Life Cafe: Art Life > East Village

The East Village Life Café, having a long-established tradition as an arts-supporting “bohemian café”, is proud to announce a series of exhibitions of work by young and emerging artists from Bushwick, Brooklyn.

Bushwick, where the second and younger Life Café is located, has taken over where the East village left off, as the new and dynamic arts colony in New York City.

In that spirit, we are now offering selected artists who’ve exhibited their work at the Bushwick Life Café the opportunity for an exhibition in Manhattan. This exciting transfer of venues we’re calling ‘The Bushwick Bridge”.

The “Bridge” exhibition program continues to be varied and eclectic, reflecting the broad spectrum of visual arts, media and styles to be found across the East River from Manhattan.

If you’re interested in showing at Life Café please contact:

j.g.sunderland1@mac.com


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THE ART BATTLE

a review by John Sunderland, Life Café Bushwick

950 HART GALLERY

Match One: In the left Corner Antoinette Johnson, in the right Mikki Nylund.
What is the Art Battle? It’s an interesting concept, female and male, one each side of our twenty two foot long wall at Life Café, Bushwick, actually not a wall any more but an arena.

Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, so said John Gray in his best selling book. So when I watched this show being put up this morning I wondered what would be the difference visualized; you know soft female fluffy sensitive stuff on one side and aggressive hard-on masculine muscle painting on the other?

Judge for yourselves, because that’s what this is about, an artistic battle of the sexes; a different gender based way of seeing the world? Interesting question, through looking at male and female produced art will we better understand each other and our sexuality and how it effects our vision of our world experience?

Personally, I found that the work displayed was the opposite of what might have been stereoscopically expected. Mikki’s work at first look is full of cats and cuddles,even if the cuddlers are a bit odd, even by Bushwick standards; a Chagall-esque dream world; softly disturbing, but not nightmarish; like dream images you would be happy to remember.

Antoinette’s paintings are she as she sees herself (my words), powerful, unique and fantastic, naked and armored; an Amazonian female capable of tearing herself to bits if required. There she is, tall and strong, like an alien princess come to earth, strutting as proudly as a dandy cock!

As I said, go judge for yourselves; the show is a lot of fun and the work is a summer fizz of delight.

The Art Battle between members of 950 Hart Gallery, continues throughout July atLife Café 983, Bushwick.


Posted on July 1st, 2011 by Life Cafe | permalink
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Life Cafe East Village Salon Artist October 2010

JR Delia

JR Delia

opening reception thursday oct, 21 2010

7pm-10pm

JR Delia photographs

JR Delia began his career as a musician. He learned string bass at age seven, and later trained with the New York Philharmonic’s former principal bassist, earned a Masters in music at Yale, and played nearly 2000 concerts. Then, in 1995, a good friend introduced him to the art of photography.

Completely fascinated by the camera, JR began assisting some of the world’s best fashion, still life, and celebrity photographers. On his own, he experimented heavily with a variety of unconventional shooting techniques and in 2004 he moved to Milan to begin his own photography career. Making his way to Paris, and then London, JR eventually began shooting regularly for clients including Harper’s Bazaar and Tank Magazine.

Now back home in New York, JR is showing a collection of his early work – long exposures of NYC venues, many of them taken just blocks away from Life Cafe – as a tribute to the city, the space of his transition from the world of music to a world of pictures.

JRdelia.com


Posted on October 13th, 2010 by Life Cafe | permalink
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Art Life Salon East Village

Artist of the Month for MAY

In May, Artist Anneli Curnock, Will be showing a small selection of her work at Life Cafe in the East Village.


‘I paint raw emotion. These are feelings that i don’t always understand,
but they are honest. I paint from the core. And only when i am moved.’


Born in Painesville OH. Ani moved to New York in 2004 to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Although she has been somewhat of an artist since she can remember, she began to seriously paint in 2007. Her Art work has been shown at Twist Hair Salon in Orlando Florida, The Brooklyn Tea Lounge, The Brooklyn Bike Shop, MUSE Skate Shop in New London Conneticut, The Dumbo Arts Center. and most recently at Imhotepstudio and Sucre Jazz Cafe in Bedstuy.
Her artwork was also featured at the Essential Music and Art Event in SoHo in January.

Posted on May 7th, 2010 by Life Cafe | permalink
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