Mimik Magazine Flesh Garden - The digital reference book by Flesh Garden Magazine

Mimik presents

FLESH GARDEN / The Day After Magazine

THE DIGITAL REFERENCE BOOK OF FLESH GARDEN // ART EXPERIENCE 10-12 JULY 2014

CONTENTS

ABOUT 01 MIMIK MAGAZINE 02 LA PETITE MORT GALLERY

PERFORMANCE 03 / 04 MAGOA

ART 05 ALEKS BARTOSIK 06 ANNE MEIJER 07 CINDY STELMACKOWICH 08 DIEGO TERROS 09 ELINE PEEK 10 ERIK SUIDMAN 11 EVA LANSINK 12 FRANÇOIS ESCALMEL 13 GEOFF CHADSEY 14 GILLIAN KING 15 JAMES HUCTWITH 16 KAJA IRWIN 17 MARC NERBONNE 18 MARCUS KOPPEN 19 MARTIN DOUVIL 20 MATTHEW STRADLING 21 NARUKI KUKITA 22 PETER SHMELZER 23 SADDO 24 SCOOTER LAFORGE 25 SHARO VAN STARKENBURG 26 VERÓNICA BAPÉ

EDITORIAL 27 / 34 POST-SEXISM

ABOUT

MIMIK MAGAZINE Amsterdam, The Netherlands mimikmagazine.com

Mimik Magazine is collecting (magazine) and connecting (events) those who see what Mimik sees: the beauty of imperfection. By highlighting this unpolished side of life Mimik wants to open people’s mind, break taboos and encourage (self)-acceptance.

“With Flesh Garden we want to challenge you to look at the human figure from a different perspective. Open your mind and look beyond your own projections.There is nothing to understand, only to experience”

ABOUT

LA PETITE MORT GALLERY Ottawa, Canada lapetitemortgallery.com

“In the business of art, there are two types: those who take, and those who give. Mimik not only offers, but with its own particular vision, seeks to collaborate. It grabs chances. Perhaps that is why we immediately knew we wanted to work together on a project like Flesh Garden. Although it is held in a location that some may find offensive, we recognize the brothels as a site possessing a certain potential to cultivate imagination. The selection of artists depicts this concept, with works that represent the idea of flesh with uniqueness in style and character. LPM gallery looks forward to this adventure, and mostly, to what this collaboration holds in the future.”

Guy Berube, director La Petite Mort Gallery May 2014 In La Petite Mort Gallery we found a kindred spirit. This exciting and unconventional Canadian gallery is founded and owned by Guy Bérubé who is operating the gallery with an approach that is, in his own words, instinctive, impassioned, eclectic, inclusive, spontaneous, humorous and human. For Flesh Garden La Petite Mort Gallery is coming over from Canada with an impressive selection of Canadian and American artists. The number one criteria in selecting artists is individuality and originality within their chosen criteria. “The works I show vary in medium, but all of my artists push their respective conceptual and material limits. In this way a lot of the work shown pushes a traditional boundary of what is and can be shown in a gallery space. I pride the space on its ability to welcome support these distinct voices. Further, the gallery operates on a collaborative, no-diva complex, relationship between gallerist and artist”, says Guy. We write about La Petite Mort Gallery and it’s artists on a regular basis to give their distinct voices an broader audience.

PERFORMANCE

MAGOA

“We don’t carry the piece. The piece carries us.We are just there to guide the spectator, as a human tool that expresses itself through our flesh”

Magoa is a three-day surreal, transforming performance written and executed by Cynthia Wiemers & Dinu Comendant especially for Flesh Garden. The performance consists of three essential layers of being human: the body (day one), the mind (day two) and the soul (day three).

Cynthia Wiemers & Dinu Comendant

Magoa is about what we hide and what we choose to show. Breaking the egg, the shell, or keeping it safe, so it can safely hatch. Cynthia Wiemers and Dinu Comendant will function as guiding spirits for the spectator, during this three-day process. “We will relate to the repressed aspects of being human in the here and now”.

