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Ty Smith featured in an article in Urban Tulsa Weekly

Kim Fonder — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 20:39:00 GMT

Ty Smith, Aberson Exhibits artist and adjunct University of Tulsa faculty is featured in an article in Urban Tulsa Weekly written by Libby Williams.

http://www.urbantulsa.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=31165

Ty’s work is featured along with artists Aileen Chong, Brian Dehart, Jim Polan, Gary Reddick, Morgan Robinson and michelle y williams.

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Eric Daigh

Kim Fonder — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:20:00 GMT

Eric Daigh

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Russell Young

Kim Fonder — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:31:00 GMT

Magnificent Seven

F.AM.E. NYC Magazine: A History of Violence

Before the art world beckoned, Russell past incarnations included celebrity photography and directing music videos. A History of Violence examines the connection this country has to violence through iconic imagery and eye popping color. I’m sure Russell’s background in photography aided in his selections of photos, which were stunning and told individual stories that help to contribute to the entire visual narrative.

Hollywood has always had a fascination with the Wild West; in fact movies depicting boisterous stories from that time help to save Hollywood and television. Shows like Wagon Training, The Rifleman and Maverick taught generations of kids about the rough frontier existence, morality and how violence is sometimes a necessary part of living. No movie sums these lessons up better than The Magnificent Seven. The movie was just as majestic as the soundtrack. To see Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and company astride their steeds, ready to save the day, all in pink plays with the ideas of masculinity, vigilantism and heroism.

Brando On Bike

What makes bad boys so appealing? It is a question that has perplexed parents and their daughters since the beginning of time. Russell chose one of the ultimate bad boys to make his statement about the allure of a man who lives outside of the law, makes his own rules and still has a heart –Marlon Brando in The Wild One. Painted boldly in red, Brando in his biker gear and looking defiant as ever in dark shades shows exactly why the bad boy is so tantalizing – there is nothing more intoxicating than the idea of a man being able to protect a woman from peril and no one messes with a bad boy.

Marilyn Crying

Beauty, at times can be tragic, like a moon plant that dies in the face of dawn. The photo of Marilyn Monroe trying to shield her face as she suffers is the epitome of tragic, fragile beauty. This photo shows that sometimes the violence can come from within and is inflicted on ourselves.

The Dali Lama stated, “It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of peace and dialogue. As the continued advances in information technology make

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Russell Young | FAME+SHAME

Kim Fonder — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:35:00 GMT

Marilyn Crying, 2009, 34x26 inches, screen print with diamond dust on linen (black+white series)

Russell Young photographed celebrities for more than 20 years, among them George Michael, Morrissey, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. He also directed hundreds of music videos. Looking for direction at one point, Young said, he went to Tuscany, sat on a hill and thought about what he wanted to do with his life. "At age 4, I wanted to be an artist, a clown or a space man. I've been a clown most of my life and if I own enough money I can go off into space, so I thought: Let's be an artist." He first thought he would create abstract art, but decades of looking at lights, darks, shades, negatives and silkscreen paintings of images from history and pop culture ended up shaping his style.

Young keeps his process of creating the diamond dust screen-prints secret, but revealed that his works are hand-pulled on the sister press used by Andy Warhol. "Some of the screens I used were like Warhol's old screens," he said. The diamond dust part came when he found a bag of diamond dust in his Brooklyn studio.

"We worked our magic and it worked. We don't throw the diamond dust on: Tinker Bell does it," he said. "We close the studio at night, leave it out for her, come in the morning, and there you have diamond dust paintings."

-Palm Beach Daily News, 2010

PIG PORTRAIT: Elvis, 62x48 inches, screen print on linen, atomic silver+black series

Elizabeth Taylor, 2009, 34x26 inches, screen print with diamond dust on linen

PIG PORTRAIT: Jimi Hendrix, 62x48 inches, screen print on linen, speedball silver series

Please make plans to join us on March 11th, 2010 for Russell Young's FAME+SHAME opening from 6-8pm. Show continues through 04.03.10.

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