Contemporary Art Today
I have two lenses about Monkdogz Urban Art.. they shine! I could not help myself! Pop art, abstract art, figurative art, erotic and nudists art, all are featured at Monkdogz.
Enjoy my lens, enjoy meeting some amazing artists as well as hearing the art buzz both in New York and from monkdogz host of International artists like Jean Mark Calvet.. so good!
Contemporary Art Today is defined by the efforts of Monkdogz Urban Art. They are considered to be the most innovative gallery in New York as they make their mark on the world with a host of International artists on their palette. Urban Art
From their site: On a blindingly sunny day, in a bitter cold wind, I walked into a building on 27th street, between 10th and 11th avenues, in Chelsea. I got in the elevator and pushed button 5. I got off and stumbled into a burst of energy in the form of colorful art work. Monkdogz Urban Art, I read by the door. I liked what I saw. I was so used to half dead, boring, lifeless art that this was a gush of fresh and exciting life; 'art is not dead after all', I told myself and walked through the gallery enjoying the art work from artists all over the world: Japan, the Netherlands, the USA, Mexico…. Once I had seen all, I stopped for a while to gain the courage to speak to the man that sat in the space that looked like the office -it was obvious he was the gallerist -. He looked cool in his black clothes, his tall slender figure. I held a heated discussion with myself in which I tried to convince my insecure self to go ahead with my mission: I was there to hand out my catalogue -a poor scared artist in look for new galleries in which to show her work, oh god! -. But one part of me was being despairingly obstinate; the seconds crawled on and no motion was visible in my hesitant body.
Then, the cool man stood up, walked up to me and asked me in a most joyful voice: 'Hi! How are you? I'm Bob! What would you like to drink?' In my stupefaction all I could utter was the (in that context) stupid word: 'Why?' The gallerist looked at me surprised and exclaimed: 'Why? … Why not?' and took me over to where the fridge was. So, I got my bottle of water, and in between I managed to tell him -in a clumsily timid way - that I was a Spanish-Finnish artist and I had brought my catalogue to give him. He found that most interesting; he gave me a guided tour of the exhibition, and then he told me we'd now sit down and look at my work. 'Oh, no, no, it's best if I leave and you look at it later, by yourself' I exclaimed terrified. 'Not at all, we'll look at it together now'. So, my bewilderment reached even higher peaks: am I dreaming or is this reality, that a gallerist is willing to kindly and generously give me -a totally unknown artist to him- and my art his valuable time? I had never heard of such a thing.
But, it was no dream, I assure you, it was the most real reality.
On March 11, 2006, in the heart of New York City's vibrant art world, Monkdogz Urban Art exploded with an international exhibition that just seemed to dance with color style and imagination. Over 1500 invited guests and professionals attended this auspicious event which was also relayed, world wide on the web, in real time, through the use of video cameras mounted within the gallery.
When asked about the gallery's future plans Robert Hogge was heard to say "We're going to raise the barometer. We didn't come here to be just another gallery in New York. We came to be very innovative and we are driven to accomplish that mission".
A year has passed since their opening and they are busy preparing their 14th show. They are already building a reputation as a fascinating destination in Chelsea, as a recent review on chelseaartgalleries.com stated "This is the venue for the 'art icons of the 21st Century' in traditional, contemporary abstraction and over-the-top images…..so, fasten your seatbelts!!"
It would appear that Monkdogz in looking to the future took a lesson from the past in establishing themselves. Bob explains that many galleries are either artist or client driven.
In his thinking you need to be both. Today many galleries tend to feel sterile in their quest to present a professional atmosphere. He stresses understanding the value of conducting your business in a professional manner and believes this can be accomplished while maintaining an arena for open communication and a warm environment for clients, visitors and artists.
Marina Hadley, the gallery co-owner and director states quite accurately that "Without the artists this space is just white walls and a lighting system. Without clients who trust your decisions this space will cease to exist at all."
The directors look back in history and point out that windows of opportunity have sporadically opened within the art world. In the 1930s, artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, just to name a couple, were afforded a platform to exhibit their work in New York City. The reception worldwide was significant. Again in the early 1970s, new artists like Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring were afforded the same opportunity. They believe that today the window is opening once again but this time on a more international scale. The world today is very much a global village. Distances, time zones and different languages are no longer the barriers that they once were.
