Cake

Cake is a New York based street artist
                                                                                             

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2010 July/ Graphomania Drawing Show / Portland, OR

2010 June 25th / Death Warmed Over / Fresthetic / Brooklyn, NY

2010 Eames Inspiration Collection / Cheryl Hazan Gallery / New York, NY

2010 Eames Inspiration / Barney’s New York Windows on Madison Ave / New York, NY

2010 Springy, Spring, Spring / presented by Gawker Artist and H.O.W. Journal /New York, NY

2010 Street Art New York / Factory Fresh Gallery / Brooklyn, NY

2010 Convergence / The Marketplace Gallery / Albany, NY

2009 Artburn presented by El Celso / Wynwood District / Miami, FL

2009 Fresh Produce / Anno Domini Gallery / San Jose, CA

2009 Underground Up / Presented by Art in General/ 3 Person Show with Chris Stain and Cern/
New York, NY

2009 Go Get Your Shinebox / Brooklynite Gallery / Brooklyn, NY

2009 Papergirl # 4 / Berlin, Germany

2009 Conscious Cycle at Figment / Governors Island, NY

2009 The Great Outdoors / Artbreak Gallery / Brooklyn, NY

2009 Work to Do / 112 Greene Street Studio / NY, NY

2009 Street Crush / Alphabeta / Brooklyn, NY

Press & Publications

2010 High Fructose Magazine "Eames Inspiration"

2010 Harrington, Steve and Rojo, Jaime. “Street Art New York”. Prestel USA.

2010 Brooklyn Street Art: CAKE Rises from MarketPlace Gallery’s Ashes in Albany

2009 The Street Spot “Studio Visit: Cake”

2009 The Street Spot: Art in General and Then Some

2009 Unurth “Cake: Portraits in Berlin”

2009 Unurth Cake NYC

2009 Unurth Cake, NYC Mom & Popism

2009 Untitled- Street art in the Counter Culture "5 Minutes with Cake" 

                                                                    

Thom Smith

For more information, go to http://thomskuld.com

Thom Smith is an artist from Brooklyn, New York currently residing and working in Tokyo, Japan.  He studied art in NYC at The Cooper Union (class of 2002). His work is primarily in the form of drawing with a graphic style favoring brush and ink, collage, and various forms of printmaking. Often times, the work finds itself in book format and his current body of work has taken on a narrative quality as well.

In the past couple years a new body of work has emerged in the form of printmaking. When the project began, it found great influence in medieval woodcuts and pre-renaissance stained glass. His interest lies mostly in the bold graphic quality of the images and the 2-D stacking of information. These mostly religious images were created in a time before the rules of perspective were understood yet strived to depict intricate stories to a mostly illiterate audience. This non-verbal telling of stories is central to his print series. 

In his initial visit to Japan, Thom acquired a few books about yokai (spirits of Japanese folklore in the form of preternatural creatures) and has been obsessed ever since. The nihonga style has greatly informed his most recent prints which mix this early manga illustration style with a more primitive medieval style.

The print series has been dubbed Death In The Afterlife, The title refers to the spiritual journey at play in the images and is about cycles of death. Within the prints, different religions and cultures are explored and often intermingle to form a greater spiritual understanding. As these different mythologies are employed a composite myth emerges and the story is told. The cast of characters expands with each image and the viewer comes to learn of each character’s role.

In an effort to fill the story gaps between each print, Thom has begun a serial zine. The resulting drawings tell the story in a more complete manner, although it is still obfuscated by the disuse of language. The style used draws more on his manga influence and is much looser than the prints, employing a more expressive brushy kind of mark making.

Carl Klimt


 middlelines not underlines


Carl Klimt is an artist living and working in Portland, OR


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            Being trapped between one’s desire for certain moments to remain unchanged and the impossibility of permanence creates unease. The actions and reactions I’m specifically interested in originate from somewhere deep within my subconscious. In Gestalt theory “the operational principle of the brain is parallel, and analog with self organizing tendencies”. As I understand it, we begin to know our deepest selves by observing our wordless decisions.

            The work with sawdust is in part about creating a physical unease by building tenuous structures. They were compressed with my weight and remain held together with nothing but gravity and the integrity of the interlocking fibers. Despite these sculptures being fragile enough to fall apart with a gentle nudge, they remain stable if untouched. They are a temporary record of a gesture, which use the language of architecture in the form of corners, walls, and pillars, to speak to internal psychological spaces.

            My process is based in gleaning from everyday observations. To a carpenter sawdust is trash but to me it is conceptually rich artistic material. A table saw produces a small gap between the two sides of the wood it cuts. What remains is the sawdust. It is a byproduct of the physical creation of negative space. Commonplace actions and materials become starting points for abstraction to ultimately begin describing my sense of place.

hugging myself              ( performance, dur: 2 hrs )


(photocredit: Michael Welsh)

 

   if houseplants could be begoldened       (gold foil on houseplant,  2010)

zucchinitoothbrush              (zucchini, toothbrush, twine,  2010)

 -sawdust box                                   (sawdust, 13"x13"x8") 2010

-i can't remember, everything          (sawdust, 4'x4'x4') 2006