I am included in another Giovanni Cervi & Strychnin Gallery collaboration entitled Selva Obscura, opening in Milan for February 23, 2012…
Giovanni says its “a bit forest a bit dante’s divine comedy..”
My assemblage works displayed will be Self Portrait, Faust and Light.
More details will be disclosed soon…
I will be participating on a project, scheduled in Berlin for March 2012 that Strychnin Gallery is currently working on in collaboration with the UK based porcelain company ‘The New English’, we will feature a beautiful group of contemporary artists
and designers and at the same time raise money for the a hugely important organization ‘Ein Herz Für Kinder’.
Ein Herz Für Kinder was established in 1965 due to the increase of
impoverished children living in today’s society. Working on a range of
projects world wide, their main mission is to provide children with an
equal quality of living by assisting with everyday support from food
and clothing to education and medical care.
Ein Herz Für Kinder is a solely donation based organization relying on
projects like ours to keep it running and providing it’s undeniable
assistance.
I will be a creating an art installation and exhibiting 3 Introversion Boxes at Ex Carcere Le Murate ~ a former prison cell, in Florence, Italy! I will be attending the art reception on October 21, 2010. Theme is “What would my life as an artist be in 2048″…inspired by George Orwell’s book 1984.
LISA MEI LING FONG
Introversion Boxes
Too Close to Home
CAIT WILLIS
…Sgraffiti Paintings
The Weak Signal Series
http://www.63bluxomestreetgallery.com/upcoming.php
Art show up for the month of August!
***Opening Night:
***Friday August 6th 7:00pm-10:30pm
63 BLUXOME STREET GALLERY
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107
SoMa District
www.63bluxomestreetgallery.com
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LISA MEI LING FONG
I am an Assemblage Artist. I collect and arrange relics in themed “Introversion Boxes” to create sentimental memorials. Expressing my thoughts of Life in Introversion Boxes gives me a way to appreciate and reflect upon our fleeting existence.
I present “Too Close to Home” at 63 Bluxome Street Gallery, as I prepare to leave my home of San Francisco to move on to my next journey. This show displays my Introversion Boxes that represent what I have learned through the culture and history of my travels to Japan, China, Poland, Germany and South Africa with themes of War, the Holocaust and Apartheid.
I have always been sentimental about places, their history, the human condition, its adversities and subsequent triumphs. Objects become, in effect, vicarious representations of people and places and thus represent their energy.
I continue to hone my skills by working in theatrical properties and set construction. I have traveled to 32 countries. I also work for Virgin America and I currently reside in a live/work warehouse in San Francisco. I am represented by Strychnin Gallery, Berlin/New York City/London.
www.eerieart.com | www.strychnin.com
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CAIT WILLIS
The Weak Signal Series lifts particularly glitchy stills from an old TV. I then paint based on the digital photos from the stills. I work in acrylics on canvas employing a technique mostly seen in Grecian pottery called sgraffiti. This entails painting or glazing over a darker ground a lighter ground and then exposing the darker ground through the act of scratching or drawing into the surface. This creates a highly graphic line that is the armature of the rest of the picture. I strive to get the nature of the life behind the gaze of my subjects. It is their character that informs the line and color.
Art Nouveau, Japanese woodblocks, fashion magazines, films of the French New Wave, Maxfield Parish colors, and 19th century fairy-tale illustrations are some of the influences on my work.
I am obsessed with linking the world of pop culture to the academic world. It is in the tension between the bright world of the painting’s surface and the larger underlying mechanisms of narrative that keeps me painting at a time when many say painting is dead. I believe that is just an idea for those that forgot that imagination creates endless possibilities.
www.caitwillis.com
I attended the Ketos 2.1 show at the Civic Aquarium in Milan last Wednesday…the show was great & inspiring, attended by hundreds of people and I met fantastic spirited artists! Curator Giovanni Cervi reminds me of a spider monkey and nobody should apologize for their English…so much better than my Italian.
Here is the flyer for Climate Gallery’s Putting-It-All-Together show that I am featuring 2 Introversion Boxes in and will be in attendance..anyone around Long Island City New York next Saturday?
Climate Gallery Flyer
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