Eyelevel BQE | Artist-run project

DARK DAYS

EyeLevel BQE is pleased to announce a group exhibition Dark Days, curated by Clementine Nixon. This exhibition gathers eight Brooklyn based artists, whose work investigates aspects of darkness and sublimity. The selected artists represent a diverse range of approaches and mediums, including painting, sculpture, etching and installation.

The concept behind the show begun with a treatise written by Edumund Burke titled “A Philosophical Enquiry into Our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful” (1757). The book is an examination of how sensation, imagination, and judgment are interrelated in the experience of art. Burke explains how these three steps- causal relationships, determine the viewer’s experience of pleasure and pain, and how pleasure and pain are represented by the aesthetic concepts of beauty and sublimity.

A copy of the book was given to each participating artist, each of whom were then asked to create or select works that somehow responded to Burke’s definition of the sublime, that is, “Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime”.

DANIEL ALBRIGO

Daniel Albrigo bio

Daniel Albrigo
Born 1982 Pomona Ca, Aquarius.
I Got started painting early in life as a direct influence of my mother. I picked up the medium of tattooing along the way. I split my time between the two while living in Brooklyn Ny.

Past shows include galleries such as
Western Exhibitions, Chicago
Rewick Gallery, New York City
111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco
YoungLoves Gallery, philadelphia
Art Basel, Miami
Riverside Museum of Art
Copro Nason Gallery, Los Angeles
La Luz De Jesus, Los Angeles

Danielalbrigo.com
Danielalbrigotattoo.com
Danielalbrigo.blogspt.com

THOMAS HOOPER

Born in Hastings East Sussex, he studied Drawing at The London
Institute of Art & Design, subsequently moving from London to New York
City to pursue his goals in Tattooing and Art. Painter, illustrator,
tattoo artist and an editor for Sang Bleu Magazine Thomas mixes
orthodox and unorthodox painting techniques, organic textures with
computer-enhanced patterns, accidental stains with geometrical
entities. His pictorial work although directly complementary to his
skin-based work, sails far from the world of tattooing to explore a
very medium-orientated abstraction.

Thomas Hooper 2010.

(Brooklyn) New York Adorned
#376 Bedford ave @ south 5th st.
Williamsburg. Brooklyn. NY 11211

http://residualselfimage.wordpress.com/
http://meditationsinatrament.com/

SCOTT KEIGHTLEY

Scott Keightley was built by an ape. She was using clay and Chimney Tears. The alchemists burned funerary papers in the stair well. They carry fruit in canvas duffel bags. They smoke on balconies. Our manners crumble in the fog and rain to wash the moon away.

http://www.leatherforest.com/

LANCE LANKFORD

Lankford received his BA from The University of South Carolina in 1997 and his MFA from Parsons the New School for Design in 2008. He is the recipient of the Arthur B. Carles Award from the Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA.; the Dean’s scholarship and the Anatol Shulkin Memorial merit scholarship at Parsons. His work has been published in Wired magazine. Currently he works in New York City where he lives with one turtle and a fish.

http://lanlai.com/

PETER LAPSLEY

Peter Lapsley is a New York based artist with a studio practice in Brooklyn, New York. Originally from the island of Bermuda, Peter moved to New York in 2006 and received an MFA (Hons) from Parsons the New School for Design in 2008 where he was the recipient of various awards including the Chaim Gross Sculpture Award. Peter’s utilizes a variety of materials in his practice often using architectural and industrial structures to inform the works which he exhibits in New York and Bermuda.

http://peterlapsley.com

JEREMIAH MANDEL

http://cargocollective.com/jeremiahmandel

JULIO PARDO

Born and raised in Barcelona and obsessed with traveling the world and observing others he is now trying to writte the story of his life with pictures.

http://girlsgotlimits.wordpress.com/
www.girlsgotlimits.com

AUSTIN POWER

	http://withapower.com/

JEAN-PIERRE ROY

*Courtesy the Artist and RARE Gallery,
New York

KYLE SIMON