Artists Ben Moon, William Quigley, and Alexander George McCue Host Closing Exhibition and Auction with Philanthropic Intentions
NEW YORK, August 11, 2014 – After a successful launch party last month, mixed media artist Ben Moon, the renowned artist William Quigley, and the up-and-coming artist Alexander George McCue will host a closing exhibition to showcase new works and to celebrate the end of the summer art season on a charitable note. This event will include a live auction featuring a Quigley portrait of Stephen Taukus “Talkhouse”, a Native American and iconic symbol of The Talkhouse in Amagansett, along with Jungle Boogie, a mixed media piece painted by Moon, and Passion, by McCue. A generous percentage of the proceeds from the auction will be donated to the Wounded Warrior Project / Soldier Ride, as well as a percentage of sales of all art sold during the show. Noteworthy pieces include portraits of Mick Jagger and Ethan Hawke painted by Quigley alongside new works from Moon’s Before/After series. This exhibit will take place at Skrapper Studios located at 62 Newton Lane, East Hampton on Saturday August 16th from 7:30-10PM.
Moon, Quigley, and McCue intend to use their passion for art and local connections to help bring awareness, attention, and respect to our soldiers who have served and continue to protect our country. They have collaborated with local artists and businesses, including Chris Carney, Teki Vak, Peter Honerkamp, and Nick Kraus, owners of Talkhouse, and founding members of the Wounded Warrior Project /Soldier Ride, along with BlueParrot and Casamigos Tequila, to raise funds and awareness through their “Sip to the Soldiers” campaign last month.
Chris Carney, one of the owners of Talkhouse and founders of the Soldier Ride, is amazed at the support the Ride has received throughout the years. “What started as a fundraiser turned into a rehabilitative event. We watched single and double amputees ride across the desert and over the Rockies; by the time we reached the east coast they were helping other wounded learn to ride with adaptions. Empowering them to help their fellow soldiers not only ended up being the greatest rehabilitation of all, but allowed the ride to perpetuate itself. It’s been amazing to be a part of.”
A 1985 Rolls Royce “Silver Spur,” hand painted by Moon and introduced at the opening night party last month, will also make a special appearance at the event to help raise money for the charity. The car is painted with Moon’s signature black and white designs, and will be up for auction in November, with 100% of proceeds going to the Wounded Warrior Project.
http://www.woundedwarriorproject.org/ http://www.stephentalkhouse.com/
ABOUT BEN MOON
As an avid musician and fine arts major at Tulane University, Ben Moon immersed himself in the diverse artistic culture of New Orleans, participating in numerous art shows and performing regularly around town. Even at this early stage, he became fascinated by the ways in which sonic and visual elements could be combined to create a heightened emotional effect. Upon his return to New York, Moon’s work was featured in a series of successful exhibitions in New York, London, New Orleans, and Beijing, as well as at Miami’s Art Basel exhibition. Moon’s latest project, ROKLYFE, marks the full realization of his longstanding fascination with the integration of sonic and visual elements, resulting in a fully immersive environmental art piece where the viewer feels as though they’ve literally stepped inside one of his frenetic paintings. Inspired by Andy Warhol’s Factory Parties and the Art Happenings of the late 1960′s, Moon employs a combination of projected visuals, interactive social media, as well as live and prerecorded music to create a world where art and life come together in a radical new experience, “the world of Ben Moon”. http://www.worldofbenmoon.com/
ABOUT WILLIAM QUIGLEY
William Quigley has been called “a cultural catalyst” and one of the most influential contemporary artists of our time. Due to his global art presence and widespread philanthropy, he was honored in 2007 and named by VH1 as Visual Artist of the Year. Henry McNeil, owner of McNeil Gallery in Philadelphia, launched the artist’s career 30 years ago by placing and selling three of Quigley’s paintings in the same show with Andy Warhol’s “Images of a Child’s World” exhibit in 1985. It was one of Warhol’s last shows before his death in February 1987. Quigley moved to New York in 1986 to attend Columbia University’s MFA Program and continued painting full-time out of his SOHO art studio while trading work with such artists as Basquiat, Haring, Prince and DeKooning. Gaining national attention, he showed with Manny Silverman Gallery in Los Angeles from 1989 to 1993 before founding the renowned AB Gallery in Los Angeles in 1994 with Pamela Armstrong and Director Dan Bernier. The AB Gallery featured artists Marc Chiat, Steve Hurd, Manuel Ocampo, Dan Fisher, Martin Kersels, Russell Crotty, George Stoll, Jason Rhoades, Mike Bismuth and Kevin Sullivan, who all have gone on to have tremendous success in the contemporary art world. Quigley’s art went on to show with some of the most respected galleries, dealers and museums throughout the world, including: Germany’s Arne Zimmerman Gallery; Pablo’s Birthday, New York; Art Basel, Switzerland and Miami; Scope, Chicago; growing global popularity with shows throughout India and becoming the first American to have his works exhibited at the Miro Foundation in Mallorca, Spain through Galeria Ferran Cano. http://www.quigleyart.com/
ABOUT ALEXANDER GEORGE MCCUE
Alexander George McCue grew up in the Springs, East Hampton NY. Living only a walk away from DeKooning, and the Pollack Krasner house, he became inspired to become an artist at a very young age. It all began at the age of fourteen, with a strong devotion to using oils right from the start. With time, practice and influence, his art grew as he attempted to diary each person, place and moment encountered. McCue is constantly providing work that is true expressions of his inner, deepest emotion and thoughts by blending his constant changing influences with his own heavy abstract hand. There stands a strong expression of the artist’s opinion and the sense of true pride to one’s own passion. http://www.facebook.com/alexander.g.mccue
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