**Pen and Ink Drawings

Next week's show will include animations in part inspired by friends and scored by portland artist Marcus Fischer's album For Friends This Winter /  by mirena

http://www.mapmap.ch/index.php/sound/for-friends-this-winter/

Doing commercial work is not .... the same as fine art work. Commercial work is a synthesis.  And a lot of it gets done by talking - I used to get in touch with around 20 people when creating art commercially for a specific project - and at the end the work gets evaluated by another set of at least 20 people. While it is not necessarily a committee work as it is done in ad agencies, the work I used to do at Lucasfilm, you could say, was my best shot synthesis on a visual theme. Being "good" commercially meant you were a good listener and interpreter of a cloud of ideas. Sorry ... a very receptive 3d printer.

Fine art work is, on the other hand, genesis. A brand new world is created where you generate an idea, you are the primary vehicle, the messiah, the creator, the motivator, the heavy lifter, the ceo and the heart of the operation. But art is rarely created in isolation and completely without an agenda. Michelangelo worked for the Pope. Renaissance artists worked for the Medici. I personally like when artwork generates several outcomes. winter diagrams were just simple drawings of hands before they were strung together in an animation, then they became a three-dimensional sculpture in Winter - the dress. They will continue to push their way into various forms I am sure, some of the stills from the animations are to become a painting , or several stills combined and interlocked into one painting - I haven't decided yet.

I grew up as an artist creating work commercially and have a lot of the same habits. I love bouncing ideas and talking about work - others' or mine or old masters or new ones.. love dissecting and putting out feelers for the impressions any work leaves on people.

I remember vividly the winter in Brooklyn when I created the animations - although Hand Painted ocean was originally conceived in Manhattan. I came across Marcus Fischer's album For Friends This Winter and decided to use the music for the animations, also feeling that the animations themselves and how I wanted to do them were in large part a synthesis, inspired by many conversations and then a first(i think) visit to one of my favorite museums in New York.  I remember one particular evening with a lot of New-Agey talk, with a girl that was doing New-Agey type massage and having really strange conversations about how she feels her patients with her hands. True? I don't know but deepened my obsession with hands.

Also my friend Rob List had earlier come to my Harlem room and did an impromptu performance which i for some reason filmed, and almost set me on a course:

https://vimeo.com/12269715

The seed for Hand painted ocean and fruit:

Hand Painted Ocean and Fruit from mirena rhee on Vimeo.

I keep the same shifty perspective for my installations where i do value people's unscripted intrusions and impromptu contributions more than my attempts to control a visual outcome.

ART FROM THE BOROS IV Press Release /  by mirena

By popular demand, Denise Bibro Fine Art announces Art From The Boros IV, on view July 14-August 13, 2016. After a copious amount of submissions and studio visits, forty-one diverse artists were selected to participate in this group show highlighting talent found within New York City’s five boroughs. Art From the Boros IV exemplifies the eclectic artistic community of New York City, showing a varied range of genres of art and mediums. With a nod to the Renaissance and Dutch painting, artists Thurston Belmer and Sally Cochrane create rich, highly representational contemporary paintings referencing the great masters through light and application. Roger Preston’s Heathcliff shares a similar worldly feel in a contemporary fashion as photographer Zeren Badar’s Very first Accident mocks the propriety of the old world. In contrast, paintings by artists Jack Rosenberg and Robert Jessel rely on thick, often staccato brushstrokes to create and highlight their compositions while Courtney Bae’s evenly painted figurative narratives and Petey Brown’s lusciously painted swimmers are quirky and often, whimsical.

The fourth edition of Art From The Boros, also, features three-dimensional works and multi-media videos such as the deftly manipulated wood assemblages by Mikhail Gubin countered by the sleek, polished metal works and bronzes by Daniel Sinclair. Artist Mirena Rhee offers a fresh, personal perspective through animated interpretations of her own hand drawings. In a world that often projects galleries as being jaded and inaccessible, we are demonstrating that we are one that values and shares the desire to keep abreast with the bustling creativity all around us.

Artists: Margery Appelbaum, Zeren Badar, Courtney Bae, Thurston Belmer, Petey Brown, Kenneth Burris, Bob Clyatt, Sally Cochrane, Marilyn Davidson, Andre Eamiello, Laura Fantini, Anne Finkelstein, Mikhail Gubin, Yasmin Gur, Amir Hariri, Robert Jessel, Elizabeth Knowles, Amanda Konishi, Kate Lawless, Amanda Lenox, Park McGinty, Harvey Milman, Maria Morabito, Laura Mosquera, Suyeon Na, AJ Nadel, Douglas Newton, Kathleen Newton, Lisa Petker-Mintz, Ben Ponté, Roger Preston, Chelsea Ramirez, Mirena Rhee, Jack Rosenberg, Zvi Schreiber, Daniel Sinclair, Jeff Sundheim, Paul Antonio Szabo, Scott Walker, Lucy Wilner, and Charles Yoder. Opening Reception: July 14, 6-8pm For more information call (212) 647-7030, email info@denisebibrofineart.com, or visit www.denisebibrofineart.com

 

ART FROM THE BOROS IV Press Release

Stills from an interactive simulation of pen and ink drawings /  by mirena

Interactive simulation of pen and ink drawings, a simulated shifting landscape where you interact with pen and ink drawings assisted by gravity. With simulated soundscape - I pre-recorded the individual collision sounds but the resulting soundscape is simulated in real-time. Humpty-Dumpty grew out of a simple drawing: http://www.saatchiart.com/art/Drawing-Humpty-Dumpty/93024/3006623/view

Thanks to an inspiration form Denise from Denise Bibro Fine Art.

Stills from an interactive simulation with pen and ink drawings created by Mirena Rhee

 

Stills from an interactive simulation with pen and ink drawings created by Mirena Rhee

 

Stills from an interactive simulation with pen and ink drawings created by Mirena Rhee

 

Stills from an interactive simulation with pen and ink drawings created by Mirena Rhee

 

Stills from an interactive simulation with pen and ink drawings created by Mirena Rhee

 

Stills from an interactive simulation with pen and ink drawings created by Mirena Rhee

 

Stills from an interactive simulation with pen and ink drawings created by Mirena Rhee

 

Stills from an interactive simulation with pen and ink drawings created by Mirena Rhee
Stills from an interactive simulation with pen and ink drawings created by Mirena Rhee

 

Humpty-Dumpty, interactive simulation of pen and ink drawings /  by mirena

Please, play in HD. Dip pen and ink drawings assisted by gravity. Created, animated and simulated with Maya and Unity. Soundscape with Garage Band - prerecorded the collision sounds and the soundscape is thus entirely simulated in real-time in Unity.

Humpty-Dumpty is an interactive simulation about a drawing of the same name: http://goo.gl/iEY06h Also starring New York Red: http://goo.gl/PYd2MN

Windows app ( opens dropbox ): https://www.dropbox.com/s/uk52tnixzt7jybm/humpty-dumpty-windows-app.zip?dl=0

OSX app ( opens dropbox ): https://www.dropbox.com/s/n1w7zkr26inst4t/humpty-dumpty-osx-app.app.zip?dl=0

Humpty-Dumpty is a landscape of the mind, it is about the battles of good and evil, the small ones in our minds.