Broadway Gallery and World Art Media are pleased to announce

Derived, Borrowed, and Stolen

Jordan Tate
A Group Show Curated by Basak Malone and Sara Wight

October 1-15, 2009

Opening reception Thursday October 1st 6-8pm

Featuring Sarah G. Sharp, Katie St. Clair, Martha Clippinger, Parsley Steinweiss, Sara Wight and Jordan Tate

Derived, Borrowed, and Stolen brings together artists whose work addresses the nature of originality and its complicated relationship with the visual arts. The central theme and title is inspired by the well-known quote, “talent borrows, genius steals,” which is said by some to have come from none other than Picasso (rumor has it that it might also have been Morrissey’s, of the rock band Smiths, or even Oscar Wilde’s). The uncertainty surrounding the origins of the quote is ironically apt. Linked by this common thread, the works in this show raise questions about what constitutes creativity in today’s world, one in which the Internet has rendered copying and plagiarizing in the visual arts easier and more socially acceptable. Over a plethora of visual styles, these innovative artists find new ways to pay homage to their artistic inspirations while producing wildly inventive pieces. The viewer sifts through the rich layers and discovers, through the eyes of the artist, the difference between simple pastiche and ingenious reinterpretation.

The Broadway Gallery NYC is pleased to present

François Geffray

A Solo Show

December 15-31, with an opening reception on friday 18 December 6-8pm

French artist François Geffray is no stranger to new challenges. Having explored a vast array of mediums from digital art to painting, his body of work is vast and varied. Geffray’s work takes its primary focus in the form of people and culture. Geffray’s artwork takes a psychological perspective of the “other.” Drawing on images from day-to-day life Geffray’s work highlights both the highs and lows, contrasts and similarities between human relationships by producing morphed images that combine literal representation with metaphor.

Geffray’s striking paintings draw us into an enigmatic and sensual world of fantasy, seduction, and spirit. Geffray’s work features a variety of styles such as Surrealist figurative work, luscious quasi-abstraction, and folksy still life’s. Geffray’s work often appears formalist in its concerns; the artist is equally drawn to isolated and quiet places—as he is to crowds and chaos. The one strand linking the various facets of Geffray’s work is his overwhelming sense of fluidity, swelling brushstroke, and his sumptuous approach to applying paint on canvas. 

Color and form undulate in florid compositions that form an interior dialogue on the intersections of space, place, time, memory, culture and history.  Geffray’s new series of works in acrylic emphasize the leitmotif of a spiritual journey that is at once historically embedded and intensely intimate and personal. Primarily a figurative artist, Geffray is known for paintings characterized by mask-like faces and elongation of form. His graceful portraits and lush narratives evoke a very personal idiom, distinguished by strong linear rhythms, simple extended composition, and verticality. This minimalist reduction is effective in its simplification of form, which like Plato’s ideal forms, function not as reality, but as an archetype of the land and sky which reside deep in our collective unconscious, as well as a representation of our deep connection with the earth. His work confronts the image of the individual, a subject Geffray repeatedly revisits. 

For more information and pictures from the NY Arts Venice Pavilion 2009 please click here.

NY Arts Pavillion Consorzio Cantieristica Minore Veneziana, will opened with a gala reception for press and media on Friday, June 5.  The artists and public reception was also held Sunday June 7

With
eight international curators working with a dozen different countries, the exhibition will feature works by over
100 artists and includes new works and on-site commissions in all disciplines dynamically executed on paper. The
curators include Basak Malone and Tchera Niyego from New York, Agustina O’Farrell and Santiago Bunge from Buenos Aires, L.Brandon Krall from New York, Cosimo Di Leo Ricatto from Amsterdam, and Stefano Pasquini from Italy. Echoing the ideologies of the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, the NY Arts Pavillion emphasizes the process of creation and discovery. Marked by local and global relationships, aesthetics, and practices the NY Arts Pavilion comments on visual culture in a wider context, than the traditional art fair exhibition.

DIARIO CLARIN, ARGENTINA

The location of the exhibition on the historic island of Giudecca will transform the island itself, into a visual art
and media nexus for a full 5 months. In conjunction with several Internet projects, the exhibit will offer writers
and viewers the chance to submit essays and comments on the nature and significance of biennials, fairs and
public exposure for new and emerging artists. Works On Paper, A Global Perspective, echoes the position of the
majority of artists featured, as they constantly work to respond and adapt to changing social and political
conditions of the contemporary world.

