Last Supper 2010 Art- Justin Riley
Artist: Justin Riley
Title: DiscoBike/(Documented interactive performance)
Size: 7′ x 63″ x 30″
Media: bikes, six speaker stereo system, mirrors, bones, clock parts, LED lights.
“DiscoBike/(Documented interactive performance)” will be an installation as well as an ongoing mobile public interactive performance. Throughout the course of the show DiscoBike will go on adventures around NYC inviting people from the street to participate in making live music performances with the ipad. These adventures will be documented and shown at the gallery throughout the show. This one of a kind, self-made bicycle, will travel around the city encouraging people to explore their creative ‘self-made’ natures.
Justin Riley was born in Arkansas, and has a BFA in sculpture form Kansas University. During college he explored many interactive projects that used technology as a means of communication and interaction. After graduating he moved to Amsterdam and worked as a disc and interactive video jockey. He is currently attending the Performance and Interactive Media Arts program at Brooklyn College. He is interested in the relationship between the artist and the audience. What role do these two groups play, and what connections can be made between them? Combining technology, installation, and performance broadens the scope with which to create these interactive qualities. His work investigates the blurring of boundaries between life and art. From an existential perspective, he connects the thinking observer with their creative energy through an interactive experience. Through shifting focus from the object to the interaction, I facilitate the potential for people to be creative. I shift control away from my own definitions to the definitions of others. This allows for the viewer to fully participate; they can become an integral part of the evolving piece. The end result is the creation of a social dynamic that challenges and connects people into a physical thinking space.
Last Supper 2010 Art- Joshua Katcher
Artist: Joshua Katcher
Title: Stockholm Syndrome
Size/Media: video
Joshua Katcher is a sculptor and video artist living in Brooklyn, NY who graduated from the BFA program in Art Video at Syracuse University, New York in 2003 with a concentration in ceramics. He also attended SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry where he concentrated in Environmental Studies. His sculptures are in the permanent collection at Figureworks Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn where he exhibited his first solo exhibition in 2007. He participated in several group shows, and continues to exhibit and sell internationally. His video work has been exhibited in festivals such as The Rotterdam International Film Festival and The New York Underground Film Festival. Joshua had been a curator on several video art exhibitions since 2002 including Spark Video: Beacon and Raw: Brooklyn, and continues to produce various works in video and sculpture.
In addition to art, Joshua Katcher is a writer, self-taught vegan chef, businessman, animal rights and environmental activist, and television producer who has produced and directed various shows for PBS, CurrentTV, and MTV, and has created media for non-profits like Lambda Legal, The Alliance for Climate Protection, PETA, Farm Sanctuary, and Gay Mens’ Health Crisis through Perhaps Media, Inc , which he founded in 2006. He founded The Discerning Brute, a fashion and lifestyle blog, in 2008 as a resource for intelligent men who want to make ethical, informed decisions concerning their lifestyles.
Last Supper 2010 Art- Jenny Marketou
Artist: Jenny Marketou
Title: Fragile and Still Moving Around, 2010
Size: 34” L X 28” W
Media: paper dresses
FRAGILE is a hybrid between a performance and a public intervention, which combines art and fashion within the social structure of a social gathering with the conscious attempt to politicize public space without taking an overt political position. I like to call it sociable art which creates contexts for interaction and communication in public space. Yet their beauty is precarious leading deep and reflecting on the conditions of life. FRAGILE participants place him or her self consciously in the role of the performer and accept to be part of a peaceful demonstration of protest against the fragile state of our culture in the presence of such overwhelming financial crisis and chaos which has affected the cultural, the social, the environmental and the political space in the entire world. This conversation will be continued in the context of the “self-made” among the art in the 2010 The Last Supper Festival.
Jenny Marketou is a Greek multidisciplinary artist who has lived and worked in New York City since 1983. She teaches at the Cooper Union School of Art. Her work deals with issues of identity, public space, electronic surveillance, countersurveiilance, body /machine, and agency/ performance . Her videos, photography, public interventions, web projects and video installation works have been shown internationally at the Basel Art Fair ,Switzerland; ZKM Centre for Art and Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany; Zenith Media Lounge, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, in Athens, Greece, among others.
