Brooklyn Art Project

Ian "Infinity" Farrell has been walking the streets of New York since the late 80s, leaving marks that represent an indeterminable end and beginning.  With orange oil sticks in hand, he laces mundane corners of building facades with symbols and equations.  He is a loose mad scientist who absolves existing layers of stencil, wheat paste, spray paint imagery and street typography to their mathematical derivatives and chemical compositions.  Black background canvases, radiating lines and primitive symbols, reminiscent of Keith Haring, contributes to a consistent execution of absolute simplification.

From graph paper to streets to canvases to installations, Ian "Infinity" Farrell’s semiotics communicates warnings of forces that lurk, forthcoming circumstances, and metaphysical catalysts.  His expressive lines around infinity symbols, tridents, carbon rings and teardrops emits energy and unsettling ripples and tremors.  There is a physiological effect of viewing his work, similar to going to a death metal concert.  His choice of flourescent orange intensifies this reaction visually.  He blesses his imagery with commanding words of reverberating inquiries on purpose of existence.  Diagrammatic poetry ad infinitum.

Ian "Infinity" Farrell currently resides in the East Village, NY.  This artist graduated from The School of Visual Arts for Illustration and from University of Wisconsin (River Falls) with a BA in Literature and Fine Art.  He had a solo show titled "Heavenly Revolutions: A Resonance of the Rocks and Stars" at The Academy, Remsenburg, Long Island, NY.  Infinity is a proud member of the Endless Love Crew (Abe Lincoln Jr., Anera, Celso, Flaca, Gore-B, Meeka, Royce Bannon, Splat).  They collaborated in a piece that is currently exhibited at ADHOC ART in a show curated by Michael DeFeo called, "Behind The Seen".  Here are the details for Infinity’s next show:

Infinity: going out of business
Saturday, December 15th, 2007 (and by appointment)
Reception: 7-10pm

THE GARAGE
GALLERY
291 8th Street, ground floor (b. 5th & 6th Ave.)
Park Slope, Brooklyn
718-768-1235
M:  F train to 4th Ave or M/R to 9th street.

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.

Behind the Seen
a group exhibition curated by Michael De Feo
at AD HOC ART
December 13th, 2007 through January 20th, 2008
Opening Reception: December 13th, 7pm-9pm

A collection of artists and artist collectives, all who highly regard the street as their canvas fiercely decontextualized on the basis of medium.

FROM AD HOC ART:

Assembling a group of well known street artists from around the world, De Feo invited the participants to showcase work they’re not typically recognized for. Behind the Seen includes personal projects, works in different mediums or styles and pieces not necessarily intended for view on the streets. The mediums include paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptures by over 30 artists from around the world.

Street artists develop a level of notoriety for their originality, talent and frequency of a style or visual vocabulary.    Like most successful artists, they don’t limit their creative endeavors to what they’re known for.

Behind the Seen goes beyond the familiar to build upon what we already know… providing connections, challenges and insights to other facets of the artist’s oeuvre.

Participating artists include:

Aiko, Blek le Rat, Caleb Neelon, Dan Witz, Don Leicht, Elbow Toe, ELC, Ellis G., Eltono, Flying Fortress, G, Ian Stevenson, Jace, Jean Faucheur, jm rizzi, John Fekner, Judith Supine, Keith Haring, Lady Pink, L’Atlas, Lee Quiñones, Leon Reid, Lister, Mark Jenkins, Martha Cooper, Maya Hayuk, Michael De Feo, Momo, Nuria, Peripheral MediaProjets, Richard Hambleton, Ripo, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, She Kills He, Skewville, Swoon, Thundercut, Tofer

AD HOC Art
49 Bogart Street
Buzzer 22, Unit 1G
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Tel: 718.366.2466
Fax: 866.599.7270
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Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward. 

