Photography by Tony Ward, Copyright 2017
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Model: Megan G.
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Agency: Main Line Models & Talent
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Assistant: Anthony Colagreco
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Makeup and BTS: Emily Dimant
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TWS: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Category: Art
Mikel Elam: Painting of the Day
Painting of the Day:
Artist: Mikel Elam
Mixed Medium on Canvas
Available in Store: http://tonywardstudio.com/shopping-cart/mikel-elam-paintings/
TWS: Portrait of the Day
Photography and Text by Tony Ward, Copyright 2017
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Upenn: Photography & Fashion – Highlights
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Dyana sat quietly in the back of the class listening intently as the students were engaged in a conversation with Heidi Lee, the remarkably talented hat designer from New York City. Heidi made the short train ride from New York City to Philadelphia’s 30th St. Station during an evening when it was raining sideways and unseasonably cold. Undeterred, Ms. Lee began to unpack one by one her artful pieces of handmade millinery that brought her talents into the news and the New York spot lights. Dyana like the other models that attended the session at the University of Pennsylvania’s Photography & Fashion class was eager to model the unusually designed millinery pieces.
After Heidi Lee gave her talk about the evolution of her work and her having been honored by a highly bestowed millinery award from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the class broke into groups to photograph models from Main Line Models & Talent, a Philadelphia based agency, wearing the artists masterpieces. I made this portrait of Dyana as part of lighting demo for the session.
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Editor’s Note: Next Photography & Fashion class at the University of Pennsylvania is being offered in the Fall of 2017.
Studio News: “Saint Stephen’s” Netflix & Chill
Title: NETFLIX & CHILL
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Artist: St._Ephen
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PRESS RELEASE
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St._ephen “Saint Stephen” aka Stephen Levine local artist in the Philadelphia region was born January 26 , 1993. Son to Marita Coston and Ronald Levine . At an early age, Stephen was exposed to a range of eclectic music such as Motown and Classic Rock . Inspired by the Grateful Dead from their song St. Stephen; the name was once reborn . He spent summers with his Dad living in Montgomery township, Pennsylvania and during the earliest part of his school years lived in New Jersey with his Mom . Ultimately, Stephen spent the remainder of his teen life at Cheltenham High School .
During those years Stephen was introduced to participating in musical productions. Like singing in the high school choir , a cappella groups , touring ensembles and musicals. After high school he decided to go to Montgomery Community College but decided to take a year off to pursue being a songwriter and an artist in music . “Netflix and Chill” is one of the many songs that Stephen has made over the past year. Most of his songs are produced by Andrew Meoray and Xave Michael . The video was produced and directed by Joe Schaefer and Marissa Nicole Pina .
It took two days of filming with scenes shot in Dumbo, Brooklyn and in parts of North Philadelphia. With this video, the directors wanted more of the clashing of colors and specific visual movements . They also tried to capture the natural art of just chilling. The people involved in the production deserves the utmost thanks, gratitude and appreciation. The question what is to come next?
His next single is called; Someone Better, featuring Xave Michael . Also, a full body of work is planned to be released by the summer of 2017. His grandfather’s favorite quote was “Be Ye not , but be prepared” . So whatever life has to bring Stephen aka “Saint Stephen”will surely be ready.
The Tau Ceti Report: Recent Works by Tyler Kline
JED WILLIAMS GALLERY
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March 3-24, 2017
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The Tau Ceti Report: Recent Works by Tyler Knight
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Tau Ceti is a possibly habitable exoplanet, and I use painting as a type of remote sensing, a speculative visual report of phenomenon that is difficult or out of reach to data visualization. I am mining the possible clairvoyant properties to the visual art processes that are yet unnamed.
I come out of skateboarding and street art/graff culture. A tremendous portion of the fecund subconscious and outer consciousness I pull from was formed by an urban spelunking of Atlanta in the late 80’s and early 90’s. What I am going for is a subterranean, under bridge type of abstraction, geological, mine shaft and reservoir influenced. I contemplate this language of cartography I am constructing; map-making as a visual model of information at a macro/micro human scale.
Time marks the movement of the hand, light marks the movements of the body, maps show us were we are and were we are headed. These tools help us explore or surroundings. The mind moves the flesh through a labyrinth of possibilities.
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About The Artist:
Tyler Kline received his BA in Anthropology and Sculpture from Portland State University and a MFA in Installation and Sculpture from The Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. Kline’s has exhibited solo at Moving Spirits and Youngblood in Atlanta, Zeitgeist in Portland, OR and Reload, Rebekah Templeton, The University of the Arts, Crane Arts, and Jed Williams Gallery in Philadelphia.
He is also the curator of the Hamilton Hall Public art initiative at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia and has curated shows at: Atlanta’s Moving Spirits Gallery, Portland’s Martial Arts Gallery, Zeitgeist and Disjecta, as well as Philadelphia’s Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Little Berlin. A Strong believer in the power of Art to revitalize communities and bring about social change; he is fascinated by playing with the porous boundaries between painting, video, sculpture, performance, and printmaking.