Gawker Artists is pleased to announce the opening of Timeless, Placeless, a solo show of paintings by Malado Baldwin at Gawker Media’s NYC headquarters. Timeless, Placeless is comprised of real and imagined landscapes from Malado’s various travels and youth spent in west Africa. In her work lush colors, geographical forms, and art historical and cultural references combine to create a sense of nostalgia, mystery and grandeur. In Malado’s own words, “Psychedelic and modern meld with ancient terrain to become timeless and placeless. The landscapes of my childhood in Africa co-habitate with Chinese landscapes, Roman mosaics, Italian frescoes, cave art, and science fiction. I paint these strange places: rocky formations; striations, remnants, ruins, boulders, mounds, caves, domes, huts, and architectural spaces…..as localities that could be primordial; may be post-apocalyptic, and are as familiar as alien. Ideas of both destruction and resurrection play through a lens of vibrant color. I speak to the power of landscape to hold suggestive meaning beyond mapping or describing, into exaltation.” Timeless, Placeless will be on display through March and is open by appointment. For more information email artists@gawker.com
I began as a painter, majored in graphic design and became enamored of photography along the way. I synthesize this journey in my work, using my camera to frame things otherwise perceived as ordinary so that they become abstract “paintings.” The results are captured not on canvas, but rather in the digital format so familiar to me as a graphic designer. These “brushstrokes” are largely chromatic — it is important to me that raw imagery is physically altered as little as possible.
My art is about this catharsis of etching, layering, writing in the “Terra” of the body and soul. It is written on the body through every touch, laugh, heartbreak, memory and loving kiss…I seek to tell the story of that magical connection to the Holy One through my work. The challenge of making art is to search and discover our lost selves in the strata of our beings. The pathway to hope and love is painting the picture deep inside May you find in these paintings a part of your lost history, perhaps an artifact or a sacred myth?
I have an exaggerated need to emotionally connect with people in a direct way, which I believe is what drives my work. Growing up, I was very shy and isolated. I was afraid of my parents and struggled making friends. Although I always had a “best friend”, a lot of my routine interactions with people and relationships were fearful for me. It seems that my work is a reaction to that part of my childhood. I use my work to try to make emotional, platonic connections as often as I can. Art is healing; I am now described as outgoing.
I’m drawn to images that I don’t believe. My works are pictorial orchestrations of a time warp, composed of everyday life, human agency and the disingenuous.
Kevin Bierbaum is a German / American visual artist. Born and raised in southern Germany in 1983, at age seven he and his family immigrated to America. His early childhood years were spent in southwestern Minnesota. After High School, he attended a public South Dakota university, graduating with a degree in the mid 2000s. Bierbaum’s art draws heavy influences from 20th century Abstract Expressionism, Geometric Abstraction, and Minimalism. He uses multiple mediums from latex to oil, and sometimes mixed media elements. He hopes to be at the forefront of a new abstraction movement fusing Minimalism with Geometric Abstraction.
Born and raised in New Orleans, Pauly Lingerfelt attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts and has been producing paintings, drawings, and collages since. His work is unified by his fascination with the atrophied beauty of past traditions and the antique modes of life that have been abandoned by society at large— The great Cowboy swilling bottled whiskey burn, lingering in early mythic America’s frontiersman cattle carcass ghost towns dabbed with pale flames & streaked with shadows whose origins lie across the great verdigris body where the laudanum-imbued and slightly bookish mysticism of the Rimbaud and the Jarry doused the jolly “belle epoque” with word and whisper of poetic filigree intimating an exquisite corpse left in the wake of decadence.
My paintings explore the idea that the basic human drive to ornament the material world is fundamentally innate, irresistible, and at its core, motivated by deeper impulses to understand the meaning of life and to experience a universal, elemental or essential reality. The work approaches painting as a vehicle to engage with the act of ornamentation as a disciplined and sustained practice, and as a means of dialoging with fine art, folk art and craft traditions that for centuries have sought to interpret nature through a lens of careful and ornate pattern work, ultimately echoing the cellular patterns that constitute all matter.
I was born in London, UK and resided in Somerset before moving to Bulgaria. My wife, Pam, and I started a small art and craft business which has been established for about 8 years now, Pam does the ceramic side and has a paint pottery studio and I do the gallery side, I paint with watercolours mainly but at times try acrylic, I found that I liked painting Birds of Prey and animals but my wife also gives me ideas of what to paint especially when it comes to landscapes. We moved to Bulgaria 3 years ago and brought the business here where we are trying to build it up again.