2007 holds the count for 22 satellite art fairs that are taking place in addition to Art Basel Miami Beach.  Sensory overload is a luxury.  Art fairs certainly provides an insight to trends in painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance.  In addition to trends in mediums, it also allows you to see art from a multitude of cities around the world.  An absolute treat!

Some of the trends in medium were intricate ink and graphite drawings, flashe paint, animation, collage, cutouts.  In terms of sculpture, porcelain, taxidermy, felt and found objects.  Some booths were also dedicated to a single artist.  This year, the galleries really stepped up and presented very well curated open cubes.

Aqua Art Miami - Hotel is located at 1530 Collins Avenue.  (Aqua Art Miami - Wynwood inaugural is located at 42 NE 25th Street-not covered below)  Here are a couple of highlights:

Alexander Heaton @ Lounge/Monika Bobinska
"Rifflesee", Oil on linen, 64" x 56"

Charles Kraaft @ Roq La Rue
"Assasin’s Kit Series" (Smith & Wesson and Switchblade), 2007, Delft hand-painted porcelain, life sized, comes in black velvet lined case

Travis Louie @ Roq La Rue
"Walter and Larry", Acrylic on board, 8" x10"

Jason d’Aquino @ Roq La Rue
"Phineas Gage", 2007, Graphite on matchbook, 3" x 1"

Micaela O’Herlihy @ Hotcakes

Various works of wallnut ink on wooden logs, 7" x 5"

Meredith Dittmar @ Hotcakes Gallery
"Let it through ", 2007, Polymer Clay, plexiglas & laminate, 16.5" x 10"

Michael Caines @ Katharine Mulherin
"El Dorado (ravens/bunny/cowboy)", 2007, Ink and gouache on paper, 22" x 30"

Chris Knight @ Katharine Mulherin
"When a mother wants a daughter but gets a son", 2007, Oil on prepared paper, 7" x 5"

Christy Langer @ Katharine Mulherin
"Double Bunny", 2007, Resin, fibreglass, oil paint, 3" x 9" x 2.5", Edition of 3

Laura Ball @ Morgan Lehman
"The Circumnavigating Chariot Caravan", 2007, Oil on canvas 40" x 30"

William Powhida @ Platform Gallery
"James Drawing: Goals", 2006, Graphite and goauche on paper, 22" x 15" (not exhibited)

Debbie Lawsen @ Nettie Horn
"Oasis", carpet, 62" x 85" x 15"

Kate Street @ Nettie Horn
"Ring Piece" (From Little Death Series), 21" diameter x 4" deep

Elaine Bradford @ Art Palace
"Mongolian Knotted Deer", 2007, Taxidermy Mongolian deer and crochet(not exhibited)

Jonathan Marshall @ Art Palace
The Book of Lenny, 2007, DVD, 7 mins

Máximo González @ Haydee Rovirosa
Multiple paper cutout on walls with various world currency that are out of circulation

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.  Please contact me, if you would like to receive ArtFWD-Quarterly Newsletter (December 2007-Miami Satellite Fair in Depth)

2007 holds the count for 22 satellite art fairs that are taking place addition to Art Basel Miami Beach.  Sensory overload is a luxury.  Art fairs certainly provides an insight to trends in painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, installation, photography, video and performance.  In addition to trends in mediums, it also allows you to see art from a multitude of cities around the world.  An absolute treat! 

Some of the trends in medium were intricate ink and graphite drawings, flashe paint, animation, collage, cutouts.  In terms of sculpture, porcelain, taxidermy, felt and found objects.  Some booths were also dedicated to a single artist.  This year, the galleries really stepped up and presented very well curated open cubes.

