The Small Pop Up Gallery Presents Jesse Whittle.

 

Jesse Whittle

The Small Pop Up Gallery is proud to present the work of Tulsa Oklahoma artist Jesse Whittle. The Small Pop Up Gallery featuring Jesse Whittle’s work can be viewed at the offices of the PEI Council of the Arts at 115 Richmond Street, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

JESSE WHITTLE is a Tulsa resident. He received his B.A. from St. Gregory’s University in Studio Art. He has won several awards, including a purchase award at the Young New Collectable Artist show at the JRB art at the Elms gallery. Previously Jesse has taught art at Gilcrease Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art as well as 6 th , 7 th and 8 th grade at Mannford Middle School. Jesse has exhibited at a number of group and individual shows around the state, particularly in Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

ARTIST STATEMENT My art practice is drawing and painting. In my work I create compositions that emphasize interrupted and implied forms. These forms are the result of editing. With each layer of paint I overlap or conceal, the painted surface is built up into uneven fragments. What’s left behind constitutes anxiety, apprehension and shame. I utilize multiple mediums including acrylic, watercolor, Chinese ink and spray paint. Recently, I have become interested in creating tension between approach and meaning. I aim to scrutinize my own sincerity, happiness and self-esteem in order to establish and distort my system of creation. The contradictions in my work reinforce issues of trust and self-loathing.

The Small Pop Up Gallery is a roving curatorial project in the City of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada that utilizes borrowed and found spaces to present contemporary artwork.

 

Have you met…Vincent Lardieri?

Vincent Lardieri, Untitled (Earth-Sherbet), 2014, Foam, clear gesso, steel nuts, bolts, washers, and rods on linen, 17.25(H) x 14(W) x 2.25(D)

An introduction can be a wonderful thing. You can meet interesting people, and make new friends. You can be introduced to your new favorite foods, books, music, or artist. I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite artists. Some of whom I’ve been familiar with for years, and others I’ve only recently been introduced to. The person I’d like to introduce is the artist Vincent Lardieri.

Vincent Lardieri, Stainless Slit, 2011, Acrylic, stainless steel nut, bolt and washers, 7(H) x 9(W) x 4(D)

EDUCATION

2012MFA – Savannah College of Art & Design – Savannah, Georgia

2003BFA – Florida State University – Tallahassee, Florida

2001AA – Palm Beach State College – Palm Beach Gardens, Florida

Vincent Lardieri, Untitled (Lunar-Berry-Bronzite), 2014, Foam, duct tape, acrylic, steel nuts, bolts, washers, and rods on canvas, 12.5(H) x 14(W) x 2(D)

STATEMENT: 

“My work can sometimes be considered “paint-centric”, however, medium specificity is not the primary concern in every artwork. Purely traditional and serial practices are banal, so I exercise an “anything goes” mentality with materials and techniques, but clash them with standard fine art elements, resulting in an anticipated relevancy and reinvigoration.

Most of the work exists in a limbo state – operating as both paintings and sculptures (and oftentimes multi-media amalgamations) – but also being none of these (because they are not definitively one or the other). The metamodern case for “both – neither” fits my work in that I refuse the pigeonhole, allowing for it to remain in a limbo state, where what specifically results is always up for debate.” VL

Vincent Lardieri, Lime-Levitation-Landslide, 2014, Acrylic, duct tape, and wood on canvas, 7.25(H) x 7.5(W) x 3.75(D)

Other material relating to Vincent Lardieri.

Artist website: vincentlardieri.com

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Have you met…Adrienne Moumin?

The Future
32″ x 25″ Hand-Cut-and-Assembled
Gelatin Silver Photo Collage

An introduction can be a wonderful thing. You can meet interesting people, and make new friends. You can be introduced to your new favorite foods, books, music, or artist. I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite artists. Some of whom I’ve been familiar with for years, and others I’ve only recently been introduced to. The person I’d like to introduce is the artist Adrienne Moumin.

The Forces of Victory
7¾” x 20″ x ⅜” deep
Hand-cut-and-assembled
3-D Gelatin Silver Photo Collage

“Born in 1961 in Brooklyn, NY, I am best known for my hand-cut-and-assembled gelatin silver photo collages, and for the B&W photographs from which they are made.

I am a self-taught collage artist, and created my first work at 8 years old, a bookcase covered with meticulously cut and pasted magazine pictures.

In 1999, I graduated from SUNY Empire State College with a B.A. in Documentary Visual Studies and Society – a self-styled major which combines my love of photography and commentary.

In the early 2000’s I began cutting up my gelatin silver photographs for use in collage, in order to carry on with my work during a period when I had no access to a darkroom. This led to my ongoing Architextures series of hand-cut-and-assembled photo collages.

I also create mixed-media surrealist collages, often using one of my store window mannequin photos as the basis for an exploration of an emotional state.

I have exhibited my gelatin silver photographs and collages in New York, and nationwide, for over fifteen years. My images have been featured in New York Gallery Guide, About.com, and The Sun Magazine.

I have been interviewed for WBAI Radio in New York, served as Editorial Consultant for a technical photo manual written by David Fokos, and received a Puffin Foundation Grant for a documentary photography project.

My photographs and collages are in private collections in the US and abroad.

