you can flood the city, fill the path tunnels with water, ruin almost everyones weekend without power but art walks go on. mary and i will be showing our work at the hoboken nj art walk and studio tour at the Monroe Center, 720 Monroe Street, Hoboken NJ on Sunday November 18, 2012 from noon to 6pm.
if you’re in the neighborhood do stop by and say hello.
be there or be square
jene
“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.
well after i posted my computer problems i received this email from Timothy Anderson who runs Red Dog News, a photography e-mail news letter notifying me that i won a prize in his contest ‘Color it Red’ i haven’t been doing much in the way of publicizing my work last year, sort of contest burn out. but when we get back to the frozen chosen NYC we are putting together a show in Lancaster Pa for this summer.
After sorting through 296 images from 62 photographers, it still took a tie-breaker to determine the first through fourth placings in the 2012 Red Dog News, Color It Red photography contest. Thank you to all the entrants.
In order of finish (with prizes listed) here are the winners:
1. Fran Matthews, Red Magnolia, Epson R2880 photo printer
2. Bobbie Goodrich, Tango Argentina, Think Tank Airport Airstream
3. Jim Shirey, Close Friends, Lensbaby Composer Lens
4. Lisa Collard, Untitled #18, Silverfast Ai Scanning Software
5. Jerry Downs, Oriental Poppies, Nik Color Efex Pro 4
6. Cathy Panebianco, Hunter, Photoshelter six-month membership
7. Susan Graham, Dance With the Flowers, Red River Paper $100 Gift Certificate
8. Jene Youtt, Woman in Red, O’Reilly Books, $100 Gift Certificate
9. Stephanie Houston, Study in Red #2, Think Tank Camera Strap
10. Kimber Wallwork-Heineman, Serendipity, Think Tank Camera Strap
Honorable Mention, with inclusion in the Red Dog News, Color It Red Gallery Exhibition:
Marti Belcher, Young Monk Novice
Marguerite Garth (3), The Forsaken #15, The Forsaken #14, The Forsaken #24
Lia Moldovan, Airborne
David Wiley, Butterfly Love
Lon Bixby, Misty Red
Elsa d’Ellis (2), Cactus Moon, Hummingbird’s View
Susan Graham, Baby Boomer Red
Eva Lewarne, Night Reader
Cynthia Walpole, Magenta-Throated Woodstar #5439
Stephanie Houston, Study in Red #3
Jim McDonough, Buoys in Red
Cathy Panebianco, Bird Dog
Thank you to the sponsors for their kind donations for Color It Red 2012!
Here are some tips for staying productive:
1. Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks. Writing “launch company website” at the top of your to-do list is a sure way to make sure you never get it done. Break down the work into smaller and smaller chunks until you have specific tasks that can be accomplished in a few hours or less: Sketch a wireframe, outline an introduction for the homepage video, etc. That’s how you set goals and actually succeed in crossing them off your list.
2. Stop multi-tasking. No, seriously—stop. Switching from task to task quickly does not work. In fact, changing tasks more than 10 times in a day makes you dumber than being stoned. When you’re stoned, your IQ drops by five points. When you multitask, it drops by an average of 10 points, 15 for men, five for women (yes, men are three times as bad at multitasking than women).
3. Be militant about eliminating distractions. Lock your door, put a sign up, turn off your phone, texts, email, and instant messaging. In fact, if you know you may sneak a peek at your email, set it to offline mode, or even turn off your Internet connection. Go to a quiet area and focus on completing one task.
4. Schedule your email. Pick two or three times during the day when you’re going to use your email. Checking your email constantly throughout the day creates a ton of noise and kills your productivity.
5. Use the phone. Email isn’t meant for conversations. Don’t reply more than twice to an email. Pick up the phone instead.
6. Work on your own agenda. Don’t let something else set your day. Most people go right to their emails and start freaking out. You will end up at inbox-zero, but accomplish nothing. After you wake up, drink water so you rehydrate, eat a good breakfast to replenish your glucose, then set prioritized goals for the rest of your day.
