Artist, Amy Row’s watercolor works are a hybrid of fantasy and cartoon. She combines these factors to create paintings geared to make you “turn your head or giggle.”
View and learn more about Row, here.
-Heather Liggins
Think warm thoughts. As the peak of the winter season (the treacherous months from January to February) is about to approach, swimwear designer, Lila Nikole Rivera, reminds us of the warm months ahead. Recently showcasing her collection at the AFP’s Closing Party at Miami Art Basel, Rivera offers a wide range of selections both in design and cuts. These handmade garments–worn on the likes of Kim Kardashian to super model Tocarra Jones–caters to individuality and expression. Need more proof? View, buy and learn more about Lila Nikole Rivera here.
-Heather Liggins
For painter Cameron Schmitz, she is interested in “mark making, visual perception, and the energetic act of image making.” This is an active element in all of her paintings.
To view and learn more about Schmitz, click here.
Bring in the New Year on Saturday, December 31, at Parlor–the Private Member’s Only club in SoHo. It will be a night packed with great music and food. AFP’s Gatto will be spinning. For more details and to buy tickets, click here.
-Heather Liggins
DJ Rob Paterson, a New York native, stems from a classical, Jazz/trumpet background. After listening to these funky house beats he mixes, the roots of his musical foundation is overshadowed. Not a believer? Listen to one of DJ Rob Paterson’s sets below, and to get the full bio, click here.
robpaterson djset lp and harmony 20111112 by multiplemono
-Heather Liggins
Georgia Wall was born and raised in New York, but is now practicing art in Chicago. Recently graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA, Wall is better known for creating collaborative short films, combining various disciplines of her performance and visual background. In the series of “Unseen Performances,” Wall flexes this duality, where a group of individuals unfold a story from “a performance that will remain unseen by all others. After these individuals have witnessed the event, they will provide accounts of what they have seen. Their narrative accounts create a new piece of work in which my body is no longer present.”
In Wall’s recent works, she has a heavier overlay of multiple voices narrating the story, bridging onto one another found in films “I.You.He.She.” or “Quant.” She describes this process as “seeking ways in which a performers physical identity can remain undefined.”
To view Georgia Wall’s short films, click here.
-Heather Liggins
Lucia Racekova is a fashion designer who participated in AFP’s Clash of the Artists, our Fifth Annual International Artist Competition in April 2011. Her designs are simple, sleek and powerful.
Want to see more? Click here.
-Heather Liggins
Art Attacks! presented by the Rabbit Movers is starting next week, on Tuesday, December 19 to be exact, and will be ongoing until May 2012. So where will this showcase take place? And, who are the Rabbit Movers? Well, the initial location has not been determined yet, but typically the venue is located in a gallery space in one of Brooklyn’s art hubs, DUMBO, and then mobilizes traveling throughout the NYC area, sharing art. To answer the latter of the two questions, Rabbit Movers “are impromptu art exhibitions held in our moving trucks-cum-mobile galleries – anything, anywhere, anytime.” They support and expose artists through this form of pop-up art galleries in unexpected places. Once more details for Art Attacks! are released, we will update you with information.
And, if you’re an artist interested in being part of this creative movement, or want to donate to support artists, click here.
-Heather Liggins
As promised, here are some pictures from AFP Fountain Art Fair and Closing Party from Miami Art Basel.
To view all of the pictures, click here.
-Heather Liggins
Seiji Nakano lives a free-spirit life as a creative individual, wearing various roles within the arts world. This includes, but no limited to Musician, Web Designer, Arts Manager, among more.
Learn more about Nakano here.
-Heather Liggins