Photography For Sale - Price Range: $500 - $599 (395)

Artists Describing Their Art:

Jorge Alban - My current work elaborates on spatial/textual/historical tensions that reveal contradictions between the represented and its representation, between the small personal anecdote and the grand historical narrative. My photography thus incarnates the failure of male socialization and the ways in which Latin America still conceives and applies power. Between 1995-1998 I intervened crashed car pieces with photographic self-portraits holding my little girl. It was an attempt to challenge the archetypes at work in paintings like the Virgin with Child of Il Duccio de Buoninsegna, painted around the year 1300 A.C. , so abundant in catholic imagery. The trashed car junk provided a most appropriatte showcase for masculine destructive powers, a reference to the Pantocratos "punishing god" (as oppossed to the all forgiving virgin Mary). Several of these pieces, including Toyota Corolla 92 (1996 and Taxi Year Unknown (1997), were exhibited at Body, Fragment Memory. In the catalog of this show, published by the Museum of Costa Rican Art in 1997. The critic Vivianne Loria (current Lapiz Magazine collaborator) stated in that shows catalog: "In the Works by Jorge Alban, the image is diffused, hidden and enhanced as fragments on a metallic support, fragmented on it ...

Corrie Ancone - Artist statement : "I don't care for the certainty of what's in front of my lens, but the creativity, the fantasy, the invention, that can gush from a thought before or thereafter. Between the certain and the uncertain there is a possible space, as in dreams and fables. Heavily influenced by mythology, nature and the techniques and working styles of the early European Dadaists, Impressionists and Baroque artists, my creativity stems from my lust for finding and exploring sympathies between the human body, the landscape and its textures. Oscillating between transparency and opacity, colours and images collide in my work, creating new visual and emotional images, often painterly and somewhat surreal, which affect perceptions of natural reality. This is sometimes described as 'synthetic realism'." Corrie Ancone ...

Alexandre Nodopaka - 1. To portray ideas in a fresh style, but most important I was Born for Art, I Live for Art and will die for Art. 2. Abstraction in art is the greatest spiritual meditation & an ideal cerebral masturbation. 3. Photography killed representational art some 150 years ago. The computer killed abstract art. Today, thousands abstracts can be created in a day, they may be worth a thousand words but not a penny! 1. Pour peindre des idees dans un style frais, mais plus important je suis ne pour l'Art, je vis pour l'art et mourrai pour l'art. 2. L'abstraction dans l'art est la plus grande meditation spirituelle & une masturbation cerebrale ideale. 3. La photographie a tue l'art figuratif il y a quelques 150 annees et l'ordinateur a tue l'art abstrait. Aujourd'hui, des milliers d'art abstrait peuvent etre crees dans un jour... ils peuvent valoir mille mots mais pas un centime! 1. Para retratar las ideas en un estilo fresco, pero mas importantes de que era nacido para Art, vivo para Art y morire por Art. 2. El caracter abstracto en el ...