AND THE WINNERS ARE....

Part of the Urban Garden was the opportunity to win a 2 week solo show in the Project Room of Broadway Gallery. It was a hard decision with so many amazing artists. Ultimately the winners are....


DANA MILLER


KANGAROK (Ernest Concepcion & Mike Estabrook)


KIRSTEN KAY THOEN


TOM LEE


BEDEL TISCARENO


Congratulations once again.

OPENING NIGHT

The opening was a huge success. The vibe was great, and everybody's work flowed together beautifully. Congrats to all!

BEDEL TISCARENO

Bedel Tiscareno is a painter and sculptor from Las Vegas, NV. His work incorporates historical and non-linear narratives that examine our complicity in upholding the status quo. By combining archetypes from ancient to contemporary mythologies Tiscareno creates compositions that have both gravity and humor.Bedel Tiscareno currently lives and works in New York City.
www.bedeltiscareno.com

TOMMY MISHIMA

In THE URBAN GARDEN Tommy Mishima contributed his delicate and wonderful line drawings in a collaboration with Lambert Fernando. Tommy was born in Peru and came to the US as a teenager. He received his BFA at Parsons. This is his first New York show.

LAMBERT FERNANDO

Lambert Fernando was born in the Philippines, and often draws upon his experience of changing cultures and continents as a young child for his paintings. Incorporating a mixture of everything from fabric to plaster to ballpoint pen, Fernando's paintings mirror the evanescent qualities of lost memories and experiences. Currently Fernando resides in Brooklyn with his wife and their menagerie of creatures.
LambertFernandoBlog

FLASH ROSENBERG

Flash Rosenberg uses photos, drawings, writings and performances to deliver pith, humor, interpretations and memories. Her public art mischief has aired daily on public radio, has been performed onstage internationally, and published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Daily News, the Forward, The Funny Times and Lilith. She is a freelance photographer and currently, Artist-in-Residence for LIVE from the New York Public Library.

J. MANDLE PERFORMANCE

Project: Dirty Cookies

Artist Statement

In this impossibly overwhelming world, we need the reason to stop and consider our role within it. In our daily lives, there are so many distractions that cause us to become dissociated with our surroundings that performance art can be a critical tool to re-connect us and bring us into an awareness of life’s significant parts.

Artist Bio

My artistic practice intends to create moments of pause so that audience-members may take time to contemplate their environment. Often occurring in public space, I work within a performative frame, but blend modes of fashion design, architecture, sculpture, installation, and craft.

I am the recipient of a NYFA Fellowship in Performance Art and numerous awards, including my earliest grant from Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art, and later from The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, New York State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. I have also been awarded artist’s residencies at Guapamacataro hacienda, Yaddo, and Weir Farm Trust. I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Williams College and a Master of Arts at the Gallatin School of New York University.

WWW.JMANDLEPERFORMANCE.ORG

SARAH CHACICH

I'm from rural Minnesota, moved here to go to grad school and work on art. In my art work I use my life as a trope of the female experience. I'm interested in loss, memory and taboo and the way these elements create tensions between what is real and what is real to me. I use painting, sculpture, video and sound to illustrate these ideas.

LAURIE SERMOS

Laurie Sermos' color photographs often deal with the visible intersection of natural and created environments. Within these modern landscape images, nature or constructed environments of nature are represented as places to be considered and looked at. The environments photographed are often places built with an intended functionality. However through the act of photography, we are able to pause and engage with these environments in a way that allows for a different kind of reflection. Laurie was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1977. She was raised in New Jersey, and there on car rides to Newark airport first became interested in natural landscapes changed by industrial structures. She received her MFA from Bard College in 2006, where she also studied in a master class with Stephen Shore. She has exhibited her work nationally and abroad. Laurie currently teaches photography at Rutgers University, and has also taught with the University of Georgia's studies abroad program in Cortona, Italy. She lives in
Brooklyn, New York.
www.lauriesermos.com

DANA MILLER

Artist Statement
I am drawn to the seductive and surreal qualities of nature, especially in relation to culture. I am interested in how we relate to nature, how we try to shape and contain it, and its ability to grow wild despite our best attempts to confine it. I use photography to explore how these layers of both wildness and containment develop in the landscape, whether urban, suburban, or exurban.


Biography
Dana Miller received her MFA from Bard College in 2005 and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1996. She had her first solo exhibition in New York at the Jen Bekman Gallery in November 2004.
She has been written about in the New York Times, the Village Voice, Leica Fotografie International, and Art in America. Her work is held in the corporate collections of VISA New York and The Capital Group. Dana was a recipient of the Camera Club of New York's Residency program for 2006-2007. She currently lives in Brooklyn and maintains a studio in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
www.danamillerphotography.com