Karla Wozniak's - "Blue Highway" solo exhibition. Opening Tomorrow March 27th

TOMORROW MARCH 27th.

Blue highway. Purple sky. Green clouds. Yellow arrows in a gray parking lot. Driving home through the orange fog, we see the Smoky Mountains. Lights fall on asphalt, cutting across kudzu-strangled trees. An illuminated sign nestled between strange bulbous figures beckons us; a road sign points the way. Time is passing, the light is changing, the weather is unpredictable. Something is happening in the hills. Things are heightened, magical, foreboding. East Tennessee breathes; it dreams.

Trailer Park Proyects is proud to present Blue Highway, an exhibition of works on paper by the Knoxville, TN-based painter Karla Wozniak.  The places depicted in these works are unstable, vacillating between the mundane and the fantastical. As the viewer muses from a car window, the sky and ground run together. Tethered to the ground, we find ourselves in the clouds.

 

Karla Wozniak received her MFA from Yale University and her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design. Her recent exhibitions include a solo show at the University of Vermont’s Colburn Gallery, Burlington VT(2013), and the Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco (2011). Recent group exhibitions include Decade, Gregory Lind Gallery (2012), Bronx Calling, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY (2011); Weasel, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2010). Wozniak’s distinctions include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (2011), participation in the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program (2009-10), and two MacDowell Colony Fellowships (2005, 2007). Her work has been noted in a number of publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Houston Chronicle, the Village Voice, and the Huffington Post. Wozniak is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

 

 

 

TPP will be parked outside Roberto Paradise Gallery at Calle Hipodromo #610 in Santurce from 7:00pm.  Rboerto Paradise will be opening the solo show "It'll be Alright" from artist Autsin Eddy and we will be presenting the works of Jason Karolak as well. A great day to see great art. Karla Wozniak will be present at the opening so if you want to meet her and talk about her work, you have to be here tomorrow.

 

Karolak's and Wozniak's works will fluctuate between $100-$500.

 

 

 

Sebastian Vallejo's print - Es un peligro estar vivo.

This month is the turn of Sebastian Vallejo to present his limited edition silkscreen print. The print titled “Es un peligro estar vivo” was created in Vallejo’s unique style and sense of humor making reference to the Island actual state in regards of criminality. It’s a social call out to everyone which forces you to see the realty and calls out for everyone to be on the lookout because the way we are living anything can happen to you at any time. One of the colors used to create the work is silver making reference to the bling bling the underworld uses to position them and show their success within their peers. The print can be read as well if placed upside down making reference to the Island’s political and social situation which is as we say upside down.

Vallejo has a MFA from the Chicago Art Institute (SAIC) and moved to NYC afterwards. His works has been exhibited in Lloyd Dobler Gallery, Lehman Maupin and his solo show at Trailer Park Proyects titled “MarkMaking: Sketches from Bushwick” which were presented earlier this year.

The print is signed and numbered to 50 copies only and they sell at the usual price of $50. Make sure you get yours today before we sell them out. Call us at 787-409-6983 to reserve yours today.

TPP awarded Chicago Community Trust through the Institute of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (IPRAC) Chicago

Trailer Park Proyects is proud to announce that we have been awarded the Chicago Community Trust trough the Institution of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture (IPRAC) in Chicago. www.iprac.org

TPP will be running our projects in the city of Chicago from March until the month of October. We will be exhibiting artist from Puerto Rico and introducing them into the Puerto Rican communities in the city of Chicago so the people can learn more about the artists from the Island. It's a great way to connect our art with the Puerto Ricans who live in Chicago and keep the roots of that community with the Island.

Artists will exhibit at the Trailer and a small room in the IPRAC simultaneously and the exhibiting artist will be giving a workshop for the community. This will help the viewers understand the artists works and methods of working as well as create a bond with the artist and the Puerto Rican roots.

The opening of the first exhibition will be held on March 15th and will feature the work of co-founder Jorge Rito Cordero. We will have on display our limited edition prints as well as documentation of the project working in the Island. After the opening we will hit the road and visit some schools in the community, galleries and museums.

This is a great way to promote the project our artists. Other artists that will be exhibiting are Rafael Miranda, Omar Velazquez, Admin Torres, Aby Ruiz, Quintin Rivera Toro and a few more. Please keep checking the site and our facebook page for updates and opening dates.

Visit the Facebook page Trailer Park Proyects, IPRAC Chicago
(https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Trailer-Park-Proyects-IPRAC-Chicago/422719211143530?fref=ts) for updates and photos of the progress of the project and LIKE the page to help us spread the word. Also, LIKE the IPRAC official page so you can see what's going on during the year in the Chicago Puerto Rican arts community.

We are very very happy to be part of this grant and are happy that we will work together with the IPRAC and the City of Chicago to expand our coulture and our artists.

Hope everyone in Chicago shows up to support a great collaboration and learn more about your artists.

TPP Presents: Roberto Marquez and Janelle Wisehart's: Works on Paper/Stories on Paper

This month TPP is proud to present the dual exhibition: "Works on Paper/Stories on Paper" of local artist Roberto Marquez and american artist Janelle Wisehart. The exhibition will consits of around 20 drawings on paper in different sizes.

Marquez and Wisehart are both persuing their MFA at Univesity of South Florida where they met and became friends after seeing each others works which are much alike in the language but it's really amazing that tow complete stranges were studying in the same class, same school and have similar ways of thinking and expresing their thoughts in their work

I've known and worked with Roberto for a couple of years and have seen his work evolve and develop troughout the years. Janelle I met about 4 years ago when she appeared in the curated magazine New American Paintings where I saw her work and purchased one. I belive her work has become mature, sarcastic, and with her sense of satire which has always been present.

