got armor ?

GOT ARMOR?
is Uta Brauser's response to the continued gun violence in the United States.
"As long we have gun laws that make weapon ownership this easy, we,
the unarmed Civilians, who insist on civilized interaction and
unarmed conflict solution, need to shield ourselves.
Armor up! "
" Human Civilization is approaching a stage of intelligence and technology where the use of guns should slowly become obsolete. Come on America.."
quotes of Uta Brauser

Using fashion as a wearable art expression, Uta Brauser is presenting on the runway stage
with the Williamsburg Fashion Weekend a line of bullet proof gear combined with a playful take on armor to instigate the continued dialog and activism against gun rights.
got armor runway video
sound DJ Pastiche with rare German electronic music,
performers: Alex Psyraider, Janice Ducate, Rodina Mikhail, Caridad Rivera, Yoshan Churnov, Angela, Lee Wilson, Samuel Gato, Andres Freeman

our official shooter. with a nerf gun

jena cumbo photography

our men reacting to bullets, revealing the bulletproof  vests

(jena cumbo photography)

Caridad with mask and dress

(jena cumbo photography)

Uta Brauser style ladies. new age, new realities

(jena cumbo photography)

rehearsal at gallery

most pix were taken with my google phone which has issues with night time light conditions..

others by Jena Cumbo

T shirt line in the making for your anti gun violence

activism

The 25 min performance piece goes on stage  Feb 15th 2013, at the event space  Villain,
50 N 3rd Street, Williamsburg Brooklyn Waterfront  at 9pm

here some press attention

NY Times.thelocal.eastvillage:
Uta Brauser
Showing Friday at 9 p.m.
More activist than fashion designer, Ms. Brauser looks to clothing design as a way to push forward political dialogue. Her collection for the show includes paintball masks and visors to invoke a sense of “shielding” as a response to the repeated occurrence of gun violence in schools.
Favorite thing about WFW: “Williamsburg Fashion Week still maintains that core of genuine, non-gentrified artistic expression that you used to find in the East Village and Lower East Side. It all moved to Williamsburg. Williamsburg now contains the urban core of designers that makes New York such an extremely creative capital.”
$500 shopping spree: Live Astro

on News12 Brooklyn

Jersey City Independent: anti gun fashion

 sentimentalist mag Brooklyn

live.wsj.com 

the gothamist 

brooklyn exposed 

wall street journal  

village voice 

spades and silk 

nyc prowler 

today s the day 

Databendings of the Mind

DATABENDINGS OF THE MIND
Art Exhibition by KALIPTUS
Curated by Uta Brauser

Fish with Braids Gallery, 190 Columbus drive, Jersey City
PATH to Grove street,  2 blocks west from station
drive Holland Tunnel, left 2nd light after west bound exit,  all the way to C Columbus drive

The opening reception is December 7th, 6-11pm
exhibit dates: Dec 7 - 16  2012

For  DATABENDINGS OF THE MIND, Kaliptus explores glitch art and databending techniques with photography which eventually get printed to be cut, collaged and reassembled into "psychedelic gems" that are both digitally-crafted and hand-made. The work itself  translates as a stream of consciousness and abstracted reflection of the artist's past experiences.

Sounds by Christopher Van der Essen of pSyncUs
http://soundcloud.com/psyncus

About the artist:
Kaliptus a young artist born in Portugal, grown up in the US,  NY/NJ graduate from SVA with a BFA in animation and an MFA in computer art. Kaliptus is a prolific, multimedia artist who spends most of his time bridging the Intuitive Brain with the Technical Brain to create works of art that 
reveal the Transpersonal Realms of Consciousness. 

