International Art Show at Tugboat Tea Company in PLG

bobmarvin

PLG Arts has just mounted it's first international show at Tugboat Tea Company, the venue for a continuing series of monthly art shows. The show features paintings and other works on paper by Repre, a ten artist group that includes one Prospect Lefferts Gardens-based artist, Noel Hefele, and nine UK-based artists. It will run through December 8th, with the opening reception this Friday, dec. 21st. I'm attaching Repre's press release.

PLG Arts in a volunteer-run 501c3 organization dedicated to cultivating creativity in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.

Here is Repre's press release:

November
11 – December 8 2014

Opening
Hours.

Opening
Party – Friday November 21, 6-9pm

Weekdays – 7am –
7pm

Weekends – 8am – 6pm

Location.

Tugboat Tea Company

546
Flatbush Ave

Brooklyn,
NY 11225



We are delighted to announce
Repre Art Collective’s first international show, which will take
place
from the November 11 – December 8 2014 at the Tugboat Tea
Company in Brooklyn, New York.

Repre is an art collective of 10
artists who share the common theme of representation. Their work

ranges from the body to the landscape and each artist is concerned
with not only depicting the real,
but also exploring and pushing the
boundaries of realism within their practice.

The
Repre LDN - - -> NYC show will display new works from each artist.
With the challenge of
transporting work from London to New York,
there is predominant theme of light work, including
paintings on
paper, photography and prints. This exhibition focuses on the shifts
in the artist’s
practices as each artist seeks to find refreshing
ways to break down, reconstruct and represent the
concept of the
real. Through the use of fragmentation, found images, transformation
and abstraction
the artists begin a dialogue around the ideas of
what representation means today.

Repre Art Collective has seen
topics covered such as perception, temporality, celebrity,
atmosphere,
the body and the augmentation of images. The New York
exhibition will provide an insight into these
lines of enquiry.

About.


Repre was founded in 2011 by Rebecca Molloy and in this time the
artists have hosted a variety of
events. This has included their
debut exhibition at The Crypt Gallery, Trafalgar Square (2012), an

experimental warehouse exhibition in Silwex Studios, Shoreditch
(2013) as well as their most recent
residency at the DegreeArt
Gallery (2013). The artists are driven by the activity of peer
support
and have also put on critiques, panel discussions, life
drawing classes, pecha kucha events and
collaborations.
The Repre
LDN - - -> NYC is curated by Noel Hefele and Bob Marvin

Exhibiting
Artists.

Julie Bennett

Natalia Davis

Nathaniel Fowles

Jemma
Grundon

Noel Hefele

Amelia Humber

Rebecca Molloy

Louise
Morgan

Andrew Newton

Patrick Simkins.

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bobmarvin

More about Repre:

http://repreart.tumblr.com

Also a photograph, by Noel Hefele, taken through the window of Tugboat: