artventuresnycblogger

Crazy passionate new media artist attending one art gallery a week, reviews and pictures to follow.

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Nina Boesch-Mixed Media

Kaya Galleries

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Night Eye (Caris Reid, 2014)

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The Sentinels in the Garment District- public art work which is made out of rubber tires and stainless steel

The pieces were designed by New York based artist, Chakaia Booker, The Sentinels is a group of five sculptures created from recycled tires and stainless steel.  The sculpture represents the strength of american identity while the tires' various colors and textures symbolizes the contributions of many diverse groups to the great energy of the garment district and the larger society.

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Chelsea Street Art: Fall 2014

Check out this super cool bench made out of snowboards                            

To be or not to be that is the question

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Brett Lidell, Hunter Canning Permutations curated by Robert James Anderson at Eye Heart Gallery

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Whiskey and Ice Cube or Coffee and Coke: Paintings by Dan Stuart

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Mad. Sq Art created by Tony Cragg

In an interview, the artist said: “I think that sculpture is a kind of sensitizing activity and that it has a role in being a catalyst that may lead to more sensitive thinking. It’s a materialist’s too, which I would hope would also lead to a more open-minded approach to the world around us .

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Stray Kat Gallery Review: Zane Fix and Stella Michaels Highline Balancing Act

I attended the Stray Kat Gallery on Thursday September 18th, located on 10th avenue and 15th street. The gallery featured artists Zane Fix and Stella Michaels. The show can be described as a combination of Japanese pop art (FIX) and abstract expressionism(Michaels). Zane fix artworks was created using vibrant colors, and he is often inspired by pop culture idols such as audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, and David Bowie. While Stella Michaels is a New York City, Chelsea based artist, her art can only be found in the chelsea market. Her works are inspired by NYC, which she describes as her city. The city that has many cultures, and is so vibrant and full of life; that is the only place she feels comfortable displaying and selling her art.  The Stray Kat gallery is a unique space, that is some what industrial by nature.  The floors were concrete and the ceiling had exposed pipe which set the minimalist nature for the display of both the vibrant and expressive art. The setup allowed the art to shine. A nice touch was that the gallery had hung some japans umbrellas on the ceiling to add to the japans ambiance.

New York State of Mind (Enamel on Canvas) 2014

Most of the art works were framed and hung across the walls of the gallery, however some pieces were selected to be hung together in collections. I think it’s important for an artist to create collection.  For an artist to display their work in that manner shows the relationship between their multitude of works and brings meaning to the pieces as part of a greater whole.

Pop Art Collection by Zane Fix  There was one piece by Stella Michael called Shooting Star at Midnight (Acrylic on Canvas), which i found to be extremely intriguing. Stella used very few colors and made an abstract sketch of what appears to be the city skyline on a blue back ground with one red circle lying on top of the painting. The piece i pretty minimalistic in nature, yet it feels warm and mysterious. The work also happened to have matched my outfit which was a happy coincidence.

Shooting Star at Midnight (Enamel and Acrylic on Canvas) 2014 I really enjoyed Zane’s modern twist on Andy Warhol like pop art, I’m the kind of person that enjoys bright and exciting colors in my art. Plus I like that most of his work were sketches with pops of color.

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I went to this loft space in Gramercy NYC and they had all this great artwork up on the wall.

The loft mostly featured collages and painting up on the wall. The painting were bright, mysterious, but most of all thought provoking.

There was one with an eye that was particularly caught my attention to the point where I felt that you could get lost in the painting.

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Poppy Art at the MOMA

On the fourth floor of the Museum of Metropolitan Art there is an exhibition on early 1960's America Pop Art . You can see many interesting works of  famous artist such asAndy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, and and Marisol Escobar.  The galleries images are from television, pop culture, comic books, prints and advertising.

These images, painting and sculptures are constructed from vibrant paint colors like red, orange, yellow, and teal were meant to challenge the conventional ways that society viewed women and their femininity, advertising and the nature of simple objects in life,  and lastly exploring the  meaning behind symbols in pop culture and their inter-relativity. 

Birds eye view of the POP Art Gallery, 4th floor of the MOMA (on 53rd and 5th avenue)

Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans 1962 ( POP Art Gallery, MOMA)

One of the pieces that stood out to me at the  POP Art gallery was Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans 1962 (synthetic polymer paint on thirty-two canvases.) The reason for my enchantment with Warhol piece is his uncanning ability to highlight the way people look at the world, by viewing it an a different way. By taking these simple objects such as cans of soup and painting them and arranging them in a grid like display calling attention to what these soup cans look like at the surface level. Warhol transformed this object that was so rudimentary to the point where you are looking at a cheaply reproduced printed label for a can of soup in one of the most  famous modern art museums in NYC. Artist often look at something in a different light, and use that light to share their discoveries with the rest of the world. If this art is contextualized to the time is was created in the 60's, that was the age of mass production. Now if we look at this piece which is a replica of the Campbell's soup can, which you can purchase in your local grocery stores you can understand how an artist can see the beauty in the methods of production used to create an object.

Roy Lichtnestein: Girl with a Ball 1961 (oil on canvas)

Andy Warhol: Orange Car Crash 14 Times 1963  (Silkscreen ink on synthetic ink on synthetic polymer paint on two canvases)

 Andy Warhol: Gold Marilyn Monroe 1962 (silkscreen on synthetic polymer paint on canvas)

Gerard Richter: Tote(dead) 1963 (oil on canvas)

Edward Ruscha- OOF 1962 (oil on canvas)