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Sex cells and here at Emmanuel Fremin gallery it’s on or off the walls

June 14, 2012

“Sex Cells” at Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
Curated by Asli Unal

The most universal subject of art through the ages, the human nude has been a vehicle for commercialization, a symbol of freedom, and a topic of heated debate. In “Sex Cells,” eig…ht contemporary photographers explore how we direct sex appeal, both consciously and unconsciously, as a means of empowerment and manipulation. From the provocative to the grotesque, the featured artists combine familiar props and subjects in an original manner as they tackle themes of seduction, bondage, religion and bestiality. A reception on Thursday night, June 28th, kicks off the month long exhibition at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery.


Reka Nyari’s jarring compositions juxtapose lust and disgust by pairing a beautiful model with animal carcasses. Her stark compositions present the objectified body as a target for consumption and challenge the viewer’s ability to hold two opposing emotions simultaneously. Using herself as the model, Brooklyn artist Erica Simone poses nude in public while unabashedly going about her daily routines. Simone wittily challenges the nature of the nude in art, examining the line between the mundane and the sexualized. The context tells us to interpret her as the subject of the photographs rather than the object of a sexual fantasy.

“Sex Cells” is on display from June 28th-July 28th, 2012 at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, 547 West 27th Street, Suite 508, New York, NY 10001.
Vernissage: June 28th, 6-8 p.m.

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Hell’s Kitchen Artists in Studio Tours Friday May 18 – Sunday May 20, 2012

May 15, 2012
once again i’ve decided to participate in this artist tour only this time i decided to show my pictures in a public coffee shop Kahve , 774 9th Ave, NY, NY so i didn’t have to baby sit them. i’ve so much work going on in my life right now i felt i couldn’t give it the time required. coffee shops in this area are a dying breed as landlords ask for higher rents making it hard for small businesses to survive and artist to stay in the neighborhood. i live here because it’s close to all the theaters where i work. how many people get to live within walking distance of where they work?
i chose some of my simple dance images

Blue Dancer

along with it’s partner

Orange Dancer

sometimes in these types of events not everything goes according to plans but i hope this one does. if you’re in New York City and want to see some of the local artist do download the map, i hope there is a map, and stop by to meet the us.

Press release:

The 4th Annual Hell’s Kitchen Artists in Studio Tours Friday May 18 – Sunday May 20, 2012.  

Fourth time’s the charm…

Is it the fourth year already? Call it tradition, call it grass-roots social movement, call it a permeating underground murmur waiting to erupt but it is a undeniably a standout fact – the independent & FREE Hell’s Kitchen arts festival has established itself as one of New York’s prominent art and social events and is here to stay.

Last year, for three frivolous entrancing days at 95 venues thousands of artists, performers and revelers opened their studios, businesses, clubs and have taken to the streets; With the support of gutsy local venues and a few visionary and generous finance and realty staples the vision thrived and gotten stronger and bigger.

A new audacious voice has been presented: At The Edge – A sprightly magazine pulsating and overflowing with vivaciously blunt, refreshingly outspoken, scorchingly authentic artistic and literary expression in all forms and colors, giving a stage to dozens of the neighborhood’s (and the city’s) diverse bubbly creative forces & leading art establishments.

This year’s event will celebrate a second issue – printed and circulated in over 10,000 copies to avid readers around Hell’s Kitchen, midtown, downtown, & selected hot Brooklyn ‘art-hoods’, it is a communal exclamation to be reckoned with.

We’re Gonna Set the Streets on Fire! (Not literally, except perhaps our stunning alumni fire and belly dancer….)

Smack in the heart of Manhattan, right beside the indulgent Chelsea, the fizzy debauched theater district and the financial dynamo of midtown, another juicy slice of the city dares you to take an outrageous bite.

The Fourth Annual Hell’s Kitchen Artist Studio Tour is a free event taking place May 18th  – 20th  where scores of artists and performers open their homes, galleries, theaters, businesses and studios (their hearts also) for a self-guided and mapped tour. Participating artists consist of individuals with well-established and honored careers, as well as emerging artists striving to get their voice out there and make their mark.

At this three day unruly, insatiable Art Bacchanalia all art forms and mediums will be represented, including fine art, sculpture, music, fashion, photography, theater, dance, comedy, body painting, public spectacle and much more.

With no less than six Parties featuring continual entertainment of all genres!  For 30 hours over 3 nights, major & informal after parties each evening, exhibiting some raw and refined local vibrant talent at venues from classy lounges to murky speakeasies to intimate Art salons, patrons and visitors are sure to be tickled with just the right thing to satisfy their taste and fancy.

Wealth of artists to tantalize your senses.

