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ART TALK: Andre Veloux, Princeton Public Library, Wednesday October 11, 7 - 8:30pm
WORKSHOP: Create Wall Art with Lego, Princeton Public Library, Sunday October 29, 3 - 5pm
RESIDENCY; Princeton Public Library, MostSunday afternoons, October - December 2-4pm
SHOW: The Mask of Femininity: Feminist Works installation, Princeton Public Library September - January 2018
SHOW: New Pop Group Show, Fort Works Art, Fort Works, TX, November 3 - December 31
RECEPTION: Art of Engagement Group Show, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC, Aug 4 [PHOTOS]
LIVE: Blank Canvas on Little Things, June 25, 12pm [PHOTOS] [VIDEO] [YOUTUBE]
PHOTOS: Pop Art in NYC
ART TALK: Andre Veloux, Princeton Public Library, Wednesday October 11, 7 - 8:30pm
WORKSHOP: Create Wall Art with Lego, Princeton Public Library, Sunday October 29, 3 - 5pm
RESIDENCY; Princeton Public Library, MostSunday afternoons, October - December 2-4pm
SHOW: The Mask of Femininity: Feminist Works installation, Princeton Public Library September - January 2018
SHOW: New Pop Group Show, Fort Works Art, Fort Works, TX, November 3 - December 31
RECEPTION: Art of Engagement Group Show, Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC, Aug 4 [PHOTOS]
LIVE: Blank Canvas on Little Things, June 25, 12pm [PHOTOS] [VIDEO] [YOUTUBE]
PHOTOS: Pop Art in NYC
ARTIST STATEMENT
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. Female icons are at the very forefront of the women’s rights movement because of all the things that these women have achieved and the circumstances in which they achieved them. Women leaders in all fields, be it political, scientific, business, artistic or humanitarian are under intense and constant scrutiny.
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. The fact that these artworks are created using building blocks which you can take apart and rebuild in different ways, plays on the ceaseless demands on women to rebuild the image they present to the world in order to gain acceptance.
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 harassment or intervention from others. In the second case, a series of diptychs 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-portraits works showing a woman's back, comment on her vulnerability, and in particular her lack of consent in being seen or perhaps imagined in this scenario.
A series of small works, each of which is untitled but go under the umbrella of a series entitled Enthusiastic Consent are direct in their meaning and interpretation, no means no, and only an enthusiastic yes means yes.
The purpose of all these works is to raise the question about how society treats women today. The portraits speak for themselves, the other works are a counter balance to rape culture, this is an artwork but the message is the same, women can be and dress how they like. Sexism and being sexist is such an accepted and normal part of patriarchal society. Sometimes if that is the feeling that my works generate, then to me it validates my work, because it never takes away from the purpose which is to defend women's rights.
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.
BIO
British artist Andre Veloux, resides in Princeton, NJ with his wife and daughter. He is represented by the Krause Gallery, New York City, with a solo show booked for June 2018. His feminist work is defined artistically within the parameters of modern feminism. Which is standing up for women and their rights and empowerment. Standing against the patriarchal society and it’s male entitlement which cause discrimination, oppression and violence against women. His work which is created entirely from Lego is in private collections worldwide and has been shown in many group shows.
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. Female icons are at the very forefront of the women’s rights movement because of all the things that these women have achieved and the circumstances in which they achieved them. Women leaders in all fields, be it political, scientific, business, artistic or humanitarian are under intense and constant scrutiny.
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. The fact that these artworks are created using building blocks which you can take apart and rebuild in different ways, plays on the ceaseless demands on women to rebuild the image they present to the world in order to gain acceptance.
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 harassment or intervention from others. In the second case, a series of diptychs 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-portraits works showing a woman's back, comment on her vulnerability, and in particular her lack of consent in being seen or perhaps imagined in this scenario.
A series of small works, each of which is untitled but go under the umbrella of a series entitled Enthusiastic Consent are direct in their meaning and interpretation, no means no, and only an enthusiastic yes means yes.
The purpose of all these works is to raise the question about how society treats women today. The portraits speak for themselves, the other works are a counter balance to rape culture, this is an artwork but the message is the same, women can be and dress how they like. Sexism and being sexist is such an accepted and normal part of patriarchal society. Sometimes if that is the feeling that my works generate, then to me it validates my work, because it never takes away from the purpose which is to defend women's rights.
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.
BIO
British artist Andre Veloux, resides in Princeton, NJ with his wife and daughter. He is represented by the Krause Gallery, New York City, with a solo show booked for June 2018. His feminist work is defined artistically within the parameters of modern feminism. Which is standing up for women and their rights and empowerment. Standing against the patriarchal society and it’s male entitlement which cause discrimination, oppression and violence against women. His work which is created entirely from Lego is in private collections worldwide and has been shown in many group shows.
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, 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, Anders Svensson, Lisa Patterson, 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, 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, Anders Svensson, Lisa Patterson, Jennifer Mermans, Jennifer Lea Cohan @ SavoryPR, Ross Wishnick, Tommy & Elaine @ The Brick Engraver
ANDRE SUPPORTS THE FOLLOWING ORGANISATIONS
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