de battre mon coeur s'est arrêté

2011-10-02T23:33:00.000+01:00

Goodbye to this one!
I'll be seeing you here.

Condition X

2011-08-02T04:34:00.006+01:00

I invite you to the openning of Condition X, a group exhibition curated by Keren Moscovitch, in which I will participate.

August 6 — 20, 2011

Reception: Saturday, August 6, 5 - 8pm
Westside Gallery

141 West 21st Street

New York

PRESS RELEASE

School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents “Condition X,” an exhibition featuring artwork by past participants in the Summer Residency Program that focuses on human frailty as expressed through love, death, sex, vulnerability and connection. Curated by Keren Moscovitch, program coordinator in the Division of Continuing Education, in consultation with curator and Summer Residency faculty member David Gibson, the exhibition will be on view August 6 - 20 at the Westside Gallery, 133/141 West 21st Street, ground floor, New York City.

The participating artists are: Nate Burbeck, Marcos Chin, Barnett Cohen, Annika Connor, Grayson Cox, Sarah Dineen, Tomer Exterman, Marc Freeman, Emiliano Granado, Annette Isham, Apryl McAnerney, Carolina Moscoso, William Nelson, Iviva Olenick, Jeremy Olson, Maria Petrovskaya, Jonathan Reid Sevigny, Ilona Szwarc and George Towne.

Several of these artists utilize traditional and, some might say, romantic media, creating a tension between “soft” studio practice and the quick, contemporary communications that happen in a global society dominated by social networking Web sites, blogs and interactivity. Iviva Olenick’s dainty handmade narrative embroideries act as an old-world “blog,” chronicling her own desire to find a mate in New York City’s dating scene as well as the experiences of Brooklynites seeking and often finding love. Annika Connor’s lush watercolors of socialites recall a New York defined by Sex in the City, whose young fashionistas are searching for love and excitement. Her Kissing Couples series illuminates the subjects’ ever-present desire for intimacy and romance. George Towne’s poignant portraits of gay men function as photographs in their immediacy and as classical paintings in their preciousness. New York City becomes the protagonist in many of these works, even as we are invited to peer into the intimate experiences of the artists and their subjects.

The artists seemingly triumph over suffering and angst through the poetry of form, suggesting the immediacy of mid-century American Abstract Expressionism as well as the narrative structure of myth. Sarah Dineen’s tortured abstractions evoke human viscera removed from the body. Her paintings become places where the memory of fury, lust, intimacy and deeply rooted urgency to connect to another human being merge into a powerful force, and places where creative energy and sexual energy become one.

Bill Nelson’s mythic figure studies seek to illuminate the sexual transgressions found in the Biblical texts his Catholic upbringing exposed him to, albeit subliminally. Apryl McAnerney’s humanoid beasts explore lifecycles and dreamscapes. Jonathan Reid Sevigny’s detailed illustrations of prepubescent debauchery explore a world imagined by outsider artists such as Henry Darger, rife with historical and artistic allusion.

The photographers in this exhibition invite us into a seemingly pedestrian world where lives connect and just as quickly splay out in opposite directions. Ilona Szwarc documents the apparent instabilities, anxiety, innocence, sacredness, as well as vanity and narcissism, of women in their private or fantasy lives. Barnett Cohen’s exploration of the life of an aging, eccentric southerner leads him to the clapboard home of Oliver Hurt, who talks about his thoughts on his own death–which he eagerly awaits–and his still-vivid memories of his former lovers. The photographs illuminate the stark solitude and raw vulnerability of his existence. Tomer Exterman’s portraits of senior citizens on Brooklyn's Brighton Beach are a bold and endearing representation of the convergence of culture and individualism. Emiliano Granado’s Time for Print series gives viewers a glimpse of the interaction between photographer and aspiring model, with the subject awaiting his or her moment of fame and the photographer capturing a moment of quiet and self-awareness.

Several of the artists explore personal identity, such as Annette Isham, whose video Friends First! deals with the construction of identity, role playing, and the relationships among self, others and the space between. Marcos Chin’s Machoman subverts several familiar male archetypes in his soft sculpture, a wearable chest plate which alludes to armor and creates a dialogue between forms traditionally thought of as masculine and effeminate.

Finally, the seemingly simple matter of human connection is investigated in Grayson Cox’s Point of Purchase, an interactive sculpture that works somewhat like an altar or water-cooler by providing people with a place to charge their cell phones, drawing them together and encouraging connection to one another. Jeremy Olson’s work considers the built environment in relation to desire and fantasy, including the architectural spaces we traverse as well as the construction of media. Carolina Moscoso’s Accusation deals with accusation by others–or by a man towards himself–and with the associated inner struggle, emotional void and perceived punishment for what is right or wrong. Nate Burbeck’s solitary figures in eerily supernatural landscapes point to an experience of wonder in which the sublime overtakes the individual.

