shelton walsmith - guest artist

Shelton Walsmith is a mixed media artist working in Brooklyn, New York. 

His work has been published by The Paris Review, Knopf, Vintage, Rizzoli Books, Paris Vogue, Denver Quarterly, 

Shots Magazine, Harper Collins, The New York Times and others. 

He has exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Prague, St.Thomas and Austin.

His most recent one man shows was at Seven Minus Seven Gallery In the US Virgin Islands.

Artist statement

A body of work should not be a cadaver evidencing life 'that was but rather the flashpoint for life which ignites anew on each renewed encounter

Represented by:

2000-2001 Virgil Skye Gallery San Francisco, Ca

2004- 2013 Causey Contemporary Fine Art Brooklyn, NY

2009- 2012 Art For Film online

2016-present 7 minus 7 Gallery, Artist Alliance St. Thomas Virgin Island

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019-Bathers,Waders +Apparitions 7 minus 7 Gallery, Artist Alliance St. Thomas Virgin Island

2016-The Amphibian’s Daughter 7 minus 7 Gallery, Artist Alliance St. Thomas Virgin Island

2016-The last Two Years 7 minus 7 Gallery, Artist Alliance St. Thomas Virgin Island

2015-The Provisional vs. The Dubious , Queens College Art Center, NY

2012-The Uses Of Literature , Cyrus Co., Manhattan, NY

2011-Collage Paintings, La Esquina, Manhattan, NY

2010-Day For Night, Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY

2009-Mirada Fuerte, La Esquina, New York, NY

2004-14 Days a Minute, Plexifilm, New York, NY

2000-Tindergroth, Virgil Skye, San Francisco, CA

1999-Cibachrome Addicts, Incommunicado, New York, NY

1999-Akin, DTUT, New York, NY

1998-Man, Hat and Transfers, DTUT, New York, NY

1993-Mezi Hrady, The Globe, Prague

Selected Group Exhibitions

2020- 7-7 Anniversary Show7 minus 7 Gallery, Artist Alliance St. Thomas Virgin Island

2015- 5x5 , Auckland, New Zealand

2012- Imaginary Cartographies, Auckland Council. New Zealand

2012-The Evil Eye, Queens College Art Center. Queens, NY

2012-Volumes, Causey Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY

2010-On Short Notice, Gallery Azucarera, Harlem, NY

2007-4 Painters, B.A.G Gallery, New York, NY

2006-Small Works, B.A.G Gallery, New York, NY

2006-Kelton Photographers, Chi’x Fine Arts, New York, NY

2006-Self Exposure; The Male Nude, Clamp Art, New York, NY

2006-Out There; That Thing We Call Nature, Hoxie Gallery, Westerly, RI

1999-New York Stories, Monique Goldstrom, New York, NY

1992-Dialogue vs. Dialect, Firestone Gallery, Santa Fe, 

Paolo Borile is a passionate Italian painter who has exhibited his work Internationally. His primary focus is on expressing the nature of the human figure through realistic paintings. His style is figurative and expressive, occasionally photorealistic, and often recalls the classics. Each painting boasts a nostalgic quality and a narrative, sometimes surrealist touch, allowing each viewer to immerse themselves into every colour and architectural element with both recognition and imagination.

Education: 

2010 - 2014 Davide Avogadro school of art, Vigevano, Italy

Events:

2019 Grandart, The Mall, Milan, Italy

2019 Contemporary Art Sale, Galleria Alessia Formaggio, Vigevano, Italy

2019 Lucca Art Fair, Lucca Polo Fiere, Lucca, Italy

2019 Arte Cremona Fair, CremonaFiere, Cremona, Italy

2019 Pavia Art Fair, Palazzo Esposizioni, Pavia, Italy

2017 Painting vernissage, Why not? Café, Vigevano, Italy

Exhibitions: 

