Introductory

                                    "Secrets From Within"

                                                          10661 Oakapple Ave.

                             Summerlin, Las Vegas NV 89144

                                                 Curator

                                       Michelle Franklin 

                             Anything You Can Imagine Art

                                                    

                                                            

                                                                      

Exhibition Introduction

                   "Childhood Memories"

                                   Artists:

 Fabian Perez

 Justine Mohoney

Theodor Seuss Geusel

Louise Nevelson

Britney Spears

Samuel J. Butcher

Deborah Brown

Peter Lik

Brad Kahlahamerr

Sheherbano Hussain

This show will represent artists & their unique artistic creations produced by their famliararities from their connection either from their childhood or connection for children. I researched their history and discovered how in some way their product in painting, photography, music, or sculptured art was created through memories of their childhood or in creation for other children's memories to be! 

Fabian Perez

Artist: Fabian Perez

Title: "Untitled 2"

Media: Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 43"x37"

Date: 2004

                                 

Biography: Fabian was born in 1967 in Buenos Aires.  At a very young age was encouraged to draw by his mother who was an artist herself. His father owned illegal bordellos, brothels & nightclubs & was a gambler & eventually lost everything & went into deep depression. Fabians mother died when he was 16 & father when he was 19. Then he lived as a gypsy trying to survive.

Statement By Fabian: "The purpose of art is to perpetuate beauty, that is what I am always striving for. God created the world & embellished it with the wonders of nature. I think it is the artist's job to embellish it with his work."

Background: Fabian father was another inspiration of his works. He painted his father in many of his bar, brothel & street themed paintings. Many of the images memories of his youth of his father drunk & in depression.

Connections: Fabian has been one of my favorite artists. His history of his childhood & the memories he creates through his artwork, tells his story 

Justine Mahoney

Artist: Justine Mahoney
Title: "Girl With a Cast on Her Leg"
Media:  Bronze, Enamel Paint
Dimensions: 52x22 cm
Date: Listed as Current
                                                   

Biography: Justine Mahoney was born in Johannesburg, South Africa & lives & works in Cape town South Africak.  1988 entered to Johannesburg School of Art, Vallet, Drama & Music. In 1991 earned National Diploma Fine Art Tehnikon Witwatersrand.

Statement From Justine: "I tap memory & limit myself to see the world the way a child does." "The experience of growing up in South Africa during the 70's, 80's, & 90's was extremely schizophrenic & this is where I gather the elements together from."

Background on Sculpture: Recalling her first memory, this sculpture represents her at the age of three when she was hospitalized for a bone degenerating disease in her left leg. She had to ware a cast for a year.


Connection: Justine Mahoney  presents work based on miniature sculptures recalling memories of her childhood, dealing with struggles of life, emotionally & physically. I chose her works because they are inspired by her childhood experiences.

Theodor Seuss Geisel

Artist: Theodor Seuss Geisel
Title: "The Cat In The Hat"
Media: Illustrator & Author
Size: Book
Date: 1957

Biography: Seuss was born  March 2, 1904 & died September 24, 1991. He was an American writer & illustrator. Best known for writing childrens books under the pen name "Dr Seuss." He studied at Dartmouth college & University of Oxford. He left Oxford in 1927 to begin his career as an illustrator & cartoonist for Vanity Fair & Life Magazine.

Statement: Geisel gave varying accounts of how he created "The Cat In The Hat" but in the version he told most often he created a story based on the first two word he found that rhymed . The First words he found was Cat & Hat. 

Background: Geisel created the book in response to a debate in the United States. About literacy in early childhood & the ineffectiveness of traditional primers such as those featuring Dick & Jane."

Connection: It related to Childrens literacy.

Louise Nevelson

Artist: Louise Nevelson
Title: "Royal Tide I"
Media: Painted Wood
Dimensions: 86x40x8in.
Date: 1960

Biography: Louise Nevelson was born Leah Berliawsky in Pereiaslav-khenelnytskyim Russia.
Her family immigrated to Rockland, Maine in 1905 because of cultural strain between the Jewish community & the Tsarist Russians. As a young girl she dreamed of going to New York. Louise was inspired by a plaster statue of Joan of Ark that she seen at the Rockland Public Library. Louise married Charles Nevelson & they moved to New York.

Statement By Louise: Some of us come on earth seeing...some of us come on earth seeing color."

Background on work: The arranged pieces are organized within unifying wooden boxes. The content of the wooden boxes present pieces as meetings of opposites. Her arrangement reflects her sense of the cultural clash she experienced as a child in Tsarist Russia.

Connection: Nevelson's artistic subject matter reveals her personal feelings about her childhood uprooting & cumulative experiences as a Jewish child

Britney Spears

Artist: Britney spears
Title: Baby One More Time
Media: Song/Music Video
Time: 3 Min
Date: 1999

Biography: Britney Spears is a American singer & actress born in McComb, Mississippi & raised in Kentwood, Louisiana. She performed in acting roles in stage productions & television shows as a child before signing with Jive Records in 1997.

Statements: We all know what you're really thinking about when you hear Britney Spears "Hit Me Baby One More tine." We won't say it, but let's all agree discreetly. This possibly imaginary meaning of the pop singers iconic hit has plagued parents for years. Many mothers across the country simultaneously felt super guilty about letting their young children sing & dance along to lyrics begging for physical violence, But ow t seems we've all been overreacting.: 

Background: The song was written by Max Martin & Rami Yacoub. This song was originally written for American R&B Group, TLC, however they rejected the track. Spears later claimed that she felt excited when she heard it & she knew it was going to be a hit record.

Connection: Britney's first experienced fame as a member of the Mickey Mouse Club. She has continued to perform in her artistic abilities.