Last Supper 2010 Art- Adam Harvey
Artist: Adam Harvey
Title: Irene, Jude
Size: 24 x 24
Media: photographic prints
C’est nous qui avons fait ca,’ (it is we who have created that) said Picasso in 1933, citing the cubists’ role in the creation of dazzle camouflage. From then on, artists have continued to play a significant role in the art of deception and false colors. But today, it is also we who have furthered the technology (digital cameras) used to create the surveillance societies in which we live. CV Dazzle is a response. It comprises an assortment of highly stylized, privacy-protecting makeup and hair patterns that can be used by anyone to exploit the vulnerabilities of face detection algorithms.
Adam Harvey is interdisciplinary designer and researcher and living and working in Brooklyn. His work has been included in the Advances in Wearable Computing (2009), featured on NYTimes.com, shown at galleries, and was recently presented at the Next HOPE hacker’s conference. He is a graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU works as a programmer, interactive designer, and photographer. His work is informed by the way technology shapes our lives and is an advocate for privacy and ethics in media.
Last Supper 2010 Art- Alan Lupiani
Artist: Alan Lupiani
Title: Gathered in their masses
Size: various
Media: projection
For the Last Supper Festival, I am constructing a text installation based on Black Sabbath lyrics
from their second album, “Paranoid.” This seminal heavy metal album helped shape my ideas
about the world, especially those concerning war, and provided me with a better understanding
regarding the pathos of my youth. This loud, angry, and sometimes terrifying music also
addressed my fears of becoming a man and at the same time, nourished my narcissistic
fantasies for omnipotence, dominance, and control.
Alan Lupiani was born in 1965 in Rochester, New York and studied at Binghamton University in upstate, New York, graduating with a BA in 1988 and an MBA in Arts Administration in 1991. He also studied art for three summers from 1992 – 1994, at the Chautauqua Institution in Jamestown, NY, and has held the position of Studio Manager at the New York Studio Residency Program since 1997. Lupiani has only recently begun to participate in exhibitions, most notably, performing as a street reporter for “#class” at Edward Winkleman Gallery in the spring of 2010 and exhibiting his paintings at “Brucennial 2010.” Lupiani also established “artblognyc” in 2008, a popular NYC centric art blog where Lupiani posts art reviews and happenings around New York City. Alan Lupiani lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Last Supper 2010 Art- Sarah G. Sharp
Artist: Sarah G. Sharp
Title: Family Crests for The Disenfranchised: Crest VI
Size: 24 x 36
Media: Vinyl on Paper
Whether by force or by choice, whether on the outside of a large family or a small town, there is a symbiotic relationship between the dominant culture and the edge-dwellers of any group. I utilize real and imaginary forms inspired by vernacular architecture, analog modes of communication and “inspirational” decor that address what it means to exist in the margins of a community; in the border-zone between inside and outside. A recent project, Family Crests for the Disenfranchised, imagines heraldic imagery for outsiders. I am currently exploring contemporary ideas about the sublime through landscape imagery.
Bio:
Sarah G. Sharp is an artist who uses mundane materials to create drawings, sculpture and video that address systems of belief and social hierarchies. Her work has been exhibited at The Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, CT, Real Artways and ArtSpace in Hartford, Ct, 55 Mercer Gallery, Frederieke Taylor Gallery and Stephan Stoyanov Gallery in New York City, and The Dolly Maas Gallery in Purchase, NY. Sarah’s collaborative project From Dexter to Sinister will be included in Here, There and Everywhere, part of the International Transcultural Exchange Conference in 2011. In 2009 Sarah was a BRIC Media Arts fellow and was a resident artist at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center and the Vermont Studio Center. In 2008 Sarah received a Library Research Grant from The Getty Research Institute to conduct research in the Marcia Tucker Archives. She also conducted an oral history interview with the Artist Elaine Reichek, which will be published by the Smithsonian Institute’s Archive of American Art. Sarah holds a BA in Media Studies from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA and an MFA in Studio Art and MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory from Purchase College, SUNY. Sarah Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Last Supper 2010 Art-Jake Messing
Artist: Jake Messing
Title: Exodus
Size:62 x43 in
Media: Mixed Media on Canvas
My most recent figurative work examines the concept of growth and decay within the creative individual. The tigers are about desire, attachment, and the loss of innocence. The thing which they desire is also that which binds them and holds them back. It is both elegant and fragile. It is about the breaking away from innocence into ones own power and taking the risk to tackle what is important to you.