Monkdogz has a mission to bring artists from around the world to present their vision, talent and imagination in a variety of exciting styles designed to afford the viewer an opportunity to explore an explosive visual arts experience. To this end, the third member of Monkdogz creative team is who Ed Mc Cormack, Chief Editor of Gallery and Studio Magazine calls the 'suave resident French artist' Sébastien Aurillon. Sébastien handles a multitude of tasks and communication for the gallery's European artists and clients as well as being a very talented artist in his own right. He is also helping lay the ground work for future endeavors planned outside of the United States. When asked about Monkdogz's plans to expand outside of New York, Hogge smiles and says "anything and everything is possible."
The Monkdogz Creative Team & Laila Escartín Hamarinen
Enjoy my lens, enjoy meeting some amazing artists as well as hearing the art buzz both in New York and from monkdogz host of International artists like Jean Mark Calvet.. so good!
Contemporary Art Today is defined by the efforts of Monkdogz Urban Art. They are considered to be the most innovative gallery in New York as they make their mark on the world with a host of International artists on their palette. Urban Art
From their site: On a blindingly sunny day, in a bitter cold wind, I walked into a building on 27th street, between 10th and 11th avenues, in Chelsea. I got in the elevator and pushed button 5. I got off and stumbled into a burst of energy in the form of colorful art work. Monkdogz Urban Art, I read by the door. I liked what I saw. I was so used to half dead, boring, lifeless art that this was a gush of fresh and exciting life; 'art is not dead after all', I told myself and walked through the gallery enjoying the art work from artists all over the world: Japan, the Netherlands, the USA, Mexico…. Once I had seen all, I stopped for a while to gain the courage to speak to the man that sat in the space that looked like the office -it was obvious he was the gallerist -. He looked cool in his black clothes, his tall slender figure. I held a heated discussion with myself in which I tried to convince my insecure self to go ahead with my mission: I was there to hand out my catalogue -a poor scared artist in look for new galleries in which to show her work, oh god! -. But one part of me was being despairingly obstinate; the seconds crawled on and no motion was visible in my hesitant body.
Then, the cool man stood up, walked up to me and asked me in a most joyful voice: 'Hi! How are you? I'm Bob! What would you like to drink?' In my stupefaction all I could utter was the (in that context) stupid word: 'Why?' The gallerist looked at me surprised and exclaimed: 'Why? … Why not?' and took me over to where the fridge was. So, I got my bottle of water, and in between I managed to tell him -in a clumsily timid way - that I was a Spanish-Finnish artist and I had brought my catalogue to give him. He found that most interesting; he gave me a guided tour of the exhibition, and then he told me we'd now sit down and look at my work. 'Oh, no, no, it's best if I leave and you look at it later, by yourself' I exclaimed terrified. 'Not at all, we'll look at it together now'. So, my bewilderment reached even higher peaks: am I dreaming or is this reality, that a gallerist is willing to kindly and generously give me -a totally unknown artist to him- and my art his valuable time? I had never heard of such a thing.
But, it was no dream, I assure you, it was the most real reality.
On March 11, 2006, in the heart of New York City's vibrant art world, Monkdogz Urban Art exploded with an international exhibition that just seemed to dance with color style and imagination. Over 1500 invited guests and professionals attended this auspicious event which was also relayed, world wide on the web, in real time, through the use of video cameras mounted within the gallery.
When asked about the gallery's future plans Robert Hogge was heard to say "We're going to raise the barometer. We didn't come here to be just another gallery in New York. We came to be very innovative and we are driven to accomplish that mission".
A year has passed since their opening and they are busy preparing their 14th show. They are already building a reputation as a fascinating destination in Chelsea, as a recent review on chelseaartgalleries.com stated "This is the venue for the 'art icons of the 21st Century' in traditional, contemporary abstraction and over-the-top images…..so, fasten your seatbelts!!"
It would appear that Monkdogz in looking to the future took a lesson from the past in establishing themselves. Bob explains that many galleries are either artist or client driven.
In his thinking you need to be both. Today many galleries tend to feel sterile in their quest to present a professional atmosphere. He stresses understanding the value of conducting your business in a professional manner and believes this can be accomplished while maintaining an arena for open communication and a warm environment for clients, visitors and artists.
Marina Hadley, the gallery co-owner and director states quite accurately that "Without the artists this space is just white walls and a lighting system. Without clients who trust your decisions this space will cease to exist at all."
