Christopher Myers – Maria Arroyo – Drawing 1

Christopher Myers was born in New York, and he is still making art until this day. He does a lot of his art based off a story line. He is also a multimedia artist and author, but he also does playwright. His work has been in exhibits throughout the U.S.. Some of his work is “Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me, New York 2018.” His art is very detailed and precise. I like his artwork. He worked really hard on them. He is inspired from Lil Wayne’s lyrics for some of his pieces. And he could use any kind of hip hop music to explain anything out of it in art form. But at the core of the hip hop music there are tensions between it all. For this piece he used fabric and thread.   he made it 16in by 20in. And about this piece that drew me to it is the fact that he is drinking a bottle with flames. The next piece is also on fabric. You notice he drew part of his face with vines and leafs. That is to show that there are a lot of obstacle courses to go through in life. I love the piece itself and how he got all of the details in it. The next one is also on the fabric but he has made the person cry, bleed and puke the ocean water. I am drawn to this piece because the person caught my attention and the fact that he is crying, bleeding and puking the ocean water. This next piece is base on his books. They reviewed this in the New York Times. I love this piece showing it shouldn’t matter your size you can play a game if you are determined. For this one this is actually the one “ Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me.” He made two pieces for this one. He made the original one and then he made a second one, because he changed the way he viewed it.

Fort Gansevoort Fabric 72 by 48 inches

And four this one he has drawn people looking up at a fish that is jumping over thiem back into the water. I like this one because he had made it on to a quilt, and I love the design he put into it. And for the last one is of a person sitting in a chair with his or hers hands crossed with a towel rapt around his or hers head. He painted this one and again he does a good job at his artwork. He  does sketches too, and I thought they were amazing. I picked this artist because I was drawn to his work, and he did different styles of art. I think that is amazing, the different ways he can make artwork. He says that other people’s memories that get left behind and his own family pictures have quite an impact, as well as in a black and white photograph of his grandfather with a telling smile on his face. He tells stories that  talks about his grandfather through his work. He creates his own images in collage, photos, woodcuts and other artistic media. A lot of the pitchers that i got is also pitchers he did based off the books he wrote. I think that is amazing. He takes his writing career and works it in his art career. And he takes his art career and does clothing designer. I had a good time looking at his artwork. Each piece that i looked at I felt like he was telling a different story in it. And I have enjoyed looking up Christopher Myers, and learning about all the different art he does from his book writing and his artwork from the books he writes and his regular artwork and his clothing designer.

Fort Gansevoort Fabric 84.0 by 144.0 inches
A rock Star, and 13 other cultura… 1024 by 605
The New York Times
embroidery on fabric, 16in by 20in
embroidery on fabric, 16in by 20in
embroidery on fabric, 16in by 20in
Henry Taylor Blum and Poe 1200 by 1692

Art Fairs NYC

SPRING/BREAK Art Show

SPRING/BREAK Art Show is an internationally recognized exhibition platform using underused, atypical and historic New York City exhibition spaces to activate and challenge the traditional cultural landscape of the art market, typically but not exclusively during Armory Arts Week. The eighth annual exhibition will be held from March 5th  – March 11th, 2019. All artworks in the show are displayed and available for purchase online, giving artists unknown, emerging, mid-career, and beyond a virtual compliment to their tactile exhibition.

In March 2019, over 100 curators will premiere new artworks created by over 400 artists, all selected around this year’s central art theme, FACT AND FICTION

The “fact” of a person and their environment—the artist and their world—and the “fiction” of their creation—their art—feel blended more than ever.

In light of this osmosis, SPRING/BREAK Art Show 2019 seeks similar inquiries into the paradoxes of FACT AND FICTION. The 2019 exhibition aims for works dealing with self-mythology, history, memory, cultural conspiracy, propaganda, appropriation, psychedelia, and/or a focus on subjects related to the utterly un-provable—the occult, religious, pseudoscientific, and pseudohistorical, pseudepigraphica to mythopoetica.

