I’m excited to announce that I have a residency at Radiator Arts in LIC for the month of August. I have a giant room with a view of the Queensboro bridge for the month! Psyched to have some big walls to work on, I brought some large panels that I’ve been hoarding. I’ll be working on few things including Ratrods on road signs and I’ll be scaling up my musician pieces. Stayed tuned for updates and follow @subtexture_works to see shots of works in progress
The Other Other Art Fair
For the past couple years I’ve been curating the “Other Other Art Fair” at Brooklyn Safehouse, which is located across the street from the Greenpoint Expo center where the Other Art Fair is located.
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The true alternative Art Fair!
Please join us at the Brooklyn Safehouse for a group show of 5 local artists.
July 22nd - 25th
Featuring:
Monte Antrim, Mark Albright, Rob Erickson, Sharilyn Neidhardt, Chris Smith
Located across the street from that other art fair that's happening at the Greenpoint Expo Center.
Brooklyn Safehouse
120 Franklin St., Greenpoint
G train to Greenpoint Ave.
Come and meet the artists!
Actual live Brooklyn-based artists will be on site live in-person.
We'll be hanging out all weekend and we will be sharing sketchbooks and there will be prints, drawings and other smaller works available for sale.
@monteantrim @sharilynneidhardt @visual_mechanics_inc @selfindulgence20 @subtexture #artfair #brooklynartist #alterativeart #greenpoint #artforsale #affordableart @brooklyn_safehouse
Self-Indulgence vs Subtexture
Self-Indulgence vs Subtexture
In this corner, we have Subtexture a.k.a. Chris ‘Smitty’ Smith – Greenpoint’s champion. For over 20 years, Smitty has been absorbing his neighborhood’s aesthetics, painting on signs and other found objects. His work is of the street and for the people.
In the other corner, from the Southside of Williamsburg, we have Self-Indulgence a.k.a. Mark Albright. Another artist who gets his inspiration from his Brooklyn neighborhood. His love of spray paint and stencils, mirror the street art he admires.
Smitty and Mark met at the Brooklyn Ale House over a decade ago. Both are members of the Maggot Brain art collective, of which Smitty is the founder. We would like to thank our neighbor, Sage for hosting our art show.
THROWBACK PROJECT: Cellphies - Classic Nudes for Modern Times
The drawings in this show came out of a drink n' draw session that I have been hosting in Greenpoint called the Creator's Club. All over the city in various bars, back rooms and studios there are events called Drink n' Draws. You pay a flat fee and get to draw a figure model, some times there's free beer or the beer is really cheap. At one of these events, I met the model and told her that I had a space where we could something better, she's been one of our main models for the past year and a half.
The artists in the Creator's Club are made up of a mix of people, some who have know each other for many years, some for only a little while or not at all. We've settled into a friendly rotating group of characters, story telling and ball busting is encouraged (is there another way to say this?) and there have been a few nights that bordered on therapy. All of the artists in this show are North Brooklyn veterans who have lived and worked in the area for years.
When we did the first night, I quickly realized that, as the host of the session, I would have to be minding the clock and telling the model when to change poses. But I wanted to draw. I already had music playing and came up with the idea of having song based poses, the length of the pose being determined by the length of the song. I encourage people to bring their own playlists.
The poses were mostly full nudes and classical figure drawing poses tend to be reclining and gazing at the ceiling or sitting and looking off into space. Poses that can be held for a long time with minimal stress on the model. But some of the artists wanted poses from real life that they could use in their own work and there's usually a cell phone being charged near by.
I had been thinking about how we've become obsessed with our phones, we now spend most of our "down time" looking down at them. We spend a lot of time holding the same pose. So we've updated classical figure drawing to modern times, rather than looking off into space lost in thought, we sit or lounge and stare intently at our devices.
I looked at the drawings coming out of these sessions and realized that we had flipped the concept of the cellphie around into a selphie. With the selphie, the subject and the viewer are one and the same, and a lot of the images of people we see are now made by the subject. With the cellphie we have returned to the classical idea of model and artist.
Throwback Project: Welling Court Mural Project
I’ve participated in the Welling Court Mural Project since 2011, organized by the Adhoc Art Gallery, this public beautification project takes place in the Northwest corner of Astoria, Queens and transforms it with pieces by a large group of internationally known street artists.
I worked on the same wall for 5 years, until finally the location was developed and a new 5 story building went up and my wall went away.
I come up with the concept and rough out an idea for the space and then invite non-artists to help me, we’ve had people from the neighborhood lend a hand.
We’ve gotten a lot of great response from the messaging, which usually involves direction or a sense of place. The location of the wall was at an intersection so that cars would be heading straight towards before having to make a turn.
Throwback Project: Pier Pressure Mural
In the summer of 2013 I was invited to take part in “Pier Pressure” at the The Marina @ Pier 57 on the Hudson River. I assisted the curator Bing Lee in finding the 10 Artists who were invited to create floor murals creating a a large-scale “magic carpet in a giant warehouse pier overlooking over the Hudson River.
I teamed up with Karl Kotas (aka “Satok”), tfuk (Francis Christie) and Danny Dynamic. I came up with the idea to do a giant spiralling eye and the other artists contributed some bit of surreal imagery.
