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In my work, I explore inter-personal relationships and the effect of an individual's actions on the surrounding human landscape. I am an observer, a listener, a story collector, seeking out the details in the patterns and cycles of our lives. The Direct Action Art Project featured here, is work that disrupts its audience forcing a shift in thought and perspective, causing a new series of events to unfold. These original
mixed media and silkscreen collages will replace ads on the F-train. A kind of removable graphitti, the viewer will find the works placement unexpected and even slightly invasive. Ultimately commuters are the "judges" of the work, as they can remove them to destroy them, keep them for themselves, or allow other's to enjoy them. Direct Action Art is a catalyst for thought and action.
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painting
This work dwells in performance of identity. Possibilities for self-creation are illustrated by vivid characters based on the artist's acquaintance and recognizable cultural constructions.Lurid or delicate, they invite the viewer to covet, presenting an alluring world that is also potent and seething. Beauty quivers with pain and flaw in distorted, luminous figures. Every detail suggests struggle, every gesture questioning.The figures stretch louche before the viewer, bravely offering themselves with conflicting, penetrating gazes.Unflinching yet vulnerable pastel heroines become the more unknowable, as they reveal themselves in their fractured splendor.
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My work traverses the liminal landscapes of attraction and repulsion; always looking for that unnamable, elusive, transcendent moment. I worship at the feet of the ridiculous and the mouth of the sublime. The heart of my workis a conflux of product, practice, and confrontational aesthetics, simultaneously incorporating video, performance, photography and text to examine issues of gender, desire, myth and pop culture. I'm particularly interested in how public spectacle destabilizes the role of the audience, and forces the passive viewer to become a participant and renegotiate their relationship to the art experience. I consider my work to be continuing in the vein of feminist
artists who use their bodies not just as makers of thework, but as agents of the work while moving forward a post-feministcritique of contemporary culture.
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illustration
Kenyon's work can best be described as graphic satire. From social and political commentary to pop-culture subvertising, each piece is laced with a polluted sense of humor and sarcastic wit bordering on offensive.
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painting
I'm an Irish painter based in
Ireland, and I'm inspired by the things artists are usually interested in, like pretty girls, landscapes and burnt out cars. I recently began my professional career in 2006, and the driving theme behind my work has always been the human condition. I incorporate influences into my work such as personal experience, existential theories on the human condition and existence, Nietzsche's writings on the "Superman", comics, religious parables, symbolism, the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the songs of John Spillane and the artwork of John Shinnors, Conor Harrington and Mark O'Kelly, then I mash it all up and reinterpret it all through the medium of oil paint.
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painting
I like to think of my work in this series as a sequence of exploratory exercises into situations that are removed from my own experience, rather than an introspective journey. There is no single, focused message. In specific, some concepts in this series include frustration, paranoia and a sense of urgency in the face of change. There is a degree of voyeurism in the framing of the scenes, as though the viewer is watching a transitory moment in which the characters struggle to face an imminent threat with insufficient means.
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photography
These images capture the the quiet, empty world of night, when parking lots lay fallow, when meters are allowed to rest and sidewalks can breathe. In tracing the fugitive contours of shadows cast by the patient lights of the night, I draw the attention of the nighttime passerby and reveal what the night holds. In this way I am sharing the night city with its daytime inhabitants and making visible something that is normally hidden. I photograph these drawings because, rendered in chalk, they themselves are fugitive and may only last until they are hosed down in the morning. I want to draw attention to what is likely overlooked, or perhaps so familiar that it is essentially invisible.
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illustration
Andrew Bell has creatures living in his head... a lot of them, and they just keep multiplying. His 'Creatures in my Head' project has spawned over 1300 original little monster drawings, plenty of t-shirts, sculptures, toys, paintings and more. While he was born in the UK, he has spent most of his life in the US. He
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other
Noel Middleton is a Toronto based multi-disciplinary artist who works in sculpture, installation, photography and video. Using natural, found and collected materials, Middleton creates pieces that bridge experiences of reclusion and fantasy with themes of social and economic deprivation.
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illustration
With my works, I want to make people aware of the hum they hear in the back of their heads. This soft buzzing sound emitted by plastic and neon, dulled by infomercials. Change is good.
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digital
Technology is ubik in our lives, dig it? Rather than balk at our impending mechanization at the hands of innocuous electronics, I choose to celebrate it. Some may look down upon my situating the gadgets we all covet above friends and neighbors, but those are the squares that will also tell you humanity is worth saving. So get hep to the scene already and embrace the bits and the bytes because they're the wave of the future and I'm already hanging ten. Later, alligator.
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photography
Vinchen wastes time creating reminders for things people would rather forget. In doing so Vinchen hopes to reinvigorate our atrophied sense of outrage and rouse us from the comfortable stupor to which we have grown so accustomed. Vinchen's intention is to redraw the way we receive our surroundings by adding to or removing from what ordinarily goes unnoticed; to create a spectacle hidden in clear view. Sometimes amusing but mostly antagonistic, Vinchen's work has been described as; "I don't get it".
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drawing
Parskid was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest where he draws inspiration from his childhood, the weather and rusty surfaces. He experiments with paint, plush and digital mediums. His work has been exhibited in many cities in the United States including LA and NYC and abroad in Australia, Taiwan, Spain and the UK. His work has been published in the following magazines: King Brown, Art Prostitute, Cool'eh, Novum, Beautiful/Decay, Day in the Lyfe, and Dirty Soup. As well as these published books: Canceled Flight, War of Monstars, Pictoplasma 2 and Monstaah!. When he's not curled up in his dark underground lair he enjoys dripping marsh ink, spraying rusto paint and playing by the tracks.
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Sarah Moran is a native New Yorker who, until the age of fourteen, earnestly believed that all the animals in the Museum of Natural History had died of natural causes. She received her BA from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, ME in 2005 and spent a semester at the Tyler School of Art in Rome. She currently lives and works in the East Village where she makes paintings and photographs.
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photography
A photographer, Alex uses sculpture, costume, and electronics to produce images that comment on the human condition.
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photography
I like to take pictures of everything. Lately I have been noticing that my love for horror movies really influences how and what I shoot; whether it be fashion or landscape.
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illustration
In the world of Rebecca Hahn cuteness & serious commentary coexist. It's a place where hand crafted and computer elements can hang their hats. Come for a visit and you will hang out with bears on roller skates and little birds in scarves. You will see girls striving to express their beauty through personal strength as opposed to expressing it with their skin. You will see tasty popsicles and hear personal stories. It's a place where anything is possible.
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mixed media
Matt Burlingame was born in a small town in Michigan, where he learned to be a man from an unwholesome combination of television and Catholic school. Through the focus lent him by these social institutions, and the looming haze belched from Detroit's automotive factories, his vision began to come clear. Brutally honest yet laced with a winking sense of humor, his art depicts the depravity of society in its most blatant forms. To understand his work is to understand a certain uneasiness within us all. Laughing at its message means he has achieved his goal. Burlingame languishes in Los Angeles. His dioramas are all handmade, using no store bought miniatures.
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