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Invitation Group Show
The current artists of the August residency program |
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"La cita de las doce" ("The midnight appointment"). transfered image and oil on canvas. 60 x 40 cm. 2009 |
Andrea Abalia, Spain Andrea Abalia´s work is based on pictures of disturbing scenes, mostly inspired by Romanticism, on fearful fairy tales, her own life and childhood, and the theories of the psyche such as the Freudian interpretation of dreams found in Surrealism. Through building collages and paintings, Andrea explores the expressiveness and psychological imagery of figuration (almost always girls) through constructing a theatrical scene. She contextualizes the figures in psychological places, involving the figures in magical, surreal, or uncanny atmospheres. Andrea looks to find contemporary ideas about the female figure that arise from deep emotions such as apprehension or fear. |
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Elizabeth Feder, USA Elizabeth Feder’s work in architecture has been a discussion of the superimposition of spaces, primarily through time and cultural transformation. Her interest in Berlin comes from the multiplicity and collision of memories through Foundations: both architectural and emotional. By using delamination as a tool in both model and drawing, a new space can be found, an interconnect between disconnected constructs and tension in opposing physicalities. |
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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. |
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David Eager-Maher, Ireland Eager-Maher primarily works with the process of drawing which forms the basis for other mediums, and underlines a practice concerned with the historicity of painting. In this regard David feels a need to revolt against heroic painting and the idea of the 'great male painter'. Thus the majority of his works are small, delicate and dandyish perfectly judged works on paper that have an affinity to miniature 19th century techniques. During his stay at takt David is completing a body of work that will be presented in a solo show at Dublin's Monstertruck Gallery on sept 10. This show is entitled 'Pinks Queens and Criminal Queers' and looks at the absurdity of colonial legacy in Ireland, particularly the potato and its cliched significance to identity. |
The Ecstasy of Mondrian, 31x31", 2007, oil on canvas |
Dickson Schneider, USA Dickson Schneider works and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area. He's working on a series focusing on supermodels in art settings so that the beauty and distortion of the models meets the beauty and distortion of the art in a friction of contrasting realities. These paintings are social commentary, an examination of the beautiful ideal, and a kind of cognitive dissonance. |
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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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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. |
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Xiaowei R. Wang, USA 1. Evidence as scientific fact, or reflection of the documentarian. 2. Museums as places that participate in the semantics of power; places of coded imperialism. 3. The relationship between archaeological digs + methods to gestalt psychology. |