August 19, 2002 Advance Notice!!!
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Michael Fuchs |
Sheryl Humphrey |
H.R. Giger |
ARTISTS OF THE WORLD UNITE!!! JOIN OUR BRAVE DESTINY OF THE IMAGINATIVE SPIRIT IN SURREAL, SURREAL/CONCEPTUAL, VISIONARY, FANTASTIC AND SYMBOLIC ART THROUGH THIS OPEN INVITATION TO SUBMIT WORK.
"Reason, honor and the limitless bounds of our own imaginations compels us now to do what others can only admire! Unhindered by the mortal flesh, the mind can visit realms which the body cannot. In that we are like Gods. That is our own 'brave destiny,' the destiny of art of the imagination! Let us then create a show of this art, the like of which has never been seen before!" -- Terrance Lindall on behalf of the Society for Art of the Imagination, London, June 2002
Featured artists and performers:
PETER DIZOZZA, "Mad, mad" surrealist dramatic COMEDY musical plays performed by this Director of the Royal WAH Theater and Founder of Cinema VII Productions
ERNST FUCHS, Founder of the Viennese School of Fantastic Realism in the 1940’s
H.R. GIGER, Winner of the Academy Award for his stage set in the movie "Alien"
TERRANCE LINDALL, Surreal/visionary artist, writer, philosopher, art critic, and President of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
BRIGID MARLIN, Chairperson of the Society for Art of the Imagination and renowned practitioner and teacher of the Mishe Technique
DAMIAN MICHAELS, Visionary artist and publisher of "Artvisionary Magazine"
YUKO NII, Surreal/visionary landscapist, Founder & Artistic Director of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
GEORGE TOOKER, One of America’s greatest living surrealists
SALVADOR DALI, art loaned courtesy of Mr. & Mrs. Craig Morrison
And Many Others
We invite you to be part of "BRAVE DESTINY,"
September/October 2003
$5,000 in cash prizes for art guaranteed, plus thousands of dollars in purchase awards and many other prizes!! Deadline June 30 2003, but the sooner you enter, the sooner you can have work on our web-site for the show.
THIS WILL BE THE LARGEST SHOW OF LIVING SURREALIST, FANTASTIC AND VISIONARY ARTISTS IN THE WORLD. Yes, the most comprehensive show to date from the Society for Art of the Imagination in London, England, is to be held at the WAH Center opening with a Grand Surrealist Ball in its magnificent French Second Empire building in the heart of the "Emerging Art Capital of the World," Williamsburg Brooklyn. At the Grand Surrealist Ball opening night, there will be astounding happenings, possibly even an alien invasion, plus a grand prize for best costume! Throughout the show there will be fantastic performances of music, dance and other wonders as we did for APOCALYPSE 1999, the most lavish art production out of Williamsburg to date. During APOCALYPSE. we had Ethan Pettit sing the Millennial Oratorio, the entire Western Lyric tradition in "minutes flat," with an unusual twist at the end. Keiji Haino flew in out of Japan in his black cape and with his entourage of camp followers. Keiji performed his totally unique sound and dance drama, drawing sound out of the air with his hands alone. The mad, mad surrealist musical dramatist Peter Dizozza produced a revival of his musical masterpiece PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER, a mad super-sexed romp from here to eternity and back again. He has promised to bring it back to BRAVE DESTINY!! With stage smoke pouring out of the basement grate of our old castle during the opening reception for APOCALYPSE, the fire department arrived in full regalia and battle axes to see what Disney Nasa Borg was doing in our basement with his weird, pulsing multicolored "pollution bubbles." We even had a morgue van parked out front with lights flashing...just in case! There is no experience like one of the major art productions at the WAH Center!
Recent years have shown that there is a renewed interest in the Surrealists, as indicated by comprehensive shows of early Surrealists at the Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, The Pompidou Center and many smaller museums in many different countries around the world. Part of the WAH Center’s mission is to show what has been missing in other overviews of great art legacies. What has been missing is a look at the living artists of this genre. It seems appropriate, therefore, that New York's newest Museum in the making, the WAH Center show the living and thriving surreal, visionary, fantastic artists at this time in its show BRAVE DESTINY.The opening weekend for the 2003 show will feature hundreds of open artists studios all around Williamsburg. The WAH Center will also host it’s annual WILLIAMSBURG ARTS AND CULTURAL FESTIVAL with free shuttle buses which will bring thousands of tourists to Williamsburg to see our show BRAVE DESTINY. Many musical events, fashion shows and parties will transpire to enthrall the visitors to our fair art community, the largest art community in the world, on the opening day of BRAVE DESTINY. Brigid Marlin, a renowned practitioner of the Mische Technique, will demonstrate its use during the BRAVE DESTINY exhibit. The Mische Technique is a 16th century master’s methodology which was lost for centuries and rediscovered by Ernst Fuchs. This method is not taught in most American art schools and this is a unique opportunity for professionals at any level to add to their arsenal of methods. To be part of this fabulous show in September 2003:
1) Art in all media acceptable! Paintings, sculpture, drawings, installations, video, film, animation, computer software, musical compositions, short stories, plays, poetry, cartoons! If we left anything out, contact us!
2) Art can be Surrealism, Surreal/conceptual, Visionary, Fantastic, Symbolism, Magic Realism, the Vienna School, Neuve Invention, Outsider, Naive, the Macabre, Grotesque and Singulier Art.
