Artists

Sto came to Brooklyn from Richmond, VA back in the year 2000 when Williamsburg was a pre-9-11 post-Giuliani not nearly as gentrified place to live cheaply and make art. He lived in his friend’s kitchen in a cardboard box for 6 months and then finally got a dingy warehouse of his own. He co-founded the now defunct art collective WAMP, who put on interactive art shows in untraditional venues all over NY. Sto’s recent work involves paper mache sculptures that reanimate the mundane objects and situations of our everyday lives with humor, raw textures, assemblage, color, and sometimes light and sound too. Recycling most of his materials and making “something from nothing” are essential to his process and spirit. He also makes paintings and writes a bunch, at times combining the two into a kind of 3 dimensional storytelling. He also plays the shopping cart in a noisey project called DUBKNOWDUB. He co-founded Cinders Gallery with Kelie Bowman and that currently keeps him pretty darn busy. See his art for sale here. www.stoishere.com And check out Dubknowdub
Kelie Bowman’s current work explores ideas of abundance, growth, nature, and transformation. In these dire times, it seems that industry and the natural world are at war. Kelie is drawn to these collisions in their visual manifestations and then takes it further by creating narratives that explore positive collisions where one can feed off of the other in a reciprocal relationship. Old cars transform into lush gardens, tents are made of clothes and people take up in the trees and ride on swans weathering natural disasters. She is inspired by the way we live, especially in NY, with piles of objects surrounding us, creating a whole new landscape to live in. Kelie began to do research on textiles and became fascinated with the mimicry of nature within textile design, ornamenting our lives from the gates surrounding our home to the dishes in the sink. She is fascinated by the attempt at beautification within a man made environment to replace our connection with real nature and the flowers cultural significance. As the study of patterns grew more in depth, so did the process of painting them. Floral patterns began to grow and take over the paper as if reclaiming their origin of the organic. Spreading, the plants grew over the entire body of the figures, morphing into a lush still life, bringing her interests in nature and transformations full circle. Kelie is co-founder of Cinders, makes music and art in the band Light Hits, enjoys makin food, dance parties, and swimming outside in far away places. She received a BFA at the University of Florida, was a founding member of the Cloud Seeding Circus, and gave Bike Tours in Munich, Germany one summer. See Kelie’s art for sale here And Kelz Belz website here: www.keliebowman.com
Allyson Mellberg resides in Charlottesville, VA where she makes drawings, paintings, silk screens, and etchings of beautifully deformed and yet playful characters who carry a proud demeanor in their abnormalities. Furry creatures climb on the heads of women and wrap their tails around mustachioed boys. Luckily for the rest of us she shares her work through art shows, zines, prints, and illustration work. Her work is inspired by the daily misuse of chemicals in our society and in keeping with her awarness uses non-toxic and often homemade materials. Elephantitus never looked so huggable. With the combo of her husband, Jeremy Taylor, these 2 are a dynamic artmaking duo that could rival any superhero team around.
Check out Allyson’s art for sale and Jeremy’s too! allysonandjeremy.blogspot.com
Maya Hayuk is a muralist, painter, photographer, printmaker, curator, player of records, writer, performer, collector, Barnstormer, video maker, documentarian and lover of life who’s lives in Brooklyn, New York by way of San Francisco, Baltimore, Boston and Toronto. From her large-scale murals to small works on paper her obsession with symmetry and her collection of images of mandalas, playing cards, hexes, totem poles, Ukrainian Easter eggs, quilts and bandanas play out in works that espouse the traditional as well as the innovative. Embracing both sexuality and spirituality via symbolism evocative of radiantly woven geometries to the beckoning parted orifices of the body, there is something very classic rock, punk folk rainbow peace, freak out about Maya Hayuk that is very hard to put a finger on, but really it’s all about love. Her vividly bold geometric works evoke the process towards continuity and wholeness whose forces seem bent on maintaining the triumph of this love over evil. Along with her solo work, Hayuk frequently collaborates with other artists and musicians. She had a solo show with us in February 09 and most recently another in December 2010. See her art for sale here
mayahayuk.com
For the past decade, Tod Seelie has been one of our favorite photographers, prolifically documenting his travels as well as the art, music, and DIY counterculture that has swelled up around him in Brooklyn and simultaneously erupted in various places all over the country. It’s through this lens that we get to experience Tod’s unquenchable wanderlust for adventure that takes him to exciting and sometimes dangerous places deep in the bowels of outsider America. He had a sick solo show with us called Slowdancing to Slayer last summer and was part of our room during the Aqua Art fair 08.
