Carlos Huante’s Anatomy Workshop
Bill Durgin’s incredible ‘Figure Studies’ series transcends traditional photography into sculpting a piece of art with one’s camera. The images are the result of complex arrangements of the body parts which require extreme flexibility and contortion by the model to achieve an “austere effect contortion.”
Bill Durgin received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tufts University in conjunction with School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1995. And in 2000, Bill received his Masters in Fine Arts from California College of Art (CCA) in San Francisco.
Bill’s work has appeared in galleries throughout the country including, most recently, the 2008 SMFA Traveling Scholars exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and a Solo show, Figurations, at Merge Gallery in New York. He has also exhibited at Judy Goldman Fine Arts in Boston, SF Camerawork, jennjoygallery in San Francisco, and Ego Gallery in Barcelona, Spain. In 2006 he was named as a Surface Avant Guardian award winner. His work has also been published in Paper, Corduroy, Elle, New York, Time Out New York, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Art News, to name a few.
To learn more about Bill Durgin, please visit his site at www.billdurgin.com
Self-portraits by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat will star in contemporary-art auctions in London set to raise at least 72.5 million pounds ($116 million).
Sotheby’s, Christie’s International and Phillips de Pury & Co.’s sales come as contemporary-art dealers look for price rises. Worldwide auctions slumped more than 50 percent in 2009. The once-booming market is still recovering, according to the French-based data company Artprice.
“Things were bad in 2009,” said Anders Petterson, founder of the London-based analysts ArtTactic. “Sales were solid and robust in 2010. The question is whether growth will continue in 2011 or flatten out.”
In November in New York, the three auction houses’ evening sales raised $553 million. The total was just 17 percent lower than in May 2008, when the contemporary-art boom was at its height, ArtTactic said in its latest confidence survey.
The 1967 Warhol has been in a U.S. private collection since 1974 and is estimated to sell for as much as 5 million pounds at Christie’s on Feb. 16. Christie’s auction of 64 lots may raise as much as 51.9 million pounds.
Phillips’s Feb. 17 auction has 29 lots that are estimated to make at least 5.8 million pounds. Basquiat’s 1985 painting “Overrun,” showing a stylized self-portrait in a graffiti- scrawled urban landscape, has a top estimate of 1.5 million pounds.
Written by Scott Reyburn
Alberto Mielgo is a Spanish born artist with a broad range of work as both a painter and graphic designer. He currently lives in London were he works as an art director, animator, painter and designer various companies around the globe.
To learn more about Alberto Mielgo and view additional work, please visit his site at albertomielgo.com or his blog at albertomielgo.blogspot.com
If you are a beginner sculptor and looking for resources, Adam Reeder has just finished his Beginning Figure Sculpting DVD and is available for purchase through his site at www.studiorealism.com. Be sure to check it out!
Shawn Barber’s body of work focuses primarily on painting, portraiture, and documenting contemporary tattoo culture. Barberʼs intimate renditions of tattooed individuals balance both meticulous brush strokes and loose energy. Figurative in nature, these large paintings take on abstractions with explosive colors, meandering lines and paint dripping down the canvas.
Barber earned his B.F.A from Ringling College of Art in 1999 and has paintings held in private collections throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, Europe and Australia. His paintings have been exhibited in diverse solo and group venues including: Joshua Liner Gallery, NYC, NY; Billy Shire Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA; The Shooting Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Mesa Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa, AZ; University of Houston, Houston, TX. His first published book of art titled ‘Tattooed Portraits’ was published by 9mm Books in March of 2006, followed by his second tome, ‘Forever and Ever’, a 256 page hardcover book dedicated to the Tattooed Portraits Series. Among his extensive achievements, he has taught drawing, painting and the business of art for 10 years at various art schools throughout the country. After years of documenting the art of tattoo, it was a logical progression to pick up the tattoo machine and add tattooist to his resume. When he is not traveling or painting, he can be found working at Memoir Tattoo in Los Angeles, CA.
You can find more work by Shawn Barber at the following sites:
Gallery Nucleus Presents:
Poster Peepshow: The Art of the Pin up
February 05, 2011 – February 28, 2011
Opening Reception: February 05, 2011(7 pm – 11 pm)
Alhambra, CA – The pin up girl is sweet, yet equally a seductress, flirty as well as sexy, naïve but secretly naughty. She embodies sensuality, youth, fun, and pleasure. Men and women alike have admired her for nearly 100 years. The pin up girl could be found on the covers and centerfolds of thousands of magazines, calendars, ad campaigns, and even decorated WWII war crafts; thereby, pin up art has become an integral part of Americana. “Poster Peepshow” celebrates the pin up girl by featuring original artwork by contemporary artists and pays homage to pin up masters such as George Petty, Gil Elvgren, and Alberto Vargas. Over the past decade it has become impossible to ignore the growing popularity to recapture the nostalgia of pin up glamour. We are pleased to contribute to the culture’s growing appreciation through this exhibition.
