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| Ilena Lescaut |
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| ILENA LESCAUT
Born in 1966 in Bucharest / Romania
Living in Paris / France since 1989
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After an MA in German language and civilization at Sorbonne Paris III, she wanted to enrich
her personal experience through a commercial training course at the Chamber of Commerce
and Industry of Paris, followed by a third cycle of commercial specialization at the Business
Management Institute of Paris Sorbonne I. in order to build an invisible bridge between the
world of letters, art and business.
She has been painting since she was a child. At the age of seven, she designed the drawings of
an animated cartoon titled KALEIDOSCOPE which was presented on the big screens of
cinema halls in Bucharest. For her drawings, Iléna Lescaut received the Jury's special prize.
As a teenager, she took drawing classes with a professional of the Beaux Arts Institute in Bucharest.
She took classes of Art-history in Paris and actually she prepares a Diploma in order to work also as an Art-thérapiste.
In her paintings, she loves to play with colors, shadows and light, geometrical lines and symbols, letting her imagination project the everyday details, objects or places surrounding
us. She blends various techniques and often uses miscellaneous materials. Her work is at the
borders of figurative and abstract art, thus her painting can be called « abstract figurative ».
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EXHIBITIONS
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris – CPSS/Advancia, April 2005
- STUDIO 28, Paris, September 2006
- Eglise St Pierre-St. Paul, Colombes-Paris, June 2007
- To follow : Lille (France) and Paris (France) in December 2007, Germany in 2008 (Berlin and Leipzig), itinerant exhibition in Romania (2008), exhibition in the United States (2007/2008)
OTHER WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS
1/ Book published in 2006 – literature, ethnology and folklore :
« On Wings of Fairy Tale » (Sur les ailles des contes) – three stories in three languages
(French/Romanian/English) : translation of some of the texts from Romanian into French and
illustrations by Iléna Lescaut ; Demiurg Publishing House Iasi/Romania.
2/ Book of fiction – in 2006 :
« Through the Window of Time » (Par la fenêtre du temps) - 15 short stories in French published
within the 11th Summit of Francophony held in Romania in 2006, Demiurg Publishing House Iasi/Romania.
3/Book of art – in 2006 :
Participation with three poems written in French by Iléna Lescaut as an introduction to the photographic art book by Noël Giamarchi : « The Third Eye – Look within to See the World that Comes from Without » (Le troisième oeil - Voir en soi pour voir le monde), published within the 11th Summit of Francophony held in Romania in 2006, Demiurg Publishing House Iasi/Romania. |
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| Wim Heldens |
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The Dutch painter Wim heldens was born in 1954 in Sittard, in the south of the Netherlands.
He showed an obsessive fascination with drawing from an early age and when he applied to various academies, he already had an impressive body of work. Nevertheless, his unusual talent was not recognized and he was not admitted. Disappointed, but still determined, he applied to the Kunstacademie in Frankfurt Germany in 1974 and was immediately accepted.
But when the good news came, he had just moved to Amsterdam and decided that, he had proven his worth, he preferred to go his own way.
Making a living from portrait commissions, Heldens developed this genre as a means to explore the human condition. While around him the modernist revolution was gradually being accepted as a general norm, Heldens explored renaissance techniques and three- and two-dimensional form, including abstract structural patterns (the influence of abstract notions of form is always very close under the surface). Also, the treatment of light by masters of Dutch 17c painting like Vermeer, Terborch and Nicolaes Maes held his fascination. He began to be asked regularly for exhibitions in galleries in the Netherlands. Various trips to Italy in the seventies were a great stimulation; the greatest impression from these years was the psychologically dramatic work of Carravagio.
The discovery of the art world in New York opened a new field of stimulation and experience. In the period 1990 – 95 Heldens divided his time between New York and Amsterdam, easily mixing in the exciting American artistic community where he, within a couple of months, saw his work on show at the Henoch gallery in SoHo, later to be followed with exposure at the Ganymede Gallery and the Open Studio PS122, both in NY City. The wide variety of different trends – from abstract via pop art to photo realism – which he saw in the East Village, where he had a studio, gave him the inner freedom and confidence to pursue and further develop his psychological realism. He viewed his personal style as a possible way forward after modernism had lost most of its credibility. He painted various portraits in commission, among others for the collector Raymond Saroff, who possesses an impressive collection of American native art. In 1995 Heldens participated in the exhibition ‘Representation represented’ in the Arnot Museum in Elmira (NY) together with Janet Fish, Gregory Gillespie, Paul Cadmus, Claudio Bravo and Michael Leonard, where Heldens’ contribution drew much attention.
From 1995 onwards, Heldens increasingly focuses on Amsterdam where he found his canvasses more and more in demand. In 1998 he decided to move away from portrait commissions to be able to concentrate upon a more versatile expression of human drama in contemporary life. Over the years, the psychology behind his work gradually became more complex and ambiguous, Claire-obscure more striking, contrasts sharper – all along with a continuously developing technique. His paintings found their way into private collections in the Netherlands, England, Germany and the USA, and into collections of the Academic Hospital and the ING Bank in Amsterdam, the Bank Nederlandse Gemeenten , the City Council in Sittard and The Arnot Art museum, Elmira New York.
Heldens is one of those artists who know from the beginning what they want to do. For him, painting is a psychological analysis, a narrative of inner life and experience. His realism, which is rooted in renaissance painting but never a stylistic pastiche, gives form to the human condition in modern life.
