ART OPENING: Nov. 10th, 2005, 7-10pm - 'PART ONE', The Works of Jake Ehrlund & James F.Tribble November 3, 2005

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Zenergy the Skyloft presents??PART ONE?
The Works of Jake Ehrlund & James F.Tribble

When: Opening Thursday November 10th, 2005, 7:00-10:00pm - (Wine and Hors D'oeurves)

Where: Zenergy The SkyLoft, 519 W. 36th (btwn 10th & 11th)
Contact: Rachel Rawlinson @ 212-633-1979
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Zenergy The Skyloft, located at 519 W.36th St. announces the first show of their emerging artists? series, featuring the paintings of artist, Jake Ehrlund and the photographs of James Frank Tribble, a team of two talented enrooting artists currently attending School of Visual Arts.
Jake Ehrlund was born in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in 1981. In 2002 he attended the Ringling School of Art and Design. It was there with the warm community of teachers and students that his passion for art emerged to smoothly melt down his raw creative voice.?I felt like one of those alligators at the show who just realized that he could lift his two-thousand pound body fifteen feet out of the water and into the air to reach that chicken on a rope. They exposed my hunger for art making and the determination I had to pursue it.? Jake is currently a senior in the Illustration Department at the School of Visual Arts. ?Looking back it feels as if I have grown more in this one year than I have the past twenty-three. Since moving, living and working in New York I have been enlightened of so much that I never thought existed and I feel that it shows through the exploration in my work.? Some have described Jake's perspective as "uniquely limitless." In his current exhibition he uses techniques that demonstrate the true quality and breadth of his talent for art. Paint has become a vehicle for his expression. It has been noted that his art is like the print of a universal thought; so much so that "he does the thinking while the paint does the talking and the more he thinks the louder it speaks." www.ehrlund.com
Born in South Carolina, James Frank Tribble excelled naturally in photography while attending the SC Governors School for the Arts. Jay Watkins, a teacher and a mentor showed him ways of challenging his intellect by encouraging him to pursue his dreams and aspire for higher goals. His experience At SC Governors Schools propelled his desire and sharpened his view. He went on to attend Ringling School of Art in Florida for two years, which prepared him to transfer to the School of Visual Arts in New York. It is here that he is finding his voice as a photographer and learning the social and intellectual processes of being a student of photography in New York City. He finds his voice resonating in the soul-filled faces making their ways through the world via the streets of New York City. "At first I was overwhelmed both by the tremendous amount of information, faces, buildings, towers of cold concrete, and by the amount of chances one gets to take a photograph. I am inspired by my friends, by strangers on the subway, by random individuals I meet in my day-to-day life in New York. I ask myself who is this person? Who are these people? This desire to explore the person, their emotions and the physical signs of their secrets, perhaps is the one single reason that I choose to make images. Learning more inventive ways of communication through portraitures, I try to capture the essence of the moment. The delicacy of emotions portrayed on the faces of the individuals, the somber environment, the colors, reflects the lack of stability life presents, and the constant need of individuals for recreating and re-establishing archetypes of self in order to fit in the City of New York...It is ultimately about following the voices within, the experiences of my youth, of suffering, of sadness, love." James' images are intense. His art infuses the viewer with compassion. His hyper-real perspective gives way to an palpable understanding about who is living in his photos. His impacting "narrative last longer than normal reality," said one viewer, because his subjects express emotions all people privately own. www.jamesfranktribble.com
On View from November 10th through 20th.Sundays 12-6pm or by appointment.
Zenergy the Skyloft is located at 519 W.36th St. adjacent to Exit Art, in the heart of the new artist neighborhood, in Clinton/HK.
For more information please contact Rachel at 212 633 1979.