Entries from June 2009

June 29, 2009

Elsewhere

- The India Street Mural Project was great success!

- As for the murals, they are almost finished!

- I discovered some amazing artists at the Crest Hardware Art Show such as the stencil collective Broken Crow, the 3D artist Andre Kutscherauer, painter Beth Livensperger, and jewlery designer Ciara McKeown (who is also an organizer of the [...]

June 27, 2009

Pollinator Week: Beekeeper Ball and Honey Fest

The third annual National Pollinator Week ignited much buzz and festivities throughout the week starting off with the first annual Beekeepers Ball hosted by South Street Seaport’s Water Taxi Beach. I attended the ball clad in a too short and too tight modernesque yellow and black dotted dress wearing heels too high and flamboyant.

That didn’t [...]

June 19, 2009

Pollinator Week June 22 – 28

Sometime last year people were freaking out about the disappearing bees in NY. I never gave it a second thought not realizing their vital role in sustaining a healthy and thriving urban environment. Without their contribution to gardens, farms and parks we would be short of helpless. That is why I will be pairing with [...]

June 17, 2009

Elsewhere

- The North Brooklyn Public Art Coalition is holding a fundraiser next Wednesday and we’re working our ASSES off preparing for it. So please do me the favor and tell me its worth it by ATTENDING. With a $20 ticket you’ll get drinks and participate in a silent auction with works by the artists of [...]

June 16, 2009

Bake That JoJo at Crest Fest

A few weeks ago I received the OK to set up a bake sale at Crest Fest. This was an exciting moment and my mind started wandering into endless daydreams of building a baking empire. So I urgently came up with a “business” plan that would allow me to function in the form of bake [...]

June 16, 2009

Helle Mardahl

Today’s special at Beautiful/Decay: Helle Mardahl

The works of Helle Mardahl vary in medium with paintings, sculpture and collaged photographs addressing human fallacies and inventive absurdities. The artist’s background in fashion is demonstrated by the precise coordination and arrangement of shape and color embodying the figures.
Read the rest here please.

June 11, 2009

Victor Timofeev

Today’s Special at Beautiful/Decay: Victor Timofeev

Victor Timofeev literally fell into drawing a few years ago after a horrid skateboarding accident and began using art to pour out frustrations that were simmering inside. Since then he has developed an amazing vocabulary incorporating perspectival, architectural and geometric patterns that engulf a space with sharp precision and confounding [...]

June 10, 2009

Tony Matelli

Today’s special at Beautiful/Decay: Tony Matelli

Tony Matelli’s hyper-real sculptures of meat and vegetable portraits, sprouting weeds, stacked cards, sleepwalking humans and malicious chimpanzees captures your attention with immediacy, a visual poignancy that would make it hard not to react with curiosity and amusement. This initial response opens the door to a slightly somber and disturbing [...]

June 8, 2009

Elsewhere

I am very happy to announce today I will start writing for Beautiful/Decay helping readers discover cool and awesome new art & design. My very first post was on Daniel Zeller. Check it out here and let me know if there are artists whose work I shouldn’t miss!

Over at Greenpointers I wrote the third edition [...]

June 5, 2009

The Poverty of Attention

Ever since I graduated college I witnessed my attention span decrease and my anxiety increase. Where as before I was able to sit at my desk typing away for hours on end (with the help of a cup of coffee or a can of red bull) unhindered by internet/phone/people distractions I now can’t sit at [...]