The Westside Gallery, located at 133/141 West 21st Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, is open Monday through Friday, 9am to 7pm, and Saturday, 10am to 6pm; closed on Sundays and public holidays. The gallery will be closed from Friday, July 1, 1pm, through Monday, July 4, for Independence Day. The gallery is accessible by wheelchair. For more information, please call 212.592.2145.

2011-07-18T19:42:00.004+01:00

we should learn
and when you're young you should be listeners
when you get older, then you can talk.
from here.

at saturdays

2011-07-08T04:22:00.001+01:00

trash bin, bike

2011-07-07T04:06:00.001+01:00

trash

2011-07-07T04:05:00.001+01:00

bowery

2011-07-07T04:04:00.006+01:00

west village

2011-07-05T04:32:00.002+01:00

homem-tábua

2011-07-04T10:11:00.001+01:00

o cão-pente (probably sketching, probably faking)

2011-07-04T09:00:00.000+01:00

o cão-pente a ler o jornal, culto, muito culto e muito informado.
o cão-pente, meio camelo, meio cão.
o cão-pente. e do lombo saem-lhe fadas.

high line ii

2011-07-02T05:46:00.002+01:00

high line i

2011-07-02T05:44:00.001+01:00

warhol by the way

2011-06-29T05:34:00.001+01:00

soho

2011-06-29T05:33:00.001+01:00

chelsea

2011-06-29T05:32:00.004+01:00

queens

2011-06-29T05:32:00.000+01:00

smoke

2011-06-12T05:52:00.002+01:00

the deadliest form of poverty is violence.

2011-06-11T09:54:00.005+01:00

stormy weather ii

2011-06-10T01:37:00.003+01:00

stormy weather i

2011-06-10T01:30:00.004+01:00

rio a little closer

2011-06-07T04:50:00.003+01:00

old benz by the hudson

2011-06-07T04:43:00.004+01:00

radio flyer

2011-06-06T19:49:00.006+01:00

Before anybody ever grows up, there are magical things impossible for adults that can still happen.
The reason why these things are lost to the grown up world is simple...
In the quick second between the age of 12 and your 13th birthday the great secrets to them all are replaced in your mind with thoughts of the opposite sex.
There are seven of these lost secret fascinations and abilities.
They are:
That animals can talk;
Your favourite blanket is woven from a fabric so mighty that once pulled over your head it becomes an impenetrable force field;
Nothing is too heavy to lift with the aid of a cape;
Your hand, held four fingers out and thumbs up, actually fires bullets;
Jumping from any height with an umbrella is completely safe;
Monsters exist, they can both be seen and done battle with;
And the greatest, most special and regrettable loss of all, the ability to fly.

in Radio Flyer

still, vendor

2011-06-05T08:35:00.003+01:00

chinatown

2011-06-05T08:34:00.001+01:00

mercer

2011-06-05T08:30:00.000+01:00

brooklyn

2011-06-05T08:27:00.000+01:00

sheep meadow

2011-06-05T06:28:00.002+01:00

Where the grass is greener.

dear japan ny

2011-06-05T06:25:00.001+01:00

http://dearjapanny.wordpress.com/
(nut and peanut by Kakuzy Guzman)

dawn

2011-05-24T00:57:00.002+01:00

light. tree.

2011-05-24T00:56:00.003+01:00

green subway

2011-05-24T00:55:00.007+01:00

blue bike

2011-05-24T00:55:00.006+01:00

yellow. red.

2011-05-24T00:54:00.004+01:00

when we fall in, sean hayes

2011-04-15T16:22:00.002+01:00

2011-04-09T08:47:00.004+01:00

in a way, you're right.
i am, yet, child.
i could wind around images of my childhood
like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel
some, consumed by life.
others, untouched.
the houses i never did, the lamps i never drew, the life i never lived.
feeding myself with a desperate will of freedom that carries a future imaginary life.

imigration status live session

2011-04-07T08:38:00.001+01:00

shirtless

2011-03-31T06:04:00.003+01:00

o voador

2011-03-29T08:45:00.003+01:00

animation sketch #002

saint-tropez

2011-03-29T07:00:00.005+01:00

animation sketch #001 (my first animation sketch!)

