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renato pagnano

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artist and designer professional

Darryl Tate

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Steve Gribben

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Alex Paik

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Claudio Miklos

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NAME: Claudio Miklos THE ARTIST: Born on June 26, 1962, at the age of thirteen his passion for painting comes to light. But his work doesn't become solid 'till his late twenties.His spiritual practice, the Zen-Buddhism, gives him some kind of inward perspective, which leads his paintings to a deep and vivid touch of subtlety and ulterior significance. HOME TOWN: Miklos has born in Niterói, a town near Rio de Janeiro, BRASIL (Brazil). He´s now (2006) living in Rio. ARTISTIC BACKGROUND: Self-Taught. No academic experiences. Following his own nature, Miklos' art is developed through his strong independent tendencies. But he doesn't deny some influences, such as: Da Vinci, Caravaggio, Velazques, René Magritte, Ivan Freitas, Dalí, Oriental Art. HIS WORK: Oil paintings of a metaphysical nature, emphasizing the enormous human universe of religious and spiritual symbolisms, as well as sensual and emotional experiences in the perceptive world of the individual being.The most basic tenet of his art is "to break down the rigid distinction and opposition between human rationality and its wonderful metaphysical potential from a visual point-of-view, often neglected, even slighted."

Stephen Gibb

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Illusionist trying to cope with artworld that sees through illusion

Sarah Thibault

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Gulay Alpay

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GÃœLAY ALPAY • 1989- Graduaded from Painting Department-Fine Arts Faculty of Mimar Sinan University(MSÃœ) ( Prof.Özdemir Altan 's studio). • 1992- had master degree in same department of MSÃœ. • Some exihibitions she contributed: • 1985-89 Some exhibitions of young talented artists sponsored by public organizations included also State Fine Art Gallery- İstanbul. • 1990- Mixed exhibition of young artists by Derimod Art Gallery- İstanbul. • 1990- Some exhibitions in Kassel- Germany projected by Fine Art Faculty of Kassel University and MSÃœ. • 1990- First personnel exhibition of herself in Press Museum İstanbul. • 1991- Contemporary Art I- mixed exhibition in Cemal Resit Rey Exhibition Hall- İstanbul. • 1991- The Turkish 8 Famous Modern Artists' Exhibition in MSÃœ Exhibition Centre İstanbul. • 1994- Present Artists 15th Istanbul Exhibition in Painting and Scultpture Museum. • 1995- Second personnel exhibition in The Opera Art Gallery of The Marmara Hotel-İstanbul. • 1995- International Modern Fine Arts Exhibition of All Fann in Hann-Münden-Germany. • 1995- 100 Contemporary Artists Exhibition in Artemis Art Gallery- İstanbul. • 1996- All Fann- International Fine Arts Exhibitions in Kassel- Germany. • 1997- Her third personnel exhibition in Artemis Art Gallery- İstanbul. • 1998- Performance in Artemis Art Gallery- İstanbul. • 1998-1999 She was working new art projects ( California) • 2000-Mixed Exhibition - In Artemis Art Gallery- İstanbul • 2001- International Florance Art Biennial- İtaly • 2001- Detroid's Museum of New Art - Documenta USA exhibition • 2002- The Coaster Project- Boston • 2002- 4. Personnel exhibition - Artemis Art Center • 2003- Mixed Exhibition- Avenue du Parc 'Mile End Library Montreal -Canada • 2004-May- İnternational Tile- Project - Artemis Art Center- İstanbul • 2004- August- -show- Canada- Monreal Gora Art Gallery • 2005- Tuyap Art Fair- Istanbul • 2005 Cekirdek Sanat Gallery "66 Women 66 Art Piece" mix-exhibition. • 2005-December Solo exhibition in NY Broadway Gallery • 2006-7 September Opening,Group Show”Doodle” NY Broadway Gallery • 2006- NY Gershwin Otel was accepted Artist-in Residence program 2006 • 2006 8 September opening solo exhibition in NY TC Turkish Culture and Tourism Office • 2006-İst Contemporary Art Fair –NY Broadway Gallery Represented Alpay’s show-Free Public Art Project “The box of dreams”2006-December

elizabeth tobin eckian

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I do experimental and mixed media, surreal and expressionistic landscapes and portraits.

