South Fork Artists

www.ninayankowitz.com
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Artist Statement
With an interest to re-right history, I continue making sculpture and video ​projection installations ​about women Unsung (S)heroes in science​ ​who made contributions that expanded their fields but were ‘ghosted’, excised from records at the time of their discovery. Before leaving NYC, I built an immersive steel aquarium sculpture to portray the discoveries of French marine biologist Jeanne Villepreux-Power. She made the first aquarium and discovered that Paper Nautilus mollusks secrete liquid to heal its shell when it breaks. After stepping thru a portal, people experience her discoveries​ ​and​ ​challenges; seeing and hearing perspectives​ ​expressed from various time​ ​periods​ ​via respective media styles projecting​ ​on the floor and four walls ​surrounding those inside this 360° aquatic​ ​environment. BUT due to Covid-19, no one can enter the physical art installation so I used photos and the interior video projections to make an immersive 360° video that virtually simulates the experience of being inside the aquarium with her, seeing and hearing animated stories all around you without wearing any Virtual Reality headsets. It’s displaying on an IPad resting on a wood beam. Another beam hosts a sculpture of a woman, built as a female Power Tower. It’s made from a deck of cards and pleated plasticized shades, characterizing games we play to survive quarantine isolation during a pandemic.

Biography
Nina Yankowitz is a visual artist making sculpture Installations and video projections that address environmental and societal upheavals we face. Sometimes she infuses social networking tools into her installations. Her multi-faith sanctuary was an Interactive art installation “Criss~Crossing the Divine”, and was exhibited at Guild Hall Art Museum summer 2014, Siggraph Asia in Macou, China, and at Creative Tech week NYC in 2016. Using interactive technology embedded in her sculptures allows sharing multi-perspective content and has been an ongoing effort in her art practice. Some exhibits include: Premiere Whitney Biennial 1973 Whitney Museum of American Art, “Hell’s Breath” PS.1 MOMA Queens N.Y. 1982, National Academy Museum 2010, MOMA Drawings Today, Pop-Rally Dadabase/Archives MOMA 2013 New York.  Her Global Warming installation was at the Museum Quartier, Vienna 2012. Other venues include: The Katonah Art Museum, Indianapolis Mus. of Art, Kunsthaus, Hamburg Germany, The Art Institute of Chicago Museum, MOMA, Kiev, Ukraine 2011, Bass Museum, Fla. The Larry Aldrich Museum, Conn. The Parrish Art Museum Centennial Exhibition 1998 Southampton NY. “Interactive Global Warming Game “Truth or Consequences” was part of ISEA 2012 in New Mexico.  Kiosk.Edu” Public Art Installations was at the Chicago Art Fair 2005 & the Guild Hall Garden. New York. Some gallery exhibits include The Jill Kornblee Gallery, Germans Van Eck Gallery, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts 1994, Frederieke Taylor TZ Art, Rosa Esman Gallery, Art in General, and Pat Hamilton Gallery, New York City. Some collaborations with global teams are: The Third Woman interactive film/game at the Greek Museum of Art at the Thessaloniki Biennale 2009, “Crossings/An interactive installation, The Thessaloniki Biennale Greece 2009. She has been awarded The Creative Arts Projects, N.Y., Pollock-Krasner Grant, National Endowment for the Arts 1981,1979, and was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.

www.dyektai.com

Artist Statement
In my presentation for Drive-By-Art I chose to focus on the work I have made based on paintings from Art History. These works pay homage to the great paintings of the past, and have been refashioned anew. We need to remember where we have been. It is the base of our future and needs to be studied. When we emerge from this pandemic we should also learn from the past. We should step forward with purpose and care, growing our love for the old earth, and building wiser in our gratitude for the new.

Biography
Darius Yektai was born in 1973 in Southampton, New York. He studied science and art at Occidental College in Los Angeles, California, and then received his bachelor of arts degree in Art History from the American University in Paris in 1996. Mr. Yektai has shown internationally in London and Dubai and has had several solo shows in New York and in the Hamptons including a solo survey of his early work at Guild Hall Museum in Easthampton in 2003, and then again more recently at the museum in the group show, ‘Yektai’ with his father Manoucher Yektai and his brother Nico Yektai in 2017. He will open his exhibition “Darklight” at Duck Creek Arts Center in Springs on September 5. The exhibition brings together six large scale dark self portraits to create a meditative space for the contemplation of humanity.

www.almondzigmund.com

Artist Statement
My work is an exploration of tension, gesture, form and space. Using patterns and forms that I collect from various sources, industrial and domestic, I create structures, objects and tableaus that speak of a re-negotiated relationship of viewer to object and plane. By playing with perspective and manipulating the tension between flat color, form, and the implied three dimensional illusion, I can create a space which is complex yet simple, a space that is defined by our reactions and the visceral connection to basic principles of the art object: form color, line, space. By using simple geometry I seek to reframe the dialogue between the perceived and the actual, and in doing so investigate the nature of art and its relationship to life, a relationship that challenges us to re-investigate our positions and understanding of our own relative spatial security and grasp. To this end, working on a large scale and in public venues gives me the opportunity to play with these concepts. Whether spaces that people traverse without incident: a parking garage or corridor, or gather in with purpose: an educational center or restaurant, I am able to create a visceral and sensory experience through thoughtful and unexpected placement of form, color and pattern.

Biography
Originally from Brooklyn, Zigmund received her BFA from Parsons School of Design in both New York and Paris. She later earned her MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where she studied art theory and criticism with the MacArthur Award-winning critic Dave Hickey. Zigmund’s work has been exhibited internationally for the past two decades including shows in Zurich, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Columbus. Her work has been selected for shows curated by Dave Hickey, Robert Storr, David Pagel, David Adamo, Andrea Grover, Rolf Staub, and Steven Criqui, among others. Zigmund currently lives and works in East Hampton, NY and has been represented by the Rebecca Ibel Contemporary Art Matters since 2005.