Franziska Lowicki, also known as “marlinssun”, is a young up and coming artist based in Berlin. Lowicki has only started working as a full time artist in the recent year but her natural talent has been clear from start. At the age of 23, she has already shown a clear focus and continuity in her work, as well as a formidable eye for color, dynamic and expression. With a touch of comic-art, sometimes bizarre twists in color and form, Lowicki portrays femininity, expressing deep feelings within herself through these vibrant acrylic works.

Between Aug 19th and 23rd Lowicki is taking part in the Kunstallee art exhibition in Potsdam, near Berlin. She will present some of her new works as well as making a debut in a larger art event. For more information, visit her website at http://www.marlinssun.de

From Aug 16th we will show a summer interlude in form of fantastic local up and coming Berlin artist Franziska Lowicki a.k.a “marlinssun”. As a young debutant she shows great strength in her acrylic paintings, filled with form, color, dynamic and a hint of the bizarre which. Lowicki takes part also part in this year´s Kunstallee in Potsdam.

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

For more information, please see; http://www.kymaraonline.com/

Kymara Lonergan is a photographer, artist and co-owns together with Milo Rock the Kymara Gallery, Kymara Artistic Management, Kymara Happenings and Kymara Music. She founded the gallery in 1985 and started already then representing artists. Together with, among others, Billy Name, Milo and Fernando Carpaneda she started the Anté Art movement.

Kymara about herself;

“My photography is in the style of Nell Dorr, whose photography I self studied.  I was recognized as a legendary photographer’s sole protege. However, in the true spirit of Anté Art, I am not ready to reveal who that is as the essence of Anté Art is creating art for art’s sake without the sanction of critics or academics. So, to divulge who I have studied with would be hypocritical. My photography studies the human form. I rarely retouch images and shoot mostly in natural light. I capture subjects as they are, whether good or bad. I prefer to capture movement and the core of the individual. My subjects include humans and animals, however, I also photograph things humans create.”

Agitpop Installation

“The Art Punk band, Agitpop has been  created as a street art installation by me with Milo Rock as advisor.  The band is from the Hudson Valley, NY. Since it is close to an area where I grew up, the lyrics and music have made a recent impact on me as well as my art. I have discovered the band many years after they have stopped touring. Their last performance was at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, Switzerland on  Friday,July 13, 2007. They stopped touring in 1989, but have recently released a new album.”

“Since it is next to impossible to arrange another reunion, I have turned the band into a street art installation which features photography, film models and clothing that capture the culture of the band. The installation,  a heavy concrete cardboard form moves to different locations with the Agitchicks to various areas throughout New England and New York. People are encouraged to interact with it. In 2011, it will be appearing at several Police stations. The installation is being documented via digital video and should be completed by January 2012.”

The below text is from the Installation;

Welcome to The Odditorium

Featuring the unique world of art, music, fashion and lifestyle encountered on the road with Kymara Happenings and Milo Rock.

AGITPOP A Cult Art Punk Band Worth Discovering

The Hudson Valley in upstate NY is legendary for spawning a collection of historic characters for nearly half a millenium. Some are still walking the lush landscape, which is as picturesque as the old Hudson River School paintings which come inevitably to mind on any drive across the Mid Hudson Bridge. Others have become memories and specters of the dreams, the urban myths and the inspirations brought to life while gazing at the moon over the Hudson River or at the lush landscape that has acted as a spark to many endeavors.

We believe that the the ground from the Hudson Valley to Manhattan contains invisible portals, tiny doorways, through which a person, a concept, a living energy sometimes inadvertently steps, only to find itself become part of legend. Such is the case with the band Agitpop, which stepped through a magic door one night to greet four young men sitting on a dock overlooking the shimmering silver Mid Hudson Bridge, and became a part of creative legend and an inspiration for others looking for the same portal.

Agitpop was formed in 1981 as Bangkok Rendezvous, with lead singer, song writer and guitarist John DeVries, bass player and composer Rick Crescini, bass player and percussionist Mark Hawksley, and drummer Mark LaFalce. All were seasoned and talented musicians at an early age.

The four commandeered a rehearsal space located in the basement of an abandoned Wappingers Falls cafe and began creating their unique blend of words and music. With no local radio, club, or press support, they were promoted through a small yet dedicated fan base.

