NYAB Event - "Fructure" Exhibition

"Fructure" Exhibition

Bold Hype Gallery

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"Fracture" featurs four emerging artists from the east and west coast: Brett Amory, Kelly Allen, Douglas Hoffman, and Chris Uphues. This is a new generation of abstract artists whose influences include street art, pop-culture, mass-media, urban life and nature. The resulting imagery is fractured glimpses of our world as beautiful modern chaos.

BRETT AMORY
Born in Chesapeake, Virginia in 1975, Brett Amory is descended from a long line of visual artists and musicians. He studied at the Academy of Art from which he received a BFA in Fine Art in 2005 and was recipient of two major awards given by the school: The Student Choice Award for 2004 and Second Prize in landscape painting for 2003. He is the recipient of a gold medal from Online Artists Interviews, an international juried art competition (2009). He graduated from the Academy of Arts in 2005. Brett began working on the painting series entitled "Waiting" in 2001. The series depicts the urban individual's yearning for presence and the seeming impossibility of attaining it. The paintings portray commuters in transit immersed in either a quiet, even hopeful state or, alternately, an anguish of unfulfilled anticipation.

KELLY ALLEN
Through the use of oil, acrylic, and gouache paint, graphite, and colored pencil, Kelly Allen's work continually tricks the viewer into thinking they are experiencing a collage. These dreamlike, trompe l'oeil paintings and drawings featuring clusters of animals, insects, plants, fruits, molecular structures, and graphic elements, sometimes referred to as "mass hybrid creatures" are exactingly executed by the artist's hand, and are inspired by the beautiful systems within nature and the human experience of them.

"I am extremely intrigued by the natural world, and by the workings of the human mind. I am so curious about the ways that we, as individuals, and as cultures, give meaning to the objects and events in our world. I believe in universal consciousness, and my process allows me to feel as though I am tapping into something greater than my own mind."

She doesn't expect the viewer to go so deeply into decoding her paintings. She welcomes each person to bring their own insights to the work, and to enjoy them on their own terms. In addition to painting and drawing, Kelly has created illustrations for publications like New York Magazine and The Sunday Times, UK Edition. She also writes for artists and occasionally designs screenprinted apparel with her fantastic husband, Jay.

DOUGLAS HOFFMAN
Douglas Hoffman's artwork lies somewhere between abstract expressionism and graffiti, filled with interlaced imagery in beautiful color combinations.

"Gathering experiences from constantly moving and traveling while growing up, I felt as though there was endless material to work with. I became very interested in native tribes and ancient civilizations and their cultures, outer-space and nature, animals and all forms of life in general, space and dimension twisting, all liquids, smoke, ectoplasm, spirits and spiritual energy, aliens, martial arts, handmade weapons, viruses, violence, architecture, decay, natural disasters, surgically gridded faces, and anything living or non turned inside out."

CHRIS UPHUES
Chris Uphues' paintings and drawings are concerned with a distinct visual vocabulary, embracing pop culture, graffiti, video games, comics, and all things Japanese. His work is included in major art collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. An Illinois native, Uphues received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and now lives and works in Brooklyn.