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Andrew B Myers is a photographer and image maker who currently lives and works in Toronto, Canada. Myers work is often characterized by the use of colour and composition. He was recently selected as one of Canada’s top emerging photographers by the Magenta Foundation.
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Oil on Canvas
200 x 200 cm
Oil on Canvas
200 x 200 cm
Oil on Canvas
200 x 200 cm
The series Between Red is at first glance overwhelmingly simple. A series of landscape paintings is rendered in delicate washes of red. Large swaths of unmarked white meander between islands of crimson land. The blank spaces are harshly set against the carefully detailed fragments in red; nonetheless, they cohere into the flawless totality that is created by each painting.
The fragmentation behind the landscape’s seeming totality is operating at the core of Sea Hyun Lee’s paintings. It is due to that fragmentation that these seemingly simple landscapes are able to evoke multiple dualities, a vast landslide of inconsistencies and fissures. This fundamental gesture of splitting, alongside its contrasting totality, is the uncanny tension that animates Lee’s paintings, and that makes them compelling both on a conceptual and a purely aesthetic level.
Despite their distinctly political engagement - the paintings combine elements of both the North and South Korean mountains, and employ the deeply symbolic color of red - Lee’s paintings are unlikely to strike the viewer as either political statements or aesthetic calculations. And indeed, they are neither and not even simply both. They are primarily deeply personal works that reference Lee’s own sense of the past and its losses. Here, Lee tarries with two familiar ideas: nostalgia and utopia. But he avoids approaching either with mere simplicity or mere skepticism. Instead, his paintings are infused with a sophisticated sense of nostalgia, and a wry idea of utopia.
Quoted from UNION (www.union-gallery.com)
Toronto-based artist Carly Waito was born in Manitouwadge, Ontario in 1981 and raised in Thunder Bay. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Waito co-founded the ceramic art and design studio coe&waito with Alissa Coe in 2005. The partnership is known for its elegant products and sculptural installations inspired by the natural world. As a painter, Waito has continued to pursue this inspiration, with a focus towards geology, geometry and ideas of wonder and curiosity.
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John Malta is currently living and working in New York City where he is completing an MFA at the School of Visual Arts.
He has exhibited his work in Brazil, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, and widely across the Midwest- and has been self-publishing zines of his drawings for as long as he can remember. Malta transforms the simplicities of his daily life and past memories of murky Ohio creeks, house punk shows, and pet lizards into Super Nintendo nightmares: the wildly colorful yet dingy expressions of another reality.
John also curates a bi-annual zine-anthology called "Universal Slime" that showcases a limitless range of picture makers and storytellers working today.
www.j-malta.com
Jake Garfield, a Brighton student talks to 1ina100 about three works recently exhibited in Altared and Grammar, Nonsense and Imagination:
"An important part of my work is about maintaining the materiality of the process or medium I’m using. In Foundation, the marks are made as much from scratching away as applying to the lithographic stone, so the image is built – not just layed on. Similarly, It’s Been Emotional is printed with an uneven border left on the woodblock, exposing the grain and reminding us that the print is an object with it’s own history, not a flat image.
By flyposting How Could You Do This To Me? to a wall the preciousness of the Japanese tissue it is printed onto is undermined, and its fragility foregrounded. The print is given the life-span of the show because there’s no way of removing it without destroying it."
It’s Been Emotional (Woodcut on Japanese tissue)
How Could You Do This To Me? (Etching on Japanese tissue - flyposted on wall; house paint, varnish, pva)
Foundation (lithograph)
ALTARED is a pop up exhibition in an abandoned shop in the South Lanes of Brighton. In transforming the building from a disused space into a gallery the Brighton students have attempted to create a place of contemplation and serenity in the busy area of the city.
The exhibition features paintings and prints of Jake Garfield, Ed Liddle, Heath Lowndes, Andrew Pranger, Joe Roberts and Kate Thackara.
12 Brighton Sq.
Brighton
BN1 HD
4th - 7th June
10am - 5pm
Paul Gallagher
“I am interested in exploring the ceaseless proliferation of images found in mass produced media communication and popular culture, and looking for ways to interact, distort, and re-contextuallise these images. I am fascinated by the hyperreal beauty and seductive power of such imagery and how, through using various techniques of manipulation and intervention, these images can be reinterpreted to create a fragmented, skewed version of the presented reality.”
More from Paul Gallagher.
A week long show of new work from collective 'Formed' will be held at the Menier gallery from the 25th - 31st May. A selection of hand made, domestic objects by young creatives from the University of Brighton will fill the lower floor of the renowned London gallery.
Formed is:
Caroline Allen, Craig Barrow, Josh Bitelli, Gina Ellis, Jessie Fleck, Vanessa Freeman, Robert Grimshaw, Grace Hancock, Sarah Hibbert, Steph Iles, Lucy MacDonald, Bryony Penman and Bridget Wheeler.
Menier Gallery
51 Southwark Street
London SE1 1RU
merniergallery.co.uk
OPENING HOURS:
24th - 27th May
Tues - Wed 11.00 am - 6.00 pm
Thurs - Fri 11.00 am - 8.00 pm
Sat 11.00am - 4pm
Lisson Gallery presents a major survey show of work by Ai Weiwei to be held across both Bell Street spaces, London. The broad selection of key works from the past six years was agreed with the artist at the beginning of 2011.
May 13th - July 16th 2011
Ai Weiwei is one of the leading cultural figures of his generation and consistently displays great courage in placing himself at risk to affect social change through his art. He serves as an example for legitimate social criticism and free expression both in China and internationally.
Highlights of the 13 works in the exhibition include Colored Vases (2010, 2009), groupings of Han Dynasty pots (from 200DC-220AD) covered in industrial paint. An expert in ancient Chinese ceramics, Ai’s continued desecration of individual vases can be seen as political comment on the organized destruction of cultural and historical values that took place during the Cultural Revolution, when everything old was replaced by the new. In questioning value and defacing tradition Ai is confronting the legacy of past generations with the needs and experiences of the present. At the same time he gives a new perspective on contemporary commodifications.
See more here.
http://www.holyghostzine.com/2011/03/marine-beccarelli.html
www.danisonfire.com
These intriguing images are the work of Leanne Eisen, an emerging photo based artist in Toronto, Canada. Each one, created using a scanner and some paper is an unpredictable experiment that suggests chaos and surprise whilst using a supposedly perfect copying machine. They have an almost scientific quality to them as the mass of lines indicates information from objects, negatives and technology.
Michael Cina is an internationally recognized Creative Director who is currently leading a multi-disciplinary design studio, Cina Associates. His unconventional approaches to the discipline have a fresh and unique flair varying from typography, branding, illustration, music, photography, art motion and web.
http://cargocollective.com/michaelcinaart
Born 1957 in Tucson, Arizona. Lives and works in Venice Beach, California.
1ina100 came across artist Rachell Sumpter. We selected a few of our favourite pieces.
www.rachellsumpter.com/
1ina100 presents designer James Kirkup. The ultra sophisticated work of James Kirkup can easily mask this young UK designer’s age. And that is what makes James’ results all the more remarkable, along side his refreshingly unassuming manner. James’ designs are characterized by a striking and refined simplicity of form including his use of imagery, typography and geometry both in solo and in tandem.
1ina100 loved James's work so much that we collaborated with him to produce a design for 1ina100's first range. Entitled 'Anti' this design (above) has proved to be extremely popular and has already sold out in the B store on Savile Row. We hope to work with James again in the future and await the release of his first publication 'Fragment'.
http://www.fragmentvsdivision.co.uk:/blog/
http://cargocollective.com/jameskirkup
