“This image comes from my biographic graphic novel Detour. Detour is based on my experience as an international student. I came to New York with my artist’s dream. After a few years of struggle, my career has not only improved, but I have lost in this steel city. Two years ago, my friend Shang and I crossed United States from New York to California by hitchhiking. I explores questions of identity, the meaning of life, and alienation through an odyssey across an American landscape that is at once hospitable and hostile.”
Curator: Brandon Sines
Toshiki’s artwork aired 50 times in Manhattan & Brooklyn during the week of Jan 7, 2019 on Spectrum and Vios Cable TV channels.
Amy Thompson Avishai is a photographer, educator, and consultant based in western Massachusetts. She was raised in Morocco, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Belgium— experiences which heightened her cultural awareness and helped bring to the fore feelings of belonging and, at the same time, of being an outsider.
Curator: Frances Jakubek
Frances Jakubek is an advocate for photography. Recent exhibitions include The Southern Contemporary Art Gallery in Charleston, SC; Camera Commons in Dover, NH; The Hess Gallery at Pine Manor College, MA; Plates to Pixels Online Gallery; and the Dorchester Art Project, MA.
Devin B. Johnson is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Brooklyn. He works primarily in the language of painting. Johnson’s work is based on the decoding and reassembling of socio-cultural structures. Devin B. Johnson was born in Los Angeles, California, 1992. Johnson obtained his BA in Fine Arts from the California State University of Channel Islands in 2015 and will receive a Masters of Fine Arts at Pratt institute in 2019. He has showed in various group shows across Los Angeles. Recently he showed with Residency Gallery in Los Angeles for The New Contemporaries (2018) group exhibition and has participated in ICA LA’s Incognito (2018) benefit sale. Devin B. Johnson was awarded the recent honor of being featured in this years Northeast issue of New American Paintings.
Curator: Gabriella Sanchez
Gabriella Sanchez (born 1988, Pasadena, CA) is a multidisciplinary artist working in her hometown of Los Angeles. Studying fine art, Gabriella received her BFA in 2011 from PLNU. Upon graduation she moved to Paris, France where she worked as a live-in nanny and freelance graphic designer in support of her fine art practice.
Gianni Lee is a multidisciplinary visual artist utilizing diverse mediums to examine and explore themes of racial inequality, communication and technology. “My subject matter is based on an on going story with real characters that I created.” , says Gianni. “I decontextualize, reconstruct and regurgitate everything i see and feel on the canvas based on concepts, motifs and issues that mirror society. I make sure to explore the technological, political, social and racial climate in America while painting a post-apocalyptic and futuristic landscape.”
Curator: Elise R. Peterson
Brooklyn-based nonprofit SaveArtSpace is pleased to present "SaveArtSpace x Imaginary Clouds" a cross-media exhibition and public art exhibition curated by international street artist, Pyramid Oracle & Philadelphia native, & co-owner of Contra Galleries Matt McGlynn.
The exhibiting artists include Kathy Lieb, Sam Pullin, and Peter Walski.
During the week of April 1, SaveArtSpace will launch public art installations for each selected work on advertising spaces throughout the Philadelphia area. A weekend pop-up exhibition will mount at Imaginary Clouds Collective, 1714 N. Mascher St. Philadelphia, PA on Friday April 5, with a reception set for that evening at 6-9pm.
Natalie Foucauld aka Le Poodle grew up in South Florida as a first generation Puerto Rican and Haitian American. Her mother put her in art classes from a very young age after a pre-school teacher noticed her drawing abilities and recommended that she hone that skill.
Curated by Joel Gaitan
Brian J. Hoffman is a designer, illustrator, printmaker, and bass player in a punk rock band. He’s also the father to two young boys who he helps find poetic meaning in everyday life — through classic rock, timeless films, and tacos. Hoffman’s art is slightly surreal yet familiar because he likes to “screw with the beauty of things.” He describes his work as digital printmaking and the style as Low brow. Printmaking has taught him that imperfections can make all the difference in a piece. “You can have scratches and splotches and plate mistakes. It’s the imperfections that give the finished piece its character.”
My work is often a direct response to the craziness of everyday life. Ideas come to me from everywhere because I’m bombarded by a daily stream of media words and images that seep into my thoughts and come out in my work — both consciously and unconsciously.
Your Art Louisville / Debra Lott
Funded with a grant from Kentucky Foundation for Women, Debra Lott presents an observation and commentary on the mass media’s portrayal of flawless, unattainable feminine ideals in magazines, movies and music videos. This painting is a satirical statement that incorporates figurative distortion and exaggeration while mocking the media’s use of melodramatic, erotic and often implausible poses. The intent beyond the aesthetics is to engage viewers, raise awareness and stimulate dialogue among young girls and women.
Curated by Ashley Brossart
Brooklyn/Detroit-based public art non-profit SaveArtSpace and PLAYGROUND DETROIT are pleased to present “Signs of the Time” a cross-media gallery and public art exhibition curated by Ellen Rutt. The selected exhibiting artists are Bre'Ann White, Dessislava Terzieva, Elysia Vandenbussche, Erik Henderson, ProjectArt, Adeshola Makinde, Jonah Welch, Viscaya Wagner, and Thomas “Detour” Evans.
