Monkdogz Urban Art - Bob Hogge and Fellow Artists
As soon as I walked into Monkdogz the other night, Bob Hogge (in black, below) came up and introduced himself (it’s his gallery) and offered me a drink. Bob really took the time to talk to me …how unusual! Being as I like some of the work in his chelsea gallery and the feeling in the gallery - I thought I’d write it up in ArtNYC. Â
Bob Hogge strikes me as someone who’s been in the art world for a while - a search on Bob Hogge brings up a Robert D. Hogge who invented “Xfusionistic” art - I think that’s the same guy, but I’m not 100% sure.
I asked Bob Hogge if it was really true that it takes 2 years to set up a NY Art Show. He said it depends; my gist is it does not take that long to get a show in his gallery if your his kind of artist - someone that is dedicated, is willing to put yourself foward. He sees his gallery and selection process as different than any other gallery…and I believe him. He had some pretty good work on his walls.
I liked an artist called Marcus Van Soest (he’s an artist to watch) who is showing his work currently in the Monkdogz gallery….Bob Hogge told me this artist got on a plane and came right over to the gallery to ask to show his work in Monkdogz because he had read about Monddogz and Hogge for several years. Looks like the trip paid off as Marcos is one of Monkdogz collection of artists that are shown in the Chelsea gallery (Monkdogz has an online gallery that anyone can join for free).
  
Van Soest was the most original artist I have seen in Chelsea lately - powerful work. There’s a lot of info on him online and you can see pictures from the opening at Monkdogz Urban Art “Came to Believe” show last week (which I did not know about or I would have come).
[…] Aside from liking Marcus’s paintings, which I do, he is a new breed of artist that knows how to use the Internet to foster online communication, totally eliminating distance. I feel like Marcus van Soest just became a friend of mine - and we haven’t even met yet (I missed his opening last week at MonkDogz). […]
By Marcus van Soest - some delightful emails » Art NYC - Fine Arts in New York City on September 19th, 2006 at 5:31 am
Thank you for the article, some writing in reaction on these articles.
Square wheels drive better, hey bring me around the World without moving…
The Web is a playground to me, a place to promote the “Great Works”, a few years ago I started POWERPAINTER.ORG with the help of Rein Velt, a top programmer whom I got befriended with… The idea behind this high-tec databased site was to become a Worldwide platform for Artists and Artlovers, a place for cross-breeding between the various disciplines in Art. A place where artists are allowed to promote themselves to form bonds with others and creative experiment. Some members: Max Lerou ( The Netherlands / Poet and Writer ), Steve Oatway ( Australia/Junk-Sculptor ), Sunia Boneham ( Brooklyn-NY / Painter and Sculptor ), Arnoud Schuurman ( The Netherlands / Installation Artist ), Slippy da Lizard ( St.Blancard-France / Cuisinier ), Eyekino ( the Netherlands / Video-Artist ), SHAKE ( The Netherlands / Aerosol Culture ), Lou Patrou ( Painter / NYC ), Johan Nieuwborg ( Sculptor / Belgium )and also Bob Hogge ( NYC / Monkdogz Urban Art ) is a member.. It took some time and effort to get other artists to see the promotional value of publishing about their projects and events and cooperations between some of them, on a small scale was an achievement which I could only dream of..More of them started to write weblogs and some of them quite frequently…
And I did small reviews on some of them, last weekend I filmed Video-Artist Eyekino at work in a large The Hague Discoteque and the week before I disd a small interview with Arnoud Schuurman, a young Installation-Artist who does exciting international projects, all this you can find on POWERPAINTER.ORG, membership is free…
Well the web eats a lot of my precious time, more and more I need to focus on my real job, being a Painter, I just recently started working on some new big canvases for a next show wherever in the World.. If I paint my web-cam will be directed to my easel, so that the World can watch the Powerpainter, this way I can bring my studio closer to the people, stop working in hiding, people see me work…
Inventing the square wheel…
Marcus van Soest
By Marcus van Soest on September 19th, 2006 at 11:37 am
Hi, i m like picture, don t speak english, i m speak portugues,.
Its beatiful ours works. Strong….. Kisses
By wilma on October 10th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
Hi wilma, sorry i don’t speak portugese, that’s a pity…
but I thank you for your compliment.
If you want to see more works you may click on my name above the article….
Marcus van Soest
By Marcus van Soest on October 11th, 2006 at 10:20 am
G Day Marcus you new breed it’s Steve O your art brother from downunder your paintings looked great, good article to. Rock the world man.
By Steve O on October 16th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
Heej Steve O. How’s life mate…
Great to have some news of you through this great art site…
I hope you re-register at POWERPAINTER.ORG, we miss your radiant personality on our platform! and we also hope you will place some of your great pieces of Junk-Art
in your own PP-gallery , I allready created one for you!
The new members are streaming in, we will be at full strength soon enough and it will be worth while to publish about your projects at our high-tec database machine apparatus, it’s a clever machine, designed as a promotion tool for the arts and a place to meet with Artists from other disciplines, cross-breeding is our aim..
We are a bunch of idealistic individuals with one thing in common: Love for Art and a cooperative attitude…
Hope to see you soon
sincerely
http://powerpainter.org/user/register
Marcus van Soest
By Marcus van Soest on October 17th, 2006 at 10:22 am
Dear Marshall will you please place my tag (Marcus van Soest) with the above article so this piece will be on top of this string: http://www.artnewyorkcity.com/category/marcus-van-soest
hope you do this asap because i need it for promotional goals..
thank you very very much..
Hope to meet you in the Big Apple next year!
Marcus van Soest
By Marcus van Soest on November 7th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Another thing the above URL at the article Heej Steve O. How’s life mate… about registration at POWERPAINR.ORG should be http://powerpainter.org/DB2/user/register
sincerely
Marcus van Soest
By Marcus van Soest on November 7th, 2007 at 11:57 am