Rodrigo Valles (left), Zofia Bogusz & Erik Jones (right)
The gallery exhibit tour begins with Erik Jones, also visit each artists website below.
Welcome to the incredible work of Erik Jones, whom I first discovered when he hosted a mega solo show at Dagny & Barstow designer boutique on Bowery almost two years ago. I stayed the entire night and went back a few times to take in the work minus the crowds.
His career has been soring ever since. He lives and works in Brooklyn since 2009, originally from sunny St. Petersburg Florida and has received a bachelor’s degree from Ringling College of Art and Design. He began working primarily in cover illustration where he toured the US, showing at different pop culture and art conventions.
Erik's work is vibrant and colorful, expressing a heightened sense of realism, captured in his female subjects, juxtaposed with sporadic mark making and nonrepresentational
forms that could be said to mimic geometric high-end fashion. This effect is achieved by using multiple mediums such as watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic, water-soluble wax pastel and water-soluble oil on paper. You may recognize his work from a cover of Hi-Fructose Magazine in mid 2013, also this December he shows with Think Space Gallery to big reviews and acclaim at Scope / Art Basel Miami Beach.
Erik's work is vibrant and colorful, expressing a heightened sense of realism, captured in his female subjects, juxtaposed with sporadic mark making and nonrepresentational
forms that could be said to mimic geometric high-end fashion. This effect is achieved by using multiple mediums such as watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic, water-soluble wax pastel and water-soluble oil on paper. You may recognize his work from a cover of Hi-Fructose Magazine in mid 2013, also this December he shows with Think Space Gallery to big reviews and acclaim at Scope / Art Basel Miami Beach.
She has been featured in Juxtapoz Magazine, Art Nouveau, a Miami-based art magazine and Brazilian art and culture magazine ZUPI. Zofia paints women against bold and dramatic landscapes, in which natural elements such as water and sunlight color the dynamic between the individual and the external world. Her paintings are inspired by individual histories, memories, and experiences. Pop culture imagery also plays a crucial role in her work, creating a grounded sense of the everyday. Zofia’s mediums of choice are oil paint, graphite, and colored pencils on hand-cut wood.
Visit http://www.rodrigovalles.com, http://theirison.com, http://zofiaart.com & http://sacredgallerynyc.com for more on the artists and the show Sacred Gallery. See it before the end of the year!
