6X6 - The Art version of a NYC Music Festival

What If There Were No More Art Galleries? 6x6 is the answer to that question.

6X6 is the Art Version of the Music Festival.
www.6X6NYC.com
Sept 11, 2011 thru Oct 8, 2011
547 W. 27th Street NYC &
548 W. 28th Steet NYC





Baang and Burne Contemporary was founded in 2009 by two artists: Kesha Bruce (aka Mr. Burne) and Charlie Grosso (aka Mr. Baang).

The partners named their roaming gallery after a cold-war era spy term for “covert sabotage and demolition operations" because it perfectly describes our philosophy about tearing down the barriers that are part of the old-school art buying experience and creating a new innovative art experience.

Also, the two say they love spy movies.

Simply put, Baang and Burne events are where people who love art and people who make art come together.


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Jeramaine Clark "I AM KRITEEK'D" URBAN ART SHOW

Jeramaine Clark is wonderful young artist that produces the most phenomenal Urban Pop art. A recent 2010 AAMU Alum, is making his mark on the Atlanta market. Once the world sees his work, I think he might be the next Basquait.

Born and raised: St. Louis, Mo
Recent graduate: of Alabama A&M University
Major events: Theshoegame.com 3rd year anniversary party, Nike Town Lennox Mall, Atlanta, Ga (Sold painting to prominant sneaker head “Mayor”)
Sneaker Friends ’10 Compound, Atlanta, Ga (Sold painting to platinum hip hop recording artist Rick Ross)

CONTACT INFO: www.kriteekd.blogspot.com

kriteekd@gmail.com


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Source: Mademonarchs , www.fresh-cool-dope.com and a repost on AAMU News Watch

Nina Simone Memorial Project Sculpture Preview

Still photography video of Nina Simone sculpture model preview in Tryon, NC on Sunday, 11 October 2009 in Nina Simone Plaza. Sculpture commissioned by Nina Simone Project and sculpted by Zenos Frudakis. JET magazine nationally previewed Frudakis’s model for the public art sculpture of Simone in its 9 March issue. The over-life-size representation of a seated Nina Simone has evoked overwhelmingly positive response from viewers.

The Eunice Waymon-Nina Simone Memorial Project (www.ninasimoneproject.org) released photographs today of the model in progress for a memorial sculpture depicting the legendary chanteuse Nina Simone. The over-life-size bronze sculpture of Simone, by Philadelphia-based sculptor Zenos Frudakis, is planned as part of a public art installation in Tryon, NC, birthplace of the world-renown singer and human rights’ activist who came to be known as the High Priestess of Soul.

Crys Armbrust, Ph.D., founder and executive director of the Nina Simone Project (NSP), remarks that “we are extraordinarily gratified by the positive response to each of the NSP’s memorial efforts—scholarship, sculpture and music festival.” Regarding the sculpture and its sculptor, Armbrust continues, “we are fortunate, as well, to have assembled an excellent team to accomplish this important phase of our endeavor.”

Zenos Frudakis’s work appears in numerous art collections both in the US and abroad. Notable commissions include the Honor Guard at the National Air Force Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery, Freedom at the GSK World Headquarters in Philadelphia, PA, and Martin Luther King at the US Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa.

Frudakis’s enthusiasm for this commission is evident in his comments following. “I am delighted to share in the creation of a lasting tribute to jazz legend Nina Simone. In addition to being a fan of her work, as an artist, it is especially pleasing for me to be given this opportunity to honor another artist.”

The highly-acclaimed sculptor Frudakis is joined in this effort by Nina Simone’s daughter Lisa Simone Kelly, known to many as a seasoned musical performer in her own right. Her credits include lead roles in such Broadway productions as Aida, Rent, Jesus Christ Superstar and Les Misérables. Kelly, who performs under the single name Simone, is now on tour to promote the release of her tribute CD “Simone on Simone.”

“Lisa Simone Kelly,” Armbrust reports, “has played an integral role in the creative process, and her participation has made our efforts all the more meaningful. Beyond her valuable commentary on earlier versions of the bust study, she graciously continued on to pose for Frudakis’s full scale study of her mother. So, what we have here is, in point of fact, indeed Simone on Simone—a legend and a legacy combined together in tribute to one who was and is a powerful musical force in a global theatre and an icon of human potential realized.”

