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Special Features
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Cover Story: Lyubov Muravyeva
Lyubov Muravyeva, painter and sculptor, focuses on the
female body, though without directly enhancing the physical beauty – it lacks the delay on the perfection of features
– to convey emotions and romantic entanglements.
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Lyubov Muravyeva, Mirage of a Gone City, Stoneware, 70 inch, St Louis, MO
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Lyubov Muravyeva
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Featured
Artist Profile
Artist
Lyubov Muravyeva
Lyubov Muravyeva, painter and sculptor,
focuses on the female body, though without
directly enhancing the physical beauty
– it lacks the delay on the perfection of
features – to convey emotions and romantic
entanglements.
In her artwork, the woman figure is
proposed, in its many facets, as a primal
source of life, as a sensual and a fertile being,
as a divine creature that becomes mother
and companion, a sinuous body that is also a
protective shelter or a nutrient source.
The chosen icon, portrayed in different
situations and meanings, leads the viewer to
reflect deeply on the experience of life itself:
the chosen subjects of the sculptor are the
essence of life; the attention she gives to the
different female shapes and functions makes
us reflect on the miracle of creation and the
inherent strength of the female.
Experiencing the different medium of
expression, the artist may sway among the
different feelings that arise from the research
of her own identity and function.
The sensuality of the protagonists
is treated as natural, spontaneous and
always confidential, deep inside there is
always a mischievous innocence that turns a
regenerative power, in a way to be congenital
and not in a studied, unnatural attitude.
Courage and feelings are amplified
in certain gestures and specific sculptural
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Alone At Night, 22x28, Oil on canvas
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Artist Profile
Featured
Artist continued
representations, while a better communication
is achieved when the artist dedicates to public
installations. In large scale, the figure retains a certain
passion and lightness thank to its thinness and to the
delicate colors placed on the white clay, that covers
the material, but despite these features, she appears
as a point from which power propagates: in “Save
the world from nuclear winter” is presented as saving
power and support, in “Together through the flame”
she faces a dangerous test, while in “Spring” she
embodies all the regenerating energy of nature.
In her small sculptures, as in her paintings and
drawings, the artist focuses on the most intimate,
less choral and universal aspects: the female body is
often engaged in liberating actions, arms protected
or open to the sky, intent to dance or stand out flight
in a figurative or metaphorical action. Artworks
such as “Exercise with ribbon” and “In the wind” or
“Butterfly” exemplify both that freedom that women
in the third millennium have achieved in current
society and the female ability, to be reborn from the
ashes and return to live.
These modern semi goddesses aren’t surprised
in front of danger, they calmly face risks. They do
not smash down for the physical or psychological
suffering but above all, they openly face suffering
and danger. Let’s consider them natural female
predispositions, but specially the new awareness of
contemporary heroines.
My Art Philosophy
Spring, ceramic with enamel, 18’H, Vinogradar Living Area, Kiev, Ukraine
Having my works widespread into different
techniques and genres, I always had actually one
main desire (goal) - to express the human emotions.
Human emotions, once born, never disappear. They
are adding a quality of Humanity to the Universe.
This is an essence of my composition – “Spirit”
Composition, improvised for the space becomes
a tuning fork and may add some feeling through
time of its existence. The ever changeable light (sun –
clouds) add 4-th dimension – changes the expression
– feeling in time.
My public works for the Kiev “Vinogradar”
area (in collaboration with architect E. A. Bilskiy)
are aimed on the Synthesis of fine arts and the real
architectural space. It seems that combining different
means of fine arts is possible to create an impression
as music does. It was done for those who are going
through, living in this environment. The purpose was
to add emotional sounding, a little bit of lyrics in an
inhabitancy – to humanize the industrial city locality.
Summer Day, Ceramic, enamel 17’H, Vinogradar Living Area, Kiev, Ukraine.
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Here are the examples of how
I approached this task in my
installations.
“The Spring”: in this composition forms
freely reaching upwards resembling the treetops of a
forest. The eye follows the effortlessly moving shapes
brining the joyful feeling of growth, springing up;
Spring (media – stoneware, enamels).
“The Summer Day”: Here the sense of a soft
summer day is created by the color spots and how
they relate to each other. This was done with the
intent to invoke a peaceful, gracious state of mind
(media – stoneware, enamels).
“Together Through the Flame”: The young
girl and a horse (human and nature) are running
together towards the fire. This fire symbolizes the
grave danger that awaits our world if people don’t
start paying attention to their habitat. Moving clouds
are bringing an effect of the flying composition,
helping the viewer to believe that the obstacle
(this flame threatening to engulf the Earth) can be
overcome. (media – copper sheet with enamel)
Soul of the Stone, Granite, 155 x 250 x 60 cm, Andres Institute
of Art, Brookline, NH
“Soul of the Stone”– the Petrifying Soul, the
Hardened Soul. The viewer sees a granite figure as a
cloud among clouds on a background of the faraway
hills, as soul above the world – empathizing with the
Earth, the People of the Earth.
My credo in the sculpture – more time confined
in by more tightened, more compressed form prolonging sound of the form, longer retains in
attention of a spectator.
Together through the Flame, Copper sheets and fired enamel, 21’H, outside Public Center, Kiev, Ukraine.
The porcelain “Bird” (see Small Sculpture
section at my website) is my signature work in
sculpture. The same are the composition “Forever”
(stoneware, enamels) and composition “Spring
Motive” (iron wood) – see on my web site in section
Sculpture.
One of my signature painting is
“Reminiscences” – we see a different time recollected
by the main actor of the play in different spaces,
places, and exactly were He sees it and so we are.
Bird, porcelain, 3” x 5” x 3”
The Abstractions: in my case it would be a line
full of developing feelings, as in “South Night”
(ink, pastels).
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Forever, stoneware, 12”x12”x12”
Spring Motive, Ironwood,
72”x24”x12”
Spirit, 47x12x12inch,
Wood, oil paint
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Pain, 22x28, Oil on canvas
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
• “ New Work by Luba ( Lyubov Muravyeva)”,
Millstone Fine Arts Gallery, 2002, St. Louis, MO
• “Lyubov Muravyeva: Sculpture (wood, ceramic,
and bronze)”. Millstone Fine Arts Gallery, 2000,
St. Louis, MO
• “Dedication”, Martin Schweig Gallery, 1996,
St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• “From A Distance”, Saint Louis Design Center,
1995 , St. Louis, Missouri, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Space of Souls, 30x40 inch, Oil on canvas
Humans, 9x12 inch, Pastel on paper
• International Biennale Artists Show, Gallery Gora,
June14th – July 2nd, 2011, Montreal, Canada
• U.S. Arts Biennial, Broadway Gallery NYC,
September 16-30,2010. New York, NY
• Biennale Internazionale Dell’Arte Contemporanea
of Florence, 7th edition, December 5-13, 2009,
Florence, Italy
• “Human Figure Exhibition”, Long Beach Arts, 2006,
Long Beach, CA
• “Connections and Bridges. Ukraine and Ukraine Connected American Artists” Killian Gallery, Sharon
Arts Center, 1997, NH, U.S.A.
• “Realist Approach”,1997, Agora Gallery, Soho, New
Troubled dream of the Earth, 17x13.5,
pastel on paper
Woman Figure 1, 22x18, mixed media on paper
CATALOGES & ARTICLES
• “Lyubov Muravyeva - Contemporary Heroins” by
Flora Rovigo, Art Historian and Art Critic, in Lyubov
Muravyeva: Eroine Contemporanee / Contemporary
Heroins, Biennale Artists Series Florence, Italy, 2010.
• “European Flavor , Diversity Produces A Compelling
Program”, by Robert W. Duffy, St. Louis PostDispatch, St. Louis, Oct.,1995
• “On monumental sculpture art: Theory and
experience,” by M.Yablonskaya, magazine Soviet
Sculpture, v10, Moscow, 1986
• “Space for relaxation” magazine Decorative Art of
the USSR, Moscow, v9, 1985
After the Rain, 17x13, ink and pastel on paper
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Featured Artist
PHYLLIS
GILLIE
JAFFE
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Phyllis Gillie Jaffe
Abstracts Inspired by Nature
Artist Statement
Biography
Growing up in the flat, farmland of central Indiana, I saw horizontal
bands of color, bright, subdued, in every imaginable range of yellow,
red, green and blue. The abstract patterns that exist in nature where
everything is reduced to mass, shape, color, pattern and texture become
universal and symbolic. Those early experiences influence and reflect in
my artwork today.
The Maryland Eastern Shore produces its own seasonal color
palette, but the effect is equally exciting. My first visit to the Assateague
Seashore Dunes spawned aPhyllisn instant love affair; the unique
characteristics of these dunes and marshes express a new reality. Shaped
and reshaped every year by storms, sand, salt and wind, they have
retained their natural sense of wilderness. The struggle to live is almost
palpable.
My paintings capture this raw beauty, so visitors can see this treasure
through different eyes. A bit edgy, they express what I see and feel. The
dunes are rugged, unkempt and slightly wild. The ocean breeze seems
a bit nippier than that inland. I get few warm, fuzzy feelings from these
drifting waves of sand. Painted with a palette knife, detail of the subject is
sacrificed to mood; time and place every changing by the effect of light
falling on the subject. If I ever tire of trying to capture the character of
the dunes, the area is filled with graceful, meandering marshes to paint.
An earlier phase of my work is expressed in the design elements
of two other series. Viewing open-heart surgery, as well as my personal
health issues inspired the Heart Felt series. The Mythological and
Abstract series represents a transition of my work from two-dimensional
abstract, surface designs to impressions and interpretations of landscapes
that parallel my spirituality maturity.
After a full career in education, teaching art at levels ranging
from elementary school through university and then advancing in
administration as a fine arts college presidency, Dr. Jaffe responded to a
call to ordained ministry. The response took her in search of connecting
factors between art and spirituality.
After retirement from presidency of Kendall College of Art and
Design, Jaffe worked for many years as an international management
consultant to developing countries where she set up new women’s craft
programs and regional art centers. Her work took her to the Eastern
European countries, including two projects in Russia. Her longest
assignment out of the country was spent in Nepal and India.
Jaffe’s style developed through a series of transformations from
textile wall hangings to decorative symbolic images to landscape,
drawings and paintings. She has received recognition and awards in
the mid-west and east coast. Art remains her primary interest, where
she continues painting, concentrating on developing her Impressionist
style, and writing.
Her professional preparation is grounded in art and education
degrees from Ball State University BA, Michigan State University
MA, and Indiana University EdD and an Honorary Doctorate in Fine
Arts from Kendall College of Art and Design. Jaffe served as Hospital
Chaplaincy at the National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD and
Sibley Memorial Hospital and George Washington University Hospital,
Washington, DC. Throughout her professional career, she produced and
exhibited art at the local and national level. Friends, colleagues and a
few art museums own her work. Retired, she paints and writes, while
remaining active in regional arts organizations. She and her husband
divide their time between Washington, DC and Salisbury, MD. n
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SOLO SHOWS
Terryberry Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
All Soul’s Unitarian Church, Indianapolis, IN
Eye Opener Community Center, Cincinnati, OH
Art Institute & Gallery, Salisbury, MD
Holly Gallery, Maryland Federtation of Art,
Annapolis, MD
The Buttery, Lewes, DE
Jewish Community Center, Indianapolis, IN
GROUP SHOWS
Chasen Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
Gallery Luisa, Grand Rapids, MI 1
Women in Art ‘76, West Bend, IA
Stitchery ‘75, IA, Invitational
Herron Art Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
International Women’s Art Festival
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte,
NC Purchase Award
Niagra Swirl
Sloane O’Slickery Gallery, OH
Matrix Gallery, Bloomington, IN
Stitchery ‘71, PA, Invitational
Third Piedmont Show, NC Purchase Award
Witherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Lansing Community College, MI 1966
Art League of Ocean City, Ocean City, MD
Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
Race St. Gallery, Cambridge, MD
Gallery 213, Salisbury, MD
Rehoboth Art League, Rehoboth, DE
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Arts Administration Harvard University
New Presidents Workshop,
University of Wisconsin
Art League of Ocean City,
Honorable mention 2010
Art Institute and Gallery, Salisbury,
Third Place 2010
Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Kendall
College of Art & Design 1989
Leadership Michigan: State Chamber of
Commerce
Distinguished Woman of the Arts Award,
Michigan
Community Leader Award, Grand Rapids,
Chamber of Commerce
Stylemaker of the Year, Michigan
Cosmetologist Award
National Collection of Fine Arts Project HUD
Faculty Summer Fellowship, Indiana University
Down to the Shore
Faculty Summer Research Fellowship,
University of North Carolina
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MURRAY WEINSTEIN
lenn Zweygardt was born in St.
