OLD MASTER 2.0

OLD MASTER 2.0
Brooke Moyse has a fascination with old masters. Think Raphael, Bruegel the Elder, Vermeer, and as recent as John Constable. Indeed you can even see the colours from these artists in her work. Moyse explores space and it’s relationship to colour on her canvases. These varying sized works are distilled experiences from the past that she develops slowly over periods of time. With her work, Moyse says she wants to create a time-based experience for the viewer. One moment can reveal an aspect about her work that in the next is sublimated or changed. This, she says, is an important decision making factor before she puts paint to canvas or when choosing colours.

Although Moyse is moving away from representational work, by eliminating the horizon line, she still begins with that initial space so there is some foundation. But in the end it becomes abstracted and space is fluid on her canvas. Her technique in painting is equally fascinating. Her vivid brushstrokes and vibrant colours are engaging. Jason Andrew, director of Norte Maar Gallery says, “…Her work achieves a freshness, a newness…” The light moves through space in her work. And colours are juxtaposed to create depth, lightness and fragility.

Brooke Moyse is currently planning on competing for several awards and continues to show at Norte Maar Gallery on Wyckoff Avenue.

-Kurt Smith

Norte Maar
83 Wyckoff Ave. #1B
www.nortemaar.org

Whitney Biennial Annoucement

I Surrender

My thoughts are of you and nothing else.
Joyful emotions swim through my body
As I anticipate your presence.
The touch of your hand brings ecstasy to my skin.
And I am rapt.
I suffer to feel your fleshy kiss.
I burst when you are near.
Hearing your voice,
Seeing your smile is the fuel of my passionate fire.
I surrender to you and loose all else,
My Rock. My Cedar. My constant Love.
I am yours, completely.

Christian Lacroix files for Bankruptcy Protection

Usually, Fashion doesn't begin to worry until the bellwether designer Christian Lacroix begins to hurt. As a sign of the current recession's impact on global fashion and luxury markets, Lacroix has filed for bankruptcy protection. "The voluntary petition, similar to Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States, was filed with the commercial court in Paris, which will decide whether to restructure or liquidate the company." Let's hope that we will start making a turnaround in the economic crisis before this takes it toll on any other houses.

Uomo Scuro

We've all experienced the attraction to dangerously attractive dark men. It's the excitement and unknown that seems to pique our interest. It leads us to admire their disregard for norms and unconcern for consequences. We wish to experience those moments of blissful abandon and the passionate coupling that will no doubt ensue. However, these hopes that we will experience excitement and passion are difficult to reconcile with our sensible societal notions of stability. Invariably, the uomo scuro will lead to fun and eventual heartbreak. But wasn't it a fun ride?

new work

Brooklyn, New York

Such days are long with worry.
Knitted brows and hassled fingers nimbly at work,
Pulling tailors tacks, slipping from one place to the next.
Long with hours, tinge heart chambers with pangs of regret.
Scratching memories: Reliving costly errors. Twisting away.
Grey is the water that clouds the day.
And fills the space with eerie light.
Shining silently still and gloss with watery stillness.
Insidiously born of anguished shapes;
Forms that float and vanish came across the envisioned path then occludes the way.
While silently musing the temperatures depth, pulling tacks and slipping away.
So falls the evening hours on Brooklyn’s plain,
Silently creep with unfocused thoughts,
While colour fades and light that slips away.

--Kurt Smith

New Music from Peaches.
The album apparently features production from Simian Mobile Disco.

Very cool.