Bangkok Rendezvous performed in small venues, including the Muscular Dystrophy Telethon held at the Poughkeepsie South Hills Mall, where bass player Mark Hawksley buried a machete in the stage, causing frightened mothers to flee with their children. Two Vassar College DJ’s took notice, and soon the band was sought after for gigs at Vassar College. A new type of cult following formed. Shortly after a string of college performances during which their popularity grew, bassist mark Hawksley left the foursome to pursue a career in ballet, leaving DeVries, Crescini and LaFalce to become the trio known as Agitpop.

The name Agitpop was derived from “Agitprop,” a contraction of “agitation propaganda,” a term used to describe the use of popular music to assert political views. When asked what was the style or custom of the followers of the band, Rick Crescini responded, “We defied definition, you couldn’t put a handle on us.” It was this lack of definition that took hold on the local live music scene, which had previously been dominated by a generic dance club culture.

After releasing a self-made recording sold at shows, and a series of support gigs at Poughkeepsie’s Chance Theater, opening for such bands as Wall of Voodoo, The Fleshtones, and Lords Of the New Church, the band broke out of the local scene and began performing outside of the Hudson Valley amassing more followers the farther they travelled. After being introduced to Venture Bookings, run by Frank Reilly, they began touring nationally in 1985, performing in legendary venues such as CBGB, the Peppermint Lounge, and The Pyramid Club. Their first album, “Feast of The Sunfish” was released internationally earlier that year

Influenced by Gang of Four, Captain Beefheart and Red Crayola, their unique form of fractured pop composition woven into confrontational performance art alienated members of national audiences, who were shocked by Agitpop’s “in your face” approach to music as art. A reviewer once referenced the group with the statement, “Free your mind and your ass will follow” Many who initially felt alienated by their aggressive style ultimately returned to be influenced by them, and this influence is still felt today. Like many true artists past, they remain unaware of the strong impact they have had on their fans, and on music, throughout the years.

Agitpop disbanded in 1989, but reunited for a live performance at the famous Cabaret Voltaire located in Zurich on Friday, July 13, 2007. A recent release of a new eponymous album illustrates that their music is as right-on and relevant today as it was in the 1980′s when the band was touring. Current political and societal trends are reflected in lyrics written twenty years ago as though they were written today.

On a recent road trip from Poughkeepsie to Manhattan, listening to Agitpop’s music, lost in thought, we envisioned three young musical pioneers stepping through a magic door one evening on a Hudson River pier some thirty years ago, lighting a joint and capturing a moment in time which continues to weave its presence throughout the peaks and valleys of the Catskill foothills, and the hearts of those who follow the band’s creative genius. Agitpop was a pioneer in the concept of music as art, and they continue to inspire today.

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Below some designs from the Urban Camo line;

About Anté Art

Anté Art is a new artistic movement, encompassing visual art, music and performance, rooted in the early days of the Underground and the early Avant Garde.   Taking dadaism as an example, the twenty first century Anté Artists have revolted against traditional art and Western Society to create new forms of artistic expression and a new associated lifestyle and culture.

This rapidly growing trend has been influenced by The Black Mountain College and such figures as John Cage and Merce Cunningham. Anté Art is based on the artist’s own ideas and techniques. They do not work within the confines of academia or in fear of art critics. Art is created for Art’s sake and is brought to its basic and purest form. There are no constraints such as religion or sexual orientation.

The term Anté Art was created by Billy Name, Kymara Lonergan and Milo Rock, who identified the initial group of Anté Artists, each of whom exemplified this new trend through their work. This group was introduced during the historic photo shoot by Billy Name and Anton Perich at The Chelsea Hotel, in March of 2010, and was comprised of sculptor Fernando Carpaneda, bassist Milo Rock, performer Miestorm, photographer Ian Couch, punk rock legend and artist Jayne County, film maker, actress and singer Ruby Lynn Reyner, drummer and artist Prairie Prince, photographer Anton Perich and photo and installation artist Kymara Lonergan.

Since then the movement has increased in popularity, as more artists have been drawn to the concept. Billy Name and some other original members have moved on to other projects, but the movement continues to  grow and flourish with support from the surrealist community lead by Milo Rock, Fernando Carpaneda and Kymara Lonergan.  A museum of Anté Art is being planned.

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There is so much one could say about Kymara but that would make this blog, albeit very interesting, also very long. Earlier this year the Punk Globe magazine made an in-depth interview with Kymara that you can find right here!

You can also find out more about Kymara Lonergan and the Kymara Gallery here;

http://www.kymaraonline.com
http://www.facebook.com/Kymara.Gallery

We would like to thank the Kymara Gallery for giving us access to all this material and artists!!

