Seers, creators and Artists we support
The people in this section are those, who, in whatever they see, create, receive, pass on do it because they simply can not help it. They don't know why, all they know is that they must. They have the disease. If you feel that you are one of those people and would like to be on this page, please contact us.
Clayton
Patterson
Clayton Patterson (born October 9, 1948) is a Canadian -born artist, photographer, videographer, documentarian and folk historian. Since moving to New York City in 1979, his work has focused almost exclusively on documenting the art, life and times of the Lower East Side in Manhattan.
Liz Alex
What does it mean to have an identity? Often times, when we are children we are flooded with aspects of the outside world, impressions seeped into us like ink filling up the crevices of a carved block of wood. We are molded into something new, in tandem with whatever was encoded into us quietly at work. Elizabeth’s artwork is inspired by a visual language of childhood and identity. Memories and dreams play upon archetypes from story books, mythical beings that are encapsulated in chimerical feminine forms that echo a childhood wrought with mothers who were both nurturing and callous. Children often play with a visual language, often relating to symbols. Like spiritualists or shamans of their own personal worlds, they animate the environment around them and ascribe meaning. In her work, both the feminine and natural realms combine to tell a story and those elements are approached in a playful and natural way. That story, inspired by symbols in dreams and childhood fragments, is one that speaks of animalism and womanhood. Natural forms wind around images of monstrous, chimerical women. They are both human and creature, overpowering but always present in the backdrop of flora. What does it mean to be a woman? What role does a woman play, and how is her identity shaped by the world around her?
Elizabeth primarily works with ink, although she incorporates bursts of color and texture. Her drawings are explorative, and often based on dreams and visions she has had.
Antonious
Maximus
I indirectly fell into the tattoo world by way of a conversation with an ex con. This led to the opening of a whole history of the art form known as tattoo. In the early nineties, it was primarily underground, close knit, NY City based network of tattooists. I love the art, and freedom the lifestyle allows. I also love the rich history tattoo has, in NY, there’s a close link with lower Manhattan and the city’s culture. From Canal St. to Chatham Sq., LES and its spread to the Northern boroughs, it has a life of its own.
SAMANTHA FRÜHWIRTH
I’m Samantha Frühwirth, a NYC based architectural designer, dancer, fiber artist and fellow human being.
As a child I relished interacting with our world through my hands. These little extremities constantly translating and impacting our environment – a wellspring of both creation and destruction.
SHE FELT focuses a creative force through the exploration of wool and other natural textiles. My goal is to imbue creations with love and intention for generations to enjoy and eventually return to the earth.
Influenced through my studies of natural building and architectural practices, SHE FELT is a small scale expression of those larger ideas which shape our world. On a personal level, the objects we welcome in our home directly impact how we live and experience our world. They exude an energy and create an environment of their own. Surrounding yourself and interacting with natural materials fosters a vibrational atmosphere that is healthy, healing, and happy.
Welcome to SHE FELT, impacting life small scale♡
BOBO
Bobby has been seriously lax in helping with his own artist support section. :/
Keith Patchel (in memorium)
My story starts as a kid from the suburbs of Buffalo who loved music and playing guitar. I attended SUNY Buffalo where I was performing/studying classical guitar and fusion. I had the great privilege of studying electronic music with Lejaren Hiller, and met many extraordinary musicians while I was attending concerts, classes, workshops offered by The Creative Associates, who included such luminaries as Lucas Foss, Morton Feldman and John Cage.
I moved to NYC to pursue a career in music, as I was deeply inspired by Punk Rock and all the New Music I had absorbed at college. I received an MA from Queens College/ Mannes School of Music (studied composition with George Perle) and at night was performing rock music with Richard Lloyd from Television at CBGB and other venues.
When I returned to NYC in July 1985 after touring Scandinavia and recording Field of Fire with Richard Lloyd, never in my life would I have imagined that my roommate who had recently graduated from Columbia University would become the President of the United States. His name was Barack Obama.
Throughout the late 80’s and 90’s I recorded and performed with numerous rock bands of mine; The Spell, Count Zero, Solar, and Solarkane in New York , England and Colombia. In 2007 I began scoring films, which included Finishing Heaven, a documentary about Ruby Lynn Reyner (HBO) which was nominated for a Emmy Award in 2010. I also scored Crumble, for which I received Best Composer awards from The Manhattan Film Festival and The New York International Independent Film Festival.
I attended Juilliard from 2011-2013 studying composition and orchestration. In 2015 I co-created The Marsband at the Hayden Planetarium for which I wrote The Pluto Symphony.
When I was in Bogota Colombia in 1996, Adios Pablo ( a song I wrote about the death of Pablo Escobar) received an enormous amount of airplay, and created so much controversy that the label FM Discos/Warner Bros pulled the plug on the entire project. The video will be re-released in 2018.
2016 saw the composition and performance of my critically acclaimed experimental chamber opera The Plain of Jars (about the US secret bombing campaign of Laos during the Vietnam War).
