Just the beginning...

NEAT!

Here's basically everything I have from our last meeting:

Slate Gallery

"Slate Gallery features Projects and Exhibitions by Contemporary artists living in the US and abroad. Fitting into the spirit of the burgeoning art scene in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Slate Gallery artists are free to exhibit in the art space, using both traditional and non-traditional means."

Cheol Yu Kim- works with watercolor on paper, making complex geometric-- even fractal-- designs that resemble, to me, a sort of animated, microscopic life.

John Kindness- uses recycled material, as well as subject matter, to reconsider the value of these objects and iconography of the past.

Hogar Collection

"The Hogar Collection is a gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn that represents promising emerging and mid career American and International artists working innovatively in all contemporary art-making practices including painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video and sound. Since it's inception in 2003, the gallery's aim is dedicated to the promotion of new art, dialogues, perspectives, and strives to be a venue that reflects the diversity of our ever changing world."

Michelle Forsyth- pixelated images out of crafty objects separate the viewer, and even the image, from the associated tragedies in the titles.

Peter Fox- abstract-expressionist-like use of acryllic paint, blending together lines of color in a way to make the surface appear as if it's melting.

Also take a look at Jihoon Park, who's featured on the home page.

Glowlab

"Glowlab is an innovative art gallery and creative catalyst located in New York. We collaborate with and present the work of artists exploring the convergence of art, technology and the urban environment.

Glowlab is a forward-thinking model that advances a unique perspective. We specialize in presenting spatial and social concepts through artworks and exhibitions related to cities and urban culture. These avant-garde works and installations, rooted in the spirit of psychogeography, capture an individual artist’s observations and experiences living in a contemporary city and open a creative dialogue for interpreting everyday life, spontaneous interaction, and cultural moments in flux. Our represented artists, technologists and inspired thinkers are true social change agents, modeling progressive approaches to urban living."

Heather Johnson- works with thread on linen creating images reminiscent of folk needlepoint work, yet with an urban language.

Swoon- native to street art, she has made a move to put some of her cut-out portraits in the gallery, but continues to pursue community revitalization through her work. (I like this sort of interaction, which makes me similarly interested in Aiko and Dain of Brooklynite.)

Pierogi

"an artist run gallery in williamsburg, brooklyn–an area now vital to the larger art community because of its concentration of exciting artists, as well as its innovative gallery scene. pierogi has monthly solo shows featuring the work of emerging and mid-career artists in an eclectic range of media and style.

the flat files are also an important aspect of pierogi and began with the idea of making artwork available to a larger audience. they house portfolios of original works by 700+ artists. the traveling flat files have been exhibited in london, vienna, san francisco, los angeles, and elsewhere."

Ryan Mrozowski- largely pictorial, and sort of eerie, his subjects dwell on the concept of "life lived vicariously" and the attempts to obtain true knowledge.

Yoon Lee- what I interpretted as a sort of "Donnie Darko" illustration of fate, the images seem to show the path of the wild movements of vibrant colors, sometimes in a representative setting.

Littlejohn Contemporary

"Established in Soho in 1984, Littlejohn Contemporary Art, Inc. relocated to The Fuller Building on Madison Avenue and 57th Street in 1992 where it remained for thirteen years. The gallery program spans a broad range of contemporary art practice, focusing on painting, photography, mixed media and sound installation by important emerging and mid-career artists."

Randy Bolton- uses vintage storybook images and pendants to criticize the myths in society, politics, and institutions. (Based on the description below his work, it would seem that his intent is in line with Barthes and demystification.)



I just looked back at the links I saved for my graffiti research, and I found this gallery, which had featured European street artists in 2007: Jonathan LeVine Gallery The current exhibits look very interesting too, specifically Panorama Project 3, in which all the artists had to work with a "horizontal line or division" at a specific height on the panel surface. Actually, browsing through their site, this stuff looks pretty darn interesting.

If you're into interventionist works (while they might not necessarily work well with Stamp's interest), look around this site: Graffiti Research Lab I particularly like LED Throwies, Interactive Architecture, Jesus 2.0, Light Criticism, and Laser Tag.

OK! Enough. I'm getting dragged into this more than I can afford right now. :)
Thanks, Sana, for the blog!