MARTIN WHATSON TATTOO SKIN
She finds a niche in the tribe by taking up the bone needle and learning to tattoo, working on her own skin and on the tribe. This is the first of many shocking developments, closely followed by the second: they are abandoned on their little island and must make a life for themselves in this foreign culture, surrounded by primitives who despise them. The islanders decide that if these intruders want their art so much, they will give it to them- Sara and Philip are forcibly tattooed with the facial marks the islanders consider to be art form, mark of character and personal narrative.
Cultural clashes and inopportune tragedy turn the Ta’un’uuans against Sara and Philip. When Philip finds a sponsor for a trip to the South Seas to collect tribal masks to sell as primitive art, it looks like the answer to their financial problems and the adventure of a lifetime. She is Jewish and bohemian, artist and anarchist, and completely in thrall to her lover, Philip, a far less talented avant-garde artist turned art dealer who loses everything in the Depression. The group exhibition includes works by 1010, Aaron Nagel, Alex Garant, Alexis, Diaz, Allison Sommers, Amy Sol, Bec Winnel, Benjamin Garcia, Cinta Vidal, Craig ‘Skibs’ Barker, Curiot, Daniel Bilodeau, David Cooley, David Rice, Derek Gores, Dulk, Erik Siador, Ernest Zacharevic, Fernando Chamarelli, Frank Gonzales, Ian Francis, Icy and Sot, James Bullough, Joel Daniel Phillips, Jolene Lai, Juan Travieso, Kelly Vivanco, Kevin Peterson, Lauren Brevner, Linnea Strid, Liz Brizzi, Marco Mazzoni, Martin Whatson, Mary Iverson, Meggs, Michael Reeder, Molly Gruninger, Rodrigo Luff, Sarah Joncas, Sepe, Sergio Garcia, Stephanie Buer, Telmo Miel, Tran Nguyen, Wiley Wallace, and Yosuke Ueno.Young Sara Ehrenreich is in love in New York City. The potential of representation inspires these artists to draw from popular and countercultural sources like music, illustration, comics, design, tattoo culture, skate culture and the like, looking to the outside world rather than to the more selfreferential gestures that typify that of fine art.įlourish features a project room installation by Felipe Pantone, and site-specific murals by Esao Andrews and Nosego. Inclusive and diverse, several styles, media, and exhibition platforms fall within the Movement's now widely cast net. Largely self-supported and community-driven since the 90s, the New Contemporary Art Movement has been steadily gaining in international recognition over the past decade and is now widely recognized as both the largest and longest running art movement in history. The Movement is loosely defined by its shared interest in the social rather than the abstract or conceptual.
Though seemingly disparate, these genres are all linked by a vibrant community, multiple stylistic allegiances, and a return to the expressive possibilities of figurative and representational content, driven by a more populist sensibility. Working in a variety of stylistic veins, New Contemporary Art includes everything from Pop Surrealism, Muralism, Installation and Street Art, to Graffiti, Hyperrealism, Illustration, and Portraiture. Flourish, a group exhibition featuring works by artists belonging to the New Contemporary Art Movement, will be curated by Thinkspace gallery and showed at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum.
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