Artists Describing Their Art:
Lavih Serfaty - Lavih Serfaty is a multicultural artist. The works are on canvas, paper and aluminum. The painting are in acrilyc and water color. The latest painting are painted on aluminum with acrylic color. The use of bright and mono color is a result of a deep learning and understanding the power of the colors as it's affect people. The color can change the atmosphere of the environment, can heal our soul. The use of the right color in the right place can bring new and pure energy in our home. "I use the theories of color therapy, "feng shui" and "chakra energy" in my painting. The idea of making those painting is a result of long period of meditation and listening to music. Then I decided to paint with just one color according to state of mood I am, after I meditate. The aluminum is folded before I put the color on. When the painting is hanging on the wall, the color change as the light is changing during the day, the shade accentuate the color and change them to deep, darker or lighter. It's fill the room with bright and clear energy. The colors I choose are from ...
Jennifer E. Miller - Jennifer E. Miller, with a studio in Hillsborough, NC, has spent 25 years exploring and painting the farms, forests and rivers of her area, working in watercolors and oils.A-A?A1/2 Her style is called plein-air, a French term that literally means A-A?A1/2full airA-A?A1/2, and describes an artistA-A?A1/2s representation of effects of atmosphere and light that cannot be observed in the studio. History and nature are both strong influences in her work. She is a private art teacher. Visit her web site www.waveoverwave.com....
Carol Griffith - My oil paintings are meditations triggered by places or situations in my memory, arrived at through a sort of daydreaming state of mind. I attempt to evoke that mood in the handling of the formal elements of the painting, especially the color and the perspectival point of view. I wish to create both a believable place and the sense of something more significant behind it. The viewer, in contact with the painting and their own memories, may then project into the space and experience the significance that I sensed. This approach has led me to an interest in souvenirs. I see them as an attempt to capture a special place or experience in concrete or symbolic form. By doing paintings of my own remembered places and experiences, I have been following a parallel path. I like the comparison with one purpose of art. I use borders in some of the paintings to function simultaneously as framing devices and as an arena in which to create a dialogue with the internal painting. The borders also extend the meaning of the internal subject. Memories often consist of simultaneous kaleidoscopic vignettes that, in combination, embody the whole, original experience. Each vignette is also ...
Ana Marini Genzon - Personal Statement My art is about people and the way they experience their lives. I intend for my artwork to reflect emotions and thoughts. While creating sculptures and paintings, I try to suggest a story, not only of the moment but also of an entire life. Not only of what we can see, but what is invisible to the eyes. Art is always a mirror. That is why it is so powerful. It speaks not only about my subject, but also speaks about my perceptions. In the process of expressing the mood of the subject's substance, I constantly go deep inside myself searching for answers about human relations in this fast and ever changing world. My work is a conversation in color inspired by the intricacies of nature. Through my paintings I explore texture, color and process. Texture is a significant component of my work as my goal is to create a surface, not just paint one. Education Ana studied art at The National Institute of Fine Arts Manuel Belgrano where she earned a BFA and at the National Academy of Fine Arts Pridiliano PueyrredA3n in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she graduated with an MFA. Upon her arrival ...
Dieter Picchio-Specht - Art, creativity and imagination have always played an important part in my life, although I have only started to fully concentrate on painting a few years ago. This passion has always been part of me. I have finally given up my work as a general manager in industry aEUR" to dedicate all my time to painting. At last I do what I have always wanted to do. It is simply that a dream has finally come true. Even during my years at secondary school my paintings were awarded prizes and I should have enrolled in art classes after I passed my A-levels. In fact, a renowned company manufacturing ceramics offered me a scholarship, which I was unable to accept at the time. I have always kept up with painting as landscapes and images, abstract and impressionist. Since some years now I am able to paint full-time and fill canvas after canvas with my ideas. My new studio is right in the centre of the village of Arcegno, surrounded by wooded hills, near to Ascona, a well-known tourist centre at the Lago Maggiore in the South of Switzerland. I apply the paints directly to the canvas with a spatula. ...
Maxim Bondarenko - All indifferently, as if colouring everything around with my vision, like the Kazakh akyn whose song is about everything that he sees at the moment of singing. It seems that when I have painted a certain number of objects, the space of my dreams will break through into this universe, take it over, filling everything with its own realities, imposing its own laws. The world will change, but not in abstract way a-la'Beauty will save the world', but genuinely. And you should not expect this new world to be calm. ...
Renso Castaneda - From Peru, I have been painting about 10 years, I have always been mesmerized by the human form, my current work concentrates on the nude, and surrealism, and the medium that I use is oil. My interest is focused in the different aspects of the human relationship, the feelings, the emotions, love, and pain. When I paint I like to add drama by adding light and shadow enhancements to get more _expression to accent the theme of every painting. I have several collectives exhibitions and 15 solo show, I have been showing my artwork in South America, United States, and Europa (Spain) ...
R.c. Naso - The artists' purpose is to invent, to explore, and to experiment with new concepts, and to open new avenues of expression for the next generation of artists to explore. Just as all the important artists of the past opened new avenues of expression to explore for all who were yet to come. With this concept in mind I approach my work... ...
