At Res Gal we love diversity! The kind of
diversity that comes from the underground, the
sub-cultures, the left field, the weird, the
unique, yesterday's dreamers, tomorrow's
superstars, the ill represented and the
downtrodden!
We are influenced by kooky imaginations, hard
working geniuses, stylistic iconoclasts, urban
decay, marginalized minorities, geeks,
cabaret siniestro, grand acts of passion, comic
books, freakshow, circus, fetish, cinema,
literature, street art, superheroes and
supervillains!
As part of our
ongoing 'Resistance Rising' doctrine, we strive
to illuminate, educate, thrill, entertain and
subvert anyone who is curious enough to breach
the fold!
GRAND OPENING MEXICO SINIESTRO
Thursday the 3rd of November from 7:30pm
Mexico Siniestro !
The Sinister Art of the Mexico's Underground!
Thursday 3rd- 7:30 pm till 12am November 2011.
We are celebrating the influence that Mexican
culture & art is having on the aesthetics and
artistic practices all over the world.
Mexico's rich heritage of religious, cult &
folklore iconography is the launch point for our
incredible forthcoming exhibition.
From the traditional Catholic shrines to the
Santa Muerte death worshipping cult.
The ancient Aztec influence through to
mainstream Lucha Libre hysteria on a massive
scale.
Drug warlords & gangland killings.
Poverty, corruption, politics. Love, death and
afterlife.
Graffiti, shrines, skulls, spells and curses.
Mexico Siniestro ! Features a pool of superb
artists of different disciplines from around the
globe who have used the religious & cult aspects
of Mexico's iconography for some of their
inspiration.
And we hope to present an international insight
into a wonderful nation's consciousness which
has been producing exciting and unique art for
1000's of years.
Art Exhibition opens Thursday 3rd Nov: with
special performances by Marnie Scarlet Syban
Maria Almena& Korero Book Launch, MEXICAN
GRAPHICS. We will count also with Korero's
SKULLFACE & THE DAY OF THE DEAD : El dia de los
muertos books.
Special appearances from LUCHA BRITANNIA
wrestlers.
Artists:
Skot Reynols aka Grave Industries
Chris Sutton aka Artmafia
Marnie Scarlet
Esther Perez Ramirez
Angela Edwards
Deborah Griffin
Susi Brox Nilsen
Ella Guru
Estelle Riviere aka Monsterlune
Frodo47 / Javier S. Sañudo
Ian Ward
Jason Atomic
Kate Lomax
Krzyztof Wlodarski
Tom Spencer
Miranda Barrie
Oly Kenna
Pelin Santilli
Zed Desideraja
Istvan Nyari
Adam Bloom
Jess De Wahls
Dario Vargas
Kate Hawakridge
Syban
Ben Hopper
Doralba Picerno
Emma Hockley
Rebecca Cooper
Tracy Watt
Raw 'Doyle' Meat
Paul Barrow
Jeremy Cross
Jesper Bram
Johnny Stingray
13 Lagrimas
Oldskull4ever
Jojo's Bones
Buddy Nestor
Magda Zon
Anne 'Blondie' Bengard
Gaye Black
More Brains Vicar
Melissa Szeto
Bonnie Baker
Alex Cawkvellian
Synth
Alan Parker
Raul Pina Perez
Maria Almena
Leo Rios Sue Kreitzman
Click for images
Robert Quinn
David Heulun
Izaskun Gonzalez
The Conference Centre St.Pancras Hospital
Preview Night: Thursday 7/4/11 5.00pm - 8.00 pm
Open Monday to Friday: 8/4/11
– 26/5/11 9am – 6pm
Travel: bus 46/214 Tube: Mornington Crescent /
Kings Cross
ANGELS & GHOSTS
& DREAMS & FRAGMENTS
DAN CASADO, CHRIS CZAINSKI, SUE KREITZMAN, LUCY
MARTIN AND JULIA SISI
Five artists,
several of whom recently exhibited in the enormously popular FLASHIER AND
TRASHIER exhibition in the crypt of St Pancras Church in Euston, explore life at
the crossroads where the past embraces the future. The artists present
sculpture, painting, assemblage and line drawing
SUE KREITZMANhas created new memory jugs not seen in public
before that are inspired by the African tradition of objects of mundaneminutiae,cemented
on jugs as memorials to the (recently) departed. These are not necessarily
reverential creations. Instead the artist uses the concept of found objects on
memory jugs to vividly celebrate life and death through the use of vibrant
colours and often shocking and ironic combinations of objects.
