INSIDEOUTSIDE
Nick Atkins – Dotpigeon – Andy Rementer – Charles Shedden
NEW YORK | MUCCIACCIA GALLERY
October 27 – January 30, 2021
Andy Rementer, Brick and Plants, 2020,
Oil on canvas, 32 x 32 cm, 81.2 x 81.2 in
Press Release
Mucciaccia Gallery New York is pleased to announce “InsideOutside” an exhibition featuring four figurative artists.
In these uncertain times, the artists share their personal interpretations of the society by using color, playful scenarios, jokes, trends and sarcasm. In their own way those realities are transformed in a caricature and lighter version of today’s reality.
In Nick Atkins’ works, we can see vices, weaknesses and the sense of limitation and imprisonment, as his subjects he chose animals like cats, ladybugs and centipedes.
In his own words he states that: “It’s a symbol of progression of my personal spiritual growth.
When I first started truly expressing myself through art I connected more to a mouse or rat or smaller animals. Insects. As I grow older the spirit starts to connect to larger more defined
animals. Through quarantine I related to a cat. An outdoor cat that was trapped inside. A symbol of a bound spirit longing to explore.”
Italian artist Dotpigeon uses the perfection of the environment, clean apartments with walls filled by contemporary art masterpieces such as Keith Haring, Kaws and more, the spaces are inhabited by restless characters showing a deep sadness and rage, this creates a strong contraposition between the character and the surrounding space.
Easy to perceive is the contrast with Andy Rementer’s works, which have as subjects calm and peaceful human beings, geometrically inserted in a tidy composition of lights, colors and shapes, giving the viewers a sense of peace.
The adjusted pace of 2020 forced the opportunity for self reflection. Many were isolated in
solitude or nearly; a necessary measure for physical protection. This series of paintings conceived and executed in isolation, examines and presents singular, silent, static figures. The visages adorning the bodies, literal mirrors, connoting Rorschach tests and psychoanalysis. The faces resembling masks- the wardrobe of the day.
Dates:
October 27 – January 30, 2021
Location
520 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011
For more information please contact
newyork@mucciaccia.com
WORKS
Dotpigeon, Fragile, 2020,
Digital painting printed on canvas, 120 x 90 cm, 47.2 x 35.4 in
The Wrath, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 24 cm, 60.96 x 60.96 in
Charles Shedden, Partial Truth So Help Me, 2020,
Oil and enamel on panel, 50.8 x 60.9 cm, 20 x 24 in
Artists Biographies
Nick Atkins
Nick Atkins is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in New York City for the past 20 years.
Nick works with a wide range of media – from painting and sculpture – to film and furniture – yet he maintains a visual and conceptual ingenuity that is definitively his own.
Most recently, Atkins has drawn inspiration from his ongoing fictional narrative script: “HANJI PARTY” as a vehicle to create artworks, which illustrate and reveal the strange worlds he has created to express his personal struggles and passion for life in all its extreme edges.
Andy Rementer
Andy Rementer is a creative person based in Philadelphia. He grew up in a Victorian beach town which later influenced his interest in nostalgia and color. He graduated from Belle Arti in 2004.
After working and living in northern Italy, he relocated to the East Coast where he divides his time between drawing, painting, and traveling.
His characters and illustrations have been featured in a wide range of sources including gallery exhibitions, global advertising campaigns, and various highly collectible editions. Some of his commercial clients include Apple, Samsung, Lotte, The New York Times, Lacoste, Warby Parker, and BMW.
Many of Andy’s commercial, editorial and animated projects are developed with the art direction of Margherita Urbani.
Charles Shedden
Charles Shedden is a multidisciplinary visual artist from New York and a Cooper Union alumnus.
Juggling a lyrically based figurative painting practice, simultaneously producing a separate body of conceptual/idea based work: writing, sculpting, performing…a schizophrenic output yields.
Contrasting terms: true vs false, intelligent and asinine; the binary coexistence is the overarching theme, the tie that binds.
Author of WHEATIES, a treatise on style; the ULYSSEUS, a 700+ page written sculpture, loosely merging the form of Homer’s Odyssey with a notion from Joyce’s Ulysses; the SCIENCE of PEACE, a philosophy.
Founder of ISISM, a nonrepresentational, non-abstract painting style. The aim of ISISM is to present the ACTUAL; to remove the base elements of, illusion, depiction, and representation, typically employed in painting and drawing.
Bound Collections: 92013-9014.
Point Point Press/Hamburgereyes TREE GROWS. 2014 with photographer Yumna Al-Arashi Hard Copy. vol 1-6
Exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide including, Seoul Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.
Lives in New York, Works in New York, Travels in New York.
Dotpigeon
Dotpigeon is an Italian advertising art director.
Born in Milan in 1987, he began his advertising career in 2010 and later won national and international awards such as Cannes Lions, Eurobest and Italian Art Directors Club. He works with brands such as Netflix, Lavazza, Moleskine, Lamborghini, La Rinascente and Kit Kat.
In 2017 he created Dot Pigeon, an artistic project that uses instagram as a platform. Inspired by pop culture, politics, icons and trends of the moment, the ideas behind its artworks remains the same: to create simple and comprehensible messages executed in a clean and visually satisfying way. In just over a year the account reaches more than 40 thousand people and his works are published by several newspapers (Forbes, Fubiz, Designyoutrust, Designtaxi, CNN, Darlin Magazine, Collater.al, Il Messaggero, Freeda, Trendland, Picame Mag, Etc.)
In his works houses represent the shell, the exterior part. Our better face, the well ironed dress, the one we show to others. These houses are well-finished, perfect and visually fulfilling. Their gardens are always green, their floors always polished and their surfaces flawless. It never rains out there. It is In these so perfect scenarios that our true nature – hidden and repressed – lives.
Evidently its look is in conflict with those houses.
A continuous glitch in our system is underway. While we’re mowing the lawn, cleaning the floor and we’re worried about making these houses so perfect, our real soul looses control, takes control, it destroys, it ravages, it sets everything on fire. Sometimes, however, it indifferently looks what is going on, other times it just does nothing. It’s our interior conflict. We all have a rioter inside those walls.
