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roethlisberger comenius

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comenius roethlisberger, june 26th 1971 Comenius Roethlisberger „Histories and Abstracts“ Text by Moritz Neumüller, free-lance curator, Vienna and Madrid One could regard Comenius Roethlisberger’s series „Histories an Abstracts“ as a continuation of his artist’s portraits. In a earlier black and white series the young Swiss photographer depicted famous entertainers, rappers, rock groups and artists. Amongst them were Pipilotti Rist, INXS, Ice-T, Ringo Starr, Sinéad O’Connor and Faith No More. Metallica’s rehearsal rooms, Wolfgang Tillman’s darkroom or Björk’s Nursery represent the life and creativity of those people into whose private sphere the photographer has advanced. But there is also other walls in this series. For example the walls alluding to the structures of the art institutions like Tate Gallery, Conference Room, or Saatchi Gallery, Wall behind Damien Hirst’s Bronze Figure. One is justifiably reminded by these pictures of the photos by Candida Höfer of conference rooms, waiting rooms and museums. Perhaps the most interesting, because richest in connotations, of the walls are those from society’s non-places like porn cinemas for example or prison cells. Prima facie, and sometimes even at closer inspection, these subversive pictures cannot be distinguished from the “more harmless“ interior shots like the elephant house of the Basel zoo. The different titles of the photographs result in completely differing emotional landscapes connected with the stories of the respective location und thus revealing themselves to the viewer of the life-sized colour photographs. The picture possible doing justice to the series’ title the best photograph, taken in the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, of the empty wall where usually hang Monet’s water lily paintings. In a legendary article from 1967 about Jackson Pollock, the critic William Rubin consults Monet’s three-part work for comparative purposes and arrives at the conclusion that it shows a paradigm shift in painting. These paintings are not to be read anymore as window to the world but as walls. Whether the photographer is privy to this history of abstraction is of no importance. Maybe his main concern was the relationship between painting and title (the original water lily wall sign sticks still to its original place), the original’s sublimeness or the invisible presence of the work in its accustomed location. However, it is for sure that also the work of the young photographer underwent a paradigm shift which distinguishes his new works as much from the earlier series as from the work series of Candida Höfer and other representatives of the Düsseldorf school.

Doug Merrett

myartspace id:sputnki

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I find myself experiencing a revolution against the perfection of my camera lens. Camera companies, in their quest for optical perfection, make gear that, to me, is just too good! I feel the camera and its lens contributes as much to the image as the light falling on the scene. The interaction of all these parts make the whole, but the camera and lens have become almost 'transparent' to the scene. Not that it's a bad thing. I'm sure there are more photographers out there who would rather get sharp images out of their rigs than blurry ones, but there can be real magic in those wonky accidents from less-than-perfect gear.

Daehwan Cho

myartspace id:chodaehwan

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sanya arif

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michael guerrero

myartspace id:maestro

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ART IS LIFE

Barb Young

myartspace id:bjybay

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Troy Curtis

myartspace id:Idealus

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If you ever got a good look at me, I mean had enough time to sit with a cup of tea and just take me in, in all my humanity, I think you'd see a person who's greatest ability is his desire to love and who's greatest fault is the jagged nature in which I deliver my said love...and in that way I am incrediably average. The arts I participate in can only be an exstention of this. Cheers.

ayako goh

myartspace id:somethingmagickal

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zack carey

myartspace id:ninjahands

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Donna Young

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Michael Evans

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3axap Bakc

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3axap Bakc creates visual images through his sensory memory. 3axap's reaction to spicy food, an after thought of a love affair, a first color memory, or a remembrance of a loved one who passed away via nostaliga, sadness, honor, and acceptance.The audience gleans from an image that has its roots watered by 3axap's senses and memory as it is carried by color, hand, and a scent that activates their own sensory memory.

