APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Stacey Tyrell

    We launch Apogee Issue 06 tonight! Join us in celebrating our latest issue at the Bureau of General Services-Queer Division (208 W 13th St, Rm 210) @ 7Pm. And for our final visual art preview, we are thrilled to share artist Stacey Tyrell’s “Rhona, 28yrs.” See you tonight. xoxo Apogee         Rhona, 28yrs., from “Backra Bluid” series, 2012, Archival Epson Print, 40×30 inches   STACEY TYRELL is a New York based photo-conceptual artist.  She was born in 1978 and raised in Toronto, Canada to parents of Nevisian heritage.  She attended OCAD University where she majored in Photography.  Her work explores the interplay of race, heritage and identity as it relates to preconceived notions of Euro-centric beauty and heritage within post-colonial societies and the Caribbean Diaspora. Tyrell’s work has been a part of exhibitions at the Royal Ontario Museum, the Canadian Museum of Immigration, the Places des Arts Montreal, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, the Houston Museum of African American Culture and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY.  She has had her images appear in such publications and websites as Marie Claire South Africa, Canadian Art, Huffington Post, Refinery 29, ARC Magazine and Feature Shoot.  Most recently her...
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APOGEE ISSUE 06 PREVIEW: Clemence Vazard

    Today we are honored to feature artist Clemence Vazard’s “Escotade.”       Escotade Collage manuel sur documents originaux (Translation: Handmade collage on original paper) 21×30 centimeters, 2014   Since her adolescence, Clémence Vazard has been fascinated by paper. From the age of 12, she has been using walls, doors, and wallpaper as foundations for accumulated images as found in mainstream magazines, posters, stickers, and cards. Vazard received an M.A. in Arts and Culture Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris in 2009; thereafter she began working in various venues ranging from art galleries, to concert venues, to artist residencies and festivals, and beyond. These experiences have helped Vazard develop her creative practice and refine her artistic aesthetic. Amongst the many interrogations that Vazard nourishes, the most recurring and sensitive one is an exploration into the role of women in contemporary society, as depicted in pop culture and media.

Apogee Issue 06 Preview: Lizzie Gill

Lizzie Gill is a mixed media artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her work explores themes of retro Americana in a contemporary context. Through a variety of mediums she illustrates a time warp, composed of everyday life, human agency and the disingenuous.  The disingenuous nature of her work pertains to one’s ability to mislead through dress, speech or manner.  Growing up in the digital age, this deception is often conducted behind a series of computer screens. This manipulation is also evident in her process. Her canvases are comprised of mixed media and oil, a process first approached through digital collage and then translated onto canvas. The imagery elicits notions of science fiction, with figures suspended in other dimensions, where natural laws, such as gravity, do not apply. Her work is a nostalgic look at both the American past and innocence with a twist, prompting one to question their sense of time and culture. Not everything is ever quite as it seems. Lizzie is the Associate Curator at Sugarlift Gallery in Brooklyn and the co-founder of the Brooklyn Collage Collective. The Collective’s goal is to bring attention to the medium of collage through an ever growing and dynamic group...
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