Artists Describing Their Art:
Krisztina Asztalos - My paintings depicting nature:that surrounds us, the micro- and macrososmos and human nature that is like immense space. Human is -like space, forever changing energy fields: atoms as our blood circulation, as galaxies originate and stars decline, floating into ash inside.We are, as ash of stars, transmitting light....
Lyudmila Kogan - My art is my diary: a pictorial journal for painting discrete moments in time arranged by medium in which they are expressed. The medium spectrum runs from intuitive abstract expressions, to more complex reflections on daily events. Most of my art works are dedicated to abstract expressions of reality based on my personal reflections on life, environment, emotional expressions, and people's characters. I am not concerned with the superficial and the obvious: I try to capture the essence of a person, a moment, a state of mind, or an emotion. In my drawings I am not trying to imitate realistic attributes; I am trying to mirror one's character as well as to express my own thoughts and feelings on the subject. Everything depends on what and when something caught my attention, made me think, or affected me. My impulses are driven by various ideas and events that motivate me. In my drawings and paintings I strive to create a world as it comes closer to my own unique vision of everyday reality. Being an architect for many years and dealing with conformance to rules and constrains of my profession I found an escape in more poetic and figurative ...
Debbi Chan - I am going to do an updated artist's statement. But until I submit it you have a short temporary one. As an artist I an fullfilled and contend. But at the same time I seek more , absorb more, and enjoy more. Art fills and fullfills me..I am always being an artist. My eyes see art always. This is not a hobby that I partake of when time suits. Art feeds me. Art consoles me. And being prolific it also takes my time. And for this I am thankful that i listened to my inner self. I am thankful for a following that grows by the minute. I enjoy you enjoying my portfolio. I also have come to realize that the coined phrase "starving artist" is a reality for some of us. But if you take another quote, my own , you will see that starving and rich pertain to material $. because of you the viewers , and because art is my life and my passion I can truly say that I AM RICH.. RICH WITH NO MONEY... and I can also say with truth that I am happy. I chose the path that allowed this rich life. There will continue ...
Marc Lincewicz - Marc Lincewicz is an artist living and working in Columbus, Ohio. He studied at The Columbus College of Art and Design and was strongly influenced by two specific people; Lowell Toldstedt and Walter King. Toldstedt being particularly detail oriented and King very expressive. You can find both of those styles informing his work. Probably more importantly, both taught him to strive to find a unique, personal visual voice. Regarding the work, the images Lincewicz enjoys creating tend to focus on small moments, personal memories, forgotten or not often thought of places. Sometimes dream-like, sometimes more literal and direct, he bounces between contemporary and traditional. Lincewicz appreciates classical painting as much as abstract expressionism and parts of both of those influences, different as they may be, work themselves into his drawings. Lincewicz seems to have a love for texture, line and the figure. When he uses the figure, he tries to keep it gender neutral, expressing emotion through action rather than facial expressions. If we know the figure is male or female, we tend to have preconceived ideas of what may or may not be happening in the story. Keeping them neutral helps avoid this and makes the figures more ...
Austen Pinkerton - Artists Statement Austen Pinkerton If I turn my mind to it very quickly I can come up with several ideas for works aEUR|paintings, drawings, or sculptures. Sometimes ideas come to me when I least expect it, or when my mind is on other things. Ideas can be related to my current experiences, or to my feelings about things that are happening to me in my life at that particular time. Alternatively they can be related to a current interest, or something that occupies my attention at that moment, and my ideas and feelings about which Id like to share with others. A lot of my work is autobiographicalaEUR|either directly or indirectly, consciously or subconsciously. It is frequently very personal, and expresses events or circumstances or experiences in my life. I usually work in either Acrylic on Canvas, Crayon or Pastel, or both together, with Gouache, on card, Drawing in pencil, or Ink, or both, or with creating SculptureaEUR|for which I use fired artists clay. Sculpture follows a completely different set of rules and values from two-dimensional art, obviously, I think of it as Drawing in three dimensions and I take this into account when creating mine. In...
Muriel Cayet - Author of about fifteen books - short stories and biographies of fiction - and also specialist in the accounts of life, Muriel Cayet is also and before-all a art-therapist. The writing has made a very important place to the panting for a few years while allowing this professional formation and of the expression, at the moment of the action. relation of assistance, to test the eminently therapeutic role of creation, in fact of pictorial creation. To create is also to reach its emotions and to recognize them like his via creation, projection on the fabric, to allow visualization of its feelings in work and of course symbolization. Personal development, greater comfort and why not happiness to creation? The answer is yes! These fabrics are instinctive, intuitive creations and privilege an idea: the shape being done, pleasure and happiness of the Mirror of the emotions? Without any doubt! Auteur d'une quinzaine d'ouvrages - des nouvelles et des biographies de fiction- et specialiste des recits de vie, Muriel Cayet est aussi et avant-tout une art-therapeute. L'ecriture a tout de meme cede la place il y a quelques annees en permettant a cette professionnelle...
Amira Elfohail - Painting to me is the experience of transformation. The spirit of creating art is always a manifestation of being and becoming one with the life force - the source of creation that is within us all. In reality Art is nature re-expressed, perfecting the beauty that is already there...and it is the method of creating beauty, under whatever aspect, which is called ART....
Frank Driscoll - Dreams are an untapped powerful source to figuring out your life. Your mind works in ways you would not even imagine. Many of my works are dream inspired and contain quite a bit of symbolism. My objective is to simulate the sort of thought process one has when dreaming. Th symbolic aspects of my works are meant to portray a much larger idea or beleive in much the same way symbols do in dreams. The content of my work is both surreal and realistic often incorperating retro/vintage patterns, items, and images. My vibant color palate includes all colors of the rainbow, however they are presented in the tints and hues that most reflect their psycological effects on humans. Diffrant colors are affiliated with diffrent feelings. Dreams are a fusion of feelings, symbols, idea, images, and memorys, essentialy what I try to make of every painting I do. ...
Dana Zivanovits - Dana Zivanovits was born in 1958 in Columbus, Ohio and received his art training from the Columbus College of Art and Design (1978 to 1982). After art school, he went abroad for a year and studied the art of the old masters in London, Paris, Madrid, Rome and Venice. Returning to his studio in Columbus to develop these influences into a new body of work, he then traveled to Mexico and studied the sculpture and painting of that country for an extended period. The unique and vivid colors of Palenque and Vera Cruz intensified his palette. After a period in Ohio, he then moved to Venice Beach, California where the brilliant light of the region reinforced his desire to capture effects of sunlight and atmosphere. Returning to Ohio in 1995, he has continued to paint themes deriving inspiration form sources such as world mythology, classic and B-grade cinema, literature and dreams. However his primary inspiration is direct observation from nature, versus an approach based in art theories or cultural critique. Dana has been widely represented by galleries and exhibition projects including Julie Rico and Mega Boom in Los Angeles, the Venice Art Detour, Around the Coyote Festival in Chicago ...