Francis, Kansas in 1943. His
parents were high plains farmers.
He earned a BFA from Wichita State
University in 1967 and a MFA in 1969 from
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Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. He
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Artist Statement
Sea Horsey
JAVIER
FINELLI
Guardian Trilogy
The interplay of
color and design and
the magical effects of
light and reflections
have always fascinated
me. I discovered photography 40 years ago Queen of Spades, Carnevale Venice 2009
and have been shooting ever since, simply because I enjoy the process, and the results
are good often enough to keep me hooked.
Over the years, I studied different photographic styles, took
a couple of classes from Leland Rice and learned from studying
the work of those I admired most, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams,
Ernest Haas and Eliot Porter.
My
work evolved with time and
Artist
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the influence of my friend and long-time photography partner,
Tom Howell, who unselfishly shared his knowledge as an accomplished artist and gifted photographer, and who constantly challenged me to improve. Many creative insights have come from
our dueling slideshows sustained with Cabernet or Chianti after
trips to Yosemite, Point Lobos, Bodie, Moro Bay, Death Valley,
The Wine Country, Florence, Venice and Rome.
To view a partial gallery of Mr. Griffin’s work, please visit his
My favorite artists include Italian Renaissance Masters,
website, www.studiogriffoto.com.
French Impressionists, Classical and Modern Artists. A partial
list includes Bernini, Caravaggio, Degas, Donatello, Michelangelo, O’Keefe, Rembrandt, Renoir, Rodin, Rothko, Titian, and
Van Gogh. My passions other than photography include travel,
music, history, movies and wine. I have been fortunate to travel
to many countries over the years, and I have tried to capture
interesting and varied images that reflect the unique characteristics of each one.
I have photographed many different subjects during the past
four decades with a single objective...a desire to depict the interplay of light, color, design and sometimes reflections to create
unique images of beauty. From the early days working in darkrooms smelling of acetic acid to the present using the immaculate
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technology of inkjet printers, my goal of making unique, artful
images has remained unchanged. While I learned to emphasize technical perfection, my goal is to create something beyond
“straight photography.” I am pleased when people view my work
and think it is something “more than photography.” n
ennis Griffin, a photographer for 40 years, is a native of
Southern California. Born and raised in Los Angeles,
Mr. Griffin graduated from UCLA with a Masters Degree
in Life Sciences, served as an Artillery Officer in Viet Nam, and had
a distinguished 32-year career in the Healthcare Industry before
founding Studio Griffoto in 2007 to market his fine art imagery.
His award winning work spans four decades and encompasses
nature and landscape photography, form photography, travel
photography and digital imaging. Mr. Griffin’s unique style and
eye for composition are clearly reflected throughout the broad
scope of his images captured in California and other parts of the
United States, as well as many countries in Europe.
Dennis Griffin’s award winning work is widely exhibited in the
Conejo Valley, California and is available as signed, archival inkjet
prints. The artist prints all pieces individually, which are then matted
using acid-free archival materials and framed under UV filtering
acrylic.
Mr. Griffin’s work may also be obtained as permanent prints
on high gloss aluminum.
Artist Statement
I
was born in Buenos Aires on August 5th in the 60s, since childhood
my parents instilled in me a sense of duty but also fostered with
games and rides creativity and love for beauty and harmony, they
had at home a collection of works of art, both in Paris where we lived five
years and then in Buenos Aires City. I began to appreciate artistic taste in
my paternal grandfather Rafael’s art gallery.
I graduated from UBA in mechanical engineering in 1988, I
designed many industrial robots, founded Fabrimática where I projected
and directed the construction of robotic packing end lines in major
consumer firms.
One day about 5 years ago I turned an old dream and went to learn
to paint with master Jose Luis Gomez Catoira, then with masters Sergio
Bazan and Juan Doffo. To myself plastic arts are a passion and really I
enjoy creating art, with strength and harmony using vivid colors while
I try to express the inner or outer movement of reality and imagination.
Movement is the key to my work. In my own view of the real or
imaginary imposes much to see, and to capture in my work movement.
The movement that consciously or unconsciously I see in even inanimate
objects. It is a movement that the external surrounding generates inside
me, so I “see” the motion and try to display it on canvas. Sometimes the
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orn to paint, the Austrian artist
Tanja Playner has been guided by
her creative environment. In youth
she was fascinated by the Pop art culture of
Andy Warhol, the philosophical fantasy world
of the surrealist Salvador Dali, the rich colors
of Gustav Klimt and the shapes and abstract
expressionism of Vassily Kandinsky. From
those early influences Tanja has carved out
her own quasi Pop style incorporating the life
of the city, nature and people who are always
in the center of what Tanja depicts.
work. Tanja sends a message of love, joy and
optimism through her work. Tanja Playner is
considered to day one of the great Pop Artists
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This bold language of art displays an
individuality and breadth of style that
speaks directly to a need for art that
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lasting impression. A carefully selected grouping of perspectives creates a
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Her works are unique and unmistakable!
Her collectors love her work, laugh along
side her as they view her work. Happiness is
her key. Tanja believes her art should bring
happiness and glee to those who view her
Her artworks are a combination of
various designs, interesting and colorful,
as a story is told. In her artworks, the artist
is always having fun, enjoying the city, the
people in it as well as the objects of the city
Having exhibited in more than twenty
countries, Tanja has brought joy through
her paintings to hundreds of thousands of
people. Called by the American author John
Pirillo, the new Andy Warhol, Tanja continues
to entertain through her work. A mixture of
Warhol and Picasso can describe her work.
– architecture, lifestyle, fashion, cars and
nature in order to add a glamorous game of
life as a message to her viewers.
Tanja’s work was also displayed at the
Museum of the Americas in Miami, FL, the
Latino Art Museum in Pomona, CA, and in
October at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris.
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Art is part of my life, it is
something that emerges,
it is a passion.
Born in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. For many
years I have drawn and painted. Being the last five years,
exclusively to painting on canvas dedication, experimenting
mainly acrylic and oil paint. Both brush, as with spatula.
I have participated in numerous exhibitions. Some
of my works were selected for Governmental Entities
organized by the Province of Córdoba exhibitions.
Also,participated in “2nd International Biennial
of Contemporary art of Argentina”
(October 2014)
“Spectrum Miami” -Midtown Miami
(Decembre 2014)
In Uruguay, Punta del Este City, in”Arte en el
Conrrad”, with the 50 Best Artist of Latin America
(January 2015)
And now , Art Expo New York and in “Le Carrousel
du Louvre”, at Paris in June 2015.” n
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Glenn Zweygardt
G
lenn Zweygardt was born in St.
Francis, Kansas in 1943. His
parents were high plains farmers.
He earned a BFA from Wichita State
University in 1967 and a MFA in 1969 from
the Rinehart School of Sculpture at Maryland
Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. He
taught sculpture at the New York College of
Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, NY for
38 years and became an Emeritus Professor
in 2007. He has exhibited widely and has
a regional, national and international
reputation. Glenn has had more than 50
solo exhibitions. His sculptures are in many
private, public, university and museum
collections.
At his Alfred Station studio, he and his
partner, Christine Ehmann, operate their
own bronze foundry. Glenn also lectures
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and does workshops on foundry practice for
younger sculptors.
He is a self-taught welder starting at
the age of ten on the family farm in Kansas.
He taught forging and fabrication for all
his teaching years. During his last years at
Alfred, he developed an induction furnace
and new stand- alone facility for the foundry
practice of casting high temperature metals,
including stainless steel.
Glenn earned two Chancellor’s awards
from SUNY for creative teaching and the
development of glass casting into metal
forms, which allows glass to be used in
outdoor settings. Cast glass is used to this
day in many of his sculpture.
The philanthropists Philip and Muriel
Berman of Allentown, PA gave Glenn’s
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We Get Higher By Working Together, 2011,
Acrylic on canvas 29.5 x 19.7”
early and mid-life career great support. The Bermans commissioned
and placed many of Zweygardt’s large metal and stone sculptures
throughout the higher education campuses in IN (Notre Dame,
South Bend, IN), PA and NY.
Glenn has also been invited to several international sculpture
symposiums, most notably the sculpture park in Guilin, China where
he created “Guilin Council”. In Stanstead, Canada he worked in
granite at one of the oldest quarries in North America. In 2012,
in the heel of Italy, he worked in local limestone, completing “Sky
Eater” for the local community.
Glenn and Christine currently live and work in their NY state
studio where they are very busy making and placing sculptures in
many national outdoor public competitions throughout cities and
parks in the United States.
The successful joining of numerous materials is part of
Zweygardt’s unique aesthetic development. Metals, stone and
glass comprise his palette. The imagery is often simple yet actively
engaging and bold. His knowledge of materials, his ability to work
in these materials and successfully combine them in a meaningful
composition enables him to engage an audience with a broad range
of interests. n
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AND ART CENTER
Left: Another Love Story, Oil on canvas, 36 x 48” Right: Northern Daydreamers, Oil canvas, 38 x 52”
Bottom: Beautiful girls and boys in a peacock cage, Oil canvas diptych, 48 x 72”
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Artist Profile
Augusto C. Bordelois
“… In strange way Augusto’s works operate in what I can only call a mythological level. They work like dream images, something that is significant. When you look at
them you know that they have meaning but you can’t necessarily place it. It doesn’t have a one to one relationship. This does not mean that. But it somehow resonates.
I don’t think that there is a person in the world that can look at these images and not find some connection with them. I think that this is the power of his work. It seems
to be very universal.
It is also very personal obviously. Augusto is the product of Cuban academic instruction. He is an academic painter in that sense. Now, when he takes the standard
version of the body and he adjusts the proportions ever so subtly, he unloads some kind of effect on these characters that he creates. He makes them slightly expanded and
they have more presence more heft, more meaning. In the tradition of Caribbean Magical Realism style, his work is full of visually obvious and also hidden symbols.”
Robert Thurmer, Cleveland State University Art Gallery Director
A
ugusto C. Bordelois (Havana, Cuba, 1969) graduated from the
University of Havana with a major in English Language and
Literature. He has also studied sculpture, ceramics, costume
design for theatre and cinema, classical drawing and painting. His visual artwork has been awarded much recognition in Cuba
as well as competitions in the United States. He has participated in
more than 120 national and international group shows and 27 solo
exhibitions. Some of his works are in corporate and private collections in
Cuba, the United States, Venezuela, Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Portugal,
Brazil, Ecuador, Japan, Greece, Germany, Chile, Switzerland, England
and Norway. Augusto’s literary works have been published in magazines such
as Kastello, and Hojas Literarias (Spain). He has also written and
illustrated short stories for children and created many public art pieces
across Ohio. He has been featured as a guest lecturer at Cleveland State
University and Baldwin Wallace University. Currently, he owns and directs Augusto Fine Art Studio and Art
Center in Berea, Ohio. n
For more information: www.AugustoFineArt.com • augusto@augustofineart.com
Caribbean Dream by Lake Erie, Oil on canvas, 60 x 96”
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LARRY FRANK
Top: Monsters and Rodents, Left, 2013, Oil on canvas, 30 x 48” | Bottom: Penang Market, Malaysia, 2014, Oil on canvas, 30 x 40”
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Artist Profile
Larry Frank
F
rom his childhood, Larry has been involved in the arts and
is a Modern Expressionist painter.
