Monthly Archives: January 2012

Featured Artist: Allyson Jacobs

“Fashion is a form of self-expression for every person. There is no choice. Everyone must participate.” -Allyson Jacobs I remember sitting in seminars during my undergrad years, and having discussion of non-verbal forms of expression. Fashion is the voluntary and … Continue reading

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Art in the Morning: Robert Daniel Ullmann

There’s something magnetic with these powerful photographs, Fine Art Photographer Robert Daniel Ullman captures. Is it the simplicity of the subject? Or the eye behind the lens that selectively seeks out the overlooked, everyday people who embody beauty? I’m at a … Continue reading

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Featured Artist: DJ JP Solis

After a cold, snowy weekend, warm your soul up with DJ JP SOLIS. This New York based  10-year full-time DJ, creates curated tracks and mixes of pop music and oldies. Alongside of fusing sounds together, JP SOLIS is also the … Continue reading

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Art in the Morning: Natalie Kates

Glitter and rhinestones, coincide with the glitz of the fashion industry, a theme that mixed media artist Natalie Kates is emotes through her artworks. These collages are “saturated with overlapping, repetitious and glamorized images” that straddles the complex issues of beauty and … Continue reading

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Fountain Art Fair New York partners with AFP

For its seventh New York fair, Fountain Art Fair New York is partnering with us, Art For Progress this year on Friday, March 9 through Sunday, 11 2012. It’s time to mark your calendars fellow New Yorkers, art connoisseurs, artists and … Continue reading

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AFP is Accepting Applications for NY Art Week

Starting off the New Year, AFP is pleased to be part of the New York Fountain Art Fair after recently participating in the Miami Art Basel’s edition of Fountain Art Fair. With this said, AFP is now accepting applications to … Continue reading

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Art in the Morning: Philip Simmons

Life-size, cut-out figures and icons comes to mind when looking at sculptor, Philip Simmons’ works. But, Simmons wants to translate “comments on current American culture and politics, by creating signs that hang from chains or are wall-mounted” through his artworks. … Continue reading

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Featured Artist: Juan Manuel Parajes

  Featured in one of our  “Art in the Morning” segments, we are highlighting Juan Manuel Parajes again, but digging a little deeper into this street collage artist. What best describes his artwork: Unfinished geometric elements, lines intercrossed towards the infinite… … Continue reading

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Art in the Morning: Akilah Stewart

Designer Akilah Stewart, lives with the philosophy of “art as her religion, creativity as her ten commandments and faith in imagination.” This is transparent every piece of accessory or shoe Stewart designs for her line, Sweet N Salty. To view more … Continue reading

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Featured Artist: Comandante Zero

Brooklyn-based Indie band Comandante Zero–composed of Ken White and Dan Freeman–is offering music goers “a new course for electro-funk-dance.” If you live in Williamsburg, then you might be familiar with this duo’s tracks, such as “The Future” or “Give It Up,” which is … Continue reading

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