Starting out as a kid in rural North Carolina, Jason Bryant turned a fascination with drawing into a love for painting. Previously working as an assistant for Kehinde Wiley, Jason’s work often explores the person we are, as well as the people we pretend to be. His newest pieces, featured in this exhibition, are challengingly familiar, in a way that can often be difficult to place. Maybe you’re certain who they’re meant to be… until you suddenly realize that you don’t know them at all!

Allison Edge carries a sense of nostalgia in her work. With her command of light, she creates a mood that feels like a memory, like a happy fiction now become fact. Previously working as an assistant for Jeff Koons and McDermott & McGough, Allison carries a great love for her craft, and fans of her solo show Crystal Days will certainly want to revisit her work here.

Quebec-born Ross Racine has shown extensively across the United States and Canada. His “digital drawings” are hand-drawn directly by computer, creating communities that could be taken from some otherworldly Mapquest. They are in no way photographs, yet still carry a convincing feel, leaving you with the assumption that someone, somewhere, has been to see these communities in person.

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art@panmanproductions.com

Roger Smith Hotel

16th Fl. Solarium Gallery

Friday. February 26th

Starts 7pm-10pm

After Party TBD

Admission: FREE

Come one and bring all. We are having the long awaited art opening party for both the Kevin Garcia, “One in Many” show, and the Pedro Sousa, “Traveler” Show.  The Roger Smith Hotel has been gracious enough to offer a $99 room special for the next 10 days starting on Feb 23, 2010. Lily’s will be providing appetizers and a full cash bar, if you are also interested in having dinner we advise that you make reservations before the opening. There is a 10% off dinner special for anyone attending the opening (please notify your waiter when you are seated).

To learn more about the artists and the shows here are some links:

Kevin Garcia, “One in Many”

Pedro Sousa, “Traveler”

* all art is for sale. inquiries can be made in person at the opening to John Knowles or Aleks Degtyarev or via email to art@panmanproductions.com.

Thank you and hope to see everyone there.

For Christmas I received the best present I have gotten in a really long time…

It was an awesome terra bite drive from the Panman Team. For those of you who don’t know, that’s a lot of space to put lots of media files.  What could make a girl happier? (O.K. flowers are cool. I love  flowers, but you get the point .)

Anyway, as a result of this really great gift, I was inspired to clean up my old storage drives, and during this process I started watching all the work I had shot and edited over the years. (Admittedly some pieces were better than others.) Nevertheless, as we approached a new year, I thought it was appropriate to take a look back …… not just on the last year, but the last ten.

This is a medley. Not just a year in review, but a cleansing of my drives and releasing of content I have been holding onto for years.  Hopefully it is a fond farewell. I like what I have done in the past, but as they say, your only as good as your last story… So alas, I must press on.

This year has been a huge period of change for me. I find myself in a completely different place than I was in January 2009, and I look around with amazement. The only constant in life is change, and therefore I must go with the flow and facilitate that momentum within my work.

I want to re-approach my traditional way of creating content and start the New Year off fresh, with a cleansed pallet.

I am not looking to banish the past, but rather release it. I want to evoke the storyteller inside me and really think about new ways to create and live, but first this process was necessary.

Oh one last thing…

There are a few shots I borrowed from other members of the Panman team, so thanks guys for making me look good….again.

The music is from the “IN C REMIXED” project. I highly recommend music lovers check it out.  Jad Abumrad, a composer and radio producer created the version I used. Among other things he’s one of the hosts and creators of RADIO LAB. I insist if you haven’t heard it, you must. It’s my lifeblood.  If you’re curious, start with THIS EPISODE, but listen to them all. You’ll Laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll learn something new. This is the direction I hope to take my story telling.
-Abianne Prince

The Salon (French: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris), beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748–1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the western world. Since 1881 it was organized by the Société des Artistes Français.

Panmna Arts aims at reproducing some of the successes of the Paris Salon fusing the atmosphere and attitude of the original with 21st century technology and social media.

The first show will feature Damon Tommolino and will take place on the 16th floor of the Roger Smith Hotel in the newly built “Soularium.” Although it will not be the works of many students like in the days of the original Salon, Damon will line the Soularium walls with paintings from various periods of his career and experimentation. This will create a journey through the evolution of an artist.

Panman Arts in conjunction with Panman Productions will use social networks to generate proper buzz about the event. Hosting Damon’s portfolio on Panman Gallery allows for collectors, dealers, students, critics, artists and other curators to survey the work before hand with the option to buy any pieces pre-show.

During the opening and the closing, Panman Productions will broadcast a live feed of the party allowing professionals abroad a chance to interact through social media platforms such as Twitter, Skype, Ustream, and others. Clients and fans from all over the globe will have the opportunity to be present at this happening, being able to speak to the artist and other guests.

This is a brand new interactive initiative that will connect the various art bases of the world allowing the Panman Arts Salon Live to exist and collaborate on a global scale.

Panman Arts has been entrenched in the world of art in more ways than one. We have been diligently working this rubix -cube from the corners inward. Our roles span the gamut of Artist(s), Documentarians, Curators, Art Dealers, Art Collectors, and Art Theorists. We feel that the art community is a living, breathing organism that must be approached from all sides at once. Here we have laid out our map of approach and interaction.

Here is a list of our current Interactive Web Galleries:
Damon Tommolino Gallery

Pugilism I, 60x40, oil on canvas

Ben Owens Gallery

Birthday Express Mixed Media - 8 x 7 x 6

Ed Adler Gallery

An American Mythology Mixed Media - Acrylic - 24” x 24”

Mark Wiener Gallery

Cross Narrative, Inside Out - 60” x 30” Acrylic and Sumi Ink on Canvas

Stephanie Terelak Gallery

“Live in Your Shell”

Allen Streets Gallery

Brooklyn Bridge

Roman Scott Gallery

City Of Lights