Andrew Binder

The origin of my art is derived with a fascination with drawing, drawing mediums and the human form. Over time this fascination led me to explorations about the stuff of humanity in the still life genre, and finally the integration of figures, still life, and landscape, using pastels and other colored media.

As an artist I am primarily interested in books and book forms, because I am fascinated with the byplay between the complexity of the information that can be packed into a book’s contents, and the shear simplicity of traditional book forms. I am also fascinated by the interaction of image and text, and the movement between pages that force the viewer to be gently manipulated into an artist’s vision.

In my imagery I am moving away from the traditional collage techniques of appropriation and attempting to expand my artistic vision by taking my own original source material like Robert Rauschenberg did in his international series. In other words, I am making a world spanning archive of personal images that reference the collective gestalt of humanity, to use in my original art making. Rather than just appropriating photographic images.

Andrew Binder
“War and Health” © 2009
Etching with Collage and hand Coloring
Print size 11 X 15 in.
Frame size 16 X 20 in.

Andrew Binder
“Lady Colle’” © 2009
Etching printed on Inkjet print, with the Chine Colle’ method
Print size 11 X 15 in.
Frame size 16 X 20 in.

Andrew Binder
“Jump” © 2009
Lithograph, Stencil Color, Xerograph, ?Rubber Stamps, and Hand Coloring
Print size 11 X 15 in.
Frame size 16 X 20 in.

2010-01-30

Jonathan Thomas

From the material I collect, I perform various strategies of image manipulation defined by collage, dissection, re-contextualization, free-association, and ultimately transformation. Through this process I am able to address my interest in the contradictions and ambiguity of visual culture. The majority of this activity is cast through the prism of printmaking, and as a result, is heavily invested in concepts inherent to print media; repetition, multiplicity, layering, sequence, misdirection, ghosting, binary systems of thought and reversals. Prints are residue, traces of information, tracks in the snow. A print is never an isolated object. There is an innate reference to the source of its creation and the ability for that source to recreate at a different time. This issue addresses the manner in which afterthought and forethought convolute to create our immediate reality. This concept is the structure through which I explore the fragility of memory, the cracked logic of dreams and the gap between perception and actuality.

2010-01-20

Miami Art Auction for Haitian Earthquake Relief

MIAMI ARTIST ART AUCTION

for

HAITIAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF

(click image above for more info)

AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Earthquake victims await treatment Saturday at a Doctors Without Borders facility in Port-au-Prince.

Weekly Regular Hours: Tue.-Sat. 11-5 p.m. (or by appt.)

Open Every Second Saturday’s Wynwood Art Walk

2010-01-08

Splash! – Closing Reception

Miami Art Exchange at Artlab33 Art Space

*?Splash!* – International Exhibition

Closing reception: 9 Jan., 7-10:30 p.m.

2051 NW 2nd Av.
Miami, Florida 33127

Artists: Paul Aho (Florida), Mark Dixon (Canada), Till Könneker (Switzerland), TJ Norris (Oregon),
Bill Puzstai (Canada), Sara Stites (Florida), featuring painting, works-on-paper, and photography.

Special projects: Gary Moore (Florida), Onajide Shabaka (Florida)

Weekly Regular Hours: Tue.-Sat. 11-5 p.m.

Open Every Second Saturday’s Wynwood Art Walk – Sat., 12 Dec., 7 – 10:30 p.m.

2051 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, Florida 33127

2010-01-08

Splash! – International Exhibition

Miami Art Exchange at Artlab33 | Art Space

*?Splash!* – International Exhibition

Vernissage – Opening: 3 Dec., 6-8 p.m.

2051 NW 2nd Av. Miami, Florida 33127

Exhibition Dates: 3 Dec., 2009 to 9 Jan., 2010

Artists: Paul Aho (Florida), Mark Dixon (Canada), Till Könneker (Switzerland), TJ Norris (Oregon), Bill Puzstai (Canada), Sara Stites (Florida), featuring painting, works-on-paper, and photography.

Special projects: Gary Moore (Florida), Onajide Shabaka (Florida)

swimming pool redux

*SPLASH!*: a sudden disturbance to the otherwise quiescent free surface of a liquid (usually water). The disturbance is typically caused by a solid object suddenly hitting the surface. Think of a splash from a water droplet, it rises into a beautiful crown of sparkling water that also envelopes us in a fluid cocoon of freshness and energy.

Paul Aho (Florida), Mark Dixon (Canada), TJ Norris (Oregon), and Sara Stites (Florida) are all exploring various abstract forms, from the man-made to those produced in nature. In each instance the artist has created a unique vision through personal creativity. Dixon and Norris have created richly patterned works-on-paper, while Aho and Stites have worked along similar paths on paintings. In all, they provide a highly unique selection from which to view.

Till Könneker (Switzerland) has a well-known practice of creating silhouette drawings, here done on hand-made Japanese paper. These delicate works are powerful in both imagery and presentation. He develops his work in an explorative and playful manner, always ready to trust chance.

Bill Pusztai’s (Canada) poetic photographs reveal his interpretation of the four muses. “Embodying the allusive muses, this quartet of classically composed nudes is a statement about statements, art about sex, soft-core porn about literature, and homage to one of the unsung heroes of culture and gender theory.” (Photographic images include nudity.)