First gallery exhibition of seemetellme projects
Monsters, Saints and Cool Summer Dresses
Monsters, Saints and Cool Summer Dresses
KEDAR STUDIO OF ART
585 Broad Street, 2nd fl, Newark, NJ 07102 http://www.kedarstudio.com/
September 16th to 24th. Reception for the artist September 16, 7-11pm
Monsters, Saints, and Cool Summer Dresses showcases three limited edition See Me Tell Me projects - Monsters III, ed. 50; Subway Saints III (mini), ed. 50; and See Me Tell Me Shifts (Graffiti) ed. 25.
The gallery is inviting viewers of the exhibition to participate in this series and acquire these works. Collectors register their acquisitions on the tag replacing each work and comment at the bottom of this page about the new addition to their collection or by emailing their comments to seemetellme@gmail.com .
Inspired by the social connectivity of the Street Art movement, social media, the work of photographer Walker Evans and a desire to free art from its function as commodity, artist Amy Young has conceptualized a series of works nestled in the art of giving and sharing, titled seemetellme. Since June 2010, Young has placed hundreds of tiny seemetellme street art works in New York, London and Paris. Using low-art materials and a strict time limit (an important part of her process); Young creates each piece in less than five minutes. Anonymity is not part of her working concept as Young identifies herself by putting her website address or QR code on each piece before she places it in public view.
The Little Monsters series is based on the Greek, Roman, Romanesque, and Gothic Revival faces and gargoyles you see on buildings all over New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, and Athens. A selection of these images was made into Little Monsters by mounting them on the front of clear 2 x 1 x 1 inch plastic boxes and lighting them with LEDs. They are filled with silver beads to reflect the light and to rattle, when shaken.
The Subway Saints series is inspired by an obsession with (and daily immersion in) the subway. They are also inspired by Walker Evans’ great work, Many are Called. In 1938, Walker Evans surreptitiously photographed people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his overcoat he captured the faces of Depression-era riders, each wrapped in their own unguarded private thoughts. Evans’ work represents portraiture in its purest state. Inspired by Evans, 250 clandestine images were shot in the subway. To create a Subway Saint each portrait was printed in color and assembled into an accordion-style book, complete with gold paint, beads, glitter, found papers and objects. Each book is placed in a 2 x 1 x 1 inch clear plastic box.
The See Me Tell Me Shifts are based on the thin, simple, summer dresses worn by fashionable New York women. For the first two series of See Me Tell Me Shifts the little dresses were decorated with patterns found in museums, galleries, and art fairs and heat transferred onto the surface of paper. But the imagery for this newest series is the street art and graffiti seen in London, Paris, Bushwick, Williamsburg, Chelsea and SoHo this spring and summer. The front of each dress is made from Japanese rice paper cut in the shape of a shift or sundress. On the back is a snippet from a shopping bag.
585 Broad Street, 2nd fl, Newark, NJ 07102 http://www.kedarstudio.com/
September 16th to 24th. Reception for the artist September 16, 7-11pm
Monsters, Saints, and Cool Summer Dresses showcases three limited edition See Me Tell Me projects - Monsters III, ed. 50; Subway Saints III (mini), ed. 50; and See Me Tell Me Shifts (Graffiti) ed. 25.
The gallery is inviting viewers of the exhibition to participate in this series and acquire these works. Collectors register their acquisitions on the tag replacing each work and comment at the bottom of this page about the new addition to their collection or by emailing their comments to seemetellme@gmail.com .
Inspired by the social connectivity of the Street Art movement, social media, the work of photographer Walker Evans and a desire to free art from its function as commodity, artist Amy Young has conceptualized a series of works nestled in the art of giving and sharing, titled seemetellme. Since June 2010, Young has placed hundreds of tiny seemetellme street art works in New York, London and Paris. Using low-art materials and a strict time limit (an important part of her process); Young creates each piece in less than five minutes. Anonymity is not part of her working concept as Young identifies herself by putting her website address or QR code on each piece before she places it in public view.
The Little Monsters series is based on the Greek, Roman, Romanesque, and Gothic Revival faces and gargoyles you see on buildings all over New York, Paris, London, Rome, Venice, and Athens. A selection of these images was made into Little Monsters by mounting them on the front of clear 2 x 1 x 1 inch plastic boxes and lighting them with LEDs. They are filled with silver beads to reflect the light and to rattle, when shaken.
The Subway Saints series is inspired by an obsession with (and daily immersion in) the subway. They are also inspired by Walker Evans’ great work, Many are Called. In 1938, Walker Evans surreptitiously photographed people on the New York City subway. With his camera hidden in his overcoat he captured the faces of Depression-era riders, each wrapped in their own unguarded private thoughts. Evans’ work represents portraiture in its purest state. Inspired by Evans, 250 clandestine images were shot in the subway. To create a Subway Saint each portrait was printed in color and assembled into an accordion-style book, complete with gold paint, beads, glitter, found papers and objects. Each book is placed in a 2 x 1 x 1 inch clear plastic box.
The See Me Tell Me Shifts are based on the thin, simple, summer dresses worn by fashionable New York women. For the first two series of See Me Tell Me Shifts the little dresses were decorated with patterns found in museums, galleries, and art fairs and heat transferred onto the surface of paper. But the imagery for this newest series is the street art and graffiti seen in London, Paris, Bushwick, Williamsburg, Chelsea and SoHo this spring and summer. The front of each dress is made from Japanese rice paper cut in the shape of a shift or sundress. On the back is a snippet from a shopping bag.