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SIX MASTER ARTISTS FROM BROOKLYN EXHIBIT AT THE FIFTH

CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR NYC, MAY 8-11, IN CHELSEA

SLATE HILL, NY, April 23, 2014--Six artists from Brooklyn will exhibit their masterworks at the fifth Contemporary Art Fair NYC May 8-11 at The Tunnel in Chelsea. Three painters, a creator of life-size painted wood cutouts, a furniture maker and a jeweler join over 90 other artists at this event that follows the tradition of major museums by exhibiting both fine and functional art. Focusing on independent artists, it is one of the some 10 satellite art fairs to run concurrently with Frieze NY.

Beau Marrelli creates his mixed media works on wood--such as "Film"--in his Bay Ridge studio. Born in Italy, Marelli immigrated to America with his family in 1959. His newest works are a mix of political, entertainment and other subjects. Before beginning a piece, he researches some 200 to 300 newspapers and magazines for as long as six months. Marrelli taught himself to sculpt and paint. He says his first pieces were dark, reflecting pain motivated by family tragedy.

Born in Southern California, brought up in Atlanta and schooled in Providence at the Rhode Island School of Design where he received a BFA in sculpture, Aaron Maximilian Gleason now maintains a studio in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. In the 12 years he's lived in New York, he has painted and completed a film trilogy. “Perhaps our mortal lifespan is merely a temporal perception of an infinite energy field,” starts Max Gleason in describing the concept behind his work, such as “Like Magnets in a River,” [oil paint, enamel and gold paint pen]. On he continues: “Birth>Life>Death <Before Birth • After Death> Consciousness as an energy field. Cultivating a new visual language of religious media in order to access that infinite energy field. Going beyond that mere temporal perception.”

Parris Jaru, originally from Jamaica, paints in his Bedford Stuyvesant studio today. "I began my art education at an early age without formal education, feeling a need to balance my sensitive nature with the medicinal values of art," he said. He was an early teen when he discovered New York's artist culture. After enrolling in a range of art classes to learn to be more confident, he realized later in his career that sometimes "Confidence corrupts the purity of art, thus I began creating abstract art free of ego and the barriers of self." An example of his work is "Grasp," plant pigment powder with oil and acrylic on canvas.

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Of her life-size, freestanding cutouts such as "After Picasso First Steps," Park Slope-based artist Susan Sills writes that the cutouts "are an attempt at a whimsical restructuring of art history. By releasing familiar images from the confinement of the frame and thrusting them into real space the paintings confront the contemporary viewer in new and surprising ways that invariably provoke not only smiles but also fresh insights." She continues, "My sculptures explore the magic of encountering familiar personages from art history in a totally new context, often putting them together in combinations that tell a completely new story.Renoir's dancing couple, Velasquez' princess, Gauguin's Tahitian maiden all somehow change when they enter our rooms."

Yarrow Mazzetti, whose studio is in Williamsburg, was born in Tonasket, Wash. and moved to New York City in 2009. Mazzetti has created fun cars and playground environments, designed homes in the Baja Peninsula and currentlyalso makes remarkable furniture. For his tables he repurposes elements from New York City buildings where he salvages raw wood and steel beams as well as machine gears, industrial fixtures and tools. The base of “Gear Table” is made from the cleaned up drive axel of a 1938 building crane recovered from a scrap yard in Long Island City. He has a solid history of apprenticeships, learning from masters: Propagation of trees in Washington with Will Mooney; custom concrete home building in Mexico with Maxamilliano Hernandez Ponce; timber framing skills in the Northwest with Jarin Lindsey, and fine furniture making under the tutelage of Santo Cominos in Ashland, Ore.

Jewelry designer Shauna Blythe Burke, finds that her work reflects the industrial landscape around her. She writes: "My jewelry is often textural in nature and might be influenced by a sewer grate or by an art deco image that I noticed in the radiator of a midtown building." Her work is handmade in her Clinton Hill studio. Her stones are hand cut or sourced from conflict-free locations. An example is her artful ring with rose cut champagne 2.6 carat pear shaped diamondset in 22K gold with pave rubies and an 18K band.

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Where:The Tunnel,269 11th Ave. at 27th Street, New York, NY 10001

Hours:Preview: Thursday, May 8th, 4pm-8pm General Admission: Friday, May 9th, 10am-7pm; Saturday, May 10, 10am-7pm; Sunday, May 11, 11am-5pm

Tickets: General Admission: Adults - $12 Seniors - $10 Students - $8 Children under 10 - Free. Preview: $20. Cash at entrance. Advance Online Purchase: Adults - $10 Preview: $20

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