beinArt Collective Group exhibition 'Dystopia'

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 19th - 8:00 - 11:30 pm.

Exhibit runs from March 19th - April 9th 2011.

CoproGallery
Bergamot Station, 2525 Michigan Ave, Unit T5,
Santa Monica, CA

Chaos and ruin. Technological trends corrupting. Deformation, anatomical abnormalities, degradation and displacement. Whether related to the human body and spirit or the human environment, it is the 'anti' utopia.

beinArt Collective
CorpoGallery

Amazing Surreal Photo-manipulation by Sarolta Ban

Sarolta Bán, a 27 years old female artist from Budapest, Hungary. She makes the most amazing surreal photo-manipulation artworks. “I’m not so good in talking about myself.. I prefer the pictures ‘talk’” she claims. I agree with her, it is best to let the artwork tell its story then putting it into contest and preventing those who enjoy it from reaching their own conclusions!

Sarolta explains her technique: “I like using ordinary elements and by combining them, I can give them various stories, personalities. I hope that the meanings of my pictures are never too limited, are open in some way, each viewer can transform them into a personal aspect. So I’m happy if different people find different meanings in my images.”

The beauty of her photography lays exactly in creating scenes that look like they are out of this world, a complete release from any experience that you might have from the real world. So, release yourself from your daily stress and worries and enjoy these beautiful surreal photos.

Maura Holden - Tripping?

"In a dense phosphorescent fog, I have been searching for things which can never be found: the journals of Adam and Eve; a photographic record of the cities of the interior; a map charting the soul’s disasters and renewals; the keys to locked dimensions; the point at the centre of everything ..."








"My paintings are a residue of this effort. But they are only shells, fossil imprints around the things I truly meant to give existence to – those lost moments when my identity fell to the ground like a torn dress, and I moved through non-human spheres with X-ray vision and a compound mind, seeing and being all of those impossible things."

Jeremy Geddes

As real as some of these might look, they are oil on linen and oil on board pieces.


Jeremy Geddes spends his days trying to get some painting done, in between jumping around with his air guitar, drinking coffee and playing video games. When he puts down the controller, sighs heavily and mutters 'Right, i've got to get some work done.' His dog Colin usually wants to go for a walk.


great interview here.








more here.

Christian Rex van Millen

"In my work, whether stone and oil, metal and wood, or cardboard and papier-mâché alchemy and automatism are linked together in the cognitive creative process. Intention becomes line, line becomes shape, shape becomes form, and form becomes content. In my work I find myself either suppressing or indulging of my own desire to associate personal narrative to the raw visual information inherent in the material and process. Construction, destruction and reconstruction are symbiotic elements in the creative process allowing the image to fluctuate between abstraction and representation, truth and illusion, personal and archetypal."










more here.

Wolfgang Grasse

"Fantastic Realism cannot be compared with Surrealism as a garden cannot be compared with a jungle. The fantasy of the Surrealist comes from the subconscious without formal order or relation, whereas the Fantastic Realist uses his images selectively. He uses old and new symbols to express his art purposefully and to show that the human situation never really changes in its eternal truths. The automatism of images of the Surrealist are a sharp contrast to the meaningful symbolism of the Fantastic Realist."