Frank Dammers

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Frank Dammers (Zwolle, 1951) shares with Mondriaan, and other artists who work in the spirit of the Bauhaus, the desire to give expression and form through his art to the ideology of a better world. His fascination for architecture is evident in the geometric and balanced nature of his composition, wherein each area of color appears to inhabit its natural place of the canvas. The intensity of his working methods attests to his predisposition towards confronting challenge and his refusal to take the easy route. He creates tableaux that are immediately recognizable, in contrast to many of his geometric-abstract colleagues. Dammers composes city silhouettes that are easily traced back to their point of inspiration. We recognize the skyline of New York and Los Angeles as readily as we identify the ‘Art Heads ‘captured in geometric patterns or the patchwork of colors that represents a pyramid. Dammers plays ingeniously whit space and perspective, thus inviting comparison with Esscher. His world is essentially too good to be true. Harmony, balance and adventure keep step with each other in paintings that are easy on the eye, and yet are equally extraordinary and often tantalizingly misleading. It is unsurprising that the work of the Dutch painter Frank Dammers is received with such enthusiasm in the United States. This appreciation is not only due to the painter’s penchant for portraying the monumental skylines of American cities, but is also bred out of a shared mentality. The artist’s fascination whit the impressive modern architecture that is so typical of that land of innovation is a reflection of the positive energy that its cities exude. The expression ‘Only the sky is the limit ‘would be appearing to be Frank Dammers’ motto. In spite of the many setbacks he has had to endure during his life, he has never lost his positive attitude. His is a kindred spirit to the fighter’s mentality exhibited by those who experienced personal tragedy as the result of the 9/11 attacks, and yet summoned up the energy and the indomitability to carry on. To Dammers, the USA is far more than the land of unlimited possibilities. He recognizes the desire to show the world that adversity exists to be conquered, and that one can emerge from the struggle as a stronger person. The ambition to reach the highest goals, coupled with this dogged determination, appeals to him enormously. These constructive and positive elements of the American character have found a resonance in the paintings of Frank Dammers. Taking on fresh challenges. Choosing for a constructive approach, with no holds barred. Looking to harvest the maximum yield from each opportunity. Not being afraid to do things the hard way. Approaches to life are that are all characteristic of Frank Dammers. In 2004, he made acquaintance with a number of 9/11 survivors, and felt a sense of identification with them. At the same time, he felt a potent desire to express this feeling through his art. This gave a new impulse to his painting that did not go unnoticed in the USA. From that moment on, the interest in his work on the other side of the ocean has reached great heights. The most impressive discoveries are most often made when people dare to leave the beaten track. To date, Frank Dammers’ path in life has certainly not been smooth. He has been chastened by adversity, and to good effect. The story of his life could fill at least one novel; a new chapter has been added practically every day since he took his first steps in the world of depictive art. Although there is no direct thematic relationship between Dammers’ work and his life story, it is evident that his artistic oeuvre is directly related to his mien and character. Frank Dammers moved to The Hague soon after his birth, but his parents separated soon afterwards. His father, who had fought in the Dutch East Indies, remained in The Hague and Frank moved with his mother to the town Zwolle where they shared a house with his grandparents and uncle. This uncle had been in the resistance as a young man, and was later to work for the British Secret Service under General Montgomery. Frank traveled through Germany in 1953 with his uncle, who wanted him to view with his own eyes the scale of the destruction that the bombardments had caused, and to see how the reconstruction was progressing Frank attended the exclusive Park school as his mother wanted him to have nothing but the best. After grade school, his attention to his studies lapsed and at the age of fifteen he left school to join the Royal Marines. His mother became afflicted with a virulent form of cancer and was so ill that he felt obliged to leave the marines and return to school, in order to be closer to her. However, his mother’s illness made it difficult for him to study so he went to work as a dental technician, caring for his mother until her death at fifty-one. After his mother’s death in 1973 Dammers took up the reins of his own life; he married, two sons and a daughter were born and rapidly acquired his accounting certificates. Initially he worked for a bank and then for a well known computer company in Rotterdam. While working for this company he followed a course in mathematical programming languages in London. Between 1975 and 1978 he set up the computerization of a large trucking company in Zwolle, as head of the computer division. Between whiles he took computer courses at IBM. He divorced in 1983 and chose to take responsibility for his children’s upbringing, a few days a week. He was appointed as the head of administration at a large foundation in Zwolle that was involved with the running of a centre for disadvantaged young people, and he met his present wife a few years later. Frank Dammers was the victim of a serious road accident in 1991 and this was followed by an endless succession of operations. In 1993 he was again the victim of an accident and this time his wife was also injured. On that moment she was five months pregnant and she gave birth to a daughter in August 1993. Frank and his wife were unable to continue in their professions as a result of the injuries they had sustained, as they had both been rendered severely incapacitated. In 2002 Frank started to paint. Heretofore, he had paid a little attention to his creative talents, in spite of there being a number of artists on both sides of the family. After some initial experimentation, he arrived quite rapidly at a style that was reminiscent of Mondriaan and Paul Klee. Although it would be appropriate to classify Dammers work a geometric-abstract in nature, it should be noted that he has developed a singular approach to the genre. His compositions are developed intuitively, while at the same time making use of his mathematical knowledge and his ability constructively, both in the literal as in the figurative sense. Frank Dammers applies principles of order to his work, with enormous diligence and extreme patience. He organizes his areas of color to the point that they form an image that is as true to the strictures of actual perception as to the unbridled imagination of the artist and his fervor for viewing reality in a positive and constructive manner. Wim van der Beek Art critic and publicist