Batteries of blazing artists, from raging social commentators to crisp impressionists to sly, depraved surrealists – a singled out individual from this Armada of talent candy will undoubtedly hit your sweet spot.

We know you get it; give us a call for more sizzling inside details (galleries and venues maps, artists’ profiles), spread the word, pick up an issue, come impulsively knocking by – we’re here for this city and its people, we know you won’t leave us hanging.

Jene

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Tim Hetherington’s legacy @ Yossi Milo Gallery

April 15, 2012

i know some of my readers might be sick of these musings about photojournalist and the price they pay. see wall street journal link  about best & worst jobs where photojournalist came in 166 out of 200, 1 being the best job and 200 the worst. also another interesting link is from the  Poynter.org about the training that journalist need to work in hostile environments. it’s a tremendous sacrifice for us to read so casually with our morning coffee.

what with the nyc weather being so nice taking a walk or bus ride here at Yossi Milo gallery is something one can do outside in the fresh air at least coming and going. Tim Hetherington work has affected me greatly ever since being exposed to it at NYPhoto festival a few years ago. i was standing in a darkened room alone, hearing helicopter gunships flying overhead and incoming small arms fire, seeing the reactions of  a rifle squad under fire. i was there, funny how memories work, it was quite emotional.  also see his ‘Restrepo’ another powerful video chronicling daily life at a firebase. but at another venue at nyphoto festival were his pictures of his squad members awake or tired or just  sleeping. very powerful…..but here is another chance to see tim’s pictorial work at Yossi Milo gallery. enjoy.

Tim Hetherington’s legacy: A mother’s perspective on her son’s war photography

By May-Ying Lam

View Photo Gallery: The late filmmaker Tim Hetherington’s first posthumous solo exhibition will be available for viewing at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York through May 19.

“We’re not ready for this.”

“I felt like I was like fish in a barrel.”

“Did everybody from the country come to this valley? Is nobody else fighting anymore? Is every bad guy in my face?”

These are the voices from conflict photographer and film director Tim Hetherington’s Oscar-nominated documentary, “Restrepo.” Fired upon daily, Restrepo was one of the most dangerous outposts in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley. Soldiers descended into its treacherous folds fully believing they would never emerge.

Now, take that same fear, and imagine you haven’t had years of combat training. Then imagine you have no gun and that your field of vision is reduced to a pinhole. You are a war photographer.

“I didn’t really worry,” Judith Hetherington, mother of “Restrepo” co-director Tim Hetherington said. “I didn’t because I don’t think we can do anything about it. Tim had chosen his path.” In nine days, it will be the one-year anniversary of his death in Libya. Thursday will be the opening of his first posthumous solo exhibition.

Tim Hetherington, who won World Press Photo of the Year in 2007, made international headlines when he and Getty photojournalist Chris Hondros were killed during an attack by Moammar Gaddafi’s forces while photographing on rebel front lines in Misurata, Libya, on April 20, 2011.


Libya, April 9, 2011. (Self-portrait by Tim Hetherington. – ©TIM HETHERINGTON / MAGNUM) “When someone dies, they die midsentence,” Judith said on the phone from her home in Manchester, England. From the day he passed away, Judith began carrying on not only his memory, but also his work. She has found an artist to remake his “sleeping soldier” series installation and found representation for his archive. A retired lawyer, she had begun a fine arts degree before he died.


Tim Hetherington on crutches in London on Dec. 20, 2007, after breaking his leg while shooting the Afghan war documentary “Restrepo.” He went back to Afghanistan and finished the film, which was nominated for an Academy Award. (Michael Kamber) Judith brought Tim’s work to the attention of Magnum Photos, a cooperative of giants of photojournalism, which now manages his vast archive. His first major posthumous solo exhibition will be held at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. Tim’s “sleeping soldier” video installation is now on display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

New York gallery owner Yossi Milo felt a huge responsibility for the work and wanted the show to be as closely aligned with Tim’s vision as possible. Because he only knew Tim briefly before his death, Milo did so by following sample prints and crops and with input from Magnum photographer and friend Chris Anderson. The result is a stunning view of Tim at his best.

First, there are Tim’s photos of rebels and civilians caught in the dragnet of the Liberian civil war. (It should be noted that for his four years of coverage, former president Charles Taylor issued an execution order for him and fellow journalist James Brabazon. This could be read as a sign that you are doing important work.)


Elliott Alcantara, Korengal Valley, Afghanistan, 2008. (Tim Hetherington – COURTESY OF YOSSI MILO GALLERY, NEW YORK) However, the real jewel of the exhibition is Tim’s “sleeping soldier” series. Warmth envelops these soldiers set in plywood cocoons with a fetal vulnerability. The photos run directly against the grain of an often clinical portrayal of war. “I think soldiers are used as symbols and often misunderstood,” Tim told the Independent in 2010.

