Anté Art; There is much more to it!

The Anté Art movement keeps growing and so does the Kymara Gallery and its associated projects. We focused this show on 6 artists and Kymara herself but that is just the tip of the iceberg and some other time, some other channel, would could have picked a completely different 6 equally fantastic artists! The Kymara Gallery is a great place to start exploring this diverse group. Meanwhile, here are a few more excellent examples of artists, in no particular order;

Black Mass

A self taught artist,and devout Occult crusader, Black Mass is the dark mirror and conscience of  humanity’s lost and dying soul. Using a wide and unfiltered variety of styles and mediums, to express his rage, disgust and pity towards humanity, society and religion, Black Mass has no boundaries and does not take his audience on a journey for the faint of heart or those in denial of what truths lie before their very eyes, but rather, he takes them on a chaotic and exciting rollercoaster ride filled with intense energy, twists, turns, psychedelic color, and hidden passages in an endless loop with ferocious purpose and righteous cause channeled direct from the Hyper-verse.

Craig Pop Artist

Experienced in the production, design, and visual presentation of fine art, framing, gallery installations, retail merchandising and special event production. Craig Pop Artist has exhibited all over continental US.

Ian Ward

About himself; ”I am a self taught artist from England. The aim of my art is to paint a piece that is loaded with passion and power. I want to make you stare at the painting, and not take your eyes away from it”.

Sean Madden

Sean Madden’s risqué and blasphemous artwork has been exhibited and published worldwide.  He has illustrated sci-fi and horror magazines, underground comics, urban clothing, and children’s books. His art has been included in 2 major motion pictures: “My First Mister,” starring Albert Brooks, and the next “Scream” movie, which debuts in spring of 2011. His book, Beyond the Sun, is a bold collection of dark and twisted pen and ink art. Much of it is very graphic and psycho-representational, necessitating a Parental Advisory warning on the front cover.  The book is 63 pages, and includes old photos of Madden, newspaper clippings, and the artist’s own personal philosophy on the joys and struggles of being an artist in an unappreciative societal context.

Richard Meyer

Richard Meyer is a New York City artist who has long been working outside the mainstream. He works in a traditional oil painting medium with a layering of images that explores the psychology of the outsider, drawing his themes from circus sideshows, tattoo motifs, medical anomalies, martyrology,  and any and all exotica. His paintings draw upon a stream of art history from intimations of imagery from the Middle Ages and Renaissance to 19th and early 20th century freak shows and visionaries.  His scenes are generally overflowing with figures with traces of imaginary pastoral landscapes, combining heightened realism with notes of modern.

Vector

Vector is an artist who invents and constructs art objects in a Varity of mediums including paint, sculpture, collage, poetry and music. Vector operates under a unique philosophy and set of skills. He considers all of these media an opportunity for artistic expression and uses whatever skills and technologies available to express his potent sociological and political ideas. Vector’s philosophy is simple. One can construct a substantial work of art with the materials at hand (however primitive) as long as the concept is strong and true.

Jane County

Jayne County, Punk Rock legend and Rock’s first transsexual singer is now a rising star in the world of Fine Art. As a “neo-surrealist” Jayne utilizes a wide variety of materials to create paintings in a style that is uniquely her own.  Hair, candy wrappers, advertising slogans and other findings of modern culture are intricately woven into  surreal landscapes that tell tales of political situations, discrimination and equality. Her artistic statements transcend all cultures and send the same poignant messages as the songs she is so well known and loved for.

Jayne’s career has spanned several decades as an actress, artist and performer. She has been a major influence on the careers of many famous musicians and performers and is now inspiring a new group of 21st Century Anté Artists.

Prairie Prince

Prince divides his time between playing drums with the rock group The Tubes and Todd Rundgren. When he is not touring he is often painting in his art studio in San Francisco, recording music with various bands and musicians or working on commissioned art projects, murals and stage sets. Recent stage set designs include Billy Joel’s “Last Play at Shea” and Michael Jackson’s “This Is It Tour.” Prince also designs and paints exquisite custom drum sets and motorcycles, and he is one of the original Anté Artists.

Philippe Laurent

Philippe Laurent is a plastic artist, musician and designer. Graphic codes or digital codes, plastic arts or music, the approach of Philippe Laurent is a research on the perception of the signs and the symbols. Multi-media artist, he has always been opened to new technologies, whether it is to compose its musical works or to complete its graphic work. His cross disciplinaries shows in France and Germany in the Nineties landmarked in the design of complex works mixing various advanced techniques. His paintings, illusions of calligraphies on monochromic funds, are a question opened on the relationship between signs and meanings. Philippe Laurent develops ideograms halfway between figuration and abstraction, while endeavouring never repeating the same figure twice, like a writing of another continent or of an original language, a code which would have preceded all the other languages and which would have been lost. This game on ambiguity asks the fundamental question of the ontological statute of the text in our western societies. Philippe Laurent comes from a long personal study on the shape of the initiatory symbols and the letters to lead to sublimes alphabets esoteric.

