Gordon Stevenson , also known as Baron Von Fancy , is a multimedia artist living and working in New York City.
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Baron Von Fancy was born in New York City and attended Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College in 2006. Gordon Stevenson identifies himself by his birth name because of his artwork on display in the gallery, and he uses the artistic name "Baron Von Fancy" to sign his work for commercial products. For example, the sign is signed by Baron Von Fancy, while the painting is signed with the name of his birth.
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Work
Baron Von Fancy works in various media besides canvas. He has applied his distinctive artistic sensitivity to creating real and practical items such as sponges, mats, socks, backpacks, matches, bow ties, matchboxes, handbags, mobile bags and shirts. Clever and fascinating at the same time, Von Fancy's work reaches the spectrum in several ways ranging from mild to deep, or in other instances, from playful to rough.
Collaboration
Von Fancy has collaborated with fashion, sports and media brands. Among the brands he handles are: Nike, Google, Vans, Uber, Rag & amp; Bone, Reece Hudson, Reformation, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Gitman Vintage, Smith Optics and MeUndies. It is known for its originality and talent in matching objects with funny and memorable phrases. Larger retailers such as Urban Outfitters, Elizabeth Arden, Inc., Juicy Couture, Porsche Design Group, and Patagonia have collaborated with it in various collections and projects.
Incipio mobile phone accessories company launched its iPhone line case featuring Baron art in December 2017. Prior to the launch of the November 2016 Good Perfomance television series, TNT asked Von Fancy to design art and installations, previewed on 29Rooms, promoting this new series of tense. The Baron is featured as an artistic ambassador for the Nike and KITH pop-up stores in SoHo that opened in August 2016. The end of Autumn, he was defended by MOO, a London-based specialty card business card, to create five special designs for card capsule collections an innovative and colorful name. Rogers & amp; Cowan worked with Von Fancy in November 2016 to promote the recycling program of American cotton industry.
On January 1, 2016, Vans launched a collection of sneakers featuring the Baron Von Fancy design. In the fall of 2015, Von Fancy provides visuals for the Louis Vuitton Windows book launch, published by Assouline. That summer, Converse chose Baron Von Fancy (among other artists) for his Chuck Taylor All-Star II social media promotion, the first change to the highly successful line of sneakers in nearly a century. In a typical type, Von Fancy prepares several phrases to be displayed on the Converse Twitter page, including "Can not Wait," "What's Next?", And "Ready for More."
For Valentine's Day 2015, Kreemart presented his exhibition at the Melissa Galerie SoHo shop. Paperless Post launched a collaboration with Baron on Valentine's Day 2014, featuring greeting cards, invitations, and Valentine's Day cards.
Billboards and public works
For the past five years, Baron Von Fancy has exhibited his artwork on billboards in the SoHo neighborhood and elsewhere in his hometown of New York. Billboards featuring cheerful and endearing expressions such as "On the way to steal your girl," "Do not call me a baby," "Never work," and "May the bridge that I burned up the street," among other things, has welcomed New Yorkers in Manhattan and its surroundings when they look to the sky at least since 2013. In May 2016, the reclamation boards featured an edgy phrase "If you feel sad, I can feel you wake up" was posted in Manhattan down at the Crossroads of the Canal and West Broadway.
In the summer of 2013, his "I Can not Grow Up" painting is on display at a billboard on Orchard Street on the Lower East Side.
In October 2013, for its 125th anniversary celebration, Katz's Delicatessen invited the Barons to donate the works to their pop-up art gallery next to the deli. The result, a ten foot-tall mural entitled "I'll Have What She's Having," is referenced When the legendary Harry Met Sally's erotic orgasm scene has been shot in the deli.
Mural with some signature phrases Baron Von Fancy is shown in Paris at Colette, in "A Thing Called Love," an event that opens in February 2013.
Multimedia exhibition and art
Since 2006, his work has been featured worldwide with exhibitions in California, New York, Florida, at the Ochi Gallery in Idaho, as well as in Rhode Island, Iowa, and France. In August 2015, The Tripoli Gallery presented its exhibition "Never Say Goodbye," from paintings that funnyly comment on romantic relationships, featuring cartoon characters like Casper the Friendly Ghost and Jiminy Cricket. Earlier, in the spring of 2014, the Tripoli Gallery featured an original painting exhibition entitled "I Remember It Differently," featuring classic paintings of Archie and Disney.
Colette invited Baron Von Fancy to create "A Thing Called Love," an event held at their prime location in Paris and displaying his artworks. Von Fancy has created a sculpture using electroluminescent wire, the ideal fresh medium for exploring color effects. Her passion for color interaction has also been manifested through a number of "water projects," in which she and her collaborators add colorful dyes to fountains, rivers, etc. for public display.
Origin of name
The artistic name evolved from his college nickname "Fancy-pants," which comes from Versace's vintage jeans collection. Baron Von Fancy is also known for its other collections which include homemade prison artifacts, pre-9/11 Twin Towers ephemera, and a peek showing the sex token.
Phrases
The typical Baron Von Fancy style is a phrase or handwritten statement in dense black letters. In some cases, letters are accented with bright colors, especially green, pink, and yellow. Von Fancy has a considerable range in these phrases, which have been described as "poignant," "pleasant," "clever," "vibrating from everyday language to very deep," "bold," "poetic," and "reminiscent of the hand-painted classical billboard that filled New York in the 1950s and 1960s."
Gallery
References
External links
- Official website
- Baron Von Fancy in the New York Times
- Artist and Digital: Why Social Media Is a New Gallery
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