Milo Rock (Rick Crescini) began his musical career in 1977, when, influenced by Wire, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, the Dead Boys, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids, he helped create his first band Shit. He then went on to co-found, play bass, and write for Brian Mature and the Grown Ups, but the band broke up before they could act on the invitation to play at Max’s Kansas City. In 1981, he helped start Bangkok Rendezvous, which regrouped as Agitpop in. Between 1981 and 1989 the band released 4 albums on Rough Trade and Twin Tone record labels. He toured relentlessly with Agitpop, playing with such partners as the Smashing Pumpkins, the Minutemen, The Replacements, 10,000 Maniacs, Soul Asylum, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sonic Youth, The Dead Kennedy’s, Husker DU, Meat Puppets and The Pixies. In 2007, Agitpop regrouped, playing a special gig at Cabaret Voltaire in Zürich. The show was noted as a true Dada homage to Dadaism ala Cabaret Voltaire.

In 2010, Agitpop released a new album. Milo and his current partner, Kristin Ploucquet performed in Perfect Heller in 1995 and released 3 EP’s. The two went on to start their own group Pimpfuzz (now called Red Lux) in 1998. They have had several record releases. He helped to form and plays bass for Jayne County’s War Holes. He played saxophone for the Earth To Chet Orchestra with members of Mercury Rev, and in 2010 produced the albums “Agitpop” and “Jayne County and The War Holes Live at The Chelsea 2010,” along with a number of other studio projects. Currently, Milo Rock is collaborating with sculptor and video artist Fernando Carpaneda in the production of video soundtracks.

Milo Rock is the Music Director, partner, and a creative force for Kymara Enterprises. For more information, please see; http://www.kymaraonline.com/

The official Anté Art exhibition is right here! Below is one of the collaborations between Milo Rock and Fernando Carpaneda;

Carpaneda is an artist born in Brasília, Brazil. He works with clay sculptures. His main theme is always the human being. He watches people in the streets, bars, concerts, and places where people sell their bodies. Fernando makes portraits of rent boys, punks, junkies, thieves and outcasts. Instead of attaching himself to muses, he focuses on male nudes to compose his art pieces, having the human being, the masculine, as the main goal in his work. All his portraits are like a relic, a holy place, a moment caught in time. He uses objects that have a connection to the portrayed person to composing his work, such as cigarette butts, condoms, beer cans, underwear, semen, empty toothpaste boxes. In other words, things that are part of these people’s real world, and his own. He uses such objects and remains as a beginning for his portraits.

Clay is used as technique. He uses it the same way it was used in the 17th Century (for painting baroque saint images). He even dresses his sculptures with cloth from his own clothes. He creates and sews all the clothing that is used in the pieces. He also includes human hair to some of the pieces, his own hair (this was very often done in the 17th Century), and a current relic that has its value in time, as to maintain a time, ordinary people who lived it. Fernando writes about his pieces using street language as a background, another urban element often used. His connection to the artwork is important to any creative process. He believes that the artist himself is a piece of art. He has been going to places where the portrayed people use to go for the past 29 years. Remembrances are part of his work. Every little thing is part of him: his lovers, his disappointments, his experiences with drugs, his life in the streets, and so forth. Fernando depends on all of this to create art; he does not exist without these people.

Fernando Carpaneda has participated in important international art exhibitions including; Bridge Art Fair / Art Basel-Miami 2008, has works in the permanent collections of The Museum of Sex and The Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation in New York, The Erotic Heritage Museum in Las Vegas among others. Carpaneda is represented internationally by The Kymara Gallery and is part of the Anté Art Superstars led by Billy Name (Andy Warhol Superstars).

For more information, please see; http://www.kymaraonline.com

The official Anté Art exhibition is right here!

Some of the Fernando’s video work in form of collaboration with Milo rock can be found on Milo’s page or on the main site following the link above.

“Scott Holloway’s work represents themes associated with the historic fusion of religious dogma and scientific enlightenment of the Renaissance. The work is meant to be contemplative; and the viewer is encouraged to meditate on its hidden subtext – narratives about the search for the divine soul through anatomical dissection. Conceptually Holloway approaches the work emotionally, but controls the formal presentation through analytical methods as was done by the great masters of the past. The final images of anatomy are presented as traditional icons to convey the sacred nature of the human body. Holloway’s work is about honoring the beauty and complexity of the human form even after death.” – J. Fatima Martins

Scott about himself;

“I am a realist painter utilizing the same materials and techniques employed by Renaissance artists. In addition to painting classical portraits, I explore ideas, develop them conceptually, and incorporate the resulting visions into a thematic series. Currently, my independent work centers on presenting the holy relics of Saints and biblical figures as highly detailed anatomical images. I fuse these images with passages from the Bible and text from treatises on medical dissection. A few series have emerged from my recent artistic explorations.