Leigh de Vries
Pronounced { Lee / de / Frees }

Outrageous. Unique. Brazen. Queen of the night. Singer/ songwriter Leigh de Vries is all this. With her monotone vocal style and natural baritone, Leigh has been dubbed ‘The Voice’. Don’t expect to like her straightaway, you have nothing to compare her with. The effort of coming to terms with things you do not understand makes them all the more valuable to you when you do grasp them.

She is currently working on her her 2nd album ‘The Machine’, a solo project, written and produced by Leigh.The first release off ‘The Machine, Walk Alone’, won the coveted ‘Peoples Music Awards’ in 2010. The track is described as an Industrial monster, a dark and broody beast, which rips the best bits out of Gary Numan and NIN before kicking the carcasses into touch and building a new Frankenstein. Leigh de Vries’s style has an ominous quality likely to give even the hardiest of souls a touch of the heebie-jeebies, but everyone needs a good fright once in a while.

Jason Atomic

Jason Atomic is a self taught artist specialising in quick, clean line sketches from life, primarily at live events such as gigs, clubs, fashion shows etc. Since the mid 1980′s he has documented his life and travels in a series of sketch, scrap & note books. In 2008 he set an un-official world land/speed  record for portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

He collaborates regularly with fashion designers such as Milkboy in Tokyo & Charles of London & has recently gained notoriety in the ‘sketch card’ scene for his work on Topps Star Wars Galaxy, Suckadelic,The Art Hustle and other trading card sets.

Kay Young

S. Kay Young is a Native American Detroit based artist with a 38-year photographic career. She is a descendant of the Eastern Band Cherokee Nation. Kay’s photography is in numerous private and corporate collections. In the 1970′s – 1980′s Young photographed the Rock and Roll scene in Detroit, getting the cover of Creem magazine with shots of The Rolling Stones. Kay also was active part of the Punk scene in Detroit at Bookies Club 870. She traveled throughout North American shooting musicians and bands for publications and album covers.

From 1979 through 1989 Kay worked in the Photography Department at The Detroit Institute of Arts. Kay’s first hand exposure to the collection guided her vision and craft to an expertise level of achievement.  Young is an adjunct Professor at Oakland Community College. She also teaches in the Farmington Hills Heritage Park art program and is a private photography/photoshop tutor. Young has been with the mentorship photography program at Focus/Hope for 12 years. She is working with the Autistic community as well, teaching adults photography and conducting nature photo camps.

Young has had 5 solo exhibitions including ‘Wildflower Paintings, A Photographic Exhibition’ at The Detroit Institute of Arts in 1998 sponsored by the Fuji and Chrysler Corporation as well as ‘Dancing the Circle of Life’ at the Native Indian Inuit Photographers Association, Hamilton, Ontario in 1994. Kay has participated in over 50 curated or invitational group exhibitions.
In 1999 Young gave a presentation and lecture at The Smithsonian for the American Indian in New York, which accompanied an installation piece at the American Indian Community House addressing colonization in Native Nations.
Kay was commissioned in 2004 as the first Artist in Residence by the Boll Family YMCA Metro Detroit. She documented the 2-year construction of the building project from groundbreaking to completion.

Young is currently working on numerous personal projects as well as a collaborative installation/spoken word piece in Berlin, Germany with poet and musician Sadiq Bey.

Sue Rynski

Sue Rynski’s artistic vision was honed while participating in Detroit’s late seventies rock underground scene, a creative incubator. Driven by the rejection of commercial rock and a need to create original music and art this scene persisted with passion and frenzy until its appetite was finally satisfied. Upon receiving her BFA in 1977, Sue joined up with the Michigan art collective and band Destroy All Monsters. She made her headquarters at legendary Detroit club, Bookies Club 870, and photographed everywhere on the scene. A joyful hysteria, energy and passion are expressed in her black and white work from this period. Destroy All Monsters, Sonic’s Rendezvous Band, Pere Ubu, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Ron Asheton, The Dead Boys, Johnny Thunders are among the rockers captured.

Rynski’s photographs bring us right inside her own world of the night, the bars, the scenes where people locate joy and freedom in music, captured by her powerful vision of movement and emotion. Today rock continues to be her muse: her approach is physical, very personal, trashy, elegant and sometimes dreamlike. Born Detroit, Michigan, 1954. Lives and works in Paris, France

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