For further information about the Nina Simone Project, see www.ninasimoneproject.org.

Robin Thick's "Sweatest Love" video is a Marc Baptiste work of art

Marc Baptiste has done it again. He directed Robin Thick’s video for the single “Sweetest Love”. It’s a great piece of work. Robin Thick’s newest CD is on heavy rotation on my ipod. The Sweetest Love single is my third most favorite song on the CD. The first is “Side Step” and the second would be “Ms. Harmony”. Hence, the “Sweetest Love” was written after Robin Thick visited Paris. Although, I’ve been to Paris only once, he penned the songs simple yet elegant melody perfectly. Moreover, Marc Baptiste captured the feel and mood of the song with perfection; simple, intense and sweet. Check out the Robin Thick’s “Sweetest Love” video below:




I love all forms of art; literary, photography, painting, sculpture, music, film, the spoken word. Superb Art is an emollient on a bad day because it touches the soul, warm the heart and leaves one wanting more. Our homes are our sanctuaries, and often represent our journey, our interests, our experiences, and simply who we are inside; no matter how kooky it may be. My very tiny house is filled with art from unknown artists whose work moves me, inexpensive prints of internationally known artists and many books from critically acclaimed authors. Hence, the books I have on my coffee table bring me great joy conceptually and visually. There is the amazing Freda Kahlo, the extraordinary Gordon Parks, the confused yet impeccable Basquait, the incredible Henry Tanner, and my favorite contemporary photographer Marc Baptiste.

Marc Baptiste, the author/photographer of the book BEAUTIFUL nudes by Marc Baptiste, exquisitively captures the Soul of women in ways few photographers have in the past. To me, Baptiste is the Herb Ritz of the millennium. His work evokes true LOVE and BEAUTY. I can only say that his work is like poetry. Robin Thick definately chose the best director for the "Sweetest Love" video. Bravo, Bravo!

Gagosian has become a work of Art in Love

Shala Monroque and Larry Gagosian at the Brooklyn Ball. They honored developer Bruce Ratner at the Brooklyn Museum’s annual Brooklyn Ball this past Thursday night and marked it with the opening of the Takashi Murakami retrospective.






Left: Shala Monroque and Larry Gagosian. (Photo: Stefanie Keenan for Patrick McMullan) Right: Artist Ellsworth Kelly. (Photo: Brian Lindensmith for Patrick McMullan They honored developer Bruce Ratner at the Brooklyn Museum’s annual Brooklyn Ball this past Thursday night and the marked it with the opening of the Takashi Murakami retrospective.



Shala Monroque, Larry Gagosian, and Andy Valmorbida front row at "Warhol Factory X LEVI'S X Damien Hirst" Spring 2008 Collection at Gagosian Gallery. Fashion Week. The entertainment/social budgets get bigger every year. After the runway shows which are ostensibly in the Bryant Park tents, but are actually all over town, there are the parties

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Gagosian the great
Aug 18th 2007
From Economist.com
Master of all he surveys (then sells)



THE king of the art world—a superlative title, perhaps, but Larry Gagosian just may deserve it. Each year ArtReview, an art journal, publishes a list of the industry’s top 100 movers and shakers in an attempt to assess who has the greatest impact on art’s value and reputation. Museum directors, auction-house owners, private collectors, dealers and even, occasionally, artists jostle for the top position. Mr Gagosian topped the list in 2004, and has lingered near the peak since.

In that triumphant year Mr Gagosian, New York’s leading dealer, had just opened his fifth gallery, in London’s Britannia Street, to balance his three in New York City, the one in Beverly Hills and his smaller space in London’s Mayfair. At 1,400 square metres, it is the largest and most splendid commercial gallery space in London. Its opening—Cy Twombly, a distinguished American artist, had been persuaded to create new work specially, and even Charles Saatchi predicted it would transform London’s art world—firmly established Mr Gagosian’s transatlantic dominion.

So what makes a successful dealer, and what is the nature of his power? Mr Gagosian is famous for his bold business dealings and glamorous lifestyle. He has a penchant for fast cars and beautiful women, and a vast home in East Hampton called Toad Hall.

