Past Shows

Fountain NYC 2011

The exhibition of avant garde artwork was located at Pier 66 Maritime @ 26th Street & 12th Avenue in the Hudson River Park.

While finishing off the 2011 winter season Tinca Art curated  a bold and exciting collaborative project at Fountain Art Fair in New York City, March 3-6. Tinca Art exhibited two artists, a contemporary photographer Rachel Monosov and neo-abstract painter Carly Ivan Garcia, in a collaborative urban chic show.  Garcia is best known for his expressionist works which feel like a barrage of dreamlike imagery and colour.  Monosov presented a collection that combines art aesthetics with fashion photography in a series of staged photographs and self portraits. Monosov’s multi-media works are social critiques that saturate the viewers’ senses with a stunning edge and intelligence.

Artists Statement on New York Installation:

“These two collaborative Collections of new works by Carly Ivan Garcia and Rachel Monosov are based upon the principle of multiple reflections within color forms and naturally occurring abstractions. Through a magnificent spectrum of thick paint and photographic image, the joint installation is visual evidence of the beauty in all things. Monosov and Garcia’s mirrored compositions suggest an order to chaos, a chaos that just like beauty is in all things.  The exhibit challenges the viewer to recognize this reflection, a difficult task in today’s society of objectification and industrialization.”

Just Art 2010, New York Chelsea Manhattan

JUST ART 2010 (watch video of event)

TincaArt curated the NYCLU Young Professionals’ 3rd Annual Just Art Benefit which took place in Chelsea on June 24, 2010.

Just Art 2010 successfully raised a hefty sum to support the NYCLU’s advocacy and policy work. As part of the fundraising effort, 18 prolific and emerging artists, working in diverse mediums, exhibited artworks speaking to pressing New York civil liberties issues: Reproductive Rights, Censorship, Immigration Reform, and Privacy/Surveillance.

The exhibit, installed at Gallery Twelve21, was the focus of a one night only event. All artwork was available for purchase as part of a silent auction and more than half the available pieces sold, directly benefiting the NYCLU’s important work.

Just Art 2010’s curator Catinca Tabacaru curated in four sections, each displaying different media and speaking to one of the four civil rights issues explored by the show:  Reproductive Rights, Censorship, Immigration Reform, and Privacy/Surveillance.  In essence, guests had the opportunity to see four almost separate shows whose breadth went from abstract expressionist paintings sharing the common theme of a circle, urban mixed media, figurative painting and drawing, an photography.  Catinca’s use of art addressing matters of consequence made for a breathtaking visual display – both visually and conceptually.

Sponsored by ArtLog and Hedley’s Inc. Featured Artists included Eteri Chkadua, Sophia Petrides, Erin Parish, Jane LaFarge Hamill, Virginia Martinsen, Andrea Stanislav, Mia Brownwell, Brian Leo, Christian Dore, Gail Stoicheff, Tamara Mendeles, Rachel Monosov, Sharon Molloy, Liz Sullivan, Jack Howard-Potter, Carly Ivan Garcia, Greg Gossel and featured DJ Jonny Santos.

TincaArt at Fountain Miami Dec 2-5, 2010

Dates: December 2-5, 2010
Location: 2505 N. Miami Ave at the corner of 25th St., Miami, FL

TincaArt will be exhibiting at Fountain Miami after last year’s success with the work of Christian Dore.  This year, TincaArt will be exhibiting a solo show of neo-abstract Californian artist Carly Ivan Garcia.

Fountain Art Fair, the installation-based exhibition of avant-garde galleries and art collectives, is in its 5th year during the Art Basel weekend in Miami.  Fountain Art Fair has earned its reputation as the go-to venue for discovering innovative, contemporary, urban art.  Grace Exhibition Space, in conjunction with Alice Chilton Gallery, will have 10 artist from around the world performing during the weekend’s evening events.  Caveman robots and full scale destruction of a car will be primary artist performances.

NO AGE, SHEPARD FAIREY, G. LOVE, NINJA SONIK and more will perform on Friday and Saturday nights.

