Nina Buxenbaum Video
Nina Buxenbaum
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Courtesy New Canaan Library – The Curtis Gallery, New Canaan, CT, 2018
Nina Buxenbaum
Nina Buxenbaum
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Nina Buxenbaum Statement
Nina Buxenbaum
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Statement
I began my work as an exploration of images of African American women in our society. As an African-American woman of mixed heritage, I approach my work as an opportunity to position women of color into the Western Art Canon where we have been conspicuously absent. We judge a culture and a civilization by the images and art objects that they create. I have always focused on creating honest and personal depictions of women, particularly women of color, as a means to provide an alternative to the stereotypes prevalent in our culture.
I use the “Topsy-Turvy doll” as a metaphor of black women and the way we learn to define ourselves. The doll, whose name is derived from the character of Topsy in the Harriet Beecher Stowe novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is designed to look like a southern belle on one side, but her dress conceals a black girl underneath. Through the flip doll, I explore my personal expression of self, as a biracial-woman, and also play with the metamorphosis of identity. I am also interested in the ability of this subject matter to address femininity as it relates to cultural constructs including class and race. The complexity of identity is one of transformation and redefinition: it is mutable.
These dueling images deal with some of the complexities of identity that go beyond race. Much of the work is autobiographical; it is the personal versus the public persona that I am exploring. The internal self and the self we project out to the world are often disparate or opposing, sometimes in subtle ways. As I continue to paint these women, I find deeper layers that tell more complex stories about who we are and who we pretend to be.
artwork: Pair, 24″ x 18″, Oil on panel, 2012
Nina Buxenbaum Biography
Nina Buxenbaum
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Biography
Double Identity by Nina Buxenbaum[/caption]Nina Buxenbaum was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY to a politically active, multi-racial household. She received her MFA degree in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis in drawing and printmaking.
Ms.Buxenbaum has participated in residencies at the Cité Interational des Artes in Paris, France, the Skowhegan School of Painting (Skowhegan, MN), The Artists Alliance (NY, NY), and The Byrdcliff Artist in Residence, (Woodstock, NY). Her work has been included in several exhibitions including the Studio Museum of Harlem (NYC, NY), the Kentler International Drawing Space (Brooklyn, NY), the Ingalls Gallery (Miami, FL), Rush Arts (NYC, NY), The Sampson Projects (Boston, MA), including a solo show at The Stella Jones Gallery (New Orleans, LA). Her work has been reviewed in the International Review of African American Art.
She is currently an Associate Professor at York College, CUNY, in Jamaica , NY, and Coordinator of the Fine Arts Discipline in the Department of Performing and Fine Arts. She maintains and active studio practice in Brooklyn, NY and Bethel, CT.
Empire Artwork
Artwork featured from Galerie Myrtis on Fox’s Empire
Empire WEDNESDAYS on FOX
Galerie Myrtis is pleased to announce that artwork by Jamea Richmond-Edwards, Jeffrey Kent and Arvie Smith will be featured on Fox’s new drama series Empire. The first episode will air January 7, 2015.
Synopsis: Hip-hop artist and CEO of Empire Entertainment, Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard), has always ruled unchallenged, but a medical diagnosis predicts he will be incapacitated in three years, which prompts the sharks to circle. Without further damaging his family, he must decide which of his three sons will take over. The reappearance of Cookie, his ex-wife (Taraji P. Henson), complicates things; she says he owes her for taking the fall for the drug-running that financed his early career.
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Emergence 2014 Opening Reception Photos
Emergence 2014: International Artists to Watch
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Artists Lovers: Exploring the Muse – About the Artist
I Was Always Here Before You (detail), 2012, by Michael Platt
Artists Lovers: Exploring the Muse
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About the Artist
Her work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the collections of the Reginald F. Lewis Museum and the U.S. State Department. Her latest work—a combination of tissue paper, printmaking, collage, and sculpture—was hailed by the International Review of African American Art as “a vibrant, beating assemblage of color.”
MK Asante is a bestselling author, award-winning filmmaker, hip-hop artist, and professor who CNN calls “a master storyteller and major creative force.”
Asante is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Buck, described by Maya Angelou as “A story of surviving and thriving with passion, compassion, wit, and style.” Buck is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick. His other books are It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop, Beautiful. And Ugly Too, and Like Water Running Off My Back.