Larry works mostly in oil paint and sketches in acrylic
or pencil when traveling. His Expressionist Interpretive
Representational Style at times borders on the abstract with overtones
of the allegorical.
Inspired by images from daily life as well more exotic images
experienced as he travels. He is particularly interested in people,
portraits, food still life, landscape and historical fantasy. Color,
form, light and space relationships whether real or are integral and
defining in his work. He paints only what he is familiar with, loves or
things and events he experiences and thinks about most often.
As a former Graphics Arts Director turned black and white
photographer and now painter, images collect and file in his head
and intensify to emerge as he encounters situations or visual triggers.
Triggers can be quite ordinary or run to the extraordinary. He tends
to work on series over time which include self portrait, figurative
images, some with sexual overtones, location or story panorama,
food still life and most recently inspiration from travel in SE Asia and
unexpected surprising historical fantasy.
His favorite periods in western art are the Expressionists,
Impressionists, Medieval Art and from the East... Japanese, Indian
and Islamic art and calligraphy. His longest time favorites have been
and continues to be the Expressionists and Impressionists.
As his painting expands over time he struggled to find new
directions and visual freedom. For a while, he felt trapped in an
unsatisfying safe zone and subsequently enrolled in unique Art
Residences to break down barriers and catapult out of a false comfort
zone. This has proven to be a great decision as his work now emerges
and expands with more freedom of expression, freshness, singularity
and immediacy.
Larry’s artwork is collected and in permanent collections by
several individuals and has been shown in galleries and museums
around the globe. He was born in and currently resides in New York
City. He teaches Painting at The Educational Alliance. For a details,
please visit his website: www.LarryFrankPaintings.com. n
Larry painting in his studio; The Maine Polar Vortex, 2014,
Oil on Canvas, 48 x 60” in two panels
Mangrove Monkey, 2013, Oil on canvas, 16 x 20”
Fantasmagorical, 2013, Oil on canvas, 30 x 36”
Elephants with Handlers, Malaysia, 2013, Oil on canvas, 18 x 24”
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Artist Profile
Duygu Kivanc
D
oing art has
always been
my means
of communication
attribute my
participation with
the Art Students’
League in New York
to have influenced the
development of my
individual style. metropolitan area in 1980. I have participated
in several gallery exhibitions in my adoptive
home of Fairfax, Virginia and nearby McLean,
as well as several exhibitions in New York
City, including a group shows at the United
Nations Building. My paintings were well liked
in Thimpu, Bhutan, during my stay there for
three years I have received several Certificates
of Excellence; placements in juried shows; and
have also been included in the Encyclopedia
of Living Artists - Fourth Edition. With numerous artistic
workshops, I further
continued my studies
and when I later moved
to the Washington D.C.
My illustrative style...somewhat twodimensional, yet contouring enough to
provide my portraits with a degree of solidity.
My paintings are studies in composition,
design and controlled color as exemplified
by “The Question” and the oriental
woman in “Daydreams”. Rich reds and
browns contrast the pale, ashen faces. Although I have created many
portraits, abstract landscapes have
become another favorite subject to
exhibit my use of analogous and
complementary color. Many of my
paintings have rich, striking and bold
color, creating an exciting contrast,
while my floral are produced by washes
of pastel color applied in a delicate
technique. I have done a great deal of
traveling, often times influencing the
subject matter of my prolific collection
of oil or acrylic landscapes and
portraits.and Canada. n
Top: Daydreaming Series
Bottom: Butterfly 2
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Istinye/Istanbul
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Artist Profile
Farano
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CULTURE
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MURRAY WEINSTEIN never
thought that he’d become an artist.
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career in woodworking. On the advice of a teacher at New York
School of Printing, Weinstein received an academic education and learned printing production at a shop in Manhattan,
which subsequently led him to employment with Candid Litho
Printing in 1974 and ultimately the purchase of the company in
July 1990.
After a long and successful career, Weinstein retired in 2000,
turning over Candid to his two sons. During the early stages
of his retirement, he dabbled in many of the conventional
retirement activities: golfing, traveling, and gin rummy. Yet
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Murray Weinstein's vision of his art is clearly demonstrated in
the mutation of his artistic style from traditional representation
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note the obvious − that Weinstein is greatly influenced and
inspired by Piet Mondrian, Gerhard Richter, and Peter Max.
Pop of Red, 30” x 40”, acrylic on canvas
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Artist Profi
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Dennis Griffin
Griffin
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Artist Statement
ennis Griffin, a photographer for 40 years, is a native of
Southern California. Born and raised in Los Angeles,
Mr. Griffin graduated from UCLA with a Masters Degree
in Life Sciences, served as an Artillery Officer in Viet Nam, and had
a distinguished 32-year career in the Healthcare Industry before
founding Studio Griffoto in 2007 to market his fine art imagery.
His award winning work spans four decades and encompasses
nature and landscape photography, form photography, travel
photography and digital imaging. Mr. Griffin’s unique style and
eye for composition are clearly reflected throughout the broad
scope of his images captured in California and other parts of the
United States, as well as many countries in Europe.
Dennis Griffin’s award winning work is widely exhibited in the
Conejo Valley, California and is available as signed, archival inkjet
prints. The artist prints all pieces individually, which are then matted
using acid-free archival materials and framed under UV filtering
acrylic.
Mr. Griffin’s work may also be obtained as permanent prints
on high gloss aluminum.
To view a partial gallery of Mr. Griffin’s work, please visit his
website, www.studiogriffoto.com.
Feathers and Lashes, Carnival Venice, 2010
The interplay of
color and design and
the magical effects of
light and reflections
have always fascinated
me. I discovered photography 40 years ago Queen of Spades, Carnevale Venice 2009
and have been shooting ever since, simply because I enjoy the process, and the results
are good often enough to keep me hooked.
Over the years, I studied different photographic styles, took
a couple of classes from Leland Rice and learned from studying
the work of those I admired most, Alfred Stieglitz, Ansel Adams,
Ernest Haas and Eliot Porter. My work evolved with time and
the influence of my friend and long-time photography partner,
Tom Howell, who unselfishly shared his knowledge as an accomplished artist and gifted photographer, and who constantly challenged me to improve. Many creative insights have come from
our dueling slideshows sustained with Cabernet or Chianti after
trips to Yosemite, Point Lobos, Bodie, Moro Bay, Death Valley,
The Wine Country, Florence, Venice and Rome.
My favorite artists include Italian Renaissance Masters,
French Impressionists, Classical and Modern Artists. A partial
list includes Bernini, Caravaggio, Degas, Donatello, Michelangelo, O’Keefe, Rembrandt, Renoir, Rodin, Rothko, Titian, and
Van Gogh. My passions other than photography include travel,
music, history, movies and wine. I have been fortunate to travel
to many countries over the years, and I have tried to capture
interesting and varied images that reflect the unique characteristics of each one.
I have photographed many different subjects during the past
four decades with a single objective...a desire to depict the interplay of light, color, design and sometimes reflections to create
unique images of beauty. From the early days working in darkrooms smelling of acetic acid to the present using the immaculate
technology of inkjet printers, my goal of making unique, artful
images has remained unchanged. While I learned to emphasize technical perfection, my goal is to create something beyond
“straight photography.” I am pleased when people view my work
and think it is something “more than photography.” n
Arancione 2, Carnevale Venice
I have always been fascinated by the interplay of color, design, and the magical effects
of light and reflections. From my early experience to the present, my goal has remained unchanged…to
utilize these elements to create unique images that transcend photographs. –Dennis Griffin
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STUDIO GRIFFOTO
Fine Art Imagery
Stairwell Venice, 2010
www.studiogriffoto.com | studiogriffoto1@mac.com | 805-262-2168
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ArtistProfile
Profile
Karen Banker
Inward Journeys Back to True Self
I
t’s all about the experience one has with
art,” states Karen Banker, North Carolina
based, international artist. “Some may
look at art as a collection of materials,
shapes, forms, color and textures, but if the
combination of these variables fails to evoke
emotion or a reaction, is it really art?” Banker
has devoted her entire career to creating
works that stimulate provocative thought,
tug at one’s emotions either by drudging up
memories or slapping one in the face with
complex iterations of saturated color and
scared textures.
Beyond, Acrylic, 24 x 36”
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York City
Miami
“So many people today are asleep at
the wheel, often lost and unfulfilled. Nobody
wants to live like that.”
Banker’s work challenges the viewer to
look inward, to explore unanswered questions
about who they really are and why they are not
living the life they innately know is meant for
them. “My work marks a pivotal point in time
where society is finally questioning the value
of material possessions over the value of being
true to themselves.” Her work ignites the
power and freedom for viewers to express the
light inside of them.
Karen Banker’s paintings have been seen
in five recent solo exhibitions including “Karen
Banker USA,” 2012, Colorida Gallery, Lisbon,
Portugal, as well as numerous group and juried
exhibitions from Miami to New York to San
Francisco including “Story of the Creative”,
Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, NY, “A
Swine Evening” where her artwork was paired
with Sheryl Crow, Grammy award winning
artist, Charlotte, NC, and the Museum of
Contemporary Art in Miami, FL. n
To see more, visit www.KarenBanker.com
KAREN BANKER
ArtistProfile
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Artist
Powerful, intense, thought provoking.
Power, Acrylic & mixed media, 36 x 24”
www.karenbanker.com
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Artist Profile
Debbie Viola
T
here are times when Debbie Viola’s need to paint is as
strong as her need to breathe. At the end of a long day,
nothing can entice her more than going through tubes of
paint and contemplate a new creation. Debbie loves the
wonder of what will happen next at her own hand. Her intuitive
paintings are a natural extension of being an award-winning
fine finish painter and surface designer for the past 17 years.
“Sophisticated elegance” is how one art consultant describes Debbie’s art,
which is defined by fluid movement and a strong sense of color. Her refreshing
use of color captivates and pulls you in, whether it’s soft and blended, or
determined and bold. Debbie is passionate about all the beauty life has
to offer, and finds herself delving into a number of styles and mediums.
The inspiration behind her serene collection comes from Debbie’s
love of nature and everything outdoors. The heavenly landscapes of
Long Island, New York provide never-ending inspiration. After a
walk on the beach, you will likely find her painting nothing but soft,
serene seascape abstractions. When stormy winter days prevent a trip
to the shore, Debbie can only find the same inner peace and calm
at her easel. She can’t wait to get the colors onto her canvas. With
each brushstroke, Debbie captures the tranquility that pours from
within, and again she is transformed to a warm summer’s day. As one
painting is being completed, another is being composed in her mind.
As much as she is drawn to everything calm, Debbie is equally
enamored by textures, bright colors, and shapes. She is fascinated
how her manipulation of various plasters and dripping pigments
Bluegreens Skyscape, 12 x 36
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meld and take on a different path than envisioned. When large
palette knives replace her brushes, layers of textured depth and
shimmery color emerge. If the final layer could be peeled away,
a completely different painting might be revealed underneath.
Debbie’s love for painting began as early as kindergarten; she cried
when she had to miss fingerpainting because she was sick. It wasn’t until
decades later that she finally picked up a paintbrush at the age of 40, and
hasn’t put it down since. She is most grateful that she was able to make
the transition from corporate life to becoming a successful artist, and is
so proud of being voted “Best Artist of Long Island” the past five years. n
Artist Profile
Peaceful, 48 x 48, acrylics
My Heart Bleeds, #11, 36 x 48
www.DebbieViola.com | debbie@debbieviola.com
Twilight, 36 x 36, metallic textures
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Artist Profile
Helen Kagan
Healing Arts
...I believe that art heals. As a therapist and artist
I believe that tragedy, pain and trauma can be
healed with beauty, love, positive energy, and selfexpression. My “Healing Arts” is my unique way to
integrate fine art and the art of healing to enhance
well-being in a viewer...
