Urban Aesthete | Your Daily Dose of the Arts

Series: Vertigo-3.

Lex — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:16:37 +0000

The arch hangs delicately in balance.

Series: Vertigo-2.

Lex — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:00:31 +0000

Climb the trusses to the metal heart of the beast, pulsating with sunlight and air.

Exhibition at Gallery Bar.

Lex — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:06:48 +0000

If you are in New York city this Friday (11/14), you can catch Alexey Sokolin’s art at Gallery Bar, through an event hosted by Smarter Green Cleaner. Also showcasing his work is Jeffrey Augustine Songco. Details below, click on image for full-size:

Come out for one night to support the start of our new non-profit organization, Smarter Greener Cleaner! As young professionals, our mission is to better the environment by promoting simple solutions in New York City. Please check out our website at www.sgcnyc.org

This major fundraising event will help us build awareness and begin accomplishing our mission.

We will also be featuring artwork from one of our talented founding members, Jeff Songco, along with the accomplished artist Alexey Sokolin.

Doors Open at 8:30 PM
Open Bar is from 9 PM to 10 PM
Cocktail Attire

Come as a pre-game event or stay and party with us at Gallery Bar!

To get on the list and guarantee entry, please RSVP by emailing smartergreenercleaner@gmail.com. A simple email including your name will work! We are capping the list at 150 attendees so be sure to RSVP!

Tickets: $20 for those who RSVP or $25 at the door

Series: Vertigo-1.

Lex — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 02:30:56 +0000

Take flight in the shapes holding this construct together. Trace its beams to origin. This series is a close study of the Queensboro bridge and the vertigo it inspired/demanded.

Series: Metallic Jungle-5.

Lex — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:44:12 +0000

The rancor continues, but the path will soon leave the green, gray and brown and head towards a sunny and jubilant yellow.

Series: Metallic Jungle-4.

Lex — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:42:05 +0000

To tell you the truth, we are just getting started. These interlocking details of metal will part to reveal a sky so clear it leads endlessly out.

Series: Metallic Jungle-3.

Lex — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:19:52 +0000

A belt of stairs cuts the image into its components. We are floating in the sky.

Series: Metallic Jungle-2.

Lex — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:12:47 +0000

The metallic shapes echo with a staccato of repetition.

Series: Metallic Jungle-1.

Lex — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:39:42 +0000

Dark greens with rusted highlights. An overwhelming multitude of structural growth.

Creativity Without Purpose.

Lex — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:52:59 +0000

Funding for technology and media start-ups is severely drying up, as the main available business model (advertising) is taking a nosedive with the rest of the economy. This will, hopefully, raise the bar. What happens though to all the unspent creativity? What do people who are marginal losers in this situation do instead?

Perhaps it goes into some pool of reserves energy, to be brought out next cycle. Or maybe people give up their dreams of color and font, and become accountants. It must be aesthetically satisfying to practice such an act of self-denial: the economy has got me down, and I have no choice but to abandon my freedom.

They must practice it in small ways. Sneaking in synchronized excel formatting. Switching up the paper for their PowerPoint presentations. Wearing a green tie to work.

Or maybe, and this is a hopeful maybe, we can divorce the practice of creativity from actual “practice”. We abstract it, and make it its own pursuit. Goals, results, etc etc, are by-products; and if they are that much harder to reach in this environment, why not indulge in pure and meaningless art?