Etchings / Artist Prints

Artists Describing Their Art:

Peter Tovar - Peter Tovar is a seminal artist in the Chicano Art movement of Los Angeles. He was the founder of"Colores"an on-site gallery boutique at Self Help Graphics in East Los Angeles. He has also designed book covers for authors such as Gary Soto, Aurturo Hernandez and Daniel Sanchez. Peter Tovar was born at Children's Hospital in San Francisco. Second oldest son of five children, Peter grew up in Campbell Calif., a small area outside San Jose. His summers would be spent with his grandmother and cousins in the orchards. When they would break for lunch, his grandmother spun stories about the rich history of Mexico and her eventual journey to California.. " We are the people of the earth, " she would tell them. For Peter the colors of the watermelon symbolize his childhood memories of those cherished summers.In 1964 his family moved to LA where he finished high school. Peter began painting after serving in Vietnam. He continued to paint while working at SHG, and in February 1994, had his first exhibit at Self Help Graphics' Galeria Otra Vez. The exhibit consisted of a series of acrylic painting. Currently Peter lives in the downtown area of Los ...

Andre Nod - Born 1962 in Alma-Ata now aEUR" Almaty, Kazakhstan, graduated in 1988 from the Alma-Ata State Theatrical and Artistic Institute in 1988 BMF MFA. Over the course of 30 years of active creative work has authored thousands of works of art, including paintings, sculpture, drawings, etchings, photographs, ceramics and contemporary art. Has participated in more than 200 group exhibitions and held more than 30 solo shows. Has published poetry in periodicals, participated in literary seminars and also acted in films. His works have been shown at such major international forums as ArtExpo New York International, AFA Rosemalen, Art Manege Moscow, Accessible de Arte Brussels, Asia Art Tashkent, Art Market Budapest, Art Expo SPb International, Saint. aEUR"Petersburg, Art Shanghai, at Kolner Liste Discovery Art Faire, Cologne, Germany, at the Central ArtistsaEURtm House in Moscow, at UNESCO, Paris, France and also at Sothebys and Christies. His works can be seen in permanent exhibitions at the Kasteyev State Museum of Fine Arts in Almaty, Kazakhstan, at the Museum of Modern Art in Astana, Kazakhstan, at the Museum of Art in Karaganda, Kazakhstan, at the Nevzorov Art Museum in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan, at the Pavlodar Art Museum, Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, at the Regional Museum of Art ...

George Kofas - Throughout history and in all cultures and civilizations, art has reflected either the Earthly or the Spiritual. Specifically in the art of painting, certain artists have attempted to address Spiritual issues and their interrelationship with the Physical, or Natural World. Caspar David Friedrich, Wassily Kandinsky and Mark Rothko were among such artists. All three of these artists were involved in exploratory aesthetic journeys. Such journeys attempted to discover answers relating to questions of origin and state of existence and they sought out such answers within the Spiritual Realm. It is within this tradition, of attempting to explore the Spiritual Realm that my work belongs. It is only through such exploration that answers to fundamental questions related to existence will be found. Art is a vehicle of exploration. It has the capability of exploring the Spiritual and possibly providing for us a greater understanding of our existence. If the only thing art teaches us is related to the world in which we are already aware of, it teaches us nothing. The artist must be capable of discovering aspects of Reality which others are not aware of. Consequently, the artist acts as an intermediary between humanity and the Spiritual. ...

Olivia Mailloux - As a painter I work with a variety of materials, exploring a range in scale, and applying different techniques to the canvas. Currently, acrylic and watercolor paint are the main mediums I use flowing and spreading easily across the surface in which I paint. They are easy to blend and to manipulate and for an impatient artist like myself, very forgiving. The nature of this material best expresses my subject matter of flowing water and of vast mountainscapes, evoking in the viewer a memory or the feeling of being in this place before....