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.
Life Cafe 983 Salon Artist for MAY
JANINE DUPREE
Photography has been a hobby for as long as Janine Dupree can remember and for the most part is entirely self-taught. She credits her ability to learn the craft to her father, who always challenged her to look at the world from a slightly different perspective.
In addition to taking photos whenever she can, Janine works full time as a corporate event manager, organizing conferences and meetings throughout the United States. Although she has stated that she will always be a Philadelphian at heart, she currently claims New York City as her home.
Life with… Figit & the Weed
New Riddle Raffle @ Life Cafe 983
Can you guess what menu item this represents? Come in and submit your answer and you may win a bottle of champagne or other prizes.
ARTLIFE Impressions @ Life Cafe 983
Tales From a Wildlife Special 
BENJAMIN FERGUSONS’
by John Sunderland
Benjamin Fergusons’ exhibit at Life Café, Bushwick, throughout March 2010, as part of our ongoing showcase of emergent artists, presents an alternative zoology of amorphous biological and physical forms which appear to writhe and dance across the seven canvasses in the series.
The background appears to be not the buffs and beige of a wild-life populated Serengeti plane, but the grays and dulls of an urban landscape. Upon this stage his proto-life forms appear to dance, form, dissolve and form again in some form of convergent co-existence.
Fergusons’ urban stage is populated by devils and demons, angels, robots, birds and other wildlife alongside human forms which morph into a dreamscape reminiscent of Breugel the Elder and curiously, the flat world of Egyptian hieroglyphs. The artist takes us into a non-defined realm, which appears poisoned and tortured; but make up your own mind, in his visionary world you will see what you will see.
Altogether, this is a dynamic and original show; one to look deeply at and into. But beware, it’s altogether possible after a couple of drinks, that you may meet your own version of paradise or worse discover half-remembered nightmares lurking there.
*All works are for sale.
(See more of the artists’ work at www.wildlifespecial.net)
