Monday, April 6, 2009

Pictopia Character Walk, and New National Gallery.

In conjunction with the Pictopia exhibition at the House of World Cultures Berlin, the cities galleries have organized the Pictopia Character Walk. Most galleries were open on Sunday for this event and I decided to check some of it out.

The first stop was Art Space Berlin where they had a large group show called Bigwood Berlin

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Paul Senyoi

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These are a series of Silkscreen prints by Matias Viglioni. There was an entire wall of them, these are only some of the adventures of his monster character.

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Liezel Prinz

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I forgot to write down this artists name

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Yvette TerBlanche

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This guy was hanging out in the street on the way to FIT gallery.





The gallery was an abandoned gas station with an installation by Flying Fortress and London Police on the outside.
(My pictures were somehow corrupted so these are borrowed from ekosystem blog.)

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This show titled "Heroes of Might and Mayb" by Michael Dabrowski was at General Public. The work featured small super heroes with large shadows, each accompanied by a phrase suggesting some sort of past emotional trauma. It did a good job of humanizing characters that we think of as beyond human.

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The final stop of the day was Circle Culture Gallery. The work was by Charlie Isoe and the title of the show was "Will Be Home Late, Leave the Light On."

Later that week it was free night at the new national gallery. Here are some highlights from my trip there.

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These are both by my favorite Italian painter ever Tiepolo. He possesses a looseness in his brush strokes that makes painting look just as easy as drawing.

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The high definition paintings of Canaletto.

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Rembrandt

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This is the dutch painter Philips Wouwerman.

That's all for now. Until next time...

Friday, March 20, 2009

First week in the studio...

I moved into my new studio this week. So far I have spent every day here and it feels great.

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The studio itself is 26sq meters.

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The view from out my window is great...

This week I have cut and printed 4 blocks. So far my interest in Berlin resides in the contrast between the vacated and abandoned spaces that are so common in the city and the ultra modern/ well preserved buildings that fill in the remaining space in the city.

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Under
21cm x 15cm

STACKED
Lost in the Stacks
26cm x 20cm

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Day One
20cm x 26cm

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They're Tearing Up Streets Again
30cm x 19cm

I also created this collage using the above prints as a submission for Free Fridays on the SF art blog Fecal Face

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Lost Highway
37cm x 28cm

In other news:

I broke my Ipod yesterday, which is severely disheartening. If anyone wants to salvage my state of mind that mimics the state of my ipod I am accepting donations for a new one or help fixing my existing one. Either scenario would help.

I also got a new bike last week.

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It is an Express Werke frame from the 50's with a working dynamo front hub that powers the front wheel. The gear ratio is perfect for how flat Berlin is. It also has a Brooks saddle. I didn't know what all of the Brooks fanatics were talking about until I found myself thinking "damn, my ass feels great!" on my ride to the studio ysterday.

That's all for now.

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Sunday, March 15, 2009

Thursday, March 12, 2009

A New Frontier

These are some photoshop collages of my experiences with Berlin so far.

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Day One

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Home, I'm Going Home

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Watch Out, We Run The Lot

WIR Gallery Berlin

This week Work In Regress Gallery in Kreuzberg Berlin was showing Spanish artist Angels Lefou. Her work was mostly small drawings/collages and one large painting.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Stolen Sleeves Installations.

These large collages are created using the small prints that I have been working on. They are installed at the stolen sleeves collective, Brooklyn NY where I had been the artist in residence for two months.

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A Step Back
Collaged Installation
About 7 feet wide.

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Escape
Collaged Installation
about 6 feet tall

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Sunday, February 22, 2009

New Work

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Never Too Early
collaged relief prints
2009

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Never Too Late
Collaged relief prints
2009