Brian Sherwin

myartspace id:Balhatain

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Brian Sherwin joined the myartspace team in September, 2006. Mr. Sherwin is the Senior Contributing Editor of the myartspace blog. Sherwin conducts and writes the overwhelming number of interviews for the myartspace blog. Sherwin has interviewed over 400 emerging and established artists, including: Michael Craig-Martin, James Rosenquist, Sylvia Sleigh, Thornton Willis and William T. Wiley. Sherwin has long been interested in art and psychology. He studied psychology under the instruction of Dr. Elizabeth Rellinger while attending Illinois College-- a private liberal arts college. His keen sense of the human condition was noted by several instructors in the psychology department at IC. Upon graduation Sherwin worked in the mental health industry serving various positions, including Qualified Mental Retardation Professional (QMRP), Qualified Human Service Professional (QHSP), Activity Instructor, and Resident Aide- rank III (RA III). During those years Sherwin had several case-loads and worked with supporting staff to rehabilitate mentally challenged individuals, including former violent offenders, suffering from mental illness. Sherwin has noted that his experiences working with dangerous individuals-- many of whom would not have been dangerous had it not been for years of childhood and systematic abuse-- made an impact on his art. Direct experience working with the mentally challenged and ill helped Sherwin to better understand the psychological theories of Carl Jung-- another point of influence in Sherwin's art. Sherwin's art also involves his experiences of observing broken homes and drug addiction in the community of his childhood. He was raised in a small town located in one of poorest counties in Illinois. Sherwin has described the community as "a place with 1950s charm... but the steaks have been replaced with meth." Sherwin has exhibited in Illinois. He graduated from Illinois College in 2003 with a BA in Art. He often signs his art work 'Balhatain' or 'BAL'. Sherwin is known for his expressive use of brushwork and line. I'm an open book. Ask.

niki gannard

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jeff cohen

myartspace id:jc

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...creating, being..... enjoying black and white negative film... born in los angeles.. presently living in santa monica,california.. constantly traveling the globe..