3) If art, send slides, photos or color Xeroxes of your work with your résumé plus an entry fee of $30 for three works. If poetry stories, plays, video, film, computer software, animations, send $10 for each submission. List the works with title, size, media, or other appropriate description. Additional work may be submitted for $5 per work. DO NOT SUBMIT ART WITHOUT THE FEE, WE WILL NOT LOOK AT IT.
Information to include with slides (or other media), résumé,
list of works and fee:
Name, address, phone, e-mail, website address, category (painting,
sculpture, etc.), number of works submitted.
4) If you are currently a member in good standing of the Society for Art of the Imagination or a member of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, or a subscriber to Artvisionary Magazine or 11211 Magazine, there are no additional fees for accepted work. However, for those artists who are not members or subscribers, if your work is accepted, an additional fee of $20 will be requested to defray costs of printing poster, invitations and hanging.
5) If you wish your material to be returned, include a stamped, self- addressed return envelope.
6) DEADLINE JUNE 30, 2003
To enter work, send application materials to:
New International Surrealists
c/o Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
135 Broadway
Brooklyn, New York 11211
Affiliated Galleries, Organizations and Magazines:
SOCIETY FOR ART OF THE IMAGINATION
P.O. Box 240
GB Berkhamsted HP4 1HE
United Kingdom
www.artofimagination.org
Founderd in 1961 in England by a group of artists meeting to work
and exhibit together and to promote imaginative art. Renowned
members include Ernst Fuchs, H.R. Giger, Brigid Marlin, Terrance
Lindall, Damian Michaels, Olga Spiegel, and many famed artists
world-wide. The Society publishes INSCAPE Magazine.
ARTVISIONARY MAGAZINE
The world’s premier magazine for art
of Surrealism, Symbolism, Magic Realism, the Vienna School, Neuve
Invention, Outsider, Naive, the Macabre, Grotesque and Singulier
Art. "A lavish production."
artvisionary@optusnet.com.au
11211 MAGAZINE
302 Bedford Avenue
Williamsburg Brooklyn, New York 11211
(718) 782-6750
e-mail e@11211magazine.com
www.11211magazine.com
"Breuk Iversen publishes a lavish magazine in which everything
about Williamsburg is revealed ‘soup to nuts’ in this
wild, wild west of the art world. "
CFM GALLERY
112 Greene Street
New York, New York 10012
(212) 966-3864
www.cfmgallery.com
"Neil Zukerman runs one of New York’s
premier galleries in Soho and represents such artists as Dali
& Fini."
DABORA GALLERY
1080 Manhattan Avenue
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York 11222
"Lynda Mahan runs this
seductive Victorian-style salon & art gallery."
DOLLHAUS GALLERY
37 Broadway, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York 11211
www.dollhaus.org
"From Eccentric England, Emma runs a bizarre haus of tea,
art, objects, Internet, and will display relics found from the
empire snafu restoration project in the catacombs of the WAH Center.
The 'Haus' keeps late hours & unusual times. Try the finger
sandwiches"
DUNGEON ROCK STUDIOS
344 Grand Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211
www.grand-street.com
"Hot Brooklyn recording studio...features the group 'Action Daddy.'"
INTERART GALLERY
225 Tenth Avenue, New York, New York 10011
(212) 647-1811
interartgallery@netzero.net
MONK GALLERY
301
Bedford Avenue
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York 11211
(718) 782-2458
www.monkgallery.com
"Valessa Monk uses wit & ingenuity to explore and critique
social concepts."
PETER B. ORNSTEIN FINE ARTS
A private dealer representing the work of America’s
renowned George Tooker.
THE BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM
FESTIVAL
wbff.org
The Brooklyn International Film Festival (BIFF) is an international,
competitive festival for and by independent film makers. BIFF's
mission is to discover, expose, and promote independent film makers
while drawing worldwide attention to Brooklyn.
THE NEW YORK
ART WORLD MAGAZINE
MBM Publications
303 W. 42nd St., 5th Fl.
New York, New York 10036, USA
www.thenewyorkartworld.com
e-mail: mail@thenewyorkartworld.com
Published by M. Brendon MacInness, the NYAWM is a monthly magazine
and listings guide for New York (readership 25,000) with national
and international correspondence, combining the look and feel
of an upscale lifestyle publication with news, interviews, art
reviews, film commentary and a comprehensive art listing guide.
Disney Nasa Borg
www.sintelligence.net
Surreal Fashion
surrealistfashion.net
Producing the Surrealist Fashion Show for Brave Destiny, including
these scions of the surreal and more:
amoeba technology_collective
dok. electronic experimental audio
seemonkey. processed video interface
luxx. live video control
jasmine. digital fashion
alien resident. fil loop projectionist
zemi17. electro-ambient
forward motion
theatre
eric .futuro-dance technology
holly daggers. improvisational video manipulation
Desiree Konian
www.desirestyle.com
Mine Gallery
177 Grand Street
Brooklyn, New York 11211
tel. (914) 204-0868
Metal art: jewelry, sculpture and functional art.
Prize Sponsors
Society for Art of the Imagination, London - $5,000 cash
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center - purchase awards
Ugly Luggage Antiques - gift certificate
Giando on the Water - dinner for two
McCaig-Welles Custom Framing - gift certificate
More coming
If you would like to be an affiliated organization for this show, please inquire.
Made possible in part by grants from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Independence Community Foundation and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz