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"Untitled" sculpture by Jolynn Krystosek, Bloomingdales/Elle Decor Design Innovators work by Richard Saja
Curated by MaDora Frey & Katerina Lanfranco
December 13, 2013 – January 19, 2014
Reception: Friday December 13, 6-8 PM
A-Side/B-Side is an exhibition that examines the trend of artists extending their creativity outside the realm of a traditional studio practice and into the everyday world. The notion of the artist as an isolated genius consumed with divine inspiration in their studio is an outdated model, especially given the current economy and the prevalence of a DIY culture. This crossover raises essential issues of highbrow versus lowbrow, craft versus fine art, and the class value judgment that is implied by this distinction. The artists featured in this exhibition make interesting and provocative artwork in their studio, while their side-projects serve a different purpose. The studio work is art for art's sake, and the side projects connect artistic creativity to everyday life; blurring the distinction between private and public engagement and artistic activities.
Jolynn Krystosek’s artwork explores the physical vulnerability of the material as a visual metaphor for our own corporeal experience. Though abstract, these recent sculptures reference sensual/sexual floral forms. Sharon Louden creates characters that in their simplest form, to evoke imagination and promote conversation through abstract and formal language in a variety of media, using line and gesture. Rachel Ostrow’s paintings exist in a fantastic realm where each is a small world dense with the activity of painting, and where distorted spaces and warped forms merge into one another and question boundaries between inside and outside, body and environment. Don Porcella seeks to transform low-brow materials such a pipe cleaners, wax, pen and paper - and elevate them to a high art context, while simultaneously finding humor in the human condition and presenting a unique world that is shamelessly awkward and unabashedly comical. Richard Saja’s work involves embroidering quirky, brightly colored interventions on traditional French toile (a 18th century linen fabric scenes of bucolic country life), specifically the figures by embellishing them with face tattoos and clown outfits. And Nicole Tschampel’s work is a combination of diaristic reflection and the keen eye of an objective ethnographer/sociologist - where each artwork determines the material used, for example: “The Commerce of Economy” evolved out a combined anxiety over finances and the formal and conceptual deconstruction of an American dollar bill.
,2013,felt%20and%20acrylic,18x10.5x7%20(1).jpg "Untitled(FRONT),2013,felt and acrylic,18x10.5x7") Jolynn Krystosek received her BFA from San Francisco State University in San Francisco, California and her MFA from Hunter College in New York, NY. She has exhibited throughout the United States including solo exhibitions at Lux Art Institute, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, and The Horticultural Society of New York. Her work has recently been exhibited at Casey Kaplan Gallery, Racine Art Museum, and the Islip Art Museum. Jolynn’s work has received press in publications including Surface Magazine, NY Arts Magazine, San Diego Union Tribune, North County Times, Shepard Express, and KPBS.www.jolynnkrystosek.com Untitled, 2013, 18x10.5x7”, felt and acrylic by Jolynn Krystosek |
The jewelry company Conroy & Wilcox invited Jolynn Krystosek to collaborate with them on a jewelry line (Fern Collection). She writes: “I was interested in the project, because I thought it would be an opportunity to see how the visual language I was using would translate to a different medium and how the context would alter it. Of course the biggest shift being making something that is worn, and has a relationship to the body.”
www.conroywilcox.com |
Sharon Louden is a practicing, professional artist living and working in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Neuberger Museum, and the Weisman Art Museum, among other venues, and it is held in the public collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and National Gallery of Art. Louden works in a variety of media that collectively including, painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, and animation, to form individual bodies of work.
www.sharonlouden.com |
Sharon Louden is the editor of "Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists”, and writes: "Living and Sustaining a Creative Life" is an extension of my work in that I reach for all different media, conversation, things, inspiration in a community to thrive and grow. Community is essential to me for exchange, fulfillment and growth as an artist.”
Recent interview on www.hyperallergic.com |
Rachel Ostrow is a Brooklyn based painter and printmaker raised in Buffalo, NY. She earned her BA in Fine Arts from Wesleyan University, a Post-Baccalaureate Degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art, and an MFA in painting from Hunter College. She was awarded the Tom Woods award from Hunter College, a printmaking residency at the Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY, and residency at the Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, Joshua Tree, CA. She has exhibited in Barcelona, Spain, Aix-en-Provence, France, Buffalo, NY, Joshua Tree, CA, Great Barrington, MA and New York City, NY.
www.rachelostrow.com |
Rachel Ostrow co-founded E for Effort with artist Beka Goedde www.bekagoedde.com. Rachel writes: “E for Effort was started by accident. A friend had a pop-up shop and asked Beka and I to contribute. The idea of the Looseleaf Shirt came from my Halloween costume of a paper airplane, and then Beka and I printed “paper” shirts for the pop-up shop. Then Rebecca Kong and Jon Tomlinson sold them at Artware Editions. And since, they have been for sale in many venues including the MoMA design store and the museum store at Collection Lambert in Avignon, France. Beka and I enjoy coming up with ideas and making them so we decided to make a new design every year.”
www.eforefforteditions.com |
Don Porcella was born in Modesto, California. He earned a BA in Psychology from UC San Diego, a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts, and an MFA from Hunter College in New York. His artwork is exhibited across the US and Europe, and has been reviewed by the New York Times, NY ARTS, Fiber Arts Magazine, Chelsea Now, San Francisco Magazine and the Village Voice. He is the recipient of the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island Grant, Brooklyn Arts Council Grant, Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship, West Collects Prize, and Swatch Art Residency in Shanghai.
www.donporcella.com |
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Porcella Coffee Roasters was founded in 2012 and is a business that roasts and sells coffee beans in small batches. The premium beans are sourced directly from small farms around the world to ensure the best possible relationship to the farm, farmers and coffee beans. The artisanal, small batch coffee is lovingly roasted by Don Porcella who grew up on an almond ranch in California and comes from a distinguished lineage of apple farmers and fruit packers in Watsonville, California.
www.porcellacoffee.com Brooklyn Magazine article |
Richard Saja is an artist and designer based in New York City. He studied surface design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and great books of Western civilization at St Johns College in Santa Fe, NM where he received his BA. Working first as an art director, he then merged his artistic and design interests into "Historically Inaccurate Decorative Arts". Saja has exhibited nationally and internationally with shows in Paris, Berlin and the National Museum of Embroidery in South Korea. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Elle Decor, and ID magazine. His work is in the collections of the Shelburne Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and was recently exhibited at Robert Miller Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
www.historically-inaccurate.blogspot.com |
Richard Sajas work involves embroidering quirky, brightly coloured interventions on traditional French toile - (a linen fabric with a repeated pattern of bucolic scenes of country life, used in bourgeois society decorating in the 18th century). His original, one-off creations, have led to partnerships in creating designs for the fashion world: Opening Ceremony, Hello Kitty/Sanrio, Bloomingdales, and Elle Decor. And a recent commissioned by Anya Hindmarch for her boutique on Madison Avenue.
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Nicole Tschampel is a visual artist living and working in New York City. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received her Masters degree in Combined Media from Hunter College. She currently teaches Photography and Digital Film at Westchester Community College. Her sculptural works and videos have been included in multiple national and international exhibitions including Feel Good, Feel Bad Boys and Girls, at Lange Gasse 28, in Augsburg, Germany, The End is the Beginning, at MMX in Berlin, Germany, Bitches Brew at Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen, Denmark, and Greener on the Other Side at Organhaus in Chongqing, China.
www.nicoletschampel.com |
Nicole Tschampel on Kirby and Kraut: “I consider myself a “maker” so the impulse to start a small business feels like an extension of that personality trait. My partner Eric Iversen and I began Kirby & Kraut as a way create kitchen tools that we wanted to use in our own kitchen. Along the way we began to see our website as a place to share the recipes and experiences of our own home fermentation and pickling adventure.”
www.kirbyandkraut.com |
MaDora Frey and Katerina Lanfranco are co-curators of “A-Side/B-Side”.
MaDora Frey is a multi-media artist and curator working in New York City. Her current work takes the form of kinetic sculptures, photographic images, and drawings. More can be found at www.madorafrey.com.
Katerina Lanfranco is an artist, curator and educator. She works in mixed media, drawing, painting, sculpture and installation. More can be found atwww.katerinalanfranco.com
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Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He invented machines and scientific theories. Throughout history, artists have had B-Sides - making use of their creative impulses and minds.
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