Friday, November 16, 2012
Monday, November 5, 2012
ENTROPIC GEOMETRIES: STEPHAN FOWLKES - Opening Reception, NOV. 9th 6-9PM ...
ENTROPIC GEOMETRIES: STEPHAN FOWLKES - Opening Reception, NOV. 9th 6-9PM ...
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| "Shield" salvaged wood, 43x43", 2012 |
ENTROPIC GEOMETRIES
Stephan Fowlkes at Gitana Rosa
November 9th - December 2nd, 2012
Opening Reception - Friday, November 16th, 6-9pm
Recent sculptures and wall works from salvaged wood.
*A portion of sales will be donated to Hurricane Sandy relief efforts.
Gitana Rosa Gallery is proud to present "ENTROPIC GEOMETRIES", a solo exhibition by Stephan Fowlkes. This will be Fowlkes' first solo show at Gitana Rosa. We welcome you to experience the installation and sculptures created from salvaged wood reclaimed in Williamsburg. "My most recent sculptures directly address the development and gentrification of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. All the wood used comes from dumpsters at job sites and scrap piles in woodshops in my neighborhood, all destined for landfill. Just as the new buildings rising out of the remains of the past in this neighborhood, these pieces are structures effectively reclaiming the past."
Due to the extent of damage and people affected by the hurricane, we will host the artist reception on Friday, November 16th from 6-9pm. However, the artist will be present this Friday, November 9th from 6-9pm, as previously noted for our monthly WILLIAMSBURG EVERY SECOND FRIDAY Art After Hours event, where Williamsburg risk-taking galleries and alternative art spaces spring into action with galleries open until 9pm and beyond. You can view a list of the galleries that will remain open here : www.wagmag.org.
Born in 1970 in New York City, Stephan Fowlkes studied at Bennington College, Lacoste
School of Art in France and later at Columbia University's Teachers College. Fowlkes'
paintings and sculpture have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including
the U.S., France, Germany, the U.K. and Japan. His sculpture has been reviewed by Sculpture
Magazine, NY Arts Magazine, and the Village Voice. Between 2002 and 2005, Fowlkes
was invited to The National Committee on U.S.-China Relations’ Young Leaders Forum as
the Fellow for the Arts and traveled twice to China as an American representative. He has
been granted fellowship residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and at the Carving Studio
Sculpture Center. He has taught art at the elementary through university levels in NYC, VT,
Australia and France. He has been involved with Transvoyeur—a collective of New York and
Liverpool-based artists, participating in the 2004 and 2006 Liverpool Biennial Independents.
In 2006, he received the Curator’s Choice Award, as part of the Artists Talk On Art lecture
series at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. In 2007, he was invited to the Board of Directors
at Salem Art Works, an artist residency program and sculpture park in upstate New York.
He is the Arts Editor for The New York Optimist. He lives and works in East Williamsburg,
Brooklyn and maintains a studio in North Bennington, VT.
Gallery Hours:
Thursday and Friday 1-7pm
Saturday and Sunday 1-5pm
Monday-Wed by appointment only
For press inquiries contact Vanessa Liberati:
Vanessa@GitanaRosa.com
(718)387-0115
Thursday, September 13, 2012
the others
Gitana Rosa Gallery is pleased to announce it's September exhibition:
THE OTHERS:
September 14 - October 14 2012
Opening Reception: September 14, 6-9pm
An opportunity to stock up on your art collection. This show will be a riot of variety and priced for the 99%. Splurge like the 1% and enjoy the luxury and immediate satisfaction of walking home with a unique or limited edition art piece.
All works will be under $500 and will be up in rotation, as sold, for one month.
Featured Artists:Andrés García-Peña, Andru Eron, Anna Ortiz, Anna Podris, Anthony Puopolo, Ashley Valmere, Ava Federov, Bruno Perillo, Charles Yoder, Christopher Carcich, Claire Stringer, Cody Healey-Conelly, Daniel Maidman, Dharman Abdullah, Elizabeth Wood, Fedele Spadafora, Heidii Taillefer,
Ian Carpenter, Inas Al-Soqi, Jenny Hellman, Joanna Mulder, Joe Kelly, Karen Evans, Keith Norval, Laina Karavani, Maria Kozak, Martine Birobent, Martyna Szczesna, Mary Stern-Grossman, Nathaniel Galka, Nicholas Velasquez,
Nicole Ganas, Peter Calvin, Rebecca Conroy, Rob Saywitz, Robert Brush, Sonomi Kobayashi, Tara DePorte, Tom Billings, Yoko Furusho, Yu Zhang and Zev Jonas
A portion of proceeds from sales will
donated to the Human Impacts Institut
A portion of proceeds from sales will be donated to the Human Impacts Institute based in NY.
