Christina ChobotBIO
Born in 1983. Grew up in Metro Detroit, Michigan. Acquired a BFA in Painting at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
STATEMENT
I consider my entire body of work, as a whole, to be an unbound journal. Each painting is a different entry, expressing an idea, thought, or emotion. I contemplate everyday influences both social and cultural as well as common struggles and how to overcome them. Then I alter these inspirations with my imagination or mood. Instead of using pages with words, I paint symbolic, abstract, and realistic images. These images are meant to either have an interaction, or lack of interaction, which most often sways the images into becoming characters in a story. These narrative paintings are usually done in oil or acrylic on canvas, panels, or walls but, more recently, I’ve been working with other materials. I’ve been stretching vinyl, shaping resins, and molding canvas thus, becoming a bit more sculptural. This way the paintings, with the dreams, thoughts, or ideas, evolve into something that actually can be felt and seen through the process and in the final. Then the final product/story is converted into something more tangible and real.
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KlashWonklashwon.com
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Denny Rivera has been part of the New London, CT art scene since the mid 90s, and is now living in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been embraced by critics and artists for its untrained innocence and inspired radiance which draws from both classical and street influences
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by Cristin Gallagher
allthingsima.blogspot.com
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MATERIALS: The Fabric used is either left over fabric or vintage fabric. Left over fabric meaning it was bought from a store called Affordable Fabrics, which sells the scraps and unsold material from the fabric district. So instead of buying new I choose to use what has just been left over. Vintage fabric meaning recycling the fabric from vintage garments, transforming them into a new design. Most of this fabric is found in my mother's and grandmother's closet, some of which is purchased from thrift stores. FEELING: Incorporating the many moods and emotions of being a human in this world, combining sex, comfort, original art, and other elements to create fashion. I started off making clothes for myself so a lot of each design is inspired by a time or moment in life that needed more expression. Fashion is repeated throughout history, this is what makes it so beautiful. How we alter it, is what makes each design our own.
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Theo CoteBIO
Photographer
showing: untitled abstract images
Born and raised in rural New York along the Hudson river, Theo received his first camera on Christmas instead of the harpsichord he asked Santa for. Now he's making pictures with a bigger camera which play with and confuse space and scale.
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showing: untitled abstract images
Born and raised in rural New York along the Hudson river, Theo received his first camera on Christmas instead of the harpsichord he asked Santa for. Now he's making pictures with a bigger camera which play with and confuse space and scale.
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Kirsten Schnittker
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Kirsten Schnittker began dancing shortly after learning to walk. Still, she decided to attend college. After years dedicated to the study of dance and history at Barnard under the tutelege of her most excellent professors, among them, Mary Cochran, David Parker and Colleen Thomas, Kirsten now makes her home in Brooklyn. She interns with Yanira Castro's company, a canary torsi, and is enjoying developing new work with her own company of dancers, who you will see tonight. At Barnard, Kirsten performed in works by Amanda Loulaki, Juliana May, Brian Brooks, and Bill Young. She has performed for Gloria McLean, Rene Archibald, and with Kelley Donovan and Dancers, as well as performing in her own work.
la la la - the pretty thing
"We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. The first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public...The second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. They are the tireless hosts of cocktail parties and dinners...Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love...And finally there is the fourth category, the rarest, the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers."
-Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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la la la - the pretty thing is performance, process, and creation all in one design specifically for the O.O.P's ART SHOW and a reflection of a larger rehearsal process that I have been working on with Amie and Kate since April. The performance will be an exploration of the creation of identity & relationships between friends and strangers, specifically those friends and strangers who gather at the show. Movement will be extracted by the dancers out of even the smallest interactions with observers; as the night goes on, the dancers' increasingly proactive engagement of observers will allow for an even greater synthesis of the audiences idiosyncracies, history and personality into performance of movement. Everyone is invited to participate, lending their stories or dance or art to our video record or contributing observations, secrets, or pictures in written word on white paper sheets labeled "notes." The film taken by the performer will in turn be used to create a brand new work of process/performance art and posted to www.vimeo.com/schnittker.
la la la - the pretty thing is performance, process, and creation all in one design specifically for the O.O.P's ART SHOW and a reflection of a larger rehearsal process that I have been working on with Amie and Kate since April. The performance will be an exploration of the creation of identity & relationships between friends and strangers, specifically those friends and strangers who gather at the show. Movement will be extracted by the dancers out of even the smallest interactions with observers; as the night goes on, the dancers' increasingly proactive engagement of observers will allow for an even greater synthesis of the audiences idiosyncracies, history and personality into performance of movement. Everyone is invited to participate, lending their stories or dance or art to our video record or contributing observations, secrets, or pictures in written word on white paper sheets labeled "notes." The film taken by the performer will in turn be used to create a brand new work of process/performance art and posted to www.vimeo.com/schnittker.
