Invented Mythologies, pen and ink on paper, 5x7 in
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invented mythologies, drawing 5×7in
Saturday, May 18th, 2013Jeff Koons, Kara Walker, Ed Ruscha and me
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
…all at Postcards From The Edge – A Benefit for Visual AIDS. January 25-27, 2013 @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co – 530 West 22nd Street, NYC.
The 15th Annual
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
Featuring artworks by Mirena Rhee, Ann Hamilton, Donald Baechler, Kara Walker, Dana Schutz, Bjarne Melgaard, Marilyn Minter, Burt Barr, Kiki Smith, Ed Rusha, John Baldessari, Louise Fishman, Arturo Herrera, Ida Applebroog, Ross Bleckner, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Katherine Bernhardt, Nayland Blake, L.J. Roberts, Marcel Dzama, Catherine Opie, Tony Feher, Mary Heilmann, Jim Hodges, Julie Mehretu, Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, Moyra Davey, Bill Viola, Jane Hammond, Lawrence Weiner, Kay Rosen, Jack Pierson, Louise Lawler, John Waters.
Happy belated birthday, Magritte
Thursday, November 22nd, 2012
Hands Chart ( New York series ) - 23 x 29 inches, iron oxide, ink and gouache on paper, 2012
Join me for my DAF performance next weekend at DUMBO Arts Festival
Sunday, September 23rd, 2012
DAF Dress piece at The DUMBO Arts Festival
Join me for the unexpected! – I am doing a DAF Dress piece at The DUMBO Arts Festival! Saturday, Sep 29th, 12pm-9pm. Somewhere near 45 Main Street, Brooklyn, in DUMBO!
as part of http://dumboartsfestival.com. A THREE DAY CELEBRATION OF ART, MUSIC & PERFORMANCE Sep 28, 29,
Join me for the unexpected! – I am doing a DAF Dress piece at The DUMBO Arts Festival! Saturday, Sep 29th, 12pm-9pm. Somewhere near 45 Main Street, Brooklyn, in DUMBO!
as part of http://dumboartsfestival.com. A THREE DAY CELEBRATION OF ART, MUSIC & PERFORMANCE Sep 28, 29,
DAF Dress piece at The DUMBO Arts Festival
Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
DAF Dress piece at The DUMBO Arts Festival
Join me for the unexpected – DAF Dress piece at The DUMBO Arts Festival on Saturday, Sep 29th 12pm-9pm.
Somewhere near 45 Main Street, Brooklyn, in DUMBO!
BE CAREFUL, PAINTING WILL BE INVOLVED! NO PETS OR WEAPONS, PLEASE!
DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL is a three day event – it happens September 28-30, 2012. Join me for Brooklyn’s biggest arts event of the year. http://www.dumboartsfestival.com/
Join me for the unexpected – I am doing a DAF Dress piece at The DUMBO Arts Festival!
When: Saturday, Sep 29th, 12pm-9pm.
Where: Somewhere near 45 Main Street, Brooklyn, in DUMBO!
BE CAREFUL, PAINTING WILL BE INVOLVED! NO PETS OR WEAPONS, PLEASE!
DUMBO ARTS FESTIVAL is a three day event – it happens September 28-30, 2012. Join me for Brooklyn’s biggest arts event of the year.
Figment Dress – the making of
Saturday, July 21st, 2012The intent of Figment Dress was to create a visual response to Mark di Suvero sculptures, the wearable aspect of my projects actually stems from my many-years involvement with computer generated artwork. Working commercially for blockbuster franchises like Star Wars made me want to create painting and sculpture experiences where the whole body operates simultaneously as a surface, as a creative vehicle and a final product. Where the body is literally in touch with the process, with the materials and the product creators; where the final piece is spontaneously created on the spot with very low likelihood that the same object (in this case “dress”) will ever be produced again.
When I first conceived the piece I had no idea how it was going to come out formally. I wanted it to be relevant to the vision of Figment, grounded in “forms follows function” principle and also reflective of the location – Governors Island right across Manhattan in New York. Mark di Suvero sculptures dominated the landscape and provided me with the relevant geometric fulcrum.
Figment Dress - The making of. Click for a High resolution photo strip.
Figment Dress
Monday, June 4th, 2012I will be creating a Figment Dress performance for Figment Festival. It will be free, collaborative and wearable, a figment of our own imagination.
Be careful: No Weapons , No Alcohol, No Pets
June 9-10, 2012
Governors Island, NYC
What:
FIGMENT is an explosion of creative energy. It’s a free, annual celebration of participatory art and culture where everything is possible. For one weekend each summer, it transforms Governors Island into a large-scale collaborative artwork – and then it’s gone.
