HUDSON COUNTY ART SLAM

Grant Wiley

2008-11-26T13:12:00.000-08:00

The Immortal Flight--- We live in a time and age of lost control and
lost souls. The powers that be destroy and murder just to further
their power over people like you and me. No matter who is pulling the
strings which remains a mystery, they are going to sip their martinis
and laugh at the disease that they have helped create. The only choice
we have is to rise above and passed the societal brainwash that they
teach. Each individual has been born with the right to stand up and
fight for the love that is implanted in our chests. The right to dig
deep and find that soul that no matter how little control we have over
the world, the change starts inside you and me. We are all destined
for immortality, just follow the light.

(M. A.) Saint

2008-11-26T13:07:00.000-08:00

Eve Mendez-Fritze

2008-11-26T13:06:00.000-08:00

New York City is one of the most viewed cities in the world, especially through photography. Postcards, snapshots, and advertisements have enveloped this massive, breathing city in frozen mementos of vivid color. A city that is undeniably full of life with its busy streets, blinking lights, waves of sounds and smells can carry a ship or drown it. This is the New York that most know. I hope to create an alternate perspective with these images; photographically reveal the hidden pieces, moments and movements that are often overlooked or not believed to exist. “Solipsist” is a break down of Manhattan, offering only a rat's eye view of a not so sunny day along the avenues.

Setting a Diana+ camera on the ground, I randomly clicked the shutter in search of the existence of the quiet spaces. Using the little plastic camera to record the fleeting seconds of silence, slow motion, and self awareness in relation to the metropolis; A post it note, a mid-week epiphany to the nine to fivers, the dreamers, every inhabitant rushing to get to one end of the island or another, to stop. Stop.

Manhattan isn't alive, the people in it are. The city is just a bed consumed with lovers.

Matt Fricovsky

2008-11-26T13:02:00.000-08:00

Artisticspecimen.com
The focus of my work is on the colors and illusions of movement, depth, and luminosity that are common to most of my work. It has been described as sci-fi abstracted, quasi-organic form. Important influences on my work are Boris Vallejo and H.R. Giger.

I do not try to communicate underlying messages, but rather wish the viewer to discover his/her own connection and interpretation of my work. There are no messages or hidden agendas. I usually don't set out knowing exactly what my work is going to look like, but am most comfortable watching where my hands take me - much like getting into a trance. It’s mostly just inspired by my imagination. I’m not interested in changing what art "means" or fitting into some kind of cultural or "style" category, but strive to follow my internal guidance, and my feelings. If other people end up liking my work, it's an added bonus. I’m not saying this is the best and only way to approach creation - it's just the way I work and produce best and I've discovered through my own experience that my work speaks most clearly when I let it speak on its own.

Sharon Harvey

2008-11-26T12:51:00.002-08:00

www.sharonharvey.net

Growing up in Bayonne New Jersey wasn’t the ideal environment for nature photography. It also doesn’t provide a good environment for a voice over talent, considering the heavy “Jerseyesque” dialect that surrounded my ears.

But despite being raised looking at chemical tanks and listening to “See ya”, and “How you doin”, I managed to see beyond the industrial barriers to the beautiful organic soul of my surroundings.

Caridad Rivera

2008-11-26T12:51:00.001-08:00

The voyage of the mind is quite special. It allows us to open doors and visit places we did not think were possible. It makes us feel human and sometimes more. You can feed your head while wild flowers talked to you for hours, nothing more but a terrestial dream, dancing stars on a red sky and then soon you were living a painting. Wather molecules become waterfalls and bedroom portals peacfully invite you. You speak in colors you think in words. Tricks are trickier, while the world a wicked chase. The visuals of crawling geometric colored patterns behind the eyes play lead in the journey, following a sense of time distorting, and raw mental penetration. The voyage leads to disintegration and restructuring of the historical personality. Its a sane insanity creating a mental state regarding the nature of your own personality with a greater sense of choice and the divine. Your ass will follow when you free your mind, so take a trip and multiply.

Felix Gosse

2008-11-26T12:47:00.000-08:00

Isaac & Gabriel Fortoul

2008-11-26T12:32:00.000-08:00

www.fortoulpresents.com

Isaac & Gabriel Fortoul are exponents of today's underground art scene, emerging from the streets of urban America. These prolific brothers have collaborated on a wonderful sculpture they will be presenting for the Hudson County Art Slam.