 

the dvd of the animation is available as a limited edition of 20

part of JC Fridays,  Dec 7 2012    Jersey City,
the art crawl on first fridays.

witch haus vampire initiation halloween

The  image gallery is at flickr.com/fishwithbraids
for this event with the performance of the
Vampire Initiation by Caridad Rivera, Solangel Vazquez 
and Analis Cardenas.

projections, sound by Kaliptus
drums and keyboard James Cardenas Zelaya, Marco Xibalba

Moon Fire Tower art salon

Sculptor Bryce LeVan Cushing brings the largest collection of his work to date to Jersey City, New Jersey on Thursday November 29, 2012.  Cushing is known for his modern figural mosaic sculptures that are part Schnabel and part Gaudi.  He has shown extensively in Europe including last year’s 20th Anniversary of the Barcelona Arts Association show, The Barcelona International Art Fair, and the Drap Art Festival.

In the United States Bryce LeVan has shown coast to coast many times and currently is focused on shows in the New York City market.  As a performer under the moniker MoonFire Tower the artist's career stretches 20 years to the beginning of the Earl Dax phenomenon, when the pair performed together in the mid 90's at MFT's Camp Squirt.  Guests on that show which toured venues in the East Coast were:  Joey Arias, Sherry Vine, Enya Buttox, Raven O, K-Tel and the Dumsta' Players, and many others.

MoonFire Tower Art Happenings are traditionally rich with multimedia and this installation at Fish With Braids (190 Columbus Blvd, Jersey City, NJ.) is no exception.  The Joey Arias inspired MFT collage drip painting series will be on display for the first time.  Also being debuted are Cushing's Rock River Rings from Vermont.  These chunky semi-precious sterling rings are being designed for Camp Squirt alumni.

Jersey City Art Star Uta Brauser will show her fashion as she teams up with MFT for this epic event which will be hosted by Pussy Faggot regular Needles Jones.  Needles and MoonFire go back 20 years and the evening is sure to be a throwback to the mid 90's Don Hill culture.  MFT will be rocking a set of performance art written by NYC playwright Justin Sayre.  The untitled piece is a collaboration exploring Cushing's troubled childhood full of sexual abuse in the Christian church.  This will be the world premiere of the punk rock mini musical.

Bryce LeVan Cushing is dedicated to reviving  the energy of an earlier age inspired by Hoffman and Warhol.  During the 90's MFT mentored with Hunt Slonem and Christopher Makos and is directly influenced by the factory sensibility.

Artist talk with  Vincent Zambrano and Kaliptus

for "FLUX/ Binary Dreams", new media exhibit,

meet the artists, talk and q & a,

wednesday Oct 24, starting at 7 pm.

Eto Otitigbe.   8 pm sharp

 
Fish with Braids Gallery,  190 Columbus Drive, JC


"Becoming visible"  and "Cold in the sun",

pieces involving social context and personal relation.


Talk followed by Q & A, refreshments.

new media and abstract art at Fish with Braids

7 exhibits  of New Media works, abstract and interactive displays at
Fish with Braids Gallery
190 Columbus Drive, Jersey City      Oct 12 - Nov 4,  2012
receptions with artists, performances, during Open Studios  Oct 12 -14
www.fishwithbraids.blogspot.com

Binary Dreams/ Flux
“Binary Dreams” brings forth a fusion of the technical brain and the intuitive in the form of new innovative arts that depict the vast and transpersonal experiences of dreams. With the advent of new technology emerging and novelty dropping new seeds constantly into the oceans of the mind, the abstractions of dreaming are constantly fractalling out into an explosion of new diverse realities that become available for exploration when one abandons the senses to sleep and plunges inwards. Vincent Zambrano and Kaliptus are bringing back the raw dream elements and translating them out into the mundane world. The art works themselves vary in style and medium but work together like a perfect blend of opposite dualities. They create an overall effect of wholeness, diversity and surreal futurism.
artists:
Vincent Zambrano(JC), Kaliptus(Harrison NJ) 

curator: Veronica Santi, (Florence Italy)

Dimensional Portraits 
Multidimensional portraits, created with paintings, literary quotes, video animation and music.
The viewer enters an experience about a person, a visual literary encounter.
artist: Fermin Mendoza (JC native, Morris county)
curator: Uta Brauser

