take a look some installation view…
by Melissa Gorman
by Kerry Layton
by Adam Regester
by Adam Regester
by Kristin Bauer
by Kristin Bauer
by Sue Johnson
by Elisa Sandoval
by Elisa Sandoval
by David Roan
by David Roan
The show will be on view through JUNE 24 (SUN). Open everyday, noon to 8pm.
Any questions? contact at chinaru@aboutglamour.net
by Kerry Layton
For Immediate Release
AG Gallery/About Glamour in Williamsburg is pleased to present a group exhibition, “A FEW LETTERS,” by seven emerging artists from all over the US and the UK, Adam Regester, Elisa Sandoval, David Roan, Kerry Layton, Kristin Bauer, Melissa Gorman, and Sue Johnson. All the works in this exhibition have some connections with a beauty of “word(s)” and “letter(s) floating in the world”.
Sometimes a word, even a letter, seems like a figure has an own expression. A sentence creates a flow of a few words with rhythms, then a paragraph looks like an irregular patterns on textiles. We receive feeling and expression from the line of words even from names of people, titles of books or logos of products. Currently, artist books and zines are known as the mainstream of media among young artists, also a word or a letter itself could be considered an interesting component of artworks. On this exhibition, you will see various ways of approach toward inclusion of a few letters into the artworks and how amazing they are.
Adam Regester
Lives and works in Brighton, England, UK. He has been painting and creating for over 25 years. He loves paint and creating craft items with different mediums and he is inspired by artists such as Gustav Klimt, Picasso, Matisse and other impressionist artists. He likes to break down images into basic forms and shapes then recreate those images as mixed media designs.
Elias Sandoval
Lives and works in Chicago, IL. In her work she explores the idea of the temporary both as a material structure and subject. Much of her material is paper and found material which signifies something that is temporary and easily manufactured and disposed of. Combining and utilizing patterns, she creates tension to explore possibilities in the work’s construction.
David Roan
Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. He is a discerning son of a gun who has become a product of his own mind. Aspiring maker-of-things, progressive thinker and citizen of existence, this native San Franciscan prays to the god of Repurposing. Whether it’s making a shelf out of an old N.E.S. console or creating an art piece out of hanging folder wires, he sees this way of life as a much-needed respite from the mass-produced society in which we live.
Kerry Layton
An illustrator living in North London with her husband and two children. She creates illustrations of a dreaming world of little creatures/animals. She has been working on some commissioned works with magazines besides her own personal projects.
Kristin Bauer
Kristin Bauer is a multimedia artist based out of Phoenix, AZ. Her work incorporates text and image in sculptural works, paintings and multimedia installations. Drawing from a fascination with social Influence Theory, propaganda and American ideals, as well as the power of individual’s personal convictions, Bauer examines and plays with word and symbol in her work, resulting in a combination of social commentary, playfulness and irony.
Melissa Gorman
She is a designer, illustrator, and artist. Born in Brooklyn, New York in the mid- seventies, her work reflects urban life and landscape, especially in the moments of change. This new series: Brooklyn Bodega Portraits, captures the distinct personalities, shared symbologies, and quirky typography of these oft-overlooked corner stores. These portraits are a way to capture and celebrate bodegas before they all get wiped out by homogenized versions of themselves.
Sue Johnson
Her works have been shown nationally and internationally. Born in San Francisco, CA, she currently lives and works in Richmond, VA and Lexington Park, MD. She earned a BFA in Painting from Syracuse University and an MFA in Painting from Columbia University, and studied painting in London, England and Florence, Italy with Syracuse University. “My work is built on traditions of still life, vanitas and memento mori, artefacts of the everyday – the familiar and ephemeral.”
The Exhibition “A FEW LETTERS” was on view through Friday, May 4 to Sunday, June 24, 2012.
Contact/Appointment:
Chiharu Aizawa
AG Gallery/About Glamour
chiharu@aboutglamour.net
718.599.3044
For Immediate Release
AG Gallery/About Glamour in Williamsburg is pleased to present a solo exhibition, “One Hundred Days of Winter,” by Rachelle Tolwin. All the works are from her project in this winter which is the document of her daily creation process on a mountain days.
Rachelle Tolwin’s tumblr blog description reads: “this will be my first winter living on a mountain in the Catskill mountain state park. I plan to document each day of the winter with art that I made that day. Some days may be really cold. Some days there may be no internet access. I will still make something regardless of the conditions and post it when I am connected to the world-wide web and all of you.”
Rachelle moved to a remote area of the Catskill Mountains with her husband, Chaim, last Summer from Brooklyn. She looked to the Winter as a time to reflect and focus on art and decided to start http://www.onehundreddaysofwinter.tumblr.com. Her daily artwork chronicles this time through playful, introspective work clearly inspired by her new surroundings and connection with nature. Most of the work in one hundred days of winter is on paper, with gouache, watercolor and collage. There are a few photographs that help situate her setting. The title of the show may suggest images of snow and a white landscape, but these types of images do not dominate the show. One reason may be there was not as much snow as expected this year. Most of the works are colorful and reflect the inward and outward journey Rachelle experienced. The work in this show presents a mystical, whimsical landscape that Rachelle lives in or imagines.
