Tarik Talk

di Tarik Mendes

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Lawrence Ciarallo (ART150) (Season 2, Episode 4)

LAWRENCE CIARALLO is an artist, designer and muralist from the city of Hoboken, New Jersey. His work is an eclectic mix of portraits, pop art and mixed media pieces that address a myriad of topics and honor a diverse group of individuals. As part of his art practice he is a member of the YNY Alliance for Young New Yorkers, an organization that provides diversion programs for court-involved young people in New York City.ARTIST STATEMENT, My paintings and murals are inspired by the endless beauty that exists amidst the chaos of daily life. To exemplify this spectrum, I utilize a mixture of collage, abstraction and portraiture. Portraiture allows for the duality of addressing current events and or celebrating a group or individual. These pieces offer insight to my beliefs and interests as my subjects are an array of musicians, authors, scholars, artists and athletes whose accomplishments provide endless motivation personally and creatively. My objective is to create work that stimulates, informs, and engages the viewer.

Georgina Billington (ART150) (Season 2, Episode 3)

Georgina Billington is an internationally acclaimed makeup artist, renowned for her bold and imaginative vision of feminine beauty. With over two decades of experience in the industry, she has worked with top-tier international editions of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, and at prestigious events like Milan, Paris, London & NYC Fashion Weeks. Georgina has worked with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry, including Joan Jett, Jessie J, Grace VanderWaal, Padma Lakshmi, and more. Her impressive client list includes world-class brands like Samsung, Nike, and MAC Cosmetics.Georgina's diverse talents go beyond makeup artistry. She is a skilled body painter and fine artist, whose works have been showcased in top galleries such as the Bowery Hotel in NYC and Mark Borghi Gallery in The Hamptons. In addition, she utilized her body painting talents to create a stunning look for Anthony Kiedis in The Red Hot Chilli Pepper's music video 'Go Robot'.In 2017, Georgina released her first book, Gorgiality, and has continued to contribute to art shows throughout the world. She opened her private makeup and body paint studio in 2021 in Jersey City, and launched her art print website, www.georginabillingtonartstore.com, where she sells prints of her works and participates in art exhibitions.Georgina's unparalleled talent, vision, and expertise have earned her international acclaim, making her a valuable addition to any production. Her passion for fusing high-fashion make-up artistry with her talent for body painting and fine arts sets her apart as a visionary in the industry.

Fabricio Suarez (ART150) (Season 2, Episode 2)

Fabricio Suarez is an artist from Uruguay working in NY/NJ area. He received his BFA in Fine Arts and illustration from the School of Visual Arts.He has been a part of numerous group shows in NJ, NY & LA and has done residencies at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City and Artists Off-the-Grid, in Red Feather Lakes, Colorado.His current studio practice described as Abstract Baroque, consist of moody surrealist paintings, distorting compositions of traditional European portraits and landscapes with spiritual elements of American savagery. Where abstract brushstrokes acting as “characters” form a narrative in the landscape. A basic exploration of relationships between impulsive mark making.He is also an illustrator, sculptor and an avid plain air painter, focusing on the urban landscape; and has also traveled around the U.S, Europe & South America painting a great variety of landscapes.He lives and works in Jersey City.

Mindy Gluck (ART150) (Season 2, Episode 1)

Mindy Gluck Artist Statement: My desire to create visual imagery using abstraction, to create worlds that don’t exist in reality, reflects my belief that there will always be truths we can’t prove: mysteries, the unknown, truths that are beyond science and mind. Enter the realm of imagination to create worlds that can’t be proven or seen until they are brought into the light. This is the journey I am having which is surprising and exciting, that allows for any possibility to be created.

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Tzara Paints, Painter of Shapes (ART150) (Season 1, Episode 6)

Tzara Paints, Painter of Shapes @TzaraPaints In this episode we talk about Tzara creative process, inspirations, medium, the meaning behind her work and much more! Feel free to see her Instagram, at @tzarapaints, where you can see a wide range of her work, behind the scenes as she paints, and fun time lapse of her creative process. For inquiries, please follow Tzara on Instagram, @tzarapaints to inquire in regards to art work, commissions and studio visits.