H
elen Kagan, PhD. was born in a cold Siberian winter in what then was the
USSR. She grew up in a communist State where oppression and control were
a daily reality. In 1991 her quest for freedom led Helen to the US, whereto
she brought a Jewish heritage, and an unending thirst to explore the World
and its meaning. Following her quest she studied many healing modalities,
and has been integrating a mind-body-spirit philosophy into her professional and personal
life. Mainly self-taught Helen’s been painting for as long as she remembers herself, since
2005 does it professionally. Helen works with oil and acrylic, lately is experimenting with
mixed mediums. She paints with pure boldness and emotion, always looking for ways to
communicate on levels often not yet understood.
While reflecting her own colorful and deep perception of life, a desire to bridge the
Realities and heal the Past, she believes her artwork can enhance healing process to those
in need. n
Artist Statement
As a therapist and artist I believe
that tragedy, pain and trauma can be
healed with beauty, love, positive energy,
and self-expression. My intention is to
create a substantial body of ‘Healing
Art’ to serve people and communities
in need. I envision my artwork to be
placed in Medical Centers, Hospitals,
Rehabilitation and Multicultural Centers,
Behavioral Health, Crisis Centers, and
alike–to enhance healing and promote
well-being.
My canvases are varied, vibrant, some
are raw, some refined, all are intuitive. The
important themes always present in my art
are - being on a spiritual Journey, moving
towards the Light, awareness of ‘Here and
Now’, and of course - j’oie de vivre!
Communicating
on
subliminal
levels, my art delivers these messages
through positively charged intention,
healing frequencies of color, and
energetically balanced composition.
I believe my ‘Healing Arts’ promotes
well-being in a viewer, I believe in the
interconnectedness of physical, mental
and spiritual, and my vibrant art is a
statement of my beliefs. n
See more of Helen’s work
at www.helenkagan.com
Sun Shower, 2014 Acrylic, canvas 24”x30”
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Autumn Leaves, 2014 Acrylic, canvas 24”x36”
HELEN KAGAN
In Search Of Meaning, 2012-2013 Acrylic, canvas 48”x36”
“... Helen Kagan’s “healing” art resonates anywhere due to its dramatic outburst of colors, powerful pictorial syntax and a uniquely unforgettable style, which
gives it universal appeal. Beautiful as it is, her art is so much more than just a feast for the eyes. Imbued with a profound spiritual energy, it connects us with our
inner self with its immense potential for self-healing, mind-opening and creative growth. As a painter, Helen was inspired by impressionism and expressionism. In
her art, these two aesthetics are bridged with ground-breaking novelty, although historically the two excluded and somewhat diminished each other.... For Helen,
both tonalities are harmonized - impressionist joie de vivre with its emphasis on the now is gracefully entwined with the inner, undying luminous essence valued
by expressionists. …The light as the apex of Helen Kagan’s art is so strong that it reminds us of the sunshine that breaks through the closed window of our visions
and compels us to finally open it... for self-healing and self-discovery.”
by MayaEllenson, PhD., Art Critic
from “Kagan provides us a healing symphony of color”
Martin County Currents, Feb 2014
www.HelenKagan.com | helenkagan@yahoo.com | 917-855-1153
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Artist Profile
Sandra Berry
S
andra Berry Hover has expanded her language through
painting with watercolors on fresco. She is rebellious
and provocative with her whirling compositions. Her
orchestrated settings channel simultaneous events with tension,
creating a world vibrating with meaning. Her large paintings on paper
reflect her need to dance across a stage, giving her room to navigate.
Space recedes and comes forward, a fluctuation that excites the eye.
She is in a league of her own. Accessible and free she has experienced
and explored many facets of art in her life. A ringmaster of creativity,
Sandra opened her own art gallery in 1982, “The Toy Theater”.
Located on Spaulding Street in Lockport, New York, Berry sold
mechanical art toys. The Albright Knox gift shop soon discovered
Berry’s gallery, they consistently purchased her work for the next
six years.
Berry continued constructing wood assemblages, painting them as if
they were canvas. Her high visual contrast was achieved by a distinctive
palette of intensity changes. The unique combination of wood and
paint was an iconographic play at work which won Berry a NYSFA
Award in Crafts in 1989.
Berry rebuilt her world in 1996 entering graduate school on a
scholarship at University @ Buffalo’s Casting Institute. She proceeded
to investigate the contradiction of disassembling a work of art to
resurrect something new. Her wood carvings would be molded in
wax then cut up or squeezed into a heterogeneous mix of gregarious
figures. This world of collage would continue to inspire Berry’s future
as a painter.
Play Ball, 2015, watercolor on fresco, 20” x20”
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The Last Urban cowgirl, 2015, watercolor on fresco, 24” x 17”
Sandra currently lives on a farm with her husband in Almond, NY. She
teaches part time inspiring young digital media animation students at
Alfred State College, Alfred, NY. In the world of computer technology
learning to draw and sculpt is still an important part of the art world. n
SANDRA BERRY
Artist Profile
Serpents and Steam, 2015, watercolor painting, 48”tall x 74.5”wide
A Trip To an Unknown Point, 2014, watercolor painting 45.5”x55”
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Artist Profile
Margaret Drake
M
argaret lives on a ranch near Glen Rose, Texas.
Originally hailing from a small ranching communityin
northwestern Colorado, she lives with horses and the
Western way of life.
After retiring from clinical research in the pharmaceuticalindustry,
she devoted herself to a year of studying threedimensional portraiture
under Texas artist Art Blevins. After that, she focused on figurative art,
taking workshops from such renowned sculptors as Lincoln Fox, Rod
Zulo, Bruno Lucchesi, Mehl Lawson, David Lemmon and Scott Rogers.
a work of art that will
last for a long time. A
piece of good bronze
artwork on the mantle
or a shelf adds class and
sophistication to a room.
The added pleasure you
will have of looking at it
daily will surely add to
its benefit to you.
Working with oil-based clay, she sculpts realistic figures of the
athletic human form, horses, cowboys, Native Americans, and other
creatures that capture her perception of the beauty that surrounds us. Her
pieces are known and recognized for their realistic detail, partly due to
the fact that she uses live models throughout the creation process.
Margaret also
works with water-based clays, creating ceramic bas reliefs and figures.
She is currently in a “Ceramic Phase”, in which she is creating and
experimenting with bas reliefs and ceramic impressions that will be
wallmounted.
Her bronze sculptures have been accepted into juried competitions
such as the Cattlemen’s Western Art Show, Bosque Art Classic, the Art
Center of Estes Park’s show, the Breckenridge Fine Art Show, Loveland’s
”Sculpture in the Park” and the Tucson Mountain Oyster Show.
Margaret is an Associate member of The National Sculpture
Society, and a member of the Texas Artists Coalition. n
Mankind has created artistic images of the world around him ever
since the beginning of recorded history. The great civilizations of Greece,
Rome and China created bronze statues thousands of years ago. Many
bronze statues remain to this day, having lasted the ravages of centuries.
Obtaining a bronze sculpture of Margaret’s ensures that you will have
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Tradit Ponca
Her pieces are featured at:
The White Buffalo Gallery - Glen Rose, Texas
wwwthewhitebuffalogallery.com
Adobe Western Art Gallery - Fort Worth, Texas
www.adobewesternart.com
Visit www.margaretdrakestudio.com, and on Facebook at:
www.facebook.com/MargaretDrakeStudio
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MARGARET DRAKE
Murry Weinstein
Top: First in the Fifth | Bottom: Tu Vienes
mdrake@windstream.net
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254-897-9113
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JAVIER
FINELLI
Ellos - They, Oil on canvas, 2013, 13X13”
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Artist
JavierProfile
Finelli
Javier Finelli
Javier Finelli who knows about engineering, managed to capture
the movement of the painting, what remains and what follows. All
throughout we can feel persistence, talent and mysterious art with a
personal style as unique as his own portrait. His concerns take him
to the quest of one fundamental intriguing idea: movement in all its
dimensions. Easy search but not simple. The aim seemed an illusion,
the further away the illusion the more distant the aim. So..... What is it
that he forgot? What is missing? His own inner knowledge. As a little
child who experiences with colors, textures, materials and deprived
of all intellectual knowledge, he began to listen to his inner voice.
The first outcomes began to blink as if reflected on a mirror, among a
combination of colors, figures and objects.
In this quest between the conceptual and the perceptive
framework and appealing to the sight over the other senses, he
managed to shape movement in his works. This movement is
embedded not only in motionless objects but also in inanimate ones. It
appears as an external agent that invades his inner self.
But there is another movement.
Tree on its Birthday, Oil on canvas, 38x45”
The movement which comes out from his own brushstrokes
charged with matter which spontaneously display the motif captured by
the eyes and more importantly, his soul.
He uses oil on canvas.
His technique: strokes of pure colors applied with palette
knife which results in an output full of force and vivid colors. Then
he models his work so that the final outcome is harmonious and
meaningful transmitting the movement and attitude of the objects :
trees and branches, persons, ships, animals, water and sky.
The spectator, without ignoring the other senses, is forced to see the
movement, the playful approach. He is driven to feel the humor
and experience the mystery behind the hinted characters. The color
abstraction he combines, generates movement and characters and
objects show up as silent but meaningful witnesses. n
Agustina Mazzini Uriburu
Art Critic
Selfportrait, Oil on canvas, 2013, 39x39”
www.javierfinelli.com | artefinelli@gmail.com | (+54 911) 52206032
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Artist
Javier
Profile
Finelli
Dancing Tree, Oil on canvas, 2015, 38x36”
Details of Dancing Tree
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New York City
Javier Finelli
ARTIST LIFE
I was born in Buenos Aires on August 5th in
the 60s, since childhood my parents instilled
in me a sense of duty but also fostered with
games and rides creativity and love for
beauty and harmony, they had at home a
collection of works of art, both in Paris where
we lived five years and then in Buenos Aires
City. I began to appreciate artistic taste in my
paternal grandfather Rafael’s art gallery.
I graduated from UBA in mechanical
engineering in 1988, I designed many
industrial robots, founded Fabrimática
whereI projected and directed the
Him, Oil on canvas, 2014, 25X13”
Many Dogs , Oil on canvas, 2014, 41X37”
construction of robotic packing end lines in
major consumer firms.
Niagra Swirl
One day about 5 years ago I turned an old
dream and went to learn to paint with master
Jose Luis Gomez Catoira, then with masters
Sergio Bazan and Juan Doffo.
To myself plastic arts are a passion and really
I enjoy creating art, with strength and
harmony using vivid colors while I try to
express the inner or outer movement of
reality and imagination.
Movement is the key to my work
Many we Are II, Oil on canvas, 2015, 38x56”
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Cultural Center Embassy of Argentina,
Asuncion Paraguay, September 2011
Borges Cultural Center of Buenos Aires,
Argentina, April 2012
Itau Bank Foundation, Asuncion
Paraguay, November 2012
Ministry of Culture of Paraguay,
Asuncion, November 2012
Saint Cayetano, Buenos Aires
Argentina, May 2013
Necochea’s Cultural Center,
Argentina, December 2013
Art Expo New York, NY USA, April 2014
Art San Diego, CA USA, November 2014
Swiss Rowing Club, Tigre Argentina,
November 2014
Spectrum Miami, FL USA, December 2014
Art Expo New York, NY USA, April 2015
Art San Diego, CA USA, November 2015
Brainstorming II, Oil on canvas, 2015, 12x23”
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Artist Profile
Thomas Lund-Lack
“I love the colors, and the combination of realistic and contemporary style”
–Lenore Schenk
F
igurative action paintings infused with powerful expressions of drama and movement form the hallmark of
British artist Thomas Lund-Lack’s work.
With every piece he paints, Lund-Lack
hopes to arrest the motion of the subject and hold it fixed so that in even in a
hundred years, when a stranger looks at
it, it moves again.
Not surprisingly, Lund-Lack gravitates to the racing thoroughbred as irresistible subject matter perfectly suited to
his style of work. Less preoccupied with
the details of which horse or which race,
the artist aims instead to capture all of
the elements of racing in one impression. By incorporating figurative subjects, broken lines, abstract highlights
and loose flowing brush strokes along
with a heavy application of paint, he
readily accomplishes this goal.
