#michaelflechtner | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

tribelamag-blog · 7 years

Text

ENCORE of The Pink Show: The diversity between Michael Flechtner and Gig Depio, Part 2 – Castelli Art Space TribeLA Magazine • Los Angeles #Tribelamag #Arttoday #Michaelflechtner #Tribelamagazine

New Post has been published on http://tribelamagazine.com/art-today-10-15-17-the-pink-show-presents-the-diversity-between-gig-depio-and-michael-flechtner-part-2-mark-the-date-11-30-17/

ENCORE of The Pink Show: The diversity between Michael Flechtner and Gig Depio, Part 2 – Castelli Art Space

The Pink Show at Castelli Art Space November 30 – December 3, 2017 5428 W. Washington Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90016

Michael Flechtner uses neon and glass, heat and touch to create whimsical statements. Michael’s imagination has no boundaries and needs just the right amount of spark and gas to come alive. –Carlos Iglesias

Michael Flechtner I was born and raised in a small town in Ohio, my early artworks were emotional expressions stemming from the predictable and unpredictable traumas of growing up in lower middle-class America. As I’ve matured and become educated I have tried to stay away from the larger political and philosophical issues. Instead, I have come to believe that wisdom and respect begin with a knowledge of one’s self and that the individual is every bit as complex as the civilization in which they live. Change begins with the smallest unit and I believe that happiness is success.

After graduate school in 1985 I pursued training in neon fabrication. At that time it was considered a dying craft. My continued use of the this material and the teaching of neon techniques not only further its use in the fine arts, but also helps to preserve this difficult and amazing craft for future generations.

Neon, more properly luminous tube, has been my medium of expression for nearly a decade. It has replaced the paint and sculptural materials I used as a student. I’m ever mindful of the compelling nature of this pure, colored, glowing light and the tendency of many to see “all things neon” as signage or kitsch. It is my experience that the more traditional viewer and critic resist seeing neon as a fine art medium.

My work reflects a fascination with the symbols of language, technology and how they influence popular culture. I describe animals, machinery, etc. and utilize various forms of language. The various “components” inhabit my internal landscape. I bring forth and arrange this highly idiosyncratic material to create pictograms, ideograms and rebuses, surely the effects of my unconscious. Through the creation of these pieces I work through and process personal issues and attitudes. Each piece is a complete record of that process. In spite of this focus on my “inner self”, this work is for everyone. To that end the figures are recognizable and the compositions are “pleasing to the eye.” And if the viewer wants more, they can apply their own meanings and interpretations which I feel are as relevant as my own.

Because many of the pieces are so enigmatic, I post an interpretation. Often the viewer has overlain their own meanings. Because of certain psychological theories, I believe their ideas and interpretations are as pertinent and valid in this exchange as mine.

I do not enjoin others toward a path to perfection, instead I endeavor to live my life consciously in the hope it will become a passive example to others trying to find their particular path. Hopefully the form of my work, not content, will suggest a framework for others. My goal is to continue along this path, passing on method and information. I believe that my work offers the viewer a new way of codifying the world and locating themselves within it. Through the exchange between artist and viewer, we become a little more comfortable to question, enjoy and suspend, even if only for a moment, the struggle we all face in everyday life. –Michael Flechtner

ART TODAY 10.8.17 “The Pink Pop-up Show” curated by William Wray and Hofberg/Iglesias – Over 30 wildly diverse artists gather to reflect on one happy color, Pink

ART TODAY 10.9.17: “The Pink Show” is not your ordinary Art Exhibit – it is daring, diverse, and curated by three outstanding art directors and one is Artist William Wray (Pretty In Pink)

ART TODAY 10.10.17 The Pink Pop-up Show defines a new way of looking at Art – Check out David Lipson and Sean Cheatham

ART TODAY 10.11.17 The Pink pop-up Show represents harmony in the art world – “My Gun is Pink” by co-curator and view sample works by Pink artists Pablo Llana & Wyatt Mills

ART TODAY 10.12.17 The Pink pop-up Show: 31 artist, one work of art, one exhibit, a plethora of interpretation – Artists join together to show their take on PINK

ART TODAY 10.13.17: Thirty one Artists are poised, tools in hand – Come and see what they have to say at The Pink pop-up Show at Castelli Art Space 11.30.17

ART TODAY 10.14.17 – on November 30th, Witness a select group of extraordinary Artist at “The Pink pop-up Show” curated by William Wray and Hofberg/Iglesias – See artists list

#@tribelamag #arttoday #michaelflechtner #tribelamagazine

0 notes

tribelamag-blog · 7 years

Text

http://tribelamagazine.com/art-today-11-28-17-michael-flechtners-medium-evokes-thought-emotion-neon-pink-show/ TribeLA Magazine • Los Angeles Neon has been Michael’s medium of expression for nearly a decade. His work reflects a fascination with the symbols of language, technology, and their influence on popular culture which he transmutes into visual word games from his unconscious. ##Castelliartspace #Allartallthetime #Arttoday #Michaelflechtner #Pinkpopupshow #Tribelamagazine