The Human Impacts Institute's mission is to foster sustainable human impacts on ecosystems through inspired engagement, leadership, collaboration, knowledge-building and creative expression. Check out our blog for discussions and special events throughout the month. Click on the logo below for more info:
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Dog Days Group Exhibition opens Friday 7/13
July 13th-August 12th
Opening July 13th, 6-9pm
Dharman Abdullah
Tom Bob
Alta Buden
Stephan Fowlkes
Nathaniel Galka
Tom Bob
Alta Buden
Stephan Fowlkes
Nathaniel Galka
Andrés García-Peña
Hannah Haworth
Andres LaTorre
Anna Ortiz
Charles Papillo
Anthony Puopolo
Aimee Wilder
Hannah Haworth
Andres LaTorre
Anna Ortiz
Charles Papillo
Anthony Puopolo
Aimee Wilder
As the brightest star in the sky, Sirius, the dog star, appears above us, these sultry days seem endless. One brilliant author put it: "These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for after." Come celebrate the madness with us as we present a group show that is a constellation of small bright stars: new works by fresh faces you won’t be sorry you saw.
This show will be a part of Williamsburg Every 2nd Fridays and was just featured on NY1 News!
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| Anna Ortiz, Untitled, 8x10" oil on panel |
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| Nathaniel Galka, We are about to be on Cloud 9, 30x30", oil on canvas |
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Alta Buden, Power Lions, 8.5x11", cut paper |
Sunday, June 24, 2012
If you haven't stopped by to see our show "Volver", maybe art writer Azhar Chougle can convince you.
"Volver" is up until July 8th, so please stop in!
"This month, Williamsburg has many a show devoted to rusting metals and sinking vessels, an apt reflection of the current state of affairs in the neighborhood's galleries. From lackluster group shows to underwhelming solo experiments, I perfected the art of the brisk about-turn out the door.
There was one exception, however. "VOLVER" at Gitana Rosa (extended to June 30th) wasn't a mishmash of disparate voices and didn't showcase artists selling clueless constructions. Four artists combine magnificent craftsmanship with potent, relevant cultural gravity. From Andrés García-Peña's comical yet profound Occupy Wall Street tribute to Heidi Taillefer's unsettling, provocative and loaded portrayals, the show is a focused and sharp collection of work in which the artists pay heed not only to the importance of fine technique, but imparting their own backgrounds and experiences onto larger social and political landscapes.
All is not lost in Williamsburg, for there are two institutions that are definitely worth a visit. The Brooklyn Art Library is showcasing theSketchbook Project, an incredible collection of sketchbooks from artists all around the world, free for anyone to browse by theme, artist or region.
And The City Reliquary is as odd as ever, a treasure-trove of New York history as seen through its geology, tokens and mechanically gyrating burlesque women." -Azhar Chougle
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Please join us for VOLVER’s opening reception on Friday, May
4, from 6
to 9 p.m., held in conjunction with WE:2 Brooklyn Frieze Night, during
which galleries in Williamsburg will stay open late to celebrate the
Frieze Art Fair. An additional opening will be held Friday, May 11,
from 6 to 9 p.m., to coincide with WE:2 Williamsburg 2:Nd Fridays.
Musical stylings will be provided by Venus Frequency.
Show your support for Williamsburg’s first green gallery by following
Gitana Rosa on Twitter (@GitanaRosaNYC) or friending us on Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/gitanarosa.ny).
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
to 9 p.m., held in conjunction with WE:2 Brooklyn Frieze Night, during
which galleries in Williamsburg will stay open late to celebrate the
Frieze Art Fair. An additional opening will be held Friday, May 11,
from 6 to 9 p.m., to coincide with WE:2 Williamsburg 2:Nd Fridays.
