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Emerging Artist Summer Series

The Art Fag City Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Art of Tara Giannini

by Art Fag City on July 22, 2006

I locate beauty in the grotesque and the gaudy as well as in the elegant and graceful. I focus on the particular facet of beauty that deals with the macabre, and highlights the fragile and transient beauty of death and the passage of time. Embracing overindulgence, visual complexity and ornamentation, my works employ a wealth […]

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The AFC Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Paintings of Charlotte Nicholson

by Art Fag City on July 13, 2006

Charlotte Nicholson, 2006, Les Hasards Heureux de l’escarpolette, Watercolor on paper, 7 1/8 x 10 1/4 My current work comes from the desire to create associative images, through the development of an intuitive mark making language. Though the marks themselves are generic, they morph into clouds, steam, fur, a sub-atomic world, and, most recently inhabited […]

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The AFC Emerging Artist Summer Series: The Photographs of Rob Carter

by Art Fag City on July 5, 2006

My videos and photographs examine paper as both a physical object and a malleable document of time. The imagery often relies on theatrical manipulation or illusion, but uses these mechanisms in order to inform or expand the meaning or reading of the imagery, rather than to fool the viewer’s sense of what is real. My […]

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Launching Wednesday: The AFC Emerging Artist Summer Series

by Art Fag City on July 3, 2006

I’m sure those who find themselves web surfing today are discovering it is a total waste of time. America blows out 230 candles tomorrow in celebration of her birthday/Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain, which I guess requires a lot of saved breath to ensure the task can be adequately executed. Here at AFC, […]

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