Live Video will feature work by Broersen & Lukács, Rob Carter, Oskar Dawicki, Jonathan Ehrenberg, Kirsten Geisler, Hisao Ihara, Claudia Hart, Mary Lucier, Jacco Olivier, Hiraki Sawa and Leslie Thornton.

In commenting on the show, Jun Lee said, “Video art has evolved into a unique tool for artists. In the wake of the video art of the past emerges work that has a new relationship to life and to aesthetics. Live Video presents a selection of works that feature technology as it touches life.”

“This is the fifth exhibition curated specifically for our office. It serves as a continuing reminder to our company of the ways in which creativity is forever changing and being expressed,” said Steve Simpson, Chief Creative Officer of Ogilvy & Mather North America.

An opening reception with artists and curators will be held at Ogilvy on Tuesday, October 25 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. The exhibition will be on display on the gallery walls of The Chocolate Factory (636 11th Avenue, New York City) through Friday, March 30, 2012. Appointments to view the exhibition can be made by request (Tuesday–Friday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm).

Questions regarding the show and the artists can be addressed to:
Jun Lee, Art Curator at jun.lee@ogilvy.com.

Artist Bios:

Boresen & Lukács

Rob Carter

Oskar Dawicki

Jonathan Ehrenberg

Kirsten Geisler

Hisao Ihara

Claudia Hart

Mary Lucier

Jacco Olivier

Hiraki Sawa

Leslie Thornton.

Powers’ bold graphic style, reminiscent of vintage advertising illustrations, puts a unique emphasis on famous Ogilvy sayings and transforms them into actionable words designed to inspire the viewer. Painted in bright colors on the north stairwell of the agency’s headquarters office, the murals appear on the first through the eleventh floors of the building.

The murals are being unveiled to coincide with the ongoing celebration of the 100th birthday of David Ogilvy, one of the most influential and important figures in modern advertising.

About Stephen Powers

Graffiti artists have known Powers as “ESPO” since he began painting in the 1990s in Philadelphia and New York City. After establishing his reputation in these cities, Powers went on to exhibit internationally, including projects in São Paulo and Brussels, and at the 49thVenice and 2002 Liverpool Biennials. His ongoing project A Love Letter For You was originally commissioned by the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and sponsored by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. The 50 rooftop murals were completed in September 2009 and are visible from the Market-Frankford elevated rapid transit line in Philadelphia. The next edition of the project will be on view throughout Downtown Brooklyn in summer 2011.

About Joshua Liner Gallery

Founded in 2008 in New York City’s Chelsea arts district, Joshua Liner Gallery presents an exciting roster of established and emerging artists from North America, Asia, and Europe. In an eclectic range of mediums and approaches, gallery artists reveal influences as disparate as the urban street, Asian pop culture, folk art, music and sound theory, the Old Masters, advertising, and digital design. The work of gallery artists is stylistically diverse, featuring figurative realism, surrealist and futurist fantasy, and geometric abstraction, among other approaches. Above all, gallery artists reflect the cultural crosscurrents and decentralized reality of art making today.

Flights of Genius by Stephen Powers from Jun Lee on Vimeo.

Artists featured include Derrick Adams, Ernest A. Bryant III, Julia Brown, Mike Cloud, Yashua Klos, Simone Leigh, Kambui Olujimi, Jessica Ann Peavy, William Ransom, Loul Samater, Xaviera Simmons, Jeffrey Sims, Shinique Smith, Devin Troy Strother, Hank Willis Thomas, Jina Valentine, Paula Wilson and Saya Woolfalk.

The exhibition was curated by Jun Lee and Heather Hart, in partnership with Black Diaspora, an Ogilvy Professional Network.

To see photos from the exhibition please click here.

In commenting on Ogilvy & Mather’s support for the arts, Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Creative Director said, “We are a company of artists, writers, designers, and creative people who use creativity to drive commerce. Our employees need to always be looking for inspiration and art is the ultimate medium for new forms of expression.”

Artists featured included Lisa Anne Auerbach, A.J. Bocchino, Iván Capote, Seong Chun, R. Luke DuBois, Mark Fox, Joshua Gurrie, Yael Kanarek, Glenda León, Danica Phelps, Alyssa Pheobus, Mickey Smith and Rachel Perry Welty, We feel fine (Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar).

To see photos from the exhibition, please click here.

Large-scale murals, installations and original canvas, sculpture and mixed media works were on display from Will Barras, Simon Birch, Boxi, Ethos, Mark Jenkins, Labrona, Aakash Nihalani, Nina Pandolfo and WK Interact. Many of these artists, who are based in the UK, Hong Kong, Germany, Brazil, the US and Canada, had never shown in New York before, and had never shown together.

Ogilvy & Mather transformed six floors and the lobby space of its headquarters in The Chocolate Factory into a museum-quality exhibition space. As viewers ascended each floor, they experienced the upward momentum of the artwork. Re-Creation II was the second exhibit to be hosted by Ogilvy & Mather in its new space. It followed the inaugural Re-Creation exhibit, which featured the work of 12 emerging artists who use recycled materials to create unique forms of art.

Carmichael Gallery is one of the world’s leading establishments for discovering and launching the careers of the best in emerging international talent. The annual program of the Los Angeles-based gallery consists of a series of solo and group exhibitions that document the progress of these artists. Carmichael Gallery is located at 5795 Washington Boulevard, Culver City CA. For more information, visit www.carmichaelgallery.com.

To view photos from this exhibition, click here.

“We are a company of artists, writers, designers, and creative people who use creativity to drive commerce,” said Tham Khai Meng, Worldwide Creative Director. “Our employees need to always be looking for inspiration and art is the ultimate medium for new forms of expression.”

The exhibition focused on the internal dialogue between the artist and the medium in which their creation challenges their very existence — what we all perceive as “art”. The exhibition also examined the ways in which the artist recreates everyday objects and offers us a different point of view. We all look, assess and give meaning to tangible and intangible materials differently.

According to Jun Lee, Ogilvy New York’s Art Curator, each piece of work in Re-Creation was carefully selected to invoke some visceral response.

The exhibition featured works by local artists including Thomas Beale, Miriam Cabessa, Jordan Eagles, Luke DuBois and Mark Napier and internationally recognized artists Long Bin Chen, Midori Harima, Young Ho Ji, Yael Kanarek, HyunJu Park, Björn Schülke and Julie Tremblay.

Re-Creation was made possible by Bitforms Gallery, Gana Art Gallery, Causey Contemporary, Craig Scott Gallery, and Frederieke Taylor Gallery with additional support from private collectors who have generously consigned artwork from their collections.

To view photos from this exhibition, click here.