DAVID OSTROWSKI

DAVID OSTROWSKI
1981 born in Cologne
2004-2009 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Lives and works in Cologne

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☁ DAVID OSTROWSKI

SUNIL GAWDE

SUNIL GAWDE
1960 Born in Mumbai
1980 Completed training in Fine Art from Sir. J.J School of Art, Mumbai
1995 Awarded the Charles Wallace Award 95/96 by British Council with a residency at Glasgow School of Art, U.K., for the period of one year
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CHRIS DOROSZ

"The ‘paint drop’ sculptures develop the idea of the ‘staple paintings’ further by trapping fallen paint drops in a grid work of clear vertical rods. Through the viewer’s movements in aligning and de-aligning these pixel-like paint drops, full body portrait forms emerge and vanish. By placing my subjects in a form of ‘stasis’ through the medium I mean not only to protect them for a little while, but alternately to underscore the tenuous nature of human physicality where any moment life as we know it might just collapse into a pool of droplets or drift upwards into the atmosphere. " (Chris Dorosz)

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WEISHÄUPL PAINSTAKINGLY

Spending countless hours in front of Photoshop, Weishäupl painstakingly stitches together anonymous faces of people from the countries where the dictators once ruled. After much attention to every feature, hair, wrinkle and pore, the faces eventually morph into portraits of Mugabe, Pinochet, Hitler, Mao and more.

☁ WEISHÄUPL PAINSTAKINGLY @ WALLPAPER
☁ WEISHÄUPL PAINSTAKINGLY @ WALLPAPER

SUN YUAN AND PENG YU

"Sun Yuan and Peng Yu are two of China's most controversial artists, renown for working with extreme materials such as human fat tissue, live animals, and baby cadavers to deal with issues of perception, death, and the human condition. In Old Person's Home Sun & Peng present a shocking scene of an even more grotesque kind. Hilariously wicked, their satirical models of decrepit OAPS look suspiciously familiar to world leaders, long crippled and impotent, left to battle it out in true geriatric style. Placed in electric wheelchairs, the withered, toothless, senile, and drooling, are set on a collision course for harmless ‘skirmish' as they roll about the gallery at snail's pace, crashing into each other at random in a grizzly parody of the U.N.dead."(saatchi)

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☁ SUN YUAN AND PENG YU @ SAATCHI
☁ SUN YUAN AND PENG YU @ NY ARTS MAGAZINE

CATASTROERG

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ROBIN CLARE

"My subject matter focuses on discarded items, they make an interesting cultural mirror. Along with the discarded I have started exploring language, an exploration that began when I was thinking about how a title could transform the meaning of a work. I have always been fascinated with language and it's evolution. So the natural conclusion was to blend them with my painting. Choosing which phrases to use has been a really interesting process, for example some of my favourite phrases that I grew up with in Jamaica would leave most people outside the island completely stumped. So to begin with I have tried to use phrases that have filtered down through pop culture. My very first being "We could have been anything that we wanted to be" a line from one of the songs in Bugsy Malone, it seemed to fit perfectly with what my discarded appliances were singing about (in my head).

Along with line and text I employ pattern and blocks of clashing colour. One explanation for this is that it's strongly linked to my childhood in the Caribbean. My mother was a clothing manufacturer and I can remember going on trips to buy fabric, entering into the world of Pablos, an enormous warehouse in Montego Bay, full of reams of fabric, and the visual assault of colour, pattern and texture that ensued. I create my patterns using stencilling techniques with my designs taking inspiration from 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s surface design. I enjoy the variations that are left by the paint that has leaked through my stencil as I repeat my image, for me this imperfection makes an important statement about the work and the process of creating it.

The end products are a combination of some of my favourite things, colour, pattern, line drawing, discarded appliances and phrases. I feel they have a very pop art feel to them and in this series I can definitely see more of the influences of some of my favourite artist, Patrick Caulfield, Peter Blake, Joe Tilson, Jeff Koons, and Kenny Scharf."(ROBIN CLARE)

ROBIN CLARE
EDUCATION
2001 – 2004 BA(Hons) Painting, University of the Arts London, UK

AWARDS AND HONOURS
2006 Purchase prize, University of Leicester, UK
2002 British Columbia Arts Council Junior Award

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LUEUR D'ESPOIR

I am giving this duo of paintings for a fundraising silent auction Thursday September 10, 2009 at the Montreal Science Centre. The Young Leaders Circle of the Sainte-Justine Hospital Foundation is holding a fundraising event to finance the purchase of an ultrasonogram for Sainte-Justine UHC materno-fetal therapy clinic. Interested in the event or in the paintings? You can buy tickets now for that evening of discovery (for the whole family) by visiting the website.

Each heart is 24 x 24 inches.

☁ LUEUR D'ESPOIR

BENJAMIN ANDERSON

BORN in 1977, Santa Barbara, California.
STUDIED in Florence, Italy (1997) and graduated from the Academy of Art College in San-Francisco, California (2001).
LIVES in Carpinteria, Calfifornia.

☁ BENJAMIN ANDERSON

GX

A Montreal's inside view by photographer GX.

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☁ GX @ URBANIA