ARTpool Gallery presents:
POP-CON! ART, Fashion & Body Art Show inspired by pop art and graphic art works.
When:
Saturday November 12, 2011
8PM – 12AM – “It’s our grand finale show in our original location, so lets go out with a bang!”
The show will run from November 12 – November 18th.
Get your tickets in advance for $15 at www.artpoolgallery.com or at the door for $20.
RSVP to the event on Facebook.
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a voice said behind me. Turning around, I caught a glimpse of the bouncer that evening making conversation with me – a walking pair of triceps, littered with poorly scribbled tattoos and adorned with a gray sleeveless shirt.
The night was already off to a great start.
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At the end of 2009, we included the work of Nicholas Bohac (San Francisco) among our featured art of the year:
“Mountain of Sound is an acrylic, ink, and photographic collage that depicts rainbow highways that run alongside windmills and mountains…this mixed media painting is among the most striking, masculine works that I encountered in 2009. Other paintings by Bohac that I appreciate include Kansas, A Place Between Progress & Hippie Shift, and Trippin Off the Land.”
If you also like his work, you’ll be excited to learn that his most recent project for an upcoming exhibit, Nothing & Everything at Once, will include 165 new paintings.
The paintings are all 9″x9″ collaged paintings that I’m calling “The Fragment Series”. They took about two months to make, but I typically worked on them like I was in a factory setting. The idea was to fill space with these images that were all unique, but all had this fractal quality to them. They’re all Icebergs, painting on film, and collaged on the panel. All of the panels have a painted sky, and over the top of the icebergs I have a graphic image of water silkscreen on clear film, so you can just make out the iceberg under the water. Here are all 165. Might take a few seconds to load. This is the first time in a long time that I can’t say that any one painting in a body of work is my favorite. I actually love all this work and fell it all works very well together. – Nicholas
The exhibit opens on April 29th and the formal artist takes place on May 7th.
You can also catch a sneak peak of a (60″x90″) painting , Hummingbird Wars, that will be used as album art for Back When:
When Nicholas isn’t busy painting, he clears his mind by running and sleeping. How could he find the time for anything else?
I really like going for longer runs, but have had to keep my runs to around 45 minutes or an hour. Between shipping the last of this work off and flying out for the show on the 20th, I plan on going on a few runs from my place up to and over the Golden Gate Bridge, which works out to about a half marathon. I’ve also got tickets for a baseball game next week, and depending on when the A’s are playing over in Oakland, I might go see a few of their games. So sleep, running, baseball games, and just mostly relaxing.
We should probably point out that creating 165 paintings in two months is very Brasky – but you probably already knew that.
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“Come celebrate and get wild with us at our next Art, Body Art, & Fashion ART pARTy showcase on March 12th, 2011.
For the night the gallery will be transformed into an untamed space with our avant garde art show paired with our stylish and stunning models as wild animals with jaw dropping stage hair & makeup straight out of a New York Broadway production.
Featuring an art show inspired by wild animals, pets, and non-human living forms. Submit your art now through March 8th to be a part of the show. 1-3 works is $30, each additional is only $5. All sales go to the artist. All artists who submit get in free. The show will be on display from March 12th – April 9th.
The event will be fully catered and filled with surprises.
Tickets in be purchase at the gallery or on our website at http://www.artpoolgallery.com now through March 11th for $10. Day of the event tickets are $15 at the door, cash or check only.”
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synesthesia syn·es·the·sia (sĭn’ĭs-thē’zhə)
n.
Now, some of us may have experienced synesthesia by eating mushrooms and getting crazy at a jam-rock concert. On December 4th, the word will take on a new and much more tangible meaning to me.
Earlier this year, an artist by the name of Leah Renee Pecoraro contacted me asking me to be a part of an art show she was putting together. In said show, each artist will be provided with a shadowbox (a sort of “blank canvas”) and be paired with a musician. Each musician will give their artist an original recording and the visual artist will, in turn, create their own visual interpretation of the song. Leah asked me to be her musician.
So, on December 4th at Silver Meteor Gallery (2213 E. 6th Ave. Tampa, FL 33605), I will be seeing my own song with my eyes for the very first time, and I hope you will all be there hearing and seeing it with me.
Proceeds from the event are going to the H.E.P. Charity and Silver Meteor Gallery.