Log onto their website for upcoming events and to take a peak at their extensive clothing line.

James Cardona

2008-11-26T12:31:00.000-08:00

Christine Goodman

2008-11-24T08:51:00.000-08:00

My first childhood memory is of sitting on my father's drafting table,
attempting to scribble on a piece of paper while my dad sketched for
hours on end. When I got older, we would wander around sculpture
gardens with a picnic basket and drawing pads, or set up a still life
scene to paint together in the basement. This was sacred time for me
and ultimately, it was about building a strong artistic bond with my
father. When I consider the work I'm creating now, I see the impact
those years have had. My artwork is always about connection. Whether
exploring my personal connection to the world, or the connections we
make (and fail to make) to one another as human beings, my work
reflects the bonds that bring us together -- and break us apart.

Kristina Scheetz

2008-11-20T12:33:00.000-08:00

www.kristinascheetz.com

Kristina Scheetz Rible is a local artist that has never shown her work in a Jersey City gallery. Although she spent most of her adult life moving around Brooklyn escaping the swing of the wrecking ball, she has now settled in Downtown Jersey City for over three years. She has a small studio in her apartment on Wayne Street and is currently working as a full time Art Teacher in a charter school in Westfield, NJ. Kristina has her studio art degree from Hunter College in NYC. She also holds degrees from NYU and most recently earned her masters degree in art education from Kean University in New Jersey. She is a sculptor, a painter, and a photographer. Her favorite medium is ceramics and her work in this area usually focuses on dark subjects, including a creepy puppet that chain smokes, barren trees, a human organ with eyelashes, and sewn together flesh-like clay.

Kosher Howey

2008-11-19T13:15:00.000-08:00

Started up again w/ Stickers that said "God says Hi" then to stickers that said "Have Faith" with KH signed under the message. This was all done to motivate people that our lord is with them and to have faith in making dreams and ideas come true. Later 11x17 mini posters of Hulk Hogan and the message "Have Faith, You can do it" were pasted up all around lower Manhattan and caught the eye of many street art photographers.Then history was made when Hebrew was incorperated into "street art" and "Graffiti" for the first time in the United States. No one by HK1 (Kosher Howey Won)has incorperated Hebrew into street art and graffiti. Oh, I went to an expensive private art and design school and was thrown out because I would not follow their directions and went against the grain or art and design.

Bora Chung

2008-11-19T11:43:00.000-08:00

The title is "heaven and Hell", size is 6x16 inches.
I don't really have a website but I have a blog that I just update from time to time. http://bunnicharm.blogspot.com/

Cristina Villaflor

2008-11-19T08:23:00.000-08:00

grey.fotograff@gmail.com

Cristina Villaflor was born in Cebu City, Philippines and raised in Jersey City, NJ. While she studied fine art photography in NJCU, she was also the photo-editor for an award-winning college newspaper, The Gothic Times, where she won multiple awards in photojournalism. Her works has been featured in several magazines, on non-for profit organization publications and as promotions for music artists. She is currently a freelance photographer and resides in Jersey City with her two dogs.

MIKE JAEGER

2008-11-18T07:28:00.001-08:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikejaeger/

Michael Jaeger was born and raised in Secaucus, NJ. He received a B.A. in graphic design at NJCU.

Though very minimalist lines can break open a space or Idea. As Barnett Newman20coined the word "Zips" to describe many of his lines in his paintings the line can bring upon many emotions. The basic Ideas of these two paintings allow the viewer to actually be drawn into it. The lines and space within can be perceived differently by whoever views it, but still at the same time are just l ines within a canvas.

Within this photo montage are different shots of the cities buildings in different lights with a fisheye lens. Each shot is of a different building and perspective looking up. Even though each picture is different they all have the same prevalent feeling, just how small we are in this little world of ours.

WASE

2008-11-18T07:23:00.000-08:00

wastedamountofspace.blogspot.com

My name is "WASE" aka WASTED" I'm in a very dark period of my life and I was able to find the strength to convey my feelings through canvas. I found relief through spray cans, acrylics, brushes and markers. The artwork I am currently displaying is part of a series titled "I STILL LOVE HERS". These paintings represent heartache and how I translate that impact in my life onto canvas.

