[RBK]

finsburyparkranger said:

Rklimek you don't get it do you? You've caused an artist to go through extreme measures because you refused to communicate with her at all, you've implied that you were working with her when you clearly were not and then yesterday you threatened her on a public forum with libel if she didn't withdraw her statement. You said on wall candy yesterday....

"As to Ms. Hultberg's email, all I can say at present moment is we hope the libelous and slanderous email/blog entry is deleted in a timely manner.

Collectors/Galleries buy up emerging talent all the time! Her prints were severely underpriced and God forbid we believed in her art and saw promise"

Throwing your weight around like that when you clearly have the financial means to do so and are a self proclaimed 'cooperate stooge' and when you are the one out of order just stinks to high heaven mate. Have you withdrawn that legal threat to this artist you previously stated you believed in and offered an apology for the anxiety caused?

It seems the only thing you've stated as of yet is.... "as a result, I will now be taking my gf to dinner at Red Lobster instead of Joe's Seafood".

EDIT: Also when are you going to be upfront about your 'gallery' status and accept a blue star from silky for all to see?

Finsburyparkranger - You have absolutely no idea what went on behind the scenes as I chose to not disclose this - as I thought there was already to much out in the public and that ideally this matter should have been handled privately.

Some of you guys are really funny... I didn't know that having a website is what separates the good from the bad guys. There are people on both forums buying up prints by artists they believe will increase in value and selling on Ebay in much larger volumes than I. Are they less sinister than I because they sell directly on Ebay or in a forum thread entitled 'Looking to Sell'?

Am I a terrible person for purchasing an artist whose work we thought was incredible and showed huge potential? It is true that Collector/Galleries buy up emerging talent all the time! Often times it sits in a closet while a gallery watches to see if the artist & their art make it through the gauntlet. We took a large financial risk by acquiring her work and the verdict would either be 'EH' and we'd be sitting with a stack of paper we personally still found beautiful or what has been the case, a genuine large-scale interest in her work.

Furthermore, The prints at Art Star sat there for weeks as I purchased them in 2 big separate orders. Art Star knew I ran an online gallery. I was given the gallery discount on both my orders. I have emails showing their appreciation with the exposure it brought to Art Star and Stella's work - surprise, surprise they got an onslaught of orders from the UK! Also, on the other forum I recommended people purchase the open editions through Stella's site before they sold-out. It was just all of a sudden recently there was this change of heart.

Enough with the less-than-fully-informed gestapo techniques.

The matter has been handled to both Stella's and my satisfaction.

[mcnuts]

rklimek said:

Have a very simple solution for you mcnuts..... don't buy the print.

top advice fella. cheers. I'd like to have bought the print last week from her site at $50, but despite the summer sale at your online establishment, $250 is a bit too much for me.

[pezlow]

rklimek said:

Some of you guys are really funny... I didn't know that having a glorified hobby website is what separates the good from the bad guys. There are people on both forums buying up prints by artists they believe will increase in value and selling on Ebay in much larger volumes than I. Are they less sinister than I because they sell directly on Ebay or in a forum thread entitled 'Looking to Sell'?

Am I a terrible person for purchasing an artist whose work we thought was incredible and showed huge potential? It is true that Collector/Galleries buy up emerging talent all the time! Often times it sits in a closet while a gallery watches to see if the artist & their art make it through the gauntlet. We took a large financial risk by acquiring her work and the verdict would either be 'EH' and we'd be sitting with a stack of paper we personally still found beautiful or what has been the case, a genuine large-scale interest in her work.

Of course you're not a terrible person. I have no problem whatsoever with people buying stuff to sell on. Hell I have sold stuff myself to fund this expensive addiction of mine and I suspect nearly everyone on this forum has.

I guess the real problem is that you come on here and wall candy promoting your website, bigging up an artist and giving the impression that you were an authorised seller of her work (I certainly got that impression and I know I was not alone), and charging prices well well above the going retail rate for products which were still available at retail price. I'm sorry mate but that makes you no better than the people trying to sell soup can posters on ebay at inflated prices.

When I pointed out to you that the stella stuff could be bought cheaper from Artstar your response was to the effect of good luck to you if you can get it cheaper.

This now means that whenever I see a piece a work on your site that I might want to buy I (and presumably many others) am going to shop around to make sure it isn't available at retail somewhere else. And if you can't see the damage that has been done to your business as a result then that is a shame...

[insite]

So yesterday you were alienating artists, today you seem hell bent on alienating your customers, nice one.

[finsburyparkranger]

Jesus I'm the gestapo now. Ok..... I'm dropping this argument for the sake of keeping this forum the happy place it should be. Have a good life.