Michael Kamber, a close friend and fellow war photographer, said Tim was always looking at the bigger picture. “A lot of us were looking at guys shooting guns, and he was doing a much broader thing. I think in Afghanistan, too, Tim was taking photos that were just as much about manhood, brotherhood.”

Milo said that future exhibitions of Tim’s photography and video work in Libya and the rest of his vast body of work would be forthcoming.

Although Tim was a brilliant visual mind, many will remember him foremost for his humanitarianism and selflessness. “I certainly would like to emulate him,” Judith said. “I find myself in his shoes all the time.”

By May-Ying Lam  |  03:16 PM ET, 04/11/2012

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Cindy Sherman and Robert Frank in the same sentence

February 20, 2012

coming back to new york city and reading the NY Times this past sunday, that is if i don’t read ‘the news that’s fit to print’ which seems to drive me up the wall these days and i am learning to just skip over it and read around the hard news finding the things that interest me i find interesting tidbits here and there. this one in arts and leisure

for starters there is this piece about MOMA’s upcoming Cindy Sherman Photography retrospective which i’ll go see during the week altho these shows are always mobbed with people moving along to the next experience. me i like to savory what’s in front of me, sort of like sex. i won’t be able to attend a pre-opening due to some rotator cuff appointments, ugh. i’ll just have to grin and bear it reading things like this just builds up my excitement.

CINDY SHERMAN UNMASKED

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Published: February 16, 2012
CINDY SHERMAN was looking for inspiration at the Spence Chapin Thrift Shop on the Upper East Side last month when she eyed a satin wedding dress. An elaborate confection, it had hand-sewn seed pearls forming flowers cascading down the front and dozens of tiny satin-covered buttons in the back from which the train gently hung like a Victorian bustle.
Cindy Sherman

The photographer Cindy Sherman in a rare pose as herself. More Photos »

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“It’s Arnold Scaasi,” the saleswoman said, as Ms. Sherman made a beeline for the dress. Unzipping the back the clerk showed off a row of labels, one with the year it was made — 1992 — and another with the name of the bride-to-be. “It has never been worn,” she added. As the story goes, when the gown was finished, the bride decided she didn’t like it.

Ms. Sherman appeared skeptical. Is this really what happened, or is the story just the cover for a jilted bride? One begged to know more.

That tantalizing sense of mystery and uneasiness are similar emotions viewers feel when they see one of Ms. Sherman’s elliptical photographs. Over the course of her remarkable 35-year career she has transformed herself into hundreds of different personas: the movie star, the valley girl, the angry housewife, the frustrated socialite, the Renaissance courtesan, the menacing clown, even the Roman god Bacchus. Some are closely cropped images; in others she is set against a backdrop that, as Ms. Sherman describes it, “are clues that tell a story.”

“None of the characters are me,” she explained, sipping a soda at a cafe near the shop that afternoon. “They’re everything but me. If it seems too close to me, it’s rejected.”

On this unseasonably warm afternoon Ms. Sherman, 58, had bicycled from her apartment in Lower Manhattan to discuss her landmark retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, which opens Feb. 26 and includes more than 170 photographs. Wearing no makeup, with leggings and sneakers and a tweed hat that carefully concealed her crash helmet, she looked totally inconspicuous, hardly the celebrated artist whose fans include Lady Gaga; Elton John, who collects her work; and Madonna, who sponsored a show of Ms. Sherman’s “Untitled Film Stills,” at the Museum of Modern Art in 1997.

Petite, with strawberry-blonde hair that falls to her shoulders, she is nothing like the larger-than-life characters she portrays in her self-portraits. Soft-spoken and friendly, she is very much a girl’s girl who can as easily giggle about men, movies and makeup as she can discuss literature and art.

see rest of the Times article here

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then in the Metropolitan section i find mention of forgotten Robert Franks promotional pictures shot for the NY Times on their Lens Blog  some twelve new york black and white pictures.

In 1958, the promotion department of The New York Times hired a young Swiss expat to take pictures that were collected in a slim hardcover book for prospective advertisers. The book, “New York Is,” extolled the virtues of the city and of the newspaper as the best way to tap its prosperous postwar consumers.

Some of the arrestingly elegant shots that resulted could have been taken by other fresh-eyed art or fashion photographers of the day, like William Klein or Roy DeCarava or Lillian Bassman, who died Monday at 94. But other pictures – snapped seemingly midstride; decidedly grainier and blurrier than commercial work at the time; defined by seas of inky black and oceans of shiny reflective surfaces – are unmistakably the work of only one man: Robert Frank, who with his masterpiece “The Americans,” published the following year, was to change the course of photography.