BIO: Jake Messing was born in Northern California in 1982. He works in a wide variety of media, ranging from silkscreen to pen and ink to paint and collage. His love for carpentry has inspired small installations and sculptures through the United States. Mr. Messing frequently draws from his interest in graffiti and typography, including aspects of these elements into his work. He graduated from The New School-Parsons School of Design in May of 2006. Jake’s works have been shown across the US. He currently lives in Bushwick, Brooklyn where he is endlessly creating new bodies of work.
Last Supper 2010 Art-Sherri O’Connor
Artist: Sherri O’Connor
Title: Christiana (Series)
Size: 20×24″ print
Media: C Print
Never in American society have we as individuals been so free to
express ourselves, and whether this leads to unbridled narcissism,
only history can tell. This series of photographs is an ongoing study
documenting women I find on the streets and subways near Williamsburg,
Brooklyn.
As much as the “hipster” aesthetic is ridiculed lately by cultural
commentators, it is a veritable presence and the style has grown
globally over the past few decades. Williamsburg, Brooklyn can
arguably be deemed the epicenter of the modern-day hipster movement, a
hub much akin to Haight-Ashbury in the 1960’s. Drawing undoubtably
from media sources such as magazines, tabloids, music videos, the
Internet, and also each other, these women have cultivated their own
self-made fashion aesthetic that is dually expressive of themselves
and contemporary culture at large.
My photographs are studio portraits. The process involves finding
women on various streets and subways around Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A
portrait sitting is then scheduled, and they are asked to wear what I
first encountered them wearing originally. I started this project
because I am inspired by originality in dress. Personal fashion always
reflects one’s character. We project to the world about ourselves
every day through what we wear, whether consciously or not. I am
always intrigued by individuals that use their personal fashion as a
way of expressing, (re)inventing, or masking their being. I hope to
eventually accrue a large index of these portraits, and perhaps one
day it will become an interesting representation of a specific place
and time in our history.
Bio: Sherri O’Connor graduated from The University of the Arts in 2003 with
a BFA in Photography. Upon graduating, she moved to New York, and currently
lives in Brooklyn. When not working as a freelance assistant for photographers
such as Bruce Weber, William Abranowicz, and Warwick Saint, she shoots her own
work andhas done fashion and portrait features for magazines such as Paper,
Surface, Oyster, Foam, and Zink.
Last Supper 2010 Art-Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy
Artist: Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy
Title: When The City Plants
Dimensions: 20×10ft
Medium: Soil potting blocks, wheat grass seeds
Small blocks of soil create a map of the city. If everyone plants one seed, it will help feed the city. Observing nature and being aware of what and how we eat makes us more sensitive to food cycles in the world – of abundance, of famine – and allows us to be physically, intellectually and spiritually connected to a global reality.
Bio:Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy is a french artist based in New York. Her artwork combines drawing, printmaking, sculpture, book art, and photography to explore the interconnected value of identity and memory. Her multi-media approach to art reflects the unique way she experienced the world growing up in an old farmhouse in the French countryside. The values of preservation, attachment to roots and relationship with land and time, emphasized in her childhood, continues to inspire her work. By exploring and juxtaposing subtle links between anatomy, psychology, ecology and cosmology, Mathilde tries to understand the mysteries of our inner and outer selves. Likewise, in seeking to reveal the world’s invisible energies, knots and folds, fragments and marks, she strives to raise awareness of the key role that nature plays in our lives.
Last Supper 2010 Performance Art-Sara Worden
Artist Rendering of Performance:
Artist: Sara Worden
Estranged From Our Cosmic Origin is a mythological ecosystem that explores food, farming and the interaction of animals, plants and humans as we all navigate patterns of consumption on the planet.