Equally attractive as a subject matter are large and fast yachting boats,
which together against a backdrop of
sea and sky create the foundation for his
impressive marine paintings. To capture
the movement of a wave or the light on
the clouds is a challenge as it happens in
a quick moment when all the elements
are in harmony and fleeting. These elusive features are difficult to successfully
bring together, yet they are the very elements Lund-Lack believes contribute to
an attractive and exciting combination
of colours and tones, reflective of many
Last Furlong
moods. It is his skill in doing just this
that becomes another signature of his
work.
Many of Lund-Lack’s marine
paintings also reflect his personal interest in history and a family background
connected with the sea. It is not surprising to find naval subjects and early 20th
Century warships in his work. However,
it is not the war that appeals to the artist, but again, the ships.
Tom is a self taught artist who
started out in water colour. Through the
influence of Hugo Grenville, Lund-Lack
turned to oil paint, which he now uses
exclusively. He has worked hard to perfect his skills as an artist over the last
twenty years.
In addition to creating art, Tom is
the Chairman of Suffolk Open Studios
and the founder of ARTactiv a group
that offers art workshops bringing the
joy of creativity to disabled children and
young people across the English county
of Suffolk.
Born in Devon, England, LundLack has lived in Hong Kong, New
Zealand, and London .He has made his
home in Suffolk, England over the last
22 years with his wife, Amanda.
Tom’s paintings have been seen,
exhibited and collected in Galleries,
Art Fairs, Marine and Equestrian Shows
in the UK and the USA as well as being featured in Equestrian publications
throughout England. n
To make the work come alive is the challenge;
colour, tone and technique all play their parts in
creating the illusions I am seeking to portray.
Thomas Lund-Lack is represented by Jayson Samuel. For more information, please contact Jayson Samuel: info@jaysonsamuel.com
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THOMAS LUND-LACK
Top: Regatta
Bottom: South Coast Harbour
www.absolutearts.com/lundlack
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tcll@btinternet.com
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Artist Profile
Aysin Iseri
T
(ISIS SCULPTURE AND DESIGN)
he ‘’Great Stories’’ are part of
the core human experience
and never change except in
the most superficial ways. They
defy any attempts to rewrite
them with drastic changes and always return
to their original forms. The settings might be
modified depending on who’s telling it, the
characters might have different names, but
fundamentally, it’s still the same story.
Who is ISIS?
ISIS is the feminine archetype for creation the goddess of fertility and motherhood. She
has gone by many names and played many
roles in history. She was considered as the
Queen of Heaven, Mother of the Gods, The
Brilliant One in the Sky, She Who Knows
How to Make Right Use of the Heart, Moon
Shining over the Sea, etc. It is manifestly
impossible to limit the attributes of ISIS,
therefore she had so many worshippers.
The symbol of ISIS in the heavens was a
star. Its appearance in other’s soul marked
the beginning of a new year- a new era -.
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For some, ISIS was The One Who is All and
will remain so until the end of the universe.
ISIS is the essence of the feminine energy
which is part of us all. This is evidenced by
the movements of the body in the artworks
and enriched by the artists with bronze
who are eager to express their devotion to
the ‘’GREAT STORIES’’. ISIS is actually a
nickname given to Aysin Iseri by a very
dear friend...
ISIS SCULPTURE AND DESIGN
ATELIER opened in the heart of beautiful
Istanbul in 2006 by Aysin Iseri and raising
too many artists...ISIS SCULPTURE AND
DESIGN GALLERY is in Bodrum, right
across the most important and best marina in
Europe, Palmarina
STUDIO ISIS
Sculpture and Design Studio offers the finest
motivation for creation available anywhere.
The studio has been providing sculpting
classes and workshops for the past 9 years.
Studio ISIS is a full service sculpture and
design facility with a wealth of talent to match
the need of any project. Our classes are taught
by the owner Aysin Iseri, herself, and offer
students a first-hand look at the importance
of observation first, then the pleasure of a
thorough hands-on experience forming the
clay, and the thrill of being able to pass one’s
feelings to others with an artwork
MESSAGE TO ISD MEMBERS ...
Your state of putting one material into a shape
shows; your intention to change the things
you want to change, resistance to things you
don’t want to change, your patience shows
how much you are interested in reaching
your targets in life, your attitude about the
results shows your way of looking at life
itself...I recommend you to use this material
called ‘’clay’’, which is made of water and soil
(two essences of life) for the purpose of your
wellbeing....and I am grateful to the universe
to have played such a synchrodestiny game
by creating a coincidence and thus given
the chance of having you lightbeings in
my studio. n
aysini@superonline.com
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SKYE HOLLAND
Soriya, Mixed media on 350gsm Saunders Waterford Paper,
framed with black lacquer contemporary frame & red slip inset, 870mm x 1060mm
Limited edition (500) giclee print on brushed aluminium panel, 841mm x 1189mm
www.skyeholland.com
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Artist Profile
Skye Holland
The Emmanuelle Collection, debut
showing in the US with Artisan Direct
at Miami Spectrum 2013
I
Skye Holland drawing from the model
am a London-based artist, with a studio in an old converted factory
in Kingston-Upon-Thames, a suburb of London pretty close to
Hampton Court Palace where Henry VIII resided! I trained in Fine
Art Printmaking at Central St. Martin’s School of Art & Design in the
mid 1980’s. This is a famous school of art and we had amazing tutors
and visiting lecturers as a matter of course – people like Anthony Caro,
Norman Ackroyd, Trisha Gillman, and Helen Chadwick. The main
influences of the day were abstract expressionism and the beginnings
of more conceptual approaches to contemporary art – installationary
work, video, film etc. However, all the disciplines, and particularly
printmaking were rooted in traditional drawing. We had a life model on
hand every Friday which I always attended and loved and it was there
where I learned and practiced my craft and flair with ‘life’ drawing from
the model.
I have made, exhibited and sold artwork all my life, alongside being
a working wife, running a home and raising two children who are now
amazing, independent young adults working in London. We moved to
South Africa at the end of the 80’s to work in Johannesburg. It was a
very vibrant and exciting, if sometimes hair-raising time spent there –
the birth of Nelson Mandela’s “rainbow nation” with his release from
28 years incarceration and the first free election which saw him become
SA’s first black president. As I am the only hearing person in a deaf
family, I can use sign language – and interpreted live news of the election
coverage to the world – an incredible experience I’ll never forget and am
so grateful for!
The Gift of the Weaver, 1997, Mixed media on
paperwork, 4’x4’ (private collection)
My artwork from this time reflects the very serious socio-political
events which dominated the press and our everyday lives, but also the
amazing colours, textures and most importantly the stories of ordinary
people, their adventures and human endeavours and resilience which
never ceased to impress me.
It is the story-telling aspect of making my artwork which has
become central to everything I do, and the latest body of work –
The Emmanuelle Collection is no exception. The concept was born last
summer, when my daughter Emmanuelle popped into my studio and
asked me to draw her naked as a gift for her boyfriend. She sat in a
chair and arranged her hair over one shoulder and I drew her fast, with
sweeping lines, fingers smudging and marks made with a putty rubber.
Two hours later, she ran off with it straight to the framer. Her boyfriend
was so happy! It occurred to me that this was a powerful idea – that in
spite of idealised “photoshopped” images of female and male sexuality
pumped out through mass media, women (or men) would have their own
very personal ideas about how they want to be seen, or see themselves.
Capturing this projection of desire in an artwork as a contemporary take
on the boudoir painting tradition is proving to be very evocative and
much admired.
Stripped down to mainly black and white graphics, with some use
of mixed media/colour – I focus on the capturing of the “essence” of the
models who come into my studio. Sometimes the drawings are fast, and I
use expressive mark-making and experience with a line to capture form,
curves, structure in an economic and almost fashion-illustrative way –
elegant and stylish. Other times, it is a much more lengthy study,
where I can add tone, texture, describe form, fabric, pattern and
latterly, adding accoutrements, fashion and detailing which the
models might bring with them or which I collect from my travels
(and wardrobe) in my studio. The days are fun, relaxed and
quite often the stories told are intimate, funny, sad, amazing and
moving… but none are re-told…unless specifically requested..
secrets remain secrets!
Recently, I’ve printed a selection of these drawings in
limited editions on fine papers and on brushed aluminium
panels – which are very glamorous and striking and look
amazing in contemporary interiors. I am planning a launch
event with an exhibition of The Emmanuelle Collection in a
central London gallery in the spring. Please do register your
interest on my website. Otherwise, I look forward to meeting
you at my Artisan Direct booth at Miami Spectrum. n
Fish Nets, Limited edition (500)
giclee print on brushed aluminium
panel, 841mm x 1189mm
For more info and to see other work,
please visit my website: www.skyeholland.com
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Rod Seeley
Rod Seeley’s artwork and has been exhibited local community galleries and many online
juried exhibitions. In 2012 Mr. Seeley started entering juried international exhibitions
and has won awards for his work. His artwork has also been included in the Museum
of Computer Art and The International Art Guide.
– Abstract Art Showcase
R
od Seeley is a mixed technique Digital Artist and Photographer. The computer; a mouse and imagination are his tools.
Vibrant colors, use of shapes and digital art mixed with photography, abstract and fractal art are the base for his creative
artwork style. He is self-taught but does have an art background, and
uses a variety of graphic and paint programs combined with Photoshop
to create unique and colorful art.
Mr. Seeley is a 3rd generation native Californian born in 1946
and raised in Southern California. His innovative creative talents
have always been apparent having been an award winning Creative
Director (Advertising Agency) in the 70’s to establishing one the
countries first “Cruise Only” Travel companies in the mid 80’s. He
started in 2010 experimenting with graphic and paint programs and
has now created a style that is colorful and unique.
Creative Circles, Fractal Art-Mixed Technique, On High
Gloss Metal, 24 x 19”
Believe, Fractal Art-Mixed TechniquePaint On High Gloss Metal, 19 x 24”
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Artist Statement
I am a self-taught digital artist, always pushing my creative
boundaries through my unique stylized Fractal Art & Digital Art
creations. My passion is utilizing creative shapes and bright colors
combined with dozens of special techniques to create truly unique
artwork. Many of my pieces are enhanced using a customized digital
paint (oil) technique. My artwork is designed to be printed on high
gloss metal in a metal shadow frame, which adds an additional visual
dimension to the artwork. The artwork has won many International
Awards & Special Recognitions. I’m honored to have my artwork
included in Volume VII of the “International Contemporary Masters”
and Art Buzz “The 2013 Collection.” n
Floating Leaf Rainbow, Fractal Art-Mixed Technique-Paint
On High Gloss Metal, 24 x 19”
Rotating Color Trails, Fractal Art-Mixed Technique-Paint
On High Gloss Metal, 24 x 19”
Red Glass Expressive, Fractal ArtMixed Technique On High Gloss Metal,
19 x 24”
Color Spectrums, Fractal Art-Mixed Technique-Paint
On High Gloss Metal, 24 x 19”
ROD SEELEY
Red Smile, Fractal Art-Mixed Technique On High Gloss Metal, 24 x 19”
Imagine It - #5, Fractal Art-Mixed Technique, On High Gloss Metal, 19 x 24”
Yellow Sun Trails, Fractal Art-Mixed Technique-Paint On High Gloss Metal,
19 x 24”
Artistic Layers 1, Fractal Art-Mixed Technique-Paint, On High Gloss Metal,
24 x 19”
www.RodSeeleyArt.com | rseeley@sunnycastlecreations.com | 818-292-1236
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PETER J. SUCY
Top left: Kodak Product Development
Top right: Smoke & Mirrors
Bottom: Mendon Drain
www.peterjsucy.com | peter@peterjsucy.com
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Artist Profile
Peter J. Sucy
P
eter, a 1980 BFA graduate of RIT’s School of Photography,
within just a few years would become a pioneer in fields of
digital art and photography. Purchasing a Macintosh 128K
computer for his part time, freelance photo business in 1984. He added
a single element, ThunderScan “scanner” to his ImageWriter printer
the following year, and began scanning his photos and editing them in
MacPaint. The beginnings of digital photography.