Edward Rigaud

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Nathalie Morin Rousseau

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BACKGROUND Born in Montreal, primary and secondary school in Brussels, Belgium, college and professional schools in Quebec. Autodidact and with good entrepreneurial skills, Nathalie Morin Rousseau has experimented mixed techniques and used a number of artistic media before concentrating on acrylic. Initially, Nathalie developed an original technique for painting sceneries on wood for ‘’ Studio Pomme et Soleil ’’. Her painted furniture, as well as her paintings on canvas, have been exhibited and sold in Canada, Europe and the USA. After a sabbatical period of artistic research and experimentation, she decided to go back to canvas painting and to create works inspired by her own personal life experiences. ARTISTIC PROCESS ‘’ The human soul is my preferred subject of inspiration ’’ Inspired by the ability and strength of human beings in the face of changing circumstances of their lives, Nathalie’s works are an abstract and vibrant reflexion on the daily miracles of the human being caught in a dominating universe which he fails to understand. Here abstraction and a form of surrealism sometimes meet a touch of impressionism. See how the vivid colors of her paintings transmit movement and how the texture itself reveals forms. Nathalie often uses her brush and spatula in a spiral stroke and she always let her heart and instinct move her hand. Her artistic search touches subjects such as the surpassing of one’s limits, the desire for freedom and the will to express oneself by any mean. Her community involvement offers children new means of communication to express themselves through the artistic media. PROFESSIONNAL ACTIVITIES AND SOCIAL INVOLVEMENT ‘’To communicate my passion for abstraction in art, for colors, for life itself and everything that gives it meaning!’’ Groupe Animaction Ville de Verdun, L’école primaire de l’Ile des Sœurs, Pensionnat des Sacrés-Cœurs de St-Bruno. EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES STUDIO POMME ET SOLEIL 1998-1999 Piggery show de North Hatley 1998 Faubourg St-Sauveur 1998 Salon de l’Habitation de Montréal 1999 New England Home Show de Boston É.U. 1999 Les Peintres du Dimanche de St-Lambert 1999 Fine Furnishings show R. I. É.U. (jury ) 1999 Salon Domisme de Drummondville 2000 Piggery show de North Hatley ART ABSTRAIT 2005 Exposition concours de St-Bruno Montarville 2005 22e Salon d’automne CAPSQ Montréal ( jury) 2006 Exposition RCA@ENART 2006 St-Lambert Expo AAPARS 2006 Exposition Château Dufresne 2007 Encan annuel Société Alzheimer de l’Estrie 2007 Caisse Populaire Île des Sœurs 2007 International Flora Vieux Montréal/Vieux Port 2007 L’Absinthe Forum Social Québécois 2007 Journées de La Culture Del Canale 2008 Encan AQEPA Musée de la Civilisation Québec 2008 Exposition Del Canale 2008 L’Espace contemporain galerie d’art Québec GALERIES VIRTUELLES 2005 Galerie virtuelle CAPSQ 2006 Galerie virtuelle Arts Cad 2006 Vlad Art Gallery 2006 Expo Vente Galerie 2006 Artmajeur Galerie 2006 Art Net Sale Gallery 2006 My Art Space Gallery 2006 My Art Space Competition 2006 Expo Vente Galerie 2006 Vladart Gallery 2006 Artabus Galerie 2006 Artist Search.net 2006 World Artist Directory 2006 Artelista Gallery 2006 Absolutearts Gallery 2006 Créative Europe Gallery 2007 My Art Space Competition NY2007 EXPOSITIONS SOLO 2006 Studio Muse Île des Sœurs 2007 Studio Muse Ile-des-Sœurs 2007 Del Canale 2008 Cinéma du Parc 2008 L’espace Contemporain (Québec) COLLECTIONS Collections privées Caisse Desjardins IDS Collection privé Maire de St-Constant COLLECTIF D’ARTISTES 2007 INSPIRIGO Nathalie Morin Rousseau, Nadia Nadège, Ani Muller EXPOSITIONS : 2007 L’Absinthe Forum Social Québécois 2008 Journées de La Culture Del Canale MEMBERSHIPS 2005-2007 AAPARS Association des Artistes Peintres Affiliés de la Rive-Sud 2005-2007 CAPSQ Le Cercle des Artistes Peintres et Sculpteurs du Québec BIBLIOGRAPHIE Juillet 1998 Journal de la Vallée St-Sauveur Août 1998 Journal Des Pays D’En Haut Octobre 1998 Journal La Presse Octobre 1998 Décoration Chez-Soi Mars 1999 Journal De Montréal Mars 1999 Décormag Mars 1999 Coup de Pouce 2001 Morinfo Magazine 2002 Maison D’Aujourd’hui 2007 La Tribune de Sherbrooke 2007 Programme de La Société Alzheimer Mai 2007 Le Magazine de l’Île des Sœurs Juillet 2007 Le Magazine de l’Île des Sœurs (page couverture et p7)

steffani gomez

myartspace id:kalibug213

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im ME

Amelia Alvarado

myartspace id:Josiyalvarado

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Nothing to say about me....im just a normal girl living in a awful world,,,,

James St Laurent

myartspace id:StLaurent

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Kimberly Tschida Petters

myartspace id:tschida444

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Kimberly Tschida Petters returned to school in 1999 to study English and French. She found her way to the Art Department and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2006. Her large hand-rubbed oil pastel landscapes are based on her photographs of the light just after the sun sets and lights the sky but shades the land. She is a member of the Rosalux Gallery Artists Cooperative in Minneapolis. She lives and works in St. Paul.

