Pictoplasma NYC
November 4th, 2011 by chocko
Pictoplasma NYC-The Festival of Contemporary Character Design and Art rolls through New York City November 3-6, 2011 with a variety of exhibitions and installations to check out all around town. Most of the art happenings are in downtown NYC and Chelsea but be sure to hop on a subway and check out what’s going on in Brooklyn too. Chocko and the crew stopped by a few spots with the help of the Pictoplasma map which you can grab at any of the participating galleries or shops.
Geneviève Gauckler‘s paintings of weird and wild painting of creatures were located at Cappellini NYC (152 Wooster Street) along with the bizarre, beastly fabric sculptures by Joshua Ben Longo. The paintings were hung on the walls and the Longo monsters were all over the furniture store on top of tables and on the floor too. The monsters with pink sphincters for mouths kinda freaked me out.
A short walk from the store brought us to the hanahou gallery (611 Broadway, Suite 730) which featured ‘Gnomes vs. Snowmen’ by Anna Hrachovec. This has to be seen in person to appreciate the work that went into the epic battle told with knitted miniature scenes depicting gnomes and snowmen going at it-no holds barred. Those cute little gnomes are sadistic creeps and those snowmen fight dirty for the control of the carrot supplies. Unleash the bunny rabbits! Can’t we all just get along? Highly recommended. Check it out Nov 3-18!
Bold Hype (547 W 27 St, Suite 510) featured the paintings of Johannah O’Donnell and drawings and prints by Raymond Lemstra. Johannah’s vibrant paintings showed young women hanging out with humans with animal heads. Those human-animal hybrids looked like they were ready to party. Beautiful work! Raymond’s work was displayed in the back gallery room and featured distorted portraits and characters done with pencils looking both futuristic and drawing influence from tribal art.
‘Time Kills All Gods’ by AJ Fosik was displayed at Jonathan Levine Gallery (529 W 20 St, 9th fl). Every relief and sculpture was made out of wood. So much detail went into each work, many covered in painted tiny shingle-like pieces to portray fur and textures. The sculptures depict creatures with multiple mouths and creepy, bugged out eyes. The large scale installation piece titled “The Shepherd Inevitably Consumes the Flock” is sick!
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