Materials: three live hens, burlap sack of flour, flour sifter, hay.
Actions: Scratching, pecking, sifting, walking, climbing.
The chickens exemplify animal-human co-evolution; their innate actions of scratching and pecking are a constant presence throughout the performance. At the top of the stairs is a burlap sack filled with flour embodying agriculture and the autumnal preservation of grain.
With ritualistic intent and sensorial focus, I climb the stairs, fill my sifter with flour and begin to sift. The flour sprinkles to the floor leaving a trail of white wherever I walk. This action references the traditional winter act of baking, wasted resources, and the falling of cosmic matter. Blindfolded, I am only partially aware of the consequences of my actions. The flour is scattered and settles, marked by my footprints, creating gestural record of the process and passing of time.
BIOGRAPHY
Sara Worden (b. Albany, NY 1981) lives and farms in the Hudson River Valley. She makes sculptures, installations, and performances using salvaged materials and living entities to construct ecological mythologies, which explore anthropocentric landscape ecology and human use/misuse of living systems. Sara’s art is influenced by her work in horticulture and farming and serves to both engage local flora/fauna, food systems and the exploration of potential relationships between humans and the natural environment.
Last Supper 2010 Art-Jamie A. Knowles
Artist: Jamie A. Knowles
Title:
Wool Me, Feather Me
Mink Me, Down Me
Net Me, Felt Me
Satin Me, Stone Me
Silk Me, Velour Me
Chiffon Me, Plush Me
Velvet Me, Hide Me
Size: 18 feet x 58 inches x 12 inches
Medium: Vintage Hats Mounted, Ribbon with Embroidered Title Phrases
My piece explores touch, memory, and the externalization of identity by linking a consumer product, in this case vintage women’s hats, to self-expression. Incorporating ideas of theatrics and burlesque, the installation achieves a nuanced eroticism, which examines the vulnerability of human contact. Through humor and wordplay, the embroidery commands the viewer to perform tasks such as ‘chiffon me’ or perhaps the more familiar ‘feather me.’ The commodity becomes the means through which identity is conveyed to the public, momentarily providing the viewer a perceived but ultimately existentially empty sense of self.
Bio:Jamie Knowles (b. Bradenton, Florida) is a Ridgewood-based sculptor and printmaker. He received his BA in Studio Art from Davidson College and would like to pursue and MFA, soon. His work explores transgenerational identity issues dealing with gender, sexuality, consumerism, and history.
Last Supper 2010 Art-Maria Berrio
Artist: Maria Berrio
Title: Las tres Marias
Size: 49” x 72”
Medium: Nepalese Paper Drawings: charcoal, gold leaf, color pencils on nepalese paper
With the metaphor of the “self” being the “sky” I created drawings about the constellations.
From thousands of years ago, all societies have imagined and self created their own constellations referred as patterns of stars. The origins of constellations have been lost in time, by looking at the mythology of the ancient Greeks, we understand that constellations were and will always be a self-made outcome of the imagination….
Bio: Born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1982, Maria Berrio has been residing in New York City since 2000. She currently works and lives in Brooklyn since obtaining her BFA at Parsons School of Design in 2004, and MFA at the School of Visual Arts in 2007. Berrio’s work has been showcased in numerous New York City galleries including Praxis International, Chelsea Museum, and the Art Directors Club. Nationally, she has presented her work in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Boston, and Miami – where she exhibited in Art Basel 2009. Berrio has also displayed her work internationally in Bogotá and will be presenting works at an upcoming exhibit in Vermont at the Green and Blue Gallery. Berrio was recently awarded residency at Chashama in Brooklyn and is currently commissioned with CityArts to create a mural in Harlem.