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| rafael montoya |
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| Mischa Jovanovic |
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| 1970
Mischa Jovanovic, son of a military officer and a librarian, was born in Beograd where he spent his two first years.
1972
Due to political and economic circumstances his parents emigrated to Switzerland, Uzwil/SG.
1985
At the age of 15 Mischa Jovanovic began his apprentices hip as a structural engineer with architect Adolph Blumenthal at Flawil. He was first introduced to art in the gallery Arte Nuova at Flawil.
1986
Mischa Jovanovic painted his first pictures in his father’s garage. His training was autodidactic and his special interests were American artists of the 20th century and German art after the second world war.
1990
The size of his paintings increased to such an extant that he moved into his first studio in a former textile factory at Flawil.
1999
Mischa Jovanovic moved to Thalwil/Zurich to be closer to Zurich’s art scene. He created his work still in his studio at Flawil.
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| Alexander T. Oleksyn |
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| Lisa Lorenz |
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| Lisa (Lariviere), Lorenz was born in Montreal, Canada and has been drawing and painting exuberantly since childhood and her talent expands over many years.
She studied graphic design and advertising at Concordia University and then pursued a career with a major railway for 9 years. In 1996 she moved overseas with her husband and started painting again taking several painting classes and workshops in Europe and Asia.
She has been living overseas for over 11 years and has lived in Basel, Switzerland, Seoul, Korea and now resides in Copenhagen, Denmark by the sea which she loves. She has traveled extensively and her travels opened her eyes to many interesting and memorable places that words alone can not express. Painting her impressions is her way of remembering and sharing such colorful memories.
Lisa is an artist who uses a radiant palette to create her colourful and stylized paintings. Her work is characterized by lively imaginative compositions with juxtapose arrangements of ideas, images, exaggerated perspectives and her strikingly effective use of colours. Her joyful, bright compositions all evoke in us a sense of happiness and a smile. Her paintings are guaranteed to brighten up your day.
Over the years, her colourful and illustrative style of painting has grown and become more creative, vibrant and distinct in style. Her work hangs in private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. She is currently working towards her next exhibition. |
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| virginia gascon |
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| Nick D. Vladulescu |
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| Vincenzo Lucio Mattaliano |
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| STEFANO FANARA |
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| Stefano Fanara born in Favara (AG), Italy 11-02-1963.
I was drawn to art as a child.
Began with painting, first with tempera, then acrylics, china, oils, and water base paintÂ…The techniques used were diverse as were the numerous mentors who imparted the most varied artistic and cultural experiences.
At the same time, there were many acquaintances with personalities in the field of art within the region of Sicily, of which several have become close friends.
In 1989, I transferred to Modena where I began my career as an elementary school teacher. Gifted at experimentation and applying new techniques in the fields of painting and photography, I also became interested in dance, meditation, and theatre.
In the past few years, this search for other means of expression has allowed me to work with noted personalities in the field of theatre and painting.
1995- 1996 – Cecar Brie – ARGENTINA – Theatre and Painting;
1996 – Alfonso Sant’ Agata – ITALY – Theatre;
1997 – Francis Pardeilhan – U.S.A. – Theatre and Painting;
1998 – Prashant – Italy – Painting;
1999 – Enrique Vargas – COLOMBIA – Theatre and Painting;
2005 - Jane Champion - Australia; Cinema.
2006 Fusako Yusaki – Japan; Cinema.
2006 Alan Parker -U.K.; Cinema.
2007 Giuseppe Tornatore;cinema.
Other works done contemporarily along with the experiences listed above as well as my work as teacher, and theatrical, photographic, and pictorial, experiences.
In April of 1999, I collaborated with Columbian director Enrique Vargas on a research project called “Memoria Del Vino O I Giochi di Dioniso†produced by Emilia Romagna Teatro. The process of the research has brought into realization of a new show that debuted in Bologna and global preview in June of 2000. The collaboration had facilitated the collaboration of the creation of the stage design.
In 1998, I collaborated with a group of colleagues in an experimental work based
On several meditative techniques that were transposed into the artistic field. The finalization of the work at the end of the year 2000 had inspired a book edited by the publishing house “Urra†and is titled “Meditazione e Arte†(Meditation and Art).
The project was initiated by an encounter with the American writers Wadut and Waduda, authors of the book “Alchemy and Transformation†also edited by Urra.
During the project, the press relative to the subject, Flash Art Italia, and the Italian television network, RAI 2, became interested by writing articles, reviews and broadcasting of T.V. programs.
The work, which continued until 2001, became a means of introspection in which the experience of the truth within and the expression of its beauty flowed together becoming a pulsation, a yin and yang, two wings for flight.
The meditation experience in the past few years has brought me in contact with the various levels of my inner being, and painting has allowed me to express these sensations directly.
The paintings during the years 1998- 2001 were the fruit of self- experimentation, exploration, inner transformation, healing, and reorganization of the softer inner levels.
The work on meditation before and the paintings after had provided a form of analysis of my inner being, an inner travel based on energy. The creative act was inspired by spontaneity of lines and signs. Work was based on the emission of energy, energy that flowed into a single track where every sign is that what it is.
I never tried to connect the lines of energy and signs all together, never trying plan or construct an imagine; I left them to accumulate sign on sign, shade on shade.
