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EVENT: HeForShe Artsweek NYC Launch
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PHOTOS: Pop Art in NYC
LIVE: Blank Canvas on Little Things, June 25, 12pm [PHOTOS] [VIDEO] [YOUTUBE]
RECEPTION: Art of Engagement Group Show, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC, Aug 4
PRESS RELEASE: Affordable Art Fair NYC, #28grams at Fort Works Art and feminist icon portait of Ruth Bader Ginsberg
EVENT: HeForShe Artsweek NYC Launch
NEWSLETTER: News and shows at Krause Gallery and Affordable Art Fair NYC
PHOTOS: Pop Art in NYC
ARTIST STATEMENT : BUILDING BLOCKS OF CHANGE
The focus of work is a feminist, gender equality and women's rights project, which explores the way women are viewed and society's expectations of them. A series of portraits of feminist icons, show strong, powerful and self-motivated women, some of whom have reached iconic status for their work and influence, and in themselves are agents of change in society. A second series includes playful composite portraits, created from blending features of different faces to create a single visual. These comment on the constant demands on women to continually rebuild and renew how they present themselves. Included in the project are further sets of works, Freedom Without Judgement, Briefs and Panties, and Anti-Portraits. The first of which depict women's clothing and appearance, defending the right to present one's self freely, without fearing harrassment or intervention from others. In the second case, a series of dyptychs containing a man's briefs and a woman's panties illustrate the different form, function and ultimately expectations of men and women through the underwear they wear. The anti-portrait works which show a woman from the back, comment on her vulnerability, and her lack of consent in being seen or perhaps imagined in such a scenario in which she is only wearing her under clothing.
The focus of work is a feminist, gender equality and women's rights project, which explores the way women are viewed and society's expectations of them. A series of portraits of feminist icons, show strong, powerful and self-motivated women, some of whom have reached iconic status for their work and influence, and in themselves are agents of change in society. A second series includes playful composite portraits, created from blending features of different faces to create a single visual. These comment on the constant demands on women to continually rebuild and renew how they present themselves. Included in the project are further sets of works, Freedom Without Judgement, Briefs and Panties, and Anti-Portraits. The first of which depict women's clothing and appearance, defending the right to present one's self freely, without fearing harrassment or intervention from others. In the second case, a series of dyptychs containing a man's briefs and a woman's panties illustrate the different form, function and ultimately expectations of men and women through the underwear they wear. The anti-portrait works which show a woman from the back, comment on her vulnerability, and her lack of consent in being seen or perhaps imagined in such a scenario in which she is only wearing her under clothing.
A note on Lego as a medium
Blurring the lines through interpretation and transformation, creating iconoclastic works.
These works deconstruct images to their essence, transforming them into hyper-realistic and captivating art in two and three dimensions using sculptural and textual elements made from coloured plastic bricks.
The use of these small, plastic bricks that we have lying around our homes immediately registers with viewers of the art. Yet the inherent changeability of these artworks, whether they be figurative art or portraits either of well-known icons or others, highlights the characteristics of the building blocks, including their plasticity, that they can be taken apart and rebuilt, and the way we create and model icons, ourselves and objects in our ever-changing society.
All of the works are made with commercially available Lego bricks. Lego, in all its various forms, is at the same time limiting as well as limitless in its possibilities. The color palette is limited yet consistent, and the basic “pixel” size is also fixed. Yet at the same time, it is a hard, durable, tactile and lightweight material; it can be reused, replaced and altered at will, and provides a myriad of different possibilities due to the different available shaped bricks, tiles and plates, with the exciting opportunity to create the 3-dimensional and textural aspects of the art.
Britist artist Andre Veloux, lives in Princeton, NJ.
THANK YOU
Stephanie & Natalia, Anders Svensson, Lisa Patterson, Benjamin @ Krause Gallery, Gil @ FreethinkerFilms, Maria Evans @ Arts Council of Princeton, Jill & Jenn @ Parlor Gallery, Everyone @ Fort Works Art, Jasmin Hernandez @ Gallery Gurls, Nicole Gordon @ Art is My Oxygen, Jessica & Suzanne @ Small World, Jennifer Mermans, Jennifer Lea Cohan @ SavoryPR, Ross Wishnick, Tommy & Elaine @ The Brick Engraver
ANDRE SUPPORTS THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS
Blurring the lines through interpretation and transformation, creating iconoclastic works.
These works deconstruct images to their essence, transforming them into hyper-realistic and captivating art in two and three dimensions using sculptural and textual elements made from coloured plastic bricks.
The use of these small, plastic bricks that we have lying around our homes immediately registers with viewers of the art. Yet the inherent changeability of these artworks, whether they be figurative art or portraits either of well-known icons or others, highlights the characteristics of the building blocks, including their plasticity, that they can be taken apart and rebuilt, and the way we create and model icons, ourselves and objects in our ever-changing society.
All of the works are made with commercially available Lego bricks. Lego, in all its various forms, is at the same time limiting as well as limitless in its possibilities. The color palette is limited yet consistent, and the basic “pixel” size is also fixed. Yet at the same time, it is a hard, durable, tactile and lightweight material; it can be reused, replaced and altered at will, and provides a myriad of different possibilities due to the different available shaped bricks, tiles and plates, with the exciting opportunity to create the 3-dimensional and textural aspects of the art.
Britist artist Andre Veloux, lives in Princeton, NJ.
THANK YOU
Stephanie & Natalia, Anders Svensson, Lisa Patterson, Benjamin @ Krause Gallery, Gil @ FreethinkerFilms, Maria Evans @ Arts Council of Princeton, Jill & Jenn @ Parlor Gallery, Everyone @ Fort Works Art, Jasmin Hernandez @ Gallery Gurls, Nicole Gordon @ Art is My Oxygen, Jessica & Suzanne @ Small World, Jennifer Mermans, Jennifer Lea Cohan @ SavoryPR, Ross Wishnick, Tommy & Elaine @ The Brick Engraver
ANDRE SUPPORTS THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS
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