Art on Paper

Art on Paper returns to downtown Manhattan’s Pier 36 in March of 2019 (March 7-10) with eighty-five galleries featuring top modern and contemporary paper-based art. Art on Paper’s medium-driven focus lends itself to significant projects – unique moments that have set the fair apart and established an important destination for the arts in New York City. 

Samuelle Green

Samuelle Green constructs large scale installations from hundreds of thousands of hand rolled paper cones, typically consisting of paperbacks slated for recycling or being discarded. These adorn a hidden framework which transforms typically rectilinear spaces into organic, otherworldly environments. These elements combine to reference the complex and often overlooked art forms found in nature. Green’s installations reference these forms on a human scale- inspiring contemplation. 

Roland Poska

Jerald Melberg Gallery presents the ‘Sentinels’ a series of cotton fiber and pigment sculptures by the artist Roland Poska. 

Other Art Fairs Worth Mentioning

SCOPE

The 19th edition of SCOPE New York returns to its Chelsea location at Metropolitan Pavilion. Known for presenting groundbreaking contemporary work, SCOPE New York will welcome 60 international exhibitors at its centrally-located venue. In addition, SCOPE will continue its legacy of critically-acclaimed VIP Programming with strategic partnerships, a focused schedule of events, and talks.

The first fair to run concurrent with The Armory Show, SCOPE New York’s spirit of innovation has consistently forged the way for emerging artists and galleries. Attuned to nuances in the market and itself an influential force in the cultural sphere, SCOPE continues to usher in a new vision of the contemporary art fair.

SCOPE New York 2019 opens on Thursday, March 7, 2019, with the Platinum First View and VIP & Press Preview, and will run through Sunday, March 10, 2019. General Admission: $25

Thomas Canto

The concept of space and movement is rarely confined, defined or limited in Thomas Canto’s work. The organic structures of Thomas Canto’s works are also inspired by urban architectural environments which interplay humanity and functionality. For him, the dialect and exchange between human and architecture is as prominent a subject matter as the elements of color, line, form and shadow in his work. The sculptural and painting aspects of Canto’s concepts play a role within the perception of how the spectator immerses himself into the work itself. Depth, geometry, and illusion are intricately intertwined in each work, drawing into questioning how humanity and created material respond to one another.

SCOPE is delighted to have Mirus Gallery bring Thomas Canto to SCOPE New York where he will be creating a site-specific installation at the front of the fair to welcome our guests.

VOLTA

NEW YORK, JANUARY 29, 2019: VOLTA New York returns to Pier 90 for its twelfth edition in
New York City, from March 6 – 10, 2019, concurrent with Armory Arts Week and the 25th
anniversary of its neighbor, The Armory Show. VOLTA promotes its mandate of “global vision –
solo focus
” by welcoming 70 international exhibitors across North America and the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and Asia, and presenting established and emerging artists from 37 nations.

General Admission: $25

Art Work Images | 2019

Katy Grannan, by Katina Green

Katy Grannan is a photographer and filmmaker who was born in Arlington Massachusetts, in 1969.  She fell in love with observing the world when her grandmother gave her a camera about the age of  8 years old.  She had never aspired to be an artist, and then she game across Rober Frank and his photographs, in The Americans.  Grannan received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and Masters of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Art.  The five monographs of her work are Model American, The Westers, Boulevard, The Nine, and The Ninety Nine.

She is enthralled by the lives the individuals she describes as “anonymous people,” that live on the sides of our society in the American West.  Katy gets to know these individuals creating long term relationships with them.  The time she spends becoming closer to her subjects lead to such stunningly amazing and unsettling photographs.  She walks around with her camera exploring and photographing people who want to be photographed. 

Lady into Fox 14 Sep 2017 – 21 Oct 2017

She captures these individuals without all the extra stuff and just leaving them with what is essential.  She views her photographs like a family album, remembering each person and the what they talked about.  Katy thinks of her art of more a collaboration rather than just the artist’s idea.  She finds herself drawn to the fringes of society and the people and places that the world would rather not see and overlooked. Her project, The Westerns(2005–08), explores gender and identity performance in photographs of transsexual and transgender individuals.