Yet beneath this predictable exterior lies a true entrepreneurial instinct for the buying and selling of art. Mr Gagosian started his career, in Los Angeles, by buying posters for $2, framing them and selling them for $15. His energy in exploiting the possibilities of the secondary fine-art market in the early 1980s—buying and then reselling work by blue-chip modern and contemporary artists for a considerable profit—established his reputation, earning him the nickname “Go-Go”. Starting out in downtown New York in the mid-1980s doing historical shows, it was the lull in the art market in the early 1990s that offered Mr Gagosian his next opportunity. He began to represent living artists.

Driven and a workaholic, unafraid to bid aggressively at auction, he has a legendary capacity to drive up prices: fellow dealers enviously explain that he is consistently ahead of the game, always thinking about the next deal. Cristina Ruiz, editor of the Art Newspaper, has a judicious summation: “He loves the art—but he is one of those dealers who absolutely loves to sell, and he is very successful at it. Yes, he employs aggressive selling techniques, but that’s how dealers get stuff done.”

Todd Eberle

Cultural revolutionaryPerhaps his greatest achievement has been to win the trust of both artists and collectors. He represents the cream of contemporary American and many British artists. His arsenal of big names includes Richard Serra, Walter De Maria, Jeff Koons, Ed Ruscha, Howard Hodgkin and Rachel Whiteread. In New York he shows Damien Hirst, Douglas Gordon and Jenny Saville. Mr Gagosian also represents the estates of Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein and David Smith. Alongside these stars, he continues to show the work of lesser known artists, fostering the next generation.

As Mr Gagosian admitted in a rare public speech, one steady priority has been “to find or create a great space, a beautiful space, in which to show the art. You have to draw attention to yourself, to the gallery and to your artists.” Three of his galleries are by world-class architects—Richard Meier in Beverly Hills, Richard Gluckman in Chelsea and Caruso St John in Britannia Street—and the shows he creates in these remarkable spaces are knowledgably curated, equal in quality to fine museum exhibitions.

Another key priority has been the establishment of long-term relationships with serious collectors. As he has described it, he is averse to “transactional sales”, the one-off arrangement, and prefers “working steadily, over time, with collectors, and helping create or expand their collections.” He works closely with big-name collectors such as Charles Saatchi, Eli Broad, Si Newhouse and David Geffen.

Mr Gagosian is a master not just at selling, but, even more importantly, at selling to the right collector at the right price; for it is not just the deal that is at stake but the global market perception of that artist. For this reason Mr Gagosian avoids what he calls “impatient money”, which sees art only as a quick investment. It is this ability to understand art as a matter of love as well as money that has given Mr Gagosian so much power—not just to make himself a fortune but to shape the taste of a generation.
http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=9673257&fsrc=RSS

Playing the Changes, Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photophraphs

Remarkable! I saw the award winning documentary of Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton, on PBS. I absolutely must get this new book, Playing the Changes. I will sit it on my coffee table next to my Gordon Parks book "Half Past Autum". I think both books are great coffe books because they capture american culture in in it's actuality; which evokes moving conversation. Jazz is the only American art form originating in the United States. As a cultural tradition, I collect jazz prints, jazz music and am trying to learn more about the history and tradition of Jazz. Milt Hinton is the most accomplished and influential base player in the history Jazz, and has become the historian of traditional Jazz. Thankfully his documentation of the artform exists for the Museums, as it is a pivotal part of American history. Thankfully David Berger helped put Milt's massive collection of pictures together and published the work. As it might be the only historical document of the history of jazz, candidly, as it really was. Interestingly, after viewing the documentary, Keeping Time, I realized I have one of Milts pieces; Billy Holiday; the Last recording session. I bought the print in New Orleans 14 years ago. It's framed on my living room wall, but I didn't know the story behind the picture. If you can hear me heaven, thanks Mr. Hinton for describing the story behind that powerful picture; it now has even more meaning to me. I can not waite to get Playing the Changes.


The Words, Images, and Music of One of the Greats In American Jazz New book and cd chronicle the artistic and personal journey of extraordinary bassist Milt Hinton

The life story of Milt Hinton is rooted in hard times, rising from segregated backwater clubs to elegant concert halls, offering a perspective on the African American experience that is unique in its mix of humor and wisdom.

The publication of PLAYING THE CHANGES: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs (Vanderbilt University Press, January 2008) not only tells Milt's compelling story, in his own inimitable style, but also exquisitely reproduces 260 of his incredible photographs. He began taking pictures in the 1920s and continued documenting the world that he knew, in and away from the spotlight, up to his death in 2000 at age 90.