When:
Saturday, June 9 — 10AM – 6PM
Sunday, June 10 — 10AM – 6PM
http://newyork.figmentproject.org/figment-nyc-2012/about-figment-nyc-2012/
XQUISITE SHODO! XQUISITE CORPSE invaded Central park for an impromptu large scale painting and installation
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012XQUISITE SHODO ! Big Brushes and hula hoop-la collaborative painting in Central Park. xquisitecorpse.org
XQUISITE SHODO ! turns into XQUISITE Kimono.. from mirena rhee on Vimeo.
XQUISITE CORPSE showed up in Central Park on Easter Sunday.. to color some grass. We decided to do XQUISITE the day before and next day we setup the XQUISITE SHODO which turned into a true collaborative effort in the spirit of XQUISITE CORPSE.
As time went on and with input from passers by ( Thank you, Harriet from London! ) the true colors of XQUISITE SHODO painting showed up and it turned into an XQUISITE Kimono!
Music – taiko drumming!
Thank you, grass, for growing.
Occupying my painting for the first issue of Revolt magazine
Saturday, April 7th, 2012
wearing my painting for the first issue of Revolt magazine - underground Art talk paper by Scotto Mycklebust
Hands Chart
Wednesday, April 4th, 2012Why do I always draw hands – because hands are the most mysterious objects I know well.
Wearable Paintings
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012My intent here is a bit vague.. as much as the dress is obvious. In my work I have always been interested in the third dimension and its intersection with the flat plane. So I crafted an object, a sculpture that carries a two-dimensional message. Also, as with my work, I wanted it to be very personal and an invasion of personal and mental space.
Winter ( Brooklyn Machine series ) - acrylic on canvas, 2012. First I drew some hands with pen and ink. I scanned them into the computer and made an animation - it's called Winter Diagrams. Took a frame from the animation. Handcrafted a primed canvas dress. Painted the animation frame on the dress.
Would you like to paint that dress?
The three of us in my studio
If you’d like to give someone a hand this Valentine’s day..
Monday, February 13th, 2012Animation stills from my Winter Diagrams are now available as prints on Saatchi online
Winter diaries – new animated drawings, music by marcus fischer / mapmap.ch
Saturday, February 11th, 2012I have kept a diary since I was 13 years old. In these I write and draw sketches of personal and found work. In a way, they are diagrams of a past and a future, usually written in both English and Bulgarian, sometimes a sentence starts in English and ends in Bulgarian, sometimes I write English words in Cyrillic; sometimes I write Bulgarian words using the English alphabet. There are a lot of made up words and lots of drawings.
My last notebook is red.
These series of animations are the red notebook equivalent. In them I use my latest drawings and paintings, they carry the mood and the sense of place and space I currently occupy – Brooklyn, New York.
No digital manipulations for the drawings have been used – they have gone in as they are – I scan them into the computer and animate them. The hands are pen and ink drawings on hot pressed board, a very smooth velvety surface produced by an American paper company. The red background is a Crimson Red Intaglio ink monotype on Fabriano papers ( an Italian paper praised since the Renaissance ).
For these compositions I was inspired by Marcus Fischer’s amazing album mip~map/for friends this winter.. and my friends as well.
Painted and animated by Mirena Rhee
Music by marcus fischer / mapmap.ch
I have kept a diary since I was 13 years old. In these I write and draw sketches of personal and found work. In a way, they are diagrams of a past and a future, usually written in both English and Bulgarian, sometimes a sentence starts in English and ends in Bulgarian, sometimes I write English words in Cyrillic; sometimes I write Bulgarian words using the English alphabet. There are a lot of made up words and lots of drawings.
My latest notebook is red.
These series of animations are the red notebook equivalent. In them I use my latest drawings and paintings, they carry the mood and the sense of place and space I currently occupy – Brooklyn, New York.
No digital manipulations for the drawings have been used – they have gone in as they are – I scan them into the computer and animate them. The hands are pen and ink drawings on hot pressed board, a very smooth velvety surface produced by an American paper company. The red background is a Crimson Red Intaglio ink monotype on Fabriano papers ( an Italian paper praised since the Renaissance ).
To score these compositions I used Marcus Fischer’s amazing album mip~map/for friends this winter.. Please, support his work: marcus fischer / mapmap.ch and visit his blog.
Winter Diagrams: December ( Brooklyn machine series )
Winter Diagrams: December ( Brooklyn machine series ) from mirena rhee on Vimeo.
Winter Diagrams: January ( Brooklyn machine series )
Winter Diagrams: January ( Brooklyn machine series ) from mirena rhee on Vimeo.
Winter Diagrams: February ( Brooklyn machine series )
Winter Diagrams: February ( Brooklyn machine series ) from mirena rhee on Vimeo.
Animated pen and ink drawings
Friday, January 13th, 2012Hand painted ocean in HD ( Brooklyn series ) – animated pen and ink drawings, 2011. Painted, animated and edited by Mirena Rhee. Music by Al Dimeola, John Mclaughlin & Paco Delucia – Azzura.
Hand painted ocean (HD) from mirena rhee on Vimeo.
animation still - click for a high res image
animation still - click for a high res image