Anonymous, Los Angeles, 2008
pigment print, 28-1/8 x 21-5/8 inches (framed) or 41-1/8 x 31-1/8 inches (framed)
Dale, Ocean Beach (I), 2006
pigment print, 41-1/4 x 51-1/8 inches (framed)
Anonymous, San Francisco, 2010
pigment print, 28-1/8 x 21-5/8 inches (framed) or 41-1/8 x 31-1/8 inches (framed)

Discomfort is a really important feeling, and it might help you recognize some of your own limitations and the way you see the world. Or just the fact of other possibilities.”

and it might help you recognize some of your own limitations and the way you see the world. Or just the fact of other possibilities.” Katy Grannan

Nicole, Crissy Field Parking Lot (II), 2006
pigment print, 41-1/4 x 51-1/8 inches (framed)
Wanda and Stephen with Memorial Balloons, Stanislaus River, Modesto, CA, 2013
48-1/8 x 63-1/4 inches (framed)

She made her first feature film called The Nine, named after a street called south 9th street in Modesto, CA.  The images are intimate, disturbing, raw, poetic, direct, and unnerving at times; it is a window not into a foreign world but into our own shared existences.  She said she found it hard making this film at times. She would leave South 9th Street and return to her home in Burkley and wonder if she had the right to be there. She had a hard time with wanting to do more and felt guilty at times, it was difficult being there but still valued her friendships. She found that avoiding it would be to become complacent.   This film was a combined effort, a collaboration between herself and the subjects (her friends) that she made while making this film. Katy said her life becomes more interesting by getting out of her studio.   

Her works are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among many others. She’s also a long time contributor to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and many other important publications.

Mika Tajima – Ethan Johnson 3D

Mika Tajima is a New York based artist who focuses on ideas of human constructions of thought. Tajima was born In 1975 in Los Angeles, California. In 1997 she graduated from Bryn Mawr College where she went for Fine Arts and East Asian Studies. 

Mika Tajima creates her works employing many media such as Sculpture, Painting, and Performance Art. She explores ideas about concepts that humans create about the world. Examples of such are her views into the concept of gold prices internationally. She looks into how the idea of gold having a price assigned to it affects the way humans think of it. She creates works of art based on these kinds of ideas about social construction. She also focuses on how an object or a certain space can affect a person’s way of thinking or their psychological state when in or around said object or space.

Mika Tajima, Installation at Elizabeth Dee, New York. Left to right: A Facility Based on Change II, (2010), A Facility Based on Change I, (2010) and A Facility Based on Change III, (2010). Photo by Jason Mandella. Courtesy the artist. © Mika Tajima. Featured in the films Mika Tajima Wants to Hire Contortionists and Mika Tajima Versus the Cubicle.

One particular idea of Mika Tajima is her work with the concept of the cubicle. Specifically the Action Office furniture line by Herman Miller. She thought about how many companies in the 70s and 80s started to use cubicles to separate their workers in the idea that it would produce better work with less distraction. She viewed this use of separation as a form of abuse, and sees it as dehumanizing the workers. The cubicle, in Tajima’s opinion, affects human behavior.

In the work she hired amateur contortionists in business casual attire to do extreme poses around a space of colored cubicles and contemporary chairs. In this work the contortionists poses are being used to show the effects of isolating workers and how it psychologically reprograms workers to think differently. This is shown by the twist of the contortionists bodies. 

Mika Tajima, Contortionist salon event, New York, 2011. Performer: Tony Mitchell. Photo by Mika Tajima. Courtesy the artist. © Mika Tajima. Featured in the film Mika Tajima Wants to Hire Contortionists.

Mika Tajima, The Extras, 2010. Silkscreen, Formica, plywood, mirror aluminum, Plexiglas, canvas, acrylic paint; 78 × 60 × 96 inches. Installation view: Transaction Abstraite, New Galerie, Paris. Photos by: Claire Curt. Courtesy the artist. © Mika Tajima

In another piece, Mika Tajima creates a work called The Architects Garden, in this piece she talks about her parents and their work teaching science in her home city of Austin. According to an article on Frieze “Mika Tajima’s exhibition ‘The Architect’s Garden’ had a not dissimilar intention, designed to engage with the artist’s home city of Austin and with the University of Texas’s large campus, where her parents once taught science.”

