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Sven Palmowski

myartspace id:amarillo

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Mary Taitt

myartspace id:taittems

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Daryl Waller

myartspace id:Daryl

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Daryl’s work is inspired by his own experiences in the world, namely love, friendship, his childhood in the 80’s growing up in Cornwall’s tiny city of Truro, and his estrangement from the school system. Left cold by the national curriculum and ridiculed by teachers due to his undiscovered acute dyslexia his brain daydreamed off from the lessons in conformity and obedience and went on permanent holiday into his own thoughts. Daryl feverishly consumed hours of his energy and time drawing – the result is a talented craftsmanship reflected in the skill and execution of his work. Whilst his fellow peers were sweating it out in exams and training to be workforce robots, his thoughts were left untouched and untainted to be expressed in more creative ways.As a result his work offers a refreshingly unique, lateral, funny, joyful and bitter take on a world turned on its head and scrutinised from a different place. He is free to make connections and thoughts that most people have once in a lifetime several times over in each painting. Let off the leash to create freely at Art College, his sketchbook ideas exploded out into a confusion of vibrant life and colour. He began to work on a larger scale and introduced new mediums such as household paint, oil pastels and masking tape mixed with pencils, biros and permanent markers. It is here we see the painful end of the relationship with his first true love expressed – the raw emotion violently etched into the paper. A year out in 2001 offered Daryl the chance to lick his wounds and paint in his parents garden shed. The result was a phenomenal output of more mixed medium large-scale work that included pieces inspired by the Beach Boys, this, he says, “was a bid to move into less depressing territory”, it didn’t work.The Royal College of Art soon beckoned where his talent was nurtured and his dyslexia was finally discovered and supported. He continued to output a huge range of work from large paintings to his self-published artist’s books to moving image to smaller drawings.His work offers a full range of contradictions in an honest account of humanity, extreme on both ends of the spectrum – from masculine to feminine, violent to loving, beautiful to ugly, naive to knowledgeable, expressing nihilism mixed with joy and wonderment – both sides of the picture are united in uncompromising blunt honesty. The music he loves and the ideas, emotions and sounds expressed in them interweave with his own ideas providing a soundtrack and reference to his own experiences. The influence of musicians ranging from Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, and Pavement and many others can all be seen. Daryl tells stories in his work and puts thoughts into form that everyone can identify with. His work crosses divides of gender, class, race and age. He is an honest everyman for the 21st century: unafraid and free. He lays himself open and raw through his art, displaying his inner most thoughts uncensored. The true beauty of his work is that he manages to express emotions and feelings such as love, pain and rage through his art in much the same way that a musician does.At present Daryl is living in London listening to The Fall, Kate Bush and early Adam & The Ants records plus working full time towards his next exhibition of paintings.

Marc Heaton

myartspace id:Lucleon

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My most recent work is sourced from close examination of years of working at boat yards; both the woodlands and wild open expanses. I am deeply moved by the wild and gentle beauty present on the estuarys and tidal changes. I am fasinated by chaos and order existing simultaneously and the harmony that occurs within the natural world and the manmade world.My influences are, Roger Hilton,Niicolas de stael,Pollock,Picasso,Miro,Klee.etc..

Stephen Evans

myartspace id:SREvans

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Senior SAS Programmer/Analyst at the Data Coordinating Center/Boston University School of Public Health Member of Collectif Jeune Cinema since 1977

Alessandro Passerini

myartspace id:passeart

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Would you like to know who is Alessandro Passerini? Alessandro has been a painter for a long while and from more than ten years he’s been an active performer and expert both of visual arts and of plastic arts. He received the title of 'Mastro' in Versilia, where he developed as a performer while working for contemporary and other artistic companies. Alessandro has been an arts lecturer in several public and private schools and he is in charge of the development of the visual identity of different artist and musicians in Italy. Recently, as a result of the combination of his multidisciplinary talents, he’s been working as a scenographer and as a graphic designer responsible for two renowned publishing houses, and he won the ARTETREMILA International Award in Rome (Italy). Often you’ll find him trekking or climbing mountains, looking for inspiration, trying to get new ideas to feed his uncountable talents. When you think of Alessandro you have to think in many other artists that have received his touch of creativity in order to be more accessible on the web, to have a better image, to transmit a more artistic feeling. www.passeart.it

