"2011 Annual Summer Invitational" Exhibition
Jonathan LeVine Gallery
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Jonathan LeVine Gallery presents its 2011 Annual Summer Invitational, a group exhibition featuring works by eleven emerging artists.
About the artists:
Born in 1971, Ashley Wood is an Australian-based painter, award-winning illustrator and celebrated comic book artist. He is scheduled for a solo exhibition at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in the Fall of 2012.
Born in 1967 in Tucson, Arizona, Daniel Martin Diaz is a self-taught artist. With Mexican-American parents, his traditional Catholic upbringing influences much of the gothic-inspired aesthetic prevalent throughout his body of work—which has been exhibited in galleries and museums, worldwide.
Dick Chicken is a Brooklyn-based street artist whose graphic approach is offensive to some while wickedly humorous to others. His work satirically mocks consumer culture and corporate farming practices of the food industry through appropriated imagery and branded packaging motifs.
Edwin Ushiro was born in 1977 on the Hawaiian island of Maui and is currently based in Los Angeles. He received a BFA in Illustration from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. He achieves an ethereal quality of light in his imagery, painted on tiled sheets of vinyl paper and mounted onto clear lucite. His subject matter is rich in narrative, combining obake tales of his Japanese heritage with folklore of his native Hawaii.
Eric Fortune is an artist and award-winning illustrator based in Columbus, Ohio. He received a BFA with Honors from Columbus College of Art and Design. With fine details and smooth textures, his emotive works on paper portray stylized, isolated figures set in surreal, atmospheric backgrounds.
Hello Monsters is a Belgian collective formed by Jérôme Meynen, François Dieltiens and Antoine Detaille. The artists blend their individual styles to create an imaginary universe occupied by human-animal-monster hybrid figures. The resulting graphic imagery is layered in caustic social commentary.
Jennifer Delilah is a Brooklyn-based painter. She attended the Kansas City Art Institute and in 1991, she received a BFA from The Art Institute in San Francisco. She describes her figurative work as carrying themes of wealth, perversity, excess, debauchery and unfettered desires.
Melissa Haslam is based in Melbourne, Australia. She studied Visual Arts at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT). Her paintings express an interest in the nature of social role-playing, particularly in fashion. Her portraits of young women dressed in costumes resembling stuffed toy animals are inspired by a Japanese fashion subculture known as Kigurumi or cosplay.
Meryl Smith is a New York-based artist. She has collaborated with artists such as Neckface, and made the sculptures in Spike Jones’ short film I’m Here, which were later installed in Opening Ceremony’s retail window display. She was photographed in her home with her eccentric collection of objects by Tod Selby for his blog and book The Selby. Her thought-provoking sculptures and two-dimensional works reflect a macabre sense of humor and intense interest in wildlife.
Based in San Marino, Italy, Nicoletta Ceccoli is an award-winning illustrator of over 30 children’s books. Her whimsically allegorical paintings portray doll-like female figures interacting with birds, insects, lizards and other wild creatures in a dark and dream-like fantasy world.
Yuko Shimizu is a Japanese-born artist and acclaimed illustrator. She has lived in New York since 1999, and received an MFA in illustration from School of Visual Arts (SVA) in 2003. Her series of monochromatic ink drawings evoke Japanese manga and narrative comic traditions on an epic scale.
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Schedule
from August 10, 2011 to August 27, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-08-10 from 18:00 to 20:00