A Gallery for Art & Typewriters
ACME STUDIOS is pleased to present the exhibition: DAN HALLMAN: The Dutch Years, a collection of images, paintings and sculptural pieces by artist Dan Hallman
These artworks are a representation of continuing bodies of work Hallman considers as abstract paintings or drawings manifested in photographic form. While shot with a digital Leica, the images are all produced in camera with no use of Photoshop or A.I. He manipulates reality through long exposures, “painting” with the camera, using found forms or physically creating shapes of light with the camera to make the image.
Simultaneously, Hallman’s “Textural” artworks form an ongoing series rooted in his practice of documenting witty thoughts, quotes, dark humour about close friends’ deaths and observations over the past fifteen years. This archive of notes and current daily inspirations were recorded in notebooks, on hotel stationary, sheets of paper, napkins and emails to himself. In 2020, the artist began re-imagining these ideas and expressing them visually using paint on canvas or other materials.
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CURRENT EXHIBITION
DAN HALLMAN:
THE DUTCH YEARS
June through August 2024
“I am blurring the lines of what you see and creating what is not there. At other times I am using mundane moments of the day and presenting them in a way the viewer may never have noticed or considered to be compelling.”
These artworks are a representation of continuing bodies of work Hallman considers as abstract paintings or drawings manifested in photographic form. While shot with a digital Leica, the images are all produced in camera with no use of Photoshop or A.I. He manipulates reality through long exposures, “painting” with the camera, using found forms or physically creating shapes of light with the camera to make the image.
Simultaneously, Hallman’s “Textural” artworks form an ongoing series rooted in his practice of documenting witty thoughts, quotes, dark humour about close friends’ deaths and observations over the past fifteen years. This archive of notes and current daily inspirations were recorded in notebooks, on hotel stationary, sheets of paper, napkins and emails to himself. In 2020, the artist began re-imagining these ideas and expressing them visually using paint on canvas or other materials.
See and buy Dan Hallman’s artwork;
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EXHIBITIONS
YANELIS MORA MORALES
SUPER-OBJECTIVES
May through June 2024
“Every textile of Yanelis Mora is a little piece of her thoughts, her anxieties, or her joys. It is her personal mental landscape, in colours and lines and shapes, very touchable, real and oozing authenticity”
Yanelis Mora comes from the world of dramatic arts. As a nationally celebrated actress in Cuba, already skilled in the making of costumes, puppets and scenographic elements, she has chosen textiles as a form of expression in the visual arts. Using the full potential of abstract language, the exhaustive study of color and light with its complex and sensitive patterns, she gives each of her constructed textiles a very distinct and powerful character of its own.
See and buy Yanelis’s artwork;
LOEK VAN VLIET
RIVER REFLECTIONS: Seascapes, Riverscapes and “Dialogue with a River”
April through May 2024
The photographs reveal van Vliet’s observations of humanity’s incursions into the natural world, some consequences of industrial processes and the artist’s efforts to “portray” in two dimensions the beauty of “quiet spaces” in the natural environment.
See and buy Loek’s artwork;
Mahamoudou Zinkoné (Babs)
Art de la Rue: Street Art from Ouagadougou
December 2023 through March
Known principally as a painter of “naïve” or folk art, Babs’ scenes of daily life in Burkina Faso are included in African, European, and American art collections. His colourful works show the busy, interrelated and sometimes chaotic street and village life of west Africa in ways that portray his subjects with animation, humor and, above all, dignity.
See and buy Babs’s artwork;
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ACME TYPEWRITERS
The Utility and Beauty of Typewriters
Acme Studios is the home of the Acme Type Machine Company providing working typewriters to writers and collectors around the world. Acme is known for its selection of highest quality, fully-restored and fully-working typewriters. Acme typewriters have been the choice of serious typewriter buyers for the last decade. At Acme Studios our clients can try out typewriters in a beautiful environment of art and culture.
To see and buy our typewriters:
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