My Relationship with Movement

by Todd Wilson

Gravity Defying Land Art: Cornelia Konrads

Cornelia Konrads is a modern German painter, sculptor and designer who works in the genre of land-art. Cornelia often uses the illusion of weightlessness in her on-site installations.

Forming and Fragmenting

originally found at CargoCollective.com

Forming and Fragmenting is a series of imagery by Andre Wee that depict portraits that exist in an eternal state of transition. It is however, uncertain as to whether these figures are in the process of “forming” or “fragmenting” due to it existing in such an undefined state. This inability to define, ironically labels these entities as beings that embody the idea of a limbo. An experience of being of two different states at the same time and yet, not belonging to either.

Your Monday Inspiration: George Chamoun

A word from the artist:

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE LAST THREE WEEKS. IT’S THE RESULT OF A WORKSHOP IN FINE ARTS WITH THE THEME “ICONS” (COMPUTER ICONS/CELEBRITIES/FASHION ICONS/RELIGIOUS ICONS, ETC). 

I CHOSE TO WORK WITH MOVIE ICONS FROM TWO DIFFERENT ERAS. THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN A LOT ABOUT IDEALS, PATTERNS AND ANATOMY. I NAMED THE PROJECT ICONATOMY FROM THE WORDS “ICON” AND “ANATOMY.” 

I HAVE WORKED WITH A COLLAGE TECHNIQUE, BUT IN A COMPUTER, WHICH FOR ME IS A FIRST. I AM REALLY PLEASED WITH THE END PRODUCT AND I WANT TO DEVELOP THIS CONCEPT FURTHER.

George Chamoun 

Your Monday Inspiration: Ran Ortner

originally posted by Lee Jones

Ran Ortner

In this work Swell by Ran Ortner, the artist has created the illusion of water coming out of the walls. It’s almost impossible to not be fooled by this illusion and, no matter how many times I try to see a 2D surface, I can only ever see the sea. Ortner’s fascination with water began during his romantic childhood in Alaska. As his portfolio describes his unlikely beginnings, 

“He and his family lived in an isolated log cabin, with no running water, a wood fire for heat and a grass airstrip for a driveway. To escape the brutal winters, Ran and his family would take their single engine Cessna “Ragwing” on 3-4 month adventures from Alaska to South America. On these expeditions, Ran would turn to the open expanse of the sea to escape the confines of his unconventional childhood. When Ran was eighteen, he left home and began surfing the waves off the coasts of California and Mexico. While surfing he was able to consider both the wondrous and perilous conditions of life. Overwhelmed by what he saw and felt, he turned to art as a form of exploration.”

Ortner describes his works as a collision of opposing forces. “Every day I enter my studio, prepare my materials and, as James Joyce said, “go for the millionth time to encounter the reality of the experience.”I attempt through painting to sustain my encounter with life’s biting reality.” For more information on Ortner’s works, click here. 

BreakOut Studios Presents: 4th Avenue Exposed!

This will be an opportunity for artistic and creative types to display their talents, abilities, genius and for the community around them to support different ventures that these individuals are involved with. You will experience a night of art, music, dance, culture and so much more. Get involved with your community and open your eyes to the magnificence this city has to offer you.

June 9th, from 7pm-9pm.

$5 entry at door or online.

BreakOut Studios:

522 N. 4th Ave

Tucson, AZ 85705

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For more information contact (520) 670-1301 or 4thexposed@gmail.com.

Take a look at just a few of the phenomenal local acts we have performing!

The Missing Parts

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The Missing Parts are an acoustic instrumental quartet featuring violin, lap-steel guitar, cello, and guitar. Written collaboratively, the songs journey through an odyssey of dreamscapes, always arcing back and forth from the source: One Madly Dreaming Mind. Their influences are literally all over the map: tango, Roma, Turkish, a wide range of classical composers and styles, folk music from old time to new-grass, and too many more influences to list without sounding like a world music textbook. They particularly like soulful instrumental music (and, hence, the movie scores of Rota, Morricone, Hermann (Bernard, not Pee Wee), and to a lesser extent Badalmanti). The Missing Parts feature Oliver Blaylock on violin, Douglas Francisco on lap steel, Brian Hullfish on cello, and Paul Wright on guitar and percussion.

Nica Statman

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The Boogie Pimps

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Janet Hermalik

Janet Hermalik is an extremely talented poet.  You may have seen her work on the sidewalks around downtown Tucson.  She will be doing poetry readings during this event, but you can preview some of her work by visiting her website, Web of Whys.

Bruce Gulick

Bruce Gulick of The Magic Fun Store Gallery and Tattoo Parlour will be showing some of his incredible paintings.  

Monday Inspiration: Bruno Walpoth

Bruno Walpoth is an amazing artist that creates life-like sculptures from wood and lead.  What I find most incredible is that he breathes life into every facial feature and that the figures have such a natural posture.  It really does feel like they could come to life at any moment.

Tuesday Inspiration: Takahiro Kimura

Since 1991, Takahiro Kimura has been creating own unique style of collages that strives to show the complicated nature of the human spirit through peculiar physical distortions. His collages are made by cutting up photos and rearranging them into a collage to which color is then applied, thereby creating a whole new visage with an unforgettable impact.

Inspiring Projects

JR & Liu Bolin on Elizabeth St in NYC 2012 from Roberts Horowitz Creative on Vimeo.