Austin Adams
The process has become more and more important to me as i move forward with my work; collecting data, building a surface for the painting, and dissecting stories and picture planes have been my main focuses in my work as of late.
For the Day in a Life project, I transformed 24 hours in random people's lives into a graphic narrative. Each of the canvases is a day for a different person, and it's juxtaposed against other people's days as a comparison.
My more current work is a series of constructed wooden canvas built up from many layers of a variety of wood and other materials. What's represented on the canvas is the geometric deconstruction of a story. A saw has become as important as a brush.
Jose Arenas
Jose Arenas is a New York based artist who spent many years of his youth in two countries, Northern California in the United States and Guadalajara, Mexico. His experiences navigating between the two cultures has informed his work on a variety of ways. Jose’s playful, decorative, and beautifully haunting visual symbols reflect his personal narrative of the past and present. He explores the themes of place, ritual and dislocation, based on his early memories and identity shaped by the two distinct cultures.
The Artist Salon series is a program organized by NARS artists for their fellow studio and residency artists. The Artist Salon Committee coordinates artist talks, presentations, studio visits, and various other activities to encourage insightful dialogue among its participants. Continuously building dynamic conversations around topics related to the current times and our environment, the Artist Salon is an open forum for testing out new ideas, examining paradigm shifts in the art world, and furthering the creative development of the NARS artist community. This is a self-directed program that shifts and morphs according to the needs of the community.
NARS entrance on 35th Street will remain open until 7:15. Doorways between studio floors will remain open through duration of the session for easy access by artists. Refreshments will be served.
Please contact operations@narsfoundation.org or 718-768-2765 for more information.