The exhibition are an inner look into the world of these great young artist and the stories each of their characters has to tell. We are basically in the outside looking into the their world and situations without them knowing we are watching.

Using humor as the main and most important part of the work, we can see the different themes they present: rebellion, sexuality, fetishes, political, sical networks, religion, art history. Theses drawings are part of an exploration of the human behavior where we can easily relate to and become part of the character's world.

All works are priced under the usual $500 with most rangeing in the $100-$250 range. To see all available drawings that will be exhibited please visit our Facebook page Traler Park Proyects.

TPP is also exhibiting New York based artist Jason Karolak as well during this month.

We will be visiting the Escuala de Artes Plasticas on Tuesday March 12 and the University of Sagrado Corazon adn Universidad de Puerto Rico on Wednesday March 13th.

 

JANELLE WISEHART

 

 

ROBERTO MARQUEZ

 

Michael Hilsman and Chris Russell at the UPR

This past February the 20th, TPP visited the University of Puerto Rico art school to present the exhibition "Moon over Mountain Pass" dual individual exhibitions by the Hilsman and Russell, their first in Puerto Rico.

Professors Martin, Nestor and Laura brought their students so they could see the exhibition in what has been one of the most student attended exhibition at the UPR since we atarted the project back in 2011.

Exhibition will continue until the end of the month, for appointments please email me.

TPP presents: "Jason Karolak: Drawings"

This month TPP is proud to present the works of Jason Karolak in his solo exhibition titled: "Jason Karolak: Drawings" The exhibition consists of 15 ink on paper drawings of a variety of sizes. In what will be Karolak's first show in Puerto Rico. The works will range between $250-$400 keeping TPP mission of offering great works by great artists at affordable prices.

Karolak obtained his BFA from Pratt Institute and his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). He currently has an solo exhibition at McKenzie Fine Art in New York. He is currently a Lecturer at Drew University and was a Professor (painting) at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2008-2009. For more information on his works please visit www.jasonkarolak.com.

His studio practice is grounded in the process of drawing. He works between the nodes of thumbnail sketches, ink drawings on paper, and oil paintings on canvas. The works on paper are loose and open-ended, often reworking similar forms and structures. He works fluidly from piece to piece, and later edits down to the ones that are successful. Working with a geometric vocabulary, looking to find balance between the architectural and the organic. There is usually a single, central form: The process is more about constructing than it is composing. For him, drawing is a place of cultivation where character and content have the potential to be revealed, even if only implicitly.

The show will be traveling to the University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras), Universidad del Sagrado Corazon and Escuela de Artes Plasticas. Make sure to follow us on Twitter

Moon over Mountain Pass - Dual Show by Michael Hilsman and Chris Russell

Trailer Park Proyects kicks off 2013 with a dual exhibition by Michael Hilsman and Chris Russell. We will be visiting the UPR and Sagrado Corazon on the 14th. We will visit the Escuela de Artes Plasticas as well during the January 18th week. We are very happy to show our first non-solo show at the sapce with Chris and Michael who are best firends and their works altough different astheticlly, works together and the dialect between the works is superb.

The exhibition consists in 7 drawings by Michael Hilsman and 10 by Chris Russell. These will be priced ranging from $175-$375. The wexhibition will run until February 28th.

In addition to the use of figurative painting and drawing, Chris Russell and Michael Hilsman’s work have shared elements of humanism, fragmentation, and present the relationship between the immaterial and the physical world. In different ways, both artists’ work explore the transient aspects of the physical state, and highlight the sentient characteristics of objects and environments. The title of the exhibition is taken from a work by the 8th century Chinese poet Li Bai, who allegedly drowned while trying to embrace the moon’s reflection in a river. Russell and Hilsman met when the latter picked up the former while hitchhiking in 2003, and their artistic dialogue has continued ever since. The two have had their share of adventures together including nearly being swept away in a dangerous current in the Gan River, China, and wandering lost on the Khumbu glacier near the Mount Everest base camp.

Michael Hilsman was born in Burbank, CA, in 1984 and currently lives and works in New York. His work has been included in numerous periodicals including Modern Painters, The Huffington Post, The Village Voice, Le Point (France), Arte Mondadori (Italy), New American Paintings, The Boston Globe as well as the forthcoming book, Nature Morte: Contemporary Artist Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition, published by Thames and Hudson. He has exhibited internationally, including two recent solo exhibitions, Big Little Man at GalleriaGlance, Turin, Italy and The Opposite of Love at Louis B. James, New York. His upcoming projects include a group exhibition, Cabinets de Curiosites, at Galerie Sebastien Bertrand, Geneva, Switzerland, and a solo presentation at the Zona Maco Art Fair in Mexico City. You can visit www.michaelhilsman.com to learn mora about his work.

Chris Russell was born in Palo Alto, CA, in 1982, and currently lives and works as a special educator in New York. He is the contributor illustrator for Stonecutter: A Journal of Art and Literature, and his work has also been featured in Washington Square Review and the 92Y’s online literary magazine Podium. His recent projects include illustrations for short fiction by Matthew Thomas Russell, and an original tarot card deck for the record Carpal Tunnel Vision Quest by Cash Pony. He is currently preparing for a solo exhibition of his 75-foot miniature subway landscape drawings in Brooklyn.

See you at the show.