Members - Monica Sarmiento

Mónica Sarmiento Castillo - "Naturaleza"

Biography:

(English)
She was born in Loja, Ecuador in 1967. In 1987 she earned the Bachelor with Honors degree in Art and Design by the Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja.

Since 2001 she has been working with CB&a Consultores-Auditores, S.L in Alicante as the project coordinator for the Museo del Vidrio de la Comunidad Valenciana.

In 2003 she began to develop her doctorate project by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

As well as Joaquin Torres-Garcia, the Universal Constructivist pioneer, Monica Sarmiento also uses ancient geometrical forms with pre-Columbian themes within her work. Utilizing natural materials she makes symbols and designs that are characterized by their primitive appearance.

While Torres-Garcia pretends to show the primitive aspects by integrating ancient pre-Columbian symbols in his work; the Monica Sarmiento methods reflects another purpose: her art is a vibrant colored gamma and illustrates a uniqueness sensation, especially by detailing nature’s colours.

(Spanish)
Nace en 1967 en Loja, Ecuador. En 1987 obtiene la Licenciatura en Diseño y Pintura por la Escuela de Bellas Artes de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja.

Desde el 2001 viene trabajando en CB&a Consultores-Auditores, S.L. de Alicante como Coordinadora General para el Proyecto del Museo del Vidrio de la Comunidad Valenciana.

A partir del año 2003 desarrolla su proyecto de doctoradoen la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Como en la obra de Joaquín Torres-García, el pionero del Constructivismo Universal, Mónica Sarmiento también mezcla en su trabajo formas geométricas antiguas con temas pre-colombinos. Usa materiales naturales para crear diseños y símbolos que semejan ser primitivistas.

Mientras que la intención de Torres-García fue destacar las cualidades primitivistas al incorporar antiguos símbolos pre-colombinos en su trabajo; los métodos de Sarmiento reflejan otro propósito: su trabajo es una gama de vibrantes colores e irradia una sensación de novedad. Especialmente al destacar los colores de la tierra.

"Collage" by Monica Sarmiento

Monica Sarmiento's interview (in Spanish)

Artes Figueiredo Group

By the end of June, a four members selection of Artes Figueiredo Group has been exhibiting in our gallery. Here it is a brief description of them all:

Israel Macedo is a young Brazilian artist who has in recent years begun to surprise collectors and art critics alike. Starting very young with painting and drawing, it was just a few years ago that he decided to use clay for modeling and begun to create sculpture. With his professional use of bronze and metal castings, all his many talents started to bloom at once. His work impresses for the surreal and good humor found in his suprising creations. Full of details, his work shows both a friendliness and a subtle sense of comedy. His series of Apples with or without an Ant Friend have been very successful in Brazil. His surname "Macedo" in Portuguese means the place where apple trees grow, another funny sign coming from Israel Macedo.

Odete M. Figueiredo was born in Portugal, and lives in Brazil where she paints and models clay hearing the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Her atelier actually has a nice view of the ocean and is part of the inspiration for the so called organic art. She creates pieces of art that have been exhibited in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and other cities in Brazil, where has earned many golden and silver medals. Her natural curiosity makes her to try different materials and finishings for her bronze and resin works. She always looks for new textures and colors.


Dominique LeComte was born in France in 1949, and has lived in Brazil since 1973. He has a surrealistic style, and has used different media in the last 40 years to express his art. Painting is his passion. His art works usually involve sexy women and lots of color, always reflecting his actual mood: brighter is the canvas and sexier is the women, happier is he when painted that. That he could never change it has always given a picture of his mood. The artist has won gold medals from many international art exhibitions, including painting and sculpture. He has also published a book of drawings and has worked as a jewelry designer.

Mauro Soares is a Brazilian artist born in 1955. His work is a modern and unique search for the same bright and colors of a photography but using an odd way: His paintings are done with about 20 layers of acrylic ink, each layer painted only with small 2 inches strips of the same color. When the canvas is finished, and you look from a fair distance it does look like a photo, from near a lot of small strips overlaid. His work can be found in important private contemporary art collections and 2 of his paintings have been published in the Brazilian Playboy magazine.

+Link Artes Figueiredo's website

Members - Gary Aagaard

"God According to Voltaire" by Gary Aagaard

@ garyaagaard.com:

As a traditional/non-digital illustrator/painter (no Photoshop, Quark or Corel - just oil and canvas), Gary Aagaard has been commissioned by dozens of publications from The New York Times to The Village Voice, and as a Seattle native on double-secret probationary return from Brooklyn, The Seattle Weekly. Ward-Nasse Gallery in Manhattan holds a decade's representation of his work, with solo shows there in 2005 and 2007.

"Yo' mama"

+Link - Gary Aagaard's website
+Link - Gary Aagaard's portfolio

The Under $200 July's Sale

Mr.Harry Nasse (Director) and Mr.Victor Kozlov (Artist)

We are selling art!

The gallery and participating artists are giving the public a chance to buy artworks at unheard of low prices.

Please do not miss this opportunity to find some really good values on one of a kind artworks.

Latest Exhibitions - Summer Solstice 09'

Solstice:
n.

1. Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest distance from the celestial equator. The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere occurs about June 21, when the sun is in the zenith at the tropic of Cancer; the winter solstice occurs about December 21, when the sun is over the tropic of Capricorn. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year and the winter solstice is the shortest.

Inspired by it Ward-Nasse Gallery brought an amazing exhibit by the entire month of June featuring the following artists: Cristina Matarasso, Milton Mota, Ricardo P. Pinto, Tais Melillo, Leda Maria (as curator too) and another 6 members of the Sciacco Group.

Tania Sciacco, Jhorie (Artist), Enock Sacramento (member of the AICA), Leda Maria (Artist/Curator), Tais Melillo (Photographer), Harry Nasse (Ward-Nasse's Director)

Mr.Enock Sacramento signing the book Art Connections (originally titled Conexões da Arte as in Portuguese), written by him and Oscar D'Ambrosio, another brazilian acclaimed critic of art.

Milton Mota's work


Visitors enjoying the show


Tais Melillo

+Link for Summer Solstice's gallery of photos (Credits: Tais Melillo)
+Link for Summer Solstice's article (em Português )

Latest Exhibitions - Brazilian Beat 09'

Ward-Nasse Gallery presented the second year of Brazilian Beat exhibit between 1st and 30th april. The event curated by Leda Maria brought artworks of 15 brazilian contemporary artists with different styles.

We're very thankful for all the people that participated and collaborated for this show success.


Mr.Harry Nasse and Leda Maria (Curator). Bia Finkielsztejn's paintings on background


Sold sculpture piece by Flory Menezes


Visitors at the opening




+Link for Brazilian Beat's complete set of photos (Credits: Tais Melillo).
+Link for Brazilian Beat's article (em Português ).

Latest Exhibitions - Sciacco Studio Group

The Sciacco Studio Group - 2008:



+Link Complete set of photos (credits: Tais Melillo)

Latest Exhibitions - Roberto Fukuda

Roberto Kenji Fukuda is a renowned brazilian artist, his work has been exhibited internationnaly on such places as Delaware, Miami, Los Angeles, Iwakuni (Japan), Madrid (Spain) and Paris. On August/08 he was featured in a solo exhibit at Ward-Nasse Gallery, giving visitors the chance to see his unique abstract art. He is also known for his sculpture skills, being a commemorative piece for the 15th Pan-American Games (held on Rio de Janeiro) one of his biggest accomplishments.

Roberto Fukuda (center) at his opening


Some of Fukuda's paintings


+Link for Roberto Fukuda's complete set of photos (Credits: Tais Melillo).