Design Crib™ houses 2 core artists.
We invite you to explore our portfolios
to see what each artist contributes to
the unique art....all in one crib.
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Design Crib™ is currently featuring the following visiting artists:
Frauke Bergemann . Germany
Frauke Bergemann pursues her photography from a pronounced subjective point of view, connecting the supposedly objective perception of photography with the viewer’s own experience of seeing. The result of complex inner processes in search of a more comprehensive expression, Bergeman’s work includes the flowing transition of different perspectives, a sharpness of focus throughout and
the simulation of higher proximity of certain objects which leads us to perceive things both individually and within the whole. Since 2000 the streets and buildings of Berlin have provided inspiration and a venue in which to process and express her photographic vision.
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Rock Soup . NYC . New Jersey
From an Art Collective to a powerful voice for the arts community, Rocksoup delivers the public new ways to explore contemporary art by emphasizing collaboration and exploration. By using the talents of the collective “pot they stir up interest in the arts by bringing outsiders in and the insiders out through a variety of showcasing events, publications and special projects.
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John Fathom
John Fathom’s paintings are made to elicit creative images from our subconscious, the way clouds and swirls provoke our imagination. Each painting pulls images directly from the observer’s unconscious through twists and turns of paint and metamorphosis of color, giving the observer a glimpse into a world of energies and impulses. ”My work is meant to hijack your imagination and take you deep into the world that exists beneath the painted surface.” The intention is to enrich a darkened environment and command your attention. I use a variety of scraping tools, my fingers and brushes with wet paint on a backlit surface to allow light to envelop and expose the color and a themes true essence.
jfathomj@yahoo.com
Jfathom.com
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Jose Mertz
Jose Mertz’s drawings and painted images express what he calls the “immediate mind,” in search and discovery of its “realness.” The need to represent this “awakening” is what led him to the creation of this work.
mertz@leemer.org
www.leemer.org
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Megan Klim's
Megan Klim’s wax and ink pieces veer towards an obsessive quality. They are
built with repeated shapes- in most cases circles. Each circle is different
–some connected, some overlapping, some are joined to others, some are alone.
This work is about gesture vs. structure, transparent vs. opaque. I view these
as states of being that can reference the many aspects of the human condition.
A Jersey City artist, Megan Klim received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1993. Klim has shown extensively in the tri-state area. She has received a number of awards including a fellowship to the Millay Colony as well as “Best In Show” in an International Exhibit hosted by the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.
megklim@aol.com
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John Ruddy
For over 20 years, John Ruddy has been creating work that seeks to synthesize the disparate and multicultural elements of his birthplace, the ecclectic and unique city of Jersey City. Specializing in many mediums, from oil painting to collage and mixed media, his work is often politically engaging with an eye towards global iconography and traditions. He is a founding member of the artist
collective Rock Soup Studios, a graduate of Rutgers University’s Art History department and has shown widely around the NYC metro area and abroad.
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Toulinov and Bowie
Arturo Toulinov was born in Russia in l960. He graduated from Moscow State University and went on to practice law. He immigrated to the United States in l991. Leila Bowie began in New Jersey. Although her education was not as formal as Toulinov, she chose to enter what she refers to as the World School. In total she traveled for three years, alone, learning about the world, cultures and traditions and taking photographs. Their paths crossed one day walking in Manhattan and immediately felt a connection in the vision they shared. The first series of work began with the homeless. In Russia, the homeless and mentally
challenged have always had the status of “God’s People” and are treated with reverence. None of these people were treated as victims or romanticized. They came to work in the studio and helped to create a body of work independent of cultural clues and a profound strange sense of the eternal. And a celebration of the dignity each human being possesses.
ToulinovandBowie@aol.com
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Ev Stone
I strive to create the objects that would have filled my life if I could have stayed in that imaginary world of childhood. I try to build in the simplest manner, using as little technology as possible. In the process, I am still trying to elevate these found objects to an ordered, ordained, and iconic status. This transformation of the ‘mundane’ to the ‘aesthetic’ is fundamental to understanding these pieces.
Within these structures and collages, I look to find a balance between the tribal or primitive and the man-made or technological, and perhaps between the spiritual and the intellectual. I create spaces to reflect and consider. The collages are reflections of over-stimulus, an all-over explosion to the senses of the too much, too fast media. Responding to the overload of visual information, I recombine the images in a rhythmic way that makes more sense to me, creating a unique object from a mass-produced image.
groggirl@comcast.net
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