Alain (pseudo AL ) MAURY

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AL Maury AL Maury is an artist with 35 years of experience.His recent works are multi-cultural. Rio Grande (Triptyque)in relief and other techniques are exihibited in his studio ARTCANDE in south of France,also scupture in bronze, wax, wood,earth patina,jeweler's,etc... The recent works:about fifty pieces also 'monochrome collages) *Materials:handmade paper (Antemoro from Madagascar) *incorporating:silk paper japonnes,rabanne, hemp etc... natif Americains signs (Pueblo an Zuni New Mexico USA)on black backgrounds *Interests: Mix of different cultures and their symbols. AL Maury -artiste peintre, sculpteur,poète,35 ans d'experiences ! l'initiateur de "l'encadring" ainsi que voyageur et explorateur du monde et de ses cultures. Après avoir vécu à l'étranger: Pays bas(nl) ,Belgique; Portugal, Etats-Unies, Madagascar,son atelier se situe depuis 2002 à Montesquieu des Albères au sud de la France,Pyrénées Orientales (France) "L'ENCADRING" "Du cadre encadrant au cadre encadré"- Position respective du spectateur et de l'ouvre. Généralement, au moment de la rencontre, l'ouvre est suspendue sur un mur ou bien sur un chevalet... C'est la situation théâtrale canonique que, pour ce qui concerne les oeuvres d'AL MAURY,nous devons abandonner ! De multiples possibilités s'offrent à nous pour que la relation spectateur -oeuvre soit interactive. Dans ces travaux, les cadres font partie du tableau.Le cadre encadré joue le rôle d'une membrane perméable comme une membrane cellulaire.C'est à dire qu'il laisse passer les éléments sémantique de son intérieur dense vers son extérieur moins intense. Le cheminement se poursuit ainsi de cadre en cadre jusqu'à l'extérieur de l'ouvre proprement dite. Cette sorte de "Passage" permet au contenu pictural, esthétique, du tableau de se diffuser dans le milieu ambiant et d'atteindre le spectateur jusqu'à l'intime.

Erdem Tasdelen

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May Hassan

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I never had a chance to study art. Here in my country, it was not easy to join the Art School. I had many difficulties and I joined Law School instead. I never gave up and I continued to draw and paint. I tried to take some art courses in digital art and several artistic programs. Please, check www.flickr.com/photos/artistica & www.flickr.com/photos/maymadly

Robert Laska

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I'm full time free lance portrait photographer from Poland. Enjoy my potography on line at http://www.robertlaska.com

scattergood Scattergood-Moore

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Since the mid-1980s Scattergood-Moore has concentrated solely on creating large charcoal drawings. He has an extensive record of solo and group exhibitions. He has participated in over eighty-five invitational and/or juried exhibitions. His drawings and paintings are included in numerous private collections across the United States. Scattergood-Moore received three fellowships from the the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and was nominated for the prestigious national Awards in the Visual Arts Program.

ibrahim Halil Turker

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Professor of Art Education 2007- present 19 Mayis University, Samsun, TURKEY Assistant Professor of Art Education 2001-2006 19 Mayis University, Samsun, TURKEY Assistant Professor of Art Education 1993- 2001 Anadolu University, Eskisehir, TURKEY