Dorthe Alstrup

myartspace id:dalstrup

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D S

myartspace id:Visions of Eden

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Lee Muslin

myartspace id:leemuslin

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Lee Muslin has been a fine art photographer for over 30 years and in 1995 began exploring the possibilities of digital imaging. Originally she studied studio fine arts, but gravitated towards and stayed with photography throughout the years. Digital imaging has brought her back to her fine arts roots with the creation of images in the computer. These photomontages evolve as she layers, blends and combines her original photographs. Ms. Muslin has participated in many exhibitions throughout the United States as well as several other countries. She had 2 solo exhibitions in 2005 at Franklin 54 Gallery and the Ansonia Window Show, both in New York City. In 2004, she had two solo exhibitions at Mercer Management Consulting and Manhattan Theatre Resource also in New York City. Some of her group show venues include the Museum of Modern Art, Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center, Soho Photo Gallery, Printmaking Council of New Jersey and the Salmagundi Club. Ms. Muslin had three of her digital images exhibited at the Bergen Museum in Diving into Digital in the Spring of 2006. Another digital image was selected to be part of a surrealism show, Brave Destiny, at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. Other digital images have been accepted into Inspired by the Land at the Attleboro Museum in Massachusetts and the Beecher Center for technology in the arts at the Butler Institute of American Art in Ohio in 2003 where she won a third prize award. As one of ten finalists in Gallery Print’s 2002 Botanical Photography Awards, Ms. Muslin exhibited at the La Quinta Cultural Center in Albuquerque, NM. She won Second Prize in the Professional Women Photographers' Cow Quest Contest where the panel of jurors included Jodi Kwan, Deputy Photo Editor of the New York Times Magazine and Michele McNally, Picture Editor for Fortune Magazine. The Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit gave Ms. Muslin five awards over 3 years including first prize for photography. She also won first prize for photography at the Corn Hill Arts Festival in Rochester, NY. From the Museum of Computer Art she won third prize in the Enhanced Photography category in 2001.

David Beale

myartspace id:Fingerlakesart

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David grew up in rural Middle Tennessee and received a BA in music from Duke University in 1967. He served in the Peace Corps in Colombia for two years. David attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina and Cornell University in music composition. His music has been performed throughout the East including a commercially recorded performance of his "Reflections on a Park Bench" in Carnegie Hall in 1974. David began painting in watercolor at the age of 50. He has taken workshops with Arnie Westerman and Frank Webb. David now owns and operates The Picture House, a frame shop/gallery/studio located in Cortland, NY, where he paints and teaches in addition to framing. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Cultural Council of Cortland County.

Matteo Zacchino

myartspace id:zacchino2006

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Drawing since childhood, Zacchino is a passionate artist with a zest of creativity. The long search for a way to paint with pure pleasure also increased his understanding for the worlds natural desire for expression. He continually creates whimsical, bold, mystic and colorful artwork out of his studios located in the beautiful valley of Phoenix Arizona, in the rainy woods of Mnster Germany and at the beach in Sanremo Italy. Matteo was born and raised in Sanremo located in the enchanting Riviera dei fiori a famous location for the european and international floral business. Influenced by the bright and beautiful colors found in his surroundings the artist painted in his home delivering stunning modern art exploring all sorts of media. At the age of fourteen he attended art classes at the prestigious State Institute of Art school in Florence Tuscany, where various resources and techniques were enhanced and mastered. The artist also lived in Germany for about three years where he apprenticed in a graphic design/photography studio and learned the language. He then moved to Arizona USA where his family now owns and operates four fine dining Italian restaurants. Some of the restaurants feature his artwork on display and hosts most of his art shows and events. Matteo Zacchino is an artist of many resources and technical skills. Multi layered acrylic paint seems to be his favorite media for his often mystic landscape-like sub-worlds. There, his whimsical subjects start taking a life of their own with a precise and detailed pencil work. To better accentuate his creations he patiently applies small detailed shapes and shadows with the help of various fine paintbrushes, adding to the painting whats defined as his personal style. If art is described as anything that makes the viewer feel, then Matteo s work serves to extend the definition. His artwork is always intense, the subjects take a deep thoughtful and balanced position in the space available. His work also plays on familiar subjects like everyday objects, statues, vases, candles, flowers, hidden symbols and nudity.