Musical stylings will be provided by Venus Frequency.
Show your support for Williamsburg’s first green gallery by following
Gitana Rosa on Twitter (@GitanaRosaNYC) or friending us on Facebook
(https://www.facebook.com/gitanarosa.ny).
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Firelei Báez was born in the
Dominican Republic to Dominican and
Haitian parents and lives and works in New York. Báez received her BFA
from Cooper Union and her MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been
exhibited in various national and international institutions,
including the New Jersey City Museum, El Museo, The Cortona
Archeological Museum (Cortona, Italy), The Caribbean African Diaspora
Institute (CCADI) and in the Bronx Artist Biennial, BX1. Her work was
recently featured in El Museo’s Sixth Biennial, “The [S] Files/The
Street Files.” She was a recent resident artist in The Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture and participated in Aljira Center for
Contemporary Art’s Emerge Program. She has received many prestigious
awards including the 2010 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award,
the Jaque and Natasha Gelman Award, and the Bronx Recognizes Its Own
(BRIO) Award, among others. Her work has been reviewed in Art Nexus;
Art in America, New American Paintings, the Pittsburg City Paper, the
Studio Museum Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.
Her work is in the collection of Lucy Liu, El Museo, The TG Riese
Collection and the Peggy Cooper Cafritz collection. She is currently
an artist-in-residence at the LMCC Workspace, where she is completing
a new body of work for her upcoming solo exhibition at the Sheppard
Gallery in Nevada. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Haitian parents and lives and works in New York. Báez received her BFA
from Cooper Union and her MFA from Hunter College. Her work has been
exhibited in various national and international institutions,
including the New Jersey City Museum, El Museo, The Cortona
Archeological Museum (Cortona, Italy), The Caribbean African Diaspora
Institute (CCADI) and in the Bronx Artist Biennial, BX1. Her work was
recently featured in El Museo’s Sixth Biennial, “The [S] Files/The
Street Files.” She was a recent resident artist in The Skowhegan
School of Painting and Sculpture and participated in Aljira Center for
Contemporary Art’s Emerge Program. She has received many prestigious
awards including the 2010 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award,
the Jaque and Natasha Gelman Award, and the Bronx Recognizes Its Own
(BRIO) Award, among others. Her work has been reviewed in Art Nexus;
Art in America, New American Paintings, the Pittsburg City Paper, the
Studio Museum Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times.
Her work is in the collection of Lucy Liu, El Museo, The TG Riese
Collection and the Peggy Cooper Cafritz collection. She is currently
an artist-in-residence at the LMCC Workspace, where she is completing
a new body of work for her upcoming solo exhibition at the Sheppard
Gallery in Nevada. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Colombian born painter Andrés García-Peña started his career in New York City as a muralist and part
of the East Village art scene of the Eighties. Since then, he has lived
and worked in Barcelona, and currently keeps his studio in Brooklyn.
García-Peña has exhibited internationally, with solo shows in
Colombia, Mexico, Sweden and Brooklyn. He continues to work in
public art and has completed commissions for the Children’s Aid
Society here in New York. The paintings currently exhibited are from the
Revenge of the Bulls series. The series, initially begun in 1993 in
Barcelona, Spain was sparked by childhood memories of a bird’s-eye-view
from an Aunt’s balcony overlooking the Plaza Santa Maria in Bogota,
Colombia. This latest iteration plays with notion of the bulls and
bullies of Wall Street. The artist has incorporated vibrant
colors and his brushwork has achieved a painterly gestural manner.