Marco cardenas jansen

myartspace id:dreamslord

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Teixeira Barbosa

myartspace id:teixeirabarbosa

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Born. Marco de Canavezes - 1967. Live. Oporto - Master in Fine Arts - Assistant Professor - Drawing - Fac. of Architecture of Oporto 2007 - Half full half empty - Exteril Galery. Oporto. (ind.) - "On the other hand" - "light shadow" - Exteril Project, Biscainhos Museum. Braga. - "(De)Forms II" - Exteril Project, Imerge. Oporto - "Vita fermata in un istante mobile", Espaco Ilimitado. Oporto (ind.) - "Essay#", Imerge, Oporto (ind.) - Exteril Project, Oporto 2006 - "Essay #", MCO Galery - Museum, Oporto - Participated in "Iniciativa X", Arte Contempo, Lisbon - "Painting, essay", Exteril Galery, Oporto. (ind.) - Exteril Project, Oporto 2005 - "Quality of what's notorious", - 15 min. of fame, Galery Exteril Oporto - "15 min. of fame " Project, Exteril Galery, Oporto - Exteril Project, Oporto 2004 - "Cathedrals of the XX century", Exteril Galery, Oporto (ind.) - Exteril Project, Oporto 2003 - Exteril Project - Casa das Artes, Oporto - Exteril Project, Oporto 2002 - "God bless ..." - Maus Habitos, Oporto - "God bless ..." - New Art - Barcelona (ind.) - Exteril Project - New Art - Barcelona - Exteril Project, Oporto 2001 - Exteril Project - in_bloc - Maus Habitos, Oporto - Exteril Galery, Oporto (ind.) - ?The others in me?, IPATIMUP, Oporto 2001, Caixa Geral de Depositos, Oporto. (ind.) - Exteril Project, Oporto 2000 - Collective exhibition, artists of Exteril Galery, Exteril Galery, Oporto - University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain - Exteril Galery, Oporto (individual) - Artefacto Galery, Altercado Galery, Vigo, Spain - Altercado Galery (ind.) Pontevedra, Spain - Exteril Project, Oporto 1999 - Exteril Project, Oporto - Artists with Timor - Armazem 7, Lisbon - Kaldearte, Caldas de Reis - Galiza, Spain - Encouters/Disencouters - S. Joao da Foz Castle, Oporto. - Bombarda Room, Arts in parts, Oporto 1997 - "Pluralities, undefinabilities project", City Auditorium Vila do Conde. 1996 - 2nd AIP Art Biennial - painting and sculpture, Europarque, Sta. Maria da Feira. - II National Contest of Youth in Arts, ANJE, Europarque. (Honorable Mention) - "Light Object", Central Tejo, Electricity Museum, Lisbon. - "Light Object", Central of Massarelos, Electric Car Museum, Oporto. - Finalists 95, FBAUP Museum, Oporto. - Finalists Exhibition FBAUP 95,'s Anthropological Institute of Coimbra 1995 - Apoarte, sculpture, Vila Nova de Famalicao. - Finalists Exhibition FBAUP 95, APIAR, Oporto. -"The next ones", Sculpture Exhibition - Museu da FBAUP, Oporto. 1994 - Collective Exhibition 4th and 5th years FBAUP, Casa das Artes, Oporto. - Participated at VII Stone Week, Alcobaca. - I National Contest of Youth in Arts, ANJE, Maia. Published articles: - "Drawing in the age of digital Arts " - PSIAX - studies and thoughts about drawing and image (MAR 2002) - Drawing and image - PSIAX - studies and thoughts about drawing and image (AGO 2006) - Internet Hosting Saatchi-Gallery Anamnese Myspace Myartspace Artfact

Alexander Paulin

myartspace id:alexanderpaulin

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- Alexander Paulin was born 1967 in Kiel and photograph since his 14 birthday. - In the middle of the 90s he begin with the nude photography - With his internet publication in 1999 the popularity grews more and more. - His popularity grows with the nude photography, but his photography repertoire is much greater than some people knows. Art, stills, stock and travel-photography. That he produce for his picture agency, or direct for the customer, as professional, - free photodesigner. - He has publication for example in PLAYBOY, FHM, Max, Stern, Fit-For-Fun, Maxim, Photographie, many books, calendars and photomagazins see press. Till 2003 He sold his high quality works in the online shop worldwide : New York, Chicago, Bangkok, Budapest, Madrid, Paris, London, Brüssel, Berlin, Alabama, Michigan, Wisconsin, Canada and Moskau.

