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Global Arts Projects Presents

The Inter­na­tional Artists at Home and Abroad Exhi­bi­tion Series

At The Broad­way Gallery NYC,

Decem­ber 1–30, 2010

Recep­tion: Thurs­day, Decem­ber 9th, 2010 6:00–8:00pm

The Artists at home and abroad exhi­bi­tion series is a rep­re­sen­ta­tion of both emerg­ing and estab­lished artists on an inter­na­tional scale. Explor­ing every­thing from the inter­sec­tion of abstrac­tion and fig­u­ra­tion to the sig­nif­i­cance of high and low art, each par­tic­i­pant cre­ates an entirely dif­fer­ent per­spec­tive within the cul­tural sphere of the art world.

The Artists at Home and Abroad exhi­bi­tion will be on dis­play at Broad­way Gallery, in con­junc­tion with sev­eral Inter­net projects, and a print cat­a­log. The exhibit will offer writ­ers and view­ers the chance to sub­mit essays and com­ments on the nature and sig­nif­i­cance of bien­ni­als, fairs and pub­lic expo­sure for new and emerg­ing artists. Fea­tur­ing many artists work­ing with both new and old medi­ums, The Artists at Home and Abroad exhi­bi­tion offers a plat­form for artists, cura­tors, gal­lerists as well as writ­ers to voice their ideas on the con­tem­po­rary art world.

Fea­tur­ing Art by Lo, Nana Bag­davadze, George Bates, Ulla-Britt Bolin, Aase-Hilde Brekke, Stephen Chopek, Claire Fearon, Laura Fung, Sidyk Gayoso, Kristina Garon, Luminita Gliga, Delma Godoy, Kerry Grø­neng, Serioshka Hell­mund, Nabeela Al Khayer, Lau Gal­lico Klohe, Juan Lopez, Madama, Melinda McCarthy, Hye Ja Moon, Ana Negro, John Gesager Nielsen, Rosae Novichenko, Tim Oka­mura, Claire Phipps, Pablo Sebas­t­ian Pisacco, Sarah T. Pow­ers, Rotem Reshef, Cristina Rodriguez, Roger Sayre, Hanna Scheriau, Ingvill Sol­berg, Yolanda Sousa, Charles Swen­son, Kelly Vet­ter, Ilona van Hoek, Lucy Wilner, Pedro Rosario Yaba, and Grady Zee­man.

Global Arts Projects “Artists at Home and Abroad” is a group exhi­bi­tion that spot­lights a selec­tion of artist from around the globe who each cre­ates new global per­spec­tives with their art.

See pho­tos and video of the open­ing recep­tion in our Artist News section.

Nature Vs. Nurture

Novem­ber 1 — 24, 2010

Open­ing Recep­tion: Thurs­day, Novem­ber 4, 6 — 8 PM

Human self-domestication has surged with the rapid devel­op­ment of mod­ern soci­ety, yet we remain teth­ered to our wild nat­ural his­tory. Evo­lu­tion lags behind domes­ti­ca­tion, and con­tin­ues to drive us with prim­i­tive instincts. “Nature Vs. Nur­ture” col­lects images that depict the ten­sion between oppos­ing forces, one wild and one domes­tic, that char­ac­ter­ize the human psyche.

Stephen Chopek’s styl­ishly straight­for­ward col­lage Beauty rep­re­sents the idea by jux­ta­pos­ing an ancient skull with con­tem­po­rary, lip­stick primped lips. Sim­i­larly, Chopek’s Domes­tic com­bines an anti­quated, fur-laden man with a mod­ern appli­ance: the dish­washer. Chopek’s use of strik­ingly improb­a­ble images enhances the con­trast between the prim­i­tive and the domes­ti­cated that are entwined within each of us.

Tim Okamura’s paint­ing Siob­han (Whis­per­ing) illus­trates the close rela­tion­ship between the wild and domes­tic forces of human per­son­al­ity by repeat­ing the sub­ject in two forms. Their mutual entan­gle­ment is evi­dent as one per­son­al­ity whis­pers devi­ously into the ear of the other. The sly smile on the recipient’s face tells us she is get­ting a dia­bol­i­cal idea. Often our two selves, the wild and the domes­tic, are con­ceived as being two faces of one moral coin; the one good and the other evil – although it is not always clear which is which. This dual­ity is echoed by Okamura’s back­drops of urban graf­fiti, which evokes the ten­sion between mod­ern city life and our untamed past. Okamura’s new paint­ings for “Nature vs. Nur­ture” are an exten­sion of this theme.

“Sit­ting,” a series of pho­tographs by Roger Sayre, also seeks to rep­re­sent the mul­ti­ple per­son­al­i­ties that exist within each of us. Sayre uses a pin­hole cam­era to make a por­trait of each sub­ject, the expo­sure occur­ring over the course of an hour, which cre­ates “a like­ness of the sit­ter that is pos­si­bly truer than a tra­di­tional fraction-of-a-second pho­to­graph or snap­shot. One can­not hold any sin­gle expres­sion for the span of an hour; instead, all expres­sions are merged into one image. The sitter’s essence, dis­tilled over time, is revealed” (Sayre, rogersayre.com). Sayre is able to con­cen­trate the oppos­ing forces con­tend­ing within each sit­ter into sin­gu­larly haunt­ing photographs.

From the sym­bolic to the lit­eral, each of the artists in this exhi­bi­tion explore how the dis­parate aspects of human nature coex­ist within us, in a way that is indi­vid­u­ally unique, yet cohe­sive in their nar­ra­tive qual­ity and dark under­tones. In addi­tion to the afore­men­tioned artists, the exhi­bi­tion will include George Bates, Greg Brickey, Niina Cochran, Linda Rae Cough­lin, Jor­dan Eagles, Bon­nie Glo­ris, Jordin Isip, Lau Gal­lico Klohe, Chang Park, Nathan Pick­ett, D. Jack Solomon, and Kelly Vet­ter, whose work will sup­port the theme of the exhi­bi­tion through var­i­ous medi­ums, includ­ing 2-D, 3-D, and sketch­book work.

Much as a char­ac­ter in a car­toon that has an angel stand­ing on one shoul­der and a devil on the other, we must con­stantly decide which side to lis­ten to. Why is the domes­ti­cated self more preva­lent in some, while the prim­i­tive self dom­i­nates oth­ers? Is one, in fact, more desir­able than the other? These are the ques­tions explored in “Nature Vs. Nurture.”

Click to see pho­tos from the open­ing reception