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Omen Magazine
is a showcase for multi-medium International
creativity. It is a visual online magazine that is
a homage to Art and Fashion that may not be
necessarily mainstream. It will be a hybrid of
talent from up and coming to famous.The focus
is on the image, not the buzz.
Omen wants to explore and expose to the
cyber world, all the amazing work that is off
the commercial radar.
www.theomenmag.com
Cover
Photo - Erez Sabag
Concept / Make-up - Jorge Serio
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Mário Correia - Graphic editor
Marcus Leatherdale - Art Director / Art Editor
Pedro Matos - Photo editor
Jorge Serio - Fashion editor
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Art Correspondents:
Paul Bridgewater – NYC
Amabel Barraclough – London
Martin Belk – Glasgow
Dan Bazuin – Toronto
Patric Lehman – Toronto
Jennifer Leskiw –Antwerp
Anne McDonald – Prague
Muga Miyahara –Tokyo
Elizabeth Rogers – New Delhi
Hector Ramsay - Florence
Andrea Splisgar – Berlin
Jorge Soccaras – Barcelona
Arturo Toulanov - NYC
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Fashion Correspondents:
Michael Schmidt – Los Angeles
Rebecca Weinberg – NYC
Zuleika Ponsen - Paris
Jeffrey Fulvimari – NYC
Jeffrey Fulvimari
www.jeffreyfulvimari.com
STEPHEN LACK - NY
Rude, crude, a rock in the pond of civilized complacency and still, beauty
rears it’s head . Must be the colors. Or maybe it is the meat. In the 80’s it
seemed like there was a mission to carry the facts across the corporate wall
and remind those in executive positions of what was happening on the lawn
of headquarters. The rage and disconnect we internalized came out in sex
and bondage while remote wars whispered violence. OK? That was a bit of
the backdrop. That’s why wall scrawling became high art and the artscene
dilated to accept the new. I worked like I was being chased by monsters
and many of these drawings , these oilsticks, were dormant in my studio
after East Village movement morphed into the more dry artworld of the 90’s.
The energy that informed them is still relevant today and they generate their
original agitation even now.
The brutality of the meat becomes slightly tamed in the paintings of
the automobiles. While I have always done images and sculptures of cars,
this series began as a commission for a client whose wayward son was
pestering to get the a Ferrari. The ‘Collector’ needed a surrogate to pacify
the boy and the commission began a series that continues now twenty
years and many exhibitions later. I like to think of these paintings as my
‘denial’ paintings. They do not deal with any overt conflict and are just
beautiful objects of beautiful objects. Still, there is a political aspect that
may be laminated on to the experience but basically they are excercises in
refining formalism, marrying it with the palette of the Fauves, coating it with
expressionist strokes, all to portray the solidity of the suburban materialistic
popism that is the western ideal while approximating the self contained
wonderworlds of Hindu paintings. That is sort of what I am trying to do,
but only in retrospect. The departure point is always the car and how it
fits in my memory. And I would not be surprised if the goal was eroticism.
Certainly ‘power’ comes in there somewhere.
Stephen Lack
2011
STEPHEN LACK
www.stephenlackart.com
LUKE YOCUM – NYC
When the canvas is stretched and primed, i go to work .
I pour the contents of my soul onto the fabric by painting the grime & grief of urban
decay, the brightness of all expectations, and the forgotten dreams of mankind.
As a means to accomplish my signature style/look, i practice the "Paranoiac-critical"
method. I induce myself into a state of delirium so that i can reproduce the images of
a madman without any diminution of my critical faculties.
My brush strokes are controlled by raw human emotion and filled by the life beat of
the metropolis I live and work in.
Colour and concept also play into my work and distorted images as another layer.
I Paint the world as i feel it, rather than the way it appears to others, and my works
evolve and go through many stages and transmogrifications.
I use paintings as a way to explore the realm of modern human life and its
juxtaposition to mass media bombardment and hysterics of North American pop
culture.
The complexity of deliberate advertisement campaigns litter the streets from the
ground to high above the skyline. As a society, we live in a visual-overload landfill
and are forced to take in this mindless and senseless information. We no longer think
for ourselves. We think, feel, act, and buy as we are instructed by the media.
I often introduce this scenario into my works, representing it as a cacophony of
long strings, non-sequential numbers, and letters that appear to be broken codes
or fragmented pieces of foreign languages. I use words in the form of social
commentary accompanied, with harshly drawn images and conflicting shapes that
uncomfortably share the canvas with each other. It is the randomness of these codes
and cyphers that is most important, rather than the actual images.
The art I create, is simply a series of modern hieroglyphs. It is a true testimony to
what I feel about the forces plaguing society today, who i am and where i have been
as both a man and an Artist...
Luke D. Yocum
LUKE YOCUM – NYC
www.lukeyocum.com
Joanne Dugan - NYC
I have always loved using ordinary things as the subject of my photographs. The
use of a provocative or spectacular subject feels like cheating, as often the final
image isn’t at all about how the photographer sees, but instead is only about
the subject. Often things that are traditionally beautiful can feel empty to me,
especially when evoked in a photograph.
This group of images is about taking the time to really see the beauty of what is
right in front of me. I am interested in evoking a kind of visual meditation about
the objects and places of daily life and the resulting transformation that happens
when this process is a conscious one.
The final images come from a complex and repeated dance I do that combines
my camera, lens, a chosen light source, my eyes and the thing or place that sits
in front of me. The goal, after many years of working this way, is to make the
whole process feel effortless visually.
This work also reflects an ongoing search for the authentic, both in my creative
work as well as in the way I choose to live my life. In exploring the idea of
what “real” looks and feels like, especially in the current complex technological
universe, I can stay in touch with what really matters to me. This body of work
is also an ongoing visual reminder to myself to never stop looking and that
beauty really is in the eye of the beholder.
“Now it is time that gods came walking out of lived-in Things…..”
- Ranier Maria Rilke
BILLY BOY & LALA – Switzerland
Presented here is work coming from an important place and space.
Billy Boy & Lala have managed to bond some of the most significant
contemporary theoretical questions with time honored methodologies
to produce a very strong suite of Gesamptkunstwerk primarily
in the format of photographs. These works address ideas about
haute couture, abstraction, design, art history, identity politics, and
figuration with evolutionary fluidity. By incorporating sculpture —
an effigy of miniaturized women and men who could be considered
as dolls, drawing, collage, painting, and photography with a fluency
of mastery of these various techniques, their diversified methods in
effect make them a true embodiment of the contemporary artist, able
to move laterally with great ease.
The work of Billy Boy & Lala speaks volumes about the current state
of affairs, about how theory and practice in the arts are no longer
binary but in fact can do more than coexist.
« Billy Boy & Lala » are a multi-faceted artistic collaboration
conceived of since 1982. They pursue their careers both
independently and together in Switzerland, and are co-founders of the
Fondation Tanagra.
C. Kwon
Billy Boy & Lala
www.fondationtanagra.com
Erez Sabag
www.erezsabag.com
Jorge Serio
www.jorgeserio.com
Jeffrey Fulvimari
www.jeffreyfulvimari.com
Stephen Lack
www.stephenlackart.com
Luke Yocum
www.lukeyocum.com
Billy Boy & Lala
www.fondationtanagra.com
Joanne Dugan
www.joannedugan.com
John Toth
www.johntoth.com
www.houseoftoth.com