DON’T MISS AP Artist SIT’s debut US solo exhibition “Noir” 

NOIR’- illustrating the malicious blackness gnawing away at the edges of our sense of beauty. Examining the troubled relation between the animal kingdom and mankind, SIT’s work is focused on the magnificent beauty of the beast and the way it is used to serve the vanity that is intricate to humanity.

This Saturday @C.A.V.E Gallery- LA

visit SIT’s AP store here+ 

Edge of Love is an exciting new group show curated by Artsprojekt founder Andy Howell and Yasha Young from the Strychnin Gallery in Berlin.

The show features original art from thirteen Artsprojekt Global Creative Network artists. Artsprojekt challenged these artists to capture the “Edge of Love” a moment of collision between passionate love and volatile obsession resulting an explosive and colorful experience. Check out the results!

Featured Artsprojekt Artists.

Amandalynn
Amandalynn works by day as a custom motorcycle and sculpture painter and restoration expert, as well as a freelance muralist. Her evenings are dedicated to her fine art career. Painting late into the evening is one of her favorite vices. She also enjoys painting murals with graffiti artists, and has covered many walls and doorways around the country with her seductive female imagery.
http://www.zazzle.com/amandalynn

Amos Goldbaum
Amos Goldbaum is a 24 year old San Francisco artist working primarily in line. His drawings are interpretations of photos curated from his extensive online image searches. In addition to showing in exhibitions, he operates a curbside vending stand offering his shirts, prints and original drawings.
http://www.zazzle.com/amosgoldbaum

Andy Howell
Andy Howell is the founder and general manager of Artsprojekt, a curated platform that enables emerging and established artists to connect, collaborate and expand original art, designs and ideas with fans and consumers. It’s a playground in which the world’s most creative individuals and brands can turn unique ideas into dynamic product experiences that best represent each individual artist and brand.
http://www.zazzle.com/andyhowell

Christian Rothenhagen
“deerBerlin” – that is how addresses his native city Berlin. Living in Berlin for more than three decades he has many stories to tell. He works in graphic design, illustration, fine art and art installations. His works confront his urban surroundings including the decay, conurbation and agglomeration. His style is is a crossover of design and art that lets his viewers enter the street life of Berlin.
http://www.zazzle.com/rothenhagen

Emilie Record
Emilie Record is a French artist living and working in Shanghai China. She started to paint at the age of 8 and never lost her curiosity for those quiet mutations of human beings. She has designed work around the world including Canada, the US, Europe and Asia.
http://www.zazzle.com/emilie_r

Ginger Che
Ginger Che was born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1970. She moved to Germany with her mother and brother when she was eight-years old. Che lived in Bremen, Germany for 13 years and was a resident of San Diego from 1992 to 2009. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Che is the founder of ‘fathom design’ one-of-a kind jewelry, accessories & clothing, red-ginger clothing & accessories, daydream apparel, jewelry & accessories, Ginger Che Boutique, and ‘gingerche.com’, an online gallery.  

Che studied under Barbara Krueger, Faith Ringgold, Eleanor Antin, David Antin, Italo Scanga, Li Huai, Kim MacConnel, Ernest Silva, and Raul Guerrero. Che earned her BA in Visual Art (Studio) with Honors from University California San Diego.
http://www.zazzle.com/gingerche

Jayson Atienza
Jayson Atienza was born in Batangas City, Philippines, and began drawing at the tender age of five. He perfected his craft in advertising and graphic design at The School of Visual Arts in New York City. After graduating in 1999, he began a now decade long advertising career.

Atienza has produced award-winning work for clients including Guinness, HBO, FedEx, Pepsi, Milky Way & the Financial Times. While at BBDO, he won the agency’s first One Show Gold Pencil for a non-traditional media concept created for Guinness in 2002.

Now a freelance rt director and artist, Atienza is expanding the possibilities of his signature style achieved through meticulous watercolor and ink designs. He produced “We As One,” a Barack Obama-inspired painting for Manifest Hope (Washington, D.C. 2009), and is currently working on an encore piece for Manifest Equality (Los Angeles 2010).
http://www.zazzle.com/jaysonatienza

Jeremy Forson
Jeremy Forson is a San Francisco based artist and illustrator. In addition to his freelance illustration work, he is a regular participant in group and solo gallery exhibitions throughout the Bay Area and beyond.
http://www.zazzle.com/jeremyforson

Jeremyville
Jeremyville is an artist, product designer, animator and human. He wrote and produced the first book in the world on designer toys called Vinyl Will Kill, published by IdN, interviewing people like Fafi, Sarah from Colette, Baseman, Biskup, Pete Fowler, Jason Siu, Kinsey and Kozik.