Press Release
Ybor City – On Saturday, Dec. 4th, 2010, Silver Meteor Gallery, in
association with the Aesthetic House collective, is proud to present:Fused
a benefit for the Homeless Emergency Project
This exhibition will embody the connectedness between aural and visual
art forms. Participating musicians will give a copy of one piece of
original music to their visual artist partners; the visual artist
will, in turn, create an interpretation of the audio piece. During the
show, the audience will experience the fusion of the pieces by viewing
the visual artwork while listening to the song.Participating Musicians & Artists are: Matt Eddy & Jeff Walenta,
Annette Marie Emmanuelli & Mark Castle, Yoko Nagami & Jason Bundy,
Leah Renee Pecoraro & Jesse Thelonius Vance, Lysander Dawson &
Christopher Costabile, Jeremy Gloff & Mike Leffler, Ima P$ynner and
Angela Dickerson & Don Butler, Jay Doubledutch Stolz & Jerry Cahill,
Maciek Klosinski & Brian Berry, Carlos Culbertson & Rebekah Pulley and
Rob Pastore.The exhibition runs from Saturday, Dec. 4th, to Sunday, Dec. 19th, 2010.
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 4th, from 8 to 11PM. Admission
is $2.00. Proceeds will benefit H.E.P. Charity and SMG. Refreshments
will be available.Closing party: Sunday, Dec. 19th from 6 to 9PM. Free.
Other hours by appointment.
Silver Meteor Gallery is located at: 2213 E 6th Ave, between 22nd and
23rd Streets, in Ybor City.For more information, contact:
Michael A. Murphy 813-300-3585
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This Saturday at Cafe Bohemia in St. Pete, Brasky.org cordially invites you to attend the 3rd annual St. Pete Noise Fest, presented by St. Pete Institute of Noise. Short attention span? No problem. Dozens of artists will be taking turns rotating through 15-minute sets all day, including Diamond Man, who just got the nod as Creative Loafing’s Best Band That’s (Mostly) Underaged in 2010.
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Future 0001 by Kalx.
Kalx is an experimental music and visual artist in Orlando, Florida. His music has often been compared to that of Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, and Autechre, although he feels these artists haven’t influenced his creative process.
His album, Nophi, received the “Best of 2005 Album Award” from Igloo Magazine. He is currently unsigned but a few of us at Brasky wonder why his music hasn’t been discovered by the likes of Planet µ or other experimental electronic labels.
Check out his music on Kalx.com.
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Imogen Heap is an angelic singer from Britain. Brasky Sweethearts have taken to her style, especially with her juxtaposition of nature and instruments on her sets.
Imogen Heap Track:
Hide & Seek
Frou Frou Track:
Let Go
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Scott Hansen is a California-based musician (Tycho) and artist (ISO50) who collaborates on the iso50.com blog with: Jakub Alexander, who runs the Moongadget record label; Alex Cornell, who is a student at The Academy of Art in San Fransisco; Sam Valenti IV, the founder of Ghostly Records International; and Beamer Wilkins, who runs a software firm and creates electronic music instruments.
Hansen describes his view of design as, “the search for efficiency. Efficiency in conveying a message, efficiency of form. In this way I see some of my own work falling into the category of design, while some of my other work falls under the umbrella of illustration. With the more illustrative pieces my primary goal is to create something beautiful or striking in a visceral sense. These goals remain intact when I create a purely design-driven piece, but there is the added goal of minimalism and efficiency which constrains the process and limits the content. It is these constraints that force us as designers to reveal the core of the idea we are trying to express and to seek the most direct route to it.”
We unanimously agree at Brasky that Hansen’s music, style, and design is excellent, though he makes it clear on his blog that he doesn’t want anyone to take his work too seriously.
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BRASKY’S street team grabbed their SLRs and hit the ghetto(s). We greatly underestimated what we were about to uncover…
I have been in Miami for 2 years now, and I still feel like I’ve encountered only fraction of the bizarre/interesting/sexy/creative places waiting to be discovered. And while I have been critical of this town for its routine showcase of gaudy, vanity-oriented glitz, the art scene is one of the nation’s best, with entire districts characterized by glamorous artistic and architectural themes.
In particular, the graffiti here has continually dazzled me. A random drive through the north side of town is guaranteed to reveal graffiti-slathered concrete. And I’m not talking about gang graffiti – I’m talking about mural-variety, elite urban spray paintings. This past weekend the inspiration struck to go on a tour and snap some photographs of some favorites. We also hoped to find some new stuff. So I grabbed my camera and friend-of-the-Braskies, Dezerae Pla, and hit the streets.
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