Jennie Rosenbaum

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Jennie Rosenbaum is an emerging artist specializing in contemporary figurative pieces. She works continually with her passion for the human body, exploring contemporary styles and media. Her art is rich, frequently confronting and varied in style, context and meaning. Jennie excelled at art and design at school, winning several awards and has studied art, anatomy and design at a university level. Jennie has been working professionally as an artist for three years following a car accident. Painting was a part of her rehabilitation and became a way to manage her feelings and pain. Despite her disability Jennie still considers the accident beneficial as it allowed her to get back in touch with her art. Jennie has always been drawn to the figure and to nudes, but now she has a greater appreciation for the sensuality and mystery of the human body. Jennie has since immersed herself in nude art and, in addition to painting, writes about the various controversies raised by this contentious artform and advocates groups dedicated to nude art.

Clay Smith

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I AM NOT REPRESENTED BY A GALLERY, ANYWHERE!!! REPRESENT ME!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT REPRESENTING, I NEED A GOOD HARD REPRESENTMENT!!!!!!! I am self taught in painting and photography. At the moment I am paying great attention to the art of portraiture, using both photography and oil paint as mixed media. I work in both small and large scale images. I am trying to develop and change the way portraits are usually done. I hate portraits of famous people trying to look famous! They don't make any sense. I am trying to capture something of the sitter, their spirit, their personality, their demons and their blessings. So that when you come to look at my portraits, you are looking at someone that hopfully will give you an idea of who they are. To do this, I use photography and oil paint.

David Dubov

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David Dubov is a second generation photographer and son of artists, brother of artists. Born in Abilene, Texas in 1961, his early life was spent in San Antonio and finally Austin. His father's photography was always present and Dubov spent hours watching photo shoots and tagging along on shooting trips around Central Texas. His mother's painting impressed the importance of color and line on him, while her devotion to her art kindled a singular dedication to perseverance in acquiring the image. After the family moved to England in 1975, his first camera was a Russian Lubitel twin lens reflex that his father bought for him on a trip to the Soviet country. Amateur photography followed, with his father's instruction and guidance. The seed of skill was planted and nurtured during those years and on many trips around Europe. A BFA from Bennington College and a stint at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as the webmaster for the highly successful Mars Pathfinder Project followed, but allowed little time for photography. Only vacations afforded him the continuing opportunity of honing of his craft, but his eye developed nevertheless - he continually sought difference, perspective and range in the images he took. Washington, DC is now his home and his passion for photography has only grown over the years there. Involvement with a like-minded group of friends and colleagues from his current "day job" has continued the nurturing of his talent and encouragement his father and mother awoke in him.

George Cabig

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To appreciate real and natural beauty, trekking across the country’s breathtaking landscapes and traversing the richest seas, is all it takes to tear away the sullied reputation that comes with being a Third World country. Picture-perfect sceneries, unique cultural activities, and exotic animals are only a few of the Philippines’ finest offerings—treasure that award-winning photographer (and self-proclaimed nationalist) George Cabig loves to capture with his camera. For more than two decades Cabig has been clicking away, photographing events, people and places for the country’s top organizations, including Caltex Philippines, Kawasaki, Equitable Bank, Benguet Corporation, Department of Tourism, and Shoe Mart; and for magazines like Ahead (Bankard), Design and Architecture, Blue Collar, Mac Quarterly, Horizon, In-Golf, The Business Daily, The Big C, and Mabuhay (the in-flight magazine of Philippine Airlines). Top writers have featured his photos in some of their books: The Filipinos: A Portrait of the People, 20th Century Filipino Artists, Makati, Pasay, Guide to Collecting Arts (books by Manny Duldulao), Nick Joaquin's Philippines: Manifold Land, Action Asia's Trekking Guide to the Philippines and Philippine Normal University’s centennial books (by Achilles Mina). His work takes him to different towns and environments, wellsprings of the powerful images he brings back to his archives as proofs of the breadth of his profession and the depth of his experience as a photographer.