See Tod’s available work here
todseelie.com
Brian Chippendale is a silkscreen printmaker, drawer, comic maker, collager, and paper mache people maker who has been calling Providence, RI home for a long time now. Chippendale’s eye peeling candy colored cut and paste silk-screened collages feature hypnotic patterned backgrounds that create intergalactic industrialized wastelands for broken down cars, flowerbeds, machine guns, animals, and bobbly-headed dudes to inhabit. Reminiscent of the fun in reassembling G.I. Joe figures to make new ones, the characters often appear clumsy and uncomfortable with mix-matched body parts. When he’s not working on these or making/reading comics, he’s usually beating on drums really hard and inciting mini-riots in the bands Lightning Bolt and Black Pus. He was in a 3 person show here in Dec 07 with Jungil Hong and Kevin Hooyman and did a solo show here in June 2010.
See available work by Brian here
Julien Langendorff lives and works in Paris, France but aims to move to NYC one day. We met him sevral years ago when he came to the gallery for a Jeff Lewis show and we’ve stayed in contact ever since. His work combines raw pen and ink drawings with esoteric stream of conscious poetry that is both totally sincere and eerily haunting. Spirits of the dead rise up, furry animals exclaim their discontent with the universe and love is lost in a rainstorm. He has been collaborating on a series of work with artist and musician David Herman Dune, also from France. Together they effortlessly flow between the 2 artists’ hands and voices, combining both of their similar styles of text and imagery into a single spirited voice. They had a show of their works here in Feb 08 called Where Is It Slowly Going and Julien has been in our flat files ever since. See his available work here
www.julienlangendorff.com
Kyle Field is a painter, drawer, surfer, and a musician under the name Little Wings. Kyle’s ink and watercolor drawings are like ethereal journeys into the secret history of our subconscious, a place where our inner child goes goo goo at life’s simple magic. If you take a ride with his work, you will be rewarded with his humorous and often quite poignant musings and autobiographical yearnings. Along the way, you will meet old wise men, gnomes, surfers, animals and other folksy forest peoples frolicking and talking to you all at once. Kyle has been in numerous group shows at Cinders as well as doing a solo show, Good Again, in 2006 and a 2 person show with Jessie Rose Vala in 2009. See Kyle’s available work here
kyledraws.com
John Orth resides in Gainesville, Florida where he draws, paints, and works on his house. He met George Ferrandi there and became an integral part of the Cloud Seeding Circus. His images depict dreamy ghosts who are both sad and majestic, with lines that recall old printmaking processes and faded treasure maps. Searing beams of light interplay with frozen mountain peaks while soggy lipped characters fly and fade away into the clouds overhead. In between art projects, John plays music in his band Holopaw and is known to customarily show up in NYC unannounced, generating a smiley posse of pals for a delightful picnic or nite of show and tell. See John’s available work here and check out his blog
Diane Barcelowsky likes to draw a whole lot. The first time we met her, she came bustling into the gallery with hundreds of amazing drawings falling all over the place out of folders and bags. The stories that came rolling out of her work were of naked hippies making whoopee in the woods and fighting Indians and confederate soldiers, and rollerskating weirdos with beards looking for GOD. Her pictures are violent, scary and tweaked but then at the same time have a warm, nature and animal loving feel. Not to mention, wickedly hilarious at times. Kind of like Diane herself, a lover not a fighter, with a biting sense of humor and a whole lot more going on than you dare to think. Diane pretty much rules and we love her. See her available work here.
