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Artists Describing Their Art:

David Powers - "What are these moments in our lives that leave us changed forever? I often wonder what they are made of. Moments when we are able to break through and see beyond the veil of forms and our identifications with such. For some of us these moments are much like fleeting dreams, perhaps the essence of all those (seemingly mystical) experiences that we never really speak about. For me, this passion has fueled a life long romance. A quest of self exploration, a quest to build bridges over the gaps in our communication with one another. If ever we are to survive as one race under the stars, it would appear that a higher state of awareness may be required of us. Lucid Windows is a vision I long to share. I only hope that my expressions are just that, windows of lucidity, windows, of love and light. I wish for my expressions to move the viewer like a dream they cannot shake, a reminder of all that is at work that we cannot see with our eyes. In a dream, in a vision, I saw the world as a beautiful chaotic happening. A set of scales spinning and fighting for...

David Powers - Victor Hagea - The artist has expressed his artistic creed during a conversation with the critic Nicoletta Isar as follows: "The focus of my artistic creation is the human being in connection with his activities , actions and desires which determine and form his fate - the human who creates his . If I had to characterize my style, I should call it with indefinite boundaries between reality and dream. So I would like to invite the spectator to be witness to the interaction of the states where the reality escapes into the dream and the dream will turn to some aspects of the reality. In contrast with other representatives of the various art movements, I do not doubt the traditional values of art, but I try to find a new way and to use them in an updated context. The assertion of Delacroix "The painting must be a feast for the eye" is for me still up to date and significant and it opens up for me new perspectives to implement my artistic ideas. " ...

Patricia Benitez - A slightly sadistic need to repulse fuels me. I work by manipulating darkness, anatomy, and mood. I distort the human body in ways that have caused reactions of disgust and discomfort. I present a darkened reality, which I force my viewers to face. I use my work as an expression of my desire to manipulate emotions, to perplex, to overwhelm....

E. Tilly Strauss - I have been painting chickens for the last 20 years- beginning with the advertizing of our family's poultry farm business thru the eventual move of my studio into the defunct slaughterhouse. Somehow chickens fall easily from my brush, leaving painstaking impressions of my psyche and chronicling retrospective concerns of my community- such as the source of food, the use of land, the clarity of love, the isolation of individuals. With the inclusion of text from headlines to personal lists, stories emerge and dissolve through the process of the painting. Layering in the push and pull of darks and lights, the paintings gel into a narratives of our anxious era, a larger tale of the moods of soul and season. Because of the space and time I am afforded to work, much of my painting up to this has been intimate in dimension. I would like to enlarge the images to a much more confrontational scale. I recently moved out of the poultry slaughterhouse (because of ventilation needs) into a much larger barn. My goal is to further push the images so that they reflect the chicken as legend in our cultural mythology and account for my current truths. ...