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NEW MATERIAL - SOLO COMPETITION WINNER
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THE MARIE ANTOINETTE SERIES HOLLY MARIE ARMISHAW BIO THE GILDED LIFE - ARTIST'S TALK BY HOLLY MARIE ARMISHAW |
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 Paul-Emile Rioux, "LANDCUTS," 2012. Courtesy the artist and New Material Art Fair. |
PAUL-EMILE RIOUX The project is comprised of three collections: TheCity, DownTown and TheSuburb. Inspired by topographical scenes, the densely layered landscapes explore our environment. Rioux’s Landcuts are at once manipulable, variable, dispersed, excessive and hybrid. His images are exemplars of combinatorial play. The “Cut” in “Landcut” is a piece of land that the artist frames, constructs, and grows by blending fragments taken from landscape photography, product shots, and 3D models of topography. Next, they are reinterpreted through digital techniques upon which, he superimposes his own overwhelmingly supple surfaces. These landscapes are profoundly multiple and destabilizing.
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ROXANNE SAVAGE Roxanne Faber Savage was born in Boston, MA, and lives and works in Connecticut and New York City. She attended Boston University, Pratt Institute, and Queens College studying drawing and museum education. Primarily a print-maker and award-winning artist, Faber-Savage has received recognition for her innovative and original prints on paper, plastic, and metal surfaces and her work is held in select corporate and private collections. Faber-Savage has extensive education in printmaking; studying, teaching and participating in artist residencies internationally and in the U.S. As a life long swimmer and bird watcher, Roxanne’s imagery depicts swimmers, inner tubes, birds and power lines. Faber-Savage’s work is featured in solo and invitational exhibitions in galleries and museums in the Northeast, including: The Boston Printmakers 2013 North American Print Biennial, Boston, MA; I95 Triennial 2013, Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME; Manhattan Graphics Center, 2013 summer exhibition, NY, NY and Waterways II, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan CT. ROXANNE FABER SAVAGE INTERVIEW |
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ZACK LOBDELL Zachary Philip Lobdell was born in Albany, New York in 1977. From a very early age it was apparent that he was already focused on creating art. At the head of his art classes growing up in Saratoga Springs, New York, Zack was eager to expand upon his pursuits. In his junior year of high school, he received a scholarship to The Putney School in Vermont, where he studied under Eric Aho who has since become a widely respected and celebrated abstract painter. Acceptance to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mass. brought Zack's education to its next stage in 1995, where he studied portraiture with Bill Flynn, and sculpture of the human figure with Court Bennett. After college Lobdell continued with his artistic pursuits and has relentlessly worked to expand his vision. Now living in Stillwater, New York on the Hudson River with his wife Carlee and four month old son, Hudson, Zack is pushing to expose his work to new audiences while experimenting with new techniques to amplify his expression. INTERVIEW WITH ZACK LOBDELL |
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ALLISON KOTZIG Allison Kotzig is an artist exploring the concepts of fertility, responsibility, feminism, social justice, misogyny, and cultural myths. She uses humour and intelligence to visually represent the issues within each artwork. Her work has been shown at prestigious art fairs such as Art Monaco, Art Wynwood, and Scope Miami, as well as being shown in other international exhibitions. She was invited to participate in the Giants in the City Monumental Inflatable Public Sculpture project. Awards include Art Slant showcase competition winner prizes and as a finalist in the 1,001 Artists Project by See.ME/Scope. She is an outsider artist, having never been formally educated in Art. Born in Manhattan, NYC, she currently splits her time between Miami and Slovakia. INTERVIEW WITH ALLISON KOTZIG |
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JOHN BAMBINO John Bambino is a Chicago-based artist who believes that art should represent ones’ self. Therefore his work is a personal reflection of himself and his surroundings, as he feels he and life itself are complicated enough. His paintings are simple yet bold and primitive in form, revealing his motive not only to engage the viewer in a dialogue of directness, but perhaps to challenge himself to a life of increased simplicity through the daily act of painting itself. Bambino's formal restraint strengthens the sense of purity and feeling of naivety in his compositions. Bambino’s style is influenced by his cousin, friends, hip-hop community, graffiti and street culture. His practice is driven by the "The Carrot on a String" notion, that whatever the 'carrot" represents to each of us, it is always something that’s seems to elude us. Yet he continues to chase, to desire and to strive. Like an appetite, there should be no fear of ruining one, as there will always be another coming up behind it. INTERVIEW WITH JOHN BAMBINO
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PAULAPART Paulapart is a Brooklyn-based acoustic sculptor and drawer. They were raised in Miami, FL and studied sculpture and electroacoustic music at the University of Florida. Movement is paramount in Paulapart’s artistic practice, generating graceful other-worldly forms with a basis in biology, acoustics, and material science. Their work is definitively synesthetic and interdisciplinary, translating 2D drawings into 4D sound sculptures and audible sound into visible gesture. Paulapart's curvaceous sculptures perform as autonomous musical instruments inspired by mollusk shells and the human cochlea (inner ear). They use spiral chambers to compound acoustic resonance, creating massive reverberance within compact forms. Each piece’s shape, material, and size determine its unique sonic characteristics. All together the pieces become a morphological ensemble, an immersive soundscape rendered in real time.||
