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Emerging Artist Summer Series

Emerging Artist Summer Series: Julia Weist

by Art Fag City on August 28, 2007

photo via deaccession.org  Some time before embarking upon a glamorous career as an Internet nerd, I spent a year working at the exhibitions department at the main branch of the New York Public Library. As a result, I am now naturally drawn to projects likes Donald Judd’s non-circulating library in Marfa, and the similarly conceived […]

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Emerging Artist Summer Series: Stephanie Diamond

by Art Fag City on August 23, 2007

Stephanie Diamond, Posed in Between Faces for Snapshots, 2007 Maybe I am too easily pleased by simple concepts, but I can’t help but be charmed by the photographs of Stephanie Diamond. Featured above is one of many photographs taken in the series Posed in Between Faces for Snapshots, whereby the artist asks her subjects to […]

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Emerging Artist Summer Series: Jennifer Schmidt

by Art Fag City on August 23, 2007

Jennifer Schmidt, Coupon Dash, 2006 Courtesy of the artist. With Chelsea now dominated by narrative and pictorial representation, for the last few years artists interested in abstraction have worked within a narrow field of aesthetic choices currently acceptable to the art world. Contemporary fine art culture maintains a rather friendly attitude towards patterning for example, […]

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Emerging Artist Summer Series: Elaine Kaufmann

by Art Fag City on August 21, 2007

Elaine Kaufmann, The Dodge Caravan, 2006 Image courtesy Elaine Kaufmann Artists often benefit from taking a degree outside their medium. The Computer Science, English Literature, or Architecture student who choses to work in the field of fine art has the edge of an additional skill set the art world simply cannot provide on its own. […]

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Emerging Artist Summer Series: Trong Nguyen

by Art Fag City on August 20, 2007

This year’s Emerging Artist Summer Series takes on a slightly different form, this time focusing on conceptual artists. Our previous profiles ran once a week throughout July and August, this suite publishes once every day for a week. These posts will be slightly shorter, an unfortunate result of having less free time than I did […]

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The Art Fag City Emerging Artists Summer Series Closes…Five Days into Fall

by Art Fag City on September 26, 2006

Unfortunately the Art Fag City Emerging Artist Summer Series ended up extending well into the fall, due to summer vacations and September gallery madness, but all and all we couldn’t be happier with the results. A special thank you has to be handed to artists who without exception worked to meet the Art Fag City […]

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The Art Fag City Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Drawings of Susan De Seyn

by Art Fag City on September 1, 2006

I’ve got a place in Florence. I’ve got a lot of friends up there. You can use them as furniture. There’s one guy — he looks just like a bookcase.” – Nabokov/Kubrick, Lolita 1962. Susan De Seyn The image above was originally a bronze sculpture that sold sometime over the last three years at a […]

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The Art Fag City Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Paintings of David McBride

by Art Fag City on August 28, 2006

My interest is in subject matter that can be associated with modern myths. By creating paintings dealing with the exploration of space and modern architecture, for example, I am attempting to identify two instances of social ideals that attain the status of myth.Formally, the work is an attempt to blur the distinction between the mediums […]

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The Art Fag City Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Art of Anne Polashenski

by Art Fag City on August 17, 2006

My current work incorporates textile patterns and photographs of figures in patterned garb whichact as camouflage to hide and protect the body. The patterned worlds I am creating have a vulnerable aspect, in that, if the figure shifts out of position, one pattern could overlap onto another revealing and leaving the body exposed. In this […]

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The Art Fag City Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Drawings of Saul Chernick

by Art Fag City on July 27, 2006

Creation myths are a response to the unanswerable question: Where do we come from? Like gods, those who assign meaning and purpose to our existence also determine who and what is most valued. I am interested in understanding ways that power is asserted by the Judeo/Christian mythologies concerning creation and the afterlife. Using a mark […]

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