Within this process, I still continue in that mode of not planning, not defining; the objective is that of creating a process of which the action is not toward a beautiful art work but to create a contact between the hand and the energy of the Cosmo.
Allowing the energy to move means allowing the hand to move without any mental control, seeking the state of being of an empty channel, entering into a state of all that which is unknown, and having faith of the unknown; this is a key point to my paintings, having faith that something will happen without knowing how and without controlling anything. All the signs I leave freely often end up organizing themselves by themselves by way of unpredictable patterns which are newer, more beautiful, more interesting, more mysterious, than those usually planned.
With meditation, my sense of space and time have changed. From the exterior aspect of my paintings, one can intuit the present compressed in space and time.
The techniques of meditation experimented have distracted my sense of self from all that I had learned to be important and indispensable for survival. This conviction is becoming more and more a part of me, almost as if it were a certainty to last forever as a part of my wardrobe.
Observing my works that have taken me toward this change, the fruit of analysis on deeper levels, I seem to intuit a sense of mystery as if my curiosity has increased towards the things occult- mystery, hidden or obscure feelings. This curiosity has almost helped to remind me of who I am. It has been a stimulus for growth and expansion and has allowed me to begin to remember what is my true nature.
With the meditation experience, my paintings have changed 360 degrees. The temporal projection has changed. I feel as if now, more than ever, I am being projected into the present. All of this has allowed me to project myself into the present future, to expand myself, and to have a sense of anticipation for certain events. It seems that my paintings now are projected in more directions.
In the past, they were unidirectional. I asked for a response, and I threw myself only in one direction. I was reluctant to try other possibilities for the sake of pictorial coherence. In reality, I had no idea of all that was at my disposal.
Meditation has brought me towards the present, towards awareness of not knowing what the next moment will bring, regardless of the accuracy with which one can plan a work of art.
From the years 2001 till 2003, emerged a desire to search for a synthesis between painting and language. A necessity has now grown within to saturate entire surfaces. A certain necessity has evolved to explore, almost like a surgeon, the fragments of life and transport them in a vast way throughout my life. I have felt the necessity to abandon myself towards the instincts of my origins, in search of antique stencils, and the possible equilibrium between nature and reason.
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| Jean Cazals |
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| French freelance culinary <a href="http://www.food-photographer.eu" target="_blank">photographer</a> since 1995 based in his London studio & contributing for magazines worldwide .Shooting as well advertising and over 70 cookbooks with major restaurants and prestigious chefs. With a style that is a footprint of his pictures being graphic, moody with soft light and always with props matching a perfect food.
Jean is treating food more like a still life, an object. His love of food and travel did push him to play with that medium to any lenght. Jean is always on the look out for a new book project on various culinary themes. At the moment exploring urban landscsape with a painting like feel. Different from food but still a control graphic approach.
Previous to that he shot portraiture for 10 years of musicians, actors, media people architects etc... for the like of magazines and exibitions worldwide. His approach was very quirky, always putting people in the least possible situation.
'The time limit I had wasn't enough to pretend to show an emotion as strong as seing them accepting to go to the limit of their character within a short time. Each portrait commission was always in relation to an event in direct relation with the text or the request '
A two years period (1993-94) where he tackle commercials for TV. He did a BA(hons) in Visual Communication in London as well as studing art before that.
<a href="http://www.jeancazals.net" target="_blank">Jean Cazals</a> lives in London but was previously based in Paris and Geneva, as well as being travelling a lot. |
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| Alexey Moskvin |
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| Russian student/photographer in London |
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| JP Breakner |
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| Study Visual Communication. Ex-owner of the based in Brussels ArtGallery "Decouvertes". Work for advertising company |
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| Lilach Bar-Ami |
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| Born in Israel
Lives and work in Tel Aviv
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| MATTHEW SORRELL |
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| Art from glass
I have recently diversified to creating art glass, again undergoing a process of self learning to create truly unique pieces of art, which are functional in most cases if not beautifully decorative for your home.
John Matthews Glass, has created a series of plates, bowls, and a range of decorative table and hanging ware, all unique and handmade using the highest quality glass imported from America, or more simple items from recycled glass. Each glass piece possesses natural bubbles and flaws only created through the handmade process. Also each piece comes with the unique mark of a John Matthews product.
Creating glass art is a very long and slow process – each piece is derived from carefully cutting and placing shapes of glass, with a basis of two separate lengths of glass, which are fused together over a 24hr period. If tableware is being produced then the ‘fused’ piece is placed over a mould to ‘slump’ into a desired shape; a bowl, plate or candle stick holder etc. This ‘slumping’ process takes another 24hrs until the item can be washed and engraved for a more personalised touch.
The pictorial art work was inspired by beach-huts, sailing boats and Kandinsky, but my work continually develops and is inspired by what I see and what I can experiment with, a lot of the time I don’t have a fixed idea of what I will create, and of course each piece will behave differently in the kiln.
With a John Matthews Glass piece, you will truly have not only an original piece of art, but also a highly innovative one.