Last Supper 2010 Art- George Pfau
Artist: George Pfau
Title: Body Layering, Markers of Classification
Size: 18″ x 24″
Medium: Ink, Paper
zombie is constructed and reconstructed into reflections of our human conditions that
can be terrifying, funny, uncanny, and transgressive. The zombie offers conflations of
exterior and interior, uniform and anatomy, skin and guts. The boundaries that surround
and separate each body (each “self”) are drawn into question as skin peels aside and
bodily structures ooze into their surrounding environments. Additionally, when flesh
is devoured and consumed bodies become merged: the self becomes part of the other.
Each of my drawing acts as a mirror, reflecting back bodily structures both imagined and
real. In the enclosed pdf are drawings that combine the components of contemporary
zombie films, 16th Century Italian medical drawings, and Italian Futurist Sculpture.
“Body Layering, Markers of Classification” for example, puts inner and outer bodily
surfaces on display and seeks to find the blurry area between identifiable, named, person
and the area of recognition that occurs as the result of a policeman’s hat, high-heeled
shoes, or bulging muscles. In zombie films, personal names are often erased while these
costume elements remain.
the Arts. He has just completed his thesis paper about the recognition, classification,
layering and mapping of the human body as seen through the pop-cultural notion of the
zombie. This summer he is making work at an art-residency in Wassaic, New York and
then in Salzburg, Austria, as winner of the Daisy Soros Fine Art Prize.
Last Supper 2010 – Call for Art works
Last Supper 2010 Curatorial Theme: “Self-Made” (Statement by Coralina Meyer)
The Last Supper Salon 2010 will explore the creative individual as a self-made person and provocateur of social change. In contrast to the male robber baron of our industrial age, the contemporary version of the ‘self-made man’ is an artist of any gender, discipline; someone who is cross-cultural and cross-national, and someone tapped in to the individual as part of the border-less, collective wisdom created by open source ideas sharing. Humanity is transforming it’s identity to fit the current needs of a new economy, and socio-political environment. Using an experimental, multi-sensory, collaborative approach, we hope to critique the way we produce the goods and services that define our generation, the way we consume media, products and our environment, and the way open dialog, DIY and technology promotes self-made identity prototypes.
Art Curator’s Statement by Alison Levy & Jeremy Funston & Douglas Turner (DAJ)
The art curation will incorporate the idea of “Self-Made” into our consumptive practice. From the ‘self-made man/woman’ to the do-it-yourself, make-it-yourself, design-your-life reality we live in, the individual can be a centripetal force in society. The resilience of the human spirit to allows us to overcome challenges and become heroes- to dream, invent, and to create new work. We are looking for artists who are examining the nature of the Self-Made in ways that relate to culture, narcissism, world change, interconnected systems, future visions and creative enlightenment. Accepted media includes: painting, sculpture, video art, design, invention, performance, interactive works or project-based collaborations.
Application Instructions:
Via email, or drop.io, please include the following information with your submission:
Artist Name, Artwork Title, Size, Price, Medium, Installation Equipment/Needs, Instructions, Availability to attend opening on 9/18/2010, Short Bio, Interpretation (How work relates to theme of show), jpg Headshot (2″x3″, 300dpi), jpg of Artwork (300 dpi), Link to Artist Website
Questions, Comments, email: Art@Lambastic.com (Jeremy Funston, Alison Levy, Douglas Turner)
Deadline: Friday, July 23, 2010
Format: Online Submissions
Last Supper 2009 Art – Ryan Brennan
Artist: Ryan Brennan
Title: Close Your Eyes and Look As Far as You can See, Chapter 4
Size: 24″ x 39″ x9″
Medium: Cinemallage, Mixed Media
These Collage works are part of a series described as Cinemallage: pieces that are simultaneously the set and viewing platform for stop animation movies. Housed within each collage is a video player displaying chapters of an imaginative tale of a young mans journey through a future utopian fantasy world where he learns how the power of imagination can make a change in the world around him. This story employs the naïve language of fairytale as a vehicle to engage several real issues in today’s society evoking hope and community in a trying time of uncertain future. Following the protagonist through this future utopian world we come across many characters who discuss various concerns we face today such as recession, credit and mortgage crisis, global warming, social inequality, and modern food production. The characters give insight into how they overcame such challenges and offer the power of imagination as a means for hope for a better future.
