Brave New World: Dystopian Art

Brave New World: Dystopian Art

Brave New World: Dystopian Art is an art event featuring works by local artists Christopher Reach and Charlie Garlette. It will take place on Saturday December 10th beginning at 12 PM upstairs in Studio 12 above Tapastry Restaurant in Montclair, NJ. The restaurant and adjoining gallery are located at 12 Church Street.

The exhibition will showcase works executed in a variety of techniques including life sized fabricated sculptures, large scale oil paintings, metalwork, digital media, and ceramic sculpture. Themes, rendered through each artists' unique world view, range from trans-humanism to spiritualism, science fact to science fiction.

With social disarray, economic turmoil, and endless war enveloping our present and threatening our future, what will be left for the masses when the long night ends and dawn breaks on a Brave New World?

About the Artists:

Christopher Reach is a commercial artist who works internationally in the games and advertising industries. While his professional work is created digitally, Christopher's training and regular adventures with acrylic and oil paint inform his style and allow the work to retain the feel of more traditional media.

His personal work focuses on many themes including anti-nuclear, anti-state, pro-peace, and pro-justice. Stylistically he draws inspiration from the great Dutch and Spanish painters of the 17th and 18th centuries, Constructivist Design principles, and Golden Age American illustrators like NC Wyeth and Howard Pyle. Christopher holds a BFA in Illustration and Animation from Montclair State University.

Charlie Garlette has been interested in sculpture and the arts since his adolescence. His work has been described as Neo-Dadaist, DieselPunk and Sci-Fi Horrart. Having experimented in clay sculpture and wood fabrication through high school he continued his 3D curiosity post graduation during his years as an Assistant Pressman in a 60's modern printshop in downtown Newark NJ. Having been surrounded by old strewn bits of machines long since out of commission, Charlie spawned primitive forms from the gears, suction cups, and rags of the printshop.

His art has since taken many forms, from mixed media sculptures of varying size and degree to collage, ceramic, and metalwork forms. "To use any and all materials. To rebirth recycled, abandoned technology, and wasted resources of our world to create something that speaks back to its owners". He doesn't care how you reuse it, just do.