My work depicts a city growing at a rapid, uncontrollable rate. This city is a metaphor for psychological space, full of potential yet intimidating enough to hesitate before crossing its harsh borders. Through real world border crossings I have compiled stories and memories that I carry into my understanding of the world. By traveling through psychological space, I create parallels between the world as I see it and the way that I want to see it. The world that I depict came together through struggles to grasp the lessons of the past, while working toward understanding in the future.
Hello there! On these pages you will find my portfolio, containing samples of my illustration work, along with sketches, doodles, personal work. I hope you will enjoy browsing through them. Some information on the artist Calvin was born in Taiwan somewhere the people are nice & kind. Where he spent his formative years drawing, reading and swimming a lot. All activities he still regularly practices. He graduating from the department of visual communication design in 2010. If you want to contact me for further information, please do!
My collages and assemblages are visual externalization of the importance of giving value to human emotions, dreams and the unconscious mind. I construct these images using found objects, paper, photographs, and magazines and combine them with traditional mediums. With everything I make, my goal is to to re- imagine the meaning of the soul. My main influenes are semiotics, animism, magic, Carl Jung, the human figure, punk rock aesthetics and mythology.
Illustrating in NYC for over 20 years, Eric Rosner has a unique style that recaptures a classic period of Manhattan and presents it for a new participating audience. Ink marker is used to create stunning iconic structures from a golden era. This process is combined with digital enhancements that complete a singular vision to showcase New York City’s most eloquent inhabitants. His canvas prints grab the attention of the on-looker as an awe inspiring tribute to a golden age with a modern twist for today. I get lost in the moment when a piece comes to life. You find yourself thinking of all the people who have graced the grand Metropolis and these buildings have housed them all. Whether it was epic business transaction, stunning scientific discoveries or grand entertainment showcasing, the city of New York has a unique tale of histories. With my artwork, I hope you can conjure a stunning time period over a century ago when the imagination ran wild and magnificent structures soared to the sky.
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New York City (July/Aug 2009): Gawker Artists presents MOM & POPism, an exhibition curated by Billi Kid reinterpreting James and Karla Murray’s latest book, Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York, in unique collaboration with many of today’s hottest graffiti and street artists.
Store Front: The Disappearing Face of New York is a breathtaking visual guide to New York City’s cultural heritage, with special emphasis on the historic streets and ethnic shops that have defined its many neighborhoods. Meticulously photographed, its powerful images of time-worn institutions will be printed at close to life-size scale and installed on the Gawker Media roof, becoming canvases on which select graffiti and street artists are invited to leave their indelible marks. The result will be a unique impression of a New York City that seems to be fading with each passing day. Our cultural and economic landscape will be called into question, the role of art, particularly graffiti and street art, will be subject to reinterpretation.
Curated by Gawker Artist Billi Kid, MOM & POPism brings together graffiti and street artists to create new artworks on top of the Murray’s photographs. The collaborating graffiti and street artists represent some of the most notable artists in the street art community and the media at large. These include Blanco, Buildmore, Cake, Celso, Cern, Chris (RWK), Crome, Cycle, David Cooper, Destroy & Rebuild, Enamel Kingdom, Goldenstash, Infinity, Kngee, Lady Pink, Matt Siren, Morgan Thomas, Peru Ana Ana Peru, Plasma Slugs, Royce Bannon, Shai R. Dahan, Shiro, The Dude Company, Tikcy, Under Water Pirates, Veng (RWK), Zoltron and Billi Kid.
MOM & POPism closed on August 23rd. However, 3 walls from the exhibition are on display at Clic Gallery’s Broome and Centre Streets location in NYC until September 27th.
For more information please contact artists@gawker.com.
Andy Awesome is the alter ego of Jan Schloesser.He’s born at Lake Constance and took his degree in communication design in 2003. 2009 he created his alter ego “Andy Awesome”. The Series Nº 1 and Nº 2 include 40 collections of paintings in which he modified the heroes of his childhood in a stylized way of Andy Warhols famous pop art prints. 2010 he was one of 50 artists made a painting for Sanrio’s (Hello Kitty) 50th anniversary show in Miami Beach during Art Basel. He loves travelling and discovering new people and cultures, Spaghetti Carbonara, art, hanging out with friends and riding fast horses :)