2020 Group exhibition, Mulieribus – 7th edition, Bottega Mastro, Grottaglie, Italy

2019 Group exhibition, Vernissage, La Riseria, Novara, Italy

2019 Group exhibition, Mulieribus - 6th edition, Bottega Mastro, Grottaglie, Italy

2019 Group exhibition, Ho visto un genio!, Spazio B, Vigevano, Italy

2018 Group exhibition, Summer show, The Chimera Gallery, Mullingar, Ireland

2018 Group exhibition, Urbanità liquide, Galleria Previtali, Milan, Italy

2018 Group exhibition, Mulieribus - 5th edition, Bottega Mastro, Grottaglie, Italy

2017 Group exhibition, Mulieribus - 4th edition, Bottega Mastro, Grottaglie, Italy

2016 Group exhibition, Food is good?, Outartlet Art gallery, Vigevano, Italy

2016 Curator, A suitcase full of dreams, Spazio Rocco Scotellaro, Vigevano, Italy

2016 Group exhibition, 1st Sforzesco Prize, Castle of Vigevano - Underground alleyway, Vigevano, Italy

2016 Group exhibition, GustArti - 2nd edition, Da Maiuccia Restaurant, Vigevano, Italy

2016 Group exhibition, Mulieribus - 3rd edition, Bottega Mastro, Grottaglie, Italy

2015 Group exhibition, 10th Contemporary Art Exhibition, Cavallerizza of the Castle, Vigevano, Italy

2015 Group exhibition, National Painting Award 'Città delle Ceramiche', Bottega Mastro, Grottaglie, Italy

2014 Group exhibition, Collettiva Officine Roncalli, Vigevano, Italy

2013 Solo exhibition, 'La macchinina' ('The toy car'), Spazio Contarte, Vigevano, Italy

2013 Group exhibition, Collettiva Officine Roncalli, Vigevano, Italy

2012 Group exhibition, Davide Avogadro school of art, Vigevano, Italy

2011 Group exhibition, Davide Avogadro school of art, Vigevano, Italy

Awards: 

2017 Grottaglie Koiné Cultural Organization plaque

2016 Grottaglie Ceramists Union plaque

Painting comes in an easy way — one trifle meets a trick, a Rube Goldberg machine starts a chain reaction, like a reaction on some vaccine, and it goes on and on. So I’m starting to realize that if I’ll change something once again, then I get a brand new work, for which, perhaps, I already have a new meaning and new canvas. This mechanism runs by my presence — a common story for all the artists. But still it all has a great meaning — the smell, the sound, the state, the color of the walls, the air — and when all this substances focus on me, the work emerges, lives, breathes.

Alina Maksimenko was born in 1974 in Kiev, Ukraine.

Education

1985 - 1988 studied in Art School named after T.G. Shevchenko
1993 - graduated from Kiev Art College named after M. Boychuk 

2019 – graduated documentary class of Sergey Bukovsky, Radio Broadcasting and Press Institute; Kiev, Ukraine;

2020 – graduated Wajda School/Studio, Doc Pro department; Warsaw, Poland;
Since 2001 member of the BG-Art union of artists;
Since 2003 member of The Art Union of painters of Ukraine;

Solo projects:

“Asya”, Ya Gallery Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2019 

“Local time. Second episode”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2018
“Not the place. Cohort 1972 ”, Art center Closer, Kiev, Ukraine – 2018
“Titles”, Shcherbenko Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine - 2017
“No title”, Art center Closer, Kiev, Ukraine – 2016
“Time loop”, Art-14 gallery, Kiev, Ukraine - 2016 