moma

2011-03-04T05:58:00.003Z

Drink 'n Draw, Brooklin

2011-02-17T19:26:00.001Z

hamptons i

2011-02-17T05:52:00.004Z

hamptons ii

2011-02-17T05:50:00.002Z

hamptons iii

2011-02-17T05:48:00.001Z

hamptons iv

2011-02-17T05:46:00.001Z

hamptons v

2011-02-17T05:45:00.001Z

union square

2011-01-20T04:59:00.002Z

2011-01-16T18:27:00.000Z

2011-01-14T05:59:00.001Z

2011-01-14T05:51:00.001Z

2011-01-11T03:26:00.000Z

2011-01-09T18:06:00.000Z

2010-12-19T05:47:00.001Z

2010-12-19T05:46:00.001Z

2010-12-19T05:44:00.001Z

2010-12-19T05:43:00.001Z

2010-12-18T08:45:00.004Z

2010-12-18T05:52:00.004Z

2010-12-18T05:50:00.000Z

2010-12-12T05:22:00.000Z

2010-12-11T06:04:00.002Z

2010-12-05T08:16:00.001Z

2010-12-05T08:13:00.005Z

Channel Soho opening

2010-12-05T08:13:00.004Z

the birds, alfred hitchcock

2010-11-27T23:14:00.005Z

2010-11-27T23:05:00.000Z

2010-11-27T23:04:00.003Z

Count Basie Meets Clark Terry

2010-10-29T20:46:00.002+01:00

i wanna be loved by you, marilyn monroe

2010-10-29T20:39:00.002+01:00

blue skies, ella fitzgerald

2010-10-29T19:27:00.002+01:00

2010-10-22T04:06:00.001+01:00

2010-09-12T23:00:00.001+01:00

2010-09-02T01:36:00.001+01:00

2010-08-30T00:34:00.001+01:00

2010-08-23T13:00:00.001+01:00

2010-08-19T18:33:00.001+01:00

American beauty.

2010-08-16T03:25:00.001+01:00

2010-08-09T04:28:00.004+01:00

2010-08-09T04:28:00.002+01:00

2010-08-09T04:14:00.001+01:00

2010-08-08T05:51:00.002+01:00

2010-08-04T02:44:00.000+01:00

2010-07-31T22:02:00.009+01:00

images unwind
work for the exhibition brief encounters, at La Nacional, 239W 14th street New York.

2010-07-21T03:32:00.000+01:00

2010-07-20T04:45:00.004+01:00

brief encounters, contemporary spanish art exhibition
25th July > 5th August 2010
La Nacional, Spanish Benevolent Society
239W 14th Street New York
OPENING 25th JULY 6PM
painting > alfonso gonsálvez, ángel luis gotor, fernando romero, olga parra
sculpture > isabel teruel javier fernández
illustration > juan carlos salas
photography > carolina moscoso, inma rosero
videoart > luis lorite

2010-07-12T04:49:00.000+01:00

Nuestros hermanos celebrando la copa del mundo en NY.

2010-07-09T05:56:00.000+01:00

Open Studio Day at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

2010-07-07T05:30:00.001+01:00

2010-06-30T01:56:00.001+01:00

2010-06-28T16:32:00.004+01:00

2010-06-26T20:39:00.000+01:00

Cueing for Shakespeare in the Park.

2010-06-24T18:43:00.000+01:00

Tripping.

Commuting.

2010-06-23T22:59:00.003+01:00

At Brooklin Botanic Garden.

2010-06-19T22:19:00.003+01:00

O melhor bolo de chocolate do mundo chega a Nova Iorque :)
55a Spring Street

2010-06-18T19:52:00.003+01:00

2010-06-17T23:56:00.002+01:00

2010-06-14T22:16:00.000+01:00

At Jackson Pollock's studio.

first we take manhattan, leonard cohen

2010-06-14T22:03:00.008+01:00

They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom / For trying to change the system from within / I'm coming now, I'm coming to reward them / First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'm guided by a signal in the heavens / I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin / I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons / First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby / I love your body and your spirit and your clothes / But you see that line there moving through the station? / I told you, I told you, told you, I was one of those

Ah you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win / You know the way to stop me, but you don't have the discipline / How many nights I prayed for this, to let my work begin / First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I don't like your fashion business mister / And I don't like these drugs that keep you thin / I don't like what happened to my sister / First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I'd really like to live beside you, baby ...

And I thank you for those items that you sent me / The monkey and the plywood violin / I practiced every night, now I'm ready / First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

I am guided

Ah remember me, I used to live for music / Remember me, I brought your groceries in / Well it's Father's Day and everybody's wounded / First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

2010-06-13T15:24:00.002+01:00