These photographs, more than 140 of which are published here for the first time, burst with life--and some would swear sound--revealing candid and often intimate moments of both the famous (Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Duke Ellington) and the not so famous who played alongside them, such as 400-pound arranger/bandleader/organist “Tiny" Parham.

Included with the book is a CD of music and interviews with Milt Hinton, along with a discography and a filmography.

This remarkable book reveals as well that Hinton possessed a gift of narrative. Blessed with a storyteller's facility, he leads the reader back to his first memories as a child in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and even beyond, to his father's African birth and elements of that legacy that lingered in his grandmother's cooking. Through his recollections we feel these times and places, down to the lynching he witnessed at age seven and, nearly as horrible, the surreal stillness of the town the morning after.

Interweaving photos and prose, the book traces Milt's path from Mississippi to Chicago, where he polished his music through the famous Wendell Phillips High School program and earned money running errands for the Al Capone organization. Committing full time to music, Hinton crossed paths with people who seem cut from a mold that was broken long ago. Many have left vivid marks on history, from the legendary boxer Jack Johnson to the incomparable Cab Calloway, with whose band Hinton traveled for many years. Others have been forgotten or died too young, like the tough-talking and brilliantly gifted singer Ann Robinson, whose rise toward fame ended suddenly one night in a Harlem alley.

Combining an acute observational eye with an ear sensitive to music and conversation, Hinton casts these characters in revealing light. He was there to witness a legendary and nearly fatal encounter between Calloway and a knife-wielding Dizzy Gillespie, to help remove the great Charlie Parker, passed out on heroin, from under a table in a bar, and to see the King of Swing, Benny Goodman, playing pinball alone in a Broadway arcade. Whether huddling in the basement of a backwater club as a race riot raged overhead or shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy at a swank soiree, Hinton registers these moments and summons them back to life on every page of Playing the Changes - and in so doing, preserves an important part of America's culture and history for posterity.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS: In 1955, when he was 14, David G. Berger asked Milt Hinton for bass lessons -- thus beginning a friendship and professional partnership that would last more than 40 years. Berger, though, did not follow in his friend's footsteps to become a professional musician; instead he completed a doctorate in sociology and taught at Temple University for 30 years. In 1979, Holly Maxson began organizing Milt's photographs for Hinton and Berger's first book, Bass Line. Maxson and Berger co-direct the Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection, and in 2002 they completed their award-winning documentary about Milt's life, Keeping Time: The Life, Music and Photographs of Milt Hinton. (Photograph courtesy of The Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection)

BOOK INFORMATION
PLAYING THE CHANGES: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs
By Milt Hinton, David G. Berger, and Holly Maxson
Foreword by Clint Eastwood; Preface by Dan Morgenstern
384 pages, 11 x 9.5 inches, 260 black & white photos, with a CD of interviews and music, discography, filmography


Trade cloth w/CD $75.00 (ISBN 978-0-8265-1574-2)
To be published January 2008 by VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY PRESS



Visit the Milt Hiton website

Milt Hinton at All About Jazz.

BRAIN WAVE:COMMON SENSES

Bravo and Kudos! Must see! To preview, click Brainwave.



EXIT ART CHALLENGES ARTISTS TO MAKE CONSCIOUSNESS VISIBLE
IN EXHIBITION AT CENTER OF CITY-WIDE FESTIVAL

New York, NY - One of New York City's leading outposts for vanguard art showcases an array of artworks inspired by recent advances in the understanding of the brain beginning Saturday, February 16, 2008. On view at Exit Art at Tenth Avenue and 36th Street through April 19, BrainWave: Common Senses is part of the city-wide festival BRAINWAVE, which explores how art, music, and meditation affect the brain.
In organizing Common Senses, Exit Art co-directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo looked for artists who are creating powerful visualizations of the activities of the mind. Works run the gamut from mechanical objects-including a roving robot-to videos, multiple-screen slide projections, sculpture, and painting.

"In sending out an open call to artists, we hoped to find works of art that captured the mystery of the mind, rather than works that merely illustrate scientific insights. We have succeeded in this, I believe, by gathering artworks that are of the moment-innovative as art, current as science," says Ingberman.