I currently live and work in New York and Silver Spring, MD.” AM

Looking Inside
11½” x 10″ x 1/8″ deep
Hand-Cut-And-Assembled
3-D Gelatin Silver Photo Collage

Trappings of Entitlement
The photo background for this series depicts St. Paul’s House/Rev. J.J.D. Hall Memorial, a mission for homeless
people on West 51st Street in New York. The recipients were being made to listen to a sermon in order to be eligible for a food handout. What a perfect metaphor for this concept.

Other material relating to Adrienne Moumin.

Artist website: picturexhibit.com

Youtube: Adrienne Moumin

Art in New York City: Adrienne Moumin

Minimal Exposition: Adrienne Moumin

Scribble Blog: Adrienne Moumin

Artbook Guy: Adrienne Moumin

ArtSlant: Adrienne Moumin

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Artists Questioned. As a young artist how do you plan to establish and sustain an art practice?

 

Jessica Simorte

All artists have questions they seek answers to. Sometimes they ask themselves the same questions over and over again, and sometimes they seek out friends and mentors who provide answers to their questions. If you ask the same question to several people you will most likely get several different answers, and then it is up to you to select the answer that is best for you. So the question is…

As a young artist how do you plan to establish and sustain an art practice?

Alexis Bulman: “One year ago (almost to the day) I graduated with a BFA from NSCAD University. Right out of school I was accepted into multiple Summer exhibits that took place in Toronto, Halifax and Charlottetown. I won an incredible art award and had my name appear in an art publication I greatly admire.
When Spring came around all those exhibits came down. I began responding to multiple artist calls for
submissions but received rejection letters almost every time, it was incredibly discouraging. After receiving
yeses I couldn’t understand why I was receiving noes. On top of that I was so busy applying to submission
calls that I stopped having time to make actual artwork.

“Less than half way through my first year out of school I knew something had to change. I missed the
community at NSCAD and I missed making artwork.

“Eventually, I rented an art studio and began making art again. The studio was shared with two other artists
and I began volunteering on the Artist Programming Committee for This Town is Small, the Community
School Task Force, and the Abilympics Canadian Association, I also became a member of IMAC and This
Town is Small and began attending screenings, lectures and openings.

“My answer to ‘As a young artist how do you plan to establish and sustain an art practice?’ is this:
By maintaining a balance.

“Make time for making art, find that supportive artist community, apply to all kinds of exciting calls for
submissions but remember these two facts: 1) For any call for submissions there could be 100 other artists
applying who all want it as badly as you do. 2) All those rejections letters make the acceptance letters feel
even more incredible and rewarding.

“It’s a very delicate and difficult balance to maintain, but I’ve been finding it incredibly fulfilling.” AB

Jessica Simorte: “Establishing is easy – just show up. Get to studio and do what you need to do. It’s sustaining that is more difficult, because you have to keep showing up. You have to solve your own problems, and then keep giving yourself new problems to solve. For artists that really need to make, it’s just not an option not to. If I find myself without a studio, I’ll paint at the kitchen table. If (when) I’m broke, I’ll make drawings on scrap paper. I like to believe that if I make work that is truly honest, driven and with tons of perseverance – that’s enough. I’ll be happy with what I do, and others might be too.

“This might be a bit obvious, but having the desire and skills to communicate via social media is essential. Most of my victories have come from community that I’ve cultivated online. And lastly, be gracious. Always be gracious.” JS

The previous question was, and the next question is…

If you have a question you’d like answered please let me know. If it is interesting maybe I’ll use it.

 

Have you met…Alex Paik?

Right Triangle 2
gouache, colored pencil, paper
26 x 6 x 3 inches
2014

An introduction can be a wonderful thing. You can meet interesting people, and make new friends. You can be introduced to your new favorite foods, books, music, or artist.

I’d like to introduce you to some of my favorite artists. Some of whom I’ve been familiar with for years, and others I’ve only recently been introduced to.

The person I’d like to introduce is the artist Alex Paik.

Parallelogram 1
gouache, colored pencil, paper
17 x 15 x 1.5 inches
2013

b. 1981 Oxnard, California. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
EDUCATION
2005: M.F.A., University of Pennsylvania
2003: B.F.A. with honors in Art, Pennsylvania State University

V 1
gouache, colored pencil, paper
14 x 10 x 3 inches
2013

“My first serious introduction to art was through classical music as a violinist playing in various community orchestras during high school. That experience stayed with me as I made the transition to the visual arts later in college. I’ve always been attracted to the ethereal abstraction of music and the way that music can be simultaneously cerebral and personal, especially in the contrapuntal music of Bach.

My paper assemblages mimic the way that the voices of a fugue are continuously repeated, transposed, inverted, and folded into themselves. Each piece focuses on one unit as its subject which is then repeated in different configurations as the piece grows. I use repetition not so much as a compositional device, but more as a way to explore and maximize the possibilities of the unit.

Maybe if Paul Klee, Thomas Nozkowski, Frank Stella, and Richard Tuttle were the Lost Boys on Never Land and grew up on video games, classical music, and indie pop, this is what they would make. Or maybe they would focus on fighting pirates.” AP

Prelude and Fugue (Cootie)
gouache, marker, colored pencil, paper
7 x 6 x 4 inches
2012

Other material relating to Alex Paik.

Artist website: alexpaik.com

PS1 Studio Visit: Alex Paik

Structure and Imagery: Alex Paik

bmore art: Alex Paik

Youtube: Alex Paik

Two Coats of Paint: Alex Paik

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