Rachelle Tolwin
Rachelle Tolwin lives and works in Sundown, NY, a small hamlet in the Catskill Mountains. She received her MFA from California College of the Arts and her BS from New York University. She enjoys making imagined landscapes on paper and has shown her work nationally and internationally. Her work can be viewed at rachellecohen.com.
The opening reception for “One Hundred Days of Winter” will be held on Saturday, March 31 at AG Gallery from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, April 29, 2012.
Check details about Opening Reception at Facebook event page.
Contact/Appointment:
Chiharu Aizawa
AG Gallery/About Glamour
chiharu@aboutglamour.net
opening night
The opening night of current exhibition at AG Gallery; PLANE & SOLID, was held on February 3. We would like to let you know what an amazing opening night we had and really appreciate everyone who visited our space. Thank you for being interested in our new exhibition and we hope to meet you again soon.
The exhibition will be on view through March 25, 2012.
PLANE & SOLID is a group exhibition emerging 6 artists not only from NY also other states and Europe. Media of the works are also a variety of “Plane” and “Solid”, like prints, drawings, photographs, sculptures, mixed media works, and so for. You are welcome to stop in and enjoy artworks anytime you like. We open everyday, noon to 8ish.
Here are few moments of opening night…
By Denis Andernach By Nicolas and Sophie
By Virginia Kraljevic By Jason Kachadourian
Video installation by Ben and Sebastian By Lynsey Hunter
The gallery hours are follow the store hours of About Glamour;
Sun-Thr: Noon to 8ish
Fri: Noon to 9ish
Sat: Noon to 10ish we open 7 days a week!
Questions? Please feel free to contact us at info@aboutglamour.net.
Feb 3 – Mar 25, 2012
curated by Chiharu Aizawa
AG Gallery/About Glamour in Williamsburg is pleased to present a group exhibition, “PLANE & SOLID,” by emerging artists Denis Andernach, Lynsey Hunter, Jason Kachadourian, Virginia Kraljevic, Ben and Sebastian, and Nicolas and Sofie.
All the works on this exhibition have in it some of the elements of “Architecture” in different ways. Even before we discovered the beauty of architecture and started to studying and experimenting it as an academic topic or media of art, humanity have been trying to create tons of architectural designs in different shapes and materials for its purpose of use and intellectual climate.
Also, architecture have always been considered a part of landscapes and one of major subjects for artworks. Because architecture has both aspects as being an artwork itself and a subject for artwork, also naturally it has phases from 2D image on blue print to 3D structure when it built, the works selected for this exhibition have a variety of media and shapes from plane to solid.
Artists in PLANE & SOLID
DENIS ANDERNACH
Denis Andernach is an architect and illustrator living and working in Germany. He creates all black and white drawing of landscape houses using clearly defined sharp lines which would be considered formal studies in idealized landscape.
LYNSEY HUNTER
Graphic designer & Illustrator based in South Leicestershire, where she lives with her boyfriend and their crazy cat. She loves to draw anything that inspires her, this is mostly any interesting architecture. Her illustration use an eclectic mix of printed papers, quirky vintage imagery, old–fashioned fabrics, stitch work and her own style of linear drawing mixed with watercolors and collages.
JASON KACHADOURIAN
Live and work in Brooklyn, NY. His work, in a broad sense, analyzes the blurred line between natural and artificial, but more specifically deals with the chaotic organization that reigns in a city like New York. The pieces vary in medium and media, but closely follow a set of guidelines and ideas that make them cohesive when shown together.
VIRGINIA KRALJEVIC
Illustrator and visual designer based in New York City. After studying in Paris and New York, she worked alongside some of the world’s most renowned names in publishing, fashion, retail, and television. Her pen and ink drawings and custom illustration on view now.
BEN AND SEBASTIAN
The partners behind the interdisciplinary art duo ‘benandsebastian’ are Ben Clement and Sebastian de la Cour. They are based in Berlin and have been exhibited in gallery and museum contexts in Berlin, Copenhagen, London, Milan and Tokyo. The duo is currently exhibiting at The Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen and in May they start a 4 months residency at the ISCP (International Studio and Curatorial Program) in Brooklyn.
NICOLAS AND SOFIE
“Bewilder & Pine is a dream collective of four making hands, one big black cat, and countless fear-eating-love-machines.” They are two artists and one cat (Mr. Burnside) who found each other in the wilds of the Great Northwest. Their creation shares some of the mysterious and wonderful things that pass through their hands.
Contact/Appointment:
Chiharu Aizawa
AG Gallery/About Glamour
chiharu@aboutglamour.net
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