Employed by the Eastman Kodak Company for more than twentyseven years, Peter became one of the original members of Kodak’s
Electronic Photography Division when it was founded, in 1986.
Realizing the coming digitization of photography before many at
Kodak, Peter utilized the new desktop drawing and publishing tools at
his disposal, to create hundreds of documents and proposals. Most were
designed to persuade Kodak management to abandon the analog image
path they were on, in favor of digital image capture and storage devices.
Eventually, he succeeded and was tapped to draft Kodak’s first
digital product strategy in 1989. Peter would also conceive and design
a number of the very first digital products Kodak shipped, holds a key
patent on digital camera preview technology and suggested establishing
the world’s first digital imaging training facility, the Center for Creative
Imaging, in Camden, Maine.
Peter was among the first Adobe Photoshop Digital Masters, named
in 1993. His artwork was featured on the Adobe Photoshop 3.0 CDROM and in 1994, at a Digital Master’s group show at the Ansel Adams
Gallery in San Francisco. Peter taught digital photography workshops
for Kodak during much of the 1990’s.
Before symptoms from fibromyalgia led to his early departure from
Kodak in 2001, Peter had been consulting for Kodak’s Dynamic Imaging
Division. There he learned the intricacies of lenticular imaging, and
pioneered the use of digital photographic 3D capture and 3D modeling
programs for the creation of lenticular images at Kodak. Peter created a
number of 3D lenticular images for clients such as, Pepsi, R. J. Reynolds,
Pfizer, Martell Liquor, FAO Schwartz, Purina, and Disney. While his recovery continues, Peter has persisted in his work at
his art and craft, learning to print his own lenticular images, as well as
designing an LED backlit frame system for displaying his 3D lenticular
transparencies. At age 60, Peter has just begun to promote his work, and
hopes to make a new career of his passion for creating images.
A detailed history of Peter’s journey of digital discovery at Kodak
is available on his web site: www.peterjsucy.com/DigHist.htm n
Night Stalker
Lenticular printing is a 2D on 3D print technology that uses
complex multi-image processing techniques and a special lens sheet
laminate, to play back a series of frames as the viewer moves relative
to the piece. Or if the piece is small enough, they moves the piece
in their hand. 3D is one possibility, animation is another, depending
on lens orientation. The advent of digital image processing is the
reason lenticular technology is making a resurgence, more than a
hundred years after it’s introduction.
Photo-Flo
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Artist Profile
Patricia
Brintle
PATRICIA BRINTLE
1446 Utopia Parkway
Whitestone, NY 11257
www.patriciabrintle.com
origeninc@aol.com
T
he art Patricia Brintle is vibrant and reminds the viewer of her
native Haiti because she lets her rich culture guide her creative
muse. Her paintings are infused with complex symbolism yet
seem, at first glance, simple. Her style is as varied as her subjects but she
favors bright and vivid colors as she explores the universality of human
emotions in every one of her artworks. Many of Brintle’s works address
strong issues such as nuclear disarmament, the Holocaust and the Haitian
earthquake. Several of her works grace the covers and pages of books,
magazines, and publications. Brintle belongs to several art organizations
and exhibits internationally.
Brintle is also the president of From Here to Haiti, Ltd. (FHTH), a
non-profit all-volunteer charity doing repair work in Haiti. FHTH
concentrates its efforts in the provinces where the need is greatest and
provides a hands-on approach wherein board members personally travel
to the site to work with the community to finish the work in about a week.
FHTH completed over 18 projects of varying sizes within a four year
period. Fundraising efforts are varied but Brintle donates most of the
profits from the sale of her artworks to From Here to Haiti. n
Put Out Into Deep Water, 36x24, Acrylic on canvas, 2013
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Home’s Awaiting, 48x16, Acrylic on masonite, 2015
Artist Profile
The Visitation, 24x36, Acrylic on canvas, 2014
Maternal Reflection, 36x24, Acrylic on canvas, 2014
Patience, 36x24, Acrylic on canvas, 2014
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Artist Profile
Olivia
Cisneros
Villanueva
I
discovered San Antonio artist Olivia
Villanueva through one of the art
eNewsletters I get on a regular basis. Not
only did the work I saw speak to me, I was
also impressed by her story. Shortly after
finishing high school she married and raised
a family. It was only later in life, when her kids
were grown, that her art career blossomed
and flourished. Her work has been featured
extensively in shows and galleries throughout
Texas. She has also been featured in numerous
publications including USA Today, and this
month will see her work featured in a major
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O
ur first interview took place in the spring of 2011
and from the start I found her paintings very
exciting and dramatic. This is a follow up to that first interview.
EN: What are you working on now that has you jazzed?
OLIVIA VILLANUEVA: Right now I am very excited to be showing
my new paintings at the Artexpo in New York. It has been a major
showcase for 37 years and is the largest international gathering
of qualified trade buyers, gallery owners, art dealers, interior
designers as well as architects and corporate art buyers. Bernard
Solo Fine Art in New York City will be representing me there this
April 23‐26 2015 and Art Basel Miami Florida in December. The
first day of the Expo NewYork exhibition will be closed to the
public and open only to museum art collectors, art dealers, serious
art collectors and the media as well as celebrity VIPs. Bernard Solo
Fine Art will be in the prime location in the very center of the
main pavilion at Pier 94, 711 12th Ave. New York, NY. 10019‐5399
EN: Tell us more about your New York exhibition.
OLIVIA VILLANUEVA: The Artexpo New York will also be promoting
a two-page article about my art in their magazine The Artist Showcase,
I am very blessed and thankful for such an amazing opportunity to
let thousands of art dealers, museum collectors and many others
from all over the world to consider owning an Olivia original.
EN: W
e did this in 2011... what have you been working on
the past three years?
OLIVIA VILLANUEVA: The past three years have been a spiral.
I was not able to really paint for over a year and a half, due to
a bout with sepsis that turned into septic shock in a matter of
hours. The doctors gave me little to no chance of survival and
had to revive me when all my organs starting shutting down. I
had no idea I was dying! Until I started seeing the tears of my
children. My words to them and in my heart were, this is just a
test from God, pass it and you will see a miracle. Well I’m the
living proof of what faith and believing can do. Just ask my
doctors. They still can not believe I survived. I am still dealing
with the aftereffects, but that is not keeping me from creating.
OliviaArtist.com
EN: Do you have a favorite medium and why?
EN: Where can people see more of your work?
OLIVIA VILLANUEVA: If I were to say I have a favorite medium
then I would limit myself to so many other outlets to painting. I use
many things to create, from found objects to paper. My favorite is to
create with what is near to my heart. If it’s not, then it is just a painting.
EN: What kind of music do you listen to while you paint?
OLIVIA VILLANUEVA: I listen to all types of music. When I paint
figurative I like listening to Jazz, depending on the type of painting I’m
working on a the time. I love working in high heels when I’m abstract
painting. It gives me a sense of freedom. No rules, no boundaries.
OLIVIA VILLANUEVA: My new insights this year are moving
forward with my art, not allowing any distractions when it comes
to creating. The past few years have been the hardest, but keep
in mind that we are the captain of our own ship. I stay away from
negativity and keep to myself. I prefer to stay away from the art
scene to create from my own being with no other influences.
Finding one’s self is most important when it comes to painting. I
become one with the paint as it leaves my brush onto the canvas.
This is the mystery to my creativity when it comes to art. There is
no substitute to capturing the raw art in motion. n
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Artist Profile
James Wilner
J
ames Wilner is a third generation
Washingtonian who has devoted
the last ten years to painting.
Educated at the University
of Pennsylvania, where he received both
a Bachelors’ and Masters’ degree in
Architecture, James, an award-winning and
published architect, has spent 40 years
running a successful architecture practice in
Bethesda, MD.
James has been drawing his entire life.
Largely self-taught, and using the training
My Son The Doctor, 64 x 88”
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he received in his design background, he
continues to explore new and subtle ways of
artistic impression.
Well–established as a figurative artist,
James Wilner’s portraits border on the
abstract, always pushing the envelope,
seeking a way to portray the human
expression in a new light. n
For more on James, visit his website at:
www.jameswilner.com
JAMES WILNER
Top left: The Connoisseur, 60 x 36” Top right: Mikey, 48 x 30”
Botom left: Palm Beach, 72 x 48” Botom right: Thursdays Poet, 48 x 96”
www.jameswilner.com
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Enigmatic, 100x120 cms. Medium- Acrylic
Neerja Bhatt
P
ainting is a passion for me
– anything I see or feel, I
feel like putting it down in
colors! That’s the reason
I experiment with different themes –
landscape, figures, still form, abstract –
the themes and the colors are
the expression of my thoughts.
Nature, of course, is a great inspiration
for me, but so are the many other things
in life – people, places, experiences.
This wide interest and a certain
restlessness within me also makes me
dabble in different mediums – oil,
acrylic, watercolor or sketches. It’s like
something clicks when an idea comes
in my mind – if I see a beautiful person,
I feel like sketching, if I visit a place,
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I feel like putting it down in water
colors, when the weather is changing, I
feel like doing an abstract, if I am in a
contemplative mood, I paint the Buddha.
Variety is the spice of life and when I’m
inspired to paint, sometimes I just don’t
want to stop! To me, a canvas is the door,
and a brush is the key - I open the door
and I’m transported to a different world
- a world of tranquility and creativity.
If you like any of my creations, please
feel free to contact me. Or maybe, you
want your idea reflected in a painting.
Whichever way, I am happy to share my
contact details in case you would like to
get in touch with me:
Om, 80x100 cms. Medium- Acrylic on canvas
For more on Neerja:
email- neerja@neerjabhatt.com
Website- www.neerjabhatt.com
Facebook- www.facebook.com/pages/Neerjas Art/420701554652385
Neerja Bhatt
The Warmth Of The Morning Sun, (2) 50x70 cms. Medium- Acrylic
Reflection, 40x90 cms. Medium- Acrylic on canvas
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Artist Profile
Paul Ygartua
Exceprts from Paul’s
limited edition book
Ygartua by Petru Rusu
TheYgartua
next painting
will be the best. It has been an on-going struggle
is a painter most often translating the bold strokes of his life into
more subtle finer strokes of his work. His bold strokes and color show his
for the
perfection
- being able to break through mental and physical
extraordinary ability and confidence to work in any medium, any style.
barriers, pushing the envelope to realizing and developing that
vision until ultimately a style is born. Then taking that style and
working it until it cannot be developed further and only then
moving on to adapt this to new ideas, taking you on a journey
of versatility and determination to the next painting.
C
omposition, color, perspective, form. Paul Ygartua
told me those were the four things he looked for when
creating or evaluating art. This came in response to a
question of mine about a new painting by another artist in my
collection. He then went on to give a detailed academic like
analysis of the canvas.
Paul is not a teacher: he has been a full time painter for
the last forty years. He has never taken students, but he can talk
academic art with ease and insight. He is a genius. These are a few
of my perspectives of that genius.
Paul paints 8 to 10 hours every day. If people are watching
in a public place; like his gallery, that’s fine with him. He is
supremely confident and goes about the business of creation. If
someone interrupts to ask a question he is always poised, with
a friendly insightful response; but he keeps painting. Ten-hour
stretches are not uncommon.
I remember reading about a famous Canadian artist who couldn’t
take the pressure of having to produce 18 paintings a year for his
gallery; Paul is prolific and creates new works daily. He says a good
artist should be able to paint fast. The great ones do. Gainsborough,
like Paul, rarely went over the same brush stroke twice. At an Ygartua
show, about 2 years ago, I was approached by an architect who commented that the artist was a genius. I asked how so? He said, ‘look at
all these paintings (there were dozens) there is not one mistake, everyone is perfectly balanced, colored and in perspective.’ He proceeded
to go through the collection showing examples, adding ‘you can’t look
at one picture and say ‘that color is wrong or that line is off.’ He was
right. Ygartua is a genius.
