Opening Reception August 8th, 6-10pm
August 8 –August 17, 2008

Factory Fresh is proud to present Fresh Meat, a show exhibiting the up and coming members of the Factory Fresh Team. Whether it is experimenting with mixed media, printmaking, photography, painting, or performance art, all eight artists create work based on their experiences as young artists.

The Factory Fresh Team Members:

E, Greem "greemsstory 1988-2007" celebrates e, greem's history. Each of the thirteen paintings has different stories following a different period of time in her life. The paintings are used in a performance in which she folds the paintings, each time getting smaller and smaller, until at last, the final painting of greem as an unborn baby concludes greemsstory.

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Autumn Marie is a young photographer who grew up in the countryside of the Catskill Mountains. Most of her work is deeply rooted to her life there, as well as inspired by her interest in the past. Her goal is to capture the true beauty and essence of the forgotten landscape and farms that were once a large part of the community.

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Bernarde & Muxtschefaire met while working at the Brooklyn Museum. Both young girls in lonely New York, they revel in their solitude over English and blueberry tea at cute restaurants. Their work revolves around identity. They share so much of the same expectations and desires from life; they're the same, yet different.

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Nora Lee is currently studying Fine Arts at Cornell University. Her lithographs are a form of "intuitive doodling," letting mood and circumstance determine pattern and flow of line. In her mixed media pieces, mainly constructed with wood and metal, Lee hopes to convey the effects of time and its inevitable aging consequences. Her mixed media work also explores the restraints time places on humanity, including the suppression of our inner most thoughts.

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Amanda Wong is a developing artist who enjoys exploring mixed media and installation work.
What she chooses to depict is not based on reason, but based on her ability to create nonsensical environments.

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Dresden Pawlick When American popular culture of the 90’s struck neon gold, I was too young to fully appreciate its products, specifically toys, marketed towards the kids. Introducing Lisa Frank and Russ Trolls, current BFF’s and objects of my desire. Only now can I look at these things and think, “What the Fuck?! A doll with an aquamarine gemstone for a belly button? Stationary with a poodle in high heels flirting on the telephone? To me, it is an awkwardness that seems more suitable for snarky adults rather than children. This is just the kind of eccentricity and perverseness I love. At times I like to call upon these wal-mart ghosts and incorporate their now defunct limbs into a drawing. Other times, I embrace the idea of the adorable, and focus on cute kids doing cute things. My biggest wish is that somewhere, Daniel Clowes is building a time machine and I’ll be able to take a few of my drawings back to the nineties and sell them on the streets as posters, in exchange for a bobble-head, smiley face ring.

 

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Lindsey Elsaesser like many photographers Lindsey was drawn to portraiture because she felt it captured something true; the impermanence of human existence. She chose the subjects in these photographs because they embody a sort of fleeting raw emotion. They are precarious; they are fragile, but also strong. Lindsey wants her photographs to show the viewers another world. It is a world of rumpled and careless homes, intimate and in every way touched by those who live there. When it comes down to it, she hopes that these photographs will access a rawness in you and by this she means anything in a natural condition; not processed or refined, not finished, covered, or coated, anything exposed as in a raw wound, anything out spoken or crude: a raw portrayal of truth.

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Jena Kane After recieving a bachelors degree in Fine Arts from the Fashion Institute of Technology in May 2007, Jena has been working on freelance illustration and design, along with developing personal works in mixed media. Brooklyn born, and city dwelling, Jena's work is an evolution inspired by music, stories, the people she meets and nature(or lack thereof).

 

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Matthew Mazur, former assistant to Judy Rosen of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, creates large scale paintings on wood. In his subject matter, he explores the diversity of human emotions ranging from joy to agony.