An important part of the creative process was making Magoa visual. They did a pho-

Photo’s Alexis Wrona

The piece is still in the process of creation. “The concept of Flesh Garden serves as a starting point of our piece. The location (a brothel) raises a lot of questions and has a very specific context. With this in mind we try to gather threads for materialization”, says Dinu. “I use the location, the atmosphere of the red light district, what Mimik stands for and the art that is represented to reflect my inner world and translate this into products, visuals, happenings and whatever is needed to communicate this to the public eye”, explains Cynthia.

PERFORMANCE

“The space is abject, a knot of morality. Magoa is there to give a different sensitivity to it”

to shoot to bring Magoa alive. Except from lighting and camera (this was in hands of photographer Alexis Wrona) Cynthia & Dinu did everything themselves: art direction, hair- and make-up, and of course modeling. The result is impressive and makes you wonder how this will be translated into a performance piece. The unusual location, an old brothel in Amsterdam’s Red Light District, is another important part of the creative process. “The space has a strange atmosphere. You smell and feel what has happened in there. It really changes you. The space is there to be transformed and we are there to help transforming. It’s an opportunity to work with the old energies and guide them into a new direction” says Cynthia. “The space is abject, a knot of morality. Magoa is there to give a different sensitivity to it”, says Dinu.

Photo’s Alexis Wrona

In the end, the most essential part of the creative process is the connection between Cynthia and Dinu. They get each other from half a word and tune in to very fine understandings. They don’t see themselves as characters or persons in Magoa but as a part of the whole. Cynthia: “We don’t carry the piece. The piece carries us. We are just there to guide the spectator, as a human tool which expresses itself throught our flesh”.

ART

ALEKS BARTOSIK Toronto, Canada Represented by La Petite Mort Gallery aleksbartosik.com

“I love the idea of the space and think it definitely will bring a different dimension to my work; this tiny painting of a face and mouth, waiting to be embraced by another face and mouth.”

“Blue Beard” (2012) is one of Aleks Bartosik’s smallest pieces up to date, as she tends to work on quite a large scale. The painting is a depiction of her partner, whose face has been distorted and fragmented, leaving merely the lips visible to the viewer, representing our means of communication and its accompanying challenges, fears and pleasures. Growing up with an artistic mother and sister, Bartosik’s environment proved to be fertile grounds. The creative teen, who found solace in drawing and painting, felt that the increasing need to create had become essential to her existence. This led to her pursuing a career in art, ultimately obtaining her Masters in Fine Arts from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, where she studied art history, music and sociology. ‘Blue Beard’ Oil on canvas, 22 x 23 cm

The artist, whose work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally around various galleries and festivals, aspires to set up her own Art Residency in Toronto, inviting emerging artists from around the globe as some sort of an exchange program. She’s currently in the process of possibly collaborating with a writer and two dancers on an unidentified multi-disciplinary project.

ANNE MEIJER Utrecht, The Netherlands Selected by Mimik Magazine annemeijer.nl soundcloud.com/mimikmagazine

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“Exhibiting my work in a former brothel should be quite an interesting experiment. Can you reserve your judgment and look beyond your initial opinion? In the end, it’s all in the eyes of the beholder.” Bored too Mouth full

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Anne’s work has been shown at several fairs ,such as Realism Amsterdam , The Affordable Art Fair and Art Up! in Lille, France. She is also exhibited at Vonkel in The Hague, and as one of the resident artists of The DepARTmentSTORE by Gumbs. Besides working as an art teacher at a prison for two days a week, Meijer currently has her eyes set on a long term international career and would like to try to find a place abroad as a resident artist.

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Anne Meijer’s arresting portraits of children often leave the viewer uncomfortable and confused, reactions that are evoked not necessarily by the paintings themselves, but about what happens to the viewer once the seemingly innocuous existence of a child is put into a different context. Without wagging a moralistic finger, Meijer aims to show what goes on beneath the surface and beyond the face. Studying fashion initially, Anne Meijer quickly realized her heart was in the wrong place, eventually finding solace and graduating in fine arts. After graduation, Meijer resided in Barcelona for a few months before returning to Utrecht and, in order to enlarge her visibility as a visual artist, decided she would need the help of a gallery to do as such.