“New York Is” began as an ad campaign, and the book was distributed in 1959, showcasing two dozen of Mr. Frank’s pictures alongside snappy, boosterish captions. While the book has long been known in scholarly and rare-book circles, where copies now change hands for several thousand dollars, the prints, negatives and contact sheets Mr. Frank made for the project were long thought to have been lost amid shuffles of storage rooms and picture archives at The New York Times.

But Jeff Roth, an archivist at The Times, learned they had been rediscovered three years earlier by Helen Silverstein, the widow of Louis Silverstein, an influential designer who served for many years as the art director of The Times and who died in December. Mr. Silverstein was art director of the promotion department in the late 1950s and for commercial jobs often hired Mr. Frank, who wrote in a note for Mr. Silverstein’s memorial service in January: “He gave me moral support as well as financial – and this made my life in NYC possible.” (Mrs. Silverstein was later to be a producer and co-editor for Mr. Frank’s first feature-length film, “Me and My Brother.”)

read the rest of the Times story here

now i’ve got work to do, hummmm if only i knew what it is i do, that might help me focus on the task at hand. oh well drink another cup of coffee and dream always seems to help.

jene youtt

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Cindy Sherman knows all the world loves a clown

January 9, 2012

The Museum of Modern Art Announces a Retrospective of Cindy Sherman for 2012

artwork: Cindy Sherman - Untitled #425, 2004 - Chromogenic color print, 70 3/4 x 89 3/4" (179.7 x 228 cm). - Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures, New York - © 2011 Cindy Sherman

NEW YORK, N.Y.- The Museum of Modern Art will present the exhibition Cindy Sherman, a retrospective survey tracing the groundbreaking artist’s career from the mid 1970s to the present, from February 26 through June 11, 2012. The exhibition will bring together more than 170 key photographs from a variety of the artist’s acclaimed bodies of work, for which she created myriad constructed characters and tableaus. The first comprehensive museum survey of Sherman’s career in the United States since 1997, it will draw widely from public and private collections, including the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition is organized by Eva Respini, Associate Curator, Department of Photography, The Museum of Modern Art.

art knowledge news

jene

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Emmanuel Fremin Gallery is pleased to announce its grand re-opening 1/5/12

January 4, 2012

EXHIBITION: INDEPENSENSE by GIUSEPPE MASTROMATTEO

Emmanuel Fremin Gallery  is pleased to announce its grand re-opening in
its new, larger Chelsea space located at  547 West 27 Street, suite 508.
The gallery first vernissage will be held on January 5, 2012 from 6-8 PM,
introducing a 5 week solo show for Italian born artist Giuseppe
Mastromatteo for his “Indepensense” series. Following a wide acclaim
reception in 2011 at Art Hamptons, the AAF, Greenwich Art Fair and Red Dot
Miami, this will be be the first solo show for Giuseppe in the United
States.

Giuseppe Mastromatteo was born in Italy in1970 . After a period spent as a
recordist’s assistant inside a record company, he graduated from Accademia
di Comunicazione di Milano in art direction. He writes about the Arts,
teaches Advertising at various significant academic institutions, and
collaborates with the Triennale Museum of Milan in the role of art
director. Since 2005 his works have been exhibited at the Fabbrica Eos Art
Gallery, Milan as well as at national and international art fairs. He
currently lives and works in Milan.

Mastromatteo’s portraits bring poetic Surrealism back to life. They could
be collages, but take advantage of the subtlety of digital technology to
reproduce humanity in impossible and illusory dimensions. Ripped faces,
eyes and ears which run through hands, are the centre of an imaginary truth
that draws inspiration from the visions of Magritte and Man Ray to land
inside a new visual synthesis with stylistic patterns representing the most
contemporary photography of our time, in a continuous overlapping of visual
languages that live in the world of advertising and genuine research.
Backgrounds are white, the light homogeneous: nothing averts the detailed
expressions in the characters of this silent and fascinating theatre of the
absurd. Transfigured bodies, pierced and lacerated do not show any form of
violence, but instead pose solemnly in front of the photographer=92s lens,
beyond any suffering. No expression exists in these faces, there is no
tension, but rather a sense of timelessness that leaves us open to reflect
about the uncertainty of this third millennium. The observer’s eye is
immediately attracted by the extravagance of these creatures, which at the
same time produces a true sense of discomfort and uneasiness. Mastromatteo
intervenes in the interior sense of beauty. The models he chooses for his
images bring to the stage classic canons of harmony and equilibrium
creating a complex dialectict between fascination and repulsion. From here
the evident sensation emerges of discovering oneself in front of a Pantheon
where every possibility of self identification is precluded. A universe
unto itself is the object of aesthetic contemplation and intriguing
reverence, magnified by the means with which this is all narrated because
photography continues to maintain a link with an indissoluble reality of
facts. The process of recognition inherent in portrait photography appears
as something distant. Physiognomy comes to light only to recover the
aesthetic detail of our time. Reality and fiction appear as outdated ideas
with full attention focusing on memory. As a conclusion, in order to bring
together feelings and fragments of this project, photography in itself
seems not enough and becomes something more, transforming into a metaphor
of itself, reaching the final objective of communicating through other
forms and channels.