noumeda carbone

myartspace id:nunu

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I was born in Paris from Indian- French mother and Italian father; I currently live and work in Florence, Italy. I mix hand drawing with digital illustration. In my illustrations, I like the error, the small 'surprise' between lines. Clientele: Alta Roma Ethical Fashion, Breil, Big Book of Fashion illustration, Illusive 2, The Creator Studio, The Guardian, Kult Magazine (March 2007 Cover), Glamour, Nylon Magazine, La Perla Magazine, Etel Magazine, Be|different, Slurp Magazine, Antimagazine, Riot Magazine, Rolling Stone Magazine, Lost at E minor. www.myspace.com/noumeda http://www.theaoi.com/artist/noumedacarbone/index.html http://www.noknockroom.com/artists/noumeda/noumeda.php http://www.illustratori.it/Staging/Members/acarbone/Delivery/Public/ArtistHome

Richard Taylor

myartspace id:richardtaylor

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diana condurache

myartspace id:dianacondurache

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Ville Kansanen

myartspace id:vkansanen

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I was born in Espoo, Finland on the 24th of January at 12:20AM in the year 1984. I have spent the last few years in transit out of a pure interest in practising my work, this has taken me around Europe and the US with my work as evidence of the journeys. I studied in The Glasgow School of Art for a period between 2007-2008 and currently live in Los Angeles, California with my loving wife, Alexandria, and my unforgiving studio space. I am self-taught and shun to be called an artist, as I do what I do out of necessity, and the title "artist" to me calls recollections of such masters, that it seems pretentious to assume it. The title "photographer" is also ill-fitted to describe me, as in many ways I seek to exploit the photograph to create something else.

Goso Tominaga

myartspace id:goso

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1963 Born in Tokyo,Sumida-ku.

Sean P. Morrissey

myartspace id:seanpm

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Sean P. Morrissey was born and raised in eastern Ohio. He likes riding his bike and being organized. Sean received his BFA in printmaking from Bowling Green State University and is currently in the MFA program at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Sean's current work deals with how we realize and mentally reconfigure the contemporary landscape, concerning: population, construction and repetitive forms. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is included is several permanent and private collections.

Rene van Leeuwen

myartspace id:renevanleeuwen

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Working as a contemporary artist, Rene van Leeuwen (1960) moved himself around in almost any art-related direction or technique possible, a so called 'mentality artist'. Oil and acrylic paintings, installational art, performance art, (digital) photography, web-related art, conceptual art, environmental art, grafic art, music, writing, new media etc. Nevertheless all his different and outstanding art is recognizable mainly by it's strong visual appearance combined with it's unmistakable social content. Questioning almost everything that can or even must be questioned, the artist is looking for those clues that can help him along on his 'long and winding road'. It's up to you, the consumer, what to do with the expression and content the artist provides you with. Simply ignore it, or join in and hop on his caravan: "If it feels good, just sing along baby!" A wondering magical and mythical path, a celebration of life itself. Looking for something 'worth stealing' using 'support' as keyword to open up all doors. Against mainstream and ignorance all is just. The myth ain't busted Sonny... contact and information: ::: Studio: Achterom 19 - 1621KP HOORN - The Netherlands ::: Phone: +31(0)229-296 69 93 or cellphone: +31(0)6-33 896 481 ::: Web: WWW.LOVEBUZZZ.COM Rene van Leeuwen related: ::: KINGFISHER STUDIO'S ::: KNIPOOG Galleries & art management ::: Private Dog ::: The XXXXX Factory ::: Kwasten Zonder Die Gasten (KZDG)

Tony Reynolds

myartspace id:tonyreynolds

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Anthony Natsoulas

myartspace id:dipnat

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For the past 22 years I have been working as a professional artist. My main interest has been large figurative ceramic sculpture. In undergraduate and graduate school I was fortunate to have studied with the artist that put figurative ceramic sculpture on the map, Robert Arneson. Since then I have been showing in galleries and museums around the world and have been commissioned to do public and private sculptures in bronze, fiberglass and clay.

sarah hope

myartspace id:gerda

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John Criscitello

myartspace id:sfumato

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KJELL VARVIN

myartspace id:HIELMO

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for CV look at http://text-spot.blogspot.com/

Vicki Kaul

myartspace id:vickilynnkaul

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I am currently a sophomore at DSU in Madison, SD. I am double majoring in graphic design and multimedia/web development. I also play volleyball for DSU, enjoy playing other sports, playing and listening to music, drawing and painting, fishing, and doing crafty things.

