORMATION 212.226.7374 #fineartmagazine

A Gallery for Fine Photography: Joshua Mann Pailet: Recover, Rebuild, Rebirth: Through September.

	Joshua Mann Pailet Recover, Rebuild, Rebirth Reception Thursday, August 27, 6-8 pm August 27 - November 2, 2015 VIEW THE EXHIBITION Joshua Mann Pailet: Recover, Rebuild, Rebirth, features twenty photographs taken in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and twenty photographs taken across America after The Storm through 2015. The disorder and disruption that resulted from The Storm incited a change in New Orleans as a community. This Exhibition invites viewers to consider the relationship between Pailet’s Storm work and his photographs taken in the past decade. Joshua Mann Pailet, born in 1950, has been shooting, on average, one roll of film daily since 1971. His work includes documentary photographs created in New Orleans, across the USA, Europe, and Mexico. His photographs are included in the collections of Dominique de Menil of The Menil Collection, Bibliothèque national de France, Polk Museum of Art, Annenberg Foundation, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana Arts and Science Museum, and Ogden Museum of Southern Art.

© Joshua Mann Pailet The Heart, Monster’s Ballet, New Orleans-Hurricane Katrina, 2005 (top) Three Layers - The History of New Orleans, French Quarter, Chartres St., 2013 (bottom) A Gallery For Fine Photography 241 Chartres Street, New Orleans, LA 70130    504-568-1313 joshuamann@att.net www.agallery.com

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Gotta Catch this: Nicole Ripka Gallery: Bonnie Lautenberg & Carol Feuerman, Aug. 22 , 5-8 PM

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New or not to the scene: J. OPEN HEART – THE ACRYLIC ARTIST

J. OPEN HEART – THE ACRYLIC ARTIST

J. Open HeART has lived more lives, endured more pain, overcome more obstacles and achieved more success in the past 30 years than the average person. His optimistic resilience has allowed him to sustain himself through his motto of “I am not one of anything… I am one of everything…”

Jared Ryan Shaw by nature is an artist, having dabbled in several creative careers including acting, music, consulting and promoting. Jared’s success is all these industries is indicative of his adaptability, likeability, unparalleled work ethic and determination to succeed. Through all these experiences he has maintained one true identity; Jared is a seeker of truth through creation. While Jared has hit life’s highest highs, he has also fallen to its lowest lows. As an open heart surgery survivor, Jared combines a fighter’s mentality with a passionate appreciation for life, and as such, J. Open HeART was born – inspired by his personal triumph. He has evolved from being an extension of who Jared Ryan Shaw is, to being synonymous with him. Just as Superman is Clark Kent, J. Open HeART is Jared; they are one in the same, powerful and complimentary.

J. Open HeART has described the process of creating his art as “feeding his pure” due in part to the internal artistic satisfaction he gains, and also because of the truth he can perpetuate with a blank canvas. Without formal training or education, he embarked upon his artistic journey through trial and error. His use of an extreme color palette mixed with his ability to live outside of the box led J. Open HeART to creative freedom. His initial plan was to simply define art through the exploration of different platforms. But like most plans in life, it changed. What subsequently blossomed was a lifelong devotion to the creation of art, and ultimately the study of himself as an artist.

With a blank canvas, he began to create. Ignoring the paintbrush beside him, J. Open HeART squeezed the energy of his soul into the black acrylic tube in his hands, and instantaneously he coined this act “paint-stained emotions.” While existential thoughts swirled, and curiosity peaked his attention, he was left in a state of self-reflection. He describes this time as “…an artist coming out of [him], but [not] understanding what the artist was.” As the paint flowed out of the tube, so did his emotional grief and achievements; he felt something that he’d never felt before, something that the great highs from his past lives could not compare to. He felt his pure artistic energy and vowed to forever feed it.

At that moment, J. Open Heart saw something in the organized chaos of his work and took a step back from his creative epiphany to observe it. He watched the unintentionally splattered paint dry thick, forming texture and curvature to a once flat surface. Since that time, he has never stopped evolving his originally formed style he now aptly dubs “soul flow.” Soul flow is influenced by J. Open HeART’s life, his experiences, his energy, and his love for music – in particular hip-hop – but never a particular artist as he is currently forming his individual artistry.

Never one to shy away from hard work, J. Open HeART has spent the past couple years exploring his natural artistic ability by honing his skills. Commercial success has followed, as the art industry was quick to identify his raw talent and buy into it. He held his first solo show in November 2014, a three week exhibition, attended by top executives in the entertainment world from networks like HBO and Showtime. Seven out of ten pieces sold and this quick success led to the participation in Art Basel in December 2014, which connects premier artists and gallery owners from around the world. There, he designed a live 100 foot working bar installation at the UNTITLED exhibit that was cobranded by Jitney New York and Heineken. Fast forward to February 2015, and J. Open HeART was the highest grossing artist at the UNICEF art show in Venice, CA. In less than a year, he has been able to sell almost 20 of his pieces and has gained the attention of actor Liam Hemsworth, filmmaker and street artist Mr. Brainwash, and famous artist turned personal friend Domingo Zapata.

In the same way boxers put their emotions in the ring, J. Open HeART puts his soul into his painting, allowing him to release his emotions to serve as a form of spiritual therapy. While he has no immediate plans to return to acting, music or the boxing world, he doesn’t rule it out. He also doesn’t dismiss the idea of evolving into other artistic platforms, whether it’s using oil or another form of mixed media. But right now “acrylic feels right.”