maandag 12 november 2012

Katerina Dramitinou

YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW EARLY THEY WAKE UP

Well you see, what I do has nothing to do with hidden meanings.
It's just me and the way I communicate with nature, that is, life...Nothing else. That's where I rest, that's where I find answers. That's where I find painting if you wish. Colours and forms, forms and colours. As for what they call whatever is behind a work of Art, I don't think it's me that can give you an answer. It's not my role. If something like that exists, if you can find it, let me know too.
Lately, I have discovered my face amongst the interwined tree branches, and Elizabeth, full of curves on cars'windows or behind curtains. I found Constantine built in the wild bedrocks, his gaze everywhere...Pieces of a puzzle, all mixed up. Wherever I passed, I left an eye to watch behind. And no...I haven't just seen curves, shadows, branches and rocks. I gather, there must be others who would like to look into this matter using the same code. The one of truth and simplicity. Because, as we have said, painting equals life. Life everywhere. Wherever you look, there is life.


Trash Riot





Tomek Dakiniewicz





Musta Fior




"The french collagist Musta Fior makes collages for two years. He experimented with many subjects, several media, but remains a lover of paper, scissors and glue. For some time, he collaborated with other collagists on different supports. For this series, he realizes postcards with fragments of paper sent by Nikki Soppelsa from USA. Either he tells stories, or he made in the asbtraction, the three cards below are an example."









zaterdag 10 november 2012

Schlockhausen


Growing up in New Jersey, schlockhausen had what he describes as a “normal suburban Catholic school childhood.” But compelled to make art from a young age, his influences clearly came from sources beyond Catholic school. The cartoons on TV and the Sunday comics, as well as the punk rock and post-punk music of 1975-85 left an indelible mark on his work. He recognizes Charles M. Shultz and Mark E. Smith (of the band The Fall) as major influences.
After receiving a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, he supported his art with a great variety of jobs. From jewelry assembler to artisan bread baker to most recently barista, he has always continued to create his unsettling and intriguing work. He has shown in various group shows in the NYC area as well as Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, and Paris. His first solo show was at the now defunct BLAST gallery in Teaneck, NJ.








His work recycles images from his childhood and current media, and he uses found material (newspapers, advertising, logos, garbage, gay magazines) to create his surfaces. Graphic elements and newspaper clippings interact with more natural appendages. The often-decaying surfaces of these works adds to the unnerving feeling of remembered images meeting more adult themes. In this work, laughs can mask more sensitive emotions. But the focus is on reframing images intended to control so that they themselves are now controlled.






Antigoni Vas



Hello! My name is Antigoni Vasilaki. Studied graphic design. I love making collages and experimentation...









Audrey Smith














My work is an introspective and process-oriented experiment in combining disparate media to create an entirely new and unique visual context. I enjoy working with patterned papers, vintage and antique imagery, color, and texture. I don’t approach my work with a narrative in mind, rather I let the varied scraps on my work table speak to me. As I work on a collage the composition unfolds before me, which I find to be the most thrilling aspect of the process. My work tends to be rather small (under a foot in any direction) since I like to work quickly, and will usually have multiple collages going at a time.