UNDER THE PARASOL
Tag: Bowery
POP-UP STORIES: Painting for a Noble Project
Dominican-born artist, Sócrates Márquez, was living in the Bronx in 2006 when the urge of creativity came over him. The gestating appetite to paint commenced with casual episodes of coloring the walls of his apartment as a therapeutic after-work session, and later developed into a serious art practice transferred onto canvases. At the time Márquez […]
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POP-UP STORIES: The “American Dream”, alive and well?
Who still believes in the “American Dream”? A nice suburban home with a well kept front lawn, a happy couple with children, burgers and hotdogs barbecuing in the backyard, the sun is shining while the Andrew Sisters’ Mr. Sandman plays in the background, you know the story… Well, it’s not quite dead yet, as last week the artist Pia Sawhney revived the myth and created her […]
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Pop-up Stories: Artist as Businesswoman
Forget the bohemian artist cliché, from today’s world of social media and self-entrepreneurship comes the artist as a businessman or in this case, businesswoman. For seven years Sue Tsai has practiced as a professional artist and as she opens her fifth successful pop-up exhibition, she’s proud of her freedom. “I’ve gone independent, so I have full control over the art and space” she states, “artists […]
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Pop-Up Stories: Lingerie + Feminism
As society acknowledges a legitimate challenge to the patriarchy in the wake of the “#metoo movement,” the Turkish lingerie brand Else has teamed up with photographer Emine Gozde Sevim to launch the social campaign #LikeNoOneElse on August 1st, at Parasol Projects – 208 Bowery pop-up shop location in New York City. Also from Turkey, but based in New York, Sevim studied Sociology and International Relations in addition […]
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