Featured Artists:

Updated on February 2, 2008

 

Art Gallery - Exhibiting Artists: Symon Chow, Molly Crabapple, Tina Imel, Zoetica Ebb, Scott Irvine, Lisa Mei Ling Fong (Eerie Art), Mashinka Firunts, bd miller, Adriano the Pitiless...

All exhibiting artists will be on location for print sales and artist signings. Most featured work will also be available for purchase at the festival. The festival artspace will be accessible on the mezzanine level of the Element venue on February 9th, 2008 from 8PM.

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Illustrae.com says: “Molly's retro pen and ink work is a riot of detail and dirty jokes, like an R. Crumb in Victorian England. From bright and beautiful oil paintings of burlesque queens to charming drawings of Parisian cafes, Ms. Crabapple is poised to explode.”

Molly Crabapple is the founder of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School, and author of Dr. Sketchy’s Official Rainy Day Colouring Book. Her work has been featured in such reputed publications as the New York Times, Harper Collins, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and much more. Dances of Vice is honored to feature original artwork by Molly for our festival press and programs.
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"Symon Chow has been a shutter bug since he was a small child, when his father first introduced him to a Nikon F2 (which Symon still uses to this day). The natural course of action for him was to study photography in college, which he did, at Parsons School of Design, in New York City. As a "Jack of All Trades", Symon has dabbled in filmproduction, stop motion animation, visual & make-up effects for film, jewelry design, and cooking. He has also made his living as a graphic designer, (primarily in Children's Books) for the past 10 years. Symon's work can be seen on book covers, CDs, magazines, and the walls and mantles of friends and family." - (www.symonchow.com)

Tina Imel's oil paintings are an amalgamation of classical portraiture, punch cartoons and medical texts.  Her portraits border on the surreal. She often incorporates pieces of someone else's past into her own environment.  Her fondness of possessions that have outlived their owners and her traditional style of painting give her introspective and very personal work a connection to history. Tina is an award winning artist whose work has been shown in galleries across the United States and Europe.  Her paintings will be published in two upcoming books, including a collection of contemporary female surrealists. - (www.tinaimel.com)

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Zoetica Ebb is a Russian-born painter, cosmonomad and co-founder of Coilhouse - a web and print alt culture magazine. Her paintings are best described as otherworldly phantasmagoria wrapped in synthetic flesh. Among the work she will have on display at the Dances of Vice Festival will be her latest series The Pleiads: seven mythical sisters turned to stars. Captured in moments of perpetual ecstasy, they are endlessly re-living their trials while illuminating Earth.

Zoetica draws her inspiration from Russian Orthodox iconography and the Futurists, Hentai and Da Vinci, The films of Gilliam, Cronenberg and Lynch, the books of Bulgakov, Kafka and Gibson alongside high fashion photography and Rococo. Nightmares, paranoia and sexual phobias paired with glossed lips, fancy tailoring and elaborate hair. (www.biorequiem.com)
"When I first glanced at Scott Irvine's photos, I was taken to another place and almost to another time. Since I am a big fan of the dark side and all it's wonder, I was immediately taken by his images. There is a somber mood in his photos but he captures beauty in another dimension persae. When you look at a Scott Irvine photo you're not really sure when it takes place but you are sure that there is a mystery there...a story." - Duggins, Dark Beauty (www.anti-mag.com/scottirvine.htm)

Lisa Mei Ling Fong is an assemblage artist, a theatrical properties artisan and a world traveler. She assembles and arranges personal collections of relics in her signature "Introversion Boxes" to create sentimental memorials. By composing themes either autobiographical, historical or imagined, she perpetually develops the importance of what memory is as it relates to our fleeting existence. She is represented by Strychnin Gallery Berlin/New York City/London.

She states: "My artwork is my journal entry: a personal note on the efforts of a life that must inevitably traverse a timeline that is terminal. Death is what reminds me to live - not as an empty and floating being, but as a temporal entity that can touch all of what is around me.  My Introversion Boxes are celebrations of Life by celebrating Death."

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Ryan Toth is a South Florida born painter who has lived in New York City for the past ten years.
Behind the sometimes symmetrical, flat, sleek, glass-like surface resides depth of layers. Closer inspection reveals a painterly approach of the growth, dissection, and the disintegration of a form.The colors map out, and give order to the confusion of the anatomical abstraction. The paintings allude to a modern vision of medical illustration, but at the same time, the paint itself becomes a living organism in its application.
In addition, Toth articulates, combines, and modifies animal skeletons into intricate and complicated pieces pulling from his knowledge of anatomy. His articulations have both won awards and have been featured all over the world. (RyanToth.30art.com)

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