7. Work in 60 to 90 minute intervals. Your brain uses up more glucose than any other bodily activity. Typically you will have spent most of it after 60-90 minutes. (That’s why you feel so burned out after super long meetings.) So take a break: Get up, go for a walk, have a snack, do something completely different to recharge. And yes, that means you need an extra hour for breaks, not including lunch, so if you’re required to get eight hours of work done each day, plan to be there for 9.5-10 hours.
From Tony Wong, a project management blackbelt.
all worth while ways of keeping on track and getting things done. i must admit i am pretty good a getting things done maybe not as organized as this list. no i don’t text people, why do they text me when i say call? i might be living in the wrong world or time frame. oh well
i do keep on track with to do list the only way that keeps me focused and deadlines have worked pretty good for me. am preparing to go off to Hawaii for a couple of weeks with my honey. the house is a mess clothes thrown in piles almost read to get rolled into suitcase but first i had to make fast the apartment from the ‘Hell’s Kitchen burglar.’
that took most of the day although is seemed a simple task but……. you know how it is. clearing calendar so i can come back clear nothing on my mind except pleasure, woohoo
yesterday i finished up giving a model whom i posted here before some selects, he gets to chose the ones he wants. i’ll never figure out what they are looking for, yes he’s seen my quick picks but they always go for ones i never though of, as is this image he picked. ugh
UGH
this was my stupid photographic choice of the day, this background, oh that’s mary’s hand down in the corner. ‘Why this one,’ i said. ‘i like the way my body is’ he replied.
i couldn’t let this pic leave the house, not looking like this and having my name on it. so through the magic of photoshop i added a few things the camera hadn’t caught. i know everyone says capture it in camera but sometimes i am too dumb.
added levels
warm photo filter
color corrected left shoulder
burned in edges
is it perfect, not really but better than the one he wanted. i turned towards him a said ‘what about this one?’ his reaction was ‘ i can’t believe the difference.’ so there’s no truth in what i do, but as i say on my model mayhem page, ‘ I use a camera as I would a pencil or brush, photography is just a tool.’
i didn’t spend all those hours at ICP daydreaming in Photoshop II class. so here you have some of my secrets, how i am special and make others special to. it may not be productive but i’ve learned early in life to just keep at it. perseverance is one of the keys to life that makes up the song.
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
More pictures of the OCCUPY WALL STREET demonstrations 10/18/11, Jene Youtt
last night mary came over and we when down to photo salon to see various photographers portfolios and she asked had i read her blog post ‘Fix it or toss it out’ which i quote the beginning here
I guess what I am really trying to say is some times something is so broken that it is beyond fixing and you are just throwing good money after bad and that is what the government did when they thought that we had to bail out banks and financial corporations and keeping these executives in power – i.e. – greed continues to pay off and campaign funds flow in by the millions. That’s the way I feel about our Financial Banking System and our government.
We are so lucky to have the freedoms of speech and I love that the people are standing up and fighting back. We are 99% and I think soon some politicians are going to take us seriously. We have witnessed uprisings in Africa, Egypt and France’s workforce, etc and there is something to be said for standing together and not backing down. Anyone in office will get voted out by me because I don’t like the way they handled things. An anybody running for election better have a plan in mind. Stop the back stabbing, name calling, mudslinging crap and tell us how you think we can turn this around. Cutting spending and raises the taxes of poor and middle class people is NOT the answer. Jobs – Fine any corporation who lays off workers intentially to cut the bottom line and show a profit instead of cutting their own salaries and eliminating their 6 figure bonuses. They are the ones that got us in this mess in the first place and all they care about is staying in business – not for the greater good of the masses but for their own good. How much money does it take to make you happy? How many homes do you need to own? Excess and greed leads to destruction. Just look at history. Read the rest of the post here NYmetro.
while i am spending another day at ‘Occupy Wall Street’ demonstration she’s actually thinking of something very positive to effect change.