Festivals

“Local time”, „Now and after”, Moscow, Russia – 2020

“Boze-na”, „Zhytomyr, make it louder”, Zhytomyr, Ukraine – 2019 

“Text”,On Art Film Festival,MOCAK,(Muzeum Sztuki Wspolczesej), Krakow, Poland – 2018
“Visions and reflections”, Izolyatsia art platform, Kiev, Ukraine - 2018
“Titles”,Barselona Planet Film Festival, Barselona, Spain – 2017
“Podium”, Kyiv Art Week, Kiev, Ukraine - 2017
“Litoralis”,Porto Franko Gogolfest,Ivano Frankivsk, Ukraine – 2016
“Dialogia”, Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine – 2015  
“Piano in progress”, special project for Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia - 2015
“Аrt of War, art of Love, art of Peace”, Gogolfest, Kiev, Ukraine – 2015
“Parallel ornithology”, gallery Belyaevo, Moscow, Russia – 2015
“Ressentiment”, Art-Vilnius, Vilnius, Lithuania – 2015
“Exodus“, Art Kiev Contemporary, Kiev, Ukraine – 2014 

Lives and works in Kiev, Ukraine

Rosalind Adam is a Leicester, UK, writer. She has had many women’s magazine stories and articles published and has co-ordinated several Heritage Lottery funded writing projects. These include Jewish Voices, a memory-based project which resulted in Rosalind’s first published book in 2008. In the same year she had a picture book, Bathtime Rap, published by Franklin Watts. Using her history background, she went on to write two children’s history books, the most recent being The Children’s Book of Richard III. Her poetry has been published in a number of anthologies, including Welcome to Leicester, and on online poetry sites. In 2018 she won the G. S. Fraser poetry prize for Fresh Canvas and was awarded a distinction for her MA in Creative Writing at The University of Leicester. Rosalind blogs at rosalindadam.blogspot.com and tweets as @RosalindAdam.

Jason Brennan returned to his hometown of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, after living in Melbourne Australia. While in Australia he hosted a poetry workshop and had poems published in a number of magazines, including the literary and cultural  journal ‘Overland’ (issue 177),  and contributed two poems for the Going Down Swinging CD (issue23), one of which was a collaboration with Australian screen composer and producer Cornel Wilczek. He was interviewed on Melbourne Triple R’s, radio show ‘Aural Text’ by the broadcaster and writer Alicia Sometimes and also read one of his poems out, live on air.  His work featured in award nominated animator Nik Kallincos’ ‘Restriction Site Poetics’ animation. He has been published in a number of UK magazines including, Anon the anonymous submission magazine. He is currently working on a collection of poems about historical landmarks in his home town.

Sean Chapman is a British writer living in Cornwall beside the capricious Atlantic Ocean and amongst the blur of a blue Whippet and a red fox Labrador. His prolonged and wayward adolescence included working in a Taiwanese astrophysics department, on a Salford mental health ward, running a rum bar on the Liverpool docks and in a Manchester disability support office, before washing ashore in a Cornish surf shop. Between daydreams of cowboy adventures and surfing escapades he writes poems, which have appeared or are forthcoming in Marble Poetry, Raceme, Squawk Back, Prole, Dreich, Fenland Poetry Journal, Quince, The Pomegranate London, The Opiate, Allegro, Anti-Heroin Chic and others. He can be found on twitter: @seanchapman_1

Judy Darley is a British fiction writer and journalist who can't stop writing about the fallibilities of the human mind. Her stories are widely published by literary anthologies, magazines and websites, including Cypress, The Mechanics' Institute Review and The Cabinet of Heed. She is Flash Fiction Editor at Reflex Press. Judy is the author of short story/flash fiction collections Sky Light Rain (Valley Press) and Remember Me To The Bees (Tangent Books). You can find her at http://www.skylightrain.com; https://twitter.com/JudyDarley.

I was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland and have lived in Kildare for the last twenty years or so. I've had lots of different jobs from programmer to corporate detective and been terrible at all of them. I have always enjoyed writing but only started submitting around three years ago so I was very late to the party. It's gone alright though and I've a few books and chapbooks behind me. Now it's just a case of waiting for the billions to start rolling on in.

Mike Doherty. Born in 1954. Can I really be that old? The last year of rationing after the Second World War. I seem to have lived through a lot but always looked within for the words to explain my condition. We are islands assailed at every turn by conflict. Poetry has been my comfort and comforter and other peoples words have been my inspiration. Faith and love ultimately will get me through the prose of life. Poetry is and will be, the blessing.