Trenton Doyle Hancock- Matilda Lee

Trenton Doyle Hancock- Matilda Lee

Trenton is a 45-year-old artist who paints, draws, sculpts, and creates collages. He has a specific style that is slightly off-putting but in such a way that interest the viewers. Trenton was born in Oklahoma City in 1974, however, he grew up in Paris, Texas. His stepfather was a preacher, so he was raised around religion which is shown in the work he has done over the years. He is drawn to creating characters and stories in his pieces. He even wanted to be a professional cartoonist after he graduated from Texas A&M University but instead, he then earned his Masters of Fine Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. He keeps everything because he believes he can reuse it in another work. He has one work full of 15 years of other works or scraps he saved. He does this because while he creates he then thinks of the older works, so he sees these new works as a time capsule. For his drawings and painting, he creates these characters and storylines that make the viewer feel slightly uneasy. He has a few that resemble himself and how he would see himself as a superhero in another world that he has created in his work. This other world also has these creates called Mounds. Mounds look like black and white stripped anthills but they are actually animals that are old and very respected in his art world. He was a series of drawings and paintings of these creatures and their life all the way to their deaths. He draws this creature as if it has decomposed and the storyline continues on in other works showing other characters mourning these “king” like things. Most of Trenton’s works are centered around birth, life, death, afterlife, or these dream states. He also has a lot of art dealing with memories. He uses patterns he recognizes from his childhood or materials that spark other memories for him. He is working more on this idea now than the mounds and the world he did have. He still puts characters into his work but not like in his older works. He has a series of older works of tortured characters and some are even drawings of himself in grotesque situations. I believe that’s how he portrays how he felt about his upbringing and being surrounded by religion the most.


Richard Serra

Richard Serra                                                By Sue Hatcher

                         Richard Serra is considered by many to be the most important sculptor of the post war period.  Richard has a fascination with the possibility of curves.  He has a huge mathematical imagination.  

                         He became interested in metal design in his youth while working with his father at the steel mills and shipyards on the west coast.  One day his father took him to watch a ship launching.    It was a powerful moment for him it still shows up in his dream.  It started him thinking in terms of size and space, and what that means.   He uses steel to organize space.   Richard took sculpture off the pedestal and made you think of sculpture more in terms of time and space.    It changed the way we think of sculpture forever.  His pieces are massive, he wants you to not only see them but to experience them by walking around and through them.   The idea of dealing with space has been central to his entire career.   The rhythm of the body through space. He considers space to be the material as he attempts to use sculptural form to make space.   Space is the subject – steel is the vehicle.  He uses the steel to organize space, steel holds the space.   Richard creates slowly and on an enormous scale his work resembles architecture.  He creates by shaping and stretching steel like rubber.   When you see one of his works it is hard to articulate with words how you view it because you are having a sensory experience and language is a transcription not the event you are experiencing.                                                              

     Richard took art at Berkley, but he felt as though he was not learning anything.  So, he started playing football, till he broke his back.   He ended up going to California and a new direction in the English department.  He was also reintroduced to art.  This time he was taken under the wings of Rico Labrum and Howard Warshaw who were experienced draughtmen who were working on a mural in the library in downtown Santa Barbra.

Dedicated vision and commitment that will make him an artist whose work will last long after he is gone. 

                        When I started this project, I had no appreciation for this kind of art sculpture.  But as I read and listened to Richard talk about, and describe how and why he does his work  I found as I started to understand the meaning I  starting  to like this kind of art,  and to think more about what art means to me and what art means in general I have a  broader outlook on art I will think more kindly on art I don’t understand right  away.

Enright, Robert. “The WEIGHT of HISTORY: Richard Serra’s Sculpture and Drawings.” Border Crossings, vol. 36, no. 4, Dec. 2017, pp. 26–43. EBSCOhost, cmsmir.clevelandstatecc.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aft&AN=127167579&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

                        These are a few of his pieces.