Heidi Taillefer’s work is an original creative fusion of classical
figurative painting, surrealism, contemporary realism, and mythology combined
with popular figurative traditions ranging from Victorian romanticism to
science fiction.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, she began drawing at the age of 3 at the encouragement of her mother who is also an artist. During 10 years of private art lessons as a child she developed skills mainly in watercolor, and was strongly influenced by surrealism, combined with a general interest in technology and biology. It was by the mid-80’s her work began to take on the markings of an obsession with technological development throughout society, whose imagery reflected what is now widely recognized as a growing hybridization of humanity with technology. Originally depicting subjects as machines placed in natural settings, her work acted as a nostalgic embrace of the past, as seen through the lens of a culture racing forward at high speed, fitted with massive technological advancement. While pursuing a degree in Humanistic studies at McGill university, Taillefer’s focus of study was the classics, which informs her work to this day as she parlays many mythological and cultural references into her paintings. Her art is consonant with some early 20th century surrealists such as Max Ernst, Paul Delvaux, and Giorgio de Chirico. In the depiction of disparate mechanical assemblies set in parallel with aspects of the human condition, to the appropriation of meaning to objects which highlight subconscious preoccupations, or an exploration of the metaphysical as a dream-like parallel
Born in Montreal, Quebec, she began drawing at the age of 3 at the encouragement of her mother who is also an artist. During 10 years of private art lessons as a child she developed skills mainly in watercolor, and was strongly influenced by surrealism, combined with a general interest in technology and biology. It was by the mid-80’s her work began to take on the markings of an obsession with technological development throughout society, whose imagery reflected what is now widely recognized as a growing hybridization of humanity with technology. Originally depicting subjects as machines placed in natural settings, her work acted as a nostalgic embrace of the past, as seen through the lens of a culture racing forward at high speed, fitted with massive technological advancement. While pursuing a degree in Humanistic studies at McGill university, Taillefer’s focus of study was the classics, which informs her work to this day as she parlays many mythological and cultural references into her paintings. Her art is consonant with some early 20th century surrealists such as Max Ernst, Paul Delvaux, and Giorgio de Chirico. In the depiction of disparate mechanical assemblies set in parallel with aspects of the human condition, to the appropriation of meaning to objects which highlight subconscious preoccupations, or an exploration of the metaphysical as a dream-like parallel
to this world, she
also brings a contemporary spin to often classical icons.
Her work has been collected internationally, and she continues to exhibit in gallery and museum venues in North America while undertaking high visibility art projects with such companies as the Cirque du Soleil and Infiniti car company (Canada and Taiwan).
Her work has been collected internationally, and she continues to exhibit in gallery and museum venues in North America while undertaking high visibility art projects with such companies as the Cirque du Soleil and Infiniti car company (Canada and Taiwan).
Jean-Daniel Rohrer was born in Tramelan, Switzerland and currentlylives and works in Montreal, Canada. His work is evocative of the
mystic tradition and his paintings are like memory maps. They are
never caught up in a specific moment in time but instead play on the
ambiguity of memory, history and our collective memory. Recent
paintings allude to European history and Amerindian traditions and
collectivize these in a way that treats the painterly surface as a
field that can receive any number of potential meanings. His
mixed-media creations employ the concept and image of the scroll, the
original form of the sacred text. Runes and glyphs abound on his
canvases — sometimes on his “parchments,” sometimes floating in the
space of the periphery — as well as Latin letters and Roman and Arabic
numerals that have been intentionally divorced from their usual
functions. Irony is at play in his work: some of his ostensibly
“sacred” texts are nothing more than pages plucked from the newspapers
of his native Canada. Elsewhere he uses Catholic iconography to
apotheosize the image. Underpinning it all are wefts of painted
texture that rival those of the finest Persian rugs. The closer the
inspection by the viewer, the richer the reward. Rorher’s work is
widely prized, and his oeuvre is spread out in collections in Canada,
the United States, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Russia. “The world
that I paint, that I represent, gives me freedom to explore time. What
I capture in my paintings serves as a chronicle in which the human
figure is a conductive thread. It is the reflection of my heritage.”
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
New Prints for Sale
Check these out!
New signed limited edition prints by Andrés García-Peña.
" Venganza y las Torres del Parque"
Hahnemuhle Fine Art Archival Photo Rag Paper
image size 20" x 26" - paper size 22" x 28" (signed and numbered limited edition of 75) - $300
smaller version 12" x 16" - paper size 14" x 18" (signed and numbered limited edition of 100) - $125
"Venganza y las Torres" oil, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas 40 X 30 inches 2011
"Ole Taxi"
Hahnemuhle Fine Art Archival Photo Rag Paper
image size 18.5" x 20" - paper size 20.5" x 22" (signed and numbered limited edition of 75) - $250
smaller version 11.5" x 12" - paper size 13.5" x 14" (signed and numbered limited edition of 100) - $100
"Ole Taxi" oil, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas 24 X26 inches inches 2010
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Opening Reception Last Night a Success
We opened the gallery doors last night for Andrés García-Peña's show, "Revenge of the Bulls." The event took place in conjuction with the Williamsburg Gallery Association's "Every Second Friday" gallery crawl, during which participating Williamsburg galleries collectively throw openings.