JULIA SISIand partnerDAN
CASADOrevel in the
universe of mystic signs and symbols using lines of colour and pattern which
trace the pathways of our collective spiritualised ancestors .Sisi creates
mythical female creatures using strong colours, thick black outlines and
intricate pen strokes while Casado works with a synergistic fusion of word and
image.
LUCY MARTINis a Spanish painter now living in London who
tells the stories of her travels
though life in highly personal fantasies involving text, colour and the
joy of women exercising a wonderful sense of the possibilities of life.
A splash of Spanish sunlight scorches the soil in the sometimes grey maritime
climate of England .
CHRIS CZAINSKIexamines mortality where the soil of the earth
meets the water of our oceans. Vestiges of found objects are bathed in an opaque
ethereal pale glow almost entirely absent of colour. These are the remains of
humanity in a terrain that is hostile but beautiful.
ANGELS & GHOSTS
& DREAMS & FRAGMENTS
is an exhibition
in which art works
suggest how the rich and huge potential of
change can bring enhancement and fulfilment to our lives, Staged
in a health care environment in itself undergoing major
change, this exhibition contemplates how life can
be enriched and enhanced through a
process of loss and regeneration.
Contact:Arts
Project Manager, Peter Herbert
Email: pbherbert@gmail.com
Phone: 020 79168416. Generously supported by The North London NHS Charitable
Fund and other related charities. Registration no: 1053769
Read the Raw Vision Review of The
Flashier and Trashier Show
You are invited to view Sue Kreitzman's photo album:
When Sue Met
Ella, When Ella
Met Sue: Private
View and
Unveiling
Jun 9, 2010
by
suekreitzman
Chicchi's
Cafe//Gallery;
Photos by Looby
Upson
When Ella met Sue
Ella Guru was born in Columbus Ohio, to East Coast
parents who spent 35 years wanting to move back to civilisation. Ella
herself got out of the cornfields as soon as she could, and has now
lived in London for 20 years.
She attended Art College in the US, though took a
few years off art to play in bands when she first arrived in the UK. She
toured extensively with Riot Grrl stars the Voodoo Queens, but soon
returned to painting and sidelined her music; though her band, the
Deptford Beach Babes, and the pubs and clubs where they play, continue
to influence Ella’s painting.
Ella has focused on the figure and portraiture for
most of her career. Since the late 1990s she has been painting intensely
as part of the Stuckist movement. Stuckism was founded in London in 1999
by Charles Thomson and Billy Childish, to advance new figurative
painting with ideas as the most vital artistic means of addressing
contemporary issues.
The "Style" of Stuckism varies from untrained or
"outsider" artists those who have art degrees and paint in a more
realistic manner. It is the spirit that they share, and a vibrant and
sometimes controversial take on modern life, especially the seedier
side.
Ella’s subjects come mainly from people she meets
at London nightclubs or art shows. She enjoys the bright, and the
colourful. Ella once was flown to Germany to paint a young baroness. In
a panic she had to phone a London portrait painter to ask for advice on
mixing a colour. She is so used to more theatrical and dramatic people
that she did not know how paint the lips of someone who does not wear
lipstick
Ella first met Sue at Sue’s exhibition "Wild Old
Women" at the Novas Gallery. Ella was immediately taken by Sue’s slogan
"Don’t wear beige". When Ella first saw Sue’s home she said it was one
of the most amazing museums she had ever seen. The colours, the objects,
the sheer volume of stuff that was so overwhelming yet also harmonious
and well organised, blew Ella away. She just had to paint Sue, with all
her memory jugs, paintings, bright clothes, props and jewellery.