Denis Curti.

Emmanuel Fremin Gallery
547 West 27 Street suite 508, New York, NY 10001
646.245.3240

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Angkor Hospital for Children, Friends Without A Border photography auction

December 2, 2011

Don’t forget this worthy photography auction viewing Monday December 5, 2011 at The Tenri Cultural Institute of NY, 43A W 13th Street, NYC, showcase hours 7-9pm. Stop by and meet the artist mary and i and see our lovely prints,. heck just stop by some very good stuff to see, maybe make new friends.



Friends Without A Border has collected 44 beautiful prints taken by artists from all over the world and made them available to you online this holiday season. The proceeds from the auction will support Angkor Hospital for Children and associated programs.

The online auction will run from November 25- December 18th.

How can I bid?

Prints are available to view online before the auction goes live by clicking on this link http://www.biddingforgood.com/FWAB. The online auction will go live from November 25- December 18th.


How can I see the prints in person?

If you live in the New York area, We will showcase the prints at Tenri Cultural Institute of NY, 43A West 13th Street, NY, New York (between 5th and 6th Avenues), on December 5th from 7-9pm.

This event is free and open to the public. If you or your friends are in the New York area, we hope to see you there!

Please e-mail rsvp@fwab.org to RSVP or with any inquiries.

Our annual Friends of Friends Photography Auction will be back in 2012.


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tis the holiday season of mary’s & artstrong art wrapping….. but wait there’s more

November 28, 2011

this trip we are all involved with called life is pretty amazing, damn mind blowing if one tries to figure it out and i don’t have much mind left to blow away so i just try go along with it, believe me when i say it’s not an easy task at times as i do want to meddle with it.

reading this press release the other day from friends of ours, mary and emmanuel and letting it gestate for a few days it occurred to me how much my wife mary has changed my life for better than it was before meeting her. here is another couple who seem together more than they were as separates.  a charming couple whom we met through mary’s photography journey, she met emamnuel through a photo shoot, at about the same time she and i were developing our relationship they were developing theirs.

so in a way we both developed together, as couples separately. we always enjoy getting together, mostly now it’s been at their art opening at The Emmauel Fremin Gallery, they are a busy couple traveling here mostly following the fine art market while we travel to different  points of interest. Hawaii is ou next destination which we are planning now. very exciting thinking of whales jumping out of the ocean or walking on volcanos, heart be still.

mary and emmanuel  have come up with an unique solution from transporting art from across town to across the world. well  i am not really sure who came up with the idea but it’s sure neat. saves me a lot of hassle wrapping pics in bubble wrap, which i have way too much of.

ARTSTRONG BAGS REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY TO SHIP AND STORE PRECIOUS ART

ArtStrong Inc. launches ArtStrong bags to satisfy needs of art enthusiasts for more efficient, cost saving, and eco-friendly way to transport and store artwork at Red Dot Miami Art Fair.

Frustrated by the arduous, repetitive task of wrapping and unwrapping each work of art in bubble wrap, ArtStrong Inc. has created the efficient, eco-conscious ArtStrong bag. This revolutionary bag satisfies the art industry’s needs for the ultimate packaging and storage solution while saving time and money, benefitting the environment and looking chic.

A classic example of where necessity is the mother of all inventions, ArtStrong bags blend the best practices of the art, building insulation and shipping industries. Providing 5x the protection of other bags, ArtStrong bags are made with 2 layers of polyethylene bubbles, shock-absorbing foam, brushed neo-technological fabric and all surrounded by a metallized film. The edges are bound in their signature orange twill tape creating the most durable bags in the marketplace.

Using the bags is as easy as 1-2-3. Open – Insert – Close. 

“As gallery owners and frequent exhibitors of numerous art fairs around the world, we would dread the process of packing and unpacking for a show. Countless hours and rolls upon rolls of bubble wrap and tape would be used only to be thrown away as soon as the artwork was delivered. The amount of waste was abominable,” Mary Nguyen, Co-Owner of ArtStrong Inc., explained. “After a very long R&D process, we are confident that our bags will not only live up to the expectations and needs of the gallery owners, artists, and collectors alike, but will save you tremendous time and money.
Protect what’s precious!”

