Dan Tesene

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Lessons of Excess 

A Data Visualization of the Consumption of Oil in the World against the Scale of Midtown and the shipping industry 

Various works

Artist Statement

My work is about a sense of focus, of seeing between the lines of ordinary things, to reveal the myriad patterns and interconnected designs of biological and man made structures. organization.

Bio

Dan Tesene currently resides in Inwood where he works as a sculptor, draftsman, and multi-media artist. Tesene's work is heavily based on merging the intricate patterns and forms of nature with those of manufacturing, as an expression of the connections between human design and biological organization

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Artist Statement

A widespread belief concerning ghosts is that they were composed of a misty, airy, or subtle material. Anthropologists speculate that this may also stem from early beliefs that ghosts were the person within the person, most noticeable in ancient cultures as a person's breath, which upon exhaling in colder climates appears visibly as a white mist.

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Benton-C Bainbridge

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Artist Statement

I was basking in one of NYC's great pleasures-Summerstage- floating along with the interweaving lines of guitar and mandolin at a performance of jazz and Indian classical music. And then one of New
York's great headaches burst our bubble - we all cringed as a car alarm went off and blared its discordant two-tones. John MacLaughlin's fingers paused as he turned and shared a smile with U. Shrinivas and
then began plucking a lazy, daydreaming mimic of the siren. The audience laughed and was drawn back into the music as its fabric shifted to accomodate the rude guest until it went silent.

'Impromptu' means 'done without planning or rehearsal' but the Latin root "in promptu" means 'in readiness' - a more or less opposite meaning which lays bare the underlying reality; spontaneous creation requires a lot of preparation.

When dancers talk the conversation always comes around to the classes they've taken that week. Musicians, we know, constantly rehearse to maintain fluency. And exhibitions of painters and sculptors often include numerous quick sketches, 'studies' which feed into a final product, however improvised the final work may appear.

Constant study is also key to my practice.

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