Mixed Media Art

Artists Describing Their Art:

Cherise Khit - I would like to use my arts as a way of communication or a shout out. It is to inspire, to enlighten, to awake, to make aware of, to alert, to touch life and to bring someone into a different perspective of mind and world. I don't really like to give my artwork a title if I have a choice. I don't like to explain my artwork in details, it somehow restrict and affect human's imagination. I will rather choose to let everyone to have a room of their own imagination towards my art pieces. I would like THE ART to speak for itself. As I said, maybe that is the way of communication between two hearts through art. I like people to take part with their own heart. As I am not a very expressive person in word. I find art is able to express the mixture of my feelings that cannot be described by words alone. Its Bizarre, abstract, surreal, magical, mysterious and AMAZING.

Eduardo Diaz - Statement My name is Eduardo DIaz and Iim a Mexican artist residing in the Bay Area since 2001. In my work I express different elements of Mexican culture, while emphasizing its Native American heritage. I incorporate native themes and images, both extant and prehispanic, into my works and combine them with personal feelings, experiences or fears. Although cultural elements are the essence of my art, through them I also like to express political and social opinions. As a Mexican, I feel in touch with the problems at the Mexican-American border, as well as with the issues facing Mexican immigrants. I also like to express the tension between the indigenous and the industrialized worlds, and to analyze the different elements that make up Mexican identity, especially when confronted with life in a different country. My favorite medium is oil painting. I use vivid and deep colors, with which I reflect the light of the Mexican sun. Some of my compositions are figurative, and oscillate between realistic scenes and more elaborated images, with affinity to surrealism. My most recent productions are less figurative and combine the same vivid colors into expressive abstract constructions. Biography My name is Eduardo D...

Ken Hillberry - In art and in life, dynamics of balance, integrity and tolerant interaction of all elements or participants ought to be see, experienced and maintained. At the same time, the challenge of affecting this balance is creatively encountering all changes and adapt accordingly. For some, the destination or pre-determined outcomes are sought more often than not. Then there are some who savor the journey, thus witnessing and enjoying developments along the way. I fall into the latter category. It's like watching the film develop in a darkroom. the image takes form a little at a time right before my eyes. The creative process, for me, is void of pressure and timeless. The ability and practice and discipline are central in my approach. My creative intent is to engage a viewer in thought and emotion, as well as, with their eyes. Using imagination, retrospect or model, my range of composition can be conceptual, perhaps impressionistic or abstract in application, but always developed to evoke an awareness and appreciation for the relative conditions in life experience and art form as I incisively or playfully interpret my experiences along the way. ...

Melissa Lambert - Investigation and Experimentation My art, whether abstract, figurative, or combinations of both, explores dimensional vibrations through the use of line, color, symbolism, and form. Geometry, particle physics, holonomic brain theory, mythology, and Jung's theories of synchronicity and the collective unconscious all inform my work. Perceiving the concepts contained in the above theories, I strive to reveal the deeper dimensions and innate spirituality that exist in the here and now of every moment....

Linda Vi Vona - Multi-media collages have been the main area of work for me in the last three years. This medium allows me to combine painting, drawing, photography, printing and computer enhancements all in one piece. I have always explored mediums and stream of consciousness as process . The work is therefore autobiographical, mystical and liminal. All the work is unique and archival....

Mocanu Monica - ...The inspiring elements are people - women and men - as well as the fascinating diversity of human beauty, culture, religion, colour... I every piece of my artwork I intended to create a mixture between the past and the present. If we knew more about each other we would understand how the diversity should be a potential force for the progress of humanity. I hope to be able to dedicate this entire work to people and show that: THE WORLD IS BUT ONE COUNTRY AND MANKIND IT'S CITIZENS! ...

Nora Meyer - I paint what I feel, what I imagine, what I'm reminded of, what I see and live. Some times I take a classic and rethink it. Some times my drawings are of every day items and the appreciation of their souls and their quiet drama. I find beauty in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, the forms created amongst another. ...

Troy Whitethorne - "to create, is to put your soul, on paper,!" i love still life, cultural art, abstracts and nudes. My passion for art, is number one on my list, i love art, and its a way to express who i am.......

Duygu Kivanc - Duygu Kivanc is an artist who has shown her work at the United Nations, Soho, Chelsea in NewYork; Alexandria, McLean and Fairfax in VA, in Washington DC as well as internationally in various countries. She considers her participation in the Art Students' League {open studio programs} in New York has influenced her development style in art. Especially, Knox Martin's instructions on abstraction has very strong influence. Duygu's work has been published in: -The Encyclopedia of Living Artists (4th.Edition) - Best of America, mixed Media artists (2007 and 2010) www.bestofartists.com/kivanc/abstract-portfolio/9545623 -International Contemporary Artists Best of Artists Collector's Edition. -Nominated for 2011 Palm Art Award

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Josef Jobst - For me, doing art is a meditation and an affirmation of life, that lifts me above the problems of everyday. My passion for colors let me take the artist-name "Chromosoph" (greek for "Color-Lover" or "Color-Thinker") I started as a realistic painter. Now I'm a figurative painter but I love the infinite freedom of abstractions... so most of my art is "figurative abstraction" My artistic influences are based in the art of the early impressionists, the "School of Barbazon". Like the work of those artists, I explore the space between realistic and abstract art - in a rich and diverse stylistic texture. ...