Abstract Flower and landscape paintings executed with acylic on canvas by the Italian contemporary painter Mario Zampedroni
Biographical video gallery
http://www.zampedroni.com
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“Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)”
– Robert Rauschenberg, 1959
Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is an homage to an artist who was my personal hero, and my nemesis, in my student years. He was my hero because of the infallibility of his touch, and the constancy of his ability to invent and re-invent the potency and power of visual art — to push the boundaries of what art could be. He was my nemesis because I saw him as pure genius and his every gesture as perfection — conditions that were not, I thought, possible for others to attain. But my joy and delight in his work continued and my pleasure in talking with him from time to time over the years was enormous.
Curated by Paul Schimmel, Robert Rauchenberg: Combines was shown in early 2006 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. On seeing it there, and upon learning that there were no plans to film it, I asked Bob for permission to do so at the next venue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
This elegy is dedicated to the memory of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and to the memory of his friendship with my late husband, Earle Brown (1926-2002), whose music has been intertwined and juxtaposed here with images of the glorious Combines.
Susan Sollins-Brown
Executive Director
Art21
Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg has been created from footage filmed by Art21 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles during the 2006 exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Among the works seen in whole or in part are Minutiae (1954); Interview (1955); Monogram (1955-59); Canyon (1959); Gift for Apollo (1959); Black Market (1961); Empire II (1961); Pantomime (1961); Ace (1962); and Gold Standard (1964). The video is set to music composed by Earle Brown who, along with Rauschenberg, was a member of a small group of friends in the 1950s that included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Morton Feldman, Jasper Johns, and Christian Wolff, among others. In the spirit of that long-ago friendship, and in the collaborative spirit of that time and group, excerpts from the following works by Brown have been selected and collaged, with permission of The Earle Brown Music Foundation, for this video: Music for Violin, Cello, & Piano (1952); Octet I (1953); Folio and 4 Systems (1954); String Quartet (1965); New Piece (1971); and Special Events (1999).
VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Special thanks to Robert Rauschenberg’s Studio and David White; Paul Schimmel and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Earle Brown Music Foundation and Thomas Fichter.
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This springs Public Art Fund Talks features three artists whose works have reinvented the language of figurative sculpture. Neither literal portraits nor traditional monuments, these works push the expressive potential of sculptural forms and materials and have led to a renewed interest in the figure in contemporary art. The artists are also featured in the upcoming Public Art Fund exhibition Statuesque, opening June 2 at City Hall Park.
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The last speaker in the series is Thomas Houseago. Public Art Fund Talks are organized by the Public Art Fund in collaboration with the
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Born in the United Kingdom and currently based in Los Angeles, Thomas Houseago studied at Jacob Kramer Foundation College in Leeds, and received his BA from St. Martins School of Art in London. His solo exhibitions include Thomas Houseago (Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin) and Thomas Houseago: Ode (Galleria Zero, Milan, and Herald St, London). He has also participated in group shows including the 2010: Whitney Biennial; Beg, Borrow, and Steal at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami; and Construct and Dissolve at Galerie Sabine Knust in Munich.
Our generation sees modernist art through the lens of pop culture, not the other way around. —Thomas Houseago.
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* Location: Tishman Auditorium, Alvin Johnson/J. M. Kaplan Hall.
05/12/2010 6:30 p.m.
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The contemporary artist says the best time to make art is when everyone thinks art is dead.
http://bigthink.com/chuckclose
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http://www.eugenemartinart.com/ .
Contemporary visual artist Eugene James Martin’s September 2004 exhibit opening at Galerie Lafayette in Lafayette, Louisiana. A total of 122 works on paper and canvas were exhibited. Works of art created in Washington D.C., Chapel Hill NC, and Lafayette LA. Brian Guidry and Stephanie Patton, curators. Film by Tae Oh Cho. Video clip montage by Suzanne Fredericq. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_J._Martin
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Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century is the only primetime national television series in the US to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists. Through in-depth profiles and interviews, the series
reveals the inspiration, vision and techniques behind the creative works of some of today’s most accomplished contemporary artists.
Learn more about Season 4: http://www.pbs.org/art21/series/seasonfour/index.html
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This segment profiles Shepard Fairey, a contemporary artist, graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, calls him one of today’s best known and most influential street artists.
He first became known for his “André the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign. His work became more widely known in 2008 for his Barack Obama “HOPE” poster. His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Fairey became obsessed with art in 1984 at the age of 14. At that time he started to place his drawings on skateboards and T-shirts. In 1992, Fairey graduated from Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Arts in illustration. In addition to his successful graphic design career, Fairey also DJ’s at many clubs.
Fairey sits on the advisory board of Reaching to Embrace the Arts, a not-for-profit organization that provides art supplies to disadvantaged schools and students. Fairey created the “André the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign in 1989, while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). This later evolved into the “Obey Giant” campaign, which has grown via an international network of collaborators replicating Fairey’s original designs. His “Obey” Campaign draws from the John Carpenter movie “They Live” which starred pro wrestler Roddy Piper, taking a number of its slogans, including the “Obey” slogan, as well as the “This is Your God” slogan. Fairey has also spun off the OBEY clothing line from the original sticker campaign.
After graduation, he founded a small printing business in Providence, RI called Alternate Graphics, specializing in t-shirt and sticker silkscreens, which afforded Fairey the ability to continue pursuing his own artwork. While residing in Providence in 1994, Fairey met American filmmaker Helen Stickler, who had also attended RISD and graduated with a film degree. The following spring, Stickler completed a short documentary film about Shepard and his work, titled “Andre the Giant has a Posse”. The film premiered in the 1995 New York Underground Film Festival, and went on to play at the 1997 Sundance Film Festival. It has been seen in more than 70 festivals and museums internationally.
