Megan Berk, Let's Run Away Together
Recession Art and CULTUREfix have partnered to create an art space for emerging artists and aspiring collectors. Recession Art curates the CULTUREfix gallery with solo shows by Featured Artists and group shows by alumni and other emerging artists. Affordable artwork, prints, and books by these artists and more are available at Recession Art’s storefront.
Artwork for the RAC storefront will be selected by Curator Melanie Kress. To find out how to get your artwork included, visit our submission page. Curator Risa Shoup will act as RAC’s Programming Director, scheduling weekly events including readings, performances, discussions, and dinners to complement the exhibitions and storefront offerings. To find out how to schedule an event at RAC, email her at risa@recessionartshows.com.
Megan Berk, The Very Big Field
Featured Artist Megan Berk will inaugurate RAC and kick off Recession Art’s solo shows with Weird Party on the Other Side of the Hedge, a show that explores the impulse towards heaven. In abstracted landscapes and altered architectural spaces, a sort of bright beyond is suggested where light meets shadow. These moments of possibility allude as much to the idea of heaven as they might to an idealized future, the idea of Summer before it has arrived, or the improbable optimism that drives creative progress. They seek to transform moments of desire, self-delusion, and optimism into form and color; In this way, they echo religious painting, though the icons here are taken from the glossy pages of architecture and lifestyle magazines.
Megan Berk was born in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in New York. She received her M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and has exhibited her work at Bowman/Bloom Gallery in Manhattan, Silas Marder Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY, and at Recession Art’s Works Progress show at the Invisible Dog Art Center in Brooklyn.
On Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 Snowy Wilderness presents TELFAR Autumn/Winter 2012: SHOP-MOBILE, debuting TELFAR’s 14th ready-to-wear collection and mobile shop constructed by artist Lizzie Fitch. For A/W12 TELFAR introduces a winter collection heavily influenced by D.I.Y. construction techniques fused with winter activewear; applying detachable and insulated features to winter basics. To release A/W12′s collection TELFAR will present a multimedia visual experience in correlation with the collection and mobile concept shop. TELFAR Autumn/Winter 2012: SHOP-MOBILE will hold its opening reception on Tuesday February 14th from 3pm-6pm, and will remain on view until March 4th 2012. SHOP-MOBILE will be open to the public Tuesdays-Saturdays 12pm-8pm and Sundays 12pm-6pm. For more information on TELFAR or SHOP-MOBILE please view WWW.TELFAR.NET or WWW.TELFAR.TUMBLR.COM.
Visit the Recession Art Calendar for a complete listing of Recession Art sponsored events. Or check out all the upcoming events at the CULTUREfix Event Page.