All posts tagged: Open Ground

The Guns & Roses album by this name came out the same year as the eco-disaster Exxon Valdez, according to artist Greg Haberny, who is showing for at least his second year here and is a favorite at Leo Kesting Gallery. (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

An artist working in a schizophrenic style, Greg Haberny says, “If I’m off the hook emotionally and not at rest I let my body just go into it and I continue to work in that mode.” Does it feel dangerous? “Yeah, but I love it” (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

So THAT’s how he gets so much energy! Greg Haberny’s reworking of a logo may remind SOME people of of rollerskating at The Roxy in the 1990’s.  (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

” A lot of people come in and say, ‘Oh, it’s street art’ and I’m like ‘no, it isn’t.’ It basically camouflages itself as that. In actuality it is everything you’re not supposed to say.”  (A reworked and shotgunned Mobil sign by Greg Haberny) (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

New York street artist Swoon has a number of pieces in the booth that is raising money for Idea For the Here and Now, a group exhibition of limited edition prints to benefit Transformazium, an emerging collaborative arts center in Braddock, Pennsylvania. (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Swoon (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Jennifer Garcia, co-founder of the project “We Are Familia”, “It is a collective of about 50 creative individuals from all disciplines. Our main project is this keepsake box project. Each box is made from recycled surplus materials and each is a collaboration of all of the members of the collective. Every keepsake box has completely unique contents and every form is completely unique and all are built a different way.” (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Jennifer thumbs through the contents of one of the Keepsakes, “The outside of this box was done by Fabian, Bedolla, and myself and then inside the box is 30-40 pieces of work.  It pretty amazing actually.  All the work is based on the concept of family.  Every person was allowed to interpret family however they wished, so there is just an enormous range of stuff in here; video, photography, print, zines, paintings, drawings, photographs.” (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Part of la familia, the street art duo Thundercut is exhibiting this 3-D woodcut shadowbox (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Clowning by Miguel Paredes, a Miami artist who is showcasing his “Los Niños” series, a collection in which he uses his children as the subjects in an array of startling yet beautiful paintings. The series depicts an unknown world of the 21st century shown through Paredes’ unique multi-media slant on the art world.  (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Miguel Paredes collaborated on a few pieces with New York based graffiti artists SKI & 2ESAE of Destroy & Rebuild (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Doug Groupp clowning around at the Open Ground booth  (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Emily Bicht uses cutouts and imagery of domesticity and luchadors on this wall in the Open Ground collective’s booth (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Subtexture is the moniker of this artist in the “Murder Lounge” in the hull of the boat. “They were throwing away all these “sidewalk closed” old signs.  A few of them were really knarly, really chewed up. And I liked them. So I was developing this illustration style of projecting my photos and tracing them off, creating line drawings and bringing them into Illustrator and colorizing – I did a whole series like that.” (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Matthew Craven from the Nudashank Gallery booth (Baltimore) (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Dave Tree did a number of pieces on shovels (and one wheelbarrow) called “The New American Dustbowl” series. “They are peasants from all around the world and the shovel is an international tool you’ll find everywhere. It’s not just about America, it’s about tampering with the whole process, genetic engineering, cross pollination, and seedless crops. I think that if we are going to survive we have to go back to a personal relationship with the land,” says the artist. (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

“Everybody should be growing food somehow.  When I grew up my mother always had a garden.  My grandmother was part Mi’kmaq Indian so I got an appreciation of that. When I was confirmed, she gave me a tree,” Dave Tree. (by the way, Dave Tree is his “rock name”, according to the artist.) (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Gawker Artists are showing this “Stripping Pen” painting by Steve Ellis, a portrait of downtown nightlife personality Amanda Lepore. (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Well known Parisian street artist ZEUS has two canvasses in his typical style of dripping. Habib Diab, of Galerie Zeitgeist explains that the process is called “Liquidating.” (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)

Travelling around the world to malign corporate logos and messages, ZEUs refers to his work as “Visual Attacking”, and sometimes includes “Visual Kidnapping” (photo ©Steven P. Harrington)