AprMon 2010 Filed in:
Deena's Artist Exposed

Jesse Winter
Studio: 10-10 47th Rd., Long Island City, Queens
Website: Jessewinter.com
Email: Jesse@jessewinter.com , thecompositelandscape.com
Upcoming Shows: The Composite Landscape & HOMEGROWNLIC Portraits
THE ARTIST STATEMENT:
The artist statement is a real challenge. I grew up upstate in Ithaca, New York. I found photography in my senior year in college, so I finished an English degree at Earlham College and then went straight into another BA in photography at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology). I have been freelancing in New York City since 2001. I hope to bring my work and my name forward this year in a new way and also nurture my place in the community, which I feel truly blessed to be a part of. Is that a digression from the artist statement?
THE SHOWCASE:
I make photographs, both traditional film and digital. I make art because it’s my impulse, and I try to do creative things whenever and to whatever I can in life. I also take a lot of pictures for the pure sake of commerce and the requirements of capitalism.
THE EXHIBIT:
Buzz1_HOMEGROWNLIC
20/24 inches. Digital C-Print from film.
Mounted and framed $350
Unframed $175READ MORE...Tags: Deena, Artist , Art
MarMon 2010 Filed in:
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Aaron Blumenshine
Email: Ashley@aaronblumenshine.com
Website: http://www.aaronblumenshine.com
Featured Art: Embedded
THE SHOWCASE:
My genre is dark fantasy mixed with high fashion. My medium is photography and I use a Canon 5D and a lot of hand-crafted props in my photos. I love to keep the photos honest and make sure to build all my props and avoid using Photoshop. What you see is what you get!
Making art is the single most important thing in my life. It allows me to express myself in a way that I couldn't live without.
THE ARTISTS’ STATEMENT:
Over the years I have realized that two hundredths of a second is almost impossible to understand; our time In this world goes by extremely fast. I’ve noticed that photography mimics memory. Like memory, photography is the only medium that can capture a fraction of a second and keep it forever. Just like a nostalgic thought, the photograph remembers something unseen by many, an intimate fraction of time with the subject.
THE EXHIBIT:

Embedded
24x44
$800.00 (limited edition)
Photography
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JanMon 2010 Filed in:
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Laura Perez-Harris
Contact: lperezh@g.risd.edu
Featured Art: ”Johnny Depp”
Q&A:
D: What do you make?
L: Art that pushes boundaries. I just make what comes out of me naturally through photographs, paintings, etchings and video.
D: What is your process?
L:I am a visual thinker. I imagine what I want something to look like first, or I am influenced by what I hear, and from that I interpret it on paper.
D: Why do you make art?
L: Because if I didn't, I would go crazy.
"My current work is about what we look up to and admire. What has happened to 'celebrity' and how it has changed our lives."
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DecMon 2009 Filed in:
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Renee Valenti
Contact: http://mysite.pratt.edu/~rvalent3/
reneevalenti@hotmail.com
THE ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
"I would like to bring something out there to people. I don’t want to be pinned down to one type of material, and I enjoy working with different things and subject matter. Although I like working with the figure the most, I want to be able to explore all kinds of things and ways to make something come to life. The most important thing to me is to be able to tell the stories I want to tell and to be able to paint someone so that someone can see them and really get what they are about, or maybe a certain side of them even if they don’t know them.”
When painting I enjoy working from photographs and collecting images. For me it’s easier than trying to work with a live model or outside. At least with photographs they will stay there for as long as you need them, and you can arrange them all together in any way you want. And you don’t have someone staring over you or anything.
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NovMon 2009 Filed in:
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”LQ” Lindsay Quale
Contact: gukumatz1111@yahoo.com
Website: www.brooklynartproject.com/facebook/myspace
http://brooklynartproject.ning.com/profile/LindsayQuayle
The Showcase:
Slowly pacing around the perimeter of Union Square, attempting to gussy up courage to approach strangers to ask them personal questions about their art, I felt a bright energy on the inside circle of the many kiosks lining the pavement of the park. I looked over and she was bouncing to music from a bongo set further into the park, and she smiled. She was engaged in another conversation. I didn't want to interrupt, so I kept pacing with intent to revisit her energy when she was available to talk.
I visited some other tables and came back. She was still in conversation, so i just started nervously thumbing through the small medium and larger prints that she was selling. Some originals were showcased, and the tiny prints didn't do the real things justice! They were still aesthetically appealing with their colors and movement but didn't have the same impact as the originals did, with their size, texture, and energy! 
Finally she noticed, perhaps, that I wanted to ask her a thing or two. As we started, suddenly and abruptly an older, overweight, sloppy but kind man approached her and asked if she was channeling a certain energy in her art. Their exact transference of words, i don't recall, but it was captivating and instead of being annoyed that he intervened on what I thought would give me answers, I stood listening and watching and smiling.
Their interaction was more telling than any amateur questions I could think to ask...
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NovMon 2009 Filed in:
Write-ups
I enjoy good energy. Whether it be within living beings, landscapes of nature, or man-made objects, there is energy in all. And it is all relative... If i feel uneasy energy in a place, I leave, if i feel captivating energy in a person, I spend as much time with they as I like. Life is what we make it, and we have the ability to wake up, brush our teeth, throw on a fo-furry vest and be on our way, we go. For most of us, our legs take us there, and for the fortunate ones, out hearts take us there. If unfortunately, out legs are not working or do not exists, as long as we are breathing, our heart is pumping and in that, nothing can inhibit our movement if we have will. On wednesday afternoon, my heart, my legs, and my will brought me to the Guggenheim. I enjoy the energy that Frank Lloyd Write architected in those walls... READ MORE...Tags: Deena, Guggenheim, Art, Kandinsky