The directors look back in history and point out that windows of opportunity have sporadically opened within the art world. In the 1930s, artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, just to name a couple, were afforded a platform to exhibit their work in New York City. The reception worldwide was significant. Again in the early 1970s, new artists like Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring were afforded the same opportunity. They believe that today the window is opening once again but this time on a more international scale. The world today is very much a global village. Distances, time zones and different languages are no longer the barriers that they once were.
Monkdogz has a mission to bring artists from around the world to present their vision, talent and imagination in a variety of exciting styles designed to afford the viewer an opportunity to explore an explosive visual arts experience. To this end, the third member of Monkdogz creative team is who Ed Mc Cormack, Chief Editor of Gallery and Studio Magazine calls the 'suave resident French artist' Sébastien Aurillon. Sébastien handles a multitude of tasks and communication for the gallery's European artists and clients as well as being a very talented artist in his own right. He is also helping lay the ground work for future endeavors planned outside of the United States. When asked about Monkdogz's plans to expand outside of New York, Hogge smiles and says "anything and everything is possible."
The Monkdogz Creative Team & Laila Escartín Hamarinen
"Flashing Flesh"
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"Flashing Flesh"
Monkdogz Urban Art, Inc.
547 West 27th Street
5th floor
New York, NY 10001
Between 10th & 11th Aves in Chelsea
November 29- January 12
Reception November 29 5-8 pm
http://monkdogz.com/chelseagallery/intro.htm
Art by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
"Primal l"
60x75 oil on canvas
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TURN ON THE MUSIC!
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TURN ON THE MUSIC AS YOU ENJOY LEARNING ABOUT NEW YORKS FINEST GALLERY
MONKDOGZ URBAN ART
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TURN ON THE MUSIC AS YOU ENJOY LEARNING ABOUT NEW YORKS FINEST GALLERY
MONKDOGZ URBAN ART
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"Brilliant Methods of Seduction-I am Stunned by Your Passionate Moves"
My Poem:"Brilliant Methods of Seduction-I am Stunned by Your Passionate Moves"
You cause me to quiver past the hour.
Gasping for air.
I am stunned by you.
I never expected to fall in love
nor feel so overwhelmed.
I never imagined you uncovering all my secrets.
I never imagined anyone having such power
over me.
I never imagined myself feeling an obsession
that could not be dismissed
nor me,
leaving my hesitations outside the door.
Beware my beloved
I've become a vengeful lover
aggressive for my needs.
I've become unsettled
yearning
but not undone
completely.
Thus I go willingly into your hands
but not with eyes closed.
Keep the light on.
Ways to give women ultimate pleasure.
Did you write that book?
Craving you
your moves
my appetite is still unfulfilled
memories of last night
set in my psyche.
I long
and wonder how you gained such insight.
I lust for you.
I wake up craving what is to come.
All I can breathe is what I anticipate now.
I want you.
Yes I am a ravenous vixen,
you brought me to this place
and these tides
motions
brilliant methods of seduction
will only draw more thunder.
I am the dragon speaking fire
and I will set your inspirations
ablaze to meet mine own.
Gasping for air
are you... in return?
Is it possible that my longings
returned to you
give way
to burst through the gate
of yesterdays hesitations?
I am the vampire now
I never knew I could be
and you my brilliant partner
are my stream
my river
my ocean
knowing ultimate pleasure
causing quivers past the hour.
I never imagined.
Copyright 2009
by Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
The image is of my painting "Seduction" 24x36 oil on canvas
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The Top Five Reasons New York's Finest Gallery is the Best MonkdogzUrbanArt
- Monkdogz Urban Art is made up of a great team:
- Art Directors: Bob Hogge and Marina Hadley
- Artists like Jean-Marc Calvet, Sylvia Hennequin, Sebastien Aurillon, Cheryl Finfrock, Mari Yamagiwa, and ME, Kathy Ostman-Magnusen.
- Exhibits! British Airways Concorde Room JFK, El Perro Monje, MoriDen, Global Tribes, Bolzano Art Fair, Italy and Damez to name a few.
- Innovation!
Kathy Ostman-Magnusen at Monkdogz
JEAN MARC CALVET
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Jean Marc Calvet is represented by:
Monkdogz Urban Art
Be sure to check out the links below to discover more about Jean Marc Calvet and Monkdogz Urban Art.
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Jean Marc Calvet is represented by:
Monkdogz Urban Art
Be sure to check out the links below to discover more about Jean Marc Calvet and Monkdogz Urban Art.
