ART

noun the various branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance.

Jan Kaláb

Artist Statement

I am an abstract artist working with various mediums and different types of techniques. Shape and color are the main characters of my work, which I push and blend together to exaggerate, or minimize, forms and to express my artistic self. My paintings teeter on the edge of sculpture and my sculptures are mostly painted.

I am inspired by nature and both, the micro and macro, cosmos. Sometimes my shapes may resemble a particular form, but my intention is not to capture nor replicate an existing image or narrative. Rather, I'm looking for universal beauty in an unseen and novel perspective, and telling a different interpretation of, perhaps, a known story. The sensations you get when you remember any special moment or melody; this feeling of déjà vu is what I strive to achieve and wish to resonate with my audience. I paint with acrylic on custom-sized organic shaped frames made in my studio. I create sculptures from different materials, such as wood, resin, or bronze. I like to do light suspended installations. It is also important for me to work in a virtual space, so I can translate my physical art into digital forms, such as augmented realities, or animated

NFTs. My sources of inspiration for my work are inexhaustible.

Jan Kaláb Short Bio

Jan Kaláb was born in 1978 in Czechoslovakia and is one of the country’s most notable contemporary artists’ today.

His creative roots are based in graffiti, street art, and mu- rals and he is widely recognized within the founding pioneers of the Prague scene. Since then, Jan’s work has evolved to paintings, sculptures, and 3-D graffiti, and he has exhibited in high profile galleries around the world, including New York, Miami, London, Paris, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro. Jan’s work consistently explores new techniques and structures. Through geometrizing morphology, precise acrylic painting, and layered surfaces - he embarks on an analysis of space within a classic ideology, however, redirects the known into the unknown; into a new dimension. With an everlasting commitment, joy of playful discovery, and infinite possibilities, Jan Kaláb’s work is free and vaste. He lives and creates in Prague.

Jan Kaláb

Longer Bio

Born in 1978 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Jan Kaláb is one of the country’s most notable contemporary artists’ today. A founding pioneer of the Prague underground graffiti, and street art scene, formerly known as Cakes, and with his crew, The DSK - together they animated city streets, and spent many sleepless nights in train yards, and perhaps, a few nights too in police stations.

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Following those glory days, Jan’s work has evolved to 3-D graffiti, light suspended installations, animated

NFTs, paintings, and sculptures. His paintings teeter on the edge of sculpture and his sculptures are mostly painted. All the while, shape and color are the main characters of his work, which he pushes and blends together to exaggerate, or minimize, forms. Sometimes Jan’s work may resemble a particular shape, but it is never his intention to capture, nor replicate an existing image or narrative. Rather, he seeks universal beauty in an unseen and novel perspective, and redirects the known into the unknown; into a new dimension. The sensations of déjà vu, like when remembering a special moment or melody; this is the ultimate feeling, Jan strives to achieve and wishes to resonate with his audience.

A Masters graduate from the Academy of Fine Arts of

Prague in 2006, Jan had his first solo exhibition shortly thereafter in 2008 at the acclaimed Trafo Gallery, an exclusive art space notorious for showing only outstanding artists with limited shows of six per year. Since then, Jan has exhibited in high profile galleries around the world, including New York, Miami, London, Paris, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro.

Renowned Photographer Lynn Gilbert Shares “How a Portrait Became Iconic”

During Presentation in San Antonio

New York City-based photographer and author Lynn Gilbert, 85, presented “How a Portrait Became Iconic” recently at the Roosevelt Library, where she spoke about her process of photographing Louise Nevelson, considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

On view in the gallery at the Roosevelt Library is Gilbert’s exhibit “Women,” featuring portraits of Louise Nevelson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Julia Child, Billie Jean King, and Alice Neel.

In 1976, when Gilbert photographed Nevelson, she was an unknown children’s photographer, commissioned by Arne Glimcher, founder of the PACE Galleries. In 2022, nearly 50 years later Glimcher said, “Nevelson has been photographed by everyone, but this is the one portrait that captures her both as a person and as an artist.” Gilbert’s portrait of Nevelson, recognized as timeless, became the face of the 2022 Venice Biennale according to Art News. “The hour and a half that I spent photographing her and the additional hour or so we spent talking shaped my life,” Gilbert recalled.

Nevelson was the inspiration for Gilbert’s book “Particular Passions: Talks with Women Who Have Shaped Our Times” published in 1981. Women in the book include Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Julia Child, Billie Jean King, Barbara Walters Grace Murray Hopper and 43 other women. The book was described by The Washington Post in 2018 as “revolutionary for shedding light on the accomplishments of women … In the mid-70s the internet did not exist.” An historic period in American history is illuminated in Gilbert’s book with photographs and text of the women in their own words, who shaped the American landscape and opened doors for women around the world. Gilbert has devoted her craft to photograph areas of society that have not been photographed before. She spent almost 10 years traveling throughout Turkey to document the interiors of the traditional homes, an important part of Turkish cultural heritage. Gilbert captured portraits of the people who lived in these homes and villages along the Silk Road.

At 85 years young, Gilbert has no plans to slow down. The last few years she has documented a world-renowned garden in New York. She is also working on three documentary projects.

Gilbert is a documentary photographer and storyteller who has recorded areas of society that have not been recorded before. Gilbert's work has appeared in countless books, on book covers, newspapers, magazines, film, and business reports including the MOMA, the British Museum, Netflix and National Geographic, among others.

Her portraits are widely collected including in the National Portrait Gallery, the NY Historical Society, Vassar, Yale, as well as the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection, considered one of the finest private art collections in the world.

In addition to “Particular Passions,” her mid-1970s collection, “A Time Capsule of NYC ‘70s Kids,” portrays the unique individuality of children from more than 100 New York families of differing socioeconomic backgrounds. She also documented the interiors of the traditional houses in Turkey for almost a decade. Some of the work appears in her book “The Silk Road: Then and Now.” This work has been exhibited numerous times and appeared in Turkish editorials in all media.

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