For more information, or to commission a piece please contact me via email johnmatthewsart@btinternet.com
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| yacov gabay |
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| Preston Brooks |
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| massimo macrelli |
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| Kevin Robertson |
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| Kevin Robertson was born in Norseman, Western Australia in 1964. He studied painting at the Western Australian Institute of Technology (Curtin University ) graduating with a B.A. in 1984 and was also awarded a Master of Arts from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales in 1992. He has had five solo exhibitions at Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth and participated in numerous group exhibitions including: Field of Vision: New York, the lab gallery, New York, 2004, Clouded Over, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, W.A. 2004, Down in Splendour, Gallery 460, Gosford, NSW, 2000, A Face in the Crowd, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT, 1997 and Oddfellows, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, WA. 1996. MIx Tape 2, The Art Gallery of W.A. 2005-6, His work is represented in many public and private collections including Artbank, The Australian National Museum and Edith Cowan University. Kevin currently works part-time as a Collection Assistant for the Kerry Stokes Collection in Perth. |
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| Dean Haeusler |
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| Dean works professionally as a pen & ink sketch artist. He has worked solely with the pen and ink medium for 20 years, in that time Dean has worked as an artist in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, New South Wales and Western Australia. Dean Haeusler has now made his home in Kalangadoo in the South East of South Australia. From this location he does "commissioned artwork" from anywhere in Australia, and worldwide, having sold "commissioned artwork" into Britain and America. His work is also available through various outlets around Australia. |
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| Ines Ibanez-Tallon |
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| Mike O'Neill |
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| Jonathan Delachaux |
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| -Né à Môtiers (NE) en 1976
-Dès 1994: Producteur de trois musiciens imaginaires : Vassili, Johan & Naïma
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| Miles Baker |
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| Tabitha Borges |
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| Tabitha L. Borges Fine Art Photographer and Freehand Artist/Painter
Was born in Munich, Germany and raised in the USA. Ms. Borges biggest influence as a Photographer/artist is her recently deceased grandfather, professional photographer Robert Thompson;. Because of his encouragement, Ms. Borges has enthusiastically pursued drawing, painting, and photography. Tabitha has exhibited internationally, most recently at the 2005 Florence Biennale. As a teacher of mine once saidâ€ÂÂÂIf you don't love what you do, DON'T!
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| Gregg Anston-Race |
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| Dion Salvador Lloyd |
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| Throughout his career Dion Salvador Lloyd has dealt with the immensely difficult task of rendering nature to canvas using oils. Lloyds early works grappled with the sky as the predominant subject, painted over and over again in search of the ultimate painting of clouds and sky. In his more recent contemporary works, the ultimate is still sought and reached for, Lloyd wants us to enter into the spaces he creates, to bring ourselves and our own imagination to define what is land, sea or sky.
Lloyds focus is on creating atmosphere, every mark made is deliberate, intentional and considered in the closest detail. There are no accidents here, if there are, Lloyd only leaves them if he feels they bring something new to the piece. He has an unending respect for the medium itself, squirting colours, making them move, willing them into life on the surface of the canvas, the colours working some days, stubbornly refusing to move the next.
Working in layers, building up the texture and depth, leaving certain parts visible, covering over others, building up the layers of paint and colour. Working the canvas for days if not weeks at a time, seeking to create an earthy weather-beaten feel, that refers us again to nature and the source of his inspiration.
Lloyd never tires of the task he has set himself, working consistently every day of the week, driven by the belief that the purpose of his life is to leave something behind, something that is good and beautiful. When you ask Lloyd what his intentions are with his work, he replies, I want to make work people can fall into. In both his contemporary and abstract works this desire is certainly fulfilled.
These large canvases hold the viewer, demanding attention, immediately our imagination is called upon, with no clear cut clouds or forms to ground us in the real, we do indeed fall into the piece, everything recognisable is removed, leaving only the colour, trace and mood of the landscape, our own perception the only guide with which to decide if we are looking at sky, land or sea. For one person this painting is a wave on a shore, for another salt-flats and distant mountains.
There are no right answers anymore, Lloyd is no longer seeking them, instead he reaches now for the gut-feeling in himself and in the viewer that occurs when we feel emotionally moved. There is a comfortable familiarity here, a sense of the known and at the same time the sublime and the unknown. We know we have not been here before. or have we?
Lloyds works are dreamscapes of the soul, his quest the same now as it was when he began, a constant search for the light and an ambition, often realised, to encompass the free and eternal expansiveness of nature and the human heart.
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| Julia Parkinson |
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| Having graduated from Massey University, College of Fine Art and Design in 1996 in New Zealand, Julia Parkinson is a practising artist living and working in London. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in New Zealand and Britain. She is currently exhibiting with Rebecca Hossack in London. |
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| Tina Davies |
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| Tina trained as a potter in the Lake District, England and then Antigua in the Caribbean. She then continued her studies for two years in Art and Design back in England. Finally she completed a Ceramics degree in Cardiff, Wales. During her degree Tina’s interests became directed towards nature where she painted the human figure and floral subjects onto clay. This is also where she discovered her passion for painting with her hands. Tina then helped to create and run an art gallery for four years in Brighton, England, where she curated exhibitions for the Applied Arts. In 2001 Tina began painting and working with clay again. Her love of nature surrounds her and she has found a way to express life through her work….
