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Artists Describing Their Art:

Yucel Donmez - Yucel Donmez's place in Turkish and American Art History: Yucel Donmez has been continuing his artistic work in Chicago since 1980. He has staged many exhibitions both in Turkey and in the States and was accepted into one of the most influential art encyclopaedias to shape American art history, 'Who is Who in American Art' in 2000. His inclusion in the 'Biographical Encyclopaedia of American Painters, Sculptors and Engravers of the U.S.' in 2002, followed by the 'Devonport's Art Reference' encyclopaedia, Donmez has secured a permanent place in American art history. Yucel Donmez also appears among the 63 artists from Chicago to have entered the renowned art reference book, 'Art Diary International', published every year by the famous 'Flash Art' magazine in Italy. Awards: 2003 'Who is Who in American Art' prize plaquette Donmez has been recognised by American art critics (Alan Artner, Chicago Tribune, 1989) as an artist who has shed new light upon the art of painting with his self-developed painting techniques. He obtained 'The National Medal of Art' one of the most important awards in the United States in 1995, for his 11-year-long ...

Benjamin Oppong -Danquah - BENJAMIN OPPONG DANQUAH Producer of collarge art, paintings and wall hangings. Potraits, pet portraits and house potraits,Designs for textile prints,logos,illustrations and a painter/decorator. _____________________________________________________ I was born on the 5th of December 1967 in Accra Ghana. Had my O'level at Nsutaman Catholic Secondary School,Ghana. A'level at Wenchi Methodist Secondary School, Ghana. Finally had Diploma of Art at the University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana. OTHER TRAINING Entrepreneurial courses and workshops in Accra, Ghana and foundation course in export marketing.Entrepreneurial training workshop on business management. WORK EXPERIENCE National Service at Asante Mampong National Service Secretariat on projects.As project person,I produce art works for the secretariat to raise funds.As a teacher I also taught Graphic design (Print Making), Picture making and calabash art at Cambridge Junior Secondary, a Private school in kumasi, Ghana.I also taught some senior secondary school students part-time in picture making. I am a member of Watford Area Art Forum, Watford African Caribbean Association in Watford Britain. I have done few art workshops in drawing and painting in Watford. I have my own registered company in Ghana a small scale company (Ben-Art Enterprise) and...

Jonathan Benitez - my art is a storytelling in visual form.my images are my attempt to extricate memories from my past experiences as a child.i live in a coastal community where the daily toils of the fisher folks are my sources of inspirations. beauty sometimes do not reconcile with certain aesthetics. but i found it in exploring realities,there is beauty in depicting the human conditions,the other side of happiness,the negative feelings as effected by pain and sufferings but unspoken.the best art in the world is not about happiness but its about depicting what happen to humanity. ...

Debra Lennox - My latest work explores the vibrant use of pure colors & composition to express an intangible, surreal quality of a place. Light, color and form combine to push the figurative subject into the realm of dreams, capturing a moment in between the frenzied pace of modern life, when time slows and we become open to other, magical and spiritual influences on our lives. I am a painter in many mediums * watercolor, acrylic, & oils, and collage. I live in Comptche, California, and travel often for inspiration. I use my architectural degree as a designer and draftsman on the Mendocino Coast. I am a member at the Artists' Co-op of Mendocino, where I sell original works, laser prints and art cards. My work can be viewed at dblennox.com or artgallerymendocino.com...

Peter Illig - I look for images that are metaphors for our life experiences: love, desire, and making art. These paintings and drawings contain narrative content and ask questions about social issues and the swirl of images we are surrounded by. Once, the task of the artist was to portray and interpret the 'real world.' Now it is to determine if there even is a reality behind the appearance of things. It appears, more and more, that reality is created by observation. This search through the 'stuff' of the world, matter and flesh, is inherently erotic. So is the act of painting. The material world pulls at us and it seems we are always troubled with desire for it. It is our essence; we seek the spiritual through it. The visible world is the key, the path, to the invisible world. But it is 'desire' that clouds the seeking. I don't renounce matter but immerse myself to find the spiritual behind it. The edges of things and places interest me, the transition areas. I have been thinking about the 'inter-connectedness' of things, the Uncertainty Principle, the fact that there may be no'deep reality' underneath the appearances of objects, that traces ...