J.Heloise (ART150) (Season 1, Episode 5)

Heloise (pronounced "Hello-ease") graduated Parsons The New School for Design with a fashion degree, and Northwestern University with a B.A. in Comparative Literature. She has studied Art at the Atelier of the Louvre in Paris, & at the Centre D’Art Contemporain in Istres, France. Her first formal artistic training was in classical piano, from age 5-17. She also performed in voice, acting/musical theater throughout her schooling, winning awards. She received a fashion design AAS from Parsons The New School for Design in 2006, where she trained with professor Laura Volpintesta & faculty. After graduating, she worked as a designer-illustrator for NYC companies J.Crew, Express, Alice Roi & numerous clients. In 2008, Heloise relocated to Vermont aiming to cultivate her skills in the visual arts. In 2009, she launched the J.Heloise line of greeting cards at the summer Artist Market. The product offerings quickly grew from a small table to a full selection in stores & online. She also taught art at the college level & recrationally to students of all ages. After 8 years, she returned to the NYC-area, where Heloise currently resides. She continues to create both art & music as a songwriter/singer and is currently producing an album of original songs in Jersey City. She has provided art commissions for businesses & clients for over 14 years.

Paul Wirhun the Eggman (ART150) (Season 1, Episode 4)

About Paul Wirhun: I have been working on eggshells since I was 8 years old, learning the traditional Ukrainian art of pysanky from my mother. This artistic and cultic use of eggs informs my work to this day - as I believe that eggs are events - not simply objects. The shells (while the protective casing for the new life inside) are memories of the primal events that produced the eggs, intended as new life. In order to infuse new life into this ancient folk art, I have manipulated traditional processes with innovative dyeing & brush techniques, and etching, to forge a new visual language to write on this versatile, organic sphere. The facility of the shell for a range of techniques (batiking, scratching, painting, gilding) affords me a great range of visual expression to manifest ideas, events, and fantasies. “Ancient design for a new worldview” has been the mantra underpinning my studio philosophy and praxis. Picking up pieces of broken eggshells and reconstructing them into new images, the work of my studio, seems like an apt metaphor for this moment. This process born out of recycling studio detritus has offered me a new way to construct new worldviews. Bringing forward from the past images, designs, and compositions can visually realign how we see our own world in these times.

Susan Evans Grove (ART150) (Season 1, Episode 3)

Grove is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in NYC with a BFA in Photography, Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. She has been published in numerous books, magazines, and newspapers and has pieces in public and private collections both in the United States and Europe. She is the creator of the group "Thou Art Mom"; which stemmed from her series of the same name and brings mother artists together for support and networking. She has curated two shows with the same title as well as others on different themes. Grove is also the creator and curator of 24/7/art an online gallery on Facebook. For the past several years Grove’s work has been landscape based. While there are never any figures in the work there is always the mark that humanity has left: industrial wastelands giving way to high rises, farmland and forests folding to create overgrown housing developments, automobiles distorting the scenery they were manufactured to speed through, boat hulls recording the stormy seascapes they were built to navigate. Signs of a “civilized” culture. The work distorts the landscape to show the damage we are doing to it. These are toxic environments we are creating by industry, human convenience, progress. Visually, Grove is deeply inspired by painters like Gerhard Richter and Anselm Kiefer and strives to create photographic work that is painterly.

Josué Morales Urbina (ART150) (Season 1, Episode 2)

Josué Morales Urbina is a Guatemalan installation artist who lives and works in the New York metropolitan area. His art practice spans various media as he explores transcultural displacement and memory through installation and sculptural work. His playful and elegant forms reference a rich material practice, where he examines his own cultural identity and the ideological experience of being a “third culture kid.” He was born in Guatemala City and has lived across the United States in varying geographic locations. Morales Urbina holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a minor in Art History and Criticism. He is also an alumni from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

Masha Vladimir Thomas (ART150) (Season 1, Episode 1)

Masha Vladimir is a Ukrainian born multidisciplinary artist and storyteller whose artwork is personified by way of Soviet village upbringing and her experience as an immigrant teenager in the Y2K era. Masha’s artistic rolodex includes painting, digital design, styling, creative direction, choreography and photography.

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