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Hand pulled silkscreen prints by Altiro Studio

Claudia Sandoval — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:33:35 +0000

Altiro Studio was formed in 2001 as a platform for creative projects by Alfonso Nieto and Claudia Sandoval. The studio is driven by self-motivated art, experimentation and learning to expand their capabilities, expertise and interests.

They design and produce unique hand pulled silkscreen prints, fine art, accessories and objects that are approached with a multidisciplinary and refreshing point of view.

All the pieces are handmade in Brooklyn, New York.

Visit their website and online store.

Walking Man
11 x 14 in hand pulled silkscreen printed on Fabriano Studio Watercolor | 140 lb
3 colors | 10 copies
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Telepathy
11 x 14 in hand pulled silkscreen printed on Fabriano Studio Watercolor | 140 lb
3 colors | 10 copies
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New Stars
11 x 14 in hand pulled silkscreen printed on Fabriano Studio Watercolor | 110 lb
3 colors | 7 copies for each color stars
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Red Triangle
11 x 14 in hand pulled silkscreen printed on Fabriano Studio Watercolor | 140 lb
3 colors | 12 copies
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Looking West
11 x 14 in hand pulled silkscreen printed on Fabriano Studio Watercolor | 140 lb
3 colors | 10 copies
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7 Leguas
11 x 14 in hand pulled silkscreen printed on Fabriano Studio Watercolor | 140 lb
2 colors | 10 copies
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ABG FAVORITE 2011 VIDEOS

Claudia Sandoval — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:31:19 +0000

This past year we were inspired by craft, passion and dedication. 2012 will be full with more features, interviews and videos. Stay tuned and support emerging artists.

India Block Printing.

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Screenprinting Raport at Lalula in Barcelona.

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Marimekko Fabric Printing.

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Jeff Soto in Lyon, France.

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BRETT AMORY LATEST WORK

Claudia Sandoval — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:20:30 +0000

Born in Chesapeake, Virginia in 1975, Brett Amory is descended from a long line of visual artists and musicians. He studied at the Academy of Art from which he received a BFA in Fine Art in 2005 and was recipient of two major awards given by the school: The Student Choice Award for 2004 and Second Prize in landscape painting for 2003. He is the recipient of a gold medal from Online Artists Interviews, an international juried art competition (2009). He graduated from the Academy of Arts in 2005. Brett began working on the painting series entitled “Waiting” in 2001. The series depicts the urban individual’s yearning for presence and the seeming impossibility of attaining it. The paintings portray commuters in transit immersed in either a quiet, even hopeful state or, alternately, an anguish of unfulfilled anticipation.

ARTIST STATEMENT

“Waiting”
The painting series entitled “Waiting” depicts the urban individual’s yearning for presence and the seeming impossibility of attaining it. The paintings portray commuters in transit immersed in either a quiet, even hopeful state or, alternately, an anguish of unfulfilled anticipation.

At first, the series, begun in 2001, depicted travelers waiting underground. But as the paintings evolved, the people ceased to be exclusively travelers, and began to emphasize figures selected from anonymous snaphots of city streets. Although the experience of waiting remains, the perception of it has changed from one of mundane task to one leavened with transcendence.

The series has also charted the evolution of an artist—the reductive elements of the compositions provide an outward echo of the inner states of the figures. By reducing the elements of the painting as far as possible, a frozen moment is extended.

Lastly, I have developed favored motifs in the series, a kind of visual music, such as repetition of a human image, to show not only the passage of time but of the human being through it.

Waiting#80 “24x”48 oil on wood panel

Waiting#92 “48x”48 oil on wood panel

Waiting#78 “48x”71 oil on wood panel

Waiting#86 “24x”24 oil on wood panel

Waiting#83 “42x”60 oil on wood panel

Waiting#81 “24x”48 oil on wood panel

Waiting#91 “24x”48 oil on wood panel

DAVID CHOE VIDEO ART PIECE FOR SCION INSTALLATION 7

Claudia Sandoval — Sat, 21 May 2011 12:56:56 +0000

Choe’s piece features a timelapse of graffiti artist Risk freestyling a wall at Miami’s Art Basel, 2010.

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KEVIN BOURGEOIS AT WELL HUNG SHOW | MARCH 5TH

Claudia Sandoval — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 19:00:13 +0000

Kevin Bourgeois will be part of the collective show Well Hung at the Chelsea Chapter at+aRt.

March 5th, 6PM-10PM
Chelsea Chapter at+aRt
540 West 28th Street
New York, NY 10001

SONGS | A GROUP SHOW CURATED BY ERIK FOSS

Claudia Sandoval — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 21:31:27 +0000

Kevin Bourgeois will be part of the group show called Songs at Fuse Gallery.

Saturday, February 5 at 7:00 PM
93 2nd Ave (Between 5th & 6th st)
212.777.7988

BRETT AMORY AT THINKSPACE

Claudia Sandoval — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 13:16:47 +0000

Thinkspace is pleased to present There It Is, an exhibition of new works from three Oakland, CA based artists that explore the urban aesthetic from three distinctly different points of view. From the observational based oil paintings of Brett Amory to the history drenched collage styled oil paintings of Adam Caldwell through to the surreal bent on the world around us as seen through the eyes of oil painter Seth Armstrong, There It Is offers up a painterly tour de force that is a great way to kick off our 2011 program.