[gbh]

finsburyparkranger said:

Jesus I'm the gestapo now. Ok..... I'm dropping this argument for the sake of keeping this forum the happy place it should be. Have a good life.

well said, we have had quite enough bullshit on the forum over the last few months.

[mcnuts]

gbh said:

finsburyparkranger said:

Jesus I'm the gestapo now. Ok..... I'm dropping this argument for the sake of keeping this forum the happy place it should be. Have a good life.

well said, we have had quite enough bulls**t on the forum over the last few months.

If GBH is up either the baby is crying or he thinks there will be a print release!

[robinbanks]

I sent payment for the set via PayPal yesterday afternoon but haven't had a response yet - should I be worried?

[robotoil]

My little girl.

[robinbanks]

That is gorgeous!

[simongoff]

Apr 3, 2008 12:16:08 GMT 1 robinbanks said:

I sent payment for the set via PayPal yesterday afternoon but haven't had a response yet - should I be worried?

I sent mine a couple of days back and not heard anything either, sure its ok though

[bored with screen names]

Apr 3, 2008 12:18:54 GMT 1 robotoil said:

My little girl.

Is that a chase sketch from the mini set, or just a sketch you've purchased?

Either way it's lovely!

[robotoil]

Apr 3, 2008 13:31:11 GMT 1 bored with screen names said:

Apr 3, 2008 12:18:54 GMT 1 robotoil said:

My little girl.

Is that a chase sketch from the mini set, or just a sketch you've purchased?

Either way it's lovely!

Purchased. Not part of the set. Sorry if there was confusion.

[top]

Apr 3, 2008 15:44:25 GMT 1 robotoil said:

Apr 3, 2008 13:31:11 GMT 1 bored with screen names said:

Apr 3, 2008 12:18:54 GMT 1 robotoil said:

My little girl.

Is that a chase sketch from the mini set, or just a sketch you've purchased?

Either way it's lovely!

Purchased. Not part of the set. Sorry if there was confusion.

Pleased for you and relieved!!

[bored with screen names]

Apr 3, 2008 15:44:25 GMT 1 robotoil said:

Apr 3, 2008 13:31:11 GMT 1 bored with screen names said:

Apr 3, 2008 12:18:54 GMT 1 robotoil said:

My little girl.

Is that a chase sketch from the mini set, or just a sketch you've purchased?

Either way it's lovely!

Purchased. Not part of the set. Sorry if there was confusion.

No problem! It's very nice. Just haven't heard of anyone receiving one of the sketches yet and am anxious to see them!

[RBK]

Here's one of my favorite Stella's - I'd Fly The River:

[top]

Apr 3, 2008 19:29:40 GMT 1 RBK said:

Here's one of my favorite Stella's:

Like that one.. title?

[RBK]

original post ammended with the title - thanks for the compliment!

[displaced bear]

Apr 3, 2008 19:33:04 GMT 1 top said:

Apr 3, 2008 19:29:40 GMT 1 RBK said:

Here's one of my favorite Stella's:

Like that one.. title?

"I'd Fly The River"

[top]

Lovely RBK, beautiful piece..

ta for the title guy's

[Matt-lock]

I have a couple Stella things for sale as the title says. The first is the Lovely Day print edition of 150 and I will sell at cost of $150 and free shipping in the states and $20 for shipping to the UK (it is shipped flat). The mini print set is only the standard 4 prints included. It has been openend and there are NO chases included. I just thought somebody may want the set of 4 for below cost...I'll only charge $60 (cost is $80 for an unopened set) and again, shipping in states is free and the UK will only be $10 for this set. Let me know peeps...

SOLD


SOLD

[Matt-lock]

Mini Set is now SOLD. I am also adding this Audrey Kawasaki piece to the mix...$475 shipped in the states takes it...shipped Internationally will be $30.

[Matt-lock]

bumper

[Matt-lock]

Stella Lovely Day is now sold as well Still have the Audrey available...

[RBK]

Since you've sold all your Stella Im Hultberg work now, just a heads up to anyone interested in other pieces by her (yes, I know... no shame!)

WWW.FYCGALLERY.COM

[solar77]

For sale is the original Bruised painting from Stella's first solo, which was made into her most popular print. It's probably her most recognizable and desirable piece.

The painting measures 16x12 and is acrylic and ink on tea stained paper. I currently have it in a float frame, but will ship it with the original frame from the show. I purchased the piece from the original owner a little over a year ago.

I'm asking $3700 shipped for the piece, which isn't a whole lot more than I paid.

