Jesse Greenberg

Jesse Greenberg writes in his artist statement, "If today’s ATM was yesterday’s water well, then our debit card is the water bucket dipped into our financial pools. These kiosks have existed through time. They are totems to humans functions and portals for interaction, as opposed to grand statues and monuments, which record our achievements and memorialize events from times past. The kiosk is a functional machine sculpted for our actions and necessities."
His works stand as "kiosks" to other worldly interaction; his art inviting the viewer to touch, as with his "touchables", evoking a scenery of candy colored space ships and buttoned maps.

Brent Cowley

Brent Cowley's newest collage work is an exploration in metaphysics, science fiction, inspiration, double vision, dream state, collective unconsciousness, other worlds, and inter dimensional travel. 

Bobo

Art collective, Bobo is dressing up as vigilante this time as it "blows the whistle" on the lineage of trend and power in their new piece "blood lines".   A paranoid, tongue and cheek dance in semiotics, the group approaches the generational hand off of the symbol's potency and its subversive persuasion tactics in a cross referential family tree of the underground art world, of which they are of course, and ironically embedded within.

A self conscious look at what makes kids popular, "Blood Lines" is an inside piece of cultural anthropology. 

Brian Belott

Brian Belott is a collector, collagist, vocalist, painter, and a damn good cook.  His creativity works in an intricate and delicate web of connection and code and is translated through many mediums with a mathematical mapping staggering towards mythologic reasoning.  Brian's interest in found materials, such as photographs, stems not from a voyeur's gaze but from an anthropologist's obsession to reason human reasoning; to classify intention.  Brian is represented by  Canada Gallery, in New York City. 

"Relics From [the] Other Realms" a new group show

"Art as Porthole" is the theme this time

A Group Show Opening Friday October 23rd in conjunction with the Newark Arts Festival City wide Arts Parade.

A seriously amazing day for everyone!
Parade begins at 4pm
Opening from 6-9pm
After Party 10 - late
Everyone's invited.

Featuring the artwork of:

Brian Belott

Bobo

Brent Cowley

Jesse Greenberg

Trenton Doyle Hancock

Colt Hausman

Randy Illum

Maximillian Lawrence

LoVid

Taylor McKimens

Paint co.

Nick Payne

Benjamin Phelan

Ryan Trecartin

Professor Sampohi

Justin Samson

Jonathan Santoro

Tim White Sobieski

Callie Konane's "Green Glitter Goddess Topiary"

She is phenomenological, she is textural, she is sensual, she has depth, she makes you want to put your face in her, she is a brushstroke, she is beautiful, she is sensual.

Callie Konane Rickards
Grew up in the sunny brambles of Texas where she would, barefoot and toplessly, chasing her inspirations across the land. Not much has changed.

Ing On Vibulhan Watts

A Newark Based artist, Ing, originally from Thailand; has been making art for nearly 40 years. Her mythological inspired pieces reflect on Thai folk art and the beauty of nature. She and her husband, Jon Watts, have a print shop and store where they sell handmade pieces as well as treasures from Thailand.

Lizzie Fitch, the soldier baby and the store-bought mom

By creating a sculpture using mass produced, branded materials (ie: jc penny clothing, new balance sneakers, baby army crocs) wearing a wig, Lizzie Fitch created art that not only speaks of a contemporary narrative, but appears to be the messenger as well.

A ghost like figure in the gallery, she bends over backwards baring the breasts of the artist while accompanying a heavy, brittle, hostile child. The unbalance of the mother's stance gives the whole sculpture a deep sense of unease; the New Balance sneakers next to her a meager attempt to restore balance. She has kept all the tags on her purchases just in case she needs to return something. Crumbling next to her, the baby is protected by a caulking gun, comes with a pair of army Crocs (already personalized with plastic animal buttons) but needs to lean on a stack of loose bricks to stay upright. His gun will solve most of his problems, (except in his soft polyester filled center); the Crocs will let him begin his proper training in the army (while still maintaining individuality with his personalized animal buttons). At the ground level is the pillow they share: coated with gravel and smothered in afterbirth.

Whether it is a statement of the artist's process, her feelings on maternity, the plagued notion of raising soldiers, the growing autism birthrate, Sarah Palin, teenage pregnancy, consumerism, comfort, cellulite, authenticity, privacy, or just the double edged sword of creation in general, it has raised these questions and conversations within the time it has been part of the Multi Faceted Female.

Lizzie is represented by Elizabeth Dee gallery, as sculptural partner to film maker Ryan Trecartin. They currently have shows up at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, The New Museum and Fabric Workshop Museum in Philadelphia.


