First Friday!!!!!
***For Immediate Release. Please contact Amy Young 602.334.6299 for any pre-show sale inquiries/questions***
First Friday, September 1st
Perihelion Arts
(address and contact information at very end of email)
Presents
Particularities: A Celebration of Perspectives
Featuring exceptional paintings by:
Travis Louie (NY)
Brendan Danielsson (GA)
&
Mark Elliot (NY)
*****(Artwork Below)*****
Opening Reception:
7 p.m. - Midnight
with Travis and Mark on hand all evening-please come and meet them and learn about their interesting work.
Travis Louie
When I was about 5 years old, I wanted to be King Kong. I wanted to climb the Empire State Building, clutching a beautiful little blond woman, while bi-planes circled around me trying to shoot my hairy ass down. Fortunately, I never acted any of that out. Most of my early childhood in New York, was spent making drawings and watching "atomic age" sci-fi and horror movies. So many Saturday afternoons included trips to the local comic shops and noon matinees at the RKO Keith's on Northern Blvd, marveling at the 1950's memorabilia; the rocket ships, the superheroes, the giant monsters, and those wonderful movie posters! I would try and draw as much as I could remember from those excursions.
It was my grandfather who noticed my enthusiasm for art. He encouraged it, by taking me to museums, buying me art supplies and eventually building my first drawing table. I think I was 12 when I decided that I wanted to be an artist when I grew up.
After high school, my formal art training was at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. When I graduated in 1990 with a BFA in Communication Design, I started doing freelance illustration work for various clients, including National Westminster Bank, LILCO, Chemical Bank, Esquire Records, Showtime Video, Doubleday publishing, etc, while also creating murals for restaurants, movie theatres, and banners for Kawasaki Motorcycles.
My work has appeared in:
Spectrum Book 5, Book 6, Book 7, Book 11 and
Spectrum Book 12 (gold medal winner for "Goblin in Formal Dress circa 1893")
2006-1992 Selected Exhibitions
Roq La Rue Gallery, Seattle, Wa
Copro Nason Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca
La Luz De Jesus, Los Angeles, Ca
William Baczek Fine Arts, Northampton, MA
Fuse Gallery, New York, NY
Art Basel/POP ART Studios, Miami, Fla
Hope Gallery, New Haven, Ct
Williamsburg Art & Historical Society, Brooklyn, NY
Stanfordville Public Library, Stanfordville, NY
West 30th Gallery, New York, NY
Meridian Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY
Warde-Nasse Gallery, New York, NY
East Meadow Public Library, East Meadow, NY
Voodoo Gallery, New York, NY
Brendan Danielsson
Brendan Danielsson’s paintings inspire imaginative conclusions--on how they were conceived and what scenario, if any, the work is derived from and/or conveying. Born in the small town of Springfield, Missouri, he left after high school to attend the prestigious Ringling School of Art and Design, in Florida. It was there that he met his talented girlfriend and upon graduation they relocated to Atlanta. After taking a few years to pursue things other than art, Brendan jumped back into the swing of things by creating the website Art Dorks and has been painting his humorously dark and impeccable pieces ever since.
EXHIBITIONS
2006
Picks of the Harvest: Batch Three - group show - Thinkspace, Los Angeles
Lions, Tigers, Bears, Etc. - group show - Wootini, Carrboro, NC
Cohorts & Accomplices - group show - M Modern Gallery, Palm Springs, CA
Unforgiving - group show - The Changing Room, NYC
That New Dork Smell - group show - Toyroom Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Swear to Save CBGB's - group show - CB's 313 Gallery, NYC
Dirty Show 7 - group show - Detroit, MI
Art Dorks SMASH! - group show - Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005
Curious Organism - group show- Hope Gallery ,New Haven, CT
Dead Man's Party - group show- Hope Gallery ,New Haven, CT
Sk8 or Die II - group show - Youngblood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Culture Shock - group show - Pop Art Studios, Miami, FL
5x5, Inside - group show- Hope Gallery ,New Haven, CT
Monsters of Lowbrow - group show - Pop Art Studios, Miami, FL
2004
Art Dorks - group show - Art Farm, Atlanta, GA
Mark Elliot
As a child, Mark Elliott was overly impressed with
Fleischer Popeye cartoons, Norman Rockwell, and
anything involving dinosaurs. The dinosaurs he would
draw life-sized on taped-together shirt boards in the
living room. He then graduated from the School of
Visual Arts with a BFA in Illustration in 1990. He has
since illustrated numerous book covers for Harper
Collins. Scholastic, Knopf, Clarion Books, and Holiday
House. He is also the illustrator for the picture
books 'Grandpa Has a Great Big Face' and 'The Candle
in the Window' for Baker Bookhouse.
His work has been exhibited at the Society of
Illustrators, The Art director's Guild, shows at the
Fuse Gallery (NYC), La Luz de Jesus (L.A.), Hope Gallery, and the
Toyroom Gallery. He also has appeared in several
Spectrum and Society of Illustrators annuals.
His art is influenced by a garden salad mix of
N.C. Wyeth, Maxfield Parrish, Vermeer, and the master
of notan Ernie Bushmiller. He currently resides at
Heron Hollow in the Hudson River Valley.