ART

CINDY STELMACKOWICH Ottawa, Canada Represented by La Petite Mort Gallery patrickmikhailgallery.com/artists/cindy-stelmackowich

‘Vegetative Gynecology #2’ Plexiglas, 51 x 33 cm

Stelmackowich questions the methods and meanings of science in her artwork. How science gets performed on the body and how the languages of medical science operate. She often digitally combines photographic images to bring medical-related materials and found objects together.

She has exhibited across Canada and the USA in solo and group exhibitions. In addition to the numerous grants she received from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the City of Ottawa, she has also received prestigious awards, residencies and international fellowships. Those include the 2011-2012 Helfand Fellowship in the History of Medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine.

‘Vegetative Gynecology #1’ Plexiglas, 51 x 33 cm

She completed both a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Art at the University of Saskatchewan, where after she obtained a MA at Carleton University. Her artwork and academic research has focused on themes related to medicine and anatomical science and is linked to her PhD dissertation at Binghamton University, NYC.

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DIEGO TERROS Brooklyn, NYC Represented by La petite Mort Gallery diegoterros.com

He graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NYC. In 2009 he was awarded the AIGA The Coyne Family Award in Illustration, followed by the Tomie dePaola Illustration Scholarship in 2011. His most recent group exhibitions are ’13 ~ A Group Exhibition’ at AMO Studios, Brooklyn, NYC in 2012 and the Zeitgeist QCC Annual Group Exhibition at SOMArts, San Francisco, CA in 2013.

‘Letting of the Chain’ 24 x 33 cm

‘Resurrection’ 24 x 33 cm

Diego Terros strives to capture the presence and immersion of passions and longings of human’s through figurative paintings and symbolic collages. He also focuses in his paintings on obsessions and the ability to cure from illness, entrapment, or the past.

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ELINE PEEK Utrecht, The Netherlands Selected by Mimik Magazine members.ziggo.nl/elpek/Eline_Peek/home.html

‘FLAT 2’ Acrylic on linen

Eline Peek’s “FLAT” is a series of horizontal works of seemingly random individuals laying in the middle of the night; the subjects all live in the same building, either sleeping, lying restlessly awake or maybe even dead, painfully unaware of each other’s state of being. “PRECIOUS” is an installation, comprising of several fleshy objects that represent a gallery of intimacy and stand for society’s definition of beauty and its relentless search for perfection.

“My work is about identity, about who we are both with, andwithout the other. It’s about observation and interpretation; do we pass on judgment within a mere few seconds or are we taking longer to really connect to one another?”

Eline has studied Fine Arts at the University of the Arts in Utrecht, specializing in painting, where she obtained her degree in 1997. Since then, she has gone on to exhibit her work throughout the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. She also teaches drawing and spatial design at Nimeto in Utrecht, which allows her to have the freedom to create her art, as well as being able to pass on her vast knowledge and experience.

‘FLAT 4’ Acrylic on linen

Whereas Peek previously focused on themes such as beauty and our perception of it, her work nowadays is much more about identity; searching for the tension between ‘the self’ and ‘the other’. In this process, she uses the human figure as an object with which she can give form to the intended narrative, leaving the viewer reevaluating their predisposed ideas and opinions.

‘PRECIOUS SERIES’ Wax, acrylic pencil

ERIK SUIDMAN Utrecht, The Netherlands Selected by Mimik Magazine eriksuidman.nl

“My work is about emotions, either vividly visible or hidden behind masks, but I tend to gravitate more towards the darker side of the emotional spectrum”

After studying Dutch literature, Suidman quickly realized that painting had a far more profound effect on his pent up inspiration than the initial writing, and it wasn’t long before he traded his pen for a brush. Starting from scratch as a selftaught professional, he has mastered his trade by simply painting everything he technically could not handle. At the moment, he has turned his studio into a portrait painting space, in an attempt to fill the walls of a large gallery space in Utrecht for the Fall of 2015. The project will require Suidman to paint a vast amount of portraits each day, for the next year and a half, which is likely to result in an overwhelmingly breathtaking experience.

‘Woensdagmiddag’ Oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm

Dutch painter Erik Suidman often uses mankind as his subject matter. Yet, instead of trying to capture the beauty of the human form, the emphasis lies on rendering emotions. Desperate housewives, weeping orphans, bloodstained butchers and splattered urinals thrive in a carnival of vivid brushwork.