Andrés was on hand to meet and greet guests. His twelve paintings pop with bright, lush colors and depictions of bulls and bullfighters. One of our younger guests last night, a little boy checking out the show with his parents, asked: "Why are the bulls killing the bullfighters?" Which leads us to assume that while Williamsburg's younger denizens have access to an array of incredible and unusual experiences, bullfights are not among them!
Images of the show below. Thanks to all who came out last night and it made the event a great success!
Andrés was on hand to meet and greet guests. His twelve paintings pop with bright, lush colors and depictions of bulls and bullfighters. One of our younger guests last night, a little boy checking out the show with his parents, asked: "Why are the bulls killing the bullfighters?" Which leads us to assume that while Williamsburg's younger denizens have access to an array of incredible and unusual experiences, bullfights are not among them!
Images of the show below. Thanks to all who came out last night and it made the event a great success!
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Blueprints!
teehee, do you like the poster I made? Do you know what it means? YASS!!! Blueprints is here!!! Can I get a woop woop?!
Aye. so come along Friday evening for some beverages, music and chat to our lovely talented artists! I look forward to seeing you there : D
Alyssa Ettinger
So you are warned, this post is EXTREMELY image heavy (ha, yes more so than usual : P), but I dont know if anyone would be able to help themselves taking so many photos in Alyssa Ettinger’s inspiring Sunset Park studio…
Alyssa’s products are primarily slip cast porcelain. She started casting rare vintage milk bottles after discovering an abandoned dump site dating back to the early 20th century, the only items left were clay and these beautiful milk bottles, of course, they were begging to be cast!
She also casts knitting, which is how I discovered her – we are doing the Vogue knitting show together.
Alyssa finds most of her inspiration and ideas for her work while lying in bed, trying to sleep. I think this is familiar to a lot of people that work in creative industries, no? Im definitely a victim! She also has a small part of her studio where she pins images that she likes
She also spends as much time as she can by the sea, beach-combing for glass (remind you of Amy?!) and goes skip-diving for vintage ceramics
She has recently come into possession of a small collection of vintage buttons. I think her casts of these might just get a wee bit popular!
While browsing her shelves, I found this small bowl of beautiful ceramic objects. Apparently, they are leftovers from temperature testing on the kiln. The further the ceramic fin bends helps Alyssa determine the correct temperature. She was telling me that a few jewelry designers were really interested in working with these, I think she should let them, right? I would love to wear one.
Thanks for the insightful afternoon Alyssa!
Donna Dennis
On Friday evening I hung out with one of my favourite people, Donna Dennis. Although Its not the first time Ive been to her home/studio in Tribeca, I always see a ton of things I haven’t seen or noticed before- like the books in her amazing library! We had a lot of fun drinking some wine and photographing her dioramas.
Donna makes hosts and hosts of models before embarking on her large scale installation projects. I think they are incredibly beautiful in their own right, and they’ve inspired me in the past to make my own too.
It’s always night time in Donna’s work, I find the scenes she creates have a very quiet, tranquil feel to them as well as something is a little ‘off’, perhaps in their unusual scale or exaggerated features. Kind of like a dreamworld.
Her latest work is an installation that requires half her apartment and is based on abandoned Coney Island, complete with roller-coaster tracks, turnstiles and ticket booths, this eerie theme park took over 12 years to create and will be exhibited April-August 2013 at the Neuberger Museum in Westchester.
Donna is enjoying a very successful career, including shows at the Whitney Museum, The New York Public Library, The Venice Biennale and high profile public work such as ‘Tourist Cabins on Park Avenue’
I only just remembered to get a shot of her as we were saying goodbye, so here she is looking eerie in the elevator.
Thanks again Donna! Im seriously looking forward to this show, we open this Friday (14th). Come along for a wee drink and some music 7-10 : )
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