“It’s the bag you never knew you always needed and the uses reach far beyond the art industry,” Nguyen said.

The main features are:

  •  Over 1 ½” of layered cushioned padding providing 5x the   
  • protection of other bags.
  •  Reinforced with sewn on binding.
  •  Reusable and resealable with industrial strength velcro.
  •  Resistant to extreme temperature, mold, and mildew.
  •  Reflective, eye-catching aesthetic.

ARTSTRONG BAGS REVOLUTIONIZE THE WAY TO SHIP AND STORE PRECIOUS ART

Available in 15 standard sizes from 18” x 20” to 65” x 70”, the prices range from $30 to $150 retail. Customized sizes are also available for larger pieces of art.

so strong you can even ship dogs in them but who’d want to do that?

ArtStrong bags will launch at the Red Dot Miami Art Fair on November 29th, 2011 and is sponsoring the opening reception of Art Now Fair at the Catalina Hotel on Thursday, December 1 to benefit the Diakonos International Orphanage. The bags will be sold at their showroom/retail store on 547 West 27th Street, in the heart of New York’s Chelsea Art District as well as online at http://www.artstrongbags.com. Orders delivered within Manhattan get free shipping and the bags are available to ship worldwide. For
more information, please visit http://www.artstrongbags.com.

     About ArtStrong Inc.:
ArtStrong Inc. was created by Mary Nguyen,    Co-President and creative director and  Emmanuel Fremin, Co-President and director of the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery. Based in New York, ArtStrong is committed to preserving natural resources for future generations and supporting the economy with all production done in the US. ArtStrong also partners with Diakonos International (www.diakonosintl.org), a charitable organization that serves and brings hope to the orphans and homeless children of Haiti, and Girls Educational & Mentoring Service (GEMS) (www.gems-girls.org) whose mission is to empower and serve girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic
trafficking.

Contact:
Mary Nguyen, President
ArtStrong Inc.
547 West 27th Street, #508
New York, NY 10001
Ph: 877.281.9990
http://www.artstrongbags.com
press@artstrongbags.com

Here is the more 

December 15th at The Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, 547 West 27th Street Suite 508 NY, NY, The Art of Beauty Experience will be on display for the public to the mutual benefit of GEMS (www.gems-girls.org) in New York and the Diakonos Orphanage (www.diakonosintl.org) in Carrefour, Haiti. The sale of original artworks by orphans in Haiti and girls and young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking here in New York will advance the needs of both groups aspiring to empower other children, like themselves.

The exhibit and gala event will be held at the gallery on the evening of December fifteenth from 7-10pm featuring hors d’oeuvre, wine, and a special musical performance by SRC signed music recording star ‘Shontelle’ (www.shontellemusic.com). Beauty activists, Ford supermodel & Founder of Art In Motion Monica Watkins and “Makeup Stylist to the Stars” Leora Edut, realized that fashion and beauty can serve as a catalyst to empower young, at-risk women in the areas of self-esteem, creativity, diversity, and access to financial freedom. When women experience their own beauty from the inside out, other areas of their lives transform.

The Art of Beauty Experience is a bi-national initiative created for young, disadvantaged women living a world apart to celebrate and embrace their common inner-beauty and charitable hearts. The children of the Diakonos Orphanage in Carrefour, Haiti are starving for the educational and artistic opportunities that we take for granted in the U.S. GEMS is committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking of children by changing individual lives, transforming public perception, and revolutionizing the systems and policies that impact sexually exploited youth. By linking the two organizations, and inspiring a myriad of supporters across all disciplines, the possibilities for personal growth and future success for the children are limitless.

sounds like a wonderful place to stop by next month and you could be helping some children of the world realize that life can be beautiful shared with others whom you don’t know just because you’re human.

let us not forget our Cambodian Children’s Hospital art auction http://www.biddingforgood.com/FWAB

We invite you to Bid4Friends, a new online auction which runs from
November 25th through December 18th!

We have collected 44 beautiful prints taken by artists from all over the world and made them available to you online this holiday season. The proceeds from the auction will support Angkor Hospital for Children and associated programs.

Prints are available to view online before the auction goes live by clicking on this link Bidding for Good

metta

jene

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The Hionas Gallery to Show Unique Photography by Warwick Saint

November 28, 2011

Written by Gavin Southport Sunday, 27 November 2011 21:36

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New York City.- Hionas Gallery is pleased to present “Warwick Saint: Body Of Work”, on view at the gallery from December 1st through December 30th. This will be the very first solo exhibition from one of the style & fashion world’s most sought-after photographers.