me i just take pictures. each one of us adds to the whole .
at Liberty Plaza everyday is different while remaining the same. just the people change and that’s not always true. the more i go down there, the more i meet people who are different and others i’ve seen before. it’s really a learning experience for me. the first thing is i’ve never considered myself a street ‘tog but maybe i am learning how to, maybe not. i do know this is taking a lot of my time and who knows if anyone is appreciating it?
but we do as this couple is doing, the only thing we know how to, ‘show up’. while we may look like strange bed fellows at first as long as we have tolerance and an open heart we can all get along.
seeing this sign made me chuckle and think ‘have i ever paid for empathy?’ i’ve paid for a lot of things in my life but empathy? have i learned how to give it? it’s not an easy thing empathy for me to give i’ve had to spend hours learning how to and i am not perfect at it now. i do try and catch myself by being mindful as repeating a few Metta phrases.
we can all get along here, well maybe not the bankers right now but maybe they will come around if the ever shed the blinders of greed. as robert fulghum says Share everything. Play Fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
this fellow knows how to draw a crowd along with a tog feeding frenzy, “watch out for the plants”
what plants?
while others 
some sit peacefully holding their signs
while others march 
some write booklets
some signs 
i talked with this mother while the children played, the children drew as children do
why are we all here? can we really do something, Stop the machine? he did
maybe we can all find peace of mind and a few
have a good day, remember it’s our world. something i learned in the 60’s during the anti-war demonstrations
WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
last week i met a dancer/choreographer Laura Ward/Octavia Cup Dance Theatre
through Linked-in about taking some pictures of her company. she replied that she was in rehearsals with a new piece ‘The Dreaming’ for The 15th Annual Fringenyc so we agreed to meet downtown at the rehearsal studio. it’s always interested to meet new people and begin working with them especially if none of us have expectations. this suits me fine as i never know what i’d be interested in either.
laura ward, octavia cup
as you can see i start off pretty normal just trying to get a feel of what laura’s work is all about. well today it’s not going to happen because only a few of the dancers are there and they are rehearsing only parts of. why not?
laura ward, octavia cup
as you can see this is a large space with mixed lighting sources which of me is always interesting. hey what are those funny shoes? ballet dancers………….. holy smokes i don’t usually run into these types of dancers.
laura ward, octavia cup
but i always like to see what would happen if i try this, so i turn towards the mirrors
laura ward & dancers
then back towards the window
dancer
lets try something different as the dance pieces are all different
so i attached my 580 flash with a grid attached for a couple of shots, sometimes the magic works sometimes it doesn’t.
laura and dancers
i am not sure i like this effect either or maybe i am just sick of using it. it really depends on the composition i guess.
another abstract experiment
laura ward
of all the images i took that day this is one of my favs and looking at the order i took them in it was one of the first so maybe i just need to take a fewer images in the beginning then go home.
most of the dancers i’ve worked with like my abstracts best yet i continue my people pleasing ways in trying to get good representational dance pictures. duh it’s not like i am being paid for this work, i do it because i love the art of dance and the ability of creating my own work.
laura’s octavia cup performances of ‘The Dreaming’are at the 4th Street Theater, 83 East 4th street on 8/13 again on 8/18-8/19, 8/21-8/22 and last performance 8/24. do check the fringe web site for specific time and place.
jene
this past saturday we were invited down to Dance Theater Workshop space to see this company by an old friend and collaborator who was performing as part of the company. it’s also nice to keep in touch with special people, to know they think of you and want to share their life/work.