I am a writer of poetry and creative non-fiction from Halifax, West Yorkshire. In 2019, I won the Cassandra Jardine Memorial Prize with The Telegraph, and in 2020 I won two awards in the Walter Swan Poetry Prize. At present, I am studying an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths University, funded by the Isaac Arthur Green scholarship. My current work-in-progress is a narrative non-fiction about deafness and dementia.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Amy Gordon’s family lived in London when she was very young and one her earliest memories is of the London fog of 1952. She has published ten books for young readers, among them When JFK Was My Father (Houghton Mifflin) and The Gorillas of Gill Park(Holiday House) After a career of teaching theater skills to middle school students, she pursued an MFA in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in the Massachusetts Review and the Blue Nib, among other places. She published her first chapbook, Deep Fahrenheit, in 2019 with Prolific Press. Gordon currently lives in Western Massachusetts on the Connecticut River.

Terence John lives in Scotland and writes full time, as he has done since studying politics and philosophy,  working in the City of London and for the Ministry of Agri-culture in Wales.   He was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize  2018  and  also the Poetry Society's Geoffrey Dearmer Award 2019.His poems have appeared else-where,  or are  forthcoming, in Orbis, The London Magazine, Acumen, Glasgow Re--view  Of  Books,  Stand Magazine,  The North,  The Poetry Review,  Sarasvati,  Blue Moon Literary and Art Review  (USA), Poetry Salzburg Review  and regularly online throughout the USA at medium.com

Lee Johnson was born in Wiltshire, and has lived and worked in London since 2000. He received his MA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins School of Art in 2001, and his works are held in the collections of the University of the Arts London, and Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, as well as numerous private collections worldwide (including UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, USA and Chile). 

Johnson was selected for the prestigious John Moores Painting Prize at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, in 2010. He has exhibited widely, most notably in public institutions in the UK including Tate Britain, London; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. He has also exhibited in many private galleries and artist run spaces in the UK and overseas, including Terrace Gallery, London; Lab Gallery, New York, USA; Nicholas Thompson Gallery, Melbourne, Australia; Carslberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon, Copenhagen, Denmark; ArTower Agora, Athens, Greece; Gozo Contemporary, Malta.

Breda Joyce’s poetry has been shortlisted for the Anthony Cronin and Over the Edge Awards and for the Fish Lockdown prize 2020 and commended in the Fool for Poetry Chapbook competition 2019. She won the Judith Aronson competition UCC. Breda’s poetry appears in Poems for Pandemia, The Honest Ulsterman, Kilkenny Broadsheet, Crannóg, Crossways, Skylight 47, Bangor Literary Journal, The Quarryman, The Galway Review, A New Ulster, Dodging the Rain, Tales from the Forest and The Waxed Lemon. Her first collection Reshaping the Light will be published by Chaffinch Press in 2021

Josh Lefkowitz received an Avery Hopwood Award for Poetry at the University of Michigan. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, New Poetry from the Midwest 2019, Washington Square Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Electric Literature, Rattle, and many other places including journals in Canada, Ireland, Germany, Australia and Hong Kong. His poems have been read aloud on NPR and the BBC, as well as printed on the side of a bus in Nashville, Tennessee. He lives in New York City.

John T. Leonard is an award-winning writer, English teacher, and poetry editor for Twyckenham Notes. He holds an M.A. in English from Indiana University. His previous works have appeared in Poetry Quarterly, december, Chiron Review, North Dakota Review, Roanoke Review, Punt Volat, High Shelf Press, Rappahannock Review, Jelly Bucket, Mud Season Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Genre: Urban Arts, Stonecoast Review, and Trailer Park Quarterly. He lives in Elkhart, Indiana with his wife, three cats, and two dogs. You can follow him on Twitter at @jotyleon and @TwyckenhamNotes.