Melanie Aronson joins us as a feature artist on October 1st, 2009.
Melanie is a 25 year old photographer living in Brooklyn. She grew up in a small town outside of Boston where she studied multiple forms of visual art beginning at a young age. In high school she developed her interest and love for photography.
Since 18, Melanie has traveled to over 25 countries and has captured a variety of cultural experiences through her lens. After graduating from Barnard College with a degree in Anthropology, Melanie furthered her photographic endeavors with the insights she gained through her studies.
While her ultimate passion is travel and documentary photography, she has begun to expand her repertoire into fashion, portraiture, and fine art.
Tuesday
Thursday
FEATURE ARTIST: Melanie Aronson
Melanie Aronson joins us as a feature artist on October 1st, 2009.
Melanie is a 25 year old photographer living in Brooklyn. She grew up in a small town outside of Boston where she studied multiple forms of visual art beginning at a young age. In high school she developed her interest and love for photography.
Since 18, Melanie has traveled to over 25 countries and has captured a variety of cultural experiences through her lens. After graduating from Barnard College with a degree in Anthropology, Melanie furthered her photographic endeavors with the insights she gained through her studies.
While her ultimate passion is travel and documentary photography, she has begun to expand her repertoire into fashion, portraiture, and fine art.
Tuesday
FEATURE ARTIST: Charles Chase
Charles Chase joins us on August 20th as a feature artist.
Charles Chase was born in Columbus, IN in 1984 and graduated with a B.A. in African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University in 2007.
He subsequently moved to New York that same year and now resides in Harlem where he works and paints out of his apartment.
When asked who is influences are he stated "As an artist I try and refrain from comparing my interpretation to another artist's. When it's all said and done every good artist paints what he is. Furthermore the death of all art is definition. People often ask me 'What kind of art do you do?' To try and categorize what I do into something specific i.e. "pop art" or "abstract" is not only binding but degrading. Categories create boundaries for an artist they then feel obligated to adhere to essentially neglecting the very instinct that makes who we are as artists."
Charles Chase like every artist ultimately wants to create works of art that will be timeless but with a particular flair that's all his own. One example of this is his choice to avoid giving his pieces titles. "Again, titles limit people. Giving a piece a title will ultimately lead people in one direction or another denying them the opportunity to interpret the art for themselves. Where is the fun in that?"
Whether you agree with his interpretation or not, or like his particular "brand" of art, he leaves you with no choice but to THINK for yourself, and let's be honest; in this day in age thinking for ourselves every once in a while can't be a bad thing.
You can contact Charles Chase at charles.chase.ny@gmail.com You can also follow him on twitter @IAMCHASEQUIAT.
Sunday
FEATURE ARTIST: Delia Stanley
Delia Stanley joins us as a feature artist on August 13th.
Delia Stanley is an innovative multimedia artist and New York native who’s making a name for herself on the art scene with a variety of styles.
Mentored by her grandmother, a talented fine artist, Delia has been painting since she was 5 years old. She finds inspiration in everything from the Old Masters to NYC graffiti art and is always working on ways to bring different mediums and methods together. Better known on the internet as “DeliaTheArtist”, Delia has a strong internet presence and can be found frequently on Current.com, where she curates the Science and Art Gallery groups and holds monthly competitions for artists and writers. A self described “science enthusiast”, Delia has interviewed people like Mythbuster Kari Byron and Nobel Prize Winner Dr. Woodrow Clark II about their contributions to the scientific community.
In Delia’s art as well as life, the most important goals she has are to continue to learn, grow and give back to the world. See her art, read her interviews and find out more about Delia at DeliaTheArtist.com."
Monday
FEATURE ARTIST: Hannah Corbett
Hannah Corbett join us as the feature artist at a special edition of L'Art au Refuge on July 9th, 2009.
Hannah Corbett was born and raised in Northampton, Massachusetts. She began studying oil painting portraiture at the age of fourteen. She received her BA from Smith College in 2000 with Special Studies in Painting.
She has shown her work extensively across the US from solo exhibitions to group collaborations. Hannah currently lives and makes art in Brooklyn, New York.