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Monkdogz Artist Joyce DiBona
Monkdogz Urban Art in NYC, Art Basel, Miami, NY Biennale 2009Austin Artist Joyce DiBona: upcoming shows in New York City and collaboration with International Curator/Director Pietro Franesi
Longtime Austin Artist Joyce DiBona will be one of fourteen artists featured at Monkdogz Urban Art in New York City for "Zephyr" July 17 through August 6, 2008. Monkdogz Urban Art is located in the heart of Chelsea, NYC. It is an International Gallery dedicated to showcasing cutting edge established and emerging artists:
"History has dictated that occasionally windows of opportunity open within the art world. In the 1930s, artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock just to name a couple, were afforded a platform to exhibit their work in New York City. The reception worldwide was significant. Again, in the early 1970s, artists like Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring were afforded the same opportunity.We believe that as we go into the 21st century, the window opens once again but this time on a more international scale. The world today is very much a global village. Distances, time zones and different languages are no longer the barriers that they once were." www.monkdogz.com
Art Basel Miami 2008 : December 4-7, 2008
Joyce DiBona will be collaborating with Pietro Franesi on an installation for Art Basel Miami 2008.
Art Basel Miami Beach is the most important art show in the United States, a cultural and social highlight for the Americas. As the sister event of Switzerland's Art Basel, the most prestigious art show worldwide for the past 38 years, Art Basel Miami Beach combines an international selection of top galleries with an exciting program of special exhibitions, parties and crossover events featuring music, film, architecture and design. www.artbaselmiamibeach.com
NY Biennale Art 2009: September 27-October 25, 2009
Ms. DiBona will once again collaborate with Pietro Franesi, the Director of the NY Biennale Art 2009, on one of the permanent exhibition projects, "Deus Vult". www.nybiennaleart.org
The Spirit and the Magic leads, the brush follows...
www.joycedibona.com
British Airways Concord Room at JKF
British Airways Concorde Room at JFKMonkdogz's latest exhibition of 8 exemplary artists sculptures is an installation in the most exclusive "flying club" in the world, the British Airways Concorde Room at New York's JFK International Airport.
The ConcordeRoom was designed by the CD partnership, Sir Terence Conran's architecture and design practice, the Concorde Room at New York's JFK airport for the ultimate jetsetters. The lounge is a design classic, like Concorde itself. Every piece of furniture is a celebration of 20th century design from the Corbusier chaise longue to the Matthew Hilton armchair, the Eileen Grey Bibendum chair to the Charles Eames lounger.
The lounge includes two wall drawings commissioned from distinguished artist Sol LeWitt at either end of the room. A mobile by Richard Smith shimmers in air currents behind the panels on the remaining side and a series of photographs of Marilyn Monroe by Eve Arnold are also highlights.
In this august setting, a sculpture wall was designed to showcase artwork between the main lounge and a smaller VIP room. The Monkdogz Exhibition has included Joyce DiBono, Owanto, Alex Mitchell, Taeko Nakata, Pierre Yermia, Lello Esposito, Yuichiro Shibata, Noël Dorado, Mark Randall Kilburn, James Armstrong, Sara Mills, Alex Racine, Charles Schindler, Rene Hinds, Kasper Holten, Richard Pitts, Sue Willis, Kevin Davenport, Sunia Boneham, Richardo Norte, Sylvia Hennequin and Laura Ann Jacobs.
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Gallery and Studio Magazine
Who is Gallery and Studio Magazine?Mission Statement
"Loose Canon"
Initially, we were encouraged in the daunting task of starting a new art publication by noticing that so much of the art writing that we saw elsewhere was frankly terrible: jargon-filled, pretentious, and needlessly obscure. Since art is one of the most exciting of all human activities, it struck us as inexplicable that so much art criticism was so boring. Once, critics who were also poets and artistspeople like Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Elaine de Kooning, and Fairfield Porter wrote about art with clarity, wit, and enthusiasm.
So we knew from the beginning that there was a precedent for the kind of writing that we wanted to present in G&S. We knew that art writing, in order to be intelligent, did not have to be dull. We¹ve made it our business to put this belief into practice.
Not only has the response from our readership been gratifying; our reviews and feature articles have been reprinted worldwide, resulting in increased recognition for many of the artists we have covered.
