Dean Monogenis at Pace University

This summer, STUX artist Dean Monogenis was an Art-in-Residence at the Pace University - Dyson College of Arts and Sciences. There Monogenis worked on a large-scale installation pairing landscape with the abstract to create a three-dimensional painting that organically grows out of its space.

“I wanted to bring that into sculpture and I wanted to also incorporate the environment that the sculpture will be in.” Monogenis explained.

The installation, titled Monument to Ascent, brings the walls, floor, and ceiling into the art.





Monument to Ascent on view September 4-29 in the Choate House Gallery in Pleasantville.

Read More about Monument to Ascent on the Pace University's Site

Margaret Evangeline SOLO at the Ogden Museum

Margaret Evangeline showcases her broad ranging works at the Ogden Museum of Sothern Art, New Orleans in her solo exhibition Silver Bullets and Holy Water.

Evangeline planning for her Ogden Museum show:





You can read more about Silver Bullets and Holy Water on VERSO (The Ogden Museum Blog) and on the Gambit Weekly Review.


Evangeline also recently moderated a two panel discussions in New Orleans for Louisiana Artworks in conjunction with Prospect 1, sponsored by The Joan Mitchell Foundation. Find out more about it HERE.

Margaret Evangeline on the BBC

As part of the DRIFT exhibition in London which ran September - October, 2008, Margaret Evangeline was interviewed by the BBC about her installation Saved From Drowning- Monumental Reflective Project, on the River Thames directly across from the Tate Modern.

"I recalled the way JM Turner marshals forces of nature, especially water, as I selected a dramatic spot on the Thames near the place of the tragic sinking of a pleasure boat, the Marchioness, August 20, 1989, to construct a giant reflective surface of stainless steel that becomes the perpetually changing painting entitled Saved From Drowning," states Evangeline.

Saved From Drowning is a double-sided six-ton polished stainless steel structure whose two opposite sides are to be viewed randomly and intermittently. Fifteen feet high, thirty feet wide with a thickness of one foot the obverse and reverse sides are assembled from twelve polished stainless steel panels welded onto a steel chassis, a massive infrastructure stabilized by four braided stainless steel guide wires. This form is engineered to sit on top of a specially outfitted pontoon barge with maximum.

View Evangeline's interview on the BBC HERE.

Read more about DRIFT and Saved From Drowning HERE.

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Iké Udé in the NY Post's Page 6


An Ideal Heiress, 2008

Ike Ude Sees Spirituality in the Sartorial Lady Diana in Paris Hilton

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Iké Udé: Paris Hilton: Fantasy and Simulacrum

Stux Gallery is pleased to announce “Paris Hilton: Fantasy and Simulacrum”, an exhibition of new paintings, sculptures and photographs by Nigerian born, American artist, publisher and style icon, Iké Udé. Through a myriad of modalities, Udé laments and celebrates the rise of celebrity journalism and the ensuing media phenom that is Paris Hilton, America’s very own Princess Diana.

Opening reception: Thursday, December 11, 6 to 8 PM
December 11 – January 24, 2009


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Shimon Okshteyn in the Village Voice: "Chelsea Gallery Shows Quite a Piece!"

Who says art is strictly for old ussies?  It can be very frothy stuff, like this Shimon Okshteyn "fiberglass with marble dust" sculpture of a man jerking off his giant tool.  I caught it on a high-minded jaunt to the Stefan Stux gallery the other night, so I gamely posed with it (captured by Brian Cummings), anxious to interact with a piece of art that's THAT good.  I even got to meet the artist, who admitted without prompting that he's totally the basis for the sculpture.  "Hmm, nice dick," I remarked with my usual intellectual appreciation, slyly glancing downwards.  He half smiled.  And somehow the art world will never be the same. 

PS: They really need to change the work's official dimensions, which are described as "39 X 38 X 29 inches."  Aren't they leaving out 7 1/2 inches?

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/

Michael Musto posing with Self Portrait 

Self Portrait, 2008, Oil on canvas, fiberglass with marble dust, 110 X 79 X 40