Asante is a tenured professor of creative writing and film in the Department of English and Language Arts at Morgan State University.
Michael Platt’s imagery has centered on the transformation of the human spirit that occurs when it confronts imagined or actual events and circumstances. Using the female figure, he creates images intended to express traces of the human spirit, often inspired by spaces with a history and the presence of things left behind. Empty spaces are as much storytellers as those filled with living. Exploring the visual possibilities of such circumstances, Platt has addressed issues of slavery, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the levees, waiting, searching for home; and celebration.
Major exhibitions and publications include Celebrations: Three Generations of African American Women Sculptors: A Study in Paradox; Vice President and essayist for the Jacob Lawrence Catalog Riasonné Project, Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence (University of Washington Press, 2000); Sugar and Spice: The Art of Bettye Saar (Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 2003); Aminah Robinson: Aesthetic Realities/Artistic Vision in The Art of Aminah Robinson (Columbus Museum of Art, 2003); and Inner Being/Altered States: Painting the Life-Worlds of Beverly McIver’s Realities in The Many Faces of Beverly McIver (40 Acres Gallery, 2004). Most recently was her book, Hughie Lee-Smith, (2010) Pomegranate Press
Jose Mapily was born on August 13, 1941 in Washington, D.C. Mapily attended and graduated from Howard University in 1965, earning his B.A. degree in architecture. In 1972, Mapily earned his M.A. degree in city and regional planning, also from Howard University.
Mapily has also begun a career as an artist. His artwork can be described as gridlike paintings made out of white dots on a dark ground that resemble schematic drawings of buildings or circuit diagrams for electrical components. Mapily’s artwork appeared at the Gala Auction Exhibition at the WPA/Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Charly Palmer
Charly Palmer
Charly Palmer was born in 1960 in Fayette, Alabama and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A successful graphic designer and illustrator with his own design studio and Fortune 500 clientele, Palmer devotes much of his life to pursuing his fine art dreams, and is establishing himself as a fine artist of note.
Palmer has brought to his complex pictorial compositions a technique and style that are distinctive and readily identifiable. He has in the recent past created work under the assumed name “Carlos,” his alter ego. This allowed him, he says, the freedom to experiment, be spontaneous and have fun with his art. The result is a body of work that is less controlled and more abstract and primal. Constantly evolving and growing as an artist, Palmer has over time fused the two artistic styles to the degree that he found the perfect stylistic voice with which to express himself in the powerful “Civil Rights” series.
Charly Palmer studied art and design at the American Academy of Art, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and the School of the Art Institute, both in Chicago, and has taught design and illustration at the college level. His work is in private and public collections, which include Atlanta Life Insurance, McDonald’s Corporation, Miller Brewing Company, the Coca Cola Company and Vanderbilt University. He has had a number of one man shows in galleries in the United States. The artist has been the recipient of significant commissions including an official poster for the 1996 Olympics and the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau. He currently lives and works in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Susan Goldman Bio
Biography
Susan J. Goldman, artist, master printmaker, curator and filmmaker, is Founding Director of Printmaking Legacy Project ®, (PLP®) a non-profit based dedicated to the documentation, preservation and conservation of printmaking practice and history.
She is curator for Forward Press: 21stAmerican Printmaking, PLP®’s premier 2019 major national print exhibition for the greater Washington DC community, at the American University Museum, Katzen Center for the Arts.
Goldman is also Founding Director of Lily Press®, which began as a private studio in 2000. Her first collaborative projects included Elizabeth Catlett, and most recently for Sam Gilliam, Sylvia Snowden, Keiko Hara.
Goldman received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indiana University-Bloomington in 1981, and a Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University-Tempe, in 1984.
After moving to Washington in 1990, Goldman taught printmaking at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, MICA, Georgetown University, and was Master Printer/Program Director at Pyramid Atlantic.
From 2000-2012 was Adjunct Professor/Master Printer for Navigation Press at George Mason University-Fairfax.
Goldman received a National Endowment for the Arts Grant 2011-12, as producer and director of Midwest Matrix ®, an hour-long groundbreaking documentary videotape DVD on the fine art printmaking tradition of the American Midwest.
Goldman sustains a full-time vibrant studio practice producing and exhibiting her own work nationally and internationally. Her work is in private and public collections worldwide