Featured Artists
Nathan Cabrera
Marcelo Dadolce
Olivia De Berardinis
Craig Elliott
Jenny Gase-Baker
Keron Grant
Shane Glines
Oren Haskins
Lawrence Noble
Ryuichi Ogino
Bill Pressing
Rockin’ Jelly Bean
Robh Ruppel
Marguerite Sauvage
Jim Silke
Stuntkid
Francis Vallejo
Barnaby Ward
Dean Yeagle
Classic Pin Up Artists
Rolf Armstrong
Al Buell
Art Frahm
Al Moore
K.O. Munson
Highlights
Olivia De Berardinis Book Signing: 6pm- 7pm
Free Live Figure Drawing featuring the Suicide Girls
Special Guests
Lenora Claire
Julie Newmar
Sponsored By
Grapefruit Moon Gallery
Suicide Girls
Sort This Out Cellars
For more information, please see:
http://www.gallerynucleus.com/gallery/exhibition/263
Contact:
info@gallerynucleus.com and jasmine@gallerynucleus.com
Adam Reeder has just set up his new figure sculpting resource site, studiorealism.com. The site contains helpful tips for both artists and sculptors, figure references, video demos, and other excellent resources.
Be sure to check out Adam’s personal website as well at adamreeder.com
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San Francisco–“Facebook Is Dead” was an article 247wallstreet.com posted Dec 15, 2008. That story was dead wrong. Yet, if you were to say that about marketing using Facebook today, you might be right.
Marketing budgets for social media in 2011 are set to see record levels. However, as those budgets rise, the level of effective marketing from Facebook drops. This is not news to anyone in the social media marketing industry. The question to SMO professionals is, what now?
On Sept 2, 2009 AFP news agency’s Ian Sherr posted a story about a sculptor who had used social media to market himself successfully. The editorial was interested in the change social media marketing was having on an age-old industry. The art world has deep rooted unwritten laws about younger artists speaking out of turn.
Ian Wrote, “Reeder maintains that Internet Age innovations not only infuse his art, they are underpinnings of his success, helping him craft a new business model for an industry as old as civilization itself.
Unlike more conservative colleagues, Reeder said he tenaciously uses online tools such as social networking services, blogs and YouTube videos to attract attention and, ultimately, buyers…”
“If you want to see who is going to buy your art in 20 years, look at who is 20 years old now—if you want to stay up to date, and continue to sell your work in the future, you better be on Facebook.”
I am the Sculptor Ian wrote about. From 2007-2009, I told anyone who would listen “Get on Facebook now!” I told artists, art dealers, collectors, Professors, EVERYONE. My assertion was that Facebook was a place people could go which was separate from their normal life. When you logged in, you were in a safe place, defenses down.
With people logged in and defenses down, unknown artists could infiltrate a previously unavailable “cast” of creative people. Normally, it is “verboten” for an artist to approach a critic, art writer, gallery, curator, or collector. You are expected to get in line and wait to be “discovered”.
In 2008, once logged into Facebook with defenses down, these art world “Untouchables” became accessible. I warned everyone that very soon, artists from all over the globe would discover this “glitch in the Matrix” … that Facebook would become saturated with artists.
Back then, I could find an art writer, or collector online, then I would look them up on Facebook. It was effective to send pictures to strangers on Facebook. I would get feedback, sales, press, and a BUNCH of good backlinks. I sent pictures to tech bloggers, and tech writers. Those folks would write about my work, so I would take what they wrote about it, and send that to other writers. Viral marketing ensued.
Getting talked about as an artist is hard. Think about the last time you heard about an artist in the news. Facebook was the key to bypassing all of that.
I warned EVERYONE that Facebook would become saturated. That time has arrived. Facebook isn’t a “safe place” anymore. Spam and unwanted messages have made people just as cautious looking at their inbox, as they are with junk mail in the mailbox.
Today I received ten Facebook messages inviting me to art shows. I received even more “Event invites”. I did not look at a single one of them. I get too many now for it to be practical to do so.
Facebook by itself is no longer an effective business tool for SMO professionals (Twitter and LinkedIn are in the same boat). However, consumers do not want that anymore. They want content. Real things they can use, or interesting things they can share. Regardless, companies will still duke it out with social media in an effort to out tweet, out backlink competitors.
Consumers have only one safe place now… smart phones (mark my words). While on my Android, my defenses are down. I am impressionable to the things my Android tells me I need… for now anyway.
I will give one great example of effective viral content in 2010. The content was the Toyota Sienna brand’s YouTube video “Swagger Wagon”. I personally sent this video to 15 people even though I knew it was a viral marketing tool. The video was brilliant, and people we all too glad to share it.
Companies can no longer impose their marking on social networks. The challenge for SMO professionals now is, to create content consumers willingly share with their own social networks. Tools, videos and information relevant to specific communities of consumers will be the SMO successes of 2011.
The Facebook I used to know may be dead. However, I am excited to see what my fellow SMO folk use to create viral marketing campaigns in 2011.
Adam Reeder,
www.adamreeder.com