Also showing concurrently in our project room will be Happy Valley, an exhibition of new works from Ireland based artist Paul Barnes in what will be his first major solo exhibition in the States following numerous group show appearances with our gallery over the past few years.

Both exhibits on view: January 8th – January 29th

Thinkspace
6009 Washington Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310.558.3375
www.thinkspacegallery.com
www.sourharvest.com

Hours:
Wednesday thru Saturday
1 p.m. – 6 p.m. (or by appointment)

DISCOVERING NICK LEPARD

Claudia Sandoval — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 21:41:59 +0000

Today I got across Nick Lepard work. Immediately I was very attracted to his painting technique and the thinking behind his artwork.

Artists statement:
In my most recent work I explore notions of singularity, concepts of time and patterns of change.

Today, modernity requires that each of us navigate a blizzard of information. How this maelstrom of data is interpreted and synthesized constructs an individual’s paradigm. However, the qualities of the data are subject to a Catch-22: while the data works to describe an individual’s paradigm, an individual’s paradigm likewise works to describe the data.

With so much accessible information, yet so little certainty, are our interpretations of the world more complex or confused, more varied or more refined? Is the course of progress more accessible, or more elusive?

More at his website.

From Milan to Vienna
oil and acrylic on canvas
2006
66 x 54″

The way in which we change
oil on canvas
2008
71 x 64″

When I was an animal
oil on canvas
2008
66 x 54″

Understand Still
oil and acrylic on canvas
2008
66 x 54″

This is nowhere
oil on canvas
2008
54 x 66″

KEVIN BOURGEOIS AT FRACKING: ART AND ACTIVISM AGAINST THE DRILL AT EXIT ART

Claudia Sandoval — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:43:54 +0000

FRACKING: Art and Activism Against the Drill
December 7, 2010 – February 5, 2011
Opening Tuesday, December 7, 7-9pm

Exit Art announces Fracking: Art and Activism Against the Drill. Hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is a means of gas extraction that accesses gas trapped more than a mile below the earth’s surface. This exhibition, a project of SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics), will expose this process of gas extraction that is contaminating water supplies worldwide. Through documentary videos, photography by Jacques del Conte and Michael Forster Rothbart, commissioned works, public responses and literature, it will engage the public in dialogue on this issue through public lectures and calls to action and encourage audiences to continue educating themselves and their communities on fracking and its detrimental effects.
Exit Art invited the public to respond to the issue of fracking by submitting a postcard via mail with original artwork on one side and a written statement on the other. The dozens of responses we received will be on view, forming a collective call to end fracking; postcards will be accepted throughout the run of the exhibition and will be added as they are received.
Organized by Lauren Rosati, Assistant Curator, with Peggy Cyphers, Ruth Hardinger, and Alice Zinnes.
Exit Art
475 Tenth Ave
New York, NY 10018
www.exitart.org

T. 212 966 7745
F. 212 925 2928
E. info@exitart.org

Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Thursday 10:00am – 6:00pm
Friday 10:00am – 6:00pm
Saturday 12:00pm – 6:00pm

WRINKLES OF THE CITY : JR NEW PROJECT IN SHANGHAI

Claudia Sandoval — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:35:00 +0000

JR owns the biggest art gallery in the world. He exhibits freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not the museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Act, talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit.

After he found a camera in the Paris subway, he did a tour of European Street Art, tracking the people who communicate messages via the walls. Then, he started to work on the vertical limits, watching the people and the passage of life from the forbidden undergrounds and roofs of the capital.

In 2006, he achieved Portrait of a generation, portraits of the suburban “thugs” that he posted, in huge formats, in the bourgeois districts of Paris. This illegal project became “official” when the Paris City Hall wrapped its building with JR’s photos.

In 2007, with Marco, he did Face 2 Face, the biggest illegal photo exhibition ever. JR posted huge portraits of Israelis and Palestinians face to face in eight Palestinian and Israeli cities, and on the both sides of the Security fence / Separation wall. The experts said it would be impossible. Still, he did it.

In 2008, he embarked for a long international trip for “Women”, a project in which he underlines the dignity of women who are often the targets of conflicts. Of course, it didn’t change the world, but sometimes a single laugher in an unexpected place makes you dream that it could.

JR creates “Pervasive Art” that spreads uninvited on the buildings of the slums around Paris, on the walls in the Middle-East, on the broken bridges in Africa or the favelas in Brazil. People who often live with the bare minimum discover something absolutely unnecessary. And they don’t just see it, they make it. Some elderly women become models for a day; some kids turn artists for a week. In that Art scene, there is no stage to separate the actors from the spectators.

After these local exhibitions, the images are transported to London, New York, Berlin or Amsterdam where people interpret them in the light of their own personal experience.

As he remains anonymous and doesn’t explain his huge full frame portraits of people making faces, JR leaves the space empty for an encounter between the subject/protagonist and the passer-by/interpreter.

This is what JR is working on. Raising questions…

JR currently works on 2 new projects: Wrinkles of the City which questions the memory of a city and its inhabitants and Unframed, which reinterprets in huge formats photos from important photographers taken from the archives of museums.