New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) was located at the Ice Palace, 1400 North Miami Avenue.  Here are a couple of highlights:

James Benjamin Franklin @ Clementine Gallery
"No Laughing Matter", 2007, Flashe, resin on canvas, 14" x 11"

Kamrooz Aram @ Oliver Kamm 5BE Gallery
From series Revolutionary Dreams, Ink and graphite on paper, 15 1/4" x 13" inches (not exhibited)

Helen Verhoeven @ Wallspace
"The Walking", 2007, Oil on canvas, 72" x 110"

Ben Peterson @ Ratio 3
"Work From Home", 2007, Ink and graphite on paper, 48" x 83" (shown above)
"Timezone", 2007, Ink and graphite on paper, 53" x 96" (exhibited work in booth)

Jen Ray @ Galerie Jan Wentrup
Untitled (Women with Flags), 2007, Ink and watercolor on paper, 47 1/4" x 62"

Kota Ezawa @ Murray Guy
"Dead Troops", 2007, C-Print of paper cutout, 20" x 40"

Daphne Fitzpatrick & Adam Cvijanovic @ Bellwether
Fitzpatrick - Untitled, 2007, Wood, glass, installation
Cvijanovic - "Garden State", 2007, Flashe on tyvek

Matthew Day Jackson @ Ballroom Marfa
Installation based on an Albert Bierstadt western scene

Ivan Witenstein @ Derek Eller Gallery
Blakexploitation (#26), 2007, Watercolor and graphite on paper, 30" x 22" (28 pieces arranged 4 x 7, sold separately)

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.  Please contact me, if you would like to receive ArtFWD-Quarterly Newsletter (December 2007-Miami Satellite Fair in Depth)

Brooklyn Art Project member artist Sarah Nicole Phillips recent series on solar power consciousness rekindles nostalgia for science and progression towards sustainability.  Since 2006, she has executed three site specific installations that would have Auguste Mouchout tipping his hat to Phillips.  This man is known to have directly converted solar radiation into mechanical power.   A little background check tells me that he was a math teacher from Lyce de Tours who lived in the late 1800s.

The artist’s latest work from her "Solar Series" is called "I (heart) PV" in 2007.  These are not typical solar powered lights that line foot paths of suburban homes to the front door.  They are graphic design inspired solutions to the city’s dependency on electricity.  Phillips proposes, "photovoltaic technology in New York could be "commonplace as Milton Glaser’s logo and Louis Vuitton knock-offs have become on our streets."

In 2006, she artistically demonstrates the phenomena of heliotrophism and energy generation from compost.  "Heliotropia" is an edition of 14 solar-powered digital prints connected to artificial foliage that rotates via small wall-mounted electric motors.  The plants simulate their reaction to the sun’s position in the sky by spinning.  "Vermicast"  is a permanent installation of PV solar cells mounted into sculpted clouds, motors, artificial worms.  It simulates the energy that can be harnessed simultaneously from the sun, and the breakdown of organic waste to augment plant growth.

Phillips indeed "let’s the sunshine in" with her helio-centric oeuvres.   In addition to these three dimensional, site specific works, she also creates prints.  The subject of her editioned and unique works on paper are also about the state of our environment and objects that consumes us.

Sarah Nicole Phillips graduated from University of Toronto for visual studies and continued to Brooklyn College for her MFA on printmaking.  She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.  In 2006-2007, Phillips was awarded a keyholder residency in the Lower East Side.  Some of the places that the artist has exhibited were at Solar One at Stuyvesant Cove Park - New York, NY, Walsh Library Gallery (Seton Hall University) - South Orange, NJ, and Marlon Solar Memorial Solarium at the Lancaster Avenue Autonomous Space (LAVA) - Philadelphia, PA.   

To find out more about the artist’s installations, and new works, please visit her BAP member site or www.sarahnicolephillips.com.

Sarah Nicole Phillip’s piece, "I (heart) PV", 2007 was part of Solar One’s projects in Stuyvesant Cove Park.  Solar One’s mission is to empower people of all ages with the vision, knowledge and resources to attain a more environmentally sound and sustainable future.  So take mass transit (M23 bus) to east river and go green!

Posted by Joyce Manalo, Brooklyn Art Project Blog Editor and founder of ArtForward.