For this show, Saint and gallery owner Peter Hionas have carefully compiled a selection of twenty photographs from the artist’s recent work with tattooed models, artists and other acquaintances. The resulting collection – provocative, sultry and noir all at once – is both indicative of Saint’s extensive work with nudes and starlets, and something of a departure from his oeuvre, revealing a more in-depth narrative with his subjects. There will be an opening reception for the artist from 6:00 to 8:00pm on Wednesday, November 30th.

artwork: Warwick Saint - "Sumari", 2008 - Photograph Edition of 7 - 24" x 20" Courtesy Hionas Gallery, NYC A partial nude ascends a shadowy staircase, every inch of her shoulders, back and thighs covered with tattoos; a seductive blonde stands in mid turn, most likely toward our gaze, holding a glistening six-shooter in one hand, with a desolate junkyard as the backdrop. In these portraits and others, such as Night Hotel, in which Saint’s lovely subject grasps a drink and cigarette while lying prone on a white leather sofa, a story is being told that is for the viewer to decide, even inhabit if they’re so daring. While many photos of movie stars or models can feel fleeting, given the subjects’ built-in celebrity and all that entails, Saint captures a permanence with these women that is unmistakable.

Each tattooed model he photographs is a living and breathing work of art, with flesh as canvas. Whether their body art is a coat of armor, spiritual decoration or something else altogether, the artist’s lens performs a balancing act each time: “I’m giving them a character, a part to play in the photo shoot,” says Saint of his subjects. “There’s a sensuality I wanted to bring out…but I’m always respectful of the fact that they are both woman and canvas.” In “Body Of Work”, as with all of the artist’s work, the viewer is no mere voyeur. For Saint, beautiful women who bear equally beautiful body art is worthy of portraiture that invites us in, to view their story and find some element within that strikes a chord. However, Saint insists that any symbolism of particular tattoos or these women’s respective motives for each work is not an element of this collection. “For me it’s about showing these women in a certain light,” he continues, “to elevate them, make them beautiful without judgment.”

Warwick Saint (b. 1972) is a New York based photographer of South African extraction. Saint’s portraiture is in constant demand from celebrities such as Drew Barrymore, Lady Gaga, Cate Blanchett, Jeff Bridges, Liv Tyler, Paz de la Huerta and countless others. His work has been featured on the covers of dozens of fashion and lifestyle magazine, including L’Oficiel, BlackBook, Arena, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Gotham, Inked and Flaunt, among others. Additionally, Saint has photographed hundreds of models, celebrities, and advertisements for publications like Whitewall, Interview, London Sunday Times, and Rolling Stone.

From a very early age, Saint displayed a preternatural skill and love for the art of photography, often removing himself to the African bush to shoot landscapes and the local fauna. His father, the late Kenny Saint, was founder and Creative Director of Grapplegroup, a groundbreaking graphic design studio in South Africa and the UK. Spending many hours at his father’s side in the studio, Saint quickly developed an eye for color and style. Meanwhile, Saint’s mother, Deborah, worked as a model, and at the age of 9 months Saint made his first magazine appearance, being held by his mother on the cover of the South African SARIE. Saint earned his BA in Art and Philosophy, with honors, from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Body Of Work is his first solo gallery exhibition. He lives and works between New York and Los Angeles.Hionas Gallery is a 500 sf. exhibition space located at 89 Franklin Street, in a classic TriBeCa storefront. The gallery invites contemporary and emerging artists, working in all variety of media, to participate in monthly solo exhibitions to showcase their latest work and artistic vision. The gallery space doubles as the storefront for the personal fitness studio, Peter Anthony Fitness, owned and operated by Peter Hionas. Over the years, Hionas has personally trained hundreds of celebrities and other high profile figures, including a number of artists and art world luminaries. This list includes the artists Marina Abramovic, Terry Winters and Dan Colen, collector Adam Sender, architect David Rockwell, and MoMA P.S.1 founder Alanna Heiss, among many others. Gallery owners Peter and Maria Hionas officially opened the gallery in June 2011. “We have been avid collectors of contemporary art since 1991,” says Peter Hionas. “It’s a modest storefront we have here, but also really spacious and versatile. I see us as operating in the tradition of the old Betty Parsons Gallery in midtown, or the original White Cube in St. James’; small spaces that just show great art.” Visit the gallery’s website at … www.hionasgallery.com

originally published at Art Knowledge News

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some one is going to Budapest for an art residency, is it you?

