Artists Describing Their Art:
Paula Roush - bio-blurb-propaganda [:::] paula roush (born in lisboa, portugal; lives and works in london). paula is an interdisciplinary artist whose work addresses public culture and urban space. With a visual art and urban/social studies background, she works across these disciplines as both a practitioner and a theorist. She works with the city as a site of investigation and develops ways of intervening in urban space, working in the mode of public art and tactical intervention into public debate but more generally, working with a problematic of the public and the politics of the public sphere. Paula is the founder of msdm [
Ellen Rosenberg - aEURoeWhen you approach something to photograph, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then donaEURtmt leave until you have captured its essence.aEUR Minor White Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being. It is an expression of the human spirit and an integral part of all beings. My creative passion is expressed through the art of photography, allowing for a vocabulary of imagery that is my own. These photographs arise out of my own spirituality, a practice of mindfullness and being fully awake to the present moment. As my journey has taken me deeper into the study of Dharma I have recognized that the camera becomes an extension of my being. I bring the camera to my eyes and aEURoefeelaEUR the image that appears in front of me with a heightened awareness. An opening to the world precisely as it is, offering up all the richness and beauty that is present within this moment of time. I seek to create an intimacy with my photographs, allowing for the viewer to feel the art form, not as a two dimensional visual archive of a moment, but to...
Luba Sokolovsky - Luba was born in Lithuania but immigrated to Israel in 1980. She has a degree in medicine, but worked in the hi-tech field for about 20 years as well as performed in concerts, singing and playing the guitar. She has been painting for more than half her life while still working, but in the last five years she has devoted her time exclusively to art. She is self-taught except for a course in computer graphics which she took in university, and a period of time she spent taking classes at an Academy in Braine L'Alleud. Luba usually paints in oil on canvas, as well as with acrylic, charcoal, gouache, pastel and pencil. Lately she has been creating many photocompositions and collages. Her art depicts her feelings, experiences, ideas from literature, music, poetry, nature and life. In her photocompositions she explores the hidden inner beauty....
Ellen Spijkstra - I am not interested in telling a story. I will not try to give a complete overview. I hope to make people more aware of the beautiful images around them; the interesting shapes of the weathered (coral) stones on the beach, how the reflection of a ship colors the water, a detail of a monument, or the pattern of a leaf. I am fascinated by material. The process of erosion and damage. The contrast between skins. I make use of this in rhythmic compositions or forms. In my photographs you can see I am a ceramist at heart. ...
Henning Von Berg - "Provocative photos for people who understand the fine difference between sex and sensuality!" (r) IN-Magazine, Hollywood: Noted photographer Henning von Berg is the guy whose photos of 6 nude men in the German parliament'Reichstag' made the front pages of 46 international newspapers. Famous for bizarre group shoots in unique locations, the former architect likes to combine all kinds of bodies & buildings. Henning von Berg is the last male descendent of a traditional German family (477 years old). He took his first nude photos at the tender age of 12, and today the 6'5" tall giant has earned world wide recognition as a trend setter and a fearless lensman. He is willing to break all the rules to achieve startling photos of women and men in great settings, public and private. To date, the work of'HvB' is known on all five continents. His material has been published in a variety of high-profile periodicals, on greeting cards, calendars and lithograph posters, as well as all kinds of art books. Von Berg lives and creates in Amsterdam, Hollywood and Berlin. His artistic motto (r) is: "Provocative photos for people who understand the fine difference between sex and sensuality!"(r)...
Rosalinda Alejos - While taking an Art Appreciation course at a local community college, I realized that making art was what I wanted to do the rest of my life. Especially since in Austin I had the pleasure of observing an artists' black silohuette within a circular outline on the corner of a wall endlessly laughing and repeating "So you want to be an Artist!" Yes I do want to be an artist and I will continue to do so even though a great deal of my work maintains elements of "coincidences". ...
Tina West - Statement of the artist My still life photographs are sculptural installations, created environments that give new meaning to objects, as their scale is re-addressed through a new place in space and time. All of my still life's feature found objects, including objects that in some manner find me. Together, you and I make each photograph a story. I begin the story with the photograph, but it is your reactions and experiences that complete it. Certainly, I could finish the story as it relates to me, but I am far more interested in the telling of your own story. The photograph is my vision. The story is yours. As an introduction my camera of chose is a 4x5, I consider it a medium large format. The film of choice is Polaroid 59, there is a look and feel that can be found no other way. Now Fuji instant film, as Polaroid is no longer produced. The photographs are scanned and printed as archival pigmented prints. I am a collector of thing or objects. I cannot say what I collect it varies from day to day, or year to year. Ultimately the objects speak to me, or people have given ...
Ady Van De Plas - I am an Amsterdam Artist who works in the areas of, Illustration and Photography. I try to produce interesting, thought provoking and exciting work, Always ready to try lots of different dynamics within my work. "Who would take some blotting paper to the local garage, soak up spilled oil then put it through a scanner" From Computer Arts interview in 1996. ...