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Manoukian, Ascott, d’Holbachie, Bernhardt & Little Big VI, by Haven Gallery on Nov 28, 2021 21:19:59 GMT 1, New Exhibitions: Stan Manoukian, Thomas Ascott, Yoko d’Holbachie, Larysa Bernhardt & Little Big VI
Thomas Ascott
December 18th, 2021 - January 16th, 2022
Artist Statement:
I honestly find the artist's statement to be an almost impossible feat. I am a visual artist, so, by my estimation, my entire job is to communicate without words; yet, here I sit trying to put words to my images, an exercise I am poorly prepared to undertake. Inspiration, for me, is just my accumulated experiences, things I've seen, heard, touched and felt through my life, jumbled about in my mind and abused by time until they show up on a piece of paper. I would love to point to a sketchbook of ordered images that would tell this story, but, as often as not, the images are spit out on scraps of envelopes near a computer or a convenient napkin ringed with coffee. Growing up in East Tennessee, I spent a great deal of my childhood wandering through the Smokies, especially the Chimneys Picnic Grounds on the Little Pigeon River. I passed many hours of many summers scrambling over rocks in the middle of streams and exploring caves and trails. The Smoky Mountains and the Little Pigeon River are the internal background to almost all of my work. No matter what the central element of a piece may be, the natural flora and fauna of the Smokies creeps in, whether in the obvious form of a Smoky Mountain songbird or salamander, or in the less obvious form of rhododendron leaves and lichen-covered boulders.
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Stan Manoukian
December 18th, 2021 - January 16th, 2022
Haven Gallery is pleased to present a new collection of drawings from French illustrator Stan Manoukian. This will be Manoukian’s second solo show at the gallery and will feature the artists quintessential monsters and creatures of the forest, exemplarily drawn and surrealistically conceived. Manoukian uses intricate line work to create a myriad of characters and narratives that tickle the imagination. His sense of story and mood is accentuated by an extensive exploration of medium as light is shaped to create depth and form. A variety of moods and expressions are propagated throughout each drawing to humanize his surreal beings; yet a hyperbolic approach to their features lend them closer to the imaginative, whimsical entities birthed from ones childhood. Manoukian’s playful works invite us to visit our youthful memories of time spent outdoors. An emphasis on the flourishing of nature uncovers all the fanciful critters that live and play beneath the fecund growth and cyclical seasons.
About Stan Manoukian:
“Stan Manoukian is a French graphic artist born in 1969 in Paris. He has had a passion for drawing since his childhood and most of his inspiration comes from retro sci-fi, classic monster movies, as well as the novels of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft, Mary Shelley and Jules Verne.
In 1988, after he graduated from the Estienne Art School, he started to work in France and the United States as a cartoonist, designer and storyboarder for the movie industry and in advertising.
In 2007, Manoukian issued himself an artistic challenge: draw one monster a day for one year. This larger scale initiative gave birth to the book called Diary of Inhuman Species, published by Ankama the following year.
Since then, the exploration of his phantasmagoric world pushes him towards bigger and more ambitious projects, testing diverse techniques in both drawing and sculpture.
He belongs to the worldwide generation of post lowbrow artists. With his increasingly detailed content, abounding with dreamlike creatures, his work harkens to the romantic paintings from the nineteenth century. His menagerie is composed of creatures both extraterrestrial and from the deepest abysses on Earth, thereby transporting the viewer to a fantastic and surrealistic world, where nature is omnipresent.
Heir of Gustave Doré, Franklin Booth, and Bernie Wrightson, Stan Manoukian refines a unique visual scripture through hatching and dimming, which employs ink or graphite to mimic an engraving.
Currently, his works are internationally recognized and have been displayed in several exhibitions and books in the USA, Japan, Australia, France and Europe.”
