All Souls Day November 1, 2003 will mark the opening celebration of “The Alchemy of Collaboration” art exhibit at the site of the former Audubon Ballroom in Upper Manhattan. Unprecedented access to the creative process will be examined at artgrows.com in the months leading to the exhibition. The show features an exploration of collaboration including “exquisite corpse”, “conversation letters in paint”, and immediate performance collaboration by the internationally exhibited team of artists Stephen Beveridge and David Ferrando. Middle Eastern oud player Brandon Terzic will provide live music. David's fantastic figurative naive art combined with and in conversation with the spiritually motivated ethereal abstract work of Stephen has already led to a large canvas "Nefer T." previously shown at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art. The process of collaboration will be photographed and updated regularly with comments by the artists at artgrows.com allowing visitors a view of the creative process. After appearing in part at various venues throughout New York this summer the work will be collected and displayed in association with Harlem Heights Historical Society at the site of the former Audubon Ballroom in Upper Manhattan at 3960 Broadway New York, New York. The idea for the conversation paintings came from a Vanity Fair article about the Matisse / Picasso show in which it was mentioned that the two artists traded paintings and reacted to each others work with new paintings of their own. Stephen and David each created a one-foot square painting then exchanged them and painted new paintings as replies. Exquisite corpse is a writer’s term, which has one writer supplying a phrase then passing it back and forth each in turn supplying phrases to completion. For years now David and Stephen have engaged in this unpredictable creative enterprise any time they were together. Drawing on napkins, sketchbooks and found objects. This process and others will continue through the months leading to the exhibition and can be viewed as it takes place at http://artgrows.com Stephen Beveridge and David Ferrando are pluralist artists who began to collaborate 5 years ago. A feature length film starring the artists was recently completed documenting the collaborative performance exhibition at New York's Port Authority in September 2001. The film will be aired at the opening of “The Alchemy of Collaboration” November 1, 2003. An interview with the artists, including scenes of the Port Authority exhibition, can be seen on the website at artgrows.com. here are scenes from a previous collaboration
Stephen Beveridge is an internationally exhibited Scottish-born artist living and working in New York City. Stephen has had solo exhibitions in New York City at the Work of Art Gallery and in southern California at Artists by the Sea Gallery. He has been part of group shows in New York City at Sara Meltzer Gallery, and Sperone-Westwater Gallery. Stephen regularly exhibits at Galleries and Alternative venues throughout New York City and Great Britain. Stephen was also interviewed in the production of "Tartan Apple: The Scottish in New York City from the 17th Century to the Present", a film by Harlan Douglas Whatley His articles about art and the Internet and other art topics have appeared in Art Calendar magazine and other art publications. His paintings consist of large abstract works of acrylic and collage on canvas as well as smaller works on paper. He also does digital paintings, sculpture, installation, animation, web design, and album art.
David Ferrando International Cutting Edge mixed media artist, object constructor and printmaker, David Ferrando was invited in April 2001 to participate in the Berlin International M.A.I.S. Exhibition, which included 98 artists from around the globe. His work has also been repeatedly shown at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC and is collected the world over. This artist, born in Indiana in 1946, has lived in New York since 1979 and spent a decade in Germany having studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart and was exclusively contracted to Gallerie Fuer Raumkunst. Mr. Ferrando's art openings have been documented on 35
mm film and distributed throughout Germany. His Opening in Reykjavik,
Iceland was broadcast on Icelandic Public Television.
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