Paul is best known to the general public in our part of the world
as a muralist. Paintings 20 feet by 50 feet on the sides of public buildings. He does them free hand! No projectors, no graph grids, just
give him a high lifter, a brush and paint. The ability to freely compose
on such a large scale is amazing. Those who wonder what it would
have been like to watch Michelangelo at work have their chance; Paul
should sell tickets.
Artist Statement
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The next painting will be the best. It has been an on-going struggle for perfection - being able to break through mental and physical
barriers, pushing the envelope to realizing and developing that vision
until ultimately a style is born. Then taking that style and working
it until it cannot be developed further and only then moving on to
adapt this to new ideas, taking you on a journey of versatility and
determination to the next painting. n
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Non-Toxic, 2011 Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm | 48 x 48 in
non toXIc 2011 acrYLIc on canVaS 122X122 cM | 48X48 In
My Father Taught Me, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm | 48 x 48 in
MY FathEr tauGht ME 2012 acrYLIc on canVaS 122X122 cM | 48X48 In
PrIVatE coLLEctIon
PrIVatE coLLEctIon
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B B King, 2002, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm | 48 x 48 in
b b kInG 2002 acrYLIc on canVaS 122X122 cM | 48X48 In
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Hidden Spirit, 2006, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 122 cm | 48 x 48 in
hIddEn SPIrIt 2006 acrYLIc on canVaS 122X122 cM | 48X48 In
PrIVatE coLLEctIon
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The Monarchy, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 200 cm | 48 x 78 in
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Artist Profile
Marlene
Luce
Tremblay
T
remblay
is
a
photographer-artist
who, as a result of
extensive travels throughout the
Middle East, was able to offer
an artistic “archaeology” of
the Arab world. She began this
journey with explorations of
Egypt and exhibited works both
in Montreal and in Cairo, to
celebrate the 50th anniversary
of diplomatic relations between
Canada and Egypt. Throughout
her career, Tremblay exhibited
in Montreal, New York, Paris,
London, Tunis and Algiers.
Today, while her passion for
photography is being focused
on the city where she now lives,
Tremblay brings to light the
beauty of the natural world in
conversation with the cityscape.
After working only in film
photography for many years, she
now uses digital photography to
tint her images highlighting the
painterly aspect of her imagery.
Tremblay’s quest is to create art
that questions the meaning of
existence in time and place and
the meaning of being in this
world. The sense of belonging
is a difficult concept to grasp
for she claims that her identity is not defined by where she comes from but
rather by the places where she has been and, most importantly, the people
she met. While uncovering the many facets of her own existence, Tremblay
strives to return to the source and to uncover the multi-layered meanings of
life. While traveling throughout Europe and the Middle East, she was able
to capture the multi-layered aspects of different cultures and the history of
great civilizations. n
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Iconic Egypt Series
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ROMAINE
KAUFMAN:
ABSTRACT
EXPRESSIONIST
ARTIST
Artist Statement
Elements of Expression explode energy and life, celebrating life’s nuances while enticing the viewers eye.
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York City
This bold language of art displays an
individuality and breadth of style that
speaks directly to a need for art that
truly connects with the viewer, forming both a lasting expression and a
lasting impression. A carefully selected grouping of perspectives creates a
visual conversation that is both contemplative, meditative, powerful and
honest. n
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Untitled I 2013, Mat Emulsion/Graphite powder, 40 x 40’’
Untitled II 2013, Emulsion/Graphite powder on canvas, 40 x 40’’
Untitled IV 2013, Emulsion/Graphite powder on canvas, 40 x 40’’
Untiled V 2013, Emulsion/Graphite Powder on canvas, 40 x 40’’
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Bea Last
B
ea lives and works in southwest Scotland and has exhibited
her work widely across the U.K and abroad. Her most
recent solo show was at The Linenhall Art Centre, County
Mayo, Ireland. Her work is held in both the private and corporate
sector with clients such as The Corinthia Hotel London, The Dokkae
project, Jeddah, Club quarters Hotel, Central Loop, Chicago,Illanois
and Ballymore properties, Canary Wharf, London.
She says of her practice: “I am essentially concerned with
the exploration of paint onto canvas and my relationship to it, its
application and the dynamics thereof. Working with the process of
addition and subtraction, movement/stillness and energy, while
evolving a series of paintings concurrently.”
“They are inspired by my landscape, by which I mean the space I
inhabit and the landscape that I journey through. About connection,
placement and relationship. How we relate to our world and in turn,
how it relates to us. My paintings are to be spent time with. To converse
with. To build a relationship to and to perceive their changing nature
throughout time.”
“My sketchbooks are a vital part of my creative process allowing
freedom of mark making without self consciousness. The fluid energy
created through these drawings are crucial to my practice and help
me stay connected to the paintings that i am working on, helping to
move them forward in their development.’’
Bea’s sketchbooks have also been exhibited in ‘SKETCH 2011’.
A national selected drawing exhibition, at Rabley Drawing centre,
Wiltshire, U.K and ‘The moment of privacy has passed’: sketchbooks
by contemporary artists, designers and architects, at the Usher
Gallery,Lincoln,U.K. n
Further examples of her work and an update on her profile
can be seen at: www.re-title.com/artists/bea-last.asp
“My paintings are to be
spent time with. To converse with.
To build a relationship to and to perceive
their changing nature throughout time.”
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ABE ORDOVER
A
lawyer, professor and mediator by trade, Mr. Ordover became
a professional photographer fifteen years ago. Since entering
the field, he has had major solo exhibitions in New York City, at
Georgia Tech and the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta,
and the Parthenon Museum in Nashville. Other solo shows were in Raleigh,
Dallas, and Tallahassee. He has appeared in a great many group shows in
San Diego, Atlanta, Palo Alto, Minneapolis, Philadelphia and elsewhere.
In San Diego, he curates the Ordover Gallery in the San Diego Natural
History Museum where he has fashioned more than twenty shows
featuring some of the great photographers in the world. His own “Color
of Water”, “Autumn”, and “Abstraction” shows have appeared there.
He began as a landscape photographer, a genre that he still loves. In
addition he is widely known for his reflection pieces, abstractions and a
wide array of animal impressions.
His work has been the subject of a major profile in Shutterbug.
Critic Karen Chambers said of his work, “the abstract qualities of his
photographs…make him more of an impressionist than a realist.”
William Zimmer, contributing critic of the New York Times noted that
Ordover captures peak, emotional experiences.
His most recent solo show was at the University of San Diego. He also
recently exhibited in a joint show at L Street Gallery with renowned glass
maker Michelle Kurtis Cole.
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WATSART™
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Through the use of different types of medium, papers, objects, fabrics and other items,
I am able to be imaginative and creative in my approach to artistic presentation.
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atsart enjoys working with
different types of medium
in her approach to artistic
presentation.
“With temperaments varying from placidly
involving to fiercely kinetic, Watsart explores
myriad avenues of visual expression, actualizing
effects as diverse as her intentions and procedures.
An underlying zeal for the arrangement of impact
and mood distinguishes her quest for significant
and pleasurable creation.” –Book Art Press
Just as Picasso had his blue period,
so, too, Watsart had her black & white
period;
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exhibitions showcased artwork in which
Watsart combined a limited palette along
with recycled materials to create her
paintings.
Watsart studied with Nevad Art Studio
and has also attended Ducret School of
Art. She has received numerous awards for
her artistic contributions.
A resident of New Jersey, Watsart
has been creating art and exhibiting her
Dayworker
work since 1990. Her art has been shown
in venues throughout the Metropolitan
NY area and has taken her as far afield as
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GREGORYJOHNSON
I
am an artist whose work, for the past 40 years, has focused on figurative themes
which have been cast in bronze and stainless steel. The current contemporary set
of works is built upon the concepts of traditional works. With regard to the modern
works, instead of sculpting things that we see and are familiar with, such as a person, I
often chose to depict elements we people feel, but cannot necessarily touch or quantify.
The warmth of the sun, the secure and loving feeling of a Family, the strength of nature;
these are just a few of the elements I’m touching on.
Wildflowers, 21 x 13 x 5”,
features 3 moveable panels
of flowers, in a limited
edition of 15.
His ‘n’ Hers, 30 x 26 x 2.5”, in a limited edition of 15.
Birds Of Paradise, 21 x 13 x 5”, features
3 moveable panels of flowers, in a
limited edition of 15.
M
y sculpture is a metaphor that exceeds the physical presence
of the work. It is more literal than much of the abstract work
out there, and is somewhat reductive in its presentation. In
these works, industrial created components are placed in a formal, yet
irregular and lyrical juxtaposition, thus suggesting a transformation
from utility to non-utility material. I chose the circle as a thematic
symbol because of its cleanliness of shape, presence in our every day
life, and the fact that it has no corners - just one beautiful line with no
beginning, middle or end. An incredible spiritual shape, that invites
interpretation, and is so very common in our landscape. The Dance is
a work that references mother nature in motion - whether the warmth
of the sun or figurative movement, it suggests circular movement.
M
y lyrical, caressing rings form beautiful contemporary
sculptures that suggest the pathways of life, the forces of
nature or emotions of our humanity. I use the entire circle,
whole and complete, contrast it with segments of the circle, and yet
other times will use other geometric shapes to make circles... quite a
mix of contradictions.
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Books Flying Off The Shelf, 87 x 48 x 33”, installed at the
Fon-du-lac District Library, E. Peoria, IL.
The Dance, 72 x 60 x 58”, installed at the Sabre Centre
for Health, Suwanee, GA.
T
hese sculptures, constructed of high quality brushed
stainless steel are mounted on granite bases. The works
offer exciting views from any angle, and are reflective of
their environment - literally. Place them next to a bed of flowers,
and those flowers are reflected in the metal. The works are
ideal for interior or exterior placement, and offer a lifetime of
minimal maintenance .
TRADITIONAL BRONZE WORKS ARE AT www.gregoryjohnson.biz
MODERN SCULPTURES ARE AT www.moderngj.com
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Notes Floating Off The Podium, 96 x 36 x 30”, currently in inventory.
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Metropolitan Love, 23 x 23”
Tanja Playner
B
orn to paint, the Austrian artist
Tanja Playner has been guided by
her creative environment. In youth
she was fascinated by the Pop art culture of
Andy Warhol, the philosophical fantasy world
of the surrealist Salvador Dali, the rich colors
of Gustav Klimt and the shapes and abstract
expressionism of Vassily Kandinsky. From
those early influences Tanja has carved out
her own quasi Pop style incorporating the life
of the city, nature and people who are always
in the center of what Tanja depicts.
work. Tanja sends a message of love, joy and
optimism through her work. Tanja Playner is
considered to day one of the great Pop Artists
of contemporary art.
Her works are unique and unmistakable!
Her collectors love her work, laugh along
side her as they view her work. Happiness is
her key. Tanja believes her art should bring
happiness and glee to those who view her
Her artworks are a combination of
various designs, interesting and colorful,
as a story is told. In her artworks, the artist
is always having fun, enjoying the city, the
people in it as well as the objects of the city
Having exhibited in more than twenty
countries, Tanja has brought joy through
her paintings to hundreds of thousands of
people. Called by the American author John
Pirillo, the new Andy Warhol, Tanja continues
to entertain through her work. A mixture of
Warhol and Picasso can describe her work.
– architecture, lifestyle, fashion, cars and
nature in order to add a glamorous game of
life as a message to her viewers.
Tanja’s work was also displayed at the
Museum of the Americas in Miami, FL, the
Latino Art Museum in Pomona, CA, and in
October at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris.
Night Dreams, 23 x 23”
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Mona Lisa, 39.8 x 47.3”
Gloria on the Balcony, 23 x 23”
Marilyn, 23 x 31.5”
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Miguel Hine
M
iami artist Miguel Hine, 37, is
soft-spoken, intelligent, articulate
and highly introspective. Those personality
traits transfer well to his work. His most
recent creations being readied for this years’
NYC Art Expo are vivid and powerful, as if
his introspection gets nurtured and explodes
onto the canvas. At age 16, Hine was accepted
into the highly competitive New World School
of the Arts in Miami. In his junior year, he
returned to Costa Rica where he spent two
years exploring the ecology of his homeland,
a visit that imprinted his artistic sensibilities.