Dmitry Rakov - Impossible reality (All new artworks and largerview at www.rakov.de and

Eduardo Diaz - Statement My name is Eduardo DIaz and Iim a Mexican artist residing in the Bay Area since 2001. In my work I express different elements of Mexican culture, while emphasizing its Native American heritage. I incorporate native themes and images, both extant and prehispanic, into my works and combine them with personal feelings, experiences or fears. Although cultural elements are the essence of my art, through them I also like to express political and social opinions. As a Mexican, I feel in touch with the problems at the Mexican-American border, as well as with the issues facing Mexican immigrants. I also like to express the tension between the indigenous and the industrialized worlds, and to analyze the different elements that make up Mexican identity, especially when confronted with life in a different country. My favorite medium is oil painting. I use vivid and deep colors, with which I reflect the light of the Mexican sun. Some of my compositions are figurative, and oscillate between realistic scenes and more elaborated images, with affinity to surrealism. My most recent productions are less figurative and combine the same vivid colors into expressive abstract constructions. Biography My name is Eduardo D...

Carol Griffith - My oil paintings are meditations triggered by places or situations in my memory, arrived at through a sort of daydreaming state of mind. I attempt to evoke that mood in the handling of the formal elements of the painting, especially the color and the perspectival point of view. I wish to create both a believable place and the sense of something more significant behind it. The viewer, in contact with the painting and their own memories, may then project into the space and experience the significance that I sensed. This approach has led me to an interest in souvenirs. I see them as an attempt to capture a special place or experience in concrete or symbolic form. By doing paintings of my own remembered places and experiences, I have been following a parallel path. I like the comparison with one purpose of art. I use borders in some of the paintings to function simultaneously as framing devices and as an arena in which to create a dialogue with the internal painting. The borders also extend the meaning of the internal subject. Memories often consist of simultaneous kaleidoscopic vignettes that, in combination, embody the whole, original experience. Each vignette is also ...

Sue Jacobsen - My "artist's eye" seeks both the extraordinary and the ordinarily-overlooked moments in nature, and presents them in a way that allows the viewer to see what I've seen--and loved enough to want to share it. My regional landscapes, painted in oil, capture the rural flavor of the Wood River Valley in Idaho where I've lived and worked for over 30 years. Previously, California coastal areas were my genre. My love of the ocean and its awesome infinity is equaled in the grandeur and peace of the nearby mountains --again, infinite subjects for my paintings. Just as my professional training in graphic design at Art Center School in Los Angeles served me well when I turned my creative skills to easel painting, this then enabled me to move with ease and enthusiasm when sculpture'found me', and I learned to see with new eyes--in 3 dimensions now! My sculptures are figurative, of people or animals, and I seem to have special ability to capture the likeness and personality of my subjects. While I consider myself to be primarily self-taught, I continue to seek out other professional painters and sculptors whose work I admire, with...

Christine Lytwynczuk - Christine's paintings are about the human experience: relationships, emotions and introspection. She strives to evoke the feelings of empathy, hope, serenity and comfort through her work. Her paintings have a commanding presence, yet are quiet and exude a sense of intimacy. To be in a room with one of her paintings is like being in the presence of a close friend. Christine often paints children from different cultures, for children experience the same thoughts, fears, hopes and aspirations as adults, but they do not have emotional masks to hide behind. She paints from different cultures to highlight our inner similarities and because she is enthralled with the diverse ornamentation and design found throughout all lands. She feels that cultural decoration adds richness and beauty to life, especially when harmonized with the native landscape. Christine Lytwynczuk was born in Tucson, AZ in 1974. She spent most of her formative years, and as much time as possible now, in the Sonoran Desert. Her love of the desert and nature is revealed in many of her paintings. For twelve years she attended an open-classroom school where she had unlimited access to art materials. During high school she spent a summer in ...