Bio: Ryan V. Brennan (b. Cincinnati, Ohio 1982) has exhibited internationally (France, Czech) and nationally (Brooklyn, San Francisco, Miami, Richmond). He has shown in LA Art Fair 08/09, Scope Miami and Scope Hamptons 07. He has a forth coming solo shows at Work Gallery, Brooklyn in 09 and at Manic Gallery LA in 10. Ryan Received a full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center in 06 and has been featured in a variety of publications (New York Times, Beautiful Decay Magazine, LA, Daily Serving, Web Blog, The Sunday Paper, Atlanta, Biscayne Times, Miami, and Savannah Morning News, Savannah).
Last Supper 2009 Art – Rafael Rosario-Laguna
Artist: Rafael Rosario-Laguna
Title: Gutsy Series and Heart Out of Tripe
Size: Various
Medium: cast resin and tripe
The heads with tripe and the heart made out of tripe are about organs: displaced, rearranged, transformed. The Gutsy series made me think of Mary Magdalene and wonder why was she excluded from the table….? This series is my tribute to her and to those who throughout history have been inexplicably excluded from the table of life.
Bio: Rafael Rosario-Laguna lives on the Lower East Side where he finds the tripe, the eggs (chicken and quail), the cow and duck tongues that he uses to create his work in Brooklyn. He studied painting and sculpture at Escuela de Artes Visuales Lucchetti in San Juan, Puerto Rico and obtained his B.F.A from The Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C.
Last Supper 2009 Art – Sarah Walko, Malado Baldwin
Artist: Sarah Walko, Malado Baldwin
Title: A Very Long House
Size: Drawing/Painting, Sculpture, Installation, Motors
Medium: Variable
The Longhouse Project takes the idea of communal living space as a metaphor for a larger society inhabiting a shared planet. Joseph Campbell wrote that the future myth would not be about the individual or group/society… but instead a planetary family. To demonstrate this idea, our house will expand onto the walls surrounding, through links (wire/string) to wall-mounted canvas and works on paper, text, and objects- signifying the vastness of our shared community. We are creating stories for a new age, acknowledging common visions, shared goals, through this metaphor of shared space. Through the macro/micro relationships of the larger paintings and drawings to the tiny sculptures, text and assemblage, the Longhouse Project is both a calling to look closer, and see larger.
Bio: Sarah Walko was born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. She attained her Master of Fine Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design and her Bachelor of Arts from University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. She is currently the Executive Director of Triangle Arts Association, a non profit arts organization in Brooklyn. She has participated in numerous artists workshops and residency programs and is Art Director, co- writer and so-editor with the independent film collective Santasombra. shown at the International Film Festivals around the world. Her last exhibition took place at 3rd Ward Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. She is currently working on new sculptures, drawings, sound design, and multimedia film projects and has exhibitions coming up in July, August and September of 2009 in Brooklyn, New York.
Malado Baldwin is a New York based painter whose work has been featured recently in Hypothetical Landscapes at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, NY; Boson Exotic, at Rupert Ravens Contemporary, NJ and 35/25: The Painting Center Invitational, NY. Baldwin’s solo exhibitions include shows at the Dumbo Arts Festival (2000) KeyHole Gallery (2005, 2006) and upcoming in a solo show at the National Art Gallery of Namibia (2010). Her work has been reviewed on artcritical.com, art21.com and Esquire Magazine among other publications. A graduate of Swarthmore College (BA, 1997) and The New York Studio School (MFA 2006), Malado Baldwin is the recipient of the Buckingham Prize (2005), the Visual Arts Foundation Grant (2007) and a nominee for the the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award.
Last Supper 2009 Art – Emma Gang
Artist: Emma Gang
Title: Eye Can Sea You, Isle of Capri 2112, 100% Junk = 100% Funk
Size: Various
Medium: Paper cut from magazines, cloth, thread… Capri Sun packages, Whole Foods bags
By using found materials and collage techniques Emma’s garments are both one of a kind and extremely delicate. By making her dresses virtually “unwearable”, her work addresses how fashion is consumed.