michele santarsiere

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Diego Portuondo

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As a relative newcomer to the art gallery scene Diego Portuondo has far exceeded his expectations. After leaving St. Martins in London and taking a brief hiatus from photography Diego has reinvented his style and re-acquainted himself with artistic photography. Diego’s “Head On” series uses photography as a medium for artistic expression, nature and human form unite to convey deeply expressive emotion. Explored through form, the play between black and white and color, and controlled versus natural light create a world of Diego’s own, that we are only briefly invited to visit. His investigation on aesthetics is not only reflected on his images, but also his choice of subject matter. The focus of the “Head On” series being the phrenological busts, which date from the latter part of the 19th century and are almost entirely unknown in our modern lives. The busts are the visual representation of the phrenological parts of the brain as believed by 19th century scientists. Phrenology is the study of the structure of the skull to determine a person’s character and mental capacity. The busts also act as canvas for Diego’s juxtaposed images, such as landscapes, airport runways at night, and idyllic sunsets. The combination of Phrenological busts and modern moments convey a heightened sense of awareness of our place in a modern world and its humble beginnings. Diego’s artistic influences are as diverse as his subjects, dada, surrealist, abstract expressionism, pop art, and early photography all play an important role in his composition, subject matter, and palette. Most reminiscent in “Head On’ are the influences of Man Ray, Magritte, and Dali, however Diego does not strive to create a surreal world as these artists did, but an image of a world in the study of phrenology. His vibrant sometimes-violent colors are a mixture of abstract expressionists and Pop artists such Rothko, Wesselman, and Warhol, yet the sensual poses and stark compositions remind one of Georgia O’Keefe, Edward Weston and Imogen Carter. The balance between nature and the clinical aspect of the phrenological busts give the image a sense of monumentality and equilibrium, the famous photographer Russel James said it well when reacting to “Head On,” “(In these images) I see success and amazing creativity.”

Heather R. Lander

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Massimo Bandi

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Massimo Bandi is a figurative painter in the best sense of the word. His images, rich with truth, speak for themselves with an expressive force which captures the observer. His drawing is essential, his composition is almost photographic, his color is lacking in narcissism. A skillful game of lights and shadows reveals the figures: portraits of women, evocative groups, struggles. The artist's discourse is clear and firm. The denunciation of the violence and miseries that still mark the life of the man, here and under far skies, as well as the torment for mankind's liberation find in his art a strong, never rhetorical, expression. This expression knows accents of sometimes extreme sincerity and is capable of drawing attention through the strict formal control that always gives tone and measure to his extraordinary figures. The themes are those of the present time, sometimes dictated by a nearly journalistic attention to everyday life. His art never gives you an impression of deja-vu: everything is constantly renewed, everything pulses with life, under his objective, but compassionate, eye. His art immediately carries you wherever it wishes to carry you. Yet, you conserve that critical ability that is evocative of the Verfremdungseffekt, the alienation effect of the great expressionist theatre of Brecht. Umberto Melotti Professor of Political Sociology Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza"

Tom Paun

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born on July 15th.1952

Jeeyun Lee

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Jee Yun Lee's work combines the thousand-year-old artistic traditions of her homeland Korea with the confrontational edge of contemporary life in New York, where she is currently based. Her oil paintings, lavish and jagged landscapes and still life paintings asserted in bold strokes, have been described as "... fraught with the pure pleasure... of painting." Arguably, the scale and intensity of her "map" series represented the critical turn in direction for Lee. By the time of Lee's 2003 solo exhibition at New York City's Grace Institute, the artist described: I do not shy away from the thorny side of life. It is a symbol of my experience, in the act of creating and criticizing, to break free from sentimentality or heroism. At home in a variety of mediums, it is perhaps Lee's watercolors that most clearly display the freedom of which she speaks, favoring the immediacy of accuracy over the starkness of reality. For the past several years, Lee has been transferring her visions to the digital realm, exploring the boundaries of the medium while strongly maintaining and reaffirming her own artistic ground.

William Ayton

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William T. Ayton is a British-born painter currently residing in Upstate New York. His work deals with personal mythologies and social issues. He has previously lived in Spain and France.

daniela ament

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sculptor, working in clay. exhibiting in clay and bronze i use mainly images of women and children to express my emotions, thoughts, memories, and ideas and they are my inspiration .

Manuel Gras

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Hans Koster

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Steve Koll

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°Mortsel, Belgium 1977. Despite, or maybe thanks to his studies of bio-engineer, he started painting on the age of 23. He prefers not to think too deeply out loud about his work because he doesn't want to influence the audience. But it is a fact that Steve knows why he paints and how he whishes to achieve a desired result. He prefers oil paint and mixing colours. He cherises the texture and the relief that spontaneously step forward when the paint dries. In short, he glorifies the way in which matter and colour seem to recreate themselves and develop their own game on the canvas. Steve is creator and spectator at the same time, of the fascinating symbiosis of the matter and pigments that he applied on the carrier material, and of the inexpected surprise of what is underneath, what we can see with our own eyes.

