Displaced
Leviticus
http://leviticusandhisart.com/
Al Benkin
After 30 odd years of living as a one-armed art-maker, I've chosen to nest in a city that inspires me. What motivates me is the chaos, people’s there busy energy and discarded objects that decorate our urban landscape like so many “happy ghosts” (a term from my grandmother describing the evidence or memory of life). The scenes I paint vary from dreamy abstract landscapes to non-normative bodies folk to self-created deities/spirit guides as antagonists. Using industrial adhesives, power tools and vice grips, I accent my stories with the abandoned earthly elements: scraps from car wrecks, chicken bones, broken forks etc morph into my character’s limbs, accessories, or the surrounding surreal landscape. The combo of personal and collective nostalgic visual story-telling, is a response to now. This is an age where historical and religious anecdotes are massed produced, taken for granted as easily as plastic bags and packaging, I’m compelled to rewrite legends from a punk, feminist, otherly-abled perspective using borrowed iconography and fetishistic objects.
http://aluminumshoe.artistswanted.org/beautiful-mutant-art
http://albenkin.com/
George Barecca
"I have been drawing since kindergarten and was later seduced by color into painting. I started out painting abstracts, but found that working in all of the classic painting genres greatly improved my technical reach while providing invaluable lessons towards the practice of painting. My current style evolved by overlaying my abstract leanings onto my representational work with color as the defining element.
Alex Cascone
Alex Cascone applies his creative touch to many forms of media. His photography has been published in artistic and commercial outlets, and he has been a part of public exhibitions in New York City. He lived for a year as a traveling "artesano" in Mexico, during which time he developed jewelry and sculpture pieces combining metal and organic elements, his favorite being a balancing fork sculpture. Alex plays the trombone on various recordings by Soul Fire Records, and also plays the guitar and drums. Editor, cameraman, musician, sculptor, writer, Alex Cascone has a wide range of talents. He currently works as a freelance film editor and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
www.alexcascone.com
Daniel Cordani
www.alexcascone.com
Daniel Cordani
I want my work to shake strangers with the immediacy of this strange post-modern life. Fleeting glimpses and inner representations of endless journeys within a chaotic world. I want to both create and destroy. I strive to capture the spontaneity of life and its constant battles. I choose the textural and experiential, where I push materials to expose hidden realities. Regardless of the subject matter, my work is a dialogue between order and uncontrolled animalistic desires. The motivation and energy that fuels my work is a fascination with the ethereal, such as spirit forms and the universe, as well more pressing matters like injustice, disease, misinformation, war, popular culture, media and control. Est øø stands for several things, namely “Establish Nothing”.
Vladimir Ginzburg
http://www.vladimirginzburg.com/
Ilene Godofsky
Ilene Godofsky is an artist living and working in New York City. Her work examines what happens when things are brought together and taken apart. She is interested in the infinite possibility of relationships between forms, shapes and ideas and the interaction between objects and their environment. She received her BFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009. You can see more of her sculptures at her studio in Brooklyn.
ilenegodofsky.com
Rachel Kremidas
This series began with an interest in the imagery of the recent riots in the Middle East. While not being political works, I am more interested in the phenomena of mass-mentality, the subsequent violence, and the respective roles of that violent mentality in American and foreign cultures. Social uprisings in the U.S. have historically been culturally based and therefore result in a cultural fashion statement, whereas current events of the Middle East have derived from the abuse of a social contract and thus a social necessity. The execution and results of these social uprisings differ, but the basic human mob mentality are universal. These paintings reflect my meditation on these topics; mobs move (individually and uniformly) across geometric backgrounds, insinuating flags and nationalism, while ghost-like shadows remind us: history repeats itself.
Rob Servo
This body of work stands as a synthesis of my visual and musical modes of thought. My objective is to combine both worlds in order to create a new outlook on my life and my work.
In my new line of paintings the melding of color with irregular shapes give form to coded narratives of desire. The juxtaposition of recognizable imagery is presented in combination with varying textures and a luminous glow on a shallow three-dimensional surface. The viewer is open to interpret his/her own version of the story in the space provided.
As much as I would like to think that most of what I do in life is unique to me, I realize that many people experience similar situations. Hopefully this situational familiarity will allow for a moment of intimacy between the viewer and the work.
www.robservo.com
www.robservo.com
Laura Tack
It’s about our society. How people interact with each other - How people deal with a certain hierarchy in our system. The interaction, connection translates itself into space. Space between people in my images, between space on/in the paper. Each work has its own interaction with the viewer. It’s about my inner need that translates natural purity, even primitivism in a way. I feel deeply connected with a viewer who can feel my translated inner need.
My work is very intuitive and therefore actual, but there is a theme in my work that is consistent. It’s about the space, the relationship between different, individual things. A certain floating energy between A and B, B and A. “The fact that two finished things (existing images) come together and become a new work is so fascinating for me. I consider each finished work as unfinished because there is that constant movement between image and pencil. It’s life, like living beings moving constantly physical and mentally from one place to the other. Back and forth. Up and down. That relationship between things has always been in my work even in the struggle between analog and digital. It’s about finding a balance in every connection. Connections between human beings, between art and the artist and between material things.”
Laura, 2011
http://lauratack.tumblr.com
Elena Rodz
I am obsessed with the image of prehistoric man. Early humans, being both predator and prey, were part of the delicate balance of the ecosystem. Modern Man is a heretical animal, vainly trying to position himself outside of nature. But this is impossible. We still are animals; our cities, structures made by animals. My paintings remind people that our quest for godliness is misguided and futile. We are just meat.
Elena Rodz
Brandon Tex Buell is an artist & musician living in Brooklyn, NY. As an artist he uses various mediums including acrylic paint, ink and collage to create visual works presented on canvas and wood. The art is constructed to explore the idea of an environment in which every being is constant movement and bursting matter. Shawn Yu
As a child, Shawn Yu was brought into Beijing by his mother, who worked as a nanny for the grandchildren of a Government Official. He worked in the Kitchen of the house and was able to attend elementary school due to the influence of his benefactors. As a outsider, he was singled out in school, the merciless taunts from the other children gave him no rest of mind. So he began to take refuge in the blank pages of his school notebook, and started to populate them with beings of his own imagination, distilled from the more joyous pieces of his life.
Shawn was dismissed from his residence and was sent by a benefactress to further his studies in art in the United States. He now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
The Beings who populate his work when he was a child grew up with him. They still populate his pages of drawings.
