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Update #30: Show!
Hey folks,
So we're halfway through the exhibition, and the opening went just swimmingly. I put up David Alvarado's and Katharina Means's photos of the gallery installation and opening reception in this album, plus some photos of the lovely catalog. Thank you so much to those who made it in some form or another. The show is up until May 31 at Space Womb, and I'm screening silent versions of the videos taken of many portrait sessions, which can currently only be viewed at the gallery.
As you can see, the paintings have all been framed, and I'll be shipping them and the catalogs out to you in June. The website now has a pricelist, and the tokbox chat there has vastly improved, while Hangouts doesn't offer as much as it did while I was painting, so that link is gone to avoid confusion. Similarly the livestream embed is dysfunctional and has been removed.
I've completed three new portraits this week - two private commissions and one tumblr giveaway winner - and will be painting Carina next Tuesday from 2-5 EST right on the site.
The 64-page color catalog, including my introduction and three testimonials from subjects, was printed in a limited edition of 100, about half which are going out, personalized, to every backer at $25 and above whose addresses I have. If your address has changed since I sent the surveys last October, contact me at janet@bruesselbach.com to make sure it's current. The remaining catalogs are retailing at $40 including tax and shipping, and I'm selling some at St. Mark's Bookshop at 31 Third Ave. in NYC.
This has been a lot of work, everyone, but without you I'd be panicking much more about finding interested clients and press, and the future prospects of making these paintings. I want to be able to do this with people who can't necessarily afford it and it does always feel weird to be, you know, professional. Keep spreading the word.
Yours,
Janet
Update #29: And a little more, backers
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Posted on April 8
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Update #28: Official Show Announcement!
by Janet Bruesselbach
teleportraiture.com
Exhibition May 18-31, 2012
Opening Reception Friday, May 18th, 7-9pm
Space Womb Gallery
22-48 Jackson Ave.
Long Island City, NY 11101
Teleportraiture is a series of small, intimate oil portraits, painted from live poses, by remote video chat, via Skype, Google Hangout, or iChat. Janet Bruesselbach launched Teleportraiture in 2011 as a Kickstarter campaign. The subject of each portrait is a backer of the campaign, or a loved one volunteered by the backer.
Janet is pleased to announce that the 45 resulting paintings, completed between October 2011 and February 2012, will be displayed in a 2-week gallery exhibition in New York City, in downtown Long Island City, to be more precise. Attendance at the opening reception on Friday, May 18th, will also be possible remotely through a simultaneous online video chat.
The pricing and experimentalism of the series made the fine art portrait experience open to people who had never before considered commissioning one. The subjects include the artist’s friends and relatives as well as people met only through the campaign, and only online. Some posed from the other side of the world, others from the same room, all framed by their computer screens. The ages of subjects ranged from under a year old to septuagenarian. Many subjects had never used video chat before. The project reflects a moment when a flexible technology is still finding its social niche.
Janet has been working as a portrait artist since she was 15, and was further trained at RISD and the New York Academy of Art. Her painting is traditional but fresh and lively, and feeds on the energy of interaction with a live subject. Paintings reflect on both the artist’s personality and her subjects’. Yet as artifacts of sittings, they are not quite realistic, and often contain traces of awkwardness in every level of communication.
Some of the portraits remain available for purchase, as are a limited number of catalogs. The artist will be working in the gallery and will be available for live video chat Monday (21, 29), Tuesday (22, 30), and Thursday (24), from 12-6pm EST. The gallery is also open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 12-6pm. To commission a portrait during this or another time, to schedule a viewing, and for any other inquiries, contact: janet@bruesselbach.com (310) 617-3366
Update #27: How could I forget?
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Update #26: Moving forward
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You get an invite to the preview and main reception for the exhibition, to attend in person or remotely, plus regular updates with images of each portrait.
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I am the daughter of two laser physicists who grew up within a culture of nerds. I have been painting since puberty, always bringing my interests in the history and theory of science and technology into archaic methods. I have a B.F.A. in Illustration from RISD and M.F.A. in Figurative Painting from the New York Academy of Art.
