| Scott Lickstein and Elisha Sarti at Nowhere |
| Written by Ken Hamel | |
| Sunday, 03 August 2008 | |
Scott Lickstein and Elisha SartiNowhere LimitedAugust 2 - 23, 2008
(from the press release) NOWhere Limited presents PROFONDO GIALLO: NEW PAINTINGS BY SCOTT LICKSTEIN, SAVE/PRODUCE: MIXED MEDIA BY ELISHA SARTI and the debut of MAKE ART/TAKE ART, a collaboration between the two artists. PROFONDO GIALLO: Scott Lickstein's Profondo Giallo project began as an obsession with movies, particularly those from the Italian pulp/horror film genre, known as Giallo. The artist, who studied video art under a professor from M.I.T., used a computer program to capture more than 20,000 individual frames from a vast assortment of movies on DVD. He then digitally combined and altered selected "stills" to form collaged images. Many of the Profondo Giallo images have previously been produced as prints and as purely digital art. For the latest version of the project, the artist rendered the digital mash-ups in paint, adding another layer of depth and strangeness to these striking compositions. SAVE/PRODUCE: Elisha Sarti's SAVE/PRODUCE features The World According to Gooogle, a new series of collages on canvas. The source images for this series were derived from Google Image searches for subjective words like "pretty," "worst" and "perfect." The resulting canvases read as a bizarre yet captivating "pictionary." Also exhibited in SAVE/PRODUCE are Elisha's large scale paintings: ENVY(Printed Line) and SAVE/PRODUCE. These two 8 foot x 8 foot paintings depict imagery taken from the materials the artist used to build their surfaces: saved junkmail and paperboard boxes that once contained food or other goods. The pictures and symbols in these works are based on advertisements and marketing designs so the colors, shapes and phrases have a familiar quality. They are recycled images on recycled surfaces, transformed by scale and collage into something new. MAKE ART/TAKE ART: Make Art/Take Art is a collaboration between Scott Lickstein and Elisha Sarti and perhaps...you! For this project, the artists created 16 black ink drawings on collaged backgrounds as well as a stack of "blank" collaged surfaces. The drawings are displayed in a grid formation; the slot for each drawing on the grid is numbered. Interested parties are invited to take one of the exhibited drawings in exchange for their own drawing, which must be completed on site using one of the provided blank surfaces and black ink marker. The drawings on display will be constantly changing, so that a participant may take a piece that has not been drawn by Elisha or Scott but by a random participant. For the duration of the exhibit, each slot will also be available for sale online for $15 + shipping. Buyers of each slot will acquire whatever random piece occupies the slot number at the time of purchase. ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Scott Lickstein and Elisha Sarti are the co-founders of NOWhere Limited, a contemporary art gallery and limited edition shop in Nederland, Colorado and online. This is the married couple's first 2-person exhibit together since 1998. More about the artists and NOWhere Limited can be found: http://nowherelimited.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=about_us NOWhere Limited Contemporary Art + Limited Editions 1 West First St, Wolf Tongue Square Nederland, Colorado (near Boulder)
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