Alan Bateman - I usually do not write long expiations regarding any one piece of my art. I am a not a writer. The paintings, at least in my genera, are the message. If you don=t relate to them any enlightenment on my part will only help you develop a more academic understanding of why I paint. As with many artists of all disciplines my inspiration comes from living. There is a cyclical nature to my life. I am not sure if my art inspires my life or if my life inspires my art. The parts of my life that translated in to paint always leave me with a better understanding of how I see. There are certain things that are missing from my work. This has only recently occurred to me. In a subtle way they lack any marks of modernity. I would not paint a traffic sign, or a cd player. I may even edit out hydro lines. I now know why I had an unconscious need to portray things this way. It has to do with a kind of visual literacy. It seems that you use a different part of your brain for reading symbols, and putting them in ...

Patrick Sean Kelley - Behind the Art There is nothing more intimidating than standing in front of a blank canvas and wondering what it will become. There is also nothing more exhilarating. As I begin to apply paint to canvas I find my work seems to be in continuous motion. Always changing. Always progressing. Much like the oil paints that actually embody my visions. I am influenced by many places, things, people and of course, many artists. My latest work is changing yet again. The palette has become softer more jewel toned and the subjects more somber. They speak to me as I paint each stroke awaiting life on the canvas. I am clearly influenced by some of the more modern masters like, Klimpt, Kandinsky, Mirot, Caldwell and as always, Picasso. The art is Inspired by the subject. By a woman's beauty as it is seen and felt both internally and externally. The images in my vision actually seem to mask their true identities as they glance out at the viewer exuding an air of aloofness and mystique. Each stroke is painstakingly smoothed and controlled to create subtle dimensions and color that create the mysterious creatures that appear to come to life on ...

Fundi Hatari - Allow me to introduce myself and services to you. My name is Fundi Hatari; simply put a "Dangerous Artist." Briefly, my artistic expressions ranged from pencils sketches which led to oil pastels as finger paintings, and watercolors to the black light experience with poster art and murals using fluorescent water colors and India ink. From there I ventured the path pen/inks, charcoals, photo silk-screening, and eventually graphic design and photography production. And lastly the digital experience with computers. As a web designer my past creative efforts has led to the creation of many websites. Below the following sites is a sampling from three categories: Artistic * Arturo * Dick Gregory * Carl Nelson, Front Page * Bettye Sarr * Milton Loupe * Clowns of Joy! * Marie Morris * George Combs * Aldonia Bailey (D'R.Tist) * Jazzy Jazz All-stars Galleries * Cyber Serengeti * Cafe Future, Inglewood * Calif. African American Museum (CAAM) * Culture that Sticks, Afrocentric Refrig. Magnets Business * Jet Propulsion Lab, Pasadena * AST Computers, Irvine * Pac-Bell, Pasadena * Tri-Digital Corp., Alhambra * Afrocentric News, Los Angeles * Create In Me, Culver City * Diva Designs, Sierra Madre * Word of Mouth Publications, Altadena/Pasadena area ...

Neils Neilson - I am interested in the juxtaposition of images. My paintings hold a fractured cohesion born from the disparity and blending of TV, life, and the Internet that affect my aesthetic understanding. Each element that binds my paintings acts as a visual marker, or mental quotation, that stirs the memory or instinct with an intended direction, but alters course when met with apposed imagery creating a fork in the road where content is concerned. These seemingly random juxtapositions are caused by the everyday bombardment of information and advertising that has affected my attention to content and formal relationships. Popular media, the driving force of my diversions, is prescribed with a linear rationale of visual dialogue to keep on point and be obedient to target logic. The beneficial effect is that there are so many channels, with so many different views, that the viewer inevitably pieces together a disparate array of ideas and values into one cohesive system that is continually reactive. Unlike traditional painting, which is understood by many to be readable in content, my work can be likened to the sampling of image and genre, objectifying the impressions and connections the images mutably hold. Using narrative elements as a placebo...