Bio: Emma is 14 years old and about to start high school this september. For the past two years she has taken part in the fashion design program at MAT middle school in manhattan where she always pushed herself to make her garments out of found materials.
Last Supper 2009 Art – Chris Smith
Artist: Chris Smith
Title: Road Work Ahead
Size: Various
Medium: painting on old road signs
His latest work entitled “Road Work Ahead” is an ongoing appropriated art series that explores the tension between written and non-verbal communication, utility and fashion. Smith uses discarded road signs as his initial canvas. He then carefully overlays stylized outlines of fashion-forward female figures. Strategically stripping away the paint below to reveal plywood patterns in the wood below or collaging elements on top. The canvas may become skin or clothing…effectively merging and blurring the distinction between object and subject.
Bio: Chris Smith aka “subtexture” is a Brooklyn-based pop-media designer who specializes in developing visual solutions for clients in the fashion, entertainment, and lifestyle industries. He is also an accomplished illustrator and visual artist who utilizes a wide range of media in his work—including: collage, painting, letterpress printing, and digital imaging. He also hosts events that showcase his influences and display the results of his experimentations with materials and other artists.
Last Supper 2009 Art – Mary Jeys
Artist: Brookyn Torch Committee, Mary Jeys
Title: Do You Belong on the Brooklyn Torch?
Size: fits in your wallet!
Medium: Paper and Trust
A local currency is by its nature a communal enterprise. Like the notions espoused by the “Last Supper,” Brooklyn Torch is engaged in bringing residents together in a sense of community and experimentation. Reclaiming our means of exchange is what we’re encouraging, and to infuse the interaction between us all with fun and play.
Bio: Mary Jeys is a multi-media artist and activist. Her work explores regeneration during post-destructive periods as they relate to contemporary culture. Recent projects include a radio project exploring the sounds of the stock market crash airing on Free 103.9 and a campaign-managing performance for John McClane of the Die Hard movies. Her work has been exhibited in New York, New Jersey, Texas and Ireland. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
Last Supper 2009 Art- Kerry Mansfield
Artist: Kerry Mansfield
Title: Self-Portrait project, Aftermath
Size: 12″x72″
Medium: Digital Chromagenic Print
The saying “The ends justify the means” always seemed like a thinly veiled excuse to me. Growing up I heard it used to defend fighting wars and other unsavory political maneuvers. But, a whole new significance came about when I got diagnosed with Breast Cancer at the age of 31. I didn’t feel sick at the time except for the gnawing sensation of anxiety and overwhelming fear. My Oncologist stated very clearly that in order to kill the Cancer they would have to come close to killing me along with it. My body would consume massive amounts of severely toxic substances in the sheer hope that the tumors would be transformed into dead cells. After what I experienced I truly wondered if the “treatment” had been worth the sacrifice of losing my body, my connection to the outside world, and ultimately myself. Three years later I still struggle with the idea of facing another round of treatment if the Cancer comes back. Some days I say “yes” and other days “not on your life.” But today, right now, yes, the means saved my life and transformed me into a different person. Now when I hear the classic phrase applied to the latest fiasco on the morning news I think quietly that the “excuse” worked for me too.
Bio: After getting a degree in photography from UC Berkeley, Kerry studied architecture at California College of the Arts (CCA) before returning to her passion of image making. While her medium of choice is the camera, the spaces created by man-made structures are most often her subject. Combining her two affinities was a natural progression in a seven-year project entitled “Borderline” that explores the boundary between interior and exterior spaces merging in a third plane. In 2005 her “Borderline” series came to a grinding halt due to a diagnosis of Breast Cancer. The battle to recover from the traumas of cancer focused her attentions on the nature of the physical body as a structure. Much like a hurricane ravages the landscape and the places we call home, chemotherapy ravages the body – the most fundamental of “homes”. While issues of survival become paramount, the parallels between the structures we live in and the body we live within become startlingly clear. The resulting series, “Aftermath” chronicles that period in a direct and unflinching approach to the destruction and rebirth from the hurricane of Cancer.
