Pop Up Show Interview | Miami Art Week
Artist Dana Blickensderfer of Provoke Art sits down with Artist Jonatas Chimen to discuss his recent Pop Up Show during Miami Art Week 2015.
During Miami Art Week Jonatas featured an exhibition entitled, Journey. Journey is a reflection of people that were deprived from having a home; Jonatas creates a symbolic representational exhibit depicting those things stripped away, in hopes to bring comfort and life again to those that never had a spiritual dwelling during their lifetime.
The Journey
The Anti-Defamation League was founded in 1913 with the mission to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment for all. In 2015, The Anti-Defamation League chose Jonatas Chimen as Artist of the Year. As a result, the solo exhibit Journey: A Visual Narrative by Jonatas Chimen, curated by Suzane Khalil, Ph.D., was born. Below, you find the art collection that composed Journey. The series reveals an introspective narrative that tells of Chimen's first-hand experience of coming into the light of freedom after his family endured centuries of secretly sustaining a crypto-Judaic heritage. The tale depicted by the artist through this historic collection is fascinating, as it can be universally experienced and appreciated as a narrative about protecting and embracing Identity.
About Jonatas Chimen
Jonatas Chimen (b.1981) is a Brazilian-American Symbolist painter, sculptor, performance artist, writer, and lecturer. His work explores personal and collective identity amidst a complicated and ever-changing cultural landscape. The artist's exploration of identity is often drawn from his own family's history of immigration. For More on this Artist Visit: http://www.jonataschimen.com
About Dana Blickensderfer
An artist mainly working in painting and drawing, Dana Blickensderfer is also the founder of Provoke Art and the co-founder of iBoss Advertising. Based between New York and Tampa (Florida), Blickensderfer draws her inspiration from her personal biography relating to her family legacy: The Blickensderfers. Her most recent series of oil paintings are constructed images portraying the actual typewriter the Blickensderfer from the 1900s. She intertwines images from the actual object, the original advertising and posters of the era creating a kaleidoscope of colors; shifting between figuration and gestural abstraction. Blickensderfer becomes the bridge between the past and the present, the private and the public, the personal and the universal.
In 2014, Blickensderfer was the recipient of the Milton and Sally Avery Scholarship Award to study at the New York Studio School. In 2013, she was a finalist of the Olympics Art Competition in Orlando (Florida) and part of the Celebration of the Arts Exhibition curated by the Bay Area Museums directors in Tampa. Most recently, Blickensderfer was selected as the featured artist in the Panache Vue Magazine, February Edition. For More on this Artist Visit: http://danablickensderfer.com/
About Provoke Art
In 2010, provoke art was founded and developed in hopes to make meaningful contributions to the art world, integrating artists’ inspirations of the past and present combined with contemporary artistic genius.
The provoke art video projects developed with film directors birthed performance art for Dana and other artists’ collaborations. Blickensderfer is placed painting a live exhibit in select New York City locations. She plans to produce many of these projects in the coming year with provoke art affiliates. This is the epitome of the provoke art movement – to create works that stimulate thought and emotion; provoke connection and interaction with the common denominator being art. For more visit: http://provoke-art.com/
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