Fairey was a founding partner of the design studio BLK/MRKT Inc. which specialised in guerilla marketing. Clients included Pepsi, Hasbro and Netscape (for whom Fairey designed the red dinosaur version of mozilla.org’s logo and mascot). His OBEY Giant line of clothing was sold at the upscale Nordstrom department store. In 2003 he founded the Studio Number One design agency with his wife Amanda Fairey. The agency produced the cover work for the Black Eyed Peas’s album Monkey Business and the poster for the film Walk the Line. Fairey has also designed the covers for The Smashing Pumpkins’ album Zeitgeist, Flogging Molly’s CD/DVD Whiskey on a Sunday, and the Led Zeppelin compilation Mothership and Anthrax’s The Greater Of Two Evils.
In 2005 Fairey collaborated with DJ Shadow on a box set, with t-shirts, stickers, prints, and a mix CD by Shadow. In 2006, Fairey contributed eight vinyl etchings to a limited-edition series of 12″ singles by alternative rock band Mission of Burma, and has also done work for the musical group Interpol.
Fairey was arrested on February 7, 2009, on his way to the premiere of his show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Massachusetts, on two outstanding warrants related to graffiti. He was charged with damage to property for having painted two Boston area locations with graffiti, a Boston Police Department spokesman said. Fairey created a series of posters supporting Barack Obama’s candidacy for President in 2008, including the iconic “HOPE” portrait.
Fairey created the portrait of Barack Obama that TIME Magazine used as the cover art for its 2008 Person of the Year issue. The portrait is also used for the cover of Esquire Magazine’s February 2009 issue. His influence, particularly with Obama’s presidential campaign, contributed to him being named a Person of the Year 2008 by GQ Magazine.
In January 2009, the ‘HOPE’ image was acquired by the US National Portrait Gallery, and became part of the permanent collection.
It was unveiled and put on display at the Gallery on January 17, 2009.
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A brand-new promotional video detailing some of the process of creating a new 24 x 36″ canvas entitled “UMAMI” by Urban contemporary artist THH70.
Photographed on location in Dallas, Texas by THH70 & C. Kirk.
Edited by THH70
For more information, please visit www.thh70online.com
Bio
THH70 was born in human form in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, but the persona of his nom de plume was conceived in 1994 as a stage name for his other career as a recording artist. He is now an accomplished visual artist, with his works in private and corporate collections on every continent. Since 2000, he has sold over 1300 original mixed media pieces, and his website—www.thh70online.com—continues to receive thousands of hits per month. To date, THH70 has shown in solo and group shows in galleries and museums across the United States and the Caribbean, and has appeared in print and online publications worldwide.
THH70 is recognized for his unique artistic approach that he has branded Lo-Fi Urban
Contemporary, combining crude painterly techniques and utilizing materials and media (that include everything from acrylics and spray paint to household products like Windex and X-14 mildew remover) with his own style of raw illustration and stream-of-consciousness linguistics.
In 2001, sensing the online absence of a hub for like-minded artists to collectively exhibit their work, THH70 created AOA: Alternative Online Artists, an online, juried collective of approximately 30 artists. Since being founded, AOA has selected and maintained a roster of the nations most diverse and prolific alternative artists (with styles encompassing Pop, Outsider, Graffiti, Fluxus, Dada, Contemporary, Modern, Lowbrow, Urban, Abstract, Graphic Design, and Folk). The waves made by AOA artists continue to crash upon the art world, almost a decade later.
In late 2005, THH70 was interviewed (and appeared in) Americas Chemical Angels, a documentary by filmmaker Oxana Chumak about the overmedication of children with ADD/ADHD. In addition to the interview footage, THH70s seminal 2002 painting RITALIN® is featured prominently in the film, as well as in its promotional advertising.
2007: gallery hiatus.
2008: a busy year with multiple shows and appearances, showing of work alongside some of Contemporary Arts finest. Also in 2008: the release of THH70s self-published monograph THH70: an exploration of text, imagery, and other crazy , this a 94-page full-color book containing a selection of more than 100 paintings spanning the previous 3 years. In 08, THH70 also became a contributing editor to Mad Skills Magazine, an online arts & culture magazine in Europe.
2009 saw THH70s participation in an Obama-themed art exhibit in the Dominican Republic, where our hero was the only artist to be specially commissioned for his work in this show containing scores of works by internationally-renowned artists. In September 2009, five THH70 paintings were exhibited in a museum retrospective at The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, which runs thru January 2010 and has already received massive critical acclaim. And in 2010, THH70 will be featured in the book Designing Obama, a 360-page book chronicling the grassroots art movement spawned by the 2008 Presidential Election and written by Scott Thomas, the Design Director of the historic campaign.
THH70 divides his time between Dallas, Texas and Los Angeles, CA.
© 2010 THH70
For promotional purposes only
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Jon Tsoi, Artist and Oriental medical doctor, considers his fine art to an extension of his healing arts. As a disciple of the philosophies of buddha and confucius, Jon Tsoi”s mission is to empower his art with the complementary energy forces of Yin and Yang. He states, “after people see and think my art, my wish is that they see and feel the whole universe and themselves differently
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This is an excerpt from Robert Hughes’ documentary, The New Shock of the New
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