“The core of my work comes from freedom. I am inspired by the synergy of nature, the play of energies in the process of creation. I work from the heart wishing to achieve ‘no mind’. I am passionate to create and often move around diverse materials, oils, ink, clay, stone therefore forming no patterns, no rules. I paint with my hands creating a closer relationship to the subject and medium allowing myself to flow with the experience of the process itself.â€ÂÂÂ
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| carlos garcia |
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| Erik Pfeiffer |
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| Jahrgang 1982
Studium an der Hochschule fuer Gestaltung
Offenbach seit okt2002
aug05 Praktikum bei d.k.d. internet services
okt05 Praktikum bei Friedrich Ernst von Garnier
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| Boris Koodrin |
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| Boris Koodrin is a Bay Area artist who enjoys exploring the line that separates the ordinary from the extraordinary, and the world around him from the dream-like visions that live within him. His surreal paintings are an exploration of natural beauty, human consciousness, and the place where the two intersect.
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A self-educated artist, screen printer, and sand carver, Boris began painting as a child under the instruction of his grandmother, who encouraged him to look closely at things. He was raised near San Francisco's storied Cliff House, the rows of mummies that stood guard above the aging Sutro Skating Rink, and The City's version of Coney Island, Playland at the Beach. Those surreal relics from the past left their mark on him by igniting a fascination with the human psyche.
The desire to get beyond the surface of things has led Boris through a number of disciplines -- from Eastern and Western mysticism to the skilled art of Apache tracking. He recently has served as director of the Vision Youthz non-profit program at San Francisco's Log Cabin Ranch where he helped design a program for male juvenile offenders that focuses on nature, self-awareness, and rites of passage.
Boris studied Advertising Art at City College of San Francisco. After graduating in 1970 he worked as a freelance political cartoonist for Zenger's at S.F. State, took on commissions as a portrait and landscape artist, and dabbled in set design.
In 1975 he co-founded a commercial t-shirt company and today he still owns and operates The Image Company in San Bruno, CA. Having worked as an artist and printer since 1970, he has developed many creative and technical skills -- from printing the multi-colored logo on the telephones used at the 1996 Democratic Convention, to a sand carved portrait of Joe Montana on one of his MVP awards. Boris has also worked with Eileen Borgeson of Medici Arts in the translation of the John Lennon, Maxfield Parrish, and Erte' collections to deep crystal carvings.
In 2005 he completed a historical 40-foot mural commemorating 150 years of Jesuit education at St. Ignatius College Prep in San Francisco. Today Boris Koodrin is exploring the art of interior doors and where they can take us (home.earthlink.net/~artika).
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| My name Is Clinton Meister. I'm an aspiring artist out of Philly/Bucks county area. My main subjects of art are Monster and children, Vultures, Old Timey style toons, Hell.. All of these things are just so damn fascinating and sometimes funny to me. If I don't laugh when I'm done a piece, then I'm not happy... |
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"How things get together"
Starting point concerning my work is the sensory perception. The daily astonishment, experiences in the direct surroundings inspire, even "force" me to report small and bigger occurrences. While I walk I observe, collect materials, objects and sounds, draw, translate and play with their meanings. The results are concrete or more associative images. Megen and the river Maas give me the first source of information. In my paintings I search for tranparation, light and space.
disciplines: drawing, painting and monumental arts
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| Hipolito Resto Arte |
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| En la Ciudad Autonoma de Buenos Aires, en la calle Sarmiento 948, adosada a una de las columnas de granito que sostiene el actual edificio de catorce pisos, se encuentra una placa de bronce que dice:
"En este sitio el 03 de Julio de 1933 murio Don Hipolito Yrigoyen..."
Asi nacio Hipolito Resto & Arte, inaugurado el 10 de Septiembre de 2001, en homenaje a ese ex-presidente que vivio los ultimos anos de su vida, alquilando una habitacion en aquel conventillo que ocupara este, nuestro lugar.
Con una propuesta gastronomica diferente, que a traves de los anos se fue afianzando en la zona, Hipolito Resto & Arte es sinonimo, hoy en dia, del buen cafe y buena comida.
Ademas, como valor agregado a esto, en su Salon, Ud. gozara de las mas variadas Exposiciones de Arte de reconocidos artistas plasticos contemporaneos, cumpliendo de esta manera con nuestro objetivo de llevar "el Arte a la vida cotidiana".
Al promediar los seis meses de nuestro lanzamiento de difusion de Arte, se logra un acuerdo con el Sr. Joan Luis Montane, de la Asociacion Internacional de Cri­ticos de Arte, por medio del cual nos remite un escrito especificamente realizado para cada artista que expone, describiendo y profundizando su obra, el cual respalda nuestra labor de difusion, el mismo no solo es publicitado sino tambien entregado al artista. Al mismo tiempo, la artista plastica multidisciplinar espanola Francisca Blazquez, creadora del Dimensionalismo, nos concede difundir su obra en nuestra Web, iniciando de esta manera nuestra insercion internacional en la difusion de Arte.
Por otra parte, luego de nuestro primer ano de exposiciones, lanzamos el Circuito Resto & Arte, el cual es la conjuncion de un grupo selecto de restaurantes que tienen como proposito difundir el arte y la cultura en un entorno apacible y relajado que incite a la observacion, a la reflexion y al disfrute, acercando, de esta manera el arte a todos sus clientes y visitantes, estimulando su sensibilidad por el entorno a traves de un espacio donde conviven e interactuan las obras en exposicion.
A su vez, los artista plasticos, cuentan con la posibilidad de exponer sus obras en los diferentes espacios ubicados en puntos estrategicos de nuestra gran ciudad, logrando de esta manera una exposicion dinamica en tiempo y espacio, abarcando diferentes ambitos geograficos, como asi tambien un publico variado, logrando que sus obras sean disfrutadas por mayor cantidad de personas que en una muestra convencional, con el objetivo final de utilizar estos espacios, que concurrimos asiduamente, para que el arte sea el que se acerque a nosotros.
