Group Show - Airplane Gallery, Brooklyn

In a leapfrog of release dates, Mirror, Mirror and The Huntsman have been battling for the spotlight as first Snow White picture of the year. These attempts to vie for the position of originator are soon to be proven futile by AIRPLANE’s Sneak Preview event for its show Mirror, Mirror.

Beginning on March 10^th, an array of work (paintings, sculptures, movies and beyond) will be released as the show builds to its climax on the 30^th of March(simultaneously with Relativity Media’s Julia Roberts flick of the same name). By the time of its March 30th event, several up and coming movies will be “scooped” by the independent art originals of the same title released throughout the show.

Movies such as The Dark Night Rises, Django Unchained, Men in Black III, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter, Lincoln!, The Huntsman and others will be forced to relinquish their anticipated status as first movie in 2012. Inventions are often simultaneous and inevitable products of their time (Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone hours before Elisha Gray). This show will be no different. What then, you might ask is the point of originality? To quote LA Times’Nicole Sperring, “There is no guarantee that going first will result in a better performance at the box office, but more often than not, it seems to pay off.”

Participating Artist:

Shanna Waddell

Strauss Bourqu - Lafrance

Ellen Harvey

Jess Perlitz

Mike Treffehn

Stuart Lorimer

Brittany Prater

Wallace Whitney

Jude Tallichet

Studio Visit - Caroline Santa

Name: Caroline Santa

Place of Birth:
Morristown, NJ
Growing up I lived near Oxford, England, then mainly in Wilmington, DE

Current Residence:
Philadelphia

Who and/or what is currently inspiring you: split-second decisions, piles of paper, organized messes, leftover scraps, hand drawn diagrams, grids, tartan, plaid, color aid, lists, Jessica Stockholder, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Tuttle, Sheila Hicks, Ree Morton, Sergei Jensen, Matthew Rich

Favorite Saying: "We are breaking all the rules, even our own rules and how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for 'x' qualities."

 

Artist Residing in New York - Yevgeniya Baras

Yevgeniya Baras
Regina Rex

List of Images:
1. Untitled, Oil on Canvas,  24" x 30", 2011
2. Untitled, Oil on Canvas, 24" x 30", 2011
3. Untitled, Watercolor, Oil, and Bed Sheets on Canvas, 30" x 34", 2011
4. Untitled, Spray Paint, Oil, and Bed Sheets on Canvas, 30" x 34", 2011
5. Untitled, Spray Paint and Oil on Canvas, 30" x 34", 2011
6. Untitled, Spray Paint, Oil, and Papier-Mache on Canvas, 20" x 24", 2011
7. Untitled,  Oil on Canvas, 30"x 40", 2011

Artist Residing in New York - Stuart Lorimer

　
Tell us about your up bringing in the UK. Where did you grow up?

I was born in Glasgow and grew up in Edinburgh. My Mum and her side of the family are Australian. I went to university in Dundee, a city about an hour north of Edinburgh after that I moved to Glasgow, then back to Edinburgh where I had a studio. At this time I was working at an artist run space in Dundee – Generator Projects - so my life at that point – and still is come to think of it –every transient.

Now being in the United States two and a half years living in Philadelphia for the majority of the time and now in New York,  looking back, how has this influenced your perspective of the States and where has it impacted or taken part of your work in unexpected ways.　

I want to say that there is more of a do-it-yourself attitude over here but as I’m thinking about it, my friends back home are as proactive in that regard and there are a huge number of artist-run spaces, events, zines etc. Perhaps it’s more to do with a generational/economic situation that more dynamism is asked of emerging artists.

I think about how something you make could only be made in that time and place. I don’t regret much and when I think about the different scenarios and directions you can go in – it’s comforting to think of all the singular looking things you’ll see there that will impact your work. A cold comfort perhaps but whatever helps you sleep at night…

Graduating from Tyler School of Art in the spring of 2011 and now taking on your studio practice on your own, what has become less important to you in your practice as a painter and what has become more relevant?

I probably jettisoned a lot of ideas that I was not ready to abandon. I felt an incentive at grad school to race through ideas. When I started working again in New York I wanted to make complicated paintings – I wonder if in hindsight it was because everything was moving quickly and I needed to do something slow and meditative
. I’m interested in the idea of making art in opposition to things happening in life.

I acknowledge that a sense of time is a recurring idea in my work – even if the approach and subject vary wildly painting to painting, the contention between ideas made over time with great consideration and a quick gesture or decision seems important.

What is the current direction that your work is taking?

I’ve been making lots and have some momentum at the moment. The work is pretty abstract. There are references to figuration and landscape, which is usual in my work. The paint is thin and there is a lot of charcoal involved - more so than in the sketchy early stages of a painting – I’ve come to recognize it’s significance totally and it sits upfront on a lot of these new paintings.

I've made large, slow paintings based loosely on interior spaces. They're quite flat and thin.  I was painting the light from cinema projectors for a little while.I’m still rationalizing that decision, but it seems like a nice succinct way of reconciling the relationship my paintings have with films.  I'm trying not to over think and I’m approaching subject matter with very little prejudice.  I do need to start being more aggressive about arranging studio visits and getting the right people in my studio - - I worry that I'm too passive and not hustling hard enough - after all that's what I’m here to do....


Who are you looking at right now? What is inspiring your practice?

All sorts. Stuff like cartoons, buildings, old films, the east coast. Show-wise: the new Joyce pensato show at Freidrich Petzel, the Sergei Jensen at Anton Kern, Thomas Scheibitz at Tanya Bonakdar and Guenther Foerg at Greene Naftali from the last crop at Chelsea.


List of Image:
1. Untitled, Oil on Linen, 72 x 58
2.
3. Oil on Canvas, 63 x 70
4. Light From A Film Projector, Oil on Canvas, 15 X 19

Esmeralda Montes - Artist currently residing in LA

Tell us about your up bring.

I grew up in Los Angeles and I am one of six children. Our house was always busy with people and animals. I had an unusual collection of pets, which included dogs, cats, a parrot, raccoon, and Billy the monkey. Having all these things brought about strange happenings, such as various search and rescues of escaping animals. In addition, coming from a large family we had limited space. Sharing rooms with my four sisters was the norm. We somehow fit a bunk bed, a full sized bed, and a bulky dresser in a small room.

As the content of your work has evolved from painting abstractly to the memory of your parents house when you where younger, to telenovelas, at this point post graduate school, what are you painting about now?

In graduate school I became quite interested in storytelling, the settings, characters, narratives, cheesy gossip, love, betrayal, lies all the juice! Now I am doing the opposite, creating characters that are emotionless and desensitized from their own being. I often have become obsessed with giving them lots of hair, long nails, and having both male and female features while occupying a hoax like landscape.

Now that it's been over a year from graduating from Tyler School of Art what has carried over into the present as being important to you and your work?

Well I think I learned to accept accidents. I feel as though before I would get caught up on ideas then paint, but the painting became or was about a completely different thing. In some ways I’ve learned to let change happen and not force so many ideas in one sitting.

Who are you looking at right now?

David Lynch

Boticelli

Charles Garabedian

Agnes Varda

Edvard Munch

Remedios Varo

Who and/or what is inspiring you currently?

Dirty napkins

Netflix

Shapes

The Ocean

Warm bright LA light

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