35 Claver Place

Addresses notions of territory and expanse, and manifestations of cultural currencies.

As complex as American history is, I view it through the (often banal) experiences of women in the 1950s. The joy, frustration, style and wit of this era provides ample fodder for expression. Additionally, I tend to abstract everyday experiences (riding on the subway, cooking dinner) into "expressionist" style depictions.

Blue Spring Tree: Encaustic / collage on wood panel- 40" x 26" 2006

marston-reid.com

elisabethcondon.com

I paint contemporary landscape as a multi-layered space shaped by consciousness, deja vu, location and cultural influence. Each painting combines illusion, cartoon, text, gesture, pours and "Pat the Bunny"-like textures that contain disparate realities in single works.

blairbradshaw.com

The bulk of my work deals with coding and organizational systems, such as the periodic table and, more recently, a look into telephone directories as a crude form of code. While the paintings tend to be stricly graphic and objective, there is a fluid emotional layer that competes with the more rigid elements of the form.

I did these little landscapes in the middle of winter, it was cold, I wanted to be somewhere else. I could hang them on the wall and pretend that I was there.

I like to make places. For me its about being where I am, having somekind of relationship with a place and telling it's story. What I do is get myself into a place, take materials, make drawings, start making things, channeling things that have to do with that place. I love history, the history that is between the cracks.

Kennis Baptiste - painting

I later started to experiment with different abstract ways of capturing movement and energy. I was lucky enough to find my own unique style of expression. I also wanted to use my work as an education tool to educate and capture the emotions of my viewers.

Isabelle escapes the busy robot city insearch of something else,
...almost getting hit by the limo, isabelle realizes this could be her way out of robot city.

Cassandra Quinn
Artist
larksparkle@gmail.com

An Appreciation Of And Tribute To The Paintings Of Nina (Ny-na) McCune

America you are beautiful, when you are beautiful and your heart opens and you spill out a daughter from your heart and your land, when your immigrants make a great cocktail and the heart-land and behold, mira, mira, a miracle woman goes froth from the mainland and dwells with us here in Brooklyn, among the outlandish and mira, mira, the Sun has moved from West to East to dwell radiantly among us here miraculously following Nina McCune who has left Grandfathers pinned in the mud under tractors and the tall Paul Bunyons standing silently on the snowswept steppes and the highways full of Wendys, she came with the daughter named GoGolo Superhero whom she in the night had wrested away from Zeus and she left a trail of songs she wrote and music she played and hearts fulfilled and hearts that were broken and she made herself be a Sociologist and a Linguist and she went to the Old World to find knowledge to bring it back and give unto others knowledge. Nina McCune became an E-D-U-C-A-T-O-R to freely give to others that knowledge and Nina McCune became a writer to speak much to the many, and then this Renaissance wombman became a painter so as to speak to us with out words, Nina McCune as hot and as blazingly bright as the Burning Bush and Gogolo Superhero, passionate, compassionate, giving souls give unto us these images which speak no words, yet they say all of Beauty and Wombmanness and Joy and Pain and Color and Happy and Death and especially of Life and opposites and the Dynamo, and the dynamo which is Nina McCune. This I celebrate.

April 20 - May 24, 2006
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 19th, 6 - 8 PM
Panel Discussion: Wednesday, May 10th, 6 - 8 PM

The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park
5th Avenue at 64th Street
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00 to 5:00

Curated by Lacy Davisson Doyle and Clare Weiss

Featuring: LC Armstrong, Jennifer Bartlett, Larissa Bates, Cecily Brown, Elisabeth Condon, Gregory Crewdson, Ele D'Artagnan, Susan Homer, Julie Evans, Sally Gall, JJ Garfinkl, Paula Hayes, Joan Mitchell, Roxy Paine, Robert&Shana ParkelHarrison, Elizabeth Peyton, Edwina Sandys, Donald Sultan

Supported by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc.

PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Alexa Favata, Associate Director
favata@arts.usf.edu
Tel: 813-974-4133

Exhibition: Dragon Veins
January 13 through March 11

Symposium: January 13, 10:00am-Noon
Phyllis Marshall Center, Room 270; Free, limited seating.

Idiosyncratic Hybrids: Traditional East Asian Art and Contemporary Painting
Artists Frances Barth, David Brody, Emily Cheng, Zhang Hongtu, and special guest Lilly Wei; curators Elisabeth Condon, Mernet Larsen and respondents Paula Lee and Daphne Rosenzweig.