‘Broer Konijn’ Oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm

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EVA LANSINK Leiden, The Netherlands Selected by Mimik Magazine evalansink.com

“My work is all about desire, therefore being able to exhibit my work in a brothel, the ultimate place where people anonymously act out their fantasies, is a unique opportunity.” ‘EDEN I’ Ceramic, 16 x 16 x 19 cm

“RAW”, the aptly titled and most recent project of artist Eva Lansink, comprises of a series of photographs and sculptures. The work represents unbridled love being driven by pure intuition and primal impulses, and it shows us the perverse creatures in their exhibitionistic ways, becoming one with nature.

‘RAW’ Ceramic, 17 x 15 x 26 cm

Graduated in 2012 at the Royal Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague, Eva Lansink has managed to specialize in both graphic and sculptural art. Her graduation project, DRIFT, consisted of a series of ceramic sculptures, etches and an artistic book; a story about an anthropomorphic world where bunny-like creatures are able to live out their fantasies, guilt free and without shame.

‘EDEN II’ Flower, mos, clay & epoxy, 18 x 18 x 36 cm

In her work, Lansink aims to capture the animalistic side of humankind, one that is normally suppressed in order to fully function in society. She creates the opportunity to step into a parallel universe, a world that is vastly different from reality and one which allows us to anonymously satisfy our wants, needs and desires.

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FRANÇOIS ESCALMEL Montreal, Canada Represented by La Petite Mort Gallery francoisescalmel.com

“I’m a storyteller working with the absence of words; oscillating between fascination and criticism, I strive to create dark and comical fables”

With over 15 years of experience as a visual artist, François Escalmel has managed to exhibit his work in Italy, Germany and Canada, and has already been featured in two big museum shows. In terms of the future, Escalmel will continue to explore his craft and undoubtedly find new ways to express himself.

‘The Supreme’ Oil on canvas, 60 x 45 cm

Studying graphic design has laid the solid foundation for Escalmel’s work as a visual artist and illustrator, something he attributes to his need to communicate with the outside world. Growing up, his shyness seemed to subside the moment he found art to be an effective outlet and, to this day, that non-verbal communication is still his primary means of speaking his enigmatic mind.

‘Ask me again’ Oil on canvas, 45 x 45 cm

François Escalmel’s “The Lesson” is a continuation of the artist’s experimentation with blending the figurative with the abstract, creating carefully crafted collisions of shapes. The subjects, a couple of dancers lifted from a Degas painting, are taken out of their context and put into a new one, depicting a sea of mud and two horizons, resulting in a piece that merges contrasts into unison.

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GEOFF CHADSEY United States Represented by La Petite Mort Gallery geoffreychadsey.com

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GILLIAN KING Ottawa, Ontario Represented by La Petite Mort Gallery gillianking.com

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“Flesh Garden sounds like bare skin on a leather couch, has the soft red glow of a salt lamp, and has the thick smell of a spice shop.”

She tends to create work that fragments both human bodies, as well as those of animals, to explore issues of consumption, exploitation, consent, sexuality, fragility and mortality. By researching and representing topics such as industrial farming, hunting, culinary trends, as well as current scientific animal experimentation, her paintings hone in on the contradictory elements of these aspects of human-animal relationships while exploring our fragility and mortality. Originally thinking she’d become a ceramic artist, it wasn’t long before King became immersed with painting. Having graduated in 2011 at the University of Manitoba, King has since been maintaining studios in Winnipeg, Montreal and currently Ottowa, where she will attend the University this Fall to obtain her Masters in Painting. She aims to continue to build on current themes and ideas and exhibit both locally and internationally.

‘Our Bodies Became Malleable’ Oil on canvas 51 x 61 cm

“Our Bodies Became Malleable” stems from intimate photo’s of the human form, taken and sent online. These forms have been fragmented and manipulated within a vast and ominous landscape and actually represents a shift from Gillian King’s previous works. The Canadian painter, curator, and art educator solely focused on the human form and used personally sourced images for this piece, creating a more inward and personal exploration compared to previous works that dealt with broader issues.