                The story under  Art insite


 This is called the Arc 1981    Its in the    Federal Plaza down town  New York

                       Richard Serra        One Ton prop   House of cards    1969

The Snake 1994

  Created especially for The Guggenheim Bilbao
a          Torqued  1996    Art foundation 

Aliza Nisenbaum – S. Anoki Gibbs – Drawing 2


Aliza in her studio, from Vogue interview.

Aliza Nisenbaum was born in Mexico City in 1977. She is the daughter of a Norwegian-American mother and a Russian-Mexican father. Her artwork is a beautiful mix of intimate portraiture and detailed still life. Working in the heart of Brooklyn her art prominently features the marginalized and invisible people she encounters. Her colorful and cheerful portraits of individuals society would rather not see invite viewers in to really see the humanity of her subjects.

Aliza studied psychology in Mexico City, where she planned to go into b social work. Then later applied to art school in Chicago. At first her passion was for abstract art, but her compassion for humanity Drew her to choose portraiture. After resettling in New York and working alongside fellow artist and friend Josephine Halvorson, who does ultra realistic paintings of everyday items, Aliza began to do beautiful life-size paintings of cut flowers purchased from vendors in her neighborhood. Her intent is to use these seemingly innocuous images to make commentary on American-Mexican trade.

Branching out from immigrants from her native Mexico, her Minneapolis exhibition in 2017 featured marginalized people from all over the world. Most of the people featured in her work are closely involved and active in multinational community groups. She is very passionate about the importance of these community centers for a sense of belonging to the communities they have joined.

As a member of a community center herself, Aliza contributed to her community by hosting language learning workshops. Through her passions art and social work she opened the door for her students to open up about their lives and experiences. Some of those experiences were beautiful, and some were ugly.

Through conversation with her language students she found several students were victims of domestic violence. (Vogue) Her kindness and compassion allowed not only these students to be heard, but opened the door for a new workshop about domestic violence to be created to help even more members of the community.

Janine Antoni- 3D Design- by Rebecca Bartlett

Janine Antoni was born in Freeport, Bahamas in 1964. She has a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, and she has an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has numerous awards a few of which are Glen Dimplex Artist Award in 1996, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1998, the Joan Mitchell Painting and Sculpture Award in 1998. Her works are located in several museums including Guggenheim Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. She lives in New York and continues to make art.

Antoni, Janine. To Long. 2015.

Her processes are known for being very usual. She uses her own body in the process of many of her works. The sculptural works demonstrating daily acts like taking a bath or eating a meal are ones in which she acted on. In other works, she created sculptures that incorporate human anatomy to relay her messages on gestures, childbirth, or love. She does performance art, photography, and installation art. In all her mediums she still tries to relate to audiences through the use of the body whether it’s through action done by the body, literal body parts, or performance done by people.


Antoni, Janine. Lick and Lather. 1993, Collection of Jeffrey Deitch, New York.

Lick and Lather is my favorite of her works. She created it by making a mold of her entire head, hair included. Then she cast two classical style busts from that, one the classical busts was made of chocolate. She proceeded to lick this bust to change it and perform part of a ritual. This bust is referred to as Lick due to the process. The other bust, Lather, was made of soap. She took that one into the shower with her for several hours. There, she washed it until the face was no longer so easy to recognize.


Antoni, Janine. To Compose. 2015, Brooklyn Museum, New York.

To Compose was another piece I found intriguing. The work is based on the crossing of one leg over the other as it is associated with learned femininity. The way the top leg is embedded into the other shows how we can not just easily unlearn what has been planted into our ideals, even in small gestures.

Antoni, Janine. Swallow. 1993, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia.

To Swallow is a notable piece. It has some roots in performance, conceptual, and sculptural art. The performance was originally done for ten people, they became a part of the final work under the names of: The Poet, The Mole, The Framer, The Mender, The Defender, The Healer, The Mother and Twins, and The Listener.


Antoni, Janine. Mom and Dad. 1994, The Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Mom and Dad is another work of her I found important; although, it is not sculpture. This piece includes three pictures of her parents in which she used prosthetic makeup to make them look each other in three different combinations except both without makeup. It brings to question the assumptions people may have about gender roles and how relationships should or should not look.