At the time of beginning Sue’s portrait Ella moved
studios. Ella teaches art to the homeless in exchange for studio space
at St Mungo’s hostel in Hackney. Her previous space was being converted
for another purpose. Ella had to give up a large, bright, outside
building, for a smaller, albeit warmer, basement office with only a sky
light.
All art reflects the artist as well as the sitter.
The portrait of Sue is Sue; but there is something of Ella’s studio move
in there. The cramped, cluttered basement room; the upheaval of change;
the urgency of time, colour, pattern. The torment of dividing ones time
between art and family. Creativity thriving in lack of time and space
Sue’s art is bright and beautiful, yet while
painting the picture, Ella found a dark side. Wonder Woman looks pissed
off. The mannequin heads are unique yet stoic; some of the old dolls’
heads are like ghosts of a less comfortable past. If they could talk
what would they say?
In all the detail you find broken lipstick, severed
trinkets, Eve wearing a necklace of apple cores, Josephine Baker with
her skirt of bananas, snakes, paints, brushes, the Virgin Mary in
fervent yet futile prayer above the kitchen sink, and, finally, the
words screaming out in yellow plastic: CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS. I did
not know that "CRISIS" was a comic book. I saw it as sign around the
angry Wonder Woman’s neck, that infinite worlds are all in a state of
calamity, colliding, unstoppable. We frantically create beautiful
objects and adorn ourselves, and the more we do it the more we fear the
time when it will cease to be; while painting I was reaching out towards
my own cataclysm. Change is upon us. We better don Medusa wigs, pick up
our brushes and … do we fight it, or embrace change with open arms? Ride
the wave. And never lose the colour. Sue is an inspiration for women
everywhere. Don’t disappear before your time; you have more to say than
ever before. Stand up. Be proud.
Ella is currently working on a series of clowns and
Mummers, from the Philadelphia New Year’s Day Mummers parade. Ella is
still enjoying bright colours and costumes, questions of identity, and
indeed her own crises on infinite earths.
Ella’s portrait commissions have included the Von
Stockhausen sisters of Lewenhagen Germany, the Manchester Stuckist Chris
Yates, curator Jerzy Jan 'Yorick' Kierkuc-Bielinski and artist Klaus
Wehner, an Alpaca, a Rottweiller and an Indian Runner Duck.
And
Sue met Ella
Sue Kreitzman was born in NYC almost 70 years ago, and - through a
circuitous route, full of surprises - has finally ended up in London's
East End, fervently making art out of found objects.
She began as a bookworm kid with musical inclinations, became, for
awhile, a classical oboist (Sylvia Fine famously wrote of the oboe that
it was "an ill wind, that nobody blows good"), taught school for years
in NYC, followed by Cambridge Massachusetts and finally Atlanta Georgia.
In Atlanta, in the late 60's, Sue entered what had been the
traditionally deeply segregated Atlanta school system, just as
integration was beginning; she was the first white teacher to set foot
in one of the oldest black schools in Atlanta. She taught there for
several years, during which time she was directly responsible for a
program that resulted in free breakfast for every school child in
Georgia. It's a long, profound, and sometimes hilarious story, but that
is for another time.
Motherhood followed and, soon after, an unexpected and intense plunge
into professional cooking and food writing, born of a deep and
obsessive fascination with the art of cookery. You name it in the food
biz, and Sue has done it: bistro cook, caterer, food editor, restaurant
reviewer, and the creation of many, many cookbooks.In the 80's Sue and
family moved to the UK when her husband was offered a science research
position at Cambridge University. In England, Sue's food career
blossomed into more (best selling) cookbooks, food demos and classes
around the world, a few regular daytime cookery series - first on the
BBC, then GMTV - and a brief fling of minor TV daytime cook celebrity.