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Larysa Bernhardt, “New Works"
December 18th, 2021 - January 16th, 2022
Northport, NY– Haven Gallery is pleased to present a collection of new work from Larysa Bernhardt and the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. This collection will include a variety of hand sewn moth sculptures crafted by the artist with hand dyed fabrics, vintage textiles and hand embroidered details. As such, this new collection of moths is a culmination of the artists passion dedicated to her own artistry and developed style devoted to making her insect effigies. The art of making something by hand is a nod to the past, before machines and technologies usurped the delicate and fine handwork of artisans and craftsman whose precise and integrity-based handiwork pervaded all forms of creation.
Yoko d’Holbachie
December 18th, 2021 - January 16th, 2022
ABOUT YOKO D’HOLBACHIE
Yoko d’Holbachie was born in 1971 in Yokohama, Japan, and studied design and art at Tama Art University in Tokyo. She has worked for almost 10 years as a freelance designer for advertisements, books and magazines, as well as doing design for entertainment and video games. She began to show artwork in the US in 2008. She has lived in Yokohama but also teaches art in Tokyo a few days a week. Her preference is a parrot, a cuttlefish, a slime mold, white wine and static electricity.
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Little Big VI Small Works Group Show
December 18th, 2021 - January 16th, 2022
A group collection of new works measuring 8 x 8 inches or smaller.
Exhibiting artists include:
Camilla d'Errico
Kate Gamb
Andi Soto
Daria Theodora
Zoe Lacchei
Valency Genis
Aniela Sobieki
Tom Bagshaw
Sarah Finnigan
Teagan White
Anjipan
Laverinne
Meadow and Fawn
Meagan Magpie
Valerie Saverie
Sean Mahan
Candie Bolton
Hitomi Aoki
Ronald Companoca
Flor Padilla
Nikole Cooney
Yuriko Shirou
Naoto Hattori
Marta Wit
Bec bartell
C7
Jeff Echevarria
Dolce Paganne
Phoenix Chan
Zoe Thomas
Hannah Flowers
Nicole Grosjean
Steeven Salvat
Marmaduke Davenport
Sen
Jody Fallon
Paige Carpenter
Nicoletta Tomas
Haven Gallery
New Exhibitions: Stan Manoukian, Thomas Ascott, Yoko d’Holbachie, Larysa Bernhardt & Little Big VI
Thomas Ascott
December 18th, 2021 - January 16th, 2022
Artist Statement: I honestly find the artist's statement to be an almost impossible feat. I am a visual artist, so, by my estimation, my entire job is to communicate without words; yet, here I sit trying to put words to my images, an exercise I am poorly prepared to undertake. Inspiration, for me, is just my accumulated experiences, things I've seen, heard, touched and felt through my life, jumbled about in my mind and abused by time until they show up on a piece of paper. I would love to point to a sketchbook of ordered images that would tell this story, but, as often as not, the images are spit out on scraps of envelopes near a computer or a convenient napkin ringed with coffee. Growing up in East Tennessee, I spent a great deal of my childhood wandering through the Smokies, especially the Chimneys Picnic Grounds on the Little Pigeon River. I passed many hours of many summers scrambling over rocks in the middle of streams and exploring caves and trails. The Smoky Mountains and the Little Pigeon River are the internal background to almost all of my work. No matter what the central element of a piece may be, the natural flora and fauna of the Smokies creeps in, whether in the obvious form of a Smoky Mountain songbird or salamander, or in the less obvious form of rhododendron leaves and lichen-covered boulders. - Stan Manoukian
December 18th, 2021 - January 16th, 2022