Juan Michael Porter II 'BLUE' © jene youtt
what we found is a dance company who’s vision statement says
The vision of BalaSole Dance Company is to promote a balance in the field of concert dance where the general public can experience a dance concert filled with diversity and where artists are able to fully demonstrate their individual artistry.
balasole-dance-company
By building the general public’s sensitivity to the imbalances that exist in the field of concert dance, BalaSole Dance Company hopes to:
– Expand dance artists’ creative freedom and growth
– Improve multiethnic representation in dance companies
– Foster artistic and career mentorship of dance artists
– Engender artistic collaboration in dance companies
– Increase visibility for dance artists of all ages, shapes, and sizes
– Promote versatility of dance artists in varied dance styles
– Elevate compensation of many dance artists to an appropriate level
– Increase outlets for emerging dance artists to learn from
professional dance artists
– Provide dance artists a vehicle by which to showcase their full
artistic talents and identity to other companies for potential
employment
– Make the art of dance accessible to everyone
– Broaden opportunities for male and female dance artists to become
soloists
– Encourage greater male viewership, interest, and participation in
concert dance
http://www.balasoledance.org/
if you’re a modern dancer who is looking for a company to join i would suggest this one. they come in all sizes, shapes, colors and sexes. go to their web site and click on auditions for the next opportunity to join.
the program we saw was a series of short solo pieces very well done with technical virtuosity, creativity and humor. here is a link to one reviewers blog highlighting each dancer http://oberon481.typepad.com/oberons_grove/2011/07/balasole-dance-company-dtw.html and an additional page at http://oberon481.typepad.com/oberons_grove/2011/07/balasole-gallery.html
so i’d suggest keeping an eye out for this highly creative dance company. living here in this city it’s so hard keeping on top of interesting things to do as we are almost overloaded. i know i am. but we are a social group of living organisms so what better place to socialize than in a cool theater watching young talent grow.
can life be better than that?
jene
W&B Sell Out Shareholder Social #1
This Thursday, June 23, 2011 7pm-10pm
At 135 Plymouth St #208 in Dumbo
Complimentary food & drink provided.
RSVP to management@wandbnyc.com to attend
Next meetings: July 21 and August 18th
Further information: wandbnyc.com/participate
Colleagues,
Please join us on Thursday June 23 as we introduce our latest enterprise, Winkel & Balktick Sell Out. 
Mark Winkel & Kevin Balktick are a pair of Brooklyn-based event producers. They met in 2005 when they became neighbors in a live/work loft building in Dumbo, and began working together shortly thereafter.
We will explain our strategy for success, and provide information for those wishing to get in on the ground floor of this amazing opportunity. Our big Initial Public Offering will be on Saturday, September 3rd in a vast warehouse.
We are in search of “creatives” (aka artists), interns (aka volunteers), coordinators, carpenters, audio / video / electrical / lighting techs, riggers, decorators, web designers/developers, caterers and more. No matter what your skills or experience, there is a place for you at W&B Sell Out.
For those of you who have been through our business processes before, you can plug right in at wandbnyc.com/participate.
Sincerely,
Mark Winkel & Kevin Balktick
Looking for artists to rent subsidized space in Long Island City!
Long and short term rental opportunities now available.
25 – 25 44th Drive: 5,000 sq. ft. bank building with tile floors, lots of large windows, an outdoor performance area and possible gallery, event, and studio spaces.
26 – 09 Jackson Ave: 4,500 sq. ft., 3 levels. Top floor with great natural light and wood flooring; ground floor with high ceilings, wood floors and a garage door entrance; basement studio space.
26 – 19 Jackson Ave: 4,500 sq ft. of unobstructed space with high ceilings, garage door and concrete floors – ideal for film shoots and rehearsals.
Highlights of chashama blocka:
# Plans for future growth from 3 to 10 spaces
# Spaces available through 2014
# On-Site Parking
If you are interested in finding out more about chashama’s new
LIC spaces, please contact: janusz@chashama.org
Chashama, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, adopts temporarily vacant commercial properties that are donated by their owners and converts them into spaces available for artists to work and/or present their art. Chashama then re-grants these spaces to artists of all stripes, and cultural organizations at free or heavily subsidized rates. In a city of exorbitant rents and voracious gentrification, chashama is committed to literally opening doors for artists by providing them with the rarest commodity in New York City: affordable space. www.chashama.org
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