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By Max Woolley
Posted: 2/27/07, 10:59 PM EST Section: Feature
Sometimes a small space can host huge beginnings.
"Playthings: the child we all carry inside ... do you recall?," the latest exhibition at The Point of Contact gallery, features three relatively new artists.
"Usually our shows feature artists already in our permanent collection, but this show was different. For Ami Suma, this is her first show at any gallery," said Tere Paniagua, the gallery's director.
Suma, along with fellow artists Roy Bautista and Natalia Porter, arranged the show to reveal their views on childhood and growing up.
"The special thing about this show is the fact that we are working with young artists at a very critical point in their careers," Paniagua said. "All of the shows up until now featured work by well-established artists, and this was wonderful, but there is something very exciting about working with a young artist."
Bautista's pieces in the show center on growth, life and how people learn new things from both. Most of Bautista's art is created with a pencil or a ballpoint pen on scraps of paper, with a few computer and pastel images. Each acts as a testimonial for Bautista.
"My individual drawings (are) incomplete fragments, lost stances and stanzas," Bautista said. "My drawings are a form of letters to my future self."
Each "letter" gives a different opinion of what has happened to him or a different goal for the future. "Things are going to be different this time," predicts one of the figures. Each one has a morose look, fearing and moping on what will and has happened.
"My figures have a kind of dread about them and a panoply of eyes. Alarmed, I aim to understand fear," Bautista said.
Bautista has had several group and individual exhibitions since 2002, and is also a published writer who taught at Queens College as an adjunct assistant professor. Through his drawings, it is easy to see the trials and tribulations of growing up and learning to be a person.
Porter brings her Mexican heritage with her to the show. She attended Pratt Institute and received her master's in industrial design, and in 2006 she received a master's in fine arts from City University of New York. Since graduating, she has lived in Manhattan and continues to work there.
"Playthings: the child we all carry inside ... do you recall?," the latest exhibition at The Point of Contact gallery, features three relatively new artists.
"Usually our shows feature artists already in our permanent collection, but this show was different. For Ami Suma, this is her first show at any gallery," said Tere Paniagua, the gallery's director.
Suma, along with fellow artists Roy Bautista and Natalia Porter, arranged the show to reveal their views on childhood and growing up.
"The special thing about this show is the fact that we are working with young artists at a very critical point in their careers," Paniagua said. "All of the shows up until now featured work by well-established artists, and this was wonderful, but there is something very exciting about working with a young artist."
Bautista's pieces in the show center on growth, life and how people learn new things from both. Most of Bautista's art is created with a pencil or a ballpoint pen on scraps of paper, with a few computer and pastel images. Each acts as a testimonial for Bautista.
"My individual drawings (are) incomplete fragments, lost stances and stanzas," Bautista said. "My drawings are a form of letters to my future self."
Each "letter" gives a different opinion of what has happened to him or a different goal for the future. "Things are going to be different this time," predicts one of the figures. Each one has a morose look, fearing and moping on what will and has happened.
"My figures have a kind of dread about them and a panoply of eyes. Alarmed, I aim to understand fear," Bautista said.
Bautista has had several group and individual exhibitions since 2002, and is also a published writer who taught at Queens College as an adjunct assistant professor. Through his drawings, it is easy to see the trials and tribulations of growing up and learning to be a person.
Porter brings her Mexican heritage with her to the show. She attended Pratt Institute and received her master's in industrial design, and in 2006 she received a master's in fine arts from City University of New York. Since graduating, she has lived in Manhattan and continues to work there.
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