With another #class event emerging any time soon, I have decided to take a look at the lives of a group of artists and people involved with them from very different styles and stages of their *careers*.
This will be a series of images and discussions with artists from different areas and countries as they find and negotiate their way through the art world. Some fresh from degree shows, others still navigating them.
Whether established or aspiring to be established, this series of posts will endeavour to take a look at the very different and sometimes novel approaches on how they continue with their work. Addressing compromise, locations, and *the day job*.
But no less important, also a look at individual pieces of work and the artists behind.
The group include:
The Curator
Louise Starkey,who curated Cruel Britannia at the T & P Fine Art Gallery in Philadelphia last year.
Sadly the gallery itself had to close, even with the enthusiastic team that ran and supported it:
“After thirteen openings and showcasing 100+ international artists, T & P Fine Art will be closing their doors at the end of November, 2009. It may not have been ideal to open an art gallery at the beginning of the worst recession since the depression, but we found a cool spot, in an incredible city, showed some superb art, and had blast the entire time. Thank you to all who have supported us, patrons and artists alike. We hope to see you one last time between now and the end of November.”
T & P Fine Art Gallery
And back from Cruel she decided to recycle it, mash it up, and add to it. Her most recent exhibition also includes up and coming if not already established contemporary urban artists from the UK with Stop Robbing The Rich in Nottingham.
Stop Robbing The Rich, group exhibition
The Castle Bar, opposite Nottingham Castle
The Photographer
Helen McCabe from London who has just finished her degree in Nottingham. “I hope that by carrying this on alongside a job, Photography will continue to be something I do, because I enjoy it and not just something to keep me in a living”.
One of Helen McCabe’s seven portraits
The Artist
Man Bartlett, who as son of US artist Bo Bartlett, is finding his feet as an artist in New York:
Man Bartlett’s recent #24Echo held at P.P.O.W Gallery
in his words : ) By Man Bartlett and The Internet.
He pledged to repeat anything and everything that was tagged with #24echo via twitter feed and relayed over Ustream for 24 hours
“Labelling is a tricky thing as I also create drawings and installations. So usually I just say I’m an artist with practices in performance art, drawing, and installation.”
“While there is sometimes an element of endurance in my performance practice, I prefer the term “duration.” This distinction draws attention to the fact that the performances are simply happening in an extended amount of time, not specifically that pain or suffering is an integral part of that time”.
Systema Mundi exhibition at Flux Gallery earlier this year:
“Flux Factory presents Systema Mundi, an exhibition of drawings, installation and pyrography by artist-in-residence Man Bartlett.
The works in this show include a “circle drawing” in which thousands of small circles are tightly clustered, and form a rectangle. From a distance it appears as a solid mass, but closer inspection reveals a chaotic yet ordered composition. A pyrography piece consists of small burned dots that appear to create or mimic the pattern of the grain of the wood beneath them. In opposition to these maximalist tendencies lies a minimalist earth and water installation, sourced from in and around the Flux Factory building.
This juxtaposition of means is of critical interest to the artist, whose work often deals with the union of paradoxes from within a wide spectrum of art history and human experience”.
Both images and above text sourced from Flux Gallery.
The Fine Art Student
Tim……who half-way through his degree is embarking on a stint at a Cork Street Gallery in London for 2 months – despite his reservations about working in the midst of all things The-City-And-Art stand for.
From NTU bonington Fine Art Campus
To Cork Street’s short but wealthy 1/4 mile
Stop Press! slight alteration….Tim has been called away to help in a performance, hence I will be coming back to him later in the next series.
So the fourth in this series is someone who I was completely blown away by. Her sheer enthusiasm and energy – for someone so young (in my terms!) – at 22 and a Graduate BA/MA fine artist Sarah Smizz
I know this is Sarahs web-page and is not strictly art but …..: )
The hashtag project first rolled out in February at the Winkleman Gallery for a successful month of discussions and with it delving into the ins, outs and polarities of the art market in the midst of that very art-centred city of NY.
The illuminating and upfront discussions took place with artists of all types and cultures – some relatively well known others from over the other side of the world. Gallerists, Dealers, Critics, and Collectors also being invited to be in on the call. Enabling face to face and honest discussions about location, class, education, money, who exactly pulls the strings-who are the gatekeepers, those with specific agendas and the minefield of art protocol that tempts or repels artists and can exclude them from engaging on those basis.
With that very much in mind my first stop in this series is to address amongst other elements a local exhibition held over three days in a non gallery setting curated by Louise Starkey.
Starting this Wednesday!………