Abstract geometry
Peter Bill's abstract geometric forms with his life-long devotion to color theory involves 
painstakingly rendered stripes and shapes, by hand, with perfected skill.
The summary of shapes creates a trompe l'oeuil three dimensionality.
artist: Peter Bill (JC)
curator: Uta Brauser

Unpolitically correct characters exploiting themselves
The underground Urban characters of androgenous, colorful, queer and love for life creatures
are Stephanie's observations of a New Yorker upbringing and life style.
artist and curator: Stephanie Riggi (JC)


Abstractions
The artist uses a technique called video performance painting. First video images are projected onto a blank canvas. 
Next the artist begins painting the moving video images. Each brush stroke creates a different visual layer for the viewer.
The viewers are not only seeing the projections they are seeing the paint create a different image all together. 
Olivia's  paintings  are the out come of this visual layering process. 
Performances are scheduled    saturday at 4 pm, sunday at 7pm
artist, curator: Olivia Wilber (JC)

Spanking machine
The multidimensional experience of observing and/or physically immersing into the depth of pain 
or physical intensity combined with the social aspect of the public's presence  will make this display
unforgettable.
artist, curator: Uta Brauser (JC)

Becoming Visible
The linear patterns in Becoming Visible were inspired by wood carvings and bronze statues from Benin, West Africa.
Many of these works depict the king or "Oba" of Benin with contours of his face.Traditionally some ethnic groups used these lines
to identify each other after they had been separated.
In this case I place the lines on an image of my own face to express empathy for the families of innocent African American men whose lives
were taken unjustly.
artist, curator: Eto Otitigbe (NYC)

Cold in the Sun
"is a new media piece on reflections with my father's progressing dementia. "cold in the sun" was one of the phrases
I would find him mumbling to himself.
In this video  I reenact some of the phrases my father would mumble while sitting 
around the house as if they were a series
of flashbacks.
Through the use of Delaunay Triangulation the video gradually abstracts itself as my father gets 
deeper into his memories.
Delaunay Triangulation is a method of computational geometry that can be used to model
complex surfaces without having to measure the exact dimensions of all surface points.
It is typically used to model terrains where only some points of altitude are known.

      
In this case I assume the role of my father and attempt to reenact some of his mannerisms.
Although I did not know much about him I have a few data points form which to model his behavior."

artist, curator: Eto Otitigbe (NYC)

Runway Fashion shows and Fashion night out

Runway Fashion shows, "night of lights"
participating with the Jersey City Fashion week (dot com)
Sept 22, 8pm - 12pm
190 Columbus Drive

we are growing the hype about a "different" concept in clothing in Jersey City:

Mark Tauriello and Uta Brauser present their collections at
the Fish with Braids art space  runway.

Uta Brauser, Evolve Wear 4

Mark Tauriello states:  In my fashion designs and photography, I imagine that I'm making works fit for an avant-garde space age massacre. I am greatly influenced by science fiction and horror films such as Forbidden Planet and Suspiria, particularly for their foreboding atmospheres, unsettling color combinations, and stylized sets.
I think sculpturally, exploring the boundaries of space that surround the garment. I often choose solid color fabrics for color blocking and bold contrasts. In my art there is often a disconnection between the subject and the viewer, causing feelings of an intriguing uneasiness.

 

 

Uta Brauser: artists play an important role in evolution. We often are in tune with our subconscious with developments that are yet to be manifested.
Future developments after a blade runner esthetic are my vivid imaginations and projections of realities to come. I love to follow scientific predictions and developments.



Together with an eclectic bazaar of accessories designers,
hot tunes from electronic brit pop decks, hors d'oeuvres and delightable desserts
the Jersey City fashionista can find original pieces  that are not easily availble in stores.

One special night only,
$15 donation at the door
for an unforgettable art fashion celebration

with special thanks to our sponsors:
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