Artists Describing Their Art:
Constantine Cionca - Constantine Cionca (1955, Romanian born, United States) is an artist who works in a variety of media. On his conceptual digital work Cionca tries to approach a wide scale of subjects in a multi-layered way that generates diverse meanings. By studying sign processes, signification and communication, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. &...
Oksana Linde - I paint and draw since very young, and sometimes feel I am in a dream. When I close my eyes, many times I have extraordinary visions impossible to paint. I do not care about what is in fashion but what comes to my mind and try to reproduce it...I like to experiment with different techniques and mediums. Dream and reality merge frequently. I Need freedom in art. For relaxing, I love making collage, watercolor, digital images, also ink drawing. Collage is such a wonderful world! You can discover a hidden universe putting together different pieces of whatever you find. When I make mixed media large artworks, it is difficult to stop for me. Ideas after ideas keep filling my mind, and I have not enough possibilities to do all I would like. I was born in Venezuela, from Ukrainian origin. My mother, Halyna Krychevska-Linde, taught me some painting techniques. She was a many-sided artist and artisan. My grandfather, Vasyl H. Krychevsky was a very talented artist, scholar, graphic artist, designer, architect, Teather and Movie set designer, innovator. He died when I was four, but his influence on me has been intense.
John Mccarthy - "Chaos for me breeds images." -- Francis Bacon JFM Theory: Chaos is the ultimate order. The energy embodied in John McCarthy's art springs from a chaos that exists at a level that far surpasses the categories of abstract expressionism and other forms of so-called "accidental art." It is a place where the meaningful and the meaningless can playfully co-exist; where reason and the illogical exist side by side; where the details are always superior to the whole; where chaos is the ultimate order, where a lightning bolt of paint ignites texture and impasto in an electric explosion of conscious thought and anxious action. It represents a separate multiverse - where opposing sides forever reverse, replace each other and merge. Conversely, the rules of the world can also be seen as reversals, betrayals, plot twists, double identities, traps, time warps, black holes, rebellions in consciousness, metamorphoses and the big bang. McCarthy's paintings are shards of broken-glass paint that re-define a cubist view of chaos theory. They are atomic or subatomic explosions of colors like nothing that has come before. Look closely at the rivers of color represented in his action painting and see if you can decipher...