Photography

Carrie Villines

Los Angeles native Carrie Villines received her BA from UCLA and her MFA from Parsons. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and has been published in "ARTnews," The Associated Press and "Graphis." She lives & works in Bushwick. More »

Joe Heaps Nelson: An Interview by Brock Forsblom

I met Joe Heaps Nelson at Polonia on First Ave to get provisions for our interview. Natasha, the first non-Polish girl to ever work there, set us up with mixed pierogies, a pair of meatloaf sandwiches, and a bit of sadness that this little gem from Long Island didn't have enough money to pursue her love of cast-bronze sculpture outside of school. We settled down in the International Bar up the road and got to business. Nelson has the look of a Cultural Studies professor at Berkeley with his mane of hair and perfect rumpledness, boyish eyes sparkling with intelligence and mischief. He left Des Moines, Iowa to slack off at the University of Pennsylvania in 1986 and has been painting in New York since 1990. The Midwesterner still smiled his easy smile and always fell back on his quiet humility, despite a yen for getting a rise out of whomever's around. Nelson's languor is disarming, and it's easy to forget that he is a prolific painter and art history buff. The teenager floats on the surface, but Nelson is a veteran artist, and in the end it's all about the work. More »

GOOD CHEER: The Cheerleader Paintings of Joe Heaps Nelson

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Curator

Liz Dimmitt

Equal parts culture enthusiast and finance geek, Liz is an advocate for developing mutually beneficial relationships between the arts and business. She has worked as an adventure travel writer, independent curator, financial advisor, art market analyst, event planner and in private equity. She is a cofounder of Gumshoe, a company that caters to art enthusiasts and emerging collectors through educational programming and special events. Liz is also an active participant in NYC's art scene and has worked with organizations such as 3rd Ward, ArtTable, the Business Committee for the Arts, Clementine Gallery, the International Association of Professional Art Advisors, the JP Morgan Chase Bank Art Program and The Pratt Institute. Never one to sit behind a desk, Liz spends much of her time visiting artists' studios, exploring creative projects and combing NYC in search of unique cultural experiences. She was born and raised in Dunedin, Florida, and holds a BA in Finance from Georgetown and a MA in Visual Arts Administration from NYU. Liz has been the curator of Gawker Artists since 2006.

Photography

Emiliano Granado

A lot of artists will use these /bios/ or /statements/ to ramble on and on trying to give their work additional power or legitimacy. Not here. My photographs are what they are. Straight up reality. I'm just using my camera as an excuse to peer into peoples' lives and observe them. More »

Painting

Brendan Lott

I find images and email them to master oil painters in China. This process leaves me free to focus solely on curating the world as I see it. And by participating in the global economy in this manner, I am making art in a way that aligns with my time and place. It also removes me from the burden of craft, as the craft of the painters is consistently excellent. By only dealing with images of strangers, I am able to further remove myself from the standard autobiographical tropes of contemporary art, at least superficially. The world is still beautiful. More »

Painting

Tatiana Krasovski

Tatiana Krasovski lives and works in Los Angeles. More »

Press Release

Carrie Villines: Art@Gawker Spring 2009

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Painting

Steve Ellis

MY AIM IS TO TAKE THE DISPOSABLE AND OFTEN TRANSITORY MOMENTS IN LIFE AND EULOGIZE THEM. I'M INSPIRED BY ROCK AND ROLL, MODERN DESIGN AND SUBCULTURE ART. I AM OBSERVING AND ARCHIVING THE IMAGERY THAT HAS COME ACROSS THE VISUAL LANDSCAPE OF MY LIFE. BY RENDERING THEM TO A HIGH FINISH, I HONOR THE OBJECT. IN WHAT APPEARS REPRESENTATIONAL, I CHALLENGE THE VIEWER TO FIND THE MOMENTS TRANSCENDING THE SURFACE STILL LIFE. I GIVE A SECRET MEANING TO AN OBJECT WHICH EXPRESSES A FORM OF INSPIRATION AND/OR RESISTANCE. More »

mixed media

Joyce Genari

Celebrityism is a series of collages focusing on America's obsession with celebrities. News of celebrities has replaced real news, as in the case of Anna Nicole's death and when Paris Hilton went to jail. The public then is bombarded with repeated imagery of these celebrities. The ornate frames are to symbolize the royalty status given to celebrities and there are several religious iconitry references to denote how they have become the gods of modern times. "Celebrityism" represents our misplaced values raising the celebrity above us, culminating in the depreciation of the significance of everyday living. More »