Jeremyville has worked with clients such as Converse, Rossignol, Colette, Coca Cola, MTV, Kidrobot, Refill, Graniph in Japan, Adio Shoes, STRANGEco, Wooster Collective, Super Rad Toys, Play Imaginative, sketchel, Adidas, Tiger Beer and Tiger Translate, Artoyz in Paris, Domestic Vinyl in Paris, Corbis, Thunderdog, Red Bull, Pop Cling, 55DSL and Beck.
http://www.zazzle.com/jeremyville 

Jesse Reno 
In the latest series of paintings by Portland-based artist Jesse Reno, shamanic beings struggle to find their place in a world simultaneously on the verge of expanding and collapsing. Totem animals and Native American figures reverberate memories of people who once lived as one with nature. Marked by symbols, these figures seek their dreams in the growth of trees and the passing of spirits. On their quest to find their true selves, they collect feathers and relics left by past encounters and past lives. They learn to transcend the boundaries of the rational world evolving into a collage of what they have become and encountered. In this body of work, Reno presents us with a journey leading inward to ultimately expand outward:
http://www.zazzle.com/jessereno

Mike Kershnar
Mike’s influences are indigenous art styles from around the world especially Northern Formline, Aboriginal dreamtime art, and the Huichol aesthetic. It is one of his goals to complete an exhaustive series on North American wildlife to draw attention to the beautiful creatures we co-inhabit this land with.
http://www.zazzle.com/mikekershnar

Pale Horse
Since opening the doors in 2006, Pale Horse has had the opportunity to create artwork for Iron Fist, Nike, Vans, Etnies, Globe, Red Bull, Hurley, Sullen, Mattel, The Cartoon Network and many others. Pale Horse focuses on apparel, action sports market and entertainment industry graphics, logos and typography. Pale Horse, aka Chris Parks, has also shown his illustrations in galleries throughout Florida and across the United States.
http://www.zazzle.com/palehorse

SIT
SIT was part of the Amsterdam creative scene for years. He created action paintings, graphic design, advertising and other things, until he got fed up. Wanting to escape our ruthless 24/7 society of drugs, alcohol, money, deadlines, media, perfection and many expectations, he went back to square one to find his true essence. Back to head and handcraft. Back to basics. No more digital drama. No more wires. No BS. Only black and white. Right and wrong. Love and hate. Adore and despise.
http://www.zazzle.com/SITartwork

Yan Wei
Yan Wei is a Beijing-based artist, whose distinctive style and vision is inspired by her love of reading, films, traveling, and daydreaming. Her illustrations often appear cute and childish, but upon further examination reveal a darker, more sinister sentiment. 
http://www.zazzle.com/kokomoo

Edge of Love. An international group show curated by Andy Howell and Yasha Young.

Show opens April 9th at 7 pm. Runs until May 9th.

Opening times: Thursday- Sunday 12 noon - 6 pm

Strychnin Gallery Contact: Miriam Bischoff

Boxhagenerstr. 36 pr@strychnin.com

10245 Berlin phone: 0170 - 4161108

www.strychnin.com

www.artsprojekt.com

Artist Proof: Sitnie ‘SIT’ Waerts is an Amsterdam based mixed media artist whose body of work has been detoxed from bits and bytes, media, hypes, lovers, haters and colours to find the true essence of creativity again. No more digital drama. No BS.

Artsprojekt: What inspires your art?

SIT: Everything. What I see, think, feel, taste and hear. But mostly I get inspired by change!

AP: What is the relationship between technique and content in your work?

SIT: They have intense relationship. The one pushes the other to come together in one piece.

AP: Describe your first experience of making art and how it affected your life’s journey

SIT:The first piece I made was at age 17 when I got bored in working small. I wanted bigger so I bought myself some acrylics and linnen and started to make my first painting. It affected my life completely! Acrylics and working on a bigger scale, made me realise that these where the tools to express myself. I found a way to let myself go completely. From that day on, everything changed.

AP: Describe your most recent experience of making art.

SIT: That would be my DRKPNK-show. I was goin trough a really difficult time in life. Lost my house and woman and didn’t know what to do. So I was ready for a big change. I wanted to let go everything that I knew technic- and concept-wise and see what happend if I improvise everything. Let go of this controle that I had such a long time. It was tuff. Had a long long struggle finding a new way, while everything I did before really wanted to take over sometimes. So I started to make these sketches of women caracters and let all the lines just cross eachother and really keep it fast and smooth. Something really special happened. Along the way I found this joy and colourfull sensation doin this. I became free from all things, more than ever before. It brought me a new perspective. Translated this to a couple of canvasses and a new serie was born.

AP: Take us on a guided tour through a day in your life as an artist

SIT: I wake up early after a bad sleep, could get a couple of hours sleep, and start my day with a nice green apple. Love my vitamines. Specialy after drinking a lot in the weekends. Black & white! I wash my ass and jump on my bike to hit it to the studio. Love my bikerides trough the city. Once in the studio I sit down a bit to check my mail to see if there is interesting new projects comin up and figger out what I want to do today…. Well, today I feel a bit shitty because the NewYears eve killed my ass. Still a bit shaky from all the wodka’s in da club that night/morning. But today I will start some sketch-session for these big walls in a new grandcafe that will opening in february from a good friend of mine. He loves the work and couldn’t wait opening a new cafe and let me go my way on the walls. I have about two weeks, because after finishing up I’ll hit the plain for Sao Paulo, Brasil to spend some nice months working on some projects there. At the moment I want to let go of my Graphic Designing-side that I’ve done for many years to earn my money with. I want to clear my way to only do painting and do this to share it with more people. Share the experience, share the mindset and see if I can make a better world out of this. That’s why I spoke with the guys from Favela Paintings the other day (www.favelapainting.com) to see if I can do something like this aswell in Sao Paulo.

Now first things first and do this sketchsession. I need to sketch a little to show my man how I want to run this. He was really inspired bij my “unwired” show (www.unwired2008.com), so I will take a little piece of that period in time, but twist it a little with what moves me today!

For the rest nothing excitting to say about my day. January 2nd normally makes a zombie out of me. Getting a bit hungry. I will get me some noodles now….

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