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AMANDA HUDSON Amanda Hudson is a native New Yorker. She was conditioned in a culturally aware and creative household in Manhattan, with a father employed as a commercial director and avid painter and mother who moved fluidly from wardrobe design to textile design, and became notorious for her rich bold plaids. Surrounded by these influences, Hudson has developed a highly graphic eye, drawn to color and compositions. She began to apply this aesthetic interest to photography while studying Art History at NYU. This gravitation towards photography led Hudson to a career in the film business as a camera assistant, and this time behind the lens cultivated a respect and fascination with framing and composition. Her most recent body of photographs for NEW MATERIAL proposes an accompaniment to the urban street art that inspires her. Life leaves scars on the changing face of a city, and it is these overlooked and intimate details that Hudson is first drawn to, composes then frames within an almost Abstract formalist tradition. Her images document the aesthetics of the extraordinary within the urban ordinary and celebrate the transient and imperfect nature of Hudson’s surroundings. INTERVIEW WITH AMANDA HUDSON |
 Dana Blickensderfer, "Stacked," 8” x 24”, charcoal on canvas paper, 2010. Courtesy the artist and New Material Art Fair. |
DANA BLICKENSDERFER For who knows what is good for a man in life, during the few and meaningless days he passes through like a shadow? Who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone? For death is the destiny of every man; the living should take this to heart. – Ecclesiastes This sobering reality is imbedded in Dana Blickenderfer’s recent series “Skulls and Hearts”. Her profession as a film industry story-board artist keeps her sketching and drawings skills fresh, and it is this daily practice that lends itself to her curiosities and compulsion to create. For NEW MATERIAL, Blickenderfer targets the explicit and loaded symbols of the Vanitas traditionalists and their timeless message, using the flitting form of drawing, as opposed to the hyper-realism of the Dutch Masters. Blickenderfer’s practice is young and her career emerging, yet these raw and immediate charcoal and ink renderings of isolated human skulls, and hearts reflect the brevity of life and fragility of death that continues to boldly fascinate and consume modern society. Dana Blickensderfer is a multi-media artist based in Tampa Bay area. She has a degree in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida, and is currently adding to her cumulative experience by pursuing a law degree, with a focus in intellectual property law.
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LEIGH ANN CHAMBERS Chambers’ work considers social ordering, or how a society determines what is tasteful, while engaging domestic materials to challenge traditional notions of art. She alters familiar household items like vinyl flooring and carpets and uses these common domestic materials as a source of inspiration. Leigh Anne has been the Executive Director of Rawls Museum Arts, a partner of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, since 2002 where she has worked to bring contemporary art to a rural region. She has taught numerous classes at Chowan University. Chambers received her Arts Administrative Certificate from New York University and an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts. INTERVIEW WITH LEIGH ANN CHAMBERS
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DIANE PONDER / LIVING ROOM GALLERY Diane Ponder spent her young life in the country, swimming in the river, boating in the lakes, reading in the trees. Her father was a research engineer in aerospace and aeronautics research and development. Travel usually consisted of road trips to family farms. She left home during high-school and lived with a group of artists, theatrical organizers and motorcycle mechanics. She moved to the Chicago area to study at the University of Chicago. She was involved in the satirical group B.C.R.D.L.S. and created murals in punk bars. She has traveled to many states, countries and neighborhoods, traveling by train and ferry and living in European countries. She then lived in Saudi Arabia, returning to the Chicago area with the birth of her first child.
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 Roman Arevalo, "Traversal," 16” x 19” x 1”, India ink on industrial felt, 2013. Courtesy the artist and New Material Art Fair. |
ROMAN AREVALO Roman Arevalo was born in Miami, Florida on 1989. Raised with his autistic brother, Arevalo acquired a primal understanding of the world from an early age and grew an interest in the capacity of shapes to communicate. Drawing became a personal obsession and he began his studies in visual arts at the New World School of the Arts (NWSA) in Miami. In 2012, he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, where he developed his drive for experimentation and unconventional forms of painting. During his time and studies at MICA, Arevalo also received several departmental awards and honors including the Nora and Eugene Leake Scholarship in painting. He has participated in curatorial projects including the annual Young Blood exhibitions of 2009 and 2010 in association with NWSA in Miami, Florida. Recently, Arevalo was an artist in residence at the Contemporary Artists Center at Woodside, Troy, New York. He is also the recipient of a Puffin Foundation Artist Grant. His current work explores the act of mark making with sculptural concerns that follow a dialectical relationship between gesture and material. His work has been exhibited and collected nationally including Miami, Baltimore and New York.