Es por esto que podemos decir que Circuito Resto & Arte desarrolla una nueva manera y un nuevo estilo de transmitir el arte.
Hoy con un total de mas de veinte exposiciones y mas de veinte obras vendidas Hipolito Resto & Arte es simbolo de difusion de nuestro arte, no solo en su espacio de la city portena, sino tambien en innumerables espacios de la Web, en los cuales se inserta no solo la obra sino tambien el curri­culum y las ciiticas de la misma.
En el ano 2007 se incluyen exposiciones de artistas internacionales, como asi tambien de renombrados artistas argentinos, afianzandonos cada vez mas como espacio alternativo de difusion, que es nada menos, nuestra idea original.
Jorge Vera / Fernando Magnalardo
Directores de Hipolito Resto & Arte
Directores de Circuito Resto & Arte
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| domenica comfort |
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| born in italy. studied photography at ICP (ny) and SVA (ny).. BA in literature from NYU. |
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| Miguel Vroomen |
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| Robert Hammond |
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| Born in Fulton County, GA, reared in Atlanta, GA., edcation shown below, I married Doris Tuggle of Lilburn, GA. My primary adult employment was with the United States Postal Service (35) years, retiring in 1992.
My wife of 51 years, Doris, and I live in Cumming, GA. We have lived in Bristol, TN, Germantown, MD., and wintered part years 1996-2004) in Clearwater, FL |
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| Bonnie Portelance |
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| Pat Stanley |
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| Pat was born in Ottawa and currently lives in Cobourg, Ontario. She studied drawing and painting in Montreal at the School of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, at McGill University, and at Concordia University School of Art, as well as at Toronto’s Three Schools of Art and Toronto School of Art. She has exhibited her work in both group and solo shows, including the Art Gallery of Northumberland’s 28th, 29th, and 31st Annual Juried Exhibitions, and the Advanced Individual Studies shows at the Haliburton School of the Arts during 2008. Pat’s works are in private collections in Canada and the United States |
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| paulo ferreira |
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Paulo Ferreira was born June 7th 1963 in the city if Fortaleza, state of Ceará - one of the most beautiful coastlines of northeast Brasil.
Educated in a military environment from early age, he had the opportunity to travel throughout his home land.
Unconsciously he created a massive appetite for different habits, customs and cultures and as teenager he realised how privileged and grateful he was to be able to experience so much.From childhood to adult life he did the usual things: go to school; finish university - but doing so only to please his family.
When he was 23 he decided to make sense of his life and his place in the world. This would be the most difficult decision he would make in his life. Again all odds he started to travel all over South America, visiting Chile, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay. Survival was a priority. To maintain himself on a daily basis he started to produce arts and crafts. And he started to paint. This is when the magic started. He saw how amazing mother nature is and how much she has to offer in terms of beauty, colour and texture. He felt he was on a mission, and he had to share his vision with everyone. He took a plane and flew to Europe; London.
He arrived in London without being able to speak English - a difficult but rewarding experience. For the first time in his life he felt disabled. He felt the necessity to communicate, but he wasn't able to. Again drawings and paintings became his means of communication and survival. He had the opportunity to meet the most amazing human being: his best friend ever: Janet. Again, his life took another magnificent turn.
Traveling around Europe, meeting people, absorbing beauty, colour, cultures, enhancing his appetite even more. After twelve years, living in London, almost by accident, he discovered The Netherlands . He decided, quite instantaneously, to move there. Place where he also met his partner for life.
I would like to say thanks to everyone which in one way or another helped me to be where I am today!!!"
Holland has been a great experience: Open to new ways of existing. A very special thanks to AnnaBert from Kunst and Kunst(Eindhoven) for open the very first door here in Holland a very special thank you!!, Peter from Galery Contempo (Eindhoven) for giving me the opportunity to develop my work.
Paulo Ferreira!!
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| JEWEL COUTURE LLC
President, Jewelry Designer, 2003-present
Featuring The Precious Briolette Collection of high-end necklaces of precious gem briolettes, high-karat gold and platinum. Cutting-edge design, creating waves of excitement from Manhattan to Palm Beach, Southern CA to London, at top echelon galleries and stores. Worn by A-list Hollywood celebrities. Member American Gem Trade Association (AGTA).