My Holy Relic series combines symbolism and text with anatomical images carefully selected to reflect a specific Saint’s history, qualities, and patronage. For example, unique images of hands visually define the legacy of the apostle Luke, Patron Saint of artists, sculptors, and surgeons.

My Adam series centers on the skull, a timeless symbol of Original Sin. Adam’s skull appears at the base of the cross in several classical Crucifixion scenes, juxtaposing mortality and eternal life. In my series, the image is beset by text from the Book of Genesis, enhancing the skull’s presence by revealing the life of the man to whom it once belonged.”

For more information, please see; http://www.kymaraonline.com

The official Anté Art exhibition is right here!

Seething through his youth a Ritalin eating, latchkey, Catholic boy in the Carolinas Dave Glass knelt at the altar of fear and lies, and rang the bells, tooling for the black sheep of broken homes. A teenager un-tuned to the world in 1985 Glass began, scribbling punk, thrash, hardcore band logos and slogans on skateboards, school desks, notebooks, and spray painting skate ramps and t-shirts, igniting his journey. Not until the early 1990′s did his subject matter feature punk and goth girls, after which he was dubbed the first “Punk Pin Up Artist” by Carbon 14 magazine in 2002. Glass has remained an underground artist illustrating for numerous clients like The Avengers, GBH, New York Rel-x, Electric Frankenstein, and personal endeavors such as The Strychnine Babies. Dave Glass’ work has been featured in books such as The Art Of Modern Rock, Electric Frankenstein High Energy Rock N Roll Poster Art, Aphrodisia II Art Of The Female Form, and numerous international underground publications, fanzines, and webzines.

Introduced to the trade of screen printing in 2004 he has since produced by hand 10s of 1000s units of licensed tattoo lifestyle clothing and merchandise for bands such as Dead Boys, The Ramones, GG Allin, New York Dolls, The Stooges, Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell, Blondie, Bowie, and Murphys Law to name a few. He formed INK RUNS COLD a few years later contracting his services to like minded companies, and also produced his personal merchandise.

In addition to illustrating and screen printing merchandise for numerous bands over the years Mr. Glass has held the throne as drummer for many punk bands since 1987, including The Strychnine Babies, Dead Empty, The Independents, and current project since August 2010 Corpse In Vain.

A day in the life of a struggling artist. In the summer of 2002 after an eviction, living above an after hours bar in South Philly, with his girlfriend (now wife) and 2 cats they decided to move to Brooklyn NY immediately fed up with hardships in Philadelphia. This move proved to be a bust. Now broke and unable to afford their own place to live scraping by selling art prints on Bedford Ave out of a shopping cart, winning scratch and win lottery tickets, and refunds from recycling vendors, with minimal part time work. Hence they were sucked back into the vortex of Philthadelphia.

For more information, please see; http://www.kymaraonline.com

The official Anté Art exhibition is right here!

Nunzio “NunZ” Barbera II is an Anté surrealist anarchist artist who hails from west Virginia. Nunz’s current medium of choice is collage. His collage work is very unique, he throws images of his own in with found clippings and then hits it all with a vast array of mediums. It is very difficult to tell sometimes which images are his or others. He is known to be provocative, offensive and somewhat outspoken, this probably stems from his punk rock attitude towards art and life in general.

He had his first solo show just last October at The West Shore Gallery in Wormleysburg, Pa.  His work has been featured in Kikked, Innovated, Delirio-Revista and DY magazine. Nunz’s work has also been featured on such sites as Keith Wigdor presents Surrealism Now!, Dot the Loserr.com, Deathiosaurus, The Artist Blog, Section 8, and many more. Currently you can find him at The KYMARA Gallery site. His body of work only really spans over the past two years. The loss of his younger brother, Joseph Albert Barbera (friends knew him as Peppy), is what inspired him to create art again. You can expect big things from this WV “hillbilly”, make sure to keep your eyes out for him.

For more information, please see; http://www.kymaraonline.com

The official Anté Art exhibition is right here!