Roberto Bernardo

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Born in Rio de Janeiro, currently living in São Paulo, Brazil.

Michelle Caplan

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Damian Sarno

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figurative , large , oil , encaustic

Bill Golba

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juan barletta

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Fred Chuang

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paul robinson

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BIOGRAPHY Paul Robinson, born 1964 in Liverpool. Studied Fine Art at Sunderland Polytechnic 1983 to 1986, obtaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Subsequent employment as an illustrator, graphic designer and commercial industrial printer led to the involvement with graphic language. Paul completed a Postgraduate Certificate of Education in 1989 and entered education as a Lecturer in Graphic Design and Print in 1991. He continued to teach until 2000 whereupon he embarked on a career as a professional artist and designer. Paul Robinson has had several exhibitions, had work published and been involved with community groups and industry in the development of graphic design. In 2003 Paul established and became a Director of Artshed Ware Ltd, a contemporary art gallery, the first of its kind in Hertfordshire, promoting original work by local and national artists. Here Paul curated exhibitions featuring well known 20th Century artists.

Dan Goorevitch

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Born Edmonton 1951 with twin brother David. Sister Trudy born 1958. Five months later, father dies. Five years later, mother dies. David and I sent to a brutal boarding school where I withdrew to imagine a better world. On graduation I came home and on a perfect day decided that there must be more to life than perfection. I descended the basement steps to find a little poster paint, a piece of paper, a jar of water, a brush, and fell into the act of painting. An image of Adam and Eve in the garden emerged like magic under my hand. "This is it" I said, "This is the door through which I can bring all my unexpressed longings, feelings and ideas, trapped inside me for years. I still paint that way, discovering rather than constructing images.

Joey Holder

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I am consistently drawn towards the ugliest and most unusual aspects of nature, which inspire my creative expression. I am obsessed with nature’s structural diversity and the surprises it has to offer, and have developed an entirely imagined world of forms drawn from an aquatic reality. Formations that grow, mutate and interact across my canvasses are not constrained by the two-dimensional structural limitations familiar to us land based mammals. Instead they search in every direction for their form, rejoicing in their weightless environment and disregarding the oppressive restraints of gravity. The often humorous, almost cartoon-like quality in much of my work serves to distance us from, and yet also heighten the sense of the grotesque that lurks behind my brushstrokes. I aim to confront the viewer with images that are difficult to digest and yet always manage to retain a certain fascinating beauty. I refuse to stick to any particular style, preferring to let the element of surprise articulate the layers of paint and the colour harmonies and clashes in my work. The paintings always develop as a natural, evolutionary process thereby avoiding the manifestos and imperatives that could stem the flow from the imagination to the canvas.

Kathy Smith

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Photography, Violin, DVD Author, Films, Coach

alexei biryukoff

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After my first complex project in 2004 called Naked Loneliness I got interested in conceptual art and performance very much. I am interested in combining paintings, sound and performance together - all done by myself, and reach several channels of perception at a time. In our information age especially, people tend to collect and passively store information in their heads rather than live it through, be it emotions or images or whatever format of info they get. I try to create a micro world, where the paintings are not just pictures hanging on the walls, but where everything that is seen and heard interacts with the show space and involves the viewers, making them part of a bigger picture. It is more like a theater with the viewers standing in the center of the stage surrounded by images, sounds and action, that are aimed at provoking thoughts and facing contradictions. The aim is to turn them from passive on-lookers into active participants. Naked Loneliness show was accused of pornography and closed by the local government of Barnaul, Russia. The work that is included in this show is one of the works from that show. While male nudes are my major subject, I intend to work on different themes. The second conceptual show I made in 2006 was about the terror attack in Beslan. I do like to choose one theme and live with it for several months, reading and thinking about it, working on it day after day. It is very much like a journey – I am visiting a certain place that burns my mind, moves my thoughts and emotions, and makes me want to say something back. I keep doing that till I am exhausted, but every time this happens I realize that I cannot exhaust the theme I am working on, it is inevitably the other way round. After all it is not so good to be too serious all the time - art is a game, with no restrictions or rules to play. Just play away and enjoy the freedom. Make your every step an act of art, make people see ordinary things from new angles, be serious, play, then mix it all up and see if anybody understands what you are doing...