We are determined never to succumb to the tendency of many other publications to cover only artists who are already well known or who fit into some currently trendy category. This strikes us as criminally narrow, not to mention shortsighted. Never before in the history of art has there been such exciting diversity, such delicious uncertaintysuch a 'loose canon,' so to speak.
All of which confirms our conviction that there is a real need for a magazine such as G&S, presenting a more balanced view of visual culture; covering established artists, as well as artists who stand a good chance of being well known in the future. In fact, for many artists who had not yet received the attention they deserved (at least, before we wrote about them and other publications, including The New York Times and the Times of London, followed our lead) we have often been the only forum in town. We are proud of this fact, and we take the responsibility that goes with it very seriously.
Jeannie McCormack Editor and Publisher
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Gallery and Studio Reviewed Kathy Ostman-Magnusen June/July/Aug Issue
We Have too Much to "Hyde" Jean Marc Calvet
Monkdogz Link List
- Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery - 547 West 27 Street New York City
- Contemporary Art Today
History has dictated that occasionally windows of opportunity open within the art world. In the 1930s, artists like Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock just to name a couple, were afforded a platform to exhibit their work in New York City. The reception worldwide was significant. Again, in the early 1970s, artists like Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring were afforded the same opportunity.
We believe that as we go into 2007, the window opens once again but this time on a more international scale. The world today is very much a global village. Distances, time zones and different languages are no longer the barriers that they once were. The internet now allows us a level of communication that easily brings the world to us. - Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
- Art of exotic women.
I paint passion.
Passion has a sense of violence about it, it is strong and it survives aggression. I do not paint passive art.. I paint passion. Within passion one finds a boldness full of enticing ambitions to grasp on to, that piece of your heart that presses you to go past the mark of a bystander, the spot you may have been told to stay put on. No, it is not possible to feel passive when standing next to passion. I don't paint landscapes to hang above someone's couch, paintings meant to be a resting place for the mind? I paint feelings that one cannot just walk past. I hope to stir up emotions within the viewer. It is not my goal to feel nothing but a sunny day or peacefulness, shiny trinkets that rest on walls that can be walked away from. I paint women who feel something. Strength, sexuality, pain, power, a force of intensity, emotional qualities that generate a reaction. I don't paint the sky, I paint the dominance of the wind that caused it to be felt on ones skin, in the form of a woman. I pick up my brush or clay between my fingers and consider a certain belligerence, an attitude of confidence that meets the power I need to form an energy outside myself and I welcome it in. I paint or sculpt until I hear them breathing and their breath becomes my own. - Jean Marc Calvet
- My name is Jean Marc Calvet , I am self-taught from Granada Nicaragua . For me, painting is my best way to communicate with humans. It unifies me with my internal work, evolution and liberation.
- Welcome to Sebastien Aurillon's art gallery, Parisian painter
- Sebastien is an amazing artist from Paris who is also an art director at Monkdogz Urban Art
- Sylvia Hennequin
- Sylvia Hennequin - Contemporary Art
Sylvia Hennequin (27-02-1969 Mbabane Swaziland) is a Dutch Contemporary Artist . She studied Art Therapy and Visual Arts, but most of all she is a pigheaded self-taught girl.
Her work is spontaneous, colorful, expressive, experimental, confronting, emotionally, very dark, lunatic, wild, insane, crazy, extracted from a deep inner sensitive life, full of fantasy and madness, her personal world brought outside on canvas.
The search for freedom is her guideline. She continues developing and renewing herself to reach for new insights and concepts to experience more and more the feeling of inner freedom.
Her paintings are a mix of different materials, mediums, technics, states of being, series, colourpriorities. - Gallery and Studio
- Gallery & Studio
An International Art Journal
"One thing I learned from working with Andy Warhol, as one of the original contributing editors of Interview, was that visual artists can benefit from publicity just as much as the film stars and popular recording artists I profiled for Rolling Stone. Certainly Andy's own career attests to this..."
Ed McCormack - Managing Editor Gallery & Studio - LORENA ISLA
- Lorena Isla is participating in Monkdogz Urban Art's show:
"Flashing Flesh"
November 29-January 12, 2008
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- BIOGRAPHY Museums & Magazines
Education
Galleries & Shows
Contacts
OUDI(pronunced Ooo-Dee),Born to an Italian, Israeli parentage, came to the United States in 1972. His talent for innovative and exciting photography soon earned him a national and international reputation in the world of advertising and fine art photography. So unusual and imaginative was his work that he was the subject of a nationally syndicated television show,"The World of Photography" one of his images is in the permanent collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.
