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Artist Exhibitions:
solo exhibitions
Northwest of Eden, January
2006, Art Boutique, Everett,
WA
two person exhibitions
Abstract works by Duane
Simshauser and John Vistaunet,
2009, Solovei Art Gallery,
Everett, WA.
group exhibitions
Unclad 2009, Stanwood, WA
Nude Awakening, figurative art
show, 2009, Lowell Art Works,
Everett, WA
International Guild of Realism
2009 ...
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
Pastel Painting "Brown Couch"
receives Pastel Journal Grand
Prize Award in 2005 Pastel 100
competition. See April 2006
issue of The Pastel Journal
for article....
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Collections:
Private collections in
Washington, Idaho, Illinois,
Oregon, California, Michigan,
Tennessee, Australia, and
Latvia....
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for John Vistaunet
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1. Visual art (and the artists who create it) should be seen and not heard.
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2. My work is as much about an interplay of the flat painting surface with the illusion of three dimensional space as it is about the sensual beauty of the female form. Background and foreground trade places to challenge the viewer's preconceptions of where space should begin and end. Pictorial composition encompasses both time and three apparent spatial dimensions, as the viewer's eye is allowed to follow its natural course through various planes of focus. The figures themselves are lifelike, sumptuous and beautiful, sometimes playful, at ease with themselves and at home in their space, happily oblivious to the artistic and compositional machinations at work around them. Nudes are presented straightforwardly, neither shocking nor coy. The apparent simplicity of some of the images belies subtle levels of complexity that linger on the visual palate. A convincing illusion is created of a world which invites the viewer to enter, spend some time, look around, discover things not seen at first glance. In this kind of visual journey, one discovers that art can be stimulating rather than pedantic, enriching rather than morbid, transporting rather than reporting.
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