Artists Describing Their Art:
Rickie Dickerson - I work from the core, I smear my guts on the canvas, all the pain and confusion...joy, lust and anger...right before your very eyes. I have to paint, I have no choice. My mentor, Luise "Mignon" Andersen, introduced me to acrylic paint and threw me deeper into the river of creativity. Everything I do is just to keep me from drowning... As for the photography, that's compulsive as well....
Christine Alfery - My current thinking seems to be asking the age old question what is art Well - dont know why I say my current thinking - I have been asking that question ever since post modernism and all its relativity. Not only has art become part of the postmodern movement it has also become less precious because it seems everyone accepts the comments anyone can make art and its all about your own personal interpretation or how one sees things. I believe art, aesthetics, are all about personal interpretation. That does not make art relative and subjective. How can I say that Everyone is unique, all aEURoeartaEUR is unique. If an object is not unique, original, one of a kind, then it isnaEURtmt art. The idea, the concept, their uniqueness is art. Just like one person is unique to themselves, to their own individuality, aEURoeartaEUR is unique to itself and itaEURtms own individuality. It does not depend on collective thinking. NOT everyoneaEURtms ideas, concepts are art. Not every individual is an artist. They may create something that looks like art, it has a frame, it is in a gallery, the person who made it called themselves artists and their work ...
Phillip Flockhart - STATEMENT After 50 years of image making, journeying through the Da Da, Constructivist, and Minimalist Schools 1970s-1980s I find that my work and my beliefs put me firmly in The School of Expressionism, although my continued belief in the work of Carl Jung, especially his Catalytic Exteriorisation Phenomenon adds another layer of understanding to the traditional Expressionists and places it somewhere more in the Spiritual. My art philosophy formulated over many years practice is actually always present in the content of my work, although themes come and go and reflect other areas of my life and which are influenced by the work of great artists like Kazimir Malevich, Vladimir Tatlin, Juan Gris, Kurt Switters , Marc Chagall, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Joseph Beuys the themes of my art, if examined retain the content of my work which has remained as it has for 35 years now the attempt to disseminate the picture plane to see through and beyond, with colour, real time space, Collage Relief, imagery or optical device, multi point perspective and opto-kinetism, to reveal the truth that lays beyond .... I believe that this is what Marc Rothko meant when he said that his paintings ...
Alejandra Coirini - FORMAL STUDIES National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano PueyrredA3n Bachelor of Visual Arts, specialization Painting. IUNA Professional development in the Training and Graphic Edition Center of Buenos Aires. UNA lithography specialization course at the Ernesto de la Carcova Museum 1st International Meeting of Lithography, UNA. ACTIVITIES 2nd head of the set design workshop of the Colon Theater of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires - Argentina Withdrawal A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A INTERNATIONAL EVENTS 2019 November to February 2020, Mini-Maxi Print Exhibition Part 1 Scandinavian Meeting Point, Galleri Heike Arndt Berlin Voigtstr 12, 10247 Berlin, Germany. November, El Venadito, Synesthesia Project, art against animal abuse, Museum of Natural Sciences of Granollers, Spain. November, Graphic Stories, in North Miami Beach Library 1601 NE, FL USA October, Participation in the Biennial, Beauty Kaunas International Printmaking Biennial, Mykolo A1/2ilinsko dailA--s galerija NepriklausomybA--s a. 12, 44311 Kaunas. Art Gallery in Kaunas, Kaunas Province, Lithuania September, October, The International Graphic Art Festival UNI Graphica. Krasnodar, Krasnaya street, 15 13,198.08 km Krasnodar, Russia State-funded cultural institution of the Krasnodar region The Krasnodar regional art museum named after FA Kovalenko INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION PROJECT aEURC/ GRAPHIC ART FESTIVAL - UNI GRAPHICA 2019 September, International Engraving Contemporary II, Galeria Metanoia, ...
Daniel King - Daniel spent his childhood in the midwestern United States, received his BFA in Media Studies at the Columbus College of Art & Design, and served as an Air Force Officer at the airplane maintenance/storage center in Tucson, Arizona. He is still making up for time lost. In 2006 Daniel returned to personal/experimental film. He began interrogating his relationship with military power, personal authority and the public representation of each. "The images I seek are beneath the surface, and along the perimeter of the designed social landscape, off the beaten path but not out of the city's shadow. I place the burden of dreams, yours and mine, on the places we live and work. Artificial and haphazard landscapes often ignored by society, or hidden from its inhabitants interest me in a very fundamental way.' 'From 2003-2004 I photographed the series "Grounded" focusing on the dreamlike experience of working at the military-industrial storage facility in Southern Arizona often referred to as "the Boneyard." This facility contains the wreckage of out-modded 20Th century defense, and offense, technology splayed across 1200 acres of the desert southwest.' 'By combining antiquated photo-mechanical cameras with the use of digital printing, I ...
Ernest Reich - The reason I decided to pursue painting as a career was the cash. The bling bling. The bread. Dead presidents. I considered tort law, plastic surgery, and organised crime, among other things, as a vehicle to great wealth, but honestly, there is no shortage of those guys. I knew I had to blaze a new path if I was to acheive the huge monetary rewards I craved. Painting skulls, cars, and robots is what I do. Any high school guidance counselor will tell you that is the fastest way to get rich. As I light my cuban with a wad of hundred dollar bills, I feel thankful that I didn't waste my time at colledge. Whenever I have time to answer my fan mail from the youth of America, I always tell them to stop studying and concentrate instead on artwork or rap music. Yes indeed, as I stroll the grounds of my palatial estate, I can't help but think that the best source of inspiration is pure, unadulterated greed. So buy one of my paintings; the solid gold horseshoes on my purebred racehorse is looking a bit tarnished. ...
Dmitry Rakov - Impossible reality (All new artworks and largerview at www.rakov.de and
Felix Velez - My art work is a combination of life, striving to create what influences me by everything I see, feel and experience. I focus on the environment and human nature. I like to bring history into our time by recreating life-like sculptures from famous personalities like Einstein. While I use a variety of materials and processes in each project, my methods are consistent. When working with clay or any medium, it is important to acknowledge the meaning of the sculpture. The topic matter of each body of work determines the materials I need to incorporate in the making of the sculpture, like clay, wood or metal. The experience is very rewarding when molding with my hands and capturing that moment in time. Sculpting is my way of being creative without limits. I continuously look for ways to discover new possibilities to challenge my imagination. Each piece of art, whether figurative or abstract, is an original and innovative design. It is delivered with excellence, performance and integrity....
Dario Impini - Serenity, Beauty, Harmony. In a perennially troubled world an artist has, generally speaking, two options in their creative process reflect the chaos or wallpaper over it. I have trouble imagining my living space decorated with turbulent images of despair and misery. Doesnt enough of the outside world invade ones life despite our best intentions Instead I offer images that inspire something more serene and calming to the soul. Visual anesthetic if you will. Imbued in me during my formative years was an amalgam of form and function that was definitive 60s and 70s. A focus on the yin yang of feminine flowing curves and masculine angles permeated that time span. It was the era of the road-borne starship Lamborghini, the gold dot Movado watch, the Chanel perfume that encouraged you to share the fantasy on the manicured lawns of a fabulous mansion, and the sound barrier piercing icons of flight - the Concorde and SR71 Blackbird. This brew of influences inspired the following collection of photographic artworks which have been published nationally and seen in art galleries coast to coast. Each one of these artworks is pre-visualized, crafted in dreams or visions, carefully planned, archived for the right moment, ...