Saint Virgin Peter

myartspace id:SaintVirginPeter

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more info at: http://www.SaintVirginPeter.com

Natalie Green

myartspace id:natswild

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Natalie Green was born in Montreal, Quebec and moved with her family to Nelson, British Columbia at the age of eight. She spent many camping trips with her family in the wilderness, where she developed an enduring interest in the natural world, particularly wild animals. She started drawing when she was very young, progressing to pastels and watercolor pencils; 10 years ago, she decided to try watercolors, and more recently expanded to acrylics. She has an extensive collection of original paintings available for sale, as well as giclee art cards. A number of paintings are available as limited edition giclee prints, some of which have made their way to Germany and England. In addition, there are prints available in her online gallery at www.imagekind.com. She also does commissions upon request. She has her work in galleries in Fort Nelson, Fort St. John, Nelson, West Edmonton Mall, Red Deer, and two locations in Grande Prairie. Natalie has donated two paintings, titled “Mohrr Gazelles-Sahar Oasis”, and “Leaving the Den-Pallas Cat” to Mountain View Conservation and Breeding Centre, to support their efforts to raise funds for the care, feeding, and eventual release of their animals back to their natural habitat. She has donated a painting to the Vancouver Zoo for fundraising purposes, as well as a painting to the Exotic Feline Breeding Compound in Rosamond, California. She is currently a member of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, BC Wildlife Federation, and Ducks Unlimited, because she supports their conservation efforts. She donates her work to each of their fundraisers, as well as to fundraisers for organizations such as the PARDS Therapeutic Riding Association, the Alberta Conservation Association, and the Creston Wildlife Centre. She has her works on a variety of different websites, such as Gallery-Worldwide, d'Art Fine Art Gallery, The Western Artist, Imagekind, Saatchi Gallery, Wild Art Link, Art Quest, Absolute Arts, and the Artists' Web.

Ruggero Mantovani

myartspace id:ruggero

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Born Verona, Italy, November 15th 1977

Adam Chowles

myartspace id:Navagon

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David Jagen

myartspace id:davidjagen

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I have more artwork to upload to myartspace, but in the meantime you can see all of my recent artwork at http://www.sosgallery.org As an emerging artist, It is my objective to gain exposure to my artwork, by securing exhibition placement and representation within professional art galleries / museums. I am looking forward to working with galleries and developing my long term career. David Jagen Thanks for your interest in my artwork, Kind Regards, David Jagen

Mamta Baruah Herland

myartspace id:Mamta

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Mamta Baruah Herland is born in Assam in India, now lives near Oslo area in Norway. She works mainly with interdisciplinary media that combines photography, digital prints and painting.

Robert Scott

myartspace id:rsterlingscott

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Dolan Geiman

myartspace id:dgartist

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Dolan Geiman is a Chicago-based contemporary artist and fashion designer originally from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Working in silkscreen, painting, collage, and found object sculpture, inspiration includes Southern/vernacular culture, folk art, flora and fauna, and recycled materials. **Please send all messages to info{at}dolangeiman.com**

Cathy Holford

myartspace id:pixiewildflower

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I have always loved drawing since I was a little girl. I enjoyed art classes at school very much. When I was a teen, I sent off one of those "Can you draw this" cartoons and was contacted back. I received a Certificate of Merit from by the Art Instruction Schools. The representative suggested that I receive training, but I didn't have the funds for it. My own brother thought I show take Commercial Art in school, but I wound up taking secretarial and administrative courses as I thought it would be a wider job market. For many years, life got in the way and I didn't so much as doodle. However, a dear friend rekindled my interest in art by drawing me as a fairy. I started drawing then, mostly just to relax. As time grew on, I tried painting, digital art and pixel art. I then started putting my work at deviantArt.com. and places like that. I have also been a member of the Fantasy Arts Emerging forum. See my journal for a link if you are interested. Through Fae, I have met Christina Davis who put together a book "Faeries through the Seasons". I have four pieces of art and four poems in this book.

