35 Claver Place

dannielswatosh.com

this is a moustache plaque
it is made of wood and a moustache
size is 5" x 4"
no statement at this time

Addresses notions of territory and expanse, and manifestations of cultural currencies.

marco.metm.org

I like artwork which makes you think. Be it rethinking your cell-phone as a recording device, picking yourself up by your bootstraps or squeezing out a portrait by making you balance on a see-saw, I'll use any combination of materials and techniques to get the idea across.

As complex as American history is, I view it through the (often banal) experiences of women in the 1950s. The joy, frustration, style and wit of this era provides ample fodder for expression. Additionally, I tend to abstract everyday experiences (riding on the subway, cooking dinner) into "expressionist" style depictions.

Blue Spring Tree: Encaustic / collage on wood panel- 40" x 26" 2006

marston-reid.com

miwa.metm.org

My interests are varied, and the materials I use to express my ideas run the full gamut of contemporary artistic practice. My main themes are of memory and disappearance, which I express by using natural phenomenon to reveal simple facts about our everyday existence. I enjoy bringing your attention to those simple wonders which are easy to forget in a everyday life.

Steven Samet has opened the door on a private, intimate, and mundane world, a place we visit briefly but regularly to satisfy basic needs and cravings but seldom for a prolonged look at what is actually revealed in that cold light. Samet invites us to indulge not for the sake of our stomachs but for the delight of our eyes and imagination. What visual and mental nutrients are to be found in these worlds of constant flux and variety, of ingredients and choices, of labels and brands?

Oil on linen, 2005, 52x38 inches

elisabethcondon.com

I paint contemporary landscape as a multi-layered space shaped by consciousness, deja vu, location and cultural influence. Each painting combines illusion, cartoon, text, gesture, pours and "Pat the Bunny"-like textures that contain disparate realities in single works.

blairbradshaw.com

The bulk of my work deals with coding and organizational systems, such as the periodic table and, more recently, a look into telephone directories as a crude form of code. While the paintings tend to be stricly graphic and objective, there is a fluid emotional layer that competes with the more rigid elements of the form.

I did these little landscapes in the middle of winter, it was cold, I wanted to be somewhere else. I could hang them on the wall and pretend that I was there.

I like to make places. For me its about being where I am, having somekind of relationship with a place and telling it's story. What I do is get myself into a place, take materials, make drawings, start making things, channeling things that have to do with that place. I love history, the history that is between the cracks.

decaturbluespace.com

"look at the light! look! look!"
-christo at the unveiling of the gates in central park
(quote of the day in new york times 13 february 2005)

Cedar Mannan 1

Cedar Mannan 2

Kennis Baptiste - painting

I later started to experiment with different abstract ways of capturing movement and energy. I was lucky enough to find my own unique style of expression. I also wanted to use my work as an education tool to educate and capture the emotions of my viewers.

These recent paintings using trees as subject matter are a close-up lens on the tree as symbol. My trees exist in the three worlds, with the branches in the heavens, the trunk in the world we inhabit, and the roots in the underworld. Trees are symbolic in many cultures; from Christian and Jewish mythology, to ancient Egypt’s “Holy Sycamore” which stood at the gate of life and death, to the Mayan culture’s “Yaxche,” which has branches that hold up the heavens.

Recently I've been documenting and drawing the huge growth spurt in Brooklyn housing, and the old structures that are 'getting in the way' of the developers' plans for the future.

www.costd.com

HoMay in the Shadow of Steel: mixed media and transfer on paper

Old Flatbush Carwash: gouache and transfer on paper

Cassandra Quinn
Artist
larksparkle@gmail.com

found imagery and text in pencil on tracing paper

found imagery and text, acrylic on panel