CHANEL & TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT ARTISTS

CHANEL & TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHT ARTISTS

By: Hope Wilkos, Writer/Blogger

The very famous Tribeca Film Festival  is not just about the discovery of exceptional film.  The festival also highlights outstanding art and diversified culture in a city ripe with creative talent.  As evidence of this, the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival brings to its audience the annual Artists Awards Program which will be sponsored by world-class design brand, Chanel.

Eight contemporary artists are dedicated to making this a success and eager to show the world their artwork.  The awards program was established by Tribeca Film Festival co-founder, Jane Rosenthal, as a means to recognize New York artists.  The works will be on exhibit to the public (free of charge) during the festival which runs from April 16, 2014 through April 27, 2014. You can see the works from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the New York Academy of Art located at 111 Franklin Street in Manhattan.  The artists will donate their artwork to be ultimately presented to the winning filmmakers who are chosen in each of their respective categories.

“Each year we look forward to honoring our winning filmmakers with special awards from some of the art world’s most exciting creators,” said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder, TFF. “We are so pleased to have this esteemed group of artists participate in this Tribeca tradition.”

Here are the artists for 2014 holding an abundance of talent and bios are courtesy of Tribeca Enterprises :

• Tim Barber - Tim is a  photographer, curator, and designer who runs the creative community website, time-and-space.tv, (formerly known as tinyvices.com). His artwork is called Untitled (Ali’s vein).

 

• Tony Bennett - We are all familiar with the legendary Tony Bennett.   He has been in the music industry for decades and he has sold over ten million albums. Bennett has received 17 Grammy awards, is a Kennedy Center Honoree and an NEA Jazz Master. Tony Bennett is a dedicated painter whose interest in art began as a child. He continues to paint every day, even as he tours internationally. He has exhibited his work in galleries around the world. Three of his paintings are part of the Smithsonian Museum’s permanent collections, including his portrait of his friend Duke Ellington, which became part of the National Portrait Gallery’s collection in 2009. Bennett founded Exploring the Arts to support arts education in public high schools.  Tony’s artwork is titled none other than Central Park, NY.

• Stephen Hannock – Stephen is an American Luminist painter who is known for his atmospheric nocturnes, and his work is characterized by his  incorporation of text inscriptions that relate to family, friends, or the events of daily life. Through his paintings, he tells an expressive story.  His design of visual effects for the 1998 film, What Dreams May Come, earned him an Academy Award®. His works appear in such famous museums as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC., and the Yale University Art Gallery. His work is called The Ballad of the Great Eastern.

 

•  Matthew Modine – This is a most recognized name in the medium of film and Matthew has worked with many of the film industry’s most acclaimed directors including Christopher Nolan, Oliver Stone, Sir Alan Parker, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, Abel Ferrara, Jonathan Demme, and John Sayles to name but a few.  His talent has won him the Golden Globe, an Independent Spirit Award, and two Golden Lion Awards from the Venice Film Festival. In addition to acting, Matthew has also been writing and directing films for over two decades and recently developed two immersive, interactive, award-winning apps. As a photographer, Modine began shooting on the set of Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket. His iconic images have appeared in the highly acclaimed, award-winning Full Metal Jacket Diary. His photography has been exhibited in museums and prestigious venues the world over, including the Rome Film Festival and the Stanley Kubrick Exhibition. His artwork is called Stanley Kubrick,  Director’s Chair.

• Catherine Murphy – Catherine makes the most of our surroundings that we may not even notice but yet have a profound effect on us. She recreates images from her memory and dreams, rather than photographs. Murphy has also been awarded with National Endowment for the Arts Grants (1979 and 1989), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1982), and membership to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters (2002). She was a Senior Critic at Yale University Graduate School of Art for 22 years and currently holds the Tepper Family Endowed Chair in Visual Arts at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers.  Her works are on display in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the MoMA, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Ms. Murphy is the distinguished recipient of the 2014 Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize for her achievements in painting.  This particular work of art is called Still Life with View of Hoboken and Manhattan.

• James Nares -  Nares paints pictures of the moment. They are most frequently made in a single brush stroke, recording a gestural passage of time and motion across the canvas. Nares’ films and videos reference many of the same preoccupations with movement, rhythm, and repetition, while also ranging further afield in their scope. His work is included in a number of public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. In 2008, Anthology Film Archives hosted a complete retrospective of his films and videos. In 2013, Nares’ film, Street, was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and will also be featured in the New Frontier program at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Later in 2014, Rizzoli will publish the first monograph dedicated to James Nares’ work in all media over the last four decades. His art is Untitled.

• Alexis Rockman – Rockman’s canvases present a darkly surreal vision of the collision between human civilization and the natural world. He is inspired by a diverse range of inspirations, including Old Master paintings, science fiction and natural history. He was recently the subject of a major 2010–11 retrospective at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, entitled Alexis Rockman: A Fable for Tomorrow. In 2012, he completed work for Ang Lee on his latest film, Life of Pi, where he served as “Inspirational Artist.” Rockman’s work has been featured in Wired, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and is in the collections of museums such as LACMA, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. His work of art is called Iguaca.

 

• Clifford Ross – Ross is a multimedia artist who began his career as a painter and sculptor after graduating from Yale University. In the mid-1990s, Ross became interested in photography, pioneering breakthrough techniques in the field. In 2002, Ross invented and patented the revolutionary R1 camera, which allowed him to produce some of the highest resolution, large-scale landscape photographs in the world. His work has been the subject of international museum exhibitions and can be found in numerous public collections, including the MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In 2011, a large selection of Ross’ Hurricane waves were included in Coal + Ice, a photographic exploration of global warming held at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing. Recent works include his animated landscape video Harmonium Mountain, featuring an original score by Philip Glass, a 28 x 28 foot stained glass wall for the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Austin, Texas, and a video projection, set to the live music of Taikoza Japanese Drums, under the archway of the Manhattan Bridge in Brooklyn, for the Dumbo Arts Festival. A major exhibition of Ross’ work is set to open in May 2015 at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. His art is called Water XIX.

The 2014 Tribeca Film Festival promises to be the most interactive festival in the nation, giving their audience an experience they will never forget. AT&T, technology giant, is the major sponsor with much in store for us. April 16th will be upon us very soon.

PHOTOS & RELEASE COURTESY OF Rubinstein Communications and Tribeca Enterprises