VINCE CONTARINO
“Untitled (6)” print
 

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2011 has been a year of many changes for everyone. Moving away from our Headquarters at 364 Leonard  has fortunately led us to many different opportunities. It has allowed us to collaborate with fellow artists like The They Co. through the project School Nite and The New Museum’s Festival of Ideas. With Gowanus Studio Space  and a two-part exhibition: High/Low Deep/Shallow, an inspiring Library project that has turned us into Librarians with Colin McMullan and The K.ID.S. Corner Library, as well as the wonderful Day of the Dead celebration featuring the music of The Williamsburg Salsa Orchestra, put together in conjunction with GLVDK and MYT Diseño.

As we get closer to 2012, we get ready to launch a New Edition for the New Year:  EYELEVEL FOCUS - Edition IX. We also have been working really hard with The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, putting together a very interesting program that will be released next year, so please keep us in your list, and keep us in mind for future collaborations!

Our best wishes for
the Holiday Season,

Gabriela Alva C.
Eyelevel BQE Co-Founder

 

This New Edition features a wide range of prints fruit from the diverse projects the Artists on this list where up to this year: silk- screens, box sets, hand-bound books, etchings, and a special and limited edition prints. This carefully picked selection includes a print by Vince Contarino, whose work is concerned with exploring the possibilities of abstraction through drawing, collage, and painting. Prints by Fanny Allié go well with her recurrent subject matter through papier-mâché sculptures of fragmented body parts acting as receptacles for storytelling.

A very well received box set by the Portraits Editor of the Tumblr: Emiliano Granado and his project Time For Print, curated by PHH Fine Art’s Alexandra Nelson.
 

Tom Smith’s new collages are created by constructing volcanoes at different times of day, through photographs taken at the beach during Miami Basel weekend.

The compositions created by Gabriela Alva evoke the strangeness latent in reality through “Anti-trespassing configurations” exploring different landscapes, particularly drawn to those found in some places in Mexico where the soda bottles covering the rebar of fragmented homes, evidence for the hope of building a second floor.

Nichole Van Beek prints originate from an edition of paintings made as part of a series called “The Subjects,” much of which was included in “The Teak Obsessions,” a book of poetry by Geoffrey Young.

Andrew C. Robinson  silkscreen features a collection of  labels and text rendered in a loose gestural form in the spirit of the hands of artists such as Dubuffet inspired by the graffiti of the Paris protests in May 1968. 

IAN VANEK: Breadbowl Without a Paw 

“The title is a play on “Rebel Without A Cause” by James Dean and “Rebel Without A Pause” by Public Enemy. In this case an interest edible structures and three legged cats lead us to this perfect title.”

Lisa Iglesia’s “Protectorate” C-Print comes from an extremely detailed graphite drawing consistent to the work she makes, previous examples include a papier-mâché rifle or  a hand-made celebration banner establishing threads of renewal, re-historicization and futility weaving throughout. 

 
Colin McMullan’s “Footprint Factory” was created with a set of printing blocks in a shoeshine box. Where a person would hire him, Colin would work for free, then the person would step on each block to press it into the paper, leaving an impression and choosing from a series of images to create a narrative.

All of these and more featured work is up at www.eyelevelfocus.com.

 

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As a Holiday gift from us, starting today - till January 6th, (when the 3 King’s Men bring more presents),
we have created a Free Shipping code:

 

EYELEVEL FOCUS PERIODICALLY MAKES A UNIQUE SELECTION OF ARTWORK WITH A SPECIAL INTEREST IN HAND-MADE BOOKS, BOX SETS, AND WORKS ON PAPER.