Museums and Magazines:
In addition to being invited to exhibit at the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island in Hempstead, N.Y. and at the Newark Museum in Newark, N.J., over twenty of Oudi's paintings are included in the corporate collection of MicroEdge, Inc., New York City, and he has been the subject of full page articles in Manhattan Arts Magazine, ArtSpeak Magazine and several foreign language publications. - François Burgun
- François Burgun is a photographer and a good friend of us. He was born in August 1977, and lives partly in Arles and Paris
- Dulcie Dee
- Dulcie Dee was born in New York and excelled as an art major at Fiorello La Guardia H.S. of Music and the Arts. Her passion for drawing escalated when she won 1st prize for the 1971 NYC Anti-Drug Abuse poster contest that inspired her to pursue the arts as her life career.
She is the granddaughter of Dee C. Chuan, the founder of the China Bank Corporation in Manila. Dee received her BFA from The University of the Philippines and is an MFA graduate from The Academy of Art University, SF. - Art News: Barebrush Nudes-of-the-Month July 2007
- June 29, 2007
Art News: Barebrush N*des-of-the-Month July 2007
New York, NY - June 29, 2007 - Barebrush.com announces the publication of July 2007, the eleventh calendar in the barebrush.com N*des-of-the-Month series. It was curated by Alberto Magnan founder and director of Magnan Projects and Magnan Emrich Contemporary, two galleries in New York's Chelsea art district. The 31 artworks (one for each day of the month) were selected from over 300 entries. N*des-of-the-Month July 2007 is in previews for members only and viewable by the public beginning July 1, 2007 at www.barebrush.com.
About the Artists in the N*des-of-the-Month July 2007 calendar:
Alberto Magnan especially liked the photography entries. He chose Spanish photographic artist, Laila Escartin for the honor of both launching and closing July in a blaze of red heat. Other artists he also favored are Jean Marcellino (New York) and Hector Olvera (Mexico). Donna Cleary (New York) and Gerard Elleboudt (Belgium) each got an especially enthusiastic nod from Alberto as he selected their pieces. - Artwork by Mollie Kellogg
- Mollie Kellogg attended the Colorado Institute of Art and started her career as an art director and illustrator in Arizona. Mollie has taught life drawing and commercial art. Her work has appeared in many magazines including Phoenix Home and Garden, Vim and VIgor Magazine, Phoenix Magazine and Arizona Highways.
Mollie's illustration consisted primarily of watercolor, pastel and pencil. Mollie then began working as a fine artist in oils and acrylic and focusing on figurative works. Still loving the unpredictable aspects of watercolor, she has developed techniques in acrylic that integrate the loose uncontrolled overlaying, pouring and building of colors and forms.
In 1992, she cofounded Planet Earth Multi-Cultural Theatre and Gallery in Phoenix. Planet Earth quickly gained recognition for cutting-edge award-winning arts. Mollie's work increased in dimension after designing three large male nude backdrops for a production. This line of work ranged up to 8'x8' of both male and female nudes in monochromatic tones.
In 2002, Mollie moved to San Diego and turned to fine art full time. Her work now focuses on mid-range sized canvases. Her current subject matter is still figurative, but the nude in some instances has been replaced with maternal or spiritual themes of love and passion.
Her new direction combines traditional modeling and form with contemporary southwestern passion and colors. Mollie notes the influences of Victorian painter Alma-Tadema and Chicano Artist Yepes. Mollie credits her start in art to her mother, who is also fine artist, and her father who is a photographer and cartoonist. - AI OHKAWARA
- Group Exhibition in New York
Novemver 29th, 2007 - January 12th, 2008
"Flashing Flesh"
Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery
547 West 27 Street, NY (between 11Ave & 10 Ave)
5th floor
Opening party : November 29th, from 17:00 to 20:00
Hours: 11 am - 6pm
open: Tuesday thru Saturday and by appointment
Tel: 212-216-0030
http://www.monkdogz.com/
past exhibition
*please come to the opening party if you have a time.
Group show
If you want to see Ai Ohkawara's painting, you can see and buy anytime at this gallery.
Ai Ohkawara's painting and drawing is now showing at Henry Gregg Gallery.