Last Supper 2009 Art- Sam Horine
Artist: Sam Horine
Title: Untitled
Size: (8) 11×14 prints
Medium: Digital Chromagenic Print
These photographs are part of a larger project documenting the New York City waterfront, which was once one of the busiest working waterfronts in the country. As times and economic situations shifted the waterfront and the industrial buildings along it were slowly consumed by weather, water and more recently new development projects.
Bio: Sam Horine is a Photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. He’s a regular explorer of forgotten, abandoned and under-appreciated places. In his spare time he enjoys rooftops, BBQ’s and pets. He’s a frequent contributor to the Village Voice and teaches at NYU’s SCPS. His work has been published The New York Times, NY Magazine, Eater, Frieze, Art Forum, Death & Taxes, Spin, Rolling Stone, AM New York, Il Magazine, Art in America, Impose, The L Magazine and many others. He’s also exhibited in a number of group exhibitions and recently a solo show at Brooklyn’s Garage Gallery. He find’s writing about himself in the 3rd person to be very strange.
Last Supper Food Artist 2009 – Brydee Rood
Artist: Brydee Rood
Title: I am Temporary Temple
Interpretation: I choose to create this piece entirely in red: The overall effect will be minimal. Using red LED plastic hose lights and red plastic waste bags. Red is the colour of warning and combines with underlying themes of global warming and climate change. My work encourages people to engage with and declare the phrase “I am Temporary!” to themselves when deciphering the work on the temple floor. The inherent meaning is a reflection upon the relatively short period of time in which we inhabit the earth compared to the forests, the oceans and stars which surround us. The interactive space is a red plastic warning, aglow with the impact of our consumption on resources and our waste on the environment. There are circles and cycles, rings and rims at play in the physical elements of the installation. Somehow the work is both gentle and reflective whilst embodying with complex ideas of hope and light, plastic and waste.
Bio: Growing up in Auckland and attending the University of Auckland’s Elam School of Fine Arts Brydee graduated in 1999 with Bachelors in the top of the painting section. In 2001 the world was this artist’s oyster and she moved to Japan undertaking what she describes as “my own residency” – living in Japan for 2 years as a registered alien, teaching to support her studio practice and exhibiting locally. In 2003 travelling to Mexico she undertook a similar self initiated program concluding a substantial solo exhibition Fresco at Galeria de Arte Joven, Difocur – Centro Cultural Genaro Estrada, Culiacan before returning to New Zealand and completing a Masters degree in interdisciplinary practice at Elam in 2006.
Last Supper Art 2009 – Quinn Dukes
Artist: Quinn Dukes
Title: The Secrets Spoke
Medium: latex, soil seeds wooden table, 4 chairs, sound piece
The Secrets Spoke stages the modern day dining table as a meeting ground. Inevitably this rectangular wooden
object enforces physical separation and suggests emotional discord. The two opposing sculptures silently exist. The mound of soil, seeds, sprouts and monofilament offer a metaphorical display of conversation between the two. The viewer is invited to join the table and listen to the unnerving tension and subtle commonalities spoken through sound and frequency. It is only until the viewer becomes an active participant, that they can piece together the secrets spoken between the two entities. The Secrets Spoke aligns with the ideals of the “Last Supper” by staging a metaphorical banquet. The viewer is challenged at the dinner table to re-envision their relationship with art through participation.
Bio: Originally from Ohio, Dukes graduated from Watkins College of Art & Design in 2007 with a BFA in Fine Art. In an effort to further expose the community to the visual arts, Dukes aids in forming independent, emerging artist groups in the middle Tennessee state area.Human interactions within forced ecological and social scenarios are often a primary tenet within Dukes’ work. Performance provides a platform in which Dukes’ metaphorical re-interpretations of personal relationships can exist, perish, grow and morph. Dukes currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
The Last Supper Film Festival is an indoor-outdoor film, food, music and art festival occuring in Brooklyn during the crux of seasonal change in September. Referencing the celebratory nature of the feast, and the symposium of genres, the festival kindles the creative miasma sparked by NY's peppery fall and inventive community.The last exposure to outdoor interaction before the shearing winter...