REPRESENTATION
Represented by the following fine galleries and stores:
Ancient Creations, The Venetian, Las Vegas, NV
Bellagio Art to Wear Gallery, Asheville, NC
Carlton Gallery, Foscoe, NC
Christensen Heller Gallery, Oakland, CA
Crest Jewel, Fairfield, IA
David Stern Designing Jewelers, Boca Raton, FL
Elysium, Forum Shops at Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV
Gallery 9, Foscoe, NC
Gary P. Mann Design, Goldsmith & Gemologist, Manayunk PA
Greene and Greene Gallery, Lambertville, NJ
Hardin Fine Jewelry, Banner Elk, NC
John Fish Jewelers, Las Vegas NV
Langman Gallery, next to Bloomingdale’s, Willow Grove, PA
Mon Amie, Laguna Beach, CA
Twisted Tree Gallery, Hickory, NC
Wallace Fine Art, Longboat Key, FL
RECENT SHOWS
THE TWISTED TREE GALLERY, HICKORY, NC, FEB. 2007
WALLACE FINE ARTS GALLERY, LONGBOAT KEY, FL, JAN. 2007
CARLTON GALLERY, FOSCOE, NC, NOV. 26, 2006
THE TWISTED TREE GALLERY, HICKORY, NC, NOV.30, 2006
JOHN FISH JEWELERS, LAS VEGAS, NV., DEC. 4-6, 2006
GREENE AND GREENE GALLERY, LAMBERTVILLE NJ, DEC. 16-17, 2006
Linville Ridge Country Club, Linville NC, August 2006, thousands of dollars sales
Avery Arts Council Auction Gala Event at Linville Ridge, NC, "Blue Heaven" necklace was featured Raffle piece, raising over $4000 in ticket sales, and generating waves of publicity in local press, including television coverage
Carlton Gallery, Foscoe NC, August 2006
Wallace Fine Art, Longboat Key, FL, February 9-11, 2006 Trunk Show with advance publicity and special invitations, highly successful, multiple thousands-of-dollars sales
Greene and Greene Gallery, Lambertville NJ 08530, December, 2005,with advance publicity and advertising, article in Lambertville Beacon, sold several thousands-of-dollars pieces
John Fish Jewelers, Las Vegas NV, November 25-26, 2005. Three day Trunk Show, advertising in Las Vegas Review Journal (the major NV newspaper)
Crest Jewel, Fairfield IA. November 18-23, 2005, week-long shows with major advertising, articles and publicity, including articles and ads in four newspapers, state-wide publicity
Langman Gallery, next to Bloomingdale's, Philadelphia, Art Jewelry 2005 Holiday Show
Linville Ridge NC Ladies’ Luncheon, August 12, 2005, $1000 a plate event,
Gallery 9, Foscoe NC, July 2003, sold several thousands-of-dollars pieces
Linville Ridge NC Ladies’ Luncheon, August 2004, $9000 piece sold
Gallery 9, Foscoe NC, July 9-August 16, 2005, also July 2004 Substantial advance press, publicity and advertising, sold several thousands-of-dollar pieces
Twisted Tree Gallery, Hickory, NC, Trunk Shows Nov. 2006, February 2007
EXPERIENCE
Gem Broker and Jewelry Designer, 1982-present. Procuring unusual, high-end gems directly from India, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Columbia, Thailand, etc
Philosophy Professor, Millersville University, PA, 1972-82, Aesthetics
EDUCATION
Studied metalsmithing at various art schools, including Penland School of Crafts (NC), Appalachian State University (NC)
PhD, Aesthetics, U. of Chicago, 1975
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| Robert S. Mirek
Born 1957 – Detroit, Michigan
2007
Artist Space – New York, New York
Sarah Bowen Gallery – The Submissions Sow – New York, New York
2006
Saatchi Gallery – Online Gallery – London, UK
Neal Davis Gallery – Small Works Exhibit – Royal Oak, Michigan
CCS at 100 – Faculty Now! – College for Creative Studies – Detroit, Michigan
Neal Davis Gallery – Black and White Show – Royal Oak, Michigan
Woods Gallery – New Works on Paper and other series by Robert Mirek – Huntington Woods, Michigan
Synergy Gallery – Kowalski + Mirek – Berkley, Michigan
Arnold Klein Gallery – TEXT group exhibition – Royal Oak, Michigan
2005
Detroit Artists MARKET – Members Invitational 2005 Biennial – Detroit, Michigan
MOTT COMMUNITY COLLEGE – Fine Arts Gallery – Recent Work by Robert Mirek – Flint, Michigan
Designhaus – Work by Robert Mirek – Rochester, Michigan
Sync 2005 – Duderstadt Center – University of Michigan
Saginaw Art Museum – 2nd Michigan Invitational – Architecture
TOTEM – 3 artist from 3 continents – Buggiano Castello, Italy
2004
Gallery 128 - JUGALBANDI – Group Exhibition – Work from the Upanishad Series – New York, New York
Arnold Klein Gallery – NUMBERS – Group Exhibition – Royal Oak, Michigan
2003
Michigan Guild Gallery - SELECTIONS 2003 – Ann Arbor, Michigan
Cass Cafe Gallery, - SELECTIONS 2003 – Detroit, Michigan
BOOKS, Group Exhibition - Arnold Klein Gallery – Royal Oak, Michigan
Deluxe Arts Gallery – London, England
V Salon Internacional de Arte Digital – Havana, Cuba
Caelum Galley, New Work from the Aluminum Series – New York, New York
Villa Forini Lippi – Group Exhibition – Montecatini Terme , Italy
aniGma-2003, Festival of Digital Imaging and Animation – Novosibirsk, Siberia
Chelsea River Gallery, - Float Drawings, Paintings and New Aluminum Work – Chelsea, Michigan
2002
Arnold Klein Gallery - Solo Exhibition – Royal Oak, Michigan
Sekanina Gallery - Estense Castle - "Magica" Group Exhibition – Ferrara, Italy
Cass Cafe Gallery -Group Exhibition: 6 @ Cass Café – Detroit, Michigan