Visitors to Common Senses will spy a 15" tall robot navigating Exit Art in directions determined by data derived from artist Fernando Orellana's REM-sleep brainwave activity. Sleep Waking (2007), created by the Troy, New York-based Orellana in collaboration with Brendan Burns, of Schenectady, New York, is one of a number of ambulatory and interactive works in the exhibition. Another is Swarm (2008), by David Bowen of Duluth, Minnesota, a roaming device shaped like a broomstick, capped by a bulbous plastic chamber filled with 500 buzzing houseflies. Digitally, the motion of the flies determines Swarm's direction and momentum. As well, New Yorker Jamie O'Shea contributes his mad machine, the Alvin sonic incubator (2005), wherein a visitor can set an electronic neural-like network in motion by connecting his or her forehead to Alvin's hardware.

Brilliantly colored images evocative of a dense forest are conjured from the layering of light projections in Andrew Carnie's Magic Forest (2002). The result of the artist's collaboration with Dr. Richard Wingate of the Medical Research Council Centre for Developmental Neurology, Kings College, London, the 15-minute-long installation piece takes as its subject the process of data collecting in an ever-growing cluster of neurons in a developing brain. The beauty of the images derives in part from the fluorescence used in staining of individual neurons, which in turn produces the images under a microscope.

The New York-based artist Suzanne Anker also is represented by beautiful, lyrical imagery arising from careful extrapolation of neurological processes. Here, three-dimensional Rorschach tests resemble fossils from a lost world and brain scans and images of butterfly wings suggest the organic complexity of the brain and archetypes from the natural world.

Windows of the Soul (2008), a video by New York artist Phil Buehler, invites the question of whether or not one can read madness in another's eyes. Three hundred close-up black and white photographs of the eyes of actual mental patients, taken in the '50s and recently recovered from an archive, speed by in a riveting five-minute-long montage.

For BrainWave: Common Senses, New Yorker Devorah Sperber constructs what will appear to be a random arrangement of 875 spools of colored thread in the Exit Art gallery. Remarkably, the spools coalesce into a seemingly sharp focus replica of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" when viewed through a small sphere that mimics the functioning of the human eye.

Other works on view include a sculptural installation by George Jenne of Brooklyn, New York, that incorporates a variety of objects that the artist calls "tokens," which are designed to trigger associations with adolescence; two sculptures created by casting the brain cavities of whales into brass by Dustin Wenzel of Ottawa, Canada; a single-channel video by Naho Taruishi (New York, New York) meant to be seen "blindly" with eyelids closed (functioning as a pair of internal projection screens); a mural-size painting by Steve Budington of Burlington, Vermont, depicts the dangers of a political candidate favoring one sense over another; a video by Daniel Margulies (New York) and Chris Sharp (Milan, Italy) coupling Kant's Third Critique of Judgment and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring with brain scans; and Reodorant (2008), a multisensory installation by the four-member artist collective, SERU.

BrainWave: Common Senses is the second in Exit Art's Unknown Territories series exploring the impact of scientific advances on contemporary culture. It follows Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution, a landmark exhibition of art and biotechnology that brought art and science audiences together at Exit Art in 2000. Opening December 6, 2008 will be the third presentation, of biotechnology based artworks. Organized by Boryana Rossa, Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) will assemble work by many of the major artists working in this medium, including Adam Zaretsky, Stelarc, Bioteknica, Kathy High, Dmitry Bulatov and SymbioticA Research Group, an Australia-based collective that will produce a wet laboratory in collaboration with scientists for the exhibition. Corpus Extremus (LIFE+) will travel to Russia in 2009.

PUBLIC EVENTS / BrainWave: Common Senses

Joseph Ledoux
The Amygdaloids
Friday, February 29, 2008, 6-8 pm

Pioneering researcher Joseph LeDoux, the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at NYU's Center for Neural Science and the director of the Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety conducts a walk-through of BrainWave: Common Senses, discussing brain-related issues along the way. His band The Amygdaloids plays afterwards. Free.

A Night of Trance Music
Friday, March 14, 7-10 pm

Exit Art presents a night of "trance" music with Zach Layton's real-time sound manipulation of an electroencephalograph (EEG), Wind-Up Bird's quadraphonic drone rotations, and Raphael Lyon's hypnotic "cinema-in-the-dark," Psicklops. Free.