JAMES HUCTWITH Toronto, Canada Represented by La Petite Mort Gallery

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Feeling it was time to regroup and rediscover where he wanted to go with the work, Huctwith moved all his work back to Ontario, placing past work with Antonio Arch Fine Arts Ltd. in Toronto, and signing up with Galerie La Petite Mort in Ottawa. His first show there, in the fall of 2009, was a success. Both published and regularly reviewed, his work is collected both nationally and internationally.

‘L.J.’, oil on canvas 15 x 20 cm

James Huctwith lives and work in downtown Toronto. He has studied Fine Art for three years at the University of Guelph, primarily interested in theory, history and architecture. He began producing and exhibiting professionally with the O’Connor Gallery in 1995. He was with the gallery for a decade. In the spring of 2005, Huctwith joined Gallery Jones in Vancouver for two years, and produced a run of ‘colder’ non-figurative works, in contrast to the O’Connor shows which had been physically and emotionally explicit. Huctwith left O’Connor and joined Galerie Harwood near Montreal, also for two years, starting in 2006. The work produced for this gallery was marked primarily by considered re-interpretations of the still life genre.

KAJA IRWIN Canada Represented by La Petite Mort Gallery

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MARC NERBONNE Quebec, Canada Represented by La Petite Mort Gallery marcnerbonne.com soundcloud.com/mimikmagazine

Nerbonne has studied Arts and Design at the University of Quebec, where he obtained his certificate in 2003, and has since exhibited his work in both group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States and Canada. He is currently working his next exhibition, which will take place in Ottawa, Canada, in November 2014 at Galerie St-Laurent plus Hill.

‘The Wretched – Part Two’ Mixed media 38 x 38 cm

The artist has a unique approach to the creation of his work. During nightfall, he will drive around, looking for roadkill, which he will then photograph from all angles, expanding his obscure collection of images depicting death. These photographs become the foundation upon which he builds by working with acrylic paint, ink and spray paint. With his work, Marc Nerbonne aims to raise awareness in the viewer in terms of our mortality and finiteness.

“With my work, I aim to raise awareness in the viewer in terms of our mortality and finiteness”

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MARCUS KOPPEN Amsterdam, The Netherlands Selected by Mimik Magazine marcuskoppen.com

“I want my images to engage the viewer to take a closer look and reevaluate what they’re seeing; reflecting upon their own lives while doing so”

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Their bodies tell of their physical and emotional struggle to change, to become what they have always dreamt of: though born as boys, most of them desire to look like glamorous international supermodels or famous movie stars. These portraits try to capture their intense personal struggle in making their transformation. Behind the ladyboys’ dreams are fundamental human issues that touch upon identity, body, beauty, sexuality, race and the longing to be accepted.

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‘The Girl got Balls’ is an ongoing portrait project of Ladyboy (transgender woman) in Thailand who come from all social classes and ages.

MARTIN DOUVIL Montreal, Canada Represented by La petite Mort Gallery

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Martin Douvil’s main subject within his artwork is human intimacy; being nudes, anatomy or eroticism. He paints with increasing accuracy, sensitivity and naturalism to the topic he observes.

He has had solo exhibitions in Montreal and surrounding areas until his participation in the FIMA in the summer of 2004. Towards the end of that year, he signed a representation contract with the gallery Quab of Calgary. For each of the following three years, he has had a solo and several group exhibitions.

‘Right Ear’ Oil on wood panel, 8 x 8 cm

Besides the academic support he received from artist Irena Korosec during 2002, he considers himself mostly selftaught. He has been oil painting for the last 12 years with traditional techniques in a genre that joined the new American realist style.

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MATTHEW STRADLING North London, United Kingdom Represented by La petite Mort Gallery matthewstradling.com

‘Boxer 12’ Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm

He has won the Eaton Fund for Artists in 1997 and has had over 10 solo exhibitions mainly in London in the past 14 years.

‘Navel’ Oil on canvas 20 x 20 cm

He obtained an honours degree in Fine Art (painting) from St. Martins School of Art in London in 1985, where after he graduated with a masters degree in Fine Art from the University of Reading in 1989. Being one of the most accomplished painters of the male nude in Britain today, he is represented in many art collections all over the world and works from his studio in North London.