Ric Ocasek is an artist, musician, writer, producer, and former vocalist and guitarist for The Cars. He had his first NY exhibition of art at Cinders in March 2010. Like the music of his beloved rock band The Cars, his drawings are unabashedly pop- and yet unlike his music’s super sleek veneer, his works on paper are a bit more raw and unedited, revealing meditative moments of a Zen-like drawing practice that has evolved in private over the course of 30 years. We are excited to get the chance to share with everyone his art for the first time. See what we have available here
Jessie Rose Vala comes to us from Oregon but now resides here in Brooklyn (yay!) where she can be seen hanging out at Cinders when she’s not in her studio making drawings and sculptures. Her intricate graphite pencil drawings on paper create sprawling dark netherworlds where young women, mythical creatures, sorcerers, and zombies inhabit and undergo journeys of transformation. Jessie had an amazing show here last 2009 and wasin our Temple of Bloom installation in July 2010. She is also one half of the art/music project Light Hits with Cinders’ own Kelie Bowman. See her available work here
Monica Canilao hails from Oakland, CA where she spends her days stitching, painting, printing, and breathing life into the refuse that dominates our time and place. She received a BFA from California College of Arts and Crafts and had a wonderful solo show here in May 2010. Monica brings with her (and leaves a magical trail of) a cadre of goodies: burnt wood, rusty metal, quilts, tea bags, bottles, headresses, gold jackets, and an army of helpful friends. Every place she goes she is picking up the abandoned remnants of other people’s lives. Her compositions seamlessly meld the old and new: stained paper, withered fabric, and bones combine with sewing, painting, drawing, printing, hanging, and dangling new things to take part in breathing new life into our lives. See Monica’s available works here
Le Dernier Cri (The Last Cry), hail from Marseilles, France, where for the past 17 years they have been producing legendary volumes of painstakingly handmade, beautiful, vibrant and violent monograph prints, books, and videos featuring some of the most irreverent underground artists in the world. French artists (and masterminds of LDC) Pakito Bolino and Caroline Sury have created a truly inspirational self-publishing monster with an extremely prolific output of hundreds of books and posters, all hand silk-screened in small print runs of around 150, all under the radar of both the book and art worlds. Pakito came and did their first NY exhibition here in November 2009 to jaw-dropping audiences. We continue to be one of the few places in the US to carry a large amount of their work and this excites us to no end. See their prints and books here
Andrew Jeffrey Wright lives and works in Philly but pops into NY enough so that we get to see him fairly often and this makes us happy. Andrew is one of the founding members of the long-standing art gallery/studio compound SPACE 1026, also located in Philadelphia, and is a prolific drawer, print-maker, and comedian. He uses hypnotic patterning in his prints and paintings-checkerboards bend and weave, bursts of colors explode, and deconstructed lines form new patterns from old ones. Andrew draws in a naive yet efficiently done style that uses a large library of hilarious imagery, from invented characters like his series of Labrador dogs with ab muscles to nostalgic pop culture references such as an E.T. – Mr.T hybrid, Furbies, and Rainbow Brite. His potty humor can be totally silly but is able to retain a poignancy that is both thought-provoking and sincere. See his available work here
Isaac Lin is a longtime Philadelphia artist and co-founder of SPACE 1026 who showed with us in 2009. There are multiple elements of Arabic calligraphy, musical notation, graffiti, and geometry in Isaac Lin’s drawings, prints, and paintings. A repetitive rhythmic flow takes your eyes up, down, and across the page with colors, shapes, spray paint bursts, iconic faces, monsters, and cartoon dog heads. Using screen-printing techniques, gouache, markers, and collage, there is a depth to the layers of textures and colors, a visual hypnosis of patterns that seem to spread like a positive plague across walls inside and out, on found pieces of paper or even on top of photographs.
Kevin Hooyman’s drawings cover every available inch of the page in densely beautiful line work that often tells stories of animals waxing philosophical with each other deep in the forest where bearded wise men seek refuge amongst the magic of nature to ponder existential dilemmas. We first encountered his work through his self-published comics when he walked in with a stack one day and left us dumbfounded with their awesomeness. Kevin lives in the small town of Climax, (near Cocksackie!) in upstate NY but ventures down every once in awhile to talk with us humans and see an art show or 2. See his available work here

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