The selected artists will be exhibited on ad space, along with Ellen Rutt.
Honorable mention artists will also be digitally included in the gallery exhibition are Bree Gant, Chloé Besson, Michael Popso, Gisela McDaniel, Jova Lynne, Parisa Ghaderi, Rebekah Nolan, Flynn Nolan, William Singer, Judy Bowman, Miles Marie Clark, Armageddon Beachparty - Elena & Aubrey Smyth, Zoe Minikes, Cristin Richard, Bailey Glass, Alexandra Triano, Cyrah Dardas, Lyndee Deal, K.A. Letts, Joe Anderson, Maja Dlugolecki, Cheryl Sorg, Edgar Cardenas, Carole Morisseau, Leanna Hicks, Jonny Alexander, and Kristin Texeira.
During the week of July 8, SaveArtSpace launched public art installations for each selected work on billboard ad spaces throughout Detroit. An exhibition with the original artwork will mount at PLAYGROUND DETROIT, 2845 Gratiot Avenue, Detroit, MI from July 18 - August 4, with an opening reception on Thursday July 18, 6p-8p.
Liquid Light Lab is the work of Steve Pavlovsky, a multi-dimensional light artist from New York City. A majority of his work utilizes liquid projection, experimental media, and hand-made organic elements first seen in the Psychedelic Light Shows of the 1960s. Concurrent with live performance and installation, Liquid Light Lab is also a vehicle for public information about light shows, and provides tools and guidance to other artists around the world.
Curator: Sarah Zucker
Sarah Zucker is a writer and multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles. Her work merges the gorgeous and grotesque through humor, psychedelia and the interplay of cutting edge + obsolete technologies. She runs YoMeryl, an art + animation studio, with partner Bronwyn Lundberg. She produces media projects as fancy nothing (formerly known as The Current Sea).
Miami native. As a Miami, FL native, I have come across a wide range of strange, diverse things. It’s fast paced and lots of fun; a Melting Pot if you will… Born in Nicaragua, Raised in Miami, Fl. In '93 along with my two cousins I started the infamous Miami based graffiti crew "Ghost Writers Crew". Graffiti has always been a way of life for me and later as a young adult I transitioned from traditional painting and drawing to all things digital focusing on Graphic Design, Typography, Illustrations, Character Development.
Curated by Atomik
Vanessa Powers is a New York based figurative painter and sculptor whose work addresses excess, mortality, and the psychological impact of ecological crisis.
Her paintings are often high in detail, contrast, and bright in color. They frequently include images of skulls, smiley face plastic bags asphyxiating the subject, and elements of her interest in biology.
Curator: Tiffany B. Chanel
Brooklyn/Detroit-based public art non-profit SaveArtSpace and Bushwick Community Darkroom are pleased to present “SAS x BCD: BOS’19” public art exhibition, curated by Lucia Rollow & OK McCausland. The selected artists are Michelle Amirault, Victoire Mandonnaud, and Joseph Miller.
During the week of September 16, SaveArtSpace will launch public art installations for each selected work on billboard ad spaces throughout Brooklyn. An pop-up exhibition with the original artwork will mount at Bushwick Community Darkroom, 110 Troutman St, Brooklyn, NY 11206 on September 21.
San Francisco Bay Area native Kristin Cofer is a photographer currently living across from the ocean in Pacifica, California. She enjoys taking portraits of people in dream like atmospheres using colored lights, fog, prisms, and multiple exposures.
Curator: SaveArtSpace
Brooklyn/Detroit-based public art non-profit SaveArtSpace and ChaShaMA are pleased to present “SaveArtSpace x ChaShaMa” a public art exhibition, curated by Rachel Gisela Cohen, Alexandria Hodgkins, and Hazel Santino. The selected artists are Mary Tooley Parker, Brian Zegeer, and Kate Rusek.
During the week of October 14, SaveArtSpace will launch public art installations for each selected work on billboard ad spaces near Sunset Park, Brooklyn, during Chashama’s Open Studios at Brooklyn Army Terminal.
Ana Milena Torres (1000-E) is a Colombian artist based in NY. She creates female figures and blends them with patterns. She has traveled throughout the Americas from Uruguay to the USA finding inspiration for creating paintings and murals.
My work in recent years developed around the human figure from the narrative. The patterns are very recurrent in my work that I usually use them as backgrounds of my images removed in many occasions the perspective and becoming almost as the protagonist.
Curator: Danielle DeJesus
SaveArtSpace, Detroit/LA-based nonprofit, is pleased to present “SaveArtSpace: Miami Art Week 2019” a cross-media public art exhibition curated by Renda Writer. The exhibiting artists are Chris Pyrate, Brian Cattelle, and Peat “EYEZ” Wollaeger.
During the week of November 25th, SaveArtSpace will launch public art installations for each selected work on bus stop ad spaces in Wynwood, and along Biscayne Blvd in Miami.