Art Show & Reception

6:00 pm Art Show & Reception Enjoy the artwork, refreshments and visit with all of the artists, whose work will be on display. Each artist will talk and share more about their pieces. Brian Ermanski: Brian Ermanski was a participant of MTV Art Battles and painted a wall at MEGU Tribeca. Ermanski painted the backdrops for next’s Autumn 2009 campaign with photographer Ben Watts and was photographed by The Selby for Hogan’s ’Young Achievers’. Ermanski painted room 506 at the Hotel des Arts in San Francisco, California and painted walls at the grand opening of ’Good Units’ in the Hudson Hotel for Interview Magazine’s 40th Anniversary Party. Ermanski most recently had a gallery show of his art at Duncan Quinn’s boutique in Miami for ART BASEL 2011. This maturing artists’ work lives in the private collections of Sean Avery, Jamison Ernest, Connie Filippello, James Gosling, Debbie Harry, Kathrine Narducci, Duncan Quinn, Terry Richardson, Juan Robles, Kelley Sane, Vito Schnabel, Nicole Trunfio, Allegra Versace, Linda Vojtova and Diane Warren. His work has been presented in The New York Times, L’Uomo Vogue, The Huffington Post, Interview Magazine, Crane.tv and Plum TV amongst others. Sam Heydt As a New York-based photographer, writer, graphic designer and documentary filmmaker, Heydt has commercially shot for a multitude of publications including Vice, Visionaire and Adbuster. Her clients include, but are not limited to: W Magazine, VMag, le Florentine, Milkmade and Photo Magazine. As a fine art photographer, she has been exhibited twice in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, as well as in a constellation of galleries and museums throughout New York, LA and Europe. In Spring 2012, she was inducted into ’the Contemporaries’. Her portfolio can be viewed on the official website www.samheydt.com. Victoria Febrer Victoria Febrer has exhibited in the United States, Spain, and Belgium, with solo exhibitions in New York, Valencia and Madrid. One of her paintings and several of her vinographs form part of The Hispanic Society of America’s permanent collection in New York. In November of 2009, her first public mural was unveiled at the Covenant House of New Jersey and she was honored by this institution for her work at their annual awards ceremony. Several of her paintings can be seen at IESE Business School the University of Navarra’s New York Center. In 2010, her work was selected by Nat Trotman, associate curator at the Guggenheim Museum, for inclusion in the exhibition New Directions ”˜10. In 2011, a solo exhibition of her work was shown at the University of Rey Juan Carlos’s center in downtown Madrid. This year, her vinographs were included in the exhibition MUJERES10 which was organized by the city of Valencia in honor of International Women’s Day and the video piece ’Flight of Memory’, which she created in collaboration with filmmaker Pedro J. Padilla was selected for inclusion in the Digital Graffiti Festival in Alys Beach, FL and the Under the Subway Video Art Festival in Long Island City. Mick Cantarella Born in Montclair NJ, 1961, raised in Brooklyn NY, Mick Cantarella now lives in downtown Manhattan NY. He graduated from CUNY with a BS in Communications Media. Mick then started Grampa Studios, a studio for audio recording, which operated for 30 years. Over the last half decade Mick has taken to photography. When his father Francesco Cantarella was still alive, they would roam the New York City looking for people to photograph. Mick has continued this interest, taking his work into his subject’s homes, on location, and the studio as well. Mick continues to develop his eye and talents. Pistol: From the streets of Brooklyn, New York, to the streets and galleries of Amsterdam and Paris, the artist Pistol is celebrated as one of the legendary pioneers of subway graffiti — an indigenous American art form which like Jazz and Rock & Roll has captured the imagination and following of people everywhere on the planet. Pistol is rightly credited as the creator of the first 3D and Flag spray paint subway masterpieces dating back to the dawn of graffiti, the early 1970’s, and widely copied ever since. Pistol’s art has evolved into a fascinating blend of his distinctive graffiti style with the nontraditional graffiti media of collage, 3D objects and multimedia presentations. His contemporary work has been featured in solo and group shows throughout the world and on several TV shows including a special British MTV program aired in 1998. In July of 2010, Pistol was featured in the Cartier Foundation Museum in Paris, France in an exhibit about the history of NYC Graffiti. A screenplay inspired by Pistol’s true life adventures as a pioneering graffiti artist has generated interest among Hollywood film producers and is currently in contract negotiations. Yana Ouchakova Via exploration of the sensuality of organic abstraction, I address the transience of social structures such as religion, history, science and our subjective human interpretations of them that, consequently, define our world. My role as an artist is to turn the painting back onto the viewer and allow the viewer to see his/her own thoughts and ideas through an accumulation of materials under the artist’s hand. This art is not selfish, but all-embodying. Eddy Bogaert Having grown up around the world and been raised truly as a global citizen, Eddy tends to embed within his artwork a variety of different influences and, oftentimes, contrasting aesthetics. Although there is a primary focus on painting, a style that has been compared to those of both Sam Farncis as well as Jackson Pollock, the majority of the work consists of collages that are littered with various flat images of models. Most of Eddy’s initial inspirations come from both high fashion as well as street art, thus creating a juxtaposition of luxury with honest, youth culture. Without any formal artistic training, Eddy has managed to come out as a so-called entrepreneur in the creative world, linking his official education in business with his innate expressive interests. His work may be taken metaphorically, in that one should not base their identity solely on one standardized profession, but that they should somehow develop their own unique career with the many different gifts that they were given. His artwork speaks true to the duality of his own character, a duality that lies somewhere within every person, and that will likely become more embraced by society in the near future. Charles von Herrlich Sculptor/Painter Charles von Herrlich left his native Boston to study at New Your City’s Art Student’s League in 1986. He has continued his studies in various institutions and traveled ever since. In 1995 he built Von Bar on the Bowery and runs it to this day. COCO 144 COCO 144, born Roberto Gualtieri, in 1956 in New York. At an early age, he was ’intrigued by the writings on the walls’ with his walks to and from school. He had a desire to communicate his thoughts and feelings, in an unexpected way. This led to an impulse of practicing a new form of expression. COCO 144 created the first stencil in the movement, which had an extensive influence on subsequent painters. In 1972, he helped organize and co-found United Graffiti Artists, a group that consists of 20 of the major subway writers from New York. They shared a workshop space in Washington Heights where they created the concept of painting their names on canvas. The next year COCO became one of the first writers to introduce this expression into the art world at the Razor Gallery, in N.Y.C. This led the way for many others who would follow. COCO’s current paintings are influenced by biology, organic compounds, molecular and cellular structures Juxtaposing his name and fragments of his name against this type of imagery. He is continually reinventing himself and his Iconography. He has continued to exhibit extensively throughout 40 years of his life in New York, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Basel, Paris and elsewhere. His works are in many private collections as well as in major art institutions.