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Born in Ohio, Perry Pandrea is a Florida based artist. As a boy, he was a voracious reader and collector, spending time drawing imagined fabrications of super-heroes, fictitious football teams/uniforms and leagues, and war scenes. Keeping up an interest of art through his youth, he develooped a love of music and played in garage bands and even some "real" bands, before deciding to major in Studio Art in college. Graduating from Florida Atlantic University with his BFA, Pandrea then studied at Florida State University and received his MFA. While at Florida State he worked with Trevor Bell, Ed Love, Jim Roche and Mark Messersmith. He has been shown nationally, in New York, Connecticut, and California, as well as locally in Fort Lauderdale and Miami. His work has been featured in the publications Studio Visit and Miami Street magazine. His love of reading, words and language continue to inform his latest pieces, which consist of text based installations exploring language, power, authority, culture, memory, loss, nostalgia and regret. |
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SAMANTHA JONES Samantha Jones received her MFA from Tyler School of Art, at Temple University in Philadelphia. She remains fascinated by the dialogue between the urban and wild, pairing industrial and synthetic materials with a baroque temperament. She currently lives on the coast of Maine, and continues to exhibit her work throughout New England, Philadelphia, and New York.
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 Kevin O'Malley, "Man on the Moon," 18” x 18”, oil paint on cast plastic, backing, 2013. Courtesy the artist and New Material Art Fair. |
KEVIN O'MALLEY
Kevin O’Malley grew up in Kansas City, Kansas in the early seventies, where he was exposed to art at an early age. After graduating from the University of Kansas with a B.F.A. in painting, he took a few years off to explore the United States. Some of his temporary homes were in Brooklyn NY, Eugene, Washington Island WI, Chicago Il, Lexington KY, St. Louis Mo. For the last twelve years he has been residing in Savannah GA. and is currently a M.F.A. candidate at the Savannah College Of Art and Design. O’Malley’s artiistic influences iinclude Alwar Balasubramaniam whose practice crosses boundaries between art, perception and life. O’Malley works extensively in the professional field of elderly care, specifically with individuals and families affected by Alzheimer’s.
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MADELEINE VON FROOMER Madeleine von Froomer is a multi-media artist living and working in Los Angeles. She was raised on an organic blueberry farm in Mississippi, an experience that would have a lasting effect on her artwork. After spending her teenage years in New Orleans, she received a BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art. Upon graduating she moved to New York where she designed womenswear for fashion brands including Proenza Schouler and Sophomore. Working in the fashion world, the female form and persona is manipulated by covering, exposing, or decorating the outermost layer of the body. After returning to art making one year ago, she began to investigate what is beneath that outside layer, and beneath the skin. Using her own experience as a woman in America, she probes the relationship between its culture and her female body. Most recently she has created an alter ego, Lady Girl, using photography, video, and performance. Lady Girl is partly a shameless reclamation and expression of female biology, a language Madeleine speaks fluently, having grown up immersed in the natural world. She has been included in group shows in New York and Los Angeles, and has been reviewed and featured in LA Weekly, Jalouse, and Purple Fashion Magazine.
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PILAR MATA DUPONT Pilar Mata Dupont is a highly-acclaimed Argentinean/Australian artist, who works across film, photography, spectacle, performance, and design investigating ideas of nationalism and the triggers of nostalgia. She also works in a highly recognised collaboration with Tarryn Gill and additionally works in partnership with Thea Costantino and Gill as multi-artform collective Hold Your Horses. In recent years Mata Dupont has travelled extensively, researching and producing solo works in Finland, North and South Korea, Argentina, Germany, Austria, and the UK. She has exhibited collaborative and solo work at galleries such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane; Photofusion, London; CaixaForum, Barcelona; on Cockatoo Island for the 17th Biennale of Sydney and in festivals like Art Basel, Miami; Berwick Film and Media Arts festival, UK; and the CineB Film Festival, Chile. In 2010 she won the prestigious $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize with Tarryn Gill for their film ‘Gymnasium’ and in 2011 they had their first survey show, ‘STADIUM’, at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts. In 2012 Mata Dupont was awarded a mid-career fellowship from the Western Australian government to develop a project dealing with her tumultuous family history between Australia and Argentina. In 2014 Mata Dupont will have a solo show at the Pori Art Museum in Finland showing her ‘Kaiho’ film trilogy that she made between 2011 and 2013 throughout Finland. Mata Dupont is represented in collections including Artbank, Stadiums Queensland, the Art Gallery of Western Australia, the City of Perth, the Kerry Stokes Collection, and she additionally has commissioned solo work included in the University of Western Australia collection.
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RICK PUSHINSKY Born and raised in Manchester, Rick moved to London to study Architecture in 1994. After a year he went on to study Painting at the Glasgow School of Art, finishing his degree at Byam Shaw in London. On graduating, he spent the next decade painting and as a freelance picture editor for a variety of British magazines and papers. Rick has been working as a photographer since 2007. His editorial clients include The Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Independent and The Sunday Times. 'Eden' is a revisiting of chapters 1-3 of the book of Genesis. It explores the creation of Adam and Eve, their evolving relationship and expulsion from paradise. Having developed the story into a structured narrative, the project was originally conceived as a set of still images. It became apparent that they would be purely illustrative, and that it was best suited to the moving image. Written, produced, directed and filmed by Rick on Anglesey, the Kent coast, in Manchester and London, its portrayal of Adam and Eve as contemporary archetypes and its unorthodox interpretation of the creation myth hints at the paradox inherent in the notion of paradise.
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