When artistic talents collide they give birth to something utterly mesmerising which holds no permanent place in any artistic era. Adjacent artworks create an uncomfortable conflict that is both beautiful and torturous to gaze upon—yet our egos do not allow us to look away. The divergent space between the work has untouched value; it is a movement in itself; a quasi-divine asymmetrical intersection forged by one artist’s style crashing into another’s; a relationship seldom explored by curators but, rather, avoided.
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Installation shot
The art world is about talent and connections,so this exhibition fits seamlessly with SHIM’s and ELX Art’s underlying aim, which is to be a platform connecting artists and galleries with both commercial and individual patrons.
ELX Art/ SHIM partners with Art Helix to bring you asymmetrical intersections through to Sunday 7th February 2016 ArtHelix 299 Meserole Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206 www.arthelix.com Gallery Hours: Saturday-Sunday 12PM – 6PM and by appointment
About The Artist
Rene Gonzalez – Gonzalez’s work explores the idea of contemporary heroes. He paints portraits or scenes that include characters that are known for their controversial views—Richard Dawkins, Neil DeGrasse and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. To him, they represent a critique of individualism, indifference and detachment regarding other people’s suffering, both in the immediate vicinity and globally. These characters are surrounded in landscape, patterning or abstract marks as a symbol of inclusive and open conversation. His use of different mediums convey this sense of dialogue.
Rene Gonzalez has a background in graffiti and mural painting. His influences include: Francesco Clemente, Leon Golub, Barbara Kruger, and Wilhelm Sasnal, given their practice and political subject matter, and comic-book culture.
www.therenegonzalez.com www.elx-art.com
Joëlle Deroy
“Large cities are a place to work, a place to talk, a place to walk the talk… but also a place to dream, a place to breathe, a place to fly… I am thrilled and enrapted by the essence of the night in large cities, by the hope of a journey, by the promise of a new encounter… And among all cities, I am crowning the City of all cities: New York.”
Joëlle Deroy is a French-American multi-media artist (photography, mixed-media acrylic painting, watercolour, oil painting and ceramic). Trained by painter Sylvia Lark (in U.C. Berkeley, California) and by international artist Yvette Maniglier (Paris, France),
she has exhibited in numerous venues in New York, Southhampton and Miami (USA), Zermatt (Switzerland), Paris and Vallauris (France), London (U.K.) among others: the Ezaïr Gallery (Manhattan), the CUE Art Foundation (Chelsea, NY), AAF (Affordable Art Fair) with Living With Art Gallery (New York), the Museum of the Americas (Miami), The Brick Lane Gallery (London), the Capricorne Gallery (Zermatt), Sassi-Milici Gallery (Vallauris, France). She lives and works in London.
www.joellederoy.com www.drivingchangewithart.com
Natasha Kahn
Kahn makes work with found objects and bits of gaffer tape. The tape curls up at the edges, straining against the material it supports. The work lasts for as long as the tape allows, and then it falls down. It sustains itself. When it gives up materials are reused and recycled, negating the art object as a whole. Her work has its roots in an enquiry with painting and drawing, life and death, and is
the result of unpacking those ideas via many detours.
Natasha Kahn is an artist and freelance editor living in London. She studied at UEL (1992-1995). In 2014, she co-founded DOLPH, a project that focuses on the stuff driving an artist’s practice. Exhibitions include: SKIM, ASC Gallery, London (2015). Bread and Jam III, London (2015). DOLPH: The Directors, DOLPH, London (2015). Sluice__ Auction, The Hospital Club, London (2014). Circus TM, Belmacz, London (2014). Discernable, Zeitgeist Art Projects, (2013).
www.natashakahn.co.uk www.dolphprojects.com
Ludmilla Andrews
Andrews currently centres her creative output on abstract drawings informed by the dynamics of human interaction. The process
of refining and defining a set of rules that allow repeat performances is integral to the creation of these drawings, which share common characteristics but are also uniquely individual. Shown in multiples, the drawings re-enforce the notion of constant flux, where the energy of interaction is not a fixed state but has infinite variables.
Ludmilla Andrews is a Dutch-Trinidadian artist who grew up in Scotland and now lives in London. She creates her pieces alongside working as a Learning Mentor at a secondary school. She studied Modern Dance (Swindon and Amsterdam), BA Film & Video at London College of Communication and MA Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts. Her work has been shown in a variety of group shows (Ofcom, The Mall Galleries, The Chocolate Factory, Morley Gallery, Studio 1.1) and in 2015, as a co-founder of thestromboligroup.
Daniel Devlin
Method painter, publisher and con-artist. He has been described as a postmodern naïf and a conceptual provocateur, he claims that it has never been his intention to mislead anybody.
www.danieldevlin.com www.danieldevlin.org
Herzog Dellafiore
Anti-artist, performer and painter. He was active on the London art scene until his breakdown in the mid nineties. He described his state as being lost in the fog of neo-formalism.
