GALLERY JAC
Dedicated to Emerging & Local NYC Artists
ARTISTS
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Since his art school days, the fiercely independent artist Vincent Arcilesi, whose mature work Edward Lucie-Smith described in his book American Realism as a deliberate turning away from the accepted idea of the Modern, has been a prolific painter of landscapes and, more recently, of cityscapes.
Born and raised in Paris, I moved to New York City in January 2002, to let my creativity "breathe" in this attractive, addictive, neurotic city of contradictions. I share my time with assignments and personal projects, shuttling between Europe and the U.S. and hopefully elsewhere soon. I started photography with metonymic "portraits" of architecture and surroundings and evolved into edgy, moody, mostly staged portraits of people." Please find more information on this Artist at www.chrystelgaripuy.com or www.chrystelgaripuy.info
ELENA MACHOUKOVA
Born in Kyrgyzstan in February 1970, Elena spent much of her young life in a children’s home until she moved to Moscow at 14 and amazingly raised herself on the streets on and off for six years. After these difficult early years, her dream of moving to New York came true shortly before her 25th birthday. She explored a variety of occupations until she embraced her true love, art. Music saved her life; photography opened her eyes and art liberated her soul. She is completely self-taught, and creates her unique pieces using mixed media.
Tamara Erde is a 25-year-old Israeli Artist with a B.A. in Visual Communications specializing in video and motion graphics. She explains that “as an Artist, I’m mostly interested in the in-betweens, the grey areas, and for me, it’s not about the medium I use for my art. I don’t want to be labeled a photographer, video artist or painter. I want to tell my stories and to make my thoughts and feelings visual in an attempt to share them with the public. Reality and my real-life surroundings drive me and become the main subjects in my work. Real life, real people having genuine conversations and truly human experiences are the seeds of my artistic vision - it all starts there. Then, through the twists and shifts of my mind, my perception and point of view, these realities are translated through my art into alternate, although still very real experiences. It is the gap between reality and its representation in my own world and imagination and the gap between the collective and common experiences and my personal, subjective realities where I want to place my art. It is where my art belongs.”
Born in Seoul, Korea, in 1977, Hyo Jeong Nam graduated from Kyonggi University and decided to make the move to New York City to study at the Pratt Institute. While in school, she was one of seven artists chosen for a professional critique in a Pratt Symposium Class conducted by Ken Johnson, renowned Critic for the New York Times. After graduating with her M.F.A., she continued to create, and her works have been selected for several competitions. Most recently, she had a group show at Alpan Gallery on Long Island. Praised by M Magazine, the show was a huge success. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