Yan D.Soloh

myartspace id:YanDSoloh

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artist profile: Yan D. Soloh -Yan D. Soloh, confirmed artist, autodidact, adventurer ,musician, devotes himself exclusively to painting since the turn of the century. He has participated in many expositions, inter alia in Montreal and Quebec city,Canada,U.s.a,France and Brasilia. This emerging artist has made a mark for himself among many collectors as well as the public, in Quebec, Canada, Europe and the United States. From his works emerge several sets of themes ; the surrealism of Dali, the mystical oneirism of Bosch, distressed expressionism of Munch and the religious [see more] ___________________________ ______________ Yan D. Soloh, confirmed artist, autodidact, adventurer, musician, devotes himself exclusively to painting since the turn of the century. He has participated in many expositions, inter alia in Montreal and Quebec city,Canada,U.s.a,France and Brasilia. This emerging artist has made a mark for himself among many collectors as well as the public, in Quebec, Canada, Europe and the United States. From his works emerge several sets of themes ; the surrealism of Dali, the mystical oneirism of Bosch, distressed expressionism of Munch and the religious iconography of Chagall. In the work of Yan D Soloh, , “le Christ en croix”, the human body, urban landscape or pastoral, the biomorphic music and forms return such obsession. His plastic research reflects a personal mystic. In the composition of his works, the superposition of forms or subjects gives a perspective effect. The use of colored plans contributes to the effect of depth. The colors are not used to determine the objects or characters, but create a certain atmospheric field. In other tables, the linear prospect facilitates the entry inside the work. The use of the oblique vectors instigates movement by the gripping of objects vis-a-vis with the spectator. His pallet of color points out the fauvism. His technique approaches the American abstract expressionists of the first wave (De Kooning, Pollock). Contrary to the abstracted expressionists, Yan D. Soloh is characterized by the presence from a narrative speech, while integrating the violence of the gesture (dripping) of those, but not disregarding line. The artist practices a figurative painting resembling Bad Painting, by his baroque treatment, his generous pasting, his overload of colors and his dissonances, far from the traditional rules of composition. The artist uses various supports; fabrics, plastics. His mediums are oil with integrated acrylic. Yan D. Soloh is a promising artist who shows already a great smell of composition, a control of color, a rich set of themes. His oneiric and fantastic universe is to be discovered. The government of Canada even named a new style after him. The “Yanisme”. *comp.&signed by Sylvain Bazinet -Gaston Sims -*Sylvain-Pierre Simard -Artists/Galierist/*Art Historian & direct assist. for 8 yrs with deceaded master Plastician Painter,m.Guido MOLINARI- j-2006.CND. He can be seen in many galleries and exposition across canada, united states (Mass.,Illinois.and NewYork in Dec07 for first time)And Brasilia.-added on Feb07) His works are in the permanent collection of Baz’art Gallery,Gora GAll., GalerieSecteur54 where he been Best Artist(all meds) from Jan1st-March10th2007 .in "Best Selling Artists" of the BoundlessGallery (ill.usa).07-07 Up to 35 'Large Public' Solo's exhibitions in 2 1/2 years. A Permanent exhibition since dec05 at La Galerie D'Art le Baz'Art de Montreal Canada. Selected by the Marc-Auréle Fortin Museeum of MTL for the 2006's Symposium. Selected by City Of MTL.Cnd and BigBrothers and BigSisters Greater Montreal with 29 other Internationals Artist painters and sculptors for the 1st edition of The Silent Auction- Recently been selected for the 2nd Ed. in sept-07. see more in D.Soloh's Site. Yan started painting-VisualsArts- only since 2001 . First exhibition in a Pub of Quebec city in oct-2002(...) ! Impressive M.D.Soloh are not named twice or in others pseudo name on BoundlessGallery or anywhere else. What You see is what a Part Of D.Soloh, Yan 's ART-Collection-Creations is ! [hide)

leslie schmidt

myartspace id:tweetsride

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I started painting about 4 years ago and just recently began a journey in surrealism or fantasy. My works consist of acrylic landscapes and calm quiet environments not quite of this world.

