Danielle Lurie’s work is simple, funny and profound.  It exhibits that special depth that one expects from Japanese calligraphy and seldom from cartooning.  It comes as no surprise then that Lurie uses Japanese ink for her creations.

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HARD POP
Opening:  Tuesday, September 6th, 7:30pm
Location:  ST-ART RESIDENCE, 8 Hatzedef street, Jaffa. Tel:03-5169599, Parking in Jaffa Port
Hours: Tue: 10:00-19:00 Wed, Thur: 10:00-15:00, Fri: 10:00-12:30
www.st-art.co.il

As many of you know, Rachel Monosov is a TincaArt staple.  Her work fascinates and scares me at the same time.  Although I cannot pry my eyes away, looking directly, deeply, makes me question my understanding of my body as a woman, my role in society, and my status in the universe.

St Art saw much of the same magic in Monosov’s work.  Director Serge Trioche supported the Bunny Project and ensured its fruition:

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Mill Valley Film Festival 34 & the California Film Institute
Presents

A Tribute to Classic Cinema: A RAW Art Gallery Exhibit
October 6-16, 2011
Curated by Carly Ivan Garcia in collaboration with TincaArt

Check out the union of East Coast swagger with West Coast cool at this annual event. A special art show curated by our friend and talented artist Carly Ivan Garcia in collaboration with Catinca Tabacaru.  Carly, also a Marin County Native, has worked hard to bring in artists from all over the country.   There will be 14 internationally acclaimed artists’ works on display.   We know you’ll enjoy this amazing tribute to classic cinema: “A RAW Art Gallery Exhibit”.

Location: Lot 613 , 613 Imperial Street LA, CA 90021
Dates: September 30 – October 2, 2011
Hours: 12pm – 7pm

Tinca Art returns to FOUNTAIN ART FAIR for its Los Angeles premier this fall presenting the new works of neo-abstract artist Carly Ivan Garcia.

The 11,000-square-foot Lot 613 (613 Imperial Street LA, CA 90021) will provide an awesome space to display Carly’s dream-like abstract expressions using mixed media. Following the success of Carly Ivan Garcia last year in both Fountain Art Fair Miami 2010 and New York 2011, C.I.G and Tinca Art will team up once again in the Wild West. C.I.G is sure to be a highlight in this epic L.A Arts weekend.

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Beethoven Festival 2011
September 14 – 18 schedule
Location: 2229 S. Halsted Street Chicago Urban Art Society
Festival Passes from $20 to $180 purchase

BEETHOVEN AS MAN AND MUSE

Contemporary Art and Film exhibit curated by Beethoven Festival 2011 Art Director Catinca Tabacaru buttresses 5 day and 5 nights of classical concerts performed by Chicago’s most renowned musicians.  The Festival presents the first collection of Beethoven Portraits in over 200 years and includes works by Amina Ahmed, Michael Cuffe, David J. Eichenberg, Carly Ivan Garcia, Ellen Gradman, Mostafa Heravi, Amy Hill, Edward J. Hines, Maya Kalabic, Hugh Leeman, Brian Leo, Danielle Lurie, Rachel Monosov, J. Thomas Pallas, Amir Parsa, Gail Stoicheff, Rhom and Anne Worbes.

CHICAGO – International Beethoven Project (IBP) – the organization that brought the historic and critically acclaimed (Chicago Tribune, New York Times) Beethoven World Premiere to Chicago in 2009 – has again made Chicago its premiere location, this time for its newest project:  Beethoven Festival 2011. A radical new vision for presenting culture in both contemporary and historical contexts, Beethoven Festival 2011 is a five-day, multi-disciplinary celebration of the life, works and spirit of Ludwig van Beethoven through music and art.  To be presented in spectacular fashion at the edgy and acoustically superb CHICAGO URBAN ART SOCIETY from 4pm until 2am nightly, with many performances broadcast live on Chicago’s 98.7 WFMT radio.

The Festival features 70 musicians–performing over 80 pieces of music from 20 living composers, 12 contemporary artists, 5 filmmakers, 3 scholars, 2 actors and 1 poet.  Also featured are twenty new works for piano solo and music spanning 400 years –from baroque to rock, solo to orchestra, with plenty of Beethoven at center.  Food and Drink vendors will be on location to allow audiences to enjoy concerts with a glass in hand, in a home-like setting.

President and Artistic Director of IBP, George Lepauw, explains: “Few people get to experience the great master as he should be: a true radical in a radical setting.  Beethoven was a rebel who broke all the rules of musical and societal conventions, changing forever the world of art and the rights of the artist. He was the first modernist. Thus we are challenging all the rules of classical music programming, in honor of Beethoven’s spirit of defiance and experimentation, with the goal of inspiring artists and audiences to be fearless, visionary and always hopeful. Ultimately this project is not really about music, or art, but about humanity and bringing people together around memorable and beautiful sights and sounds.”

The Prince (Luddie the Younger), 2011
56″ x 50″
oil and acrylic on canvas

Estimate:  $8000 – $9000
Starting bid:  $4000

ARTIST STATEMENT

The Grosse Fuge grabbed me immediately, contemplative and complex— the qualities of the greatest music, the best art and the most intriguing characters. The piece brought to mind thoughts of liberation versus restraint or, more specifically, liberation within restraint and the reverse. It was with these impressions and much listening that the portraits evolved over several months. It was a pleasure to spend this time with such an intense piece of music and to be rewarded, now, with a visual record of the conversation.

