Artists Describing Their Art:
Carly Munro - Growing, feeding, and sheltered on or in a different organism while contributing nothing to the survival of its host, fungus that produces a growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter. Super seeding and reproduced we consume enabling societies to survive yet damage is done as we the professional dinner guests do not benefit our host yet harm it by association. Undermining and decaying the fabric of its existence. Infiltration and assimilation! In our short existence we exploit and expose the need to consume. Our tacky and superficial exteriors entice parasites which aid the state of our surroundings. We are concerned with a surface; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually, here to aid in the renovation and finance of this building like fungi waiting to be nibbled on by some hungry creature while sucking the life out of the organism we survive on. ...
Daniel Johnson - The geological formations of Arizona, and the relationship the local people have with this piece of earth moved me to focus on ceramic stoneware forms that relate human attributes to stone, and earthen aspects to humans. There I began to incorporate hand building with clay, statue restoration trade secrets, metal, and the use of resins to achieve his high-fired stoneware creations, which range in size from small to heights of ten feet or more. My art is heavily figurative and illustrates 'the distorted realism of the human condition'. They transmit human qualities from compassion and understanding, to degradation and despair. Confronting the gambit of human emotional states and physical conditions, I try to relate my observations honestly. Sometimes it is beautiful, sometimes it is not, but life is not always pretty. I look for simple truths to illustrate that may not be seen by all. I continue to be inspired by observing individuals and their interactions with each other, society and the earth. ...
Mark Renaud - Title..."Hope in Desperation" This unique tree represents the artist's reflections on his own life by using nature and his lifelong fasination with tress in an analogy towards the similarities between the human spirit and that of the spirit found around us in nature. Special attention was given in selecting the stone mount for the tree. The artist felt that the mount must define a weather-torn, barren, non-fertile and isolated location to parallel the feelings he was experiencing in his surrounding at the time he concieved this sculpture. (this stone has been dated at being 450 million years old by some of the fossils found embedded in it) Choosing to work with copper as the base, limbs and leaves was mainly due to the metaphysical and physical properties of copper as being a conductor of energy. The artist believes that just as copper is a conductor of energy so are we as human beings. The leadcoating on the bas and limbs of the tree is a protective shell, protecting the tree from the elements and environment much the same as we as human beings wear masks create walls for protect from our environment, to protect our inner-...
David Raine - Are dreams just our confused brains de-fragmenting when we rest, just scraps of picture images racing back and forth through the maze of neuron connections seeking to be correctly filed, occasionally flashing up as a partially recognizable scene that we erroneously feel significant? And in the day another overload of thoughts, and facts and images assails our conscious and unconscious minds until we hit the pillow to get them sorted. Shapes come to me in the daytime. Sculptural shapes and sculptural ideas emerge complete from nowhere. At least that's how it appears on the surface of things. But like the process of nightly de-fragmentation and neat filing, that process of re-organizing the blitz of images into a form that is pleasing to my mind and to my set of emotions is what I do. It's totally personal, it is a physical expression of how my arrangement of emotions copes with the world around me. It's entirely possible that sculptural shapes that warm me and give me a degree of satisfaction are not universal and mean nothing to anyone else. ...
Teresa Turner - I've been creating for as long as I can remember, and first tried to show my work at the age of 5 when I set up some paintings at the end of my parents' driveway. (That didn't go so well, but it didn't stop me from wanting to keep at it!) I became a full time artist in 1992, exhibiting my work at shows and galleries in the central midwestern US and Ontario. My artwork now appears in collections across 40 states in the US, as well as Canada, Europe, and the UK. Please remember when viewing images of my work online that the actual works are much more detailed than the format for placing them on the web allows, and color variations will occur when viewed on different systems. The artwork represented here is covered under copyright; as such, all images of my artwork are the property of Teresa M. Turner, and may not be reproduced in any form without written consent of the artist. OTHER IMPORTANT INFO: *All of my work comes from a smoke-free home. *I'm happy to combine shipping when possible, but because USPS shipping rates vary depending upon both the ...
Stephanie Grimes - Education 2003- University of North Carolina at Pembroke (UNCP)- B.A. in Studio Art 2003- Fayetteville Technical Community College- Welding 1997-2000 Fayetteville Technical Community College- Various art classes 1983- North Carolina State University- B.S. in Zoology Exhibitions 2007- Gala Corina "Iluminacion", Tampa, Florida 2007- Platforum Floida "Fusion" Art Party ...
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Elena Paroucheva - Elena was born in Bulgaria, graduate of the fine arts at the University of Veliko Tirnovo "Sants Cyrille and Methode" Lives and work in France since 1991. Artist plastician, works in the fields of painting, the sculpture, the installations, the artistic actions, the public orders. For several years, it has developed its project on Art and the Environment: " High Voltage Sculptures and Installations ". Acquisitions: << Peter Ludwig >> Modern Art Museum - Aachen (Germany). Ministry of Culture - Sofia (Bulgaria). The National Art Museum - Sofia (Bulgaria). << Kliment Ohridski >> University of Sofia (Bulgaria). Fine Arts Museums - Sliven (Bulgaria). Fine Arts Museums - Iambol (Bulgaria). Modern Art Museum - Blois (France). << Art in Bulgaria >> collection (Bulgaria). Contemporary Art Museum - Lisbon (Portugal). Contemporary Art Museum - Les Ardennes (France). Galleries permanently: Gallery "Orsel" - Paris Gallery "Celine" - Paris Gallery "Aktuaryus" - Strasbourg Website: www.art-elena.com...
Don Ulrich - In the curatorial statement pertaining to my two works currently at the U. S. Embassy in Riga, Latvia, the State Department website catalog reads as follows: "Building on an interest in astronomy and outer space exploration, Don Ulrich's work focuses on the abstract development of cosmic phenomena and