Haven Gallery is pleased to present a new collection of drawings from French illustrator Stan Manoukian. This will be Manoukian’s second solo show at the gallery and will feature the artists quintessential monsters and creatures of the forest, exemplarily drawn and surrealistically conceived. Manoukian uses intricate line work to create a myriad of characters and narratives that tickle the imagination. His sense of story and mood is accentuated by an extensive exploration of medium as light is shaped to create depth and form. A variety of moods and expressions are propagated throughout each drawing to humanize his surreal beings; yet a hyperbolic approach to their features lend them closer to the imaginative, whimsical entities birthed from ones childhood. Manoukian’s playful works invite us to visit our youthful memories of time spent outdoors. An emphasis on the flourishing of nature uncovers all the fanciful critters that live and play beneath the fecund growth and cyclical seasons. About Stan Manoukian: “Stan Manoukian is a French graphic artist born in 1969 in Paris. He has had a passion for drawing since his childhood and most of his inspiration comes from retro sci-fi, classic monster movies, as well as the novels of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft, Mary Shelley and Jules Verne. In 1988, after he graduated from the Estienne Art School, he started to work in France and the United States as a cartoonist, designer and storyboarder for the movie industry and in advertising. In 2007, Manoukian issued himself an artistic challenge: draw one monster a day for one year. This larger scale initiative gave birth to the book called Diary of Inhuman Species, published by Ankama the following year. Since then, the exploration of his phantasmagoric world pushes him towards bigger and more ambitious projects, testing diverse techniques in both drawing and sculpture. He belongs to the worldwide generation of post lowbrow artists. With his increasingly detailed content, abounding with dreamlike creatures, his work harkens to the romantic paintings from the nineteenth century. His menagerie is composed of creatures both extraterrestrial and from the deepest abysses on Earth, thereby transporting the viewer to a fantastic and surrealistic world, where nature is omnipresent. Heir of Gustave Doré, Franklin Booth, and Bernie Wrightson, Stan Manoukian refines a unique visual scripture through hatching and dimming, which employs ink or graphite to mimic an engraving. Currently, his works are internationally recognized and have been displayed in several exhibitions and books in the USA, Japan, Australia, France and Europe.” - Larysa Bernhardt, “New Works"
December 18th, 2021 - January 16th, 2022
Northport, NY– Haven Gallery is pleased to present a collection of new work from Larysa Bernhardt and the artist’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. This collection will include a variety of hand sewn moth sculptures crafted by the artist with hand dyed fabrics, vintage textiles and hand embroidered details. As such, this new collection of moths is a culmination of the artists passion dedicated to her own artistry and developed style devoted to making her insect effigies. The art of making something by hand is a nod to the past, before machines and technologies usurped the delicate and fine handwork of artisans and craftsman whose precise and integrity-based handiwork pervaded all forms of creation. Yoko d’Holbachie
December 18th, 2021 - January 16th, 2022
ABOUT YOKO D’HOLBACHIE Yoko d’Holbachie was born in 1971 in Yokohama, Japan, and studied design and art at Tama Art University in Tokyo. She has worked for almost 10 years as a freelance designer for advertisements, books and magazines, as well as doing design for entertainment and video games. She began to show artwork in the US in 2008. She has lived in Yokohama but also teaches art in Tokyo a few days a week. Her preference is a parrot, a cuttlefish, a slime mold, white wine and static electricity. - Little Big VI Small Works Group Show
December 18th, 2021 - January 16th, 2022
A group collection of new works measuring 8 x 8 inches or smaller. Exhibiting artists include: Camilla d'Errico Kate Gamb Andi Soto Daria Theodora Zoe Lacchei Valency Genis Aniela Sobieki Tom Bagshaw Sarah Finnigan Teagan White Anjipan Laverinne Meadow and Fawn Meagan Magpie Valerie Saverie Sean Mahan Candie Bolton Hitomi Aoki Ronald Companoca Flor Padilla Nikole Cooney Yuriko Shirou Naoto Hattori Marta Wit Bec bartell C7 Jeff Echevarria Dolce Paganne Phoenix Chan Zoe Thomas Hannah Flowers Nicole Grosjean Steeven Salvat Marmaduke Davenport Sen Jody Fallon Paige Carpenter Nicoletta Tomas Haven Gallery
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