[rkitek]

Hi All,

I’m having a bit of a clear-out of some prints that are not going to make it up on the wall. All prints mint and stored flat in portfolio. Free delivery in the Los Angeles area but will post anywhere in the world with the buyer paying the cost of shipping (i.e., via PayPal gift). As I am trying to raise some funds, I am not looking for trades at this time. Thanks for looking and PM me if you have any questions. Cheers.

Smitten Print Set: Set of 5 Signed & Matching Numbered Prints
Edition of 50 -- sold only at Thinkspace Gallery for the Smitten Show in May, 2007
Print Size: 10" x 14"
Giclee print on archival paper
Each Print is Signed and Numbered by the artist
Prints will be shipped FLAT
SOLD - Pending Receipt of Funds

Audrey Kawasaki - "Asai"


Stella Im Hultberg - "No Where Near"


Amy Sol - "Friends of Rose Clouds"


Brandi Milne - "Esella"


KuKula - "Perfect Child"

[Daniel Silk]

Stella Im Hultberg Solo Show Preview

[Thinkspace]

'Borrowed Memories’
Featuring new works from Stella Im Hultberg and Tran Nguyen

Plus in our project room:
Jeremy Hush
'At A Loss For Words'

In our office area:
New works from Michael Ramstead

Reception with the artists:
Sat., September 29th 6-9PM

Exhibitions on view: September 29th – October 20th

Thinkspace is pleased to present Borrowed Memories, an exhibition featuring new works by Tran Nguyen and Stella Im Hultberg. Concurrently on display in the Thinkspace project room are new works by Jeremy Hush along with a small showcase of new works from Michael Ramstead in our office area.



Stella Im Hultberg
Stella Im Hultberg is a Korean born, New York based artist. Her work is self-described as being driven by intuition and process. The impression of spontaneity and resolve when faced with her work speaks to this willingness to allow it to define its own end results. The artist produces across media, experimenting with materials and applications, and allows the work to evolve organically through its execution. At the heart of her practice is the exploration of identity, and an interest in shifting possibilities for the self and other. Her paintings of ethereal women subtly excavate the possibility of multiplicities in a single self. By combining detailed figurative rendering with surreal imagery, Im Hultberg probes the porous boundaries between self and other. The figures in her work appear in various guises, and she mobilizes them as vehicles for affect and suggestion. At times they are mirrored, multiplied, fractured; they emerge as haunting spectral entities without definitively binding selves. In this respect the figurative in her work seems a symbolic trope for the impermanence and inconstancy of our unremittingly changing lives and relationships. These beautifully executed images are populated with figures who seem unspecific and somehow symbolic, rather than literal individuals. The mutability and amorphousness in the figure, conveyed by the artist’s work, speaks somehow to the excesses of subjectivity.

The artist’s background in industrial product design helped to eventually guide her towards painting. A self taught painter, Im Hultberg’s aesthetic has evolved from an intuitively realized place and is informed by her material command of aesthetic and design. Her penchant for experimental investigations seems to permeate the materiality of her work. The artist’s command of several media is evident in her ability to take material risks, and to allow each material incarnation to have its own life. At times very graphic and guided by a clear acuity for design, the artist’s work clearly draws from several aesthetic influences. This is particularly visible in her use of abstract geometry and patterning, something Im Hultberg is able to seamlessly integrate compositionally with the figurative. These juxtapositions of the organic and the graphic create compelling tensions and associations. The “self” in her work is always positioned in relationship to an external reality or competing force or framework. Though the figures seem unspecific, they are intensely emotive nonetheless: they are vehicles for intensity. We are left with a very relatable impression of a fractured and unresolved contemporary existence, in which the self remains nebulous and shifting. Seductive and enticing, her work beckons us to lose ourselves in the world of the image.

Artist website: www.stellaimhultberg.com



Tran Nguyen
Tran Nguyen is a Vietnam born, Georgia based artist who mobilizes her illustrative imagery as a vehicle for latent psychic experience. As haunting dreamscapes, the narratives that emerge from Nguyen’s works are at once uncanny and eerily relatable. Suspended somewhere between waking consciousness and the subconscious, the imagery she unfolds feels as spontaneous and creative as the wanderings of free cognitive association. The stories that emerge from her pieces are charged with familiar psychological themes, everything from the phobic object, to the transformative metamorphosis, to the personal fantasy, but in the artist’s hands, far from being contrived, these stories feel organic, immediate, and beautifully eruptive, as though they have unfolded effortlessly. It is this illusion of effortlessness that makes the work feel truly liminal. Looking into these images we are elsewhere, we are other, we are held by an ambiguous suspension of reality. At times the artist’s strategies feel dark and haunted, but the beauty and delicacy with which they are rendered attenuates any feelings of anxiety or distress in their presence. This combination of charged content with delicate and luxurious execution make Nguyen’s vision truly magnetic.

