New media and abstract works at Fish with Braids

7 exhibits  of New Media works, abstract and interactive
displays at
Fish with Braids Gallery
190 Columbus Drive, Jersey City      Oct 12 - Nov 4,  2012
receptions with artists, performances, during Open Studios  Oct 12 -14
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Binary Dreams/ Flux
“Binary Dreams” brings forth a fusion of the technical brain and the intuitive in the form of new innovative arts that depict the vast and transpersonal experiences of dreams. With the advent of new technology emerging and novelty dropping new seeds constantly into the oceans of the mind, the abstractions of dreaming are constantly fractalling out into an explosion of new diverse realities that become available for exploration when one abandons the senses to sleep and plunges inwards. Vincent Zambrano and Kaliptus are bringing back the raw dream elements and translating them out into the mundane world. The art works themselves vary in style and medium but work together like a perfect blend of opposite dualities. They create an overall effect of wholeness, diversity and surreal futurism.
artists:
Vincent Zambrano(JC), Kaliptus(Harrison NJ)
curator: Veronica Santi, (Florence Italy)

Dimensional Portraits
Multidimensional portraits, created with paintings, literary quotes, video animation and music.
The viewer enters an experience about a person, a visual literary encounter.
artist: Fermin Mendoza (JC native, Morris county)
curator: Uta Brauser

Abstract geometry
Peter Bill's abstract geometric forms with his life-long devotion to color theory involves
painstakingly rendered stripes and shapes, by hand, with perfected skill.
The summary of shapes creates a trompe l'oeuil three dimensionality.
artist: Peter Bill (JC)
curator: Uta Brauser

Unpolitically correct characters exploiting themselves
The underground Urban characters of androgenous, colorful, queer and love for life creatures
are Stephanie's observations of a New Yorker upbringing and life style.
artist and curator: Stephanie Riggi (JC)


Abstractions
The artist uses a technique called video performance painting. First video images are projected onto a blank canvas.
Next the artist begins painting the moving video images. Each brush stroke creates a different visual layer for the viewer.
The viewers are not only seeing the projections they are seeing the paint create a different image all together.
Olivia's  paintings  are the out come of this visual layering process.
Performances are scheduled    saturday at 4 pm, sunday at 7pm
artist, curator: Olivia Wilber (JC)


Spanking machine
The multidimensional experience of observing and/or physically immersing into the depth of pain
or physical intensity combined with the social aspect of the public's presence  will make this display
unforgettable.
artist, curator: Uta Brauser (JC)

Becoming Visible
The linear patterns in Becoming Visible were inspired by wood carvings and bronze statues from Benin, West Africa.
Many of these works depict the king or "Oba" of Benin with contours of his face.Traditionally some ethnic groups used these lines
to identify each other after they had been separated.
In this case I place the lines on an image of my own face to express empathy for the families of innocent African American men whose lives
were taken unjustly.
artist, curator: Eto Otitigbe (NYC)

Cold in the Sun
"is a new media piece on reflections with my father's progressing dementia. "cold in the sun" was one of the phrases
I would find him mumbling to himself.
In this video  I reenact some of the phrases my father would mumble while sitting
around the house as if they were a series
of flashbacks.
Through the use of Delaunay Triangulation the video gradually abstracts itself as my father gets
deeper into his memories.
Delaunay Triangulation is a method of computational geometry that can be used to model
complex surfaces without having to measure the exact dimensions of all surface points.
It is typically used to model terrains where only some points of altitude are known.
     
In this case I assume the role of my father and attempt to reenact some of his mannerisms.
Although I did not know much about him I have a few data points form which to model his behavior."
artist, curator: Eto Otitigbe (NYC)

exploring faerie-lands art opening

As artists we often delve into the realms of imagination, exploring the mythologies that permeate human culture. We cross boundaries into other worlds within or own minds, creating artwork to invite the viewer to share our visions. Humanity has been creating Faerielands from the very beginning. We have a need to explain the unknown. Even now, when most of us have a better understanding of the workings of the universe, these imaginary tales still have a powerful hold on us. We WANT to believe there is something dark lurking in the woods, we WANT to believe that a mirror can be a passage to another world, we WANT to believe there are spirits in the trees, we WANT to believe we can fly if only we believe hard enough, we WANT to believe in Faeries, Imps, Succubae, Gnomes, Elves, Mermaids... This exhibition includes work that expresses this exploration of humanity’s need to create stories of mysterious other worlds that intersect our own. Some are literal, others more interpretive. Not all actually show these other worlds, some just hint at the possibility of what could be around the corner. LITM, tuesday may 1, 7-10 pm,   140 Newark Ave, downtown JC

VERNAL EQUINOX, art opening reception

exhibit at Shampoo JC,  107 Christopher Columbus Drive, JC,  march 20, 6-9pm

The Vernal Equinox occurs when the sun shines directly on the equator, resulting in day and night of equal lengths and signaling, at last, the advent of spring in the Northern Hemisphere.
The Equinox has been a time of celebration throughout human history and across cultures. It is a time of rebirth, fertility, new beginnings, the cycle of life.
This show features artistic interpretations of this joyful time.
Christopher Stuart, Bojana Coklyat, Torukpa Agbegha, Odo, Stephanie Riggi, Gina Lucia, Andrea Morin, Jaden Rogers, Eleanor Morin, Beth Achenbach