Audrey Smith and Maggie Kleinpeter
at Blast Gallery
April 14 to May 7, 2012
This month, BLAST Gallery in Teaneck, NJ, presents an exhibition of the work of artists Audrey Smith and Maggie Kleinpeter.
Around 2007 Audrey Smith began creating collages in a Moleskine sketchbook as a creative exercise. A year into the project she began to take another serious look at collage and mixed media art, and it blossomed into a new creative focus. Her work has evolved from simple abstract constructions to a more narrative and surrealistic style. She combines vintage and antique medical and science illustration, photographs, and advertising with rich color, patterns, and type. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and Europe and has been published in books and art periodicals.
This series of art is the intersection between Maggie Kleinpeter‘s creative life as a painter and her design work for Supermaggie, a screen printed apparel company she operates with Michael Pittard. Incorporating her drawings and photographs along with vintage artwork, these whimsical compositions are created by artfully layering the screen printed images used on Supermaggie apparel. In these artworks the images are transformed from simple prints to layered and textured dreamlike scenarios with the suggestion of a narrative.
BLAST Gallery is the place to satisfy one’s urban, outsider, independent creative fix. It features monthly art shows and a wide variety of specially curated merchandise. BLAST is also a coffee bar offering a full menu of espresso drinks made from is kosher, organic and single origin/direct trade coffee.
(from the gallery’s press materials)
INFORMATION
BLAST Gallery
445 Cedar Lane
Teaneck, NJ, 07666, USA
Hours
Monday – Thursday, 7:30AM to 8:30PM
Friday – Saturday, 7:30AM to 11PM
Sunday 9AM to 7PM
Images
Top Image: Orbital Forcasting by Audrey Smith
Right Image: Black Fox in Pink Thunderstorm by Maggie Kleinpeter