Tran Nguyen’s pieces are deliberately and delicately rendered with subtle washes of diluted acrylic, and detailed applications of colored pencil. Her aesthetic and rendering convey affectively charged psychological landscapes, dreamy, sensual, surreal, and fantastic, like the hyper-real of the “elsewhere” in the truly immersive dream. The juxtapositions in Nguyen’s work are fascinating. Unlikely pairings, and unexpected contexts emerge with seductive clarity. We are left with the feeling that nothing is extraneous, and that everything is connected to some ultimate symbology within the work. In the tradition of truly consummate illustration, each symbol, each suggestion of imagery, each object, is part of the narrative “moment”, and everything has its place. The artist’s interest in imagery as a vehicle for healing, combined with her masterful rendering of textures, skin, shadows and folds, speaks to the work’s deeply psychological valence. From the recesses of the unresolved, emerge beautiful lush images; like exorcisms through imagery. While the work is evasive in its symbolism, something raw and relatable draws the viewer into the experience. The work luxuriates in the baroque excesses of the dream.

Artist website: www.mynameistran.com

Take a sneak peek at the works coming to life for ‘Borrowed Memories’ here:
thinkspacegallery.com/shows/2012-10/#photos

ON VIEW IN OUR PROJECT ROOM:



Jeremy Hush ‘At A Loss For Words’

Jeremy Hush’s work will be featured in the Thinkspace project gallery. This artist draws from a wealth of sources and influences. An avid world traveller, and a recognized initiate of the heavy metal and punk scenes, Hush has been creating work for zines and bands for years. Over the past few years he has been increasing his focus on his practice and exhibiting his art more extensively.

His work is haunting and beautiful, wild and chaotic, dark and saturated, but entirely unique. Clearly influenced to some extent by the linear styles of 19th century prints and drawings, his work combines this suggestion to a historical aesthetic precedent with a contemporary inflection in content. Hush’s pieces feel like Grimm fairy tales, in the most visceral way possible prior to any of the sanitizing forces of Disney. They convey the solemnity of the ancient, and the guttural impulses of the nightmare. They are raw, they are meticulous, they are clearly symbolic. The work feels allegorical in its dense allusion to nature and associative metaphor. The artist uses found materials to execute much of the work, everything from ball point pens, collected in the course of his itinerant travels, to coffee used for pigment, to inky fingerprints for crosshatching. The works sophistication belies the raw immediacy of their provenance.

Take a sneak peek inside Jeremy Hush’s studio here:
thinkspacegallery.com/shows/2012-10-project/#photos

Artist Website: hushillustration.blogspot.com

ON VIEW IN OUR OFFICE AREA:



New works from Michael Ramstead

Michael Ramstead is an oil painter from Long Beach, California. In 2010 he earned his BA in Art Studio from UC Davis.

Ramstead grew up constantly drawing his favorite cartoon and video game characters and knew from a young age that he wanted to make art for the rest of his life. Michael was introduced to oil paints in high school, and he’s been working with them ever since.

Ramstead’s subject matter is often times inspired by the paranormal and the supernatural, and his style is influenced by the work of the Old Masters and the contemporary paintings of Pop Surrealists and Low Brow artists.

Artist Website: michaelramstead.com

*All the artists will be in attendance for the opening reception

[Thinkspace]

One of Tran Nguyen's new works in progress for 'Borrowed Memories' opening Sept. 29th at Thinkspace


Inside Tran Nguyen's studio as she prepares for 'Borrowed Memories' opening Sept. 29th at Thinkspace


Inside Tran Nguyen's studio as she prepares for 'Borrowed Memories' opening Sept. 29th at Thinkspace


Inside Tran Nguyen's studio as she prepares for 'Borrowed Memories' opening Sept. 29th at Thinkspace


Inside Tran Nguyen's studio as she prepares for 'Borrowed Memories' opening Sept. 29th at Thinkspace


Close up look at one of Stella Im Hultberg's new works for 'Borrowed Memories' opening Sept. 29th at Thinkspace


One of Stella Im Hultberg's new works in progress for 'Borrowed Memories' opening Sept. 29th at Thinkspace


Close up look at one of Stella Im Hultberg's new works for 'Borrowed Memories' opening Sept. 29th at Thinkspace


One of Stella Im Hultberg's new works in progress for 'Borrowed Memories' opening Sept. 29th at Thinkspace

Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/153441731462790/