GROUP ART SHOW:
501 2nd ST., BROOKLYN, NY 11215 b/w 7th & 8th Avenue,
Park Slope
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Director, Curator and fine artist Esther Nash is excited to announce and invite all to join in the upcoming receptions for a group show which features the following talented artists:
Seasoned Artist Dorothy Nash, exhibits her paintings and sketches. A native New Yorker, graduate of Brooklyn College Fine Art BA/MA program. A former NYC Public HS Art Teacher, Dorothy Nash brings her talent, her keen sense of humor, great wit and eye for beauty to the TownHouse Gallery Group Show Collection.
Artist Shelly Nash, a globally published photographer showcases her celebrity shots from the red carpet, private soiree, polo match, and front row at the fashion show. Join us in a celebration of the fabulous life.
Artist: Lyndsay Hoffmann is a third year Communications Design Major with a focus in Illustration at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Inspired by many outlets she is not only limits herself to her personal experiences, music, human rights, children, and the people in her life as well as those who she’s only shared only a moment with. She is very much attracted to the form and the physiognomy of people. Producing art to not only fulfill her own desires but to communicate ideas that are interesting to view as well as provoke a smile, laugh, and/or thought. Her art represents experimentation with representing obscure realities where juxtaposition, materials, and emphasis are used to evoke curiosity, conversation and emotion. She not only illustrates, but designs as well. She has been published in GD USA, receiving an American Graphic Design Award, as well being commissioned to create promotional material for a local law office. She currently works in the art department at Felix the Cat Productions Inc. and is concentrating on keeping her scholarship and staying on the President’s list.
Artist: Lora Danley was born and raised in Virginia and holds a BFA from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco. Her work focuses on the environments that people create for themselves and how this relates to the way that they see themselves and the world around them. Through photography she seeks to draw on universal truths about the human experience and to depict the striking beauty that can be found in seemingly simple or familiar surroundings. She has photographed throughout Europe and the United States and has exhibited her work nationally. She has taught photography classes at the Arlington County Recreation Center in Arlington, Virginia and routinely gives tours in New York City on how to take better photographs.
Artist: J.A Scott is an award winning assemblage artist from the central Midwest, now residing in Philadelphia. She is a graduate of The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and President of the Philadelphia based North East Foundation for Fine Arts. As her tongue and cheek three-dimensional work evolved she began to experiment with photographs as objects that could recreate flattened sculptural images. Her layered image paintings eventually expressed a direct opposition to her former work, becoming more serious and drawing their meaning not from the subjects but from the movement of the gesture like copies of the subject. While all of Scott’s work starts with what is found then rearranged, her layered landscapes are almost a drunken stager approach a what is a painting of double vision. Multiple copies of similar or same landscapes and subject matter flatten the two dimensional plain and disappear into the basic elements of painting, fuzzy moving snapshots, eventually being the record of an obsessive worship of the industrial landscape in modern form.
Artist: T. Cleo Austin British born and of Barbadian parentage. T. Cleo Austin is fascinated with the juxtaposition of color, texture and shapes. She delves into fantasy, ethereal surrealism and symbolism, daring to push beyond reality.
Artist: Tatiana Mitina: “Beauty is above genius because it doesn’t require understanding.”This Dostoyevsky quote has been the guide for Tatiana Mitina’s artistic search in the recent years. Having been born to a Russian Army officer’s family, her life since very early on has been a myriad of changes- places, friends, homes, cultures… It taught her to rely on things that are the most innate, classical and eternal- fashions and trends change but the need for beauty remains. This series of drawings are the artist’s attempt to create luxurious and luscious world with very simple, basic means- only black and white, pencil and charcoal. It is known that in times of crisis people reach for their deepest underlying resources and bring them to light. The more limited the means the more creativity it calls for. With her drawings, Tatiana wanted to let the viewer stop for a while and emerge into a childlike contemplation of what it means to be alive, to feel joy and sadness, solitude and freedom…
Artist Aaron Hillebrand is a Brooklyn based artist with a prolific range of art pieces. The material or media he uses varies from glitter to black and white copies, painting to photographs, canvas to black velvet, but the use of it is similar. Aaron gives the viewer a place, but at the same time there is no place and there is nowhere to go. They are left standing in a juxtaposition of reality and subject matter pointing towards yourself. The viewer is left to search for the subject, while Aaron controls the direction of the emotional response. The icon, the idea of beauty, the constant bombardment of the visual and its repetition and the repetition that’s constantly present in life are the subject matters that the artist is drawn to. Aaron is aiming at the emotional or unnamable presence of Art. He wants to deliver a calm excitement; there is no anxiety of what will happen because the viewer is already there.
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