Please join us at Fountain Miami!

PARTY with Women’s Voices Now – curated by Catinca Tabacaru

TincaArt is curating a mini exhibit of both fine and live art to benefit Women’s Voices Now, a public charity whose mission is to empower women and give voices to the struggle for civil, economic and political rights.  Gail Stoicheff, Carly Ivan Garcia and Lizzy Sullivan will be showing works sold in a silent auction.  Art will be alive at the Party as numerous graffiti artists will be creating works during the event.

Please join us for art, film and to support the worthy cause of giving voice to underrepresented women around the globe.

Tickets are available at the door for $25 and include an OPEN BAR, food, art, music, film and fun.

Henri Cartier-Bresson: Stroll Through History

@ the MOMA through June 28th.

Walking through the Moma’s Cartier-Bresson exhibit  is a mesmerizing journey through a piece of history that feels so close to our hearts if so far away in time.  The retrospective is beautifully curated by Peter Galassi and consists of 300 photographs raging in spirit from journalism to honest and raw voyeurism to intimate portraits of iconic figures; Matisse being a personal favorite.  The pictures capture European, Asian and very briefly, African communities.  Born in Paris, Cartier-Bresson spent 50 years traveling almost non stop around the globe.  Curiously, he stayed away from former French colonies.

See the exhibit, it’s breathtaking.

June 24 Exhibit to benefit the NYCLU – curated by Catinca Tabacaru

Buy your Just Art 2010 tickets for the June 24 event here before they sell out!  DJ Johnny Santos will be spinning the show all night.

Twenty-one contemporary artists were chosen to participate in Just Art 2010.  The Exhibit is curated in four clusters of work, each representing one of four issues central to the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU)’s work in 2010:  Censorship, Privacy and Surveillance, Immigration Reform and Reproductive Rights. Each artist created artwork speaking to one of these four issues.  While the show is eclectic in media and style to please almost any visitor, each cluster is cohesive; held together by a common medium or theme.

We would like to express our incredible gratitude to the artists.  Each artist has slashed their prices to help raise funds for the NYCLU’s worthy work.  For many of the more prolific artists in the group, Just Art 2010 offers unparalleled deals.

The lion’s share of the pieces in the Exhibit are listed below with images.  You can browse the Auction by style/medium or minimum bid prices.  To make a bid, please add a comment to the specific posting.  We will contact you by e-mail to collect payment information in case you win the bid.  If you MUST have a specific artwork, you may buy it by bidding its listed Market Value.  This will pull the piece out of the Auction and make it yours on midnight of June 24, 2010.

Artists:

Buy your Just Art 2010 tickets for the June 24 event here before they sell out!

Thank you:

Brian Leo: This Air is Full

March 18 – May 2, 2010

Location: Leo Kesting Gallery, 812 Washington St., New York, NY 10014
Website: www.leokesting.com

Brian Leo’s latest exhibition, This Air is Full, questions the media’s role in terror, lies and propaganda. Leo’s genius became apparent to me as I looked at the pieces together, as a collection of Leo’s commentary on the world we all live in, its problems and its hilarity, from environmental destruction to tabloid sex scandals. In Leo’s world, nothing is off limits. But, there is beauty in the midst and I found it in a gold leaf crane flying against a textured white sky.

NYC Armory Week 2010

March 4 -7, 2010

New York’s Armory Week is running through March 7, 2010. With more than 10 art fairs all around the City, there is simply more art than one person can see in one weekend. Choosing a few fairs and seeing them well is probably a better plan than trying to see everything.

One worthy itinerary: Check out Fountain, the alternative art fair, on Friday (open until midnight) for 10,000 square feet of urban art and a live band. Then, for a more civilized affair on Saturday afternoon, see one of the heavy hitters: Armory, Pulse or Scope. They are similar so take your pick and enjoy some “proper” if often unbearably safe art. On Sunday, when you think you can’t take any more art fairs but you feel that you must, the Independent is the perfect fit. It’s free; both inspiring faith in the organizers and making a quick exit guilt-free.