“We Do Our Part” Exhibition
No Romance Galleries
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Tomoko Sugimoto – mixed media
For the last decade, Tomoko Sugimoto worked as the Painting Director and a core figure of Takashi Murakami’s studio, traveling around the world to produce his shows and retrospectives. Sugimoto’s personal work has been exhibited in group shows in New York, Miami and Tokyo. Her first solo show “Whirl and Swallow” took place in March of 2011 at Graphite in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
www.tomokosugimoto.com
Mika Azegami - painter
Her painterly gestures are driven by daily experiences as she creates therapeutic psychological landscapes into experimental visual journals that are “connected somewhere else.” Her strokes are first and foremost born out of the joy of play and grounded in inner dialogues, memory, stories, and her imaginative world, a kind of obsession to relive real or imagined moments through her art in a natural playful action. Her work shows attributes of Abstract Expressionism and textural influences of classical Japanese painting.
www.sites.google.com/site/azegamimika
William Coupon - photographer
Many of the projects – referred to as “Social Studies” – became documents of indigenous people. These include projects on Haiti, Australian Aboriginals, Native Americans, Scandinavian Laplanders, Israeli Druzim, Moroccan Berbers, Alaskan Yupik, Spanish Gypsies, Turkish Kurds, Central African Pygmy, and Panamanian Cuna and Chocoe. These projects also included Death Row Inmates, Drag Queens, and Cowboys.
Stylistically, they were always photographed formally on the backdrop, and contextually,or environmentally, with 2 1/4 Rolleiflex black and white images, which were meant to be companions to the studio portraits. Photographed 15 Time Magazine covers – including portraits of all the Presidents since Richard Nixon.
www.williamcoupon.com
Chris Lewis – sculptor
Chris Lewis is an American sculptor and landscape artist producing site specific sculptures in nature and urban settings. He lives and works in New York’s Hudson Valley, a place he was raised. The son of a Marine Corps father and a Nursery farm mother, Chris grew up experiencing New York’s Hudson Valley exploring the mountains, rivers, and forests of his habitat, as well as the beaches and ocean of Long Island where he was born. It was then that he began a profound relationship with the elements that would make up his work — stone, metal, wood, and glass. As a child, he displayed an aptitude for creativity and building with materials. From an early age, Chris knew he was an artist and would somehow pursue his exploration of these materials.
www.christopherlewisdesign.com
JK5 – mixed media
Joseph Ari Aloi aka JK5 is a multidisciplinary artist, relentless drawing machine, hyper-creator, Renaissance man, visual linguist, self-professed mythology and sci-fi nerd, father, and an ever inventive, world-renowned tattoo artist for almost 20 years. There are a number of collaborative projects, products and fine art prints in the works, a new basketball droid toy called the RJ-K5 released with Kid Robot, “TATT BOOK” and “Joseph Ari Aloi Aka JK5: An Archive of Sketches, Tattoos, Drawings, Paintings and Objects” that he curated and recently published with Rizzoli/Universe.
www.jk5nyc.net
Pablo Power – photo image transfers on mixed media paintings
Power moved to New York to study at Parsons School of Design and School of Visual Arts, and although began painting in the studio, still continued to create outdoor works inspired by the sprawling, dinkins- era urban wilderness of his new home. In his most recent work, he layers these photos with drawn and painted elements, and collects writing from his documentary subjects to combine with his own writing, which are all added to create the illustrated texts and textures that have been part of his work from the beginning
www.pablopower.org
Pedro Claveria – conceptual graphics
Pedro explores and utilizes the t-shirt form as a canvas to develop theories inspecting the nature of correlating concepts between medium aesthetics and guidelines. His designs are inspired by brutalism, constructivism, art deco and New York 80’s era subway graffiti.
www.thesss777.us
Richard Vergez - collage
His work makes use of white space and abstract structures, using mixed media such as collage, found objects, and unconventional mark making. His visual work has been featured at the Chicago Urban Arts Society as well as numerous blogs and international publications such as Pluz Ultra, Argentina and Mekanik Copulaire, France. His musical collaborations with choreographer Ana Mendez and the Psychic Youth collective have been presented at the Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami Art Museum, and the De La Cruz Collection
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Schedule
from April 10, 2014 to May 10, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-04-10 from 19:00 to 22:00