Painting

Greg Silverman

If it's a car I'll paint it. If it's on four wheels I'll paint it. In fact, I'd even dig a John Deer tractor, so long as it had a touch of chrome and some sort of wicked reflection. My name is Greg, and I love cars. I am probably as crazy about your car as you are. I've been painting car portraits for over 15 years. I have painted everything from cars that would drive Ms. Daisy to Gone in 60 Seconds. So here it is, if you know your car is worth painting and you want a portrait of it, contact me. Remember, respect the car. More »

Photography

Mark Rubenstein

Mark Rubenstein has spent the last 6 years developing his multi-part series Common Place. A personal testament to the emotional challenges inherent within his "coming of age" narrative - set in a surreal world that uniquely encompasses what it means to grow up and examine life in a new way. The series presents a cast of characters that seem to manifest themselves as one being, uniting to embark on a grand journey. More »

Photography

Adam Harvey

I work in Brooklyn as a web designer and photographer and sometimes artist. A lot my commercial work is an offshoot of my artwork and vice versa. However, only one pays rent. The other is for enjoyment and exploration. And the goal of this work is to illuminate a concept that could lead to new ways of visualizing and a new relationship with images. Perhaps someday we will not use cameras and create snapshots but instead create 'portraits' representative of a larger picture and longer duration. My big dream is to own a grocery store with enough food for everyone. More »

drawing

Jonathon Hill-Jacquard

Jonathon Hill-Jacquard began drawing at the age of 13, and continues to do so. Jonathon has pursued a career in visual arts and continues to keep his fingers in as many design projects as possible. Aside from drawing, Jonathon loves his motorcycle, rockabilly music, screen-printing on random things and subverting the robot race. More »

Sculpture

Randy Polumbo

I craft mostly kinetic work out of found objects and obsessively fabricated parts ranging from metal and glass, to chicken leather. Elements are transplanted and mechanically animated, often at odds, or in comment to, their original purpose. A toilet becomes a Narcissus style reflecting pool. An enema bottle is fitted with tiny solar panels and an engine and born again as a quizzical space probe The food chain, libidinal structures, and alternative readings of mass media are all themes that fascinate me. My work catalogues "evidence" organically as I "uncover" it. A symptom might become the illness or a part might be dissected into a microcosm for the whole, in my version of scalar symmetry. More »

Painting

Corey Corcoran

Found photographs usually provide the springboard for my work. I collect discarded strangers' albums, snapshots from my family's archive, and historic photographs from my hometown. Typically, these photographs are seemingly innocuous pictures of past holidays and milestones. Through painting and drawing, I attempt to unearth additional or varied meaning in the imagery. I use a wide range of materials in hopes visual elements such as color, pattern, and texture allude to the cultural, biological, and narrative forces that pervade these memories. More »

Photography

Larry Gassan

I enjoy the challenges and rewards of shooting with film. My guidelines are rigorous but not humorless. Make every shot count—the viewer expects no less. It’s a single-malt view of the world. Finally—I read widely, and am interested in everything except television and professional sports. More »

Painting

Jessica Gonacha

Painting exists as a gateway for me, into an ever deepening realization that life is not to be taken too seriously. My work hinges on my personal belief that this is our only chance to do what we truly enjoy. In accordance with that theme, I delight in combining elements of conventional painting with the use of materials often drawn from my childhood that inspire and engage me, including for example, glitter, sequins, and origami paper. New relationships between colors, forms, textures, and ideas surface; these discoveries are the lifeblood and heart of my paintings. More »

Photography

Derek John Dudek

My love is for my location. More specifically, the journey en route to that location. More »

Photography

Paula Dixon

Paula Dixon shoots portraits of many people, but Paula Dixon also shoots self portraits of Paula Dixon. This series entitled "Paula Dixon" is a study of model Paula Dixon. More »