New Post has been published on http://tribelamagazine.com/art-today-11-28-17-michael-flechtners-medium-evokes-thought-emotion-neon-pink-show/

ART TODAY 11.28.17 Michael Flechtner's medium evokes thought and emotion with Neon – See 30+ artists at The Pink Show 11.30 at Castelli Art Space, LA

Thimk–Michael Flechtner The Pink Show at Castelli Art Space, November 30 – December 3, 2017 5428 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles For show information contact [email protected]

MICHAEL FLECHTNER Neon has been Michael’s medium of expression for nearly a decade. His work reflects a fascination with the symbols of language, technology, and their influence on popular culture which he transmutes into visual word games from his unconscious. Despite the internal origins of his works, he strives to make them bold and easy to read, as any good sign design should be.

The Artists

SHEPARD FAIREY (Frank) Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary street artist, graphic artist, muralist, activist, illustrator and founder of OBEY Clothing who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1992. He first became known for his “Andre the Giant Has a Posse” (…OBEY…) sticker campaign while attending college, which appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. He became widely known during the 2008 U.S. Presidential election for his Barack Obama “Hope” poster.

PAT RIOT The work of Pat Riot, whose artistic view satirizes all forms of media, has been showing in Los Angeles since 1996. His diverse influences include television; MAD Magazine; artists Henry Darger, Ray Johnson, and Tim Hawkinson; the old school video arcade game “Space Invaders”; BANKSY; and the timeless futurist, Buckminster Fuller.

SEONNA HONG Seonna felt like an outsider in school until she discovered she could open up communication with her art. From photo realist and comic book influences, her art evolved back into the more collage-oriented creations of her childhood. Seonna’s themes often include allegories of that lost child trying to find her way through her imagination onto her path in the world.

SEAN CHEETHAM Sean is a figurative painter whose technical accuracy of his Alla Prima paintings, is derived from a deep understanding of drawing and his own system of mixing colors. Using the human form in familiar urban scenes (and often using his friends as models) he reveals a truthful, and often raw spirit that makes his work a distinctive, contemporary testimony of our time.

WILLIAM WRAY William is co-curator of The Pink pop-up Show. He blends traditional skill sets of realism and the sheer energy of abstract expressionism in an ongoing evolution to find the right balance between two seemingly unrelated styles. He challenges himself to create a brand of realistic expressionism, he hopes to use as a bridge into the customarily circumspect contemporary art world. He has lived in California most of his life and studied painting at the Art Students League in New York. Making his living as a cartoonist who specialized in painted subjects, he spent many years coalescing an eclectic array of art styles, ultimately finding his voice in a contemporized reflection of traditional California regional painting that focus on humble subject matter rarely considered as fine art.

JENNIFER POCHINSKI Painting for Jennifer is a mysterious process. A figurative painter, she loves the paint itself. The application of the loaded brush has a sensuousness that has developed into her personal language, yet she still feels like a bystander to this internal world that seems to drive itself thru her unconscious mind.

ARON WIESENFELD Aron Wiesenfeld is an allegorical figurative painter. His work often takes the form of a visual allegory in which a young woman is confronted with the need to step off of some kind of precipice that will lead to the next unknown path of life’s journey.

ASHLEY WOOD Ash does every kind of art there is from fine art painting to comics and toy design. His painting has his own style comic book structure with a expressionist painting energy confidently applied over the top of it that is at once both tender and violent, sexual yet warm and playful.

BRADFORD J. SALAMON Bradford is an American portrait painter whose subjects are often fellow artists. He imbues ordinary objects of the past with an iconic art status beyond their cultural history. Bradford’s passion about the California art scene includes curating art shows and documenting fellow artists on film

CHRIS RECCARDI The fine art of Chris Reccardi (who is Pink Show artist’s, William Wray and Glenn Barr’s fellow “Ren and Stimpy” alumnus) reflects a wide range of literary and visual influences, from classic Victorian/Edwardian-era science fiction, to classic cartoon styles of the 1960’s and ‘70’s, to modern design. While Chris is known for his digital fine art prints, he will have an original painting in the Pink Show

DAVID BUCKINGHAM Sculptor David Buckingham roams the gritty industrial areas, dodgy neighborhoods, and low deserts of Southern California in search of discarded metal forms of all kinds. In his Los Angeles studio, he uses an array of power tools and sheer force of will to muscle them into works of art. All colors remain as found, the purity of faded color carrying a history, he refuses to try and duplicate with new paint.

DAVE COOPER Dave is a self-taught artist who developed his own vision as an animator and comic book illustrator. Turning to fine art in 2003, he produced cartoonish scenes filled with his unique disturbing imagery. Dave explores body image, lewdness, hedonism, and sexually awkward-looking girls with unique flaws and imperfections, in search of his own ideal of feminine beauty.

