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Claudia Drake

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me



www.urgentalchemy.com

Current Exhibitions:

Ingest
Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, GA
January 19, 2008 – March 22, 2008

Illuminators
Koltsovo International Airport, Russia
April 11 – July 11, 2008

In the Absence of Colour
Strychnin Gallery, London, England
May 9 – June 9, 2008

Printmaking Today
Dedalo Center for Contemporary Art, Italy
July 18 – 24, 2008

The Last Book
The Museum of the National Library, Spain
November 18, 2008 – TBA

Self-trained through lessons learned from the early Surrealists and Dadaists, I'm a love child of Ernst and Magritte.
www.urgentalchemy.com

For Available Artwork Contact:
Yasha Young [email protected]
Strychnin Gallery : Berlin, London, New York

My Interests

Analyzation, Odd Constructions, Antique Engravings, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Delvaux,
Art History, Dada, Joseph Cornell, Francis Picabia, Edward Gorey, Juxtaposition, Piranesi, René Magritte, Hermann Hesse, Surrealism,
Tom Waits, Anais Nin, David Lynch, Hans Bellmar, Photomontage, Contrast, Antiques, H.P. Lovecraft, Alchemy, Self-inflicted cages

I'd like to meet:


Antiquarians, Artists [visual, audio, written],
Curators, Art Historians, Time Travelers,
Art lovers, Galleries, Collectors [supporters of the arts!],
fellow Surrealists, misplaced Victorians.. you!

My Blog

Lewis Mumford, 1938, excerpt

"Steadily, for the past generation, a transformation has been going on in every department of thought: a re-location of interest from mechanism to organism, a change from a world in which material bod...
Posted by Claudia Drake on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:02:00 PST

Bureau of Surrealist Research

"Surrealism is not a poetic form. It is a scream of the mind finding itself again and it intends to desperately crush its shackles with artificial hammers, if need be."Bureau of Surrealist ResearchJan...
Posted by Claudia Drake on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 05:12:00 PST

Pierre Reverdy, March 1918

"The image is a pure creation of the mind.It cannot be born from a comparison but from a juxtaposition of two more or less distant realities.The more the relationship between the two juxtaposed realit...
Posted by Claudia Drake on Sun, 28 May 2006 04:31:00 PST

'Letters to a Young Poet', Excerpt

"....As I read it now, in the great silence of these distances, I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life, even more than I was in Paris, where everything echoes and fades away differently bec...
Posted by Claudia Drake on Thu, 11 May 2006 01:46:00 PST