Sunday, December 25, 2011

INTERNATIONAL PRINT CENTER NEW YORK ANNOUNCES

Image credit: Sara Conde, Thinking of Cercedilla, 2010. Woodblock with watercolor, graphite, markers, ball-point pen, and


acrylic. Edition: Unique. 9 x 12 inches. Printed and published by the artist. Courtesy of the artist.

New Prints 2012/Winter

January 28 – March 24, 2012

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 2, 6-8

Members’ and Artists’ Preview: 5-6

International Print Center New York presents New Prints 2012/Winter, on view January 28 – March 24,

2012 in its gallery at 508 West 26th Street, 5th floor. The show consists of sixty-eight prints by forty-five

emerging to established artists, selected from a pool of over 2,300 submissions.

New Prints 2012/Winter is the forty-first presentation of IPCNY’s New Prints Program, a series of juried

exhibitions organized by IPCNY several times each year, featuring prints made within the past twelve

months by artists at all stages of their careers. An illustrated brochure with an essay by a Selections Committee

member will accompany the exhibition.

The Selections Committee for New Prints 2012/Winter is: Glen Baldridge (Forth Estate Editions),

Barbara Baruch (Director, Brooke Alexander Editions), Claire Gilman (Curator, The Drawing Center),

Peter Friedland (Private Collector), Cary Leibowitz (Director of Contemporary Editions, Phillips de

Pury & Company), and Pari Stave (Vice President of Art Advisory, AXA Equitable).

The complete artists’ list is as follows: Romeo Alaeff, BJ Alumbaugh, Brian Anderson, Ida Applebroog,

Anne Beresford, Judy Bergman Hochberg, Kit Boyce, Paige Bradley, Tom Burckhardt, James Carroll, Saul

Chernick, Lindsey Clark-Ryan, John Cobb, Tamar Cohen, Sara Conde, Ann Conner, John Robert Craft,

Bernice Cross, Thorsten Dennerline, Sandra C. Fernandez, Rachel Frank, Beth Ganz, Ioanna Gouma,

Alexis Granwell, Joseph Hart, Anna Hutchings, William Kentridge, Kakyoung Lee, Eddie Martinez,

Artem Mirolevich, Mark Mullin, Michael Neff, Alice O’Neill, Ardan Ozmenoglu, Jill Parisi, Matt Rich,

Moses Ros-Suárez, Ryan Rusinksi, Sara Sanders, Phyllis Seltzer, Kiki Smith, Dan Steeves, William Waitzman, Matthew Wilson, and Jing Yu.



Thursday, September 15, 2011

Para Nietzsche, la verdadera, si no la única actividad metafísica del hombre es el arte, y este no puede originarse en otro lugar que no sea el conflicto. Un conflicto que es siempre el mismo: la lucha entre todo lo que representa la figura mitológica de Apolo y lo que emblematiza su hermano Dionisio...order and harmony vs chaos and passion

Monday, June 27, 2011

Simulacrum





Sara Conde has created an installation combining  7 paintings and a looping projected video consisting of 7 projections of photographs, each relating to one of the paintings in the wall. 6 of the paintings have been hung on one wall, and one on the opposite wall. The paintings are different irregular sizes and have been hung at different heights of the wall. The painting on the opposite wall has been hung in the center of the wall and it is larger in size than then ones on the first wall.

The video shows photographs of Beautiful Chaos in Athens, an installation that the artist created in a beach of Athens, Greece in November 3, 2010 through an art organization called 3///3 Three Walls on Wednesdays. This ephemeral installation that divided the beach in two was a drawing in the space made of the artist’s works on paper, ribbon, and wood panels.

In order to create a series of paintings Sara Conde has used the camera as a tool to create specific cropped compositions, a series of positional views of the installation combining elements of the beach landscape and of her own abstract artworks. The  images of the installation have been transported before the public as part of this installation with a looping video projected onto the wall.

She has created paintings out of these lensuar images. These appear to be abstract, but are actually paintings of mechanically reproduced images that combine art, the sea, the sand, architecture, plant life, and the sky, and which with the aid of the projected photographs, are posing the difference between abstract and figurative painting as a question.

The paintings, which have been painted from the photographs are made of combined media: acrylics, watercolors, colored pencils, graphite, and the texture of pumice stone to awaken the sense of touch within the painting, and to evoke the texture of the sand of the beach.

The light and colors of the Mediterranean Sea are found in the paintings and the photographs: different shades of blue and sand, with accents of other colors such as pink, red, or green.

The paintings that are have been mediated by digital technology appear unreal, frozen, and airless, and question the difference between abstract and figurative art at the same time as the artist is creating a dialog between painting and photography.




Triangle of Beautiful Chaos on a Greek Beach. Acrylic, Pumice Stone, and Colored Pencils on Muslin. 40 x 18 inches. 2011


Simulated Oval View of an Area of Beautiful Chaos in the Mediterranean Seat. Acrylic, Pumice Stone, Watercolors, and Colored Pencils on Muslin Mounted on Panel. 8 x 6 inches. 2011



Simulacrum. Colored Pencils and Graphite on Pine Wood Panel. 5.7 x 8.3 inches. 2011



 Blue, Wind and Green. Acrylic, Pumice Stone, Watercolors, and Colored Pencils on Muslin. 38 x 46 inches. 2011



Sandy Afternoon in the Beach. Acrylic, Pumic Stone Medium and Colored Pencils on Muslin. 46 x 40 inches. 2011



Ribbon Drawing in the Sand. Acrylic, Pumice Stone, Watercolors and Colored Pencils on Muslin. 40 x 18 inches. 2011



Palm Tree and Watercolor Landscape Blowing on the Beach. Acrylic, Pumice Stone Medium, Watercolors and Colored Pencils on Muslin. 12 x 16 inches. 2011