November 8, 2011

AIR-Budapest 2012 Info+Application Form

A.I.R./International Artist Residencies, 2012
AIR/HMC, Budapest
Workshop/Seminar/Exhibition/VideoFest

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for 2012

2012 Dates:

Please indicate (X) when would you like to participate

___Session 1: Tuesday May 15, 2011 – Thursday, June 7, 2012 Deadline: February 10, 2012

___Session 2: Monday, June 11, 2011 – Thursday, July 5, 2012 Deadline: March 10, 2012

___Session 3: Monday, July 9, 2011 – Thursday, August 2, 2012 Deadline: April 6, 2012

___Session 4: Monday, August 2, 2011 – Sunday August 26, 2012 Deadline: April 6, 2012

___Session 5: Thursday, December 27 – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (Fee $950 or Euro 700) Deadline: August 11, 2012

Online Application Only!

Applications should consist of:

* Application form

* Artist’s statement/Project Description/One-page resume/CV

* $35 application fee by PayPal (see instruction at the end of the Application Form)
* Visual Artists: Provide 5 jpg images representing your most recent work.
* Video/Performance/Time-based Artists   Link to work on YouTube.

* Curators/writers  sample of written work(s). Maximum 6 pages.

Further Information and Costs:

Applications accepted on basis of availability and quality of work.

While HMC does not provide funding for residencies, we are helping to facilitate the creation of program, the cost of the exhibitions and cover %40 of total cost, artists cover %60.   We encourage the applicants to apply for a grant or scholarship.

The residence offers shared room/bath as living quarters, and working area, few single rooms may be available at an extra fee.  Exhibition, Artist Talk, field trip, gallery tour are included in the cost.

There is a cost to attend the residency of $1250 or Euro 900.  Longer or shorter stays can be arranged.  Artists are expected to pay all travel expenses, personal costs, visa (if necessary), insurance, and to supply artist materials for their use during the residency.   We can provide basic materials and tools. Artists are expected to give at least one informal public audio-visual presentation about their work during their residency and to leave one piece of work made during the residency as a donation to the HMC.

Successful applicant wish to be accompanied by family members or an assistant, it is necessary to consult with HMC beforehand.

Artists will give at least one informal public slide/powerpoint/DVD/CD presentation (30 – 45 minutes) about their work during their stay at the HMC and leave one exhibition ready art work made during the residency as a donation to the HMC.  Exhibitions are arranged at the Pen Club and at Raday Konyveshaz Gallery, Budapest in August, 2012.

The Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc.® (HMC), 501(c)(3), Dallas, TX/Budapest, Hungary based non-profit organization.  The HMC dedicated to inspiring, connecting, exhibiting, and promoting artists.  The HMC invites interested visual artists, writers, performers  to submit application for its residency program in Budapest, Hungary.  The residencies offer participants to interact with other artists representing a variety of cultures and backgrounds.

End of your residency we are asking a Residency Evaluation submitted by you (1page) detailing your experience at Budapest and what you were able to accomplish during your residency regarding your specific Art project.

We very much look forward to receiving and reviewing your Project Proposal!

The Arts Team at HMC
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Residencies Application Form

AIR/HMC, Budapest – International Artist Residencies 2012

APPLICATION FORM

First Name     Last Name

Address

Phone     Email

Website

Nationality     Male/Female

HOW DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THIS PROGRAM?

Short description of project:

Images

1 title, media, dimensions, date

2 title, media, dimensions, date

3 title, media, dimensions, date

4 title, media, dimensions, date

5 title, media, dimensions, date

Please indicate (X) when would you like to participate

Session 1: Tuesday May 15, 2011 – Thursday, June 7, 2012 Deadline: February 10, 2012

Session 2: Monday, June 11, 2011 – Thursday, July 5, 2012 Deadline: March 10, 2012

Session 3: Monday, July 9, 2011 – Thursday, August 2, 2012 Deadline: April 6, 2012

Session 4: Monday, August 2, 2011 – Sunday August 26, 2012 Deadline: April 6, 2012

Session 5: Thursday, December 27 – Saturday, January 12, 2013 (Fee $950 or Euro 700) Deadline: August 11, 2012

*Please pay by PayPal the application fee $35.  Applicants also can pay the fee in their own country’s currency equivalent through HMC’s secure PayPal account.  Simply go to PayPal at http://www.paypal.com.  Login or create an account, then click the “send money” tab.  Fill in the recipient email: bszechy@yahoo.com. Currency should be US dollars (PayPal will calculate from the current exchange rate). Category of Purchase is HMC-Cash.  Email subject should be “Residencies Hungary ” and you can add an email message if you’d like.  Upon receipt of your PayPal payment, you will receive an email from PayPal and the HMC confirming your payment, which will be matched up with your applications.

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