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8/9/2006

Two exhibitions

Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York

Doze Green

The Left Hand Path

Jonathan LeVine Gallery is proud to announce the opening of The Left Hand Path, a solo exhibition of new works by celebrated artist Doze Green. His exhibition of new paintings is inspired from roots in modern graffiti and based upon metaphysical and ethereal ideologies.

For The Left Hand Path, Doze Green translates complex metaphysical concepts through his paintings, such as the possible manipulation of energy and matter to create a timeless space. He explores meditations on matter and anti-matter, layers of consciousness, and different possibilities based on cosmology. The Left Hand Path is based upon life at the crossroads, at the junction of the seen and unseen.

Through stream-of-consciousness painting, Doze Green creates fractured imagery to convey infinite possibilities. His intention is to reveal works with an ever-changing narrative. Multi-dimensional planes and illusion of time are presented through fragmented, incomplete figures. He believes by depicting beings that are not fully materialized, these beings are not of this realm. He presents possibilities of immortality through paintings where narratives are interminable. His collection of paintings is an extension of this metaphysical concept.

Cubist influences include ascending and descending planes and repetitive, overlapping, and concentric lines in an otherwise undefined landscape. For Doze Green, this energy and motion of created forms exist in a visual meeting place of ideas. Influenced by Edo period paintings, Doze Green mixes black gesso with Sumi ink and applies “creatively chaotic, and intuitive brushstrokes," in a calligraphy-inspired and graffiti aesthetic. Doze Green translates these primitive markings as “biological entities, a swarm of arrows coming in from infinite perspective."

Doze Green was born and raised in the upper west side of Manhattan, New York City and was one of the pioneers of the Hip-Hop culture. He first started writing graffiti in his neighborhood in 1974, and started painting subway trains in 1976. The following year he joined the Rock Steady Crew. The Rock Steady Crew were pioneers of a new style of dance known as breakdancing or B-Boying. The crew first started dancing at art exhibitions and galleries of Soho and the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

During this time Doze Green was also attending the High School of Art and Design, where some of the most talented and well-respected graffiti artists came from. Artists such as Lady Pink, Daze, Ernie Valdez, Seen TC5, Mr. Wiggles, Mare 139, and numerous others. In 1982 Doze Green showed his artwork in a well-known group show at the Fun Gallery. At this same time after appearances in major movies such as Flashdance, Style Wars, and Wildstyle, the Rock Steady Crew was launched into action and the limelight.

From B-boy to graffiti legend, Doze Green has gone to tagging the hallways of South Bronx projects to designing for clothing lines like Kikwear and Ecko. In the process, he's become a proponent of the avant-garde "fusionistic" art movement. Best known for his characters, Doze Green has begun to concentrate on canvases that blend wildstyle techniques with metaphysical concepts. Doze Green is also known for his live painting performances. Doze Green’s work is in many public and private collections throughout the United States, Japan, Europe, and Australia. His works have been published in BlackBook, Anthem, Juxtapoz, Tokion, and Vibe and reviewed on CNN.

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Andrew Schoultz

Cataclysmic Mayhem...Capturing the Feelings of the Modern World

This September 2006, Jonathan LeVine Gallery will present Cataclysmic Mayhem…Capturing the Feelings of the Modern World, a solo exhibit of new paintings, drawings and installations by California-based artist Andrew Schoultz.

For Cataclysmic Mayhem…Capturing the Feelings of the Modern World, Andrew Schoultz focuses on capturing an overall mood. Connotations and literal references of modern day events relate to a larger perspective of human emotions. He includes symbols of hope amidst a kinetic cultural chaos. Andrew Schoultz depicts such underlying themes as the resilience of nature and the beautiful dichotomy between man and his relationship with nature. His new works will comment on current tragic and catastrophic global politics and environmental and economic concerns.

For the exhibition, Andrew Schoultz will create a three-dimensional installation and sculpture of a red brick structure, half-factory and half-industrial prison complex. Part of the sculpture will be painted on wooden panel and part painted directly onto the wall in a seamless manor. His exhibition will include a large number of paintings on wood panel, ranging in sizes, as well as mixed media works on paper.

Andrew Schoultz uses images of American and foreign currency to heighten thematic content and sentiment. Historical references include medieval drawings and maps that allude to war and the conquering of new frontiers. He merges self-trained folk art styles and Indian and Islamic miniature painting techniques with contemporary influences of comics and graffiti to create a distinctive new art form. Through stylistic renderings, skewed perspective, vibrant colors and delicate details Andrew Schoultz conveys a sense of urgency in his works. His painstaking care for details elicits a powerful energy and narrative motion. Complex, restless compositions and old drawing techniques further parlay the correlation with current global tensions, contemporary politics, and artistic styles. Ultimately, Andrew Schoultz achieves a cultural worldview from a singular perspective, inviting viewers to draw their own conclusions from each narrative.

For Andrew Schoultz, art is an uncontrollable passion and obsession. After many travels around the United States experiencing skateboarding and graffiti art, Andrew Schoultz settled in San Francisco in 1997. He graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California. Although heavily interested in showing work and doing large multi-media installations in the gallery and museum setting, Andrew Schoultz has spent a tremendous amount of time doing murals and various works in the streets of America and abroad. Among solo and group shows at galleries around the country, including the Boston Center for the Arts, Andrew Schoultz has been awarded prestigious grants from The Portland Main Public Art Fund and Neighborhood Beautification Award for his mural projects in San Francisco. Recently His works have been published in a variety of magazines and newspapers including Art Week, San Francisco Weekly, Alarm, McSweeney’s, and Dan’s Papers. Ulysses: Departures, Journeys and Returns, a new book by Andrew Schoultz and published by Paper Museum Press, will be released in October 2006.

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9th from 7pm-9pm

Jonathan LeVine Gallery
529 W. 20th Street - New York

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