Her work is focused in figural portraiture. As well as painting, Hannah maintains a discipline in figure drawing, dabbles in curating and enjoys illustration projects.
Her work can be seen online at www.hannahcorbett.com.
Sunday
FEATURE ARTIST: Ana DelMar
Ana Delmar joins us as the feature artist on June 18th, 2009.
With a primal urge to create, Ana Delmar births to canvas and the world a symbolic dialect celebrating baroque romanticism, the wisdom of the ages, cultural heritage and humanity.
Synergizing figurative and abstract techniques, each painting is a unique, rich storytelling masterpiece that embraces the cerebral and the sensual.
Cohesively incorporating meticulously rendered painting, vibrant color, visionary collage, and intricate matrices of channelled geometric patterns; materials and perspectives are ultramodern.
Behold mythic landscapes woven with skill, adventure and honor where genetics, cellular structuring, beauty, architecture, spirituality and the natural world are explored.
Ana DelMar had her first art exhibition at 5 years old in a Bank.
Inspired by travels to the great Museums and Ancient Stone Temples in 26 countries of the World, Ms. DelMar Began Painting in 1999, Trained by Extraordinary Artist Rick Rodrigues and the School of Visual Arts. She made her first major sale of paintings the same year she began.
Ana started to exhibit her work professionally in 2002, in several major shows for Levis and at many galleries and venues in San Francisco and New York City.
Ana DelMar became an internationally collected fine artist.
Music and artists of many eras have influenced Ana DelMar's creative process and consistently inspire the artist to push the envelope.
Ms. DelMar Started to Show her paintings professionally in 2001, in Several Major exhibitions for Levi’s, and at galleries and venues in San Francisco, New York City, London and on the internet.
Ana DelMar works with entrepreneurs and businesses to streamline and aesthetically enhance their public image & photographers and filmmakers to produce, style and edit exceptional media.
Skill, fine art meets commercial appeal and talent in the artwork of Ana DelMar have made Ms. DelMar's works of art very prestigious and smart business investments to own Ana DelMar paintings.
Elite taste makers and intelligent investors claim their aesthetically sophisticated paintings by Ana DelMar to be their favorite purchases in recent years.
Friday
FEATURE ARTIST: Boris Jairala
Boris Jairala is the featured artist at L'Art au Refuge on June 4th, 2009.
Boris works in a variety of mediums and his paintings are rendered in oil (high contrast colors, mostly) on canvas or wood panel and are complimented by custom-made frames. These frames become extensions of the painting itself as they are designed and built to compliment the subject and overall feeling expressed by the work. Essentially the painting and frame, integrated together, is the artwork- unseparable, but one.
His most recent "Candle" series focuses on one subject lit by a candle in the darkness. The frames are created from old doors and are stained and burnt. A candle is suspended from the frame in the exact position of the rendered light source maintaining a physical light source complimenting the bright highlights and deep shadows of the painting. Some of the candle scones are mechanical in that they can be raised to maintain the same light source as the candle burns down.
Born in Brooklyn, New York and receiving his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College, Boris is currently working full-time as a freelance artist.
For More Info visit www.jairala.com
Thursday
FEATURE HOST: Laura Greb
Laura Greb joins us as host of the Grand Launch of the L'Art au Refuge on Thursday, May 28th.
She is the owner of LG-REPS, which represents photographers, illustrators, and painters. With a degree in photography from the Art Institute and her own personal experience as an artist, Greb has developed a deep understanding of the processes that not only bring an artist's work to life but to the public as well.
Through her experiences she has gained expertise in negotiation, art licensing, production of art galleries and exhibits, and social networking. This combined with her positive attitude and acute sense of detail, Greb strives to bring the fresh, young talent of NYC to the forefront of the art community through her agency, LG-REPS.
She is the owner of LG-REPS, which represents photographers, illustrators, and painters. With a degree in photography from the Art Institute and her own personal experience as an artist, Greb has developed a deep understanding of the processes that not only bring an artist's work to life but to the public as well.