BIO

Gail Stoicheff (born Lewistown, Pennsylvania, 1976) holds an MFA in painting from Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY (2005), and a BFA in painting from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (2000).  She has exhibited in the New York City area since 2002, recent shows include: Insider Brooklyn, NY (2010); Just Art NYC (2010); Brooklyn Painters, Rebecca Randall Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina University (2009); Gimme a Little Sign, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles (2008); Beyond Pastoral, Gallery w52, NYC (2006); Works on Paper, Gallery MC, NYC (2005); Despite the Sun, Foxy Productions, NYC (2004); Six, Supreme Trading Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2004) and The Warm Weather is Holding, UBS Exhibition Center, Red Hook, NY (2004).  She was the 2004 recipient of the prestigious Dedalus Foundation Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in Painting and The Elaine DeKooning Painting Award, and was recently the featured cover artist for the New England Review.

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Immortal Beloved, 2011
30″ x 20″
archival c-print

SOLD

ARTIST STATEMENT

Monosov’s portrait is inspired by Beethoven’s letters to his “Immortal Beloved” which were found in Beethoven’s desk upon his death.  The letters speak of longing, impossible love and hope for an improbable future.  This portrait too is hidden, suffering, and yet incredibly powerful in both imagery and color.

BIO

Russian born, Israeli artist Rachel Monosov studied photography at the Betzalel Academy for Arts and Design in Jerusalem and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She is known for her radical self portraits and, although only 24 years old, her her work has been shown in galleries around New York, California and Israel.  On September 6, 2011, she was the featured artist in a 3-woman show at the prestigious ST ART Gallery in Tel Aviv where she unveiled a life size sculpture commenting on the use of the female body in today’s global consumer society.  Monosov’s work often draws attention to society’s objectification of the human form and of women in particular. The deception of appearance and the resulting assumptions made based on appearances can lead to misunderstanding and mistreatment. As a result, those that are objectified tend to recede into the background where they can retain a sense of self. Monosov’s art challenges the viewer to think about society’s invasive tendencies.

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Young Beethoven Today, 2011
9” x 12”
oil on canvas

SOLD

ARTIST STATEMENT

The portrait of Beethoven, like her other portraits, places him in a contemporary setting, in contemporary clothing, specifically a t-shirt with a Beatles logo, playing what might be an electric keyboard.  As in all her paintings, she transports him through time, examining the importance of context on the development and recognition of a genius.

BIO

Hill’s portraits and narratives are contemporary versions of 15th century Flemish paintings, highly detailed and done with similar traditional techniques.  She  studied commercial art at Carnegie Mellon University, then moved to New York City and worked as an illustrator for such publications as Rolling Stone, the New York Times and Penguin Books.  She became a full time painter after a successful solo show in the East Village during its boom in 1989. Since then she has continued to paint and her work has been shown nationally and internationally.  Hill is currently represented by galleries in New York City and Chicago.

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The Burning Reality of LIving Intense Dreams, 2011
28″ x 40″ (framed)
graphite and spray paint on stonehenge paper

SOLD

ARTIST STATEMENT

While creating portraits is the focus of my artwork, they are seldom created to depict the famous and influential. Beethoven on this occasion and again in the past has been an exception. While profoundly talented, it is in fact, his dedication and ability to continue creating after his health and in particular his hearing had begun to deteriorate that is most remarkable. When I created my first Beethoven portrait, he was to me then, as now, among the world’s most incredible musicians, over this time he’s come to personally symbolize an extreme dedication to the craft of creating that I am truly enamored by.

BIO

Hugh Leeman is a self taught, San Francisco based artist.  His gallery work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco and at The Museum of Mexico City. Recognized for his gallery portraiture which captures in raw emotion the lives of his subjects whom he meets on the inner city streets; though best known for his street art which has adorned walls from Varanasi, India to Indiana and from New York, London, Tel Aviv and the divided Palestinian Territories to Bogota, Colombia.  Most recently Leeman created the first ever MLK mural overlooking his historic birth house.  His subjects, often marginalized by society, are recast into potentially heroic roles before being pasted all over the world. His street art has additionally evolved into the “t-shirt project” in which he gives back to his subjects by printing his art onto shirts which they sell and keep 100% of the profits from.

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Ludwig Van Beethoven, 2011
24″ x 30″
acrylic, oil, spray paint, and paper on canvas

Estimate:  $1300 – $1800
Starting Bid:  $1000

ARTIST STATEMENT

Beethoven has always been close to my heart as an composer, and I wanted to reflect his stern determination to reach perfection at his craft.  It was within this determination that Beethoven often overly indulged in reckless recreational activities and heavy drinking.  The skull in the background (which is literally a picture of Beethoven’s actual skull) has recently been forensically analyzed and shows that lead levels within the composer were 100 times higher than normal when he died.  Modern theorists lead us to believe that abusive drinking played a role in his death, not from the wine itself…but from the lead cups in which he drank.

BIO

Michael Cuffe is a contemporary mixed media artist best known for his collage styled paper works that are often painted in multiple layers.  Cuffe spent 8 years in the Hollywood film industry working for Paramount Studios in feature film development and on various independent features. His fine art work first gained notoriety during the Obama campaign, when his painting “The Hopeful Hearts Club,” his take on The Beatles Sgt. Pepper Album, spread worldwide grabbing the attention of mainstream news media.  It received a special White House invitational viewing, has been published multiple times in both books and magazines, and was part of Shepard Fairey’s Manifest Hope gallery exhibitions.  Michael Cuffe currently resides in San Mateo, California where he also oversees the art based news site Warholian.com.

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