DAVID SHARPE David is a contemporary impressionist painter from Canada who recently started to experiment in varied and unusual abstract expressionist styles. That rapid evolution to other disciplines is what interested the curators of the Pink show as David demonstrates that a traditional skill set can help expand the artist’s toolbox of styles

DAVID LIPSON David assembles one-of-a-kind robots from random objects. He studied oil painting at the Art Students League of New York and the National Academy of Design. His robots have been featured in museums, galleries, books, and on television. Previously, David spent 17 years as an animation producer for film and television.

ESCOTO + CARRARA Escoto+Carrara (Frederico Escoto and Roberto Carrara) are Mexican artists and life partners, who still call Mexico home. Photographer and painter, they compliment to one another’s talent in a visual dance, culminating in an array of colors and movements pushing both photography and painting to the next level.

GIG DEPIO Gig is a painter and an advocate for public art in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was awarded the 2016 Fellowship Grant in Painting by the Nevada Arts Council (NAC), and has worked on various exhibitions and projects with the Nevada Museum of Art (Reno), Nevada Arts Council OXS Gallery, UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum, UNLV Donna Beam Fine Arts, Clark County Winchester Cultural Center Gallery, Clark County Library Galleries, the City of Las Vegas Galleries, the Nevada State College Galleries, and with curator Dr. Robert Tracy at the UNLV Healy Hayes Gallery.

GLENN BARR The surreal universe of Glenn Barr (who is Pink Show artist’s, William Wray and Chris Reccardi’s fellow “Ren and Stimpy” alumnus) – is a drenched haze in a post-apocalyptic urban Dreamscape. His Detroit work has been labeled a variation of lowbrow pop — or as he calls it, “B Culturalism.” With a nod to old master painting, pulp art, comics and animation, Barr’s paintings are mesmerizing in their narrative complexity and technical depth.

GORDON SMEDT Gordon was trained in figure painting yet somehow gravitated to doing large paintings of objects and clothing using beautiful bright colors and flawless (yet painterly) rendering. His objective is to infuse the inanimate with energy and life.

GRONK Gronk Nicandro, a Chicano artist from Los Angeles, has developed an international reputation for a provocative body of work that includes painting, drawing, opera set design, and murals. His work is collected by museums around the country, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

ROBERT SOFFIAN Robert was born into a family that encouraged self-expression and personal artistic journeys. His journey has given him a rich a varied background–he spent part of his youth attending a radical art camp called Lincoln Farm, he went on to expand his personal and artistic horizons by travel throughout the world, and found work in Amsterdam as a government supported artist. He eventually settled in to a 30 year career at Shasta College in Redding, CA as a professor of theater, directing and lighting countless productions. He has curated dozens of exhibitions and is credited with discovering the Violent Femmes. During the last ten years, Soffian ventured from the public world of the theater to the private world of painting.

Soffian says this about his work, “I wish to paint things we all know or dream…very often I am first motivated by the excitement of the materials I am using…obviously I enjoy vibrant colors, and the texture of the physical body of the paint…for some reason, I have felt I needed to express something….what is the nature of that need and what it is compels me to keep doing this work is the subject of my life.”

JOHN BROSIO John Brosio has found by default that he is a painter immersed in a state of perpetual discontent and learning to see. Though always fascinated by the idea of making “Star Wars” kinds of fantasy movies, he has applied his imagination to layered narrative painting. Following a long series of images that depicted moments of impending disaster, his work has evolved toward a more conceptual combining of imagined tableaus of a child’s toy and drawings into an orchestration of select visual relationships.

LOIC ZIMMERMAN Loic Zimmermann is a French filmmaker and visual artist based in Los Angeles. His focus gradually shifted from illustration and 3D to photography and filmmaking. He also continues in VFX as an art director in major motion pictures. We have managed to coax him back to doing a mixed media painting for the Pink show.

MARK ENGLISH Mark English has been one of the leading illustrators in the U.S. and abroad for three decades. In 1995, as Mark began to paint more personal fine art, he sought to infuse new and exciting compositions with a rich alchemy of unusual textural sources that have contributed to a kind of unique painterly collage. Transparency and translucency reign, with rich colors and atmospheric perceptions of space and scale. His works reside in many private collections and exhibit in solo and group shows throughout the world, including the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan.

Andrea Bogdan Bill Barminski Jorge Pinzón Casasbuenas Noah Becker Pablo Llana Rafael Serrano

ART TODAY 10.10.17 The Pink Pop-up Show defines a new way of looking at Art – Check out David Lipson and Sean Cheatham

ART TODAY 10.13.17: Thirty one Artists are poised, tools in hand – Come and see what they have to say at The Pink pop-up Show at Castelli Art Space 11.30.17

ART TODAY 10.14.17 – on November 30th, Witness a select group of extraordinary Artist at “The Pink pop-up Show” curated by William Wray and Hofberg/Iglesias – See artists list

ART TODAY 10.15.17 The Pink Show presents: The diversity between Michael Flechtner and Gig Depio – Part 2 (mark the date 11.30.17)

#castelliartspace #allartallthetime #arttoday #michaelflechtner #pinkpopupshow #tribelamagazine

0 notes