HENRY GREGG GALLERY
http://www.henrygregggallery.com/ - William Thierfeld
- ABOUT MY WORK:
I craft drawings. This is a conscious choice, as is the size of my work: Few are larger than 18 by 24 inches; many are much smaller. My authentic self as an artist is a poet at heart; I speak best in smaller, succinct, compressed forms on basic paper with basic tools like pencils and crayons. I'm creating for the eye that wants to examine a cross section or explore a visual poem, even if that route puts me against popular trends. I don't worry about trends; I'm more concerned about being honest.
The majority of my work is a response to specific events, dreams, or emotional states using a deliberately chosen alphabet of shapes, colors and designs. Geometric forms like circles and triangles, spermatozoic shapes, handwriting strokes, etching marks made with knives and pencils, smudges created with erasers, along with a bold color palette form my basic language. My intrinsic love of the Classical and Neo-Classical Arts is seen in the often highly structured drawings I compose; there is a definite sense of "architecture" in even my most abstract pieces. I use crayons and pencils because of their immediacy and because they form an autobiographical link straight back to my childhood. Thus my art and the tools used to make that art are my fingerprint, my retina scan, my DNA signature
Each drawing is a narrative, a unique piece that tells the viewer something about me as well as the object or event being explored, whether it's a performer at Carnegie Hall, a song, a nightmare, or an hour of evening meditation.
Recent DrawingsAll art work is available through Monkdogz Urban Art.Please contact Robert Hogge or Marina Hadley for prices and details.Monkdogz Urban Art547 West 27th Street, 5th floorNew York, NY 10001GALLERY PHONE:%uFFFD - Abstract Art: Contemporary Modern Paintings and Prints on Canvas
- Abstract art gallery of original paintings and limited edition giclee prints on canvas by NY abstract artist Lynne Taetzsch. Abstract art as a tradition.
- Morten Blyme
- Painted work has often been heralded as a dying art. This, however, seems
to be a judgement made without any basis in reality. Take, for example,
the painter Morten Blyme, whose painting is exceptionally vigorous and
perceptive. He experiments, but he dos it from a classical point of
departure, which is reminiscent of the abstract expressionism we know from
the USA in the period after World War II. - Noel DORADO - NDJULIAN
- Noel Dorado - Art - Fashion - Design - Web gallery d'un artiste international contemporain - paris - new york.
- Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery - New York City
- Minya Mikic, who is from Rome, Italy, has a few paintings in the Monkdogz Gallery in Chelsea that I was able to see Saturday, 9/29. This one is called REcommunication II and like her other paintings, are very layered and textured. This series of paintings are supposed to be her thoughts and communication with the ancient city she lives in.
It looks like she placed screens and some sort of thick bubbles all over the canvas, painted and then pulled the screens and dried bubbles off, just to paint over them again. I love her paintings and they remind me of what I've tried to do with painting myself. She is much more successful. You can tell she spent a lot of time with each stage and probably didn't plan the next steps. Her work feels intuitive and I really connect with that. I love the circles and the red. I was very impressed with just about everything I saw in Monkdogz Gallery - it was definitely a sweet surprise to have found it, on accident of course. - Cheryl Finfrock Home Page
- Dreams inspire my work. Images ranging from public domain icons to archaic glyphs fascinate me. With high voltage colors I search for a visual language of universal archetypes. The creation and deconstruction of this language occurs through the physical act of painting. In my recent work, color, texture, and layering become the psychology of expression. Fauvism, Expressionism, Abstract Expressionism, and Carl Jung influence me. Specific influences are Edvard Munch, James Ensor, Georges Rouault, Rainer Fetting, the COBRA painters and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Cheryl Finfrock - Monkdogz Urban Art Gallery - New York City
- Flashing Flesh
November 29 ,
2007
Photos by
Sam Chadwick Photography - FOUND OBJECT SCULPTURE BY RENE HINDS HOMEPAGE
- Found object sculpture which depicts living presences through the use of the debris of American culture. They are both whimsical and functional.
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kathysart wrote...
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So cool to be showing with the elegant Dulcie Dee.. her work is AMAZING!!
Kathy
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Posted December 06, 2007
deedulcie56 wrote...
Everyone at Monkdogz has a great attitude towards artists. 1 day I peeped inside, Bob greeted me with such a friendly hello and 1 year later I attended one of their openings and he miraculously remembered my name. Amazing! Now my erotic geishas are being exhibited at their Monkdogz gallery! Thanks!
Posted December 06, 2007
by kathysart
About Artist Kathy Ostman-Magnusen
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