Holly Bynoe

myartspace id:hbynoe

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Photographer| Visual Deconstructor| Colorist| A late Bud| www.hbynoe.com

Liz Cohn

myartspace id:lizole

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If you really want to contact me do so via my email or visit my website www.lizcohnartstudio.com and link to my email . I won't be responding to comments on this site.

nahoum cohen

myartspace id:coarc

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artist since 1960

stephan fowlkes

myartspace id:stephanart

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jw miller

myartspace id:jwmiller

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inspired by 1940's hollywood glamour photographers and comic books, characters are created from everyday observations - from the hair of a person at the bus stop to the shoes of the kid riding his bike to school. Most often solitary figures, they're the second generation from an edward hopper painting that moved from his vacant scenes of new york to the left coast of dektown.

Todd Julie

myartspace id:toddart2002

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I am a freelance painter/illustrator who has shown in group and solo exhibitions around Toronto. In addition to this, my commercial work has appeared in publications across North America. I won Gold at the 2003 National Magazine Awards for Spot Illustration and Silver at the Advertising & Design Club of Canada awards in 2005 for the same. I also write about the arts in Toronto for blogTo.com and was recently elected to the Toronto board of the Canadian Association of Photographers & Illustrators In Communications (CAPIC). For a more comprehensive look at my work please visit: www.foveaonline.com

Dorian Iten

myartspace id:dorian

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It's very simple. I am obsessed with drawing. Obsessed with painting, learning everything I can, practising to become better. The one thing we tend to seperate into Love, Beauty and Truth is what heats the flame.

Kozo

myartspace id:kozo22

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Working artist

Amy Huddleston

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Paola Gonzalez M.

myartspace id:paogm

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Abstract Expresionist Painter Born in Monterrey, NL. Mexico 1977 Painting for me it has to do with responding to my inner and outer life. Since I was a kid I enjoyed painting and drawing, I´ve taken some art courses in the U.S., Switzerland and Mexico, but largly Im a Self Taught painter. I love to experiment with diferent mediums and techniques. What inspires me... When I create my abstract paintings sometimes I get inspired by the beauty I see in simple things, colors, textures, patterns and forms. My paintings also expresses purely myself, they reflect energy and spirit...

Angelo Franco

myartspace id:genartworks

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Angelo Franco was born in 1950 in the city of Guayaquil, Ecuador and at the age of nineteen came to the United States. He was awarded a full merit scholarship and financial stipend at the Arts Students League in New York. Franco paints in oil on canvas with a technique that is intuitive and accomplished. The boundaries between subject, surface and form dissolve in a layered application of prismatic dots, points, and discs-within-discs. Franco applies the precepts of color theory in a manner reminiscent of pointillism but with a more contemporary twist as he takes inspiration from the computer age, specifically the pixilation of digitized images and the manner in which they separate into ever more complex color components.

