North Fork Arts Projects

  REIMAGINED LANDSCAPES Rea Lynn de Guzman April 2023 Cloudscape 3, 2023. Acrylic and collage on paper, 12" x 9" ~ Horizons , 2023. Acrylic and collage on paper, 12 x 9" ~ Overlaps , 2023. Acrylic and collage on paper, 12" x 9" Artist Statement   In my new  Reimagined Landscapes  series, I free myself to a more intuitive process of making art unbound by research and western-centric historical references. My art is a cathartic visual play and a poetic exploration of materials that go back and forth between my backgrounds in painting and print media. I am drawn to soothing colors, complex shapes, motions, and subtle textures inspired by memories and familiar natural spaces. I continue to explore inexplicable psychological liminal spaces, reflective of my experiences of movements and sudden shifts. I seek to balance these ruptures by reimagining spaces, creating a push and pull through additive and reductive processes in my work. I pull from found, everyday objec

WACHINANGGA Mel Vera Cruz March 2023 Artist Statement: The exhibition title, “Wachinangga,” relates to the word  “Watsinanggo” - ( slang ) A  wily  and  mischievous  person. ( dated )  sly ,  cunning  and  mischievous .  I used Wachinangga with the “s” changed to “ch” because I wanted to invent my own version of “Rasquache” and that’s the closest word that I could think of.  In Spanish, rasquache means  “leftover” or “of no value.” In Chicano vernacular, it describes an attitude, the taste or lifestyle of the underdog.” The Jeepney (see right image) is the best example that Pinoys have been making something out of scrap for a long time.  I have always been a DIY [do-it-yourself] person because I am very impatient. I cannot wait for anyone to tell me what to do, how to do and when to do it. I had no sketch pads or any kind of art materials when I was young because I grew up in a remote province in the Philippines. So I used typewriting papers and pencils because that’s all I had. I gue