‘Nipple’ Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm

The sensuality of the human form - often nude - is celebrated by much of Matthew Stradling’s work. The textures of the flesh are captured with the use of layers of color and the use of light. His paintings convey a certain melancholic yearning for lost eras and a child-like sense of wonder but with the necessary dose of humour.

‘Boxer 10’ Oil on canvas 30 x 30 cm

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NARUKI KUKITA United States naruki.tumblr.com

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PETER SHMELZER Ottawa, Canada Represented by La petite Mort Gallery

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Shmelzer admittedly started painting upon finding his deceased father’s paint box in his basement when he was a child. It instantly fuelled his fascination for paint and the notion of creating representational interpretations with the simple stroke of a brush. Besides the occasional job as a mover, house painter, bartender and set painter for TV commercials, Peter has been working professionally as an artist since leaving school in 1994 and has shown in several Canadian cities, as well as South America.

‘Untitled’ Oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm

Canadian artist Peter Shmelzer is driven by the desire to create characters and situations that will provoke strong, emotional responses from the viewer. He wants to make work that defies rational explanation and which must be understood through the filter of the viewer’s experience and empathy.

SADDO Bucharest Represented by La petite Mort Gallery

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He is a Romanian artist, illustrator and muralist. He started his artistic career as founder of one of the first Romanian street art collectives, The Playground, in a time when a freshly graduated artist didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have other possibilities than to be a graphic designer or a teacher. But his street art activity brought a fresh fun vibe to the whole way of perceiving art and the world, and opened a door to many different projects, commissions for advertising agencies, collaborations with galleries in Bucharest, Vienna, Berlin, Copenhagen, Stockholm, New York, Los Angeles, Montreal, Glasgow, Salvador, etc.

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Garden of Good & Evilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Mixed media on wood panel, 30 x 30 cm

Going through many different phases and influences, from horror movie posters, street art, comics, Saddo has recently developed his style into more elaborate shapes, with many different influences from old masters of 15th - 17th century, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Bosch, Brueghel, Walton Ford, naturalistic illustration, pop surrealism, religion, mythology.

SCOOTER LAFORGE New York City, United States Represented by La petite Mort Gallery

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‘Severed Hand’ Oil on linen 41 x 41 cm

His heros are popeye, witches and monsters. He loves punks, weirdos, femme tops and butch bottoms. Scooter LaForge lives and works in a tiny apartment in the East Village in New York. He describes himself as ‘a starving artist who eats black beans and tuna fish out of the can’. After graduating with a painters degree from the University of Arizona, he built up an impressive painting career in San Francisco, where after he moved to New York. He has shown at numerous galleries around the Big Apple and has recently collaborated with Patricia Field to create a collection of garments printed with his drawings.

SHARON VANSTARKENBURG Ottowa, Canada Represented by La petite Mort Gallery

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She obtained a Honourary Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Ottawa in 1997, where after she completed the first semester of a Master of Arts at the New York University in 2007. She has had over 20 group exhibitions in the last 10 years and six solo exhibitions in Ottawa.

‘Apis regina: Honey Tips’ Mixed media/oil on wood panel, 25 x 25 cm

Sharon VanStarkenburg’s work is anchored in narrative. She often centers on a female figure and the subjects evolve in a continuing exploration of self with regards to childhood experiences, nostalgia, psychological states, ancestry, sex and identity. The body is often referenced in her work, either by its presence or absence. Art is for Sharon VanStarkenburg a way to communicate in an honest, human and visceral way.

VERÓNICA BAPÉ Mexico City, Mexico Represented by La petite Mort Gallery

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Verónica Bapé’s work is about an interest in issues such as ugliness, abandonment and frustration. She develops her production work in the field of painting, graphics and video. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Art at the National School of Painting, Sculpture and Engraving ‘La Esmeralda’ in Mexico in 2007. She has participated in several group and solo exhibitions such as ‘Thoughts over landscapes’ at Tal Cual Gallery in 2010 and ‘If you can see me, I can see you’ at La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea in 2013, both in Mexico City. Her work as an illustrator has been published in the book ‘Out of actions: between performance and the object 1949 – 1979’ in 2012.

‘Unheimlich series’ Oil on canvas paper, 23 x 30 cm

Photography Annelies Kietselaer & Nana van Dijk Styling Joa Hitpass MUA Nina Engelberts

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