Anne C. Ferguson

myartspace id:AnferArt

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Hillel Kagan

myartspace id:dhkagan

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Born in 1947 in Toronto, Hillel Kagan has been a professional artist since graduation from Central Technical School Art Institute in 1967. He began showing works in 1975 and has been a full time painter since 1985. He has had shows, both solo and group in private and public galleries. Hillel is currently self represented and if you're interested in more information please feel free to contact him directly (Artist"s Statement) I'm a believer in the struggle to achieve the purely innocent eye. A "Cezannist". That is an impressionist constantly trying to measure his/her "impression" without prejudice and with accuracy. That is Cezanne's lesson and revelation. I love Velazquez for his modernity. Vermeer for his sense of space and teaching us how and how not to use the camera. Cezanne of course, as the ultimate plodder of modern art who steadily climbed the mountain. Giacometti, innately more gifted who took up the challenge. And all the other heroes: Picasso when he and Braque were one person. Gris as the best of the lot. Lipschitz, the sculptor and Soutine for bending space. Bomberg and his followers. Bacon, the master trickster. Hopper, de Kooning and Diebenkorn and all my fellow loser artists on this site and elsewhere for dreaming and persisting and never giving up in the face of ridicule, envy and outright contempt. About The Subway Paintings I have lived and worked in Toronto all my life. I am a painter of figurative works, particularly the human figure within enclosed spaces. That's what the city is to me, a series of enclosed spaces linked together by sidewalks, roads, underground malls, buses and subways. There are a few spaces where we give ourselves a reprieve from all this confinement. Some parks and ravines to give ourselves the illusion of being outdoors in nature. As an urban person this lack of so called nature is quite natural for me. To paraphrase Jackson Pollock "We are nature". I'm a "paint what I see" kind of artist. A believer in the struggle to achieve the purely innocent eye while honing the faculties of measurement of the creative physicist. That is, the inner clock as opposed to the exterior clocks and devices of grids and plumb lines and computers. In this manner the potential to discover fresh form is infinite. Art can't change the world but it can change an individual's perceptive abilities thereby increasing their interest and enhancing their lives The paintings I'm displaying here are from a series of works produced from 1996-2005. They were generally exhibited as "The Subway Paintings". The motif has no special meaning or social significance for me other than the fact that while riding the subway one day,it occurred to me that I was in this long rectangularly shaped cubic room that was hurtling through space and time. The train was moving and the people in it were moving. The human figure, deep space and movement. These are all the things that are of interest to me. Anonymous people busily moving about their enclosed urban environment. The Struggling Figures Series For a six year period from about 1988-1994 I worked on and off on a series of paintings of struggling figures, These paintings arose from our move to my childhood home. Upon becoming a widower for the second time my father moved to smaller quarters and invited us to live in his house. At about the same time, while rummaging through his (my father's) vast collection of junk, i happened upon some photo illustrations of wrestling and jujitsu holds from the 1930s that he had used to study from during his amateur wrestling career. These images and the new space I found myself in combined to formulate this series of paintings.Although a continuation of my ongoing study of the human figure in enclosed space, these paintings were more personal in nature as they embodied both the struggle of of family life within the home, a struggle not violent but more a dance or enactment with all the participants knowing their roles, and the struggle of modern figurative painting, i.e. the resolution of conflict between abstraction and realism, flatnesss and illusion. The Great European Torah Scholar I, II, III, IV Jewish tradition as we know it today was formed in Europe. In point of fact without the influence of Europe the Judaism that is practiced would be unknown. This melding of an ancient eastern religious cult with the west, despite the inherent conflicting ideologies and more importantly and more likely because of those conflicts has given birth to a great and vital tradition of tolerance and compassion. A culture of interpretation and differing ideas yet in the main tolerant to difference and contributory to the bettering of the world. For over a thousand years Rabbis, scholars and thinkers from Maimonides and Spinoza to Buber and Kafka and countless others, have benefited European culture even while under duress from their neighbours. It's in the spirit of that contribution that I've created this series of paintings.

Chris Shields

myartspace id:chrisshields

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john alspach

myartspace id:shinyrobot

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Born Duluth, MN, 1967 Wasn't particularly "artistic", looked to have promise in piano. Discovered passion for art while undertaking a degree in Biology. Married, 2 kids, dog.

Harriette Lawler

myartspace id:hlawler

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Upon graduation from LSU, Ms. Lawler co-founded and co-directed the Matters of the Art Gallery, a Baton Rouge/New Orleans cooperative. Moving to NYC in 1977, she was to live there for 19 years during two very distinct periods in her life, living in NM between those times. She has shown and sold her work in NY. NJ, VT, CA, LA, and NM with commissions in NY, Los Angeles and London. Her work has sold mainly to numerous private collectors, butr 5 of 12 ipieces from a 2-year commissioned installation were purchased by the Holocaust Resource Center on Long Island for permanent display in their gallery. British entrepreneur W. Waldron also commissioned 2 pieces, one public display in his Los Angeles store in the 1980s and one for his London home. She has also taught children's art on Long Island, hosting exhibitions of her students' work after every 10 week class session. Currently, she directs Moon and Mountain Studio and Retreat and Art Jemez artists cooperative, which she also co-founded. During her 30 years as a professional artist, her"day" jobs have been various positions at national and regional publications including: production manager (Rolling Stone), computer systems operation manager (The Village Voice), assistant art director (Fortune Magazine) and associate art director (Popular Mechanics, winning national awards for her designs and photo shoots).

Claire Wolf Krantz

myartspace id:cwkrantz

BIOGRAPHY:

I am an artist, a freelance art critic, and curator. I have been painting professionally for 25 years and working digitally for 10. Although I was born and live in Chicago, I have traveled extensively in the USA, Europe Asia, and South Africa and have lived and worked in Indonesia, Belgium and South Africa. My paintings and digital images explore themes relating to travel in the creation of experience and memory - they are about the fictions we create and how these stories shape our lives, inventing narratives to make sense of our world and understand others and ourselves. Using photos from various places and digitally manipulating them I present experience and memory as an amalgam of the "real" and the invented.

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