During all of this activity, Sue harboured an extreme passion for
colour and for Folk and Tribal Art of all kinds. And she collected (from
childhood on) hoards of fascinating junk; her homes were always
Technicolor, clashing and cluttered, and her clothes were eccentric,
bright and lively, sometimes to the point of actual weirdness. She loved
art, but constantly lamented the fact that she had no talent for it
whatsoever; couldn't draw, couldn't paint, couldn't' sculpt, couldn't
even doodle worth a damn. But about 12 years ago, a metaphorical bolt of
lightening struck Sue, and she suddenly and mysteriously stopped cooking
and started painting. In addition, she started crafting 'memory
jugs' (three dimensional, object - studded portraits of imaginary and
mythological creatures). After 27 cookbooks, and a lively and long
lived cookery career, wooden spoons were abandoned, and paint brushes
appeared. No art lessons, no carefully considered arguments about one
career choice versus another, she simply burst into art - much like
bursting into flames. With no warning at all, she turned into another
person entirely.
Sue saw Ella Guru's work long
before the two women actually met, and was completely entranced by the
colour, the vivid life, the texture of London' seedy yet cheerful
nightlife. Transvestites, burlesque queens, cabaret performers, costumed
revellers of all kinds, burst into raucous existence on Ella's canvases.
And let's not forget the severed heads, the snakes, the scary clowns,
the conjoined twins; all painted so exquisitely, all poised to leap off
the canvas to engulf the stunned viewer.
When the two finally met face to face, they
immediately clicked. Oh the excitement when Ella asked if she could
paint Sue's portrait, surrounded by her memory jugs. Ella really
understood Sue’s work; she glimpsed the darkness below the colour and
the glitz. And Sue, in turn, has immortalised Ella and her daughter Lucy
in a pair of memory jugs that capture the richness of Lucy's unique
childhood, and Ella's even richer (and very unique) imagination. All the
mythology, magic and glorious strangeness is there, spelled out in found
objects and glitter.
Sue Kreitzman's Valentine Wundow BlogYou are invited to
view the Off Broadway Boutique's February 2010 Window - click image above, or
click on link left to view the story of the window on the Boutique's Blog.
Sue Kreitzman's Memory Jugs, featured in the
February (Valentine's Day) window of the Off Broadway
Boutique,
72nd Street, between Broadway and Columbus
Ave, Manhattan, NYC
Public Events IN 2009
This exhibition, featuring one
of Sue's early paintings (see
the image on the poster), is
on in Meyenburg (East Germany)
between Hamburg and Berlin until
2.October, 2009.
There is a
myth that women slowly begin to disappear as they age. After fifty, they begin
to fade away, in their sixties, they become fairly ineffectual, and by the time
they reach their seventies, they have achieved total invisibility. What an
absurd, vicious and laughable rumour; what UTTER NONSENSE!
We are
loud, we are raucous and we are thrillingly, vividly visible. This
winter, we will fill Novas Gallery with our art - SE1 will never be the same.
Come
view our weird assemblages, powerful paintings, profoundcollage and spectacular sculptures. Marvel at our stitched creatures;
glittering goddesses built of detritus; a tiny yurt; and a giant Medusa.
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll revel in our amazing visions, colourful
whimsies and deep perceptions.
We
have big ideas, we have been around for awhile, and we are outsider artists, so
we do things exactly as we please. Ignore us at your
peril!
My
work is completely untutored, intensely personal and involves colour, food,
freedom and the female landscape: imagined Goddesses, glimpsed strangers, close
friends, personal female heroines, self portraits, all surrounded by
symbols from my inner life. Images created with passion can take
on immense power. Some of my work has, I strongly believe, the same sort of power,
presence, and ability to alter one's mental state (to the good) that
is sometimes found in religious folk art and tribal art. Many of the
works are embellished with buttons, broken jewellery, toys, and other bits of
profound junk. Half my time is spent obsessively trawling for junk, and the
other half, obsessively putting it all together.
Read the Review of the Raw
Arts Festival in Raw Vision Magazine
A MEMORABLE EXHIBITION!
The Raw Arts Festival is now over, and has entered into
history, indeed it is taking on the status of legend. Many friendships were
made, many contacts forged, and the art was electrifying, stunning and
unforgettable. I personally cooked a gorgeous (if I
say so myself) lunch for all 70 artists on hanging day, and we all inspired and
delighted each other and the viewers who wandered in to take a peek at all the
excitement.
MORE
EVENTS
Art 4 People
19-21 August 2005
Powder Mill Barn
32 South Maple Street
Enfield, Connecticut
This summer art fair promises to be
a colourful and exuberant happening.