Sculpture, mixed media 5'x2', 2'x2'

Katie Miller, INHUMINAAHUMINI

In 1985 Dennis Avner began transforming his image to resemble a tiger, his totem animal through tattooing and plastic surgery. Similarly, in 1990 Jocelyn Wildenstein started undergoing a series of plastic surgeries that gave the public reason to start referring to her as "Cat Woman." Using these two extreme body modification entrepreneurs as inspiration spawned INHUMINAAHUMINI- a facial modification salon you can turn to when you're aching to set yourself apart from the masses or simply change your identity. These are some examples of the endless possibilities.

Katie is a member of the
Philadelphia Institute for Advanced Studies.

Lindsay Beebe, Soft Paintings and Hard Poetry

Lindsay Beebe is a multi faceted artist, working in painting, sculpture, performance, music and life. Her painting seen here is "Jelly Face" and this is a video of her Poetry Reading at the opening.

Lindsay Kovnat's "DNA Cafe"

Lindsay Kovnat shares her vision of an experimental Diner where one can change their DNA makeup alongside a cup of coffee. This retro futuristic phenomena is just one of many Kovnat brings to life in both her 2D work, sculpture and videos.

Martha Rosler Reads Vogue

Martha Rosler has been a quintessential female force in the art world since the early 60's. In this 1984 video, she reads Vogue magazine outloud; dissecting its intentions, cultural persuasions and roots.

Video, 1984. Distributed by Electronics Arts Intermix .

Rosler is represented by Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Gallery Christian Nagel, and Gallerie Anne de Villepoix

Annie Pearlman's "Landscape"

Some artists create objects, and some artists create space. Annie Pearlman is of the latter. Whenever put in front of paper or canvas, Annie continuously creates wide open surrealistic landscapes. Haunted by cartoon undertones and studio lighting, these "outdoor" scenes are portals into Pearlman's freeforming universe, and often serve as backdrops for her digital videos.

Acrylic on canvas, 2008, 15'x8'

Vashti Windish and her paper costumes

Vashti's costumes exist in an anti-gravity dance of Victorian courtship. The paper embellished headdresses, dresses and shoes float with effortless flirtation. Its easy to feel pretty just being near them.

When Vashti is not art making, she runs Brooklyn Art Gallery, "Live with Animals" and plays with band, "Golden Triangle".
2009, Life sized costumes, mixed media

Katherine Bernhardt and the "Knock-off Couture"

Katherine Bernhardt's paintings are copied from the glossy pages of Vogue Magazine and other Fashion Giants. She rips apart these perfection striving images and leaves them dripping with life in mammoth gestural incarnations. Katherine captures the best part of fashion: power and desire.

Katherine is represented by Canada gallery , and part of the Saatchi Collection.

Acrylic on Canvas, courtesy of Canada Gallery, NY

Liz Rywelski's American Portraits

image courtesy of space 1026 and the Tehran Biennial
image courtesy of space 1026 and the Tehran Biennial




In these portraits, artist, Liz Rywelski , visits Kmart stores, creates a temporary identity and then asks for the assistance of the store’s employees in having her portrait taken.

On one trip she is a recent college graduate, hoping to take pictures to send to her family. On another trip, she is the fiance of a soldier stationed in Iraq, and wants to send her beau a portrait. She introduces herself to some of the employees as a customer in need of assistance, creative assistance, and then allows herself to become a canvas for their creativity and their sense of style. She asks them to choose clothes for her, makeup, accessories, and then in the in-store photo studio, staffed by an untrained photographer, she allows them to select the best backdrop, props and poses.

Rywelskis project is based on her role as facilitator as opposed to singular creator. However, instead of collaborating with a singular artist-genius, Rywelski collaborates with the employees of Kmart, working individuals whose low-wage employment at a large retailer has been expurgated of most substantive creativity. She allows these employees to transform their role as wage-laborers into creators – working with them in the store, they become Rywelski’s master printers.

text courtesy of Space 1026

"Celebration" by Raul Denieves

Raul was the only male artist included the "Multi Faceted Female" show. Asked to make a portrait of his mother, "Celebration" is the cosmic outcome of this request. Birthing a child, she is a mother, she is the moon, she shines off the light of her own creation. A Mardi-Gras Madonna, she celebrates her labor with an explosive fervor; just like the artist himself. Made entirely of tape, glue and beads, she is a vivid testament to the immense beauty and possibility inherent in simple tools and "low art" craft objects.

Raul is represented by Newman Popiashvili Gallery

sculpture. 8'x4'x'4. tape, glue, beads, mixed media.
courtesy of the artist.

White Violet by Logan White

Logan White is able to capture an exquisite subtlety of narrative through her photographs. "White Violet" is a body of work that speaks of femininity, enigmatic beauty, coming of age, and the underlying supernatural mystery of it all. Her voice is humble but profound as one can sense an admittance of the unknown, divine beneath the face value of her portraits still lives, and collages.

"White Violet" 2009
Photographic Body of Work. 28 color archival prints.