Exponen 16 artistas argentinos

Un espacio ganado para el arte joven y emergente de la Argentina abrirá sus puertas hoy en el marco de la 53ª Bienal de Venecia. Dieciséis artistas han sido seleccionados por los curadores argentinos Agustina O’Farrell y Santiago Bunge, para participar en la exposición “Works On Paper, A Global Perspective”, que organiza la revista cultural NY Arts Magazine. La exhibición podrá visitarse en el Consorzio Cantieristica Minore Veneziana hasta el 22 de noviembre. Esta muestra está centrada en el trabajo que debe hacer el artista para responder y adaptarse a los cambios políticos y sociales de la actualidad. Para ello, ocho curadores, que han trabajado en de doce países, han reunido más de 100 obras en papel. O’Farrell y Bunge se enfocaron en el trabajo de emergentes y nuevos talentos, quienes a través de su técnica expresan el concepto común del pabellón de NY Art Magazine. ”Creemos que es importante no sólo desarrollar el tema sino la técnica que se elige para expresar un mensaje”, explicó Bunge, cuyos trabajos también han sido incluidos en el pabellón. Acuarelas, grafito, fotografía blanco y negro o en color, aerógrafo o graffiti, “cada técnica tiene su valor y su singularidad”, agrega la historiadora y crítica de arte O’Farrell. Los dieciséis artistas que participan de la muestra son: Ana Bonamico, Andres Gilles, Andres Ghiorzo, Alejandro Montaldo, Claudia Lucini, Iuri Irastzoff, Juani Pavlovsky, Julieta Barderi, Leonardo Pellegrini, Marcelo Linares, Peter Leonard, Santiago Bunge, Santiago D’Eramo, Santiago Llorente, Tomas Ghiorzo y Valentina Cambiaso.

WORKS ON PAPER, A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE VENECIA 2009 REVISTA ARTE AL DIA. EDICION ON LINE     Argent inos en la Bienalde Venecia

World Art Media artist  Carmen Einfinger has been working on a competition in Poland, for the 3rd International Competition Of The Outdoor Gallery Of The City Of Gdansk. The dedicated artist worked at it for 6 months with her assistant architect Alex Diez. Now, World Art Media is please to announce the Carmen Einfinger WON the competition!!!! Below are 3 pictures of  Carmen Einfingers  proposal, and excerpts of reviews! 

Gdańsk: Lower City as blissful garden (Scent of Color)
The colorful kiosk and fanciful bird-feeders to behold a vision of Lower Town by Carmen Einfinger.
The jury liked most, Carmen Einfinger ‘s project… Do you have a chance to revive the Lower City? - It refers to  Gaudi, Niki de Saint Phalle and Friedensreicha Hundertwasser.. 

THE RESULTS OF THE 3RD INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF THE OUTDOOR GALLERY OF THE CITY OF GDANSK

On 6 July the Jury of the International Competition of the “Outdoor Gallery of the City of Gdansk” gathered in CCA Laznia in order to judge the projects submitted to the competition.
1st Prize and indication for realisation in Dolna Street and the equivalent of €5000 gross: “Scent of Colour” by Carmen Einfinger

Justification of the verdict:
 “The Scent of Color” by New York artist Carmen Einfinger won the first prize of the Outdoor Gallery competition and will be realized at Dolna Square: the jury was convinced by Einfinger’s sensuous ad colorful proposal which will turn Dolna square into a festive oasis redesigning the existing public service point (as the kiosk and the bus stop) and transforming the central alley into a garden with benches, bird houses and a fountain. Einfinger’s proposal is a strong and unique statement which will reshape Dolna Square into a joyful meeting points for families, friendly to the environment and inviting to rest and communicate. Her artistic gesture refers to the code of pop and youth culture. The artist was inspired by the Kameralna Restaurant’s exuberant use of color and forma – one expression of Gdansk’s longing for aesthetically sophisticated environments.

………..What enchanted me is the fact that the author inscribed in its very clear artistic vision of existing facilities, such as  the bus stop and kiosk………….