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festival
of modern art & ideas
Designed
to reconnect contemporary creators with the community,
"The Art 4 People Festival" will feature the original work of
over
twenty international artists. Many of the exhibiting artists will be at
the show to personally meet visitors (for more information on who
will be there, click on the Featured Artists link below).
The exhibit is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
August
19-21, 2005 Opening
Night, Fri. 5-9
Sat. & Sun. 10-6 Open
Mic Sat. Night 6-10
Powder
Mill Barn,
32 South Maple Street
Enfield CT - USA
sue kreitzman
I am an expatriate New Yorker,
living in London for many years. I've had a long and relatively
successful career as a food writer, but several years ago something
happened (I'm still not sure
what) and I stopped writing and cooking, and began drawing and painting
instead. It was
almost as if a violent fever had overtaken me (a fever which still rages),
made all the more
mysterious by the fact that I had never done such a thing before. My work
is completely untutored
(as far as technique and materials are concerned, I make it up as I go
along), intensely
personal and involves colour, food, freedom and the female landscape. I
paint imagined
Goddesses, glimpsed strangers, close friends, my personal female heroines,
both real and
mythological - (Josephine Baker, Frida Kahlo, Eve, Medusa...) - and self
portraits, and I surround
these powerful female images with symbols from my inner life. I am
deeply moved by primitive
religious art and tribal art of all kinds. Images and objects that have
been created with passion
take on immense power. . Some of my work has, I strongly believe,
the same sort of power,
presence, and ability to alter one's mental state that is sometimes found
in such art.
I paint on paper or on wood, with nail
varnish. Many of the works on wood are
embellished with buttons, broken jewelry,
toys, and other bits of profound junk (I have
a deep and abiding passion for profound
junk). Half my time is spent obsessively
trawling for junk, and the other half,
obsessively putting it all together.I have had
several one woman shows, and been part
of many group shows including the
legendary Raw Art Fair 2005 in London. My
work appears in collections in the UK, the
USA, Paris, Germany and Italy. At this time I'm
painting, and creating assemblages, for
the sheer visceral joy of it. The enormous
impact it has had on my life has turned me
into another person entirely.
INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLAGE ARTIST'S EXHIBITION
DIVA, Sue Kreitzman
29 September - 25 October 2005
GALLERY
twenty-four / Berlin,
Krossener
Strasse 34, 10245 Berlin Tel/Fax (030) 516 583 53
You are invited to view
the web album: Painted Ladies
Click on picture above
Painted
Ladies
Sue
Kreitzman
Goddesses,
heroines and the female landscape
&
Karin van
der Plas
Quirky
and personal visions of mythology and history
PRESS
RELEASE
17th
– 30th July 2006
Sue
Kreitzman uses nail varnish to paint glittering, iridescent female creatures
bedecked with jewels, fripperies and found objects. Karin van der Plas reinvents
history and mythology with oil on canvas portraying sweeping sagas, from
Norse to Napoleon, with wit and vivid imagery.
The
two met whilst exhibiting at an art fair, and have become close friends,
constantly trying to outdo each other in colourful storytelling, amidst much
exuberant laughter and tomfoolery. 'Raw' (untutored,
outside the establishment) artists, their work has few constraints; they
tend to think outside the box, and make up their own techniques as they
obsessively experiment with unexpected media. Sue and Karin - raw , untutored,
obsessive - are united in their need to express their weird and
wonderful private mythologies wherever and whenever they can. In July,
they share their inner visions with the outside world.
My
work is completely untutored, intensely personal and involves colour, food,
freedom and the female landscape: imagined Goddesses, glimpsed strangers, close
friends, personal female heroines, self portraits, all surrounded by
symbols from my inner life. Images created with passion can take
on immense power. Some of my work has, I strongly believe, the same sort of power,
presence, and ability to alter one's mental state (to the good) that
is sometimes found in religious folk art and tribal art. Many of the
works are embellished with buttons, broken jewellery, toys, and other bits of
profound junk. Half my time is spent obsessively trawling for junk, and the
other half, obsessively putting it all together.
