Artists Describing Their Art:
Steven Derks - Artist Statement: Color field Paintings & Gridscapes My work is best described as accidental beauty or Shibui as the Japanese call it. It's my job to reconstruct those accidents with diverse methods yet a consistent result. The two most important tools in my work are a stick to push and pull paint around, and the sun, to accelerate the drying. The desert is the perfect place to make this work. While the painting is in the sun cracking and crazing may happen. Placing a painting in the sun to dry is similar to putting ceramics in a kiln. I can anticipate the results but I can't always predict what will happen. Picasso used to say, " Painting is stronger than me. It makes me do things I normally wouldn't do". I'm influenced by Turners skies, Rothko's compositions, and Richter's method of pulling paint. STEVEN DERKS ...
Damon Hyldreth - Embodying the tension between stasis and impending movement, my work reflects a refined balance of positive and negative space while simultaneously existing as reductionist, self-referential form. In my artistic process of exploration, blending emotion with form, I allow the work to evolve, probing shapes, investigating their capacity to change. I seek to reveal the nature of the material, allowing it to take on a life of it's own. I'm continually looking for that special moment when a new sculpture comes to life. When I first arrive at something new, something that I sense as true, the sense of recognition I feel is like meeting a long lost friend, someone you knew long ago in a far away land, the memory of which is like smoke in a mirror. I use stainless steel, weathering steel, and bronze for their natural surface and permanence and their maintenance free ability to withstand weather extremes. When using mild steel I either leave it black and oil it, or paint it red. These materials, though different, all carry my forms well.. ...
Ali Gallo - Uncovering and bringing to the surface what boils beneath creates the tension necessary for a dialog to begin between the idea and the artist and/or the art and the viewer. Finding anyway to create this tension, gouging, scratching, laying, etc in a painting or sculpture allows for deeper inspection, providing the incredible power of metaphor for the human condition....
Mrs. Mathew Sumich - Mathew Sumich passed away in late 2012. His work is available through Judith Sumich or the Michael H. Lord Gallery, Palm Springs, CA. The following statement is in his own words The focus of my work - whether non-commissioned or commissioned - is to work with basic elements such as line, form, color, texture, etc., and to apply them to the principles of design, e.g., dealing with proportion, subordination, rhythm, balance, opposition, transition, harmony and contour continuation, and to deal with different media, e.g., steel, glass, paint, wood, cement, etc., and to find potential uses of the media, taking into consideration its use in the environment in which it is to be located. My interests have always been with line and plane i?1/2 the first elements of drawing. Line creates plane, plane creates depth, plane can advance or recede by the use of color. My art is fundamental, basic, simple design principles in action. Using structural design principles and having a good understanding of the environment, I am able to take any media i?1/2 steel, glass, wood, clay, canvas i?1/2 and create 2-dimensional, 3-dimensional, or 4 dimensional adding the dimension of time objects. The final form, be it a painting, ...
Esmoreit Koetsier - Sculpture for me has been redefined by where life has taken me. When I started in my early twenties, I had no idea that my simple flat pieces of steel were going to lead to mixed-materials and colorful fluid shapes. With each piece I challenge myself and push the envelope just a little more. I look outside of the traditional materials and discover new techniques. What has stayed true is that my work is an experiment with shapes, forms, objects, colors, arrangements, and materials. IaEURtmm inspired by my surroundings and journeys as well as artists working with different medias. ...
Devi Delavie - I've decided to use the website to showcase ORIGINAL ONE OF A KIND WORK. The prices are subject to change reflecting current market value. Full-sized GICLEE FINEART REPRODUCTIONS are available at 50% of the original's price. I am once again working full-time immersed in the latest digital video production environment. PREFERRED MEDIA WORKS in Flagstaff, AZ. (928) 213-0750. Again a forum for all of my visual, performing and media arts background....
Valeria Sepulveda - EDUCATION 1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Sculpture , University of ConcepciA3n ,ConcepciA3n ,Chile. Exhibitions 2018 A<
>, Club ecuestre , Cachagua, Chile 2017 GROUP EXHIBITION A>>, Sala Arte Los DomAnicos, Santiago, Chile 2012 , SOLO EXHIBITHION, PAINTING AND SCULPTURES, GalerAa Montecatini.cl 2008 aEURoeSOFA Chicago-Sculpture Objects and Functional Art FairaEUR . Chicago, United States 2008 aEURoe50 years- Steel ArtitsaEUR, Group Exhibition. ConcepciA3n, Chile 2007 aEURoeArt Fair of Visual Arts and Public SpacesaEUR ConcepciA3n, Chile. 2006 aEURoeJungle of MetalaEUR,Solo exhibition at Universitarie Gallery. ConcepciA3n, Chile 2005 aEURoeArt NightaEUR, Canadian Asosiation, at Sheraton Hotel . Santiago , Chile 2005 aEURoeMetal BodiesaEUR, Solo exhibition, County Gobernment Gallery , Talcahuano, Chile 2005 Group Exhibithion , Cultural center of Colina, Colina, Santiago 2003 aEURoeForm and MovementaEUR, Solo exhibition, Plaza Gallery, Talcahuano, Chile 2002 Works of aEUR|aEUR, Group exhibition at montecatini Gallery Art, ConcepciA3n, Chile. 2000 Group exhibition at Koninklijke Academie Von Schom Kunsten , Antwerpen , Belgium. 1999 Solo Exhibition , German Chilean Institute of Culture. ConcepciA3n , Chile. ...
Max Tolentino - I do not think of art as a rationalization of an artistic thought or perhaps I am not still able to think this way. What fascinates me is the exercise of art; it is doing something that can express my personal point of view of things and the perception and the expression of the world as I see. Anything that carries human significance may cause me an emotion with the same intensity that I see at any museum in the world. Art is an emotional and intellectual product to me. Since my late starting in arts I have been sculpting my way in the artistic scenario with a differenced curiosity so that my overture to this environment gives me a privileged position. Doubts - no doubt - will arise, as my works transit between the formalism and the concept, between the beautiful and the political in art. But the doubts belong more to the one who sees then to me. Maybe I want to go further than the cultural concepts i?1/2 not that I pay much attention to it - but perhaps one day appreciating from outside I may glimpse a chance to be inside thus contributing in a certain way to this world ...