Tengri Umai - International Arts Festival – Almaty, Kazakhstan
Paint Creek Center for the Arts - 20 Years at PCCA – Rochester, Michigan
Paint Creek Center for the Arts - Painting as an Abstraction - Juried Exhibition – Rochester, Michigan
immedia 2002 – Ann Arbor , Michigan
Gallery LeVall - Novosibirsk, Siberia - Russian Federation Exhibition Tour: Kaliningrad: VII International Graphics Biennial, Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Novosibirsk: Gallery LeVall - Solo Exhibition, Moscow: M'ARS Gallery, St. Petersburg: Gallery LeVall Collaboration
2001
Museum of New Art (Mona)- DOCUMENTA-USA – Detroit, Michigan
Arnold Klein Gallery - Earth Group Show – Royal Oak, Michigan
Paint Creek Center for the Arts- Made in Michigan Invitational – Rochester, Michigan
TRIAD Gallery – Upanishad Series, Float Drawings & Recent Paintings – Seal Rock,Oregon
2000
Museum of Contemporary Art /Detroit Institute of Arts - DOCUMENTA USA 2000 – Detroit, Michigan
Detroit Contemporary Gallery - Actual Size Exhibition – Detroit, Michigan
GALLERY B.A.I. - Solo Exhibition – Barcelona, Spain
Arnold Klein Gallery - Red/Desert Exhibition – Royal Oak, Michigan
CAELUM Gallery - International Group Exhibition – New York, New York
OPEN STUDIOS - Group Exhibition – Bielefeld, Germany
Galerie GORA - Solo Exhibition – Montreal, Canada
1999
Ward-Nasse Gallery - 178 Prince Street – New York, New York
World Fine Art Gallery - 443 Broadway, 4th Floor – New York, New York
Arnold Klein Gallery - In Honor of Water - Exhibition – Royal Oak, Michigan
Galerie BLU - Group Exhibition – Pontiac, Michigan
Nicolet College - National Juried Competition – Rhinelander, Wisconsin
Nexus Gallery - Third Annual National Juried Competition: 345 East 12th St. – New York, New York
Galerie BLU - Febbo, Mirek, Newbill Exhibition – Pontiac, Michigan
Arnold Klein Gallery - A Tribute To Time - Group Exhibition – Royal Oak, Michigan
Lindenberg Gallery - End of the Millenium Group Show – New York, New York
Biennale Internazionale dell' Arte Contemporanea – Florence, Italy
The Art Gallery a Casa di Giorgio - Solo Exhibition – Massa e Cozzile, Italy
Orensanz Foundation Center for the Arts - Americans from the Florence Biennale – New York, New York
1996
The Gallery at Marygrove- INVENTIONS – Detroit, Michigan
1995
Arnold Klein Gallery - about BOOKS – Royal Oak, Michigan
1985
CADE Gallery - NEO TROIT- a group exhibition – Royal Oak, Michigan
Detroit Institute of Arts - On-Going works exhibition – Detroit, Michigan
1982
Xochipilli Gallery - Group Exhibition – Birmingham, Michigan
Detroit Artists Market - Group Exhibition – Detroit, Michigan
1981
Awful Truth Gallery - Pre-Institutional Art Exhibition – Detroit, Michigan
1978
Gallery 7 - Ideas/Works Exhibition – Detroit, Michigan
Detroit Focus Gallery - 3-Dimensions Exhibition – Detroit, Michigan
1977
Detroit Institute of Arts - Founders Gallery Exhibition – Detroit, Michigan
Detroit Artists Market - Group Exhibition – Detroit, Michigan
Gallery 7 - 7th Annual Group Exhibition – Detroit, Michigan
Gallery 7 - 8th Annual Group Exhibition – Detroit, Michigan
Corporate Installations
LOFTS322 – Ann Arbor, Michigan 2007
Metro Lofts – Royal Oak, Michigan 2004
Teaching
College for Creative Studies – Detroit, Michigan – Department of Digital Media and Animation – Adjunct Faculty since 2004 – Courses: Beginning Web Design, Advanced Web Design, Internet Basics, Web Portfolio
Lawrence Technological University – Southfield Michigan – College of Architecture and Design – Adjunct faculty since 2006 – Courses: Imaging Studio 1, New Media
Private Collections
Multiple private collections in the United States, Europe and the Russian Federation
Permanent Collections
Museum of New Art (MONA) - Detroit, Michigan
Museo del Tessile – Busto Arsizio, Italy
Contact Information
8104 West Nine Mile Road
Oak Park, Michigan 48237
Tel: 313.410.7322 Fax: 248.286.6154 www.robertmirek.com
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| Born in 1949 in Dijon (France), he escapes into another universe thanks to painting. Tunisia, where he lives 10 years, will give him an everlasting sensitiveness to lights, ochres, soils and sands.
Later, he will become a doctor and a musician, which will both nourish and contrast with his neosurrealism artistic universe. He starts exhibiting in the 1990s, collectively then personally |
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| Diana Delucia is Co-Owner and Photographer for New York Restaurant Insider Magazine and the upcoming New England Restaurant Insider Magazine.
Diana has been living and working in the USA since 2002. She has built up a solid reputation as a food and restaurant photographer with a passion for the white tablecloth/fine dining industry.
Diana has worked with many of New York's finest chefs over the last 3 years with New York Restaurant Insider Magazine and Chef/Restaurants clients.
Diana also specializes in Corporate Portraits and has photographed many of New York's Attorneys and Lawyers.
Other areas of interest are Architecture and Fashion Photography.
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