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NY Special Edition 2012
SPECIAL EDITION
New York City

 

Ten artists living in New York City were encouraged to reflect over the guiding principles in their creative process and they were then invited to reinterpret them in an entirely new way.  One artist, each hour from 8 am. to 8 pm. will reveal his/her new making!

Join us and discover the exciting ways in which these artists extended their visual articulations.  It’s open, it’s free, and it’s in and around Union Square!

Artists:

Find us in the southwest corner of the park by the Gandhi statute, at the start of each hour.

When: Saturday, September 29th, 2012

Where: Union Square, NY

 

See official invitation »   (design by Ronny Quevedo)

Antonio Ortuño

8 to 8: Antonio Ortuño

"Blind Date"

We thank artist/photographer Edu Milieris for documenting Antonio’s piece.  For more info. about his work:  www.facebook.com/edu.milieris

Fear, love, pleasure, anguish, happiness, anxiety, doubt are, for me, my plan of action.  Every time there is an idea to realize, a project in life, behind the scenes there is a process of maturing or of experiencing sensations, which prompts us to carry out our ideas with uncommon enthusiasm.

www.antonioortuno.com

Gisela Insuaste

8 to 8: Gisela Insuaste

"Mini-moss color moments @ Union Square"

Moss has the floral meaning of charity and maternal love...  “Moss is selected to be the emblem of maternal love, because that love, it glads the heart when the winter of adversity overtakes us, and when summer friends have deserted us."  (henrietta dumon, the floral offering, 1852)

My work explores the intersection of architecture, topography and memory through paintings, sculptures and installations.  I incorporate scale, line, and color, to create seemingly collapsible and fragmented spaces composed of interdependent elements that are abstract or ambiguous, and reflect our fragile yet dynamic relationship between the built and natural environment.

www.giselainsuaste.com

Hilario Alonso and Olga Rudenko

8 to 8: Hilario Alonso

"Step Into Someone Else’s Shoes"

The performance reflects a repetitive life situation when a person faces a variety of choices and must make a decision which one to pick.  Although none of the choices perfectly reflects one’s beliefs or values or fits one’s identity, the person makes the best choice following his/her personal judgment and moves on.  Every choice the person makes leads him/her somewhere but it is not clear if it is forward or backward as the person moves in a random pattern.

Painting is like an open door.  Once you walk through it, a journey begins.  Nature and the cycles of life are my inspiration.  I use multiple layers of color and shapes to echo the covering and uncovering process of the earth and its constant movements.  Through painting I transcend the actual experiences that inspire me and by doing so, I begin to discover them on a spiritual level.

www.hilarioalonso.com
orudenko@hotmail.com

Ketta Ioannidou

8 to 8: Ketta Ioannidou

"Fallen Sky"

My fallen sky piece made of swatches of colored fabric tied together was made to resemble the composition of one of my paintings that tweak light and weather phenomena in ambiguous surroundings that make it unclear whether we are observing sea or sky, right side up or upside down, or a continuation of a large mass.

My recent paintings bring out the details of amorphous light and weather phenomena, which transform into exploding microcosmic organisms, grasses drifting underwater or celestial collisions.  Nebulous forms mutate into intense bursts or dissipate and fade away; often leaving a colorful trail that results in a vivid afterimage.  Frozen in time at various states of being they remain viable metaphors for memory and motion.

www.kettaioannidou.com

Lina Puerta

8 to 8: Lina Puerta

"Puddlescapes"

Creation of subtle synthetic flora interventions in a found puddle in and around Union Square.

We thank artist/photographer Edu Milieris for documenting Lina’s piece.  For more info about his work:  www.facebook.com/edu.milieris

Inspired by the physical commonalities within Nature and the human body, I create hybrid anatomical and botanical forms or scenes that questions human's divergence from the natural world.  I am interested in the spiritual oneness and interconnectedness of body and nature as one living force.

www.linapuerta.net

Manuel Acevedo

8 to 8: Manuel Acevedo

"Eyes on US (Union Square)"

The eye is the primary organ of sense perception closely connected to light, the sun and the spirit.  It is an instrument of soulful-intellectual expression.  For the purpose of this project, I engaged with the public and documented individual participant’s eyes with a retro fitted macro lens (2-3 inches away).  The eyes photographed at Union Square reflect nuances of color, light, the landscape, Occupy residents, post-punk teens, tourists, monuments and the Greenmarket, capturing ephemeral impressions of surrounding life.

The working title is Eyes on US (Union Square).  This body of work is inspired by Al-hacen’s first experiments in a darkroom written and published in his Book of Optics (dated approximately 1029 AD).  The proposed project frames the photographic image within science, art, and the history of portrait photography.

www.vimeo.com/manuelacevedo

Mariano Cinat

8 to 8: Mariano Cinat

"Paint over me"

It is the emotion elicited through the music in opera that I use to arrive at my creative conceptions.  In the past my work has dealt with the themes of nature and women and I’ve kept some of these elements in my current body of work.  I am currently examining the constructions of set designs used in operas; which are expressions that intrigue me.

www.marianocinat.com

Rafael T. Melendez

8 to 8: Rafael Melendez

"Fame"

Fame was a journey of discovery, experimentation and fun mixed together.  I started out with one idea that transformed itself a an exercise in creativity, style and social commentary.  I wanted to do so many things given Union Square's rich history.  What turned out happening was me focusing into NYC knack for myth building; its need to create a history that it can sell to the masses.  I hope the images taken by Adam Hendricks are a reflection on my observations and speak for themselves.

We thank artist/photographer Adam Hendricks for documenting Rafael’s piece.  To see more of his work:  www.adamhendricks.com

Artist Rafael T. Melendez works across many disciplines including painting, drawing and collage in the development of art that delves into sexuality as celebrity.  He challenges art historical language by condensing it into gossip and forms fashion systems for the many, many-headed and many-limbed new beings that populate his visual landscapes.

www.todayistomorrownyc.com

Sujin Lee

8 to 8: Sujin Lee

"Time/Hour 2012"

I will carve the Korean word for time and hour, which happens to be the same word, out of soap for an hour.  The consonants and vowels will be given away after 12 pm.  Maybe a small snail too.

I work with text, video and performance, exploring the way in which different cultural and linguistic systems affect the performative act of language.  I am interested in the physical act of speaking language, translating spoken text into written text and vice versa, and the resulting disjuctures that uncover basic imperfections of language.  I often use dubbing and subtitles, juxtaposing spoken and written texts to explore the notion of "perfect" speech, the relationship between image and sound, and the ownership of language.

www.sujinlee.org

Vidal Centeno

8 to 8: Vidal Centeno

"Lyra8"

Lyra8 is a hypertext fiction project based on an account that begins with the conjunction of a struggling writer, an esoteric book, that may or may not exist, the writer’s literary hero and a constellation.

My primary interest lies in initiating and capturing recurrent or spontaneously occurring dynamic visual and discursive phenomena.

www.vidalcenteno.com

 

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