Is there no end to the kind hearts in Chelsea? Society’s most deeply troubled members clean up with the help of Marianne Boesky’s workplace program. AFC introduces its new Masthead with Boesky’s Employee of the Month!
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My learning curve learning the new AFC backend had a few glitches, so this post never made it to the front page a month ago. We’re switching the masthead up today but I wanted to make sure at least one image selected by Masthead artist Brad Troemel plus the post intended for it made the main page.
20×200 : Print Information : We Are Who We Are – AFC Masthead artist Robert Garcia now has a print available at 20×200.
Is there no end to the kind hearts in Chelsea? Just look at what curator Dan Cameron and Marianne Boesky Gallery have done for society’s most deeply troubled members, both with Boesky’s workplace program and Cameron’s long time commitment as its therapeutic advisor. Not only have they created a unique environment which helps socialize and [...]
Conor Backman, Cold as the Rockies After the Adventure, 2010, Oil on Canvas, 8 x 10 x 5 inches, 2009
Offering a different take on work like Toni Matelli’s bronze beer cans, Conor Backman makes trompe l’oile landscape paintings from used beer boxes. He removes all non-landscape imagery and text from the source material, stretches canvas over the surface and hangs the completed boxes on the wall. The work can be read as a commentary on the commodification of art, though mixing the high and low is at this point well charted territory. More interesting is the artist’s sincere interest in the tradition of landscape painting and Bob Ross. The great public access star would be proud.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Conor Backman lives and works in Richmond VA. Backman is also co-owner of REFERENCE Art Gallery, a newly formed artist-run space in downtown Richmond that focuses on exhibiting young emerging artists from around the world that are working in new media.
Robert Garcia, Assembly Line, 2009, Oil on wood panel, 36 x 72 inches
San Francisco based artist Robert Garcia‘s touchingly detailed paintings are born from his upbringing. Raised in a lower class Hispanic community that prided itself with its Chicano attitude, Garcia first drew inspiration from the drawings on letters his uncles sent home from prison and the gang graffiti painted on the walls of his neighborhood. The harsh living conditions suffered by this community continue to inform his painting and all other work.
Robert Garcia, We Are Who We Are, 2009, Oil on wood panel, 12 X 24 inches
BIOGRAPHY
Within the last year, Robert Garcia has exhibited at Wonderland, Stillwell and Gallery 1D/Throwbacks NW. Robert Garcia will receive his MFA from San Francisco State in 2011. He lives and works in San Francisco.
POST BY PADDY JOHNSON Tobias Rehberger from the exhibition “beat me!…” at Gio Marconi, Milan. Image via: Contemporary Art Daily Art Fag City is seeking a Curatorial Fellow as part of a new program titled “Young Curators”. AFC is an award-winning New York-based art blog that focuses on art world news, reviews, and culture commentary. [...]