Casey Sharpe

myartspace id:Twitching

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I'm 19, and during the school year I go to the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. I'm interested in abosultely everything, from old folk music and strange textures (especially the layers of paint that form on buildings and then chip away) to abandoned buildings and the way light hits things. My favorite part of being an artist is getting to work with my hands. I find a deep satisfaction in making solid, weighty things.

Lisa Vicious

myartspace id:lisavicious

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I am a Detroit artist and poet. Currently I reside with my best friend and husband in the 'burbs where I spend my time being an eBay addict and creating "offensive art" and writing "bad coffee house poetry".

Arpad Forgo Toth

myartspace id:szerencse

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Samantha Contreras

myartspace id:Facelesslies00

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I was bon on July 21, 1989 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I have lived here my entire life, and have always been interested in art. I was the child who drew on the walls, backs of chairs, and everything else. I started to stray from art when I was in middle school, fearing that I could never be successfu as an adult. I ended up in an art class by accident during my freshman year of high school, and instantly fell in love again. It became clear to me that this was all I wanted to do. I picked up a camera on a trip to Hawaii in 2002, and so began my love for photography. I hope to open up my own photography studio after I graduate college, and would be grateful for any commissions for drawings or paintings. Currently, I'm setting up my business to sell prints of my freelance photography. If anyone is interested in purchasing prints of my photography, please contact me by email at: the.artistic.one@hotmail.com

Gordon Fraser

myartspace id:gfraser

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Gordon Fraser was born in Boston, MA in December 1975. Shortly after, his family moved to Stamford, CT and then later to Princeton, NJ. Early on he wanted to be an architect and studied mechanical drawing and architectural drafting. Gordon went on to attend Kenyon College in Ohio where he studied comparative religion and Asian Languages and Cultures. In 1996 Gordon traveled to India, Nepal, and Tibet, living in the Tibetan exile communities in Dharamsala, Katmandu, and Sikkhim. In India he was introduced to the Tibetan traditions of Thangka and mural painting, visiting many temples and monasteries throughout the region, photographing the historic wall paintings, learning the iconography, documenting the ongoing restoration work, and meeting many artists practicing the traditional Tibetan painting techniques. Eventually Gordon studied Thangka painting with Tibetan artist Tashi Palden. In 2000, Gordon moved to New York City where he engaged in a rigorous study of artistic anatomy with William Weltman and figure drawing with Minerva Durham. He attended the Pratt Institute drawing, painting and printmaking. Gordon is a member of the Art Students League New York and has studied with abstract painter Frank O'Cain, learning many of the 14th and 15th century techniques of egg tempera and egg oil emulsions. He has also studied with Paul Ching-Bor, focusing on contemporary approaches to water-based media. In addition, Gordon has studied Japanese calligraphy with Kaz Tanahashi. Currently, Gordon lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey. His works are exhibited in galleries in New York and New Jersey. He is part of an emerging group of international artists whose abstract works draw upon the global roots of painting, merging and fusing a diverse range of sources and traditions into an exciting contemporary abstract idiom.

Terry Matarelli

myartspace id:teecco

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Artist Statement My life is all about process. It’s the getting there that interests me. My art is similar in that I like the process of making something from nothing. I’ve spent years landscaping and building a cabin in the woods, as well as doing artwork, and I love taking a bare piece of nothingness and making it something, walk away and don’t look back. I strive for a nice finished product, but it’s the getting there that keeps me going. I’m not interested in pretty. Be real. Painting is paint on a surface. Any materials, for that matter, have their own essential being, and bring that spirit to the work. I look for that material to speak to me, say something to the viewer, and say whatever it wants. My work is mostly figure ground relationships. I’ve been drawn to the figure all my life. I’m interested in the drama of life and living, and the endless possibilities of the interaction or isolation we encounter. I’m not looking to represent surface reality, but rather emotional or spiritual reality. I want to get under the skin and see what’s going on. I like to represent that with whatever materials I’m using.

amanda eskridge

myartspace id:meskridge86

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Alexander White

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George Kolotov

myartspace id:George Kolotov

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Photography is a life!

Diane Guercio

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