Matt Mullican
Wednesday, March 19, 7-9 pm
*Date Change - TBA

Artist Matt Mullican screens a video of his performances made while under hypnosis and discusses his work in relation to perception, the subconscious, and his personal cosmology of symbols. Concurrent with the artist's presentation in the 2008 Whitney Biennial. Free.

Kent and Kevin Young present
'A Monozygotic Experiment Using Telepathic Conveyance'
Friday, April 11, 2008, 6:30-8 pm

Los Angeles-based artists Kent and Kevin Young will make a 'painting' by trying to solve a crossword puzzle from clues telepathically sent from one twin brother to the other. Free

EXHIBITION SUPPORT
Brainwave: Common Senses is supported by a grant from the Greenwall Foundation. Additional exhibition support provided by Carnegie Corporation, Jerome Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, Starry Night Fund at The Tides Foundation, Exit Art's Board of Trustees, our members, Union College and the Albany Regional Sleep Disorders Center. Public programs support provided by The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

ABOUT EXIT ART
Exit Art is an independent center for contemporary culture that aims to react immediately to important issues of the day. The center mounts experimental, historical and unique presentations of aesthetic, social, political and environmental issues from the perspective a multiple disciplines. Founded 25 years ago by directors Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, Exit Art has grown from a pioneering alternative art space into a model artistic center for the 21st century committed to supporting artists whose quality of work reflects the transformations of our culture.

Exit Art is located at 475 Tenth Avenue, corner of 36th Street. Exit Art is open each Tuesday through Thursday, 10 am - 6 pm; Friday, 10 am - 8 pm; Saturday, noon - 8 pm. Closed Sunday and Monday. There is a suggested donation of $5. For more information please call 212-966-7745 or visit www.exitart.org.

LOVE /WAR/SEX

LOVE / WAR / SEX
December 1, 2007- Janurary 26, 2008

Opened Saturday December 1, 7-10pm with The Rude Mechanical Orchestra a click to view 5 minute video of the Gallery opening of LOVE/WAR/SEX

Exit Art tell you the war stories through the vision of 9 international artists. Love/War/Sex considers memory, history, weapons and personal stories. As a cultural center, it is Exit Art's mission to reflect what is going on in our society. The installation reveals how war images are so common that it makes us immune to death. This art work is a chapter of the history of power. The present exhibitions deal with the current global conflicts and the countries fascination and addition to war. The title demonstrates the paradox of what war really is and it contradictions of emotions, passions, idealisms and convictions. The installation of Love/War/Sex includes real weapons of war in the show, while telling the stories of the relationship between love, war and sex and its brutality and insensitivity to humanity. It provokes surprise and shock with the realization of war. Click her to view LOV/WAR/SEX at Exit Art.

Tom Byrne Paintings in Paris

Tom Byrne is an Ireland born Parisian painter with 20 years of painting of his belt. Tom's day job is as a freelance illustrator who specializes in creating award winning illustrations for media campaigns, outdoor advertising campaigns, web communication, packaging, large posters, point of sale and F.M.C.G promotion, corporate portraits. Tom's work exudes a spirit that speaks to viewer, with impeccable creative expression. Tom's work will be on display in a NYC galary in beginning of 2008. More of his work can be viewed Tom J.Byrnes Studio
Contact: tj@tjbyrne.com and view updates on Living Painting


Erns 2
The Erns is a beautiful portrait with details the angles of his chiseled face. Many painters focus on the eyes to display a moving subject. I believe an artist must have depth to their soul to be able capture the essence of a subject and project an image that moves the viewer. So delicately achieved in the nape of the subject’s neck. Title: Erns 2
Media: Oils and Tempera
Location: Paris
Size:H 24 inches (61cm) x W 19 inches
©T.J.Byrne

The Cry of the Earth
Tom Byrnes describes this surreal piece…. "This image came to my mind several years ago and I made a drawing. It has continued to come to my mind as the terrible effects of man made climate change wreck havoc on the world. The planet will survive ultimately but as it attempts to cleanse itself of the cause of the damage a lot of ecosystems and species will be destroyed. Something to ponder. Tempera and oils on board."
Title: Earths Cry
Media: Tempera and Oils
Location: Paris
Size:
© T.J.Byrne

Title: Amelie with Green
Media: tempera and Oil
Location: Paris
Size:
© T.J.Byrne