“Costa Rica is a biologically intense country,
so incredibly inspiring. It echoes in my
work, in my colors and strokes, and the way I
approach the canvas.” The artist often uses
his hands instead of brushes. “I like to get
physically involved with my painting. I like
that adventure.” Later, he completed formal
training at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Playing on the fundamentals he learned in art
school – composition, structure, color theory,
line – his work takes on a new level of abstract
expressionism. “When people look at my work,
they all see different things, but I’ve got them
thinking. I am a Renaissance artist – a classical
artist. I needed to learn to draw and paint from
life before I became an abstract expressionist.”
Art speaks its own language. “I look at a piece,
I can hear the artist’s story,” says Hine. “And
art has always spoken to me very deeply. Art is
a gift, something I am blessed with. Art chose
me.” Hine honors the gift by giving into the
spontaneity of the process. “I enjoy it that way.
I let the work be what it wants to be.” Painting
abstract is often more difficult than realism for
Hine. “When painting realistically, I have a
point of reference. I can see where I’m going,
right or wrong. Painting abstract deals a lot
with stepping back and imagining where it
can go.” Lately, his painting has been more of
a therapeutic meditation. “I’m not thinking
about what the piece is going to be. I’m not
thinking of the piece at all. I’m just flowing. I
love to paint freely.” Hine recently won an art
battle hosted by the World Wide Arts Federation
in Atlanta. The American Idol of the art world
type contest challenged artists to a costumed
and themed production where contestants drew
live models on stage. Most of the contestants
had planned in advance, came with friends and
crews, and had well thought out costumes. Hine
entered at the spur of the moment, showed up
with three friends, very few art supplies and a
makeshift costume. That performance earned
him bragging rights, a $1,000 check and first
place in the Last Man Standing Artist’s Battle.
“Walking in not knowing a single soul and then
having the whole crowd cheering for me; it
was one of the coolest things I’ve ever done. n
Charlotte Miller Local Color – Miami
For more on Artist Miguel Hine:
www.miguelhine.com
Mixed Media, from varoius darwing material’s such as charcol , Inda ink’s to Acylic paint on a custom craddled maple wooden canvas,
Triptych painting of 3 24”x 30”x 3” deep, 2015
Property of the Ortega Family Art collection. Key Biscayne FL
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Mixed media on on a custom craddled maple wooden canvas., 9”x12”, 2015
Property of the Paola Bernat permenat Art Collection
Mixed media, sand , gel’s and texture’s. Oil paint on a custom craddled maple wooden canvas, 36”x48”
Propertity of the Michael Oliva Art Collection. Miami FL.
Abstract Drawing Seris, India Ink on Arches paper, 18”x26”, 2015
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Marko Stout
B
ased in Manhattan, the popular mixed-media and
installation artist Marko Stout is best known for his fierce
juxtaposition of the contemporary female and a madly debauched
New York City. His current series are a reinvention of the femme fatale
motif, exposing the modern woman’s powerful role within today’s uberpaced world. In his latest series, the woman reveal a strong sensuality
in contrast with the roughness of their industrial urban backgrounds.
Through these depictions, Marko plunges the viewer deeply into
a hauntingly seductive and an often confrontational relationship
with the subject, creating an edgy examination of creative powers of
the individual to strive beyond social, cultural, and moral contexts.
Born 1962 in a turbulent South Africa, Marko Stout’s journey was not
the path of a conventional artist. As a young child the Stout family
relocated to America, eventually settling in a small summertime
resort town along the New Jersey seashore. Upon completing his
primary education and influences by the writings of Kerouac, Marko
took a year traveling throughout the United States and Europe.
Ultimately, returning to the States for his university education,
earning degrees in biology and medicine. His early vocation was
that of a practicing orthopedic doctor and medical illustrator
in New York City, this career was to be short lived, as karma was
pushing him toward more creative pursuits. Marko moved to
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California and developed a passion for painting and the arts while
living on San Francisco Bay aboard a houseboat in the bohemian
community of Sausalito. But, like the proverbial moth to a flame,
Marko returned to New York City, where he deeply immersed
himself as a part of the city’s emerging downtown art scene.
Drawing inspiration from the aesthetics of pop legends Andy Warhol,
Richard Hamilton and Jeff Koons, as well as non-narrative French
and Italian cinema and the metaphor rich works of Nietzsche, Marko
Stout established a fashionable approach to art-making that truly
speaks to the cultural nuances of our time. Through these influences,
Marko developed his trademark urban-eqsue imagery and bold
use of color, which capture the force and dynamism of city life. As
viewers are plunged into his obscure scenes, they become lost in
the electric colors and dynamic imagery, which often ignite against
organic sensuality. The resulting impact is a stunning contemporary
spectacle! n
Marko Stout Studio & Gallery
New York City and Berlin
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BRANDON SINES
Marilyn, 18”x24”, screen print on coventry rag
Simpsons, 18”x24”, screen print on coventry rag
Janet, 18”x24”, screen print on coventry rag
Nicholas Parish: photography
Lennon, 18”x24”, screen print on coventry rag
Brandon sines, born in los angeles in 1986, is a painter
and street artist. Sines grew up in toronto, canada, and
moved to nyc in 2010, creating his iconic character, frank
ape, that same year. Frank apes can be found painted,
wheat pasted and stickered in nyc. Sines first solo presentation was in 2013 at the living gallery in new york.
Frank ape art has been purchased by people all over
the world, including japan, germany, bangkok. Notable
collectors include solange, who owns 4 original franks
pieces and photographer richard misrach who has several non-frank pieces. Sines has no formal art education.
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Deborah J. Mikell
D
eborah Mikell came out of the womb with a crayon in
her hand. Her career in art began in 1972 following
graduation from Pascack Valley high school in Hillsdale, New Jersey.
She then worked out of West New York as a freelance designer for
an embroideries company. Her first commissioned mural occupied
the walls of Dweet’s North, a popular pub located in Emerson, New
Jersey. Within a year, these diverse talents earned a solid reputation,
which followed her to the Jersey Shore in 1975. Although Deborah’s
career was placed on hold while she raised two sons, she kept her
hand in various school and community projects. In the early 90’s
she returned to her education, honing her skills both as an artist
and a business woman, enabling her to create her own company,
DJM Design. In conjunction with her canvas pieces, she specializes
in murals, faux finishes, hand painted furniture and custom
finishes for cabinetry. Her work has been featured in various design
publications throughout the metropolitan area, widening the scope
of her commissions to include the entire East coast from New York
to Florida. n
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Suki Maguire
O
nce again, Suki McGuire treats us to a series of works that
Santa Claus the imagination with bold strokes of dark
and light, hinting at shapes both human and ethereal and pulling us
through the two dimensional surface of the canvas into the mysterious
depths of a multidimensional world. There is a great potential for
discovery in McGuire’s world of symbols, but a passing glance will
not do: you have to allow your gaze to linger on this part and that of
each painting so that your subconscious will have the opportunity to
retrieve the elusive forms that seem to be hiding within the more of
these shapes. This holds true even in those works that incorporate
letters of the Korean or Latin alphabet, which serves as glyphs barring
some symbolic meaning that goes beyond the mere representation of
sound. spend some time letting your mind play with in each painting
and you’ll come away with a much richer understanding of what Suki
Maguire’s art has to show us. n
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Bernard
Solco
The World’s First
Talking Paintings
I
“Bernard Solco is years ahead of his time”
Ivan Karp, OK Harris Gallery
n the current age of accelerated
technological advancement, one seldom
has the opportunity to reflect upon the nature
of the changes this advancement brings
until well after they have been effected. The
impact that this condition has had in the
last fifty years on the fine arts, which are
historically resistant to interface, has yet to
be calculated. One artist’s focus on this issue,
and more specifically the technology of the
bar code, has drawn the attention of both
the art community and the bar code industry.
The works comment on the power of marketing
to transform products into entrenched
institutions, to ingrain them into the very
fabric of a culture. The paintings would seem
to suggest that the consumer is as much shaped
by the innumerable products and marketing
strategies offered to it, as it is a player in
shaping them. The bar code is the symbol of
this socioeconomic union. It is the ubiquitous
postscript to every human transaction.
The images allow for a new awareness of the
bar code, compelling one to consider the
origins and ramifications of a technology
which is so widespread that it has almost come
to be taken for granted. Solco’s work is able to
exist due to the advent of digital technology.
This highlights the manner in which art
and technology evolve in conjunction.
Solco’s latest works are a series of matrix
barcodes that are encrypted with messages
and are actually able to communicate with the
viewer through an app that is downloaded to
any smartphone. These are the world’s first
talking paintings.
New York artist Bernard Solco’s depictions
of popular American product bar codes
illustrates the extent to which art and
technology have become intertwined.
These impressive oversize paintings have
been precisely scaled and rendered so as
to remain scannable. Yet, Solco’s works are
not simple depictions of bar codes; in their
altered format and context, they manifest
new meaning. His “American Product Series”
recently exhibited in Soho NYC, explores
the ramifications of the influence which
technology exerts over American society.
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Bernard Solco has united the two distinct
roles of consumer and artist. Representing
a range of popular products from Welch’s
Grape Jelly and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
to Elmer’s Glue and Kodak Film. Solco’s
series delineates the buying habits of a
specific sector of the American public.
Bernard Solco’s barcode paintings and prints
have been acquired by private collectors and
prominent corporations worldwide. His bar
code art is currently on display in the executive
boardroom of America Online on Madison
Avenue in NYC, Sony Music Headquarters in
NYC, Eastman Kodak Company, and many
other corporate collections worldwide.
B
ernard Solco is also an accomplished portrait artist and has
been commissioned to paint original portraits for some of the
world’s most famous celebrities and dignitaries including Brook
Shields, Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, George Steinbrenner, Count
Alexis de Limburg Stirum, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan,
and many others. His portraits have an incredible likeness of each
subject he paints and a unique Pop Minimalist style which makes
him one of the most sought after portrait painters in the world.
Contact the studio for available works, commissions & more
information on the artist.
Bernard Solco Fine Art
web: www.bernardsolco.com
tel: + 1. 212.308.4981
email: bernardsolco@gmail.com
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Cindy Avroch
C
indy Avroch is a multi-talented, internationally known artist,
who began her career by following in her mother’s artistic
footsteps. Among her earlier accomplishments, she received a degree
in textile design from the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York
City, and a scholarship to study at Winchester School of Art in England.
Cindy worked as a studio artist and then for many years an art director
in New York City’s fashion industry. Her designs could be found
in major department stores and specialty shops across the country.
Working directly with the Walt Disney Co., Warner Bros., United
Media and Nickelodeon, she created licensed print collections for the
men’s, women’s and children’s clothing markets. Her unique approach
and vision, refusing to be locked into a singular form of expression,
enabled her to create and direct the artists on her team to develop
collections that tripled sales for the companies that employed her.
She left the fashion industry to care for her special needs second son and
found herself a stay at home mom for the first time. She began designing
fine art lighting and coordinated decoupage tabletop accessories, utilizing
her original artwork. Commissioned to create collections for major
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cultural institutions, the Chicago and Longwood Botanical Gardens,
The Newseum in Washington, DC, multiple aquariums in the United
States and a holiday program for Saks 5th Avenue, it wasn’t long before
her artwork sold in high-end gift and home décor stores nationwide.
But Cindy’s first love was always drawing, painting and sculpting.
In Cindy’s work, you can see a celebration both of the real and the
imaginative. Her eye for detail, precision, composition and color explain
why her drawings and paintings have been described as “spot on.” She
is from the school of thought that in order to be a great abstract painter,
you must be a traditional one first. And she thrives in challenging and
pushing the limits every day. This is why you can catch Cindy in her
studio working on an innovative sculpture or mixed media piece, while
waiting for the layers of one of her captivating oil paintings to dry.
Cindy’s award-winning artwork is widely exhibited and collected. She was
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