I would like to dedicate my paintings to HERS…….

HANK YAGHOOTI

2008-11-18T07:22:00.000-08:00

www.isitandthink.com

My work focuses on imagination ... my imagination is in the fantastic.

I work in many mediums but oil and acrylic painting are magnetic. I derive much of my influence from music, human behavior and other artists.

Lissanne Lake

2008-11-18T07:20:00.000-08:00

My life as an artist began as a toddler when I was given a box of crayons
and methodically melted them one by one on the radiator to
see the colors run. I have grown into more conventional mediums, but still kept my love of color.
Telling stories through paint has always been my way, I am an illustrator by nature. I have always been interested in photo-realism incorporating the themes of antiquity and paradox.
Most of my work utilizes representations of living figures, whether realistic or decorative, in combination with still life subjects. This is
in order to celebrate the juxtaposition of the transient and the eternal. Art is one of the few ways I feel we have to extend the brevity of the human lifespan, and potentially touch the future.

Judy Hazelgreen

2008-11-17T11:12:00.000-08:00

I love to fill my heart up to the tippy top with all the love and pain life shall bring..... Then just slap it onto a canvas. I've been an artist since diaper days, and I feel I haven't even started yet. I'm in love with learning all I possibly can in the art world!!!

Jeanne Brasile

2008-11-17T10:46:00.000-08:00

Jeanne's Website

The oil paintings from this series, entitled "Shades of Meaning", reflect my interest in the visual nuance of color and the numerous lingual connotations that can attributed to each hue. By integrating stenciled words and a flat ground of saturated paint, I focus attention on the relationship between color and language, eliminating any pictorial context. In doing so I draw attention to the potency with which language and color influence our perceptions. Collectively viewed, these paintings examine the multiplicity of symbolic and vernacular language associated with a specific color. I began this series after meditating upon the color green, realizing that in the English language I could immediately associate ten words with this shade. This series has since grown to become an analysis of eleven different colors and over 50 words associated with them.

Maria Rubio

2008-10-27T11:57:00.000-07:00

www.empresdesigns.com

"Passion is what drives me, it is the fuel for my art. Music fuels part of my passion.

It is the music that moves my soul and fills my canvases. It is through the art that I find my freedom of expression. Art is a form of therapy to me, I feel so lucky to be able to express those feelings that typically end up bottled in, and put them on canvas, paper, wood, etc..."

Alex Finger

2008-10-27T11:52:00.000-07:00

www.alexladydesigns.blogspot.com

Alex Finger of Jersey City Heights recently launched Alexlady Designs, her line of unique handmade jewelry. Much of her work involves intricate wrapping of sterling silver wire, as well as hand-forging silver for earrings and necklaces. "Working with jewelry is very meditative for me, very theraputic. There's much love in every design. " Find Alexlady Designs's virtual store at www.alexladydesigns.etsy.com, or check out her blog for updates and North Jersey arts happenings! www.alexladydesigns.blogspot.com

Bobby Travieso

2008-10-23T09:35:00.000-07:00

http://homepage.mac.com/hairyhand/PhotoAlbum25.html

Hello! My name is Bobby Travieso, better known in the wacky, funk world of art as 'Hairy Hand'! I started out as a cartoonist but as much as I enjoyed it it was inevitable that I would 'experiment' and branch out to what I call FUNK art. That's where anything goes! Mediums as well as subjects. They all fall under one category...humor!

Kurtis Watkins

2008-10-23T09:27:00.000-07:00

www.kurtiswatkins.com

I always knew that I wanted to be an artist when I grew up, but I almost chose a different path in life. Thankfully, I made a choice and decided to dedicate my life to becoming an artist. I took Ownership of that decision and even through painful opposition, I followed my heart.

Sarah Detweiler

2008-10-23T09:23:00.000-07:00

www.sarahdetweiler.com

Painting is the mixing together of what I know with who I am, and always growing closer to the artist I will be remembered for. My paintings reveal the very sentiment that I feel at that very moment. Creating art offers my emotions to life. It is my catharsis…

Roxana Marroquin

2008-10-18T12:41:00.001-07:00