Antoni, Janine. Lull. 2015.


St Patricks Cathedral

St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Renee Garner

The Cathedral of St. Patrick is a decorated Neo-Gothic-style Roman Catholic cathedral church in the United States and a prominent landmark of New York City.  Created to affirm the ascendance of religious freedom and tolerance, St. Patrick’s Cathedral was built in the democratic spirit, paid for not only by the contributions of thousands of poor immigrants but also by the largesse of 103 prominent citizens who pledged $1,000 each.

For individuals and groups of less than 10 you are welcome to join any of the scheduled Public guided tours below. No prior reservations required for Public tours.

All are welcome to visit and self-tour at your leisure. All tours begin at 10:oo AM and last approximately one hour.

https://saintpatrickscathedral.org/history-heritage

Empire state building

Main Deck- As the most famous observatory in the world, the 86th Floor has been the setting of dozens of movie and television scenes, as well as tens of millions of unforgettable personal moments.

The Observation Deck wraps around the building’s spire, providing 360-degree views of New York and beyond. From up here, you’ll get one-of-a-kind views of Central Park, The Hudson River, and East River, The Brooklyn Bridge, Times Square, The Statue of Liberty, and much more.

Top Deck-Sixteen floors above the 86th Floor Observatory, the Empire State Building’s Top Deck provides our most spectacular views of the city and beyond. Central Park comes into full view, the grid of streets reveals its brilliant design, and on a clear day, you can see beyond the skyscrapers up to 80 miles away.

Top and main Deck- 60

Main Deck-40

http://www.esbnyc.com/explore/main-deck-86th-floor

Vija Celmins – Andy Tate (Drawing 1)

Vija Celmins is a multimedia artist who uses charcoal, paint, several printing processes, and graphite. She is more known for her paintings which is what quickly caught people’s attention and gave her rise to fame. She has mastered the art of painting as she pays remarkable attention to detail, so much so that she will spend months to over a year on one small painting. Patience with her work is so unique that she will redo paintings several times until they are to her liking. She paints over the existing painting or sands over the top of it creating layers even if the layers do not show through, she believes it adds a sense of depth and memory to the painting. While she tends to paint an image from a photograph she will tweak the image to her liking on canvas. She is sensationally attracted to void like images and will not paint an object, that is on a photograph, that could obstruct the feeling of that void. Her recent works have had low colorization as if only painting in values of black and white. Even though her work seems to have a deep meaning and a sense of connection to her they do not. This can not be said to viewers of her work who frequently become emotionally connected to a piece for displaying their feelings on a wall as if looking into a mirror of their deepest emotions. She is also known for recreating her works over and over again using different mediums. She creates a different view with every creation because some mediums bring more detail to the picture while others lessen the detail. Recreating a work with lithograph or other print process transforms the original piece into a completely different image.

Lamp

This first image is one of her earlier works from nineteen sixty-four were she would just paint objects in the room of her work place. This particular piece was created with oil paint on canvas.

This painting, along with the rest of its’ series, is one of the few paintings that she used bright colors compared to most of her other works. The detail she is able to portray using acrylic and bronze paint is out of this world, it is no wonder why she is known for mastering painting. She has a collection of rocks that appear similar to these with the detailed speckles. The painting below of the night sky pairs a hefty resemblance to the appearance of the rocks if they were zoomed in with a camera.

Night Sky

In her series of Night Sky paintings she will take about one year to finish one painting, and there are several layers painted over top of one another.

Here is just one of the beautiful examples of how she will create another painting using the same image

Night Sky 1 Reversed

This is one of her lithography works that most likely will have a sister creation. All of her work have similarities to one another even if they are in a different series.

Some of her spider webs in its’ series she uses charcoal and eraser, but this one was created with oil on linen.

Web 3

I love this print piece!

“Vija Celmins.” artnet, Artnet Worldwide Corporation, 2018, http://www.artnet.com/artists/vija-celmins/biography.

“Vija Celmins.”art21, Art21, 2019, https://art21.org/artist/vija-celmins/.