David Burge

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Sue Platt

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I live in a small village called Delph in Saddleworth. on the Pennine border between Yorkshire and Greater Manchester. I have a studio in Woodend Mill in Mossley, approximately 8 miles away in Tameside. I work in sculpture,installation, printmaking and painting.

rebecca cleaves

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Rebecca's manner of painting encompasses strong line and rough, unpolished texture. Often geometrical, sometimes surreal, her paintings seem to convey uncompromised messages from the artist. The reoccurring figures in a landscape speak loud about the position of the human in the world and the use of mixed media emphasises the complexity of nature.

Frank Spidale

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The paintings begin as a series of drawings gathered and referenced to collectively assemble a fictitious landscape. The resulting unnamed place provides an accessible, comfortable subject for the viewer and then as the viewer is engaged, it unfolds to present layers and exploration of both formal and material issues. It is a landscape intended for the viewers to enter into and move around in. The use of rhythm, timing and touch present a pathway which when allowed to take over, sends you searching. Never resting on what is real but rather resting on what is perceived.

Elliott Teel

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Chris Gregori

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Chris Gregori is a graphic designer and illustrator born and raised a 30 minute train ride to Chicago in Homewood, IL. Chris received a Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts Degree from Valparaiso, University in 2002 and found his new home in Fort Collins, Colorado in the fall of 2003. He now lives in Denver and can usually be found drawing, eating Golden Graham cereal, creating postcards, taking walks with his lady Sarah, camping, playing drums or sleeping. Chris provides affordable freelance work for local companies, bands, artists, and non-for-profit organizations. Contact Chris @ chrisgregori@gmail.com for quotes on freelance work.

Alessandro Fantini

myartspace id:AFAN

BIOGRAPHY:

His first attempt at creating his own aesthetic parallel universe was during his childhood, when he was intrigued by drawing by night and day comic strips and duck tales inspired to Disney world. Over the years his passion about mysteries and gothic atmospheres pushed him to search other ways of self-expression through using water colour on board and oil on canvas. Suddenly he was also fascinated by the link between sound and images when someone let him use a small videocamera and he began to spend days filming stormy skies, eclipses, old photos mixed with frames of giant eyes and his own body sections. His first oil on canvas were deeply influenced by the gloomy and dreamlike climate of the surreal period of Dalì (1929-1945). At the same time he developed also a vionary literary dimension writing romance and novels which resemble a mixture of d'Annunzio obsession for lushious details and sophistication and the distorted abomination realms of Lovecraft, Clive Barker, Sheridan Le Fanu and Maupassant. He wrote his first 200 pages romance at 14 on a school notebook. After the long period of research between Rome and London in order to collect the documents needed for the completion of his university thesis about the relationship between Preraphaelites and Italian painters, he continued his artistic quest involving also mystical themes and more morbid compositions inspired by Giger works and Rossetti's poetry. Since 1996 he produced and directed a series of short-movies, mostly using the natural locations of Abruzzo and sometime hurban environment of Rome. References to the style of Lynch, Bunuel, Tarkovsky and Kubrick can be easily found in his video concept. A self-portrait of him was published inside the Jean Michel Jarre's Aero booklet in 2004. In 2006 he published and illustrated an anthology of fantasy tales while his short-movie "Tiranti Transit" was broadcasted on a Sky channel. In 2007 he released the dark-fantasy book "Endometria - The seed of flesh" illustrated by his drawings and paintings. A selection of his oil canvas has been exhibited at the London Brick Lane Gallery in october 2007. His shortmovie "The Road to Shakti" has been broadcasted on ECOTV SKY channel in december 2007 and january 2008. His sperimental short "aVoid" has been selected for the Digital Award contest 2008 of the international 16mm Film Fest 2008 of Rome. In august Lulu.com released his first english color art book "The Sinovial Gaze - The art of Alessandro Fantini".

Paolo Durandetto

myartspace id:durandetto

Personal Store:http://www.nyaxe.com/durandetto/

BIOGRAPHY:

I was born in Susa, (TO), Italy, in 1974. Actualy I live in Rivoli (TO) Italy.

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