Hongvan Ng - A VISION COMES FROM A POINT WHERE THE IDEAS START. Painting is a powerful language in which I express myself and communicate. The message within each painting is an illustrated element or aspect of my life. I paint the moments that capture me, the beautiful and the painful for the exquisiteness of any moment can make me cry, and then I paint. Sketching and drawing are tools of my vocabulary with which I discover and reveal my thoughts and feelings, and when I forget that I am making art, when I am purely communicating, I am free. ...
Janet Allinger - Curriculum Vitae: Janet Allinger was born in 1964 in Detroit MI and lives and works in Santa Cruz, CA. An artist from day one, she perfected her skills over the years in design by working along side top designers in the graphic design trade and constantly experimenting with her artistic abilities. Her medium of choice, is acrylics. Allinger has shown her works at many businesses and shows including the 2002-05 Open Studio exhibits held in Santa Cruz, CA, and the first Santa Cruz Digital Art Festival. She had displayed at the SFMOMA artist gallery at the Fort Mason center and has been published in newspapers and art used for promotional pieces other than her own. Mrs. Allinger has been chosen for Chicago's Woman Made Gallery "Her mark" date book, the Kellogg University art gallery, Carmel CA Winfield gallery, Siggraph animation conference in San Diego, CA, Biddle gallery in Wyandotte MI, Thacher gallery in San Francisco, Red Ink studios in San Jose, La Bussola in Reno NV, POD & Stage gallery in New York plus several online U.S. and U.K. galleries. In 2005, she was a recipient of Santa CruzA-A?A1/2s prestigious Gail Rich Award. To see more ...
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Timothy King - ARTIST STATEMENT and BIOGRAPHY STATEMENT I find painting goes beyond the notion that painted reality is aEURoenothing but aEURoe a precursor to a photographic realism. Painting is a phenomenological experiment. There is a synthesis between the visual and the kinesthetic that forms a powerful third range of human perception. Human space and form are not purely optical manifestations. The painting of mass and line can provoke a muscle sense, a physical ness between viewer and the painted relationships. Hans Hoffman called this aEURoePush-PullaEUR. Matisse referred to this as the convexity of pictorial space. In this aEURoemeta-visionaEUR or aEURoeminds-eyeaEUR the painter is not freed from the experience of perspective and local color and the naturalistic geometry of the objects and scenes. Rather, the painter can be liberated by the experience and knowledge of the defining aspects of human reality. Vision encompasses the obvious factors of sight along with other less obvious paths to sensing reality. Human vision is based on a plasticity of structures that tell us more than what a photograph can convey. The visual system, governed by layers of logical relationships, goes much further than a photo interpretation of reality. Painters like Courbet and CA(c)zanne understood ...
Jean Charles Dicharry - DICHARRY & HARPER Original interiors - Exclusive designs Creation of original frescoes, trompe l'oeil architectural decoration, painted furniture & accessories. International atelier dedicated to creating unique environments for residential and commercial applications. For project proposals CD Rom inter-active presentation of portfolio free on request. Web site: www.jean-charles-dicharry.com Publications: Printed: NEW YORK MAGAZINE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE NEWSDAY MAGAZINE MIRABELLA ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST HOUSE & GARDEN (ORIGINAL, NEW & BRITISH VERSIONS) ELLE DECOR (ITALIAN VERSION) CUMHURIYET METROPOLITAN HOME INTERIOR DESIGN ETC. Multi-media: Japanese broadcast about a frescoe in Soho NY japanese broadcast about a collection in Paris France Broadcast about a frescoe on CNN in New York Design Collaborations (Partial Listing): JID JOHNSON JOHN SALADINO JUAN MONTOYA SAMUEL BOTERO JACQUES GRANGE DAVID HICKS NANCY HUANG HILTON MC CONNICO IKE, KLIEGERMAN & BARKLEY M. GROUP Clients (Partial Listing): STEFANO PILATI, DIRECTOR OF CREATION FOR YVES SAINT LAURENT MRS. EMILY FRICK M. & MRS. MICHAEL & DIANDRA DOUGLAS M. JUAN MONTOYA TIFFANY & COMPANY BERGDORF GOODMAN STUART WEITZMAN - FRETTE - LA PERLA M. & MRS. RESNICK, FRANKLIN MINT MRS DIANA BROOKS, PRESIDENT, SOTHEBY'S THE HON. PERETTY, ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF NEW JERSEY M. & MRS. MARWAN BOODAI, JAZEERA AIRWAYS Contact: Cel: 33 6 61 88 95 27 NEW ...
Pietro Bellani - Born 1944 Licciana Nardi in the province of Massa-Carrara (Tuscany). In 1960 begins in earnest his artistic activities prevalently dedicated to visual art. In 1961 becomes an active participant of the art group aEURoeLionello VenturiaEUR in La Spezia. During these early years of the Sixties involves himself in experimental research of photography and 8mm film. In 1963 produces several stage designs for the Civic Theatre in La Spezia. Is invited to join the aEURoePromotrice di Belle Arti Di TorinoaEUR which is an associate of the international Cultural Exchange in Rome. Is the founder-member of the group aEURoeArte GrottescaaEUR linking the cities of Pisa and Milan. In 1965 moves to Paris and frequents the studios of several artists, one of whom is the noted Abstractist Folmer. From the mid-sixties to the mid-eighties he involves himself more with Figurative Art. For the last fifteen years his work is based on abstraction. Pietro Bellani has been invited to numerous exhibitions and prize showings....