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Sabra Booth, USA Schattengarten (Shadow Garden) Series In Berlin I have been working on large mixed media works of plant forms that I have collected throughout the city. In the summer, Berlin is a lush, green place with flowers everywhere. In the midst of all this fecundity, there is also the weight of history captured by architectural remnants of past times. This is a very textural city. Ubiquitous posters layer on top of each other along with stains, mold, graffiti and stickers. I find beauty in this chaotic layering which becomes a metaphor for the city itself. The Schattengarten series is an attempt to capture this conflux as well as exploring my own internalized response to the environment and people of Berlin. This summer, I attended an animation course at the University of West England. I also have included a short film based on the Schattengarten series. The film uses stop motion techniques with collage and drawings to create a flow of consciousness visualization. This body of work will be exhibited in a solo show opening August 8 at Werk-Statt-Galerie in Mönchengladbach, Germany (www.werk-statt-galerie.de). |
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Leah Frankel, USA Nature is my starting point because it is a manifestation of meticulous organization, despite its deceptively apparent uncertainty. Repetition of similar, but organically varied objects often plays a large part in my work. Recently, I am interested in language as an agent for miscommunication as opposed to connection. I combine natural materials with less tangible concepts such as, the passage of time, natural gradients, or the challenges of communication to show these ideas. |
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Meitsung Lee, Taiwan I was drawn into making lines. I was always thinking how to use a simple way to get a certain kinda of meditative quality in my painting. The color reflects moods and tranquility im hoping my viewers to get. |
first seconds of documentary Berlin video |
Kerry Philips, USA Aili Schmeltz Kerry Phillips (Miami, FL - USA) and Aili Schmeltz (Los Angeles, CA - USA) are working together as a collaborative artist team at Takt for the month of July. Phillips and Schmeltz have been performing documentary tours – home tours as well as walking tours of the city – with the intent of getting to know the city and its people through public and private spaces while also exploring ideas of perception. |
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Joanne Riina, USA I create impressions of landscapes formed through observations and imagination. My inspiration comes from the nuances most people overlook; these details add authenticity. As I walk in these settings, I escape to my own world. Inanimate objects come to life and the impossible becomes possible. Perspective is manipulated through collage to create a visual playground, allowing the eye to move with inquisitive ease. Drawing is used to outline the form of buildings or people. The simplicity adds a sense of approachability, inviting the viewer to form a true connection. |
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Gilad Shachar, USA My photographic vision examines the paradox of the “beauty of destruction”; that is, the destructive processes of time, wear, and neglect on structures (and people). By looking at the ravages of time both by nature and human behavior, my photographs seek to capture something of the constant interplay between creation and destruction that occur around (and within) us, and to draw out the essential beauty that can be the by-product of this process. My photographs do not aim to be sentimental, however, nor do I attempt to romanticize the decay; instead, I try to reveal the essential, defining “architecture” of an object that endures in spite of its state of neglect. I attempted to capture the interplay of color and texture that were built over time. I hope these photographs convey qualities of ephemerality and timelessness of these settings. |
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Antonio Sobral, Brazil "The lakes and rivers are made of lapis lazuli, the forests and mountains of green and brown jaspers." N. Wooster |
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Alice White, UK My work deals with a varity of subject matter from the flooding of the earth via climate change, sea myths, love, heartbreak, beautifulness, uglyness, power stations, and landscapes. I like to explore the dark undercurrent of the world to look beyond the idea that everything is functioning as it should. For exmple the issue of sea levels rising is a terrifying idea to me, and yet we carry on our lives mostly ignoring this threat. I mostly work in painting but have recently introduced more poetry and text work. |
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Natalie Collette Wood, USA In an age of rapidly growing technology, war, and natural disasters our environment has begun to change before our eyes. Earthquakes, explosions, and accidents have become part of our daily life and work as metaphors for social failures. I am interested in the moment when everything goes wrong and things start to fall apart. The subjects I reference are views of bomb explosions, car accidents and the effects of natural disasters. I use these moments in time when structure and chaos dance as a starting point for my work. |