Can I tell you about...Shinique Smith. Last Thursday April 5th, Shinique Smith invited me to her opening with fellow artist Mickalene Thomas at the Caren Golden Fine Art gallery (http://www.carengolden.com/) in Chelsea. I met Shinique last summer at the Hamptons Fund Raiser at Kimora and Russel Simmons estate and we immediately had connected. At the Fund Raiser, she and several artists had donated their art for a silent auction to raise funds. I liked her piece a lot, a collage of torn magazine pages forming a strong graphic statement. Unfortunately I lost to a higher bidder. These silent auctions can get real competitive and nasty!
Christine Y. Kim, my favorite Rafe Evangelist, promised to hook us up to collaborate for the Studio Museum in Harlem where she works and where she's cultivated Shinique's art as well. Here's what she had to say about the artist,"I can't think of a better artist for you to hightlight and possibly work with. Her drawings, paintings and sculptures are like visual poetry with volume and color. Always working and reworking the forms, and imagining and re-imagining their relation to the body and the viewer in space, her compositions are elegant, timely and some of the strongest work I've seen lately. She was included in "Frequency" (2005), which I co-curated with Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum, and has been showing actively in the past few years around the country".
As you can see, Shinique's art is multilayered, strong, graphic and exuberant, much like Shinique.
Mickalene's work was equally amusing. Pop portraits of Oprah and Condeleeza Rice.
Their features further emphasized with faceted crytals.
Outrageous and hilarious! Queen O should get the whole set. The exhibit will be on until May 12. Check it out.
Christine Y. Kim, my favorite Rafe Evangelist, promised to hook us up to collaborate for the Studio Museum in Harlem where she works and where she's cultivated Shinique's art as well. Here's what she had to say about the artist,"I can't think of a better artist for you to hightlight and possibly work with. Her drawings, paintings and sculptures are like visual poetry with volume and color. Always working and reworking the forms, and imagining and re-imagining their relation to the body and the viewer in space, her compositions are elegant, timely and some of the strongest work I've seen lately. She was included in "Frequency" (2005), which I co-curated with Thelma Golden at the Studio Museum, and has been showing actively in the past few years around the country".
As you can see, Shinique's art is multilayered, strong, graphic and exuberant, much like Shinique.
Mickalene's work was equally amusing. Pop portraits of Oprah and Condeleeza Rice.
Their features further emphasized with faceted crytals.
Outrageous and hilarious! Queen O should get the whole set. The exhibit will be on until May 12. Check it out.
10 comments:
You seem to get invited to the best parties. You're like the next Paris Hilton!
Just make sure you wear some undies when you go out. LOL!
love, the ripped magazine collage!!! Also Shinique's purse is so f-ing cute!!!
(you see, I am distracted by purses even when art is around)
j'aime beaucoup les portraits, je les trouve tres reussis.
I like much the portraits, I find them very succeeded.
the first oprah is dead on, not so sure about the second one.
haha and regarding your comment, no! i'm really not that kind of guy, i always wake up alone.
Love your blog- very different and aestethic.
Love the Oprah pieces - makes the case for her iconographic status.
Her work is beautiful, love the layered ones.
All those are absolutely gorgeous! By the way, I love your new collection for Target- I just posted something about it. Check it out if you would like!
Can I tell you...i love pop art, so the oprah set is begging to be in my home. I went to Bendels on Friday and got to see your handbags! which I'm crushing over.
i just saw michalene's work over the weekend and it was fantastic! i am officially obsessed.
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