Through her experiences she has gained expertise in negotiation, art licensing, production of art galleries and exhibits, and social networking. This combined with her positive attitude and acute sense of detail, Greb strives to bring the fresh, young talent of NYC to the forefront of the art community through her agency, LG-REPS.
FEATURE ARTIST: Loli Mari Montalvo Llorens
Loli Mari Montalvo is a feature artist at the Grand Launch of L'Art au Refuge.
She has a Masters in Fine Arts and BA from Pratt Institute in New York City. She has acumulated over 10 years of related experience in painting and illustration, including graphic design and digital maging. She currently lives and works in NYC as a professor and freelancer.
She has experience providing art direction, mentorship, coaching designers and fine artists on specific projects.
Continually excited about Art History, she was educated through extensive travel and completion of Art history courses in Florence, Italy, Studio Art Centers of Italy (Sacci).
She continues to participate in partnerships with public art and curatorial organizations and visual and performance artists.
FEATURE ARTIST: Mike Lindwasser
Mike Lindwasser is one of the feature artists at the Grand Launch of L'Art au Refuge.
Mike honed his skills at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Since leaving school, Mike has been working as a free-lance photographer in his own studio as well as several others.
He spent several years as a staff photographer for the Queens Ledger. His work has been published in Rock Pile magazine,Perspective New York,NY arts magazine and in Here is NY, a photo-essay book about 9/11.
He has exhibited at Lenape art Gallery in jersey city as well as "Brooklyn collective" on two occasions, and has had solo exhibitions at Midoma, East of eighth Bar and lounge and Poets Den Gallery and Ricardo Steak house all within the past year .He will be participating in a group show at A forest gallery June 6th .
Michael Lindwasser’s photographs use a combination of extreme angles and long exposures to create a unique genre of photography. His lengthy exposures imbue his photographs with the vibrant colors of the daytime despite the fact that they were shot in the middle of the night. His work emphasizes geometry and brings the ordinary into the abstract. Mike approaches each project as a new challenge, He strives to make each of his photo's unique.
Mike honed his skills at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Since leaving school, Mike has been working as a free-lance photographer in his own studio as well as several others.
He spent several years as a staff photographer for the Queens Ledger. His work has been published in Rock Pile magazine,Perspective New York,NY arts magazine and in Here is NY, a photo-essay book about 9/11.
He has exhibited at Lenape art Gallery in jersey city as well as "Brooklyn collective" on two occasions, and has had solo exhibitions at Midoma, East of eighth Bar and lounge and Poets Den Gallery and Ricardo Steak house all within the past year .He will be participating in a group show at A forest gallery June 6th .
Michael Lindwasser’s photographs use a combination of extreme angles and long exposures to create a unique genre of photography. His lengthy exposures imbue his photographs with the vibrant colors of the daytime despite the fact that they were shot in the middle of the night. His work emphasizes geometry and brings the ordinary into the abstract. Mike approaches each project as a new challenge, He strives to make each of his photo's unique.
Tuesday
About L'Art au Refuge
L'Art au Refuge is established by Jean-Luc Quevauvilliers, who is providing the opportunity to up and coming artists to showcase their work in a solo exhibition in New York City.
Artists, who know how extremely hard and expensive it is to arrange a gallery or space in New York City to showcase art, will now have the chance to do so, at no cost to them.
Each week a new artist will showcase a collection of their work, ranging from photography, pop-art and graphic design to paintings, scuptures and pottery. Arists will also have the choice to sell their art during the exhibition.
Family and friends, magazine editors, art enthusiasts, company scouts, celebrities and potential clients are lined up to visit this weekly Thursday evening Exhibition, which will be open to the public and free of charge.
The exhibition will take place in an elaborate 2-story townhouse lounge in Midtown East from 7pm until 11pm. Cocktails, Wine and Global Tapas will be available for guests, and weekly guest DJ's will play live.
Venue: Haven 244 East 51st Street. (between 2nd and 3rd Avenue)
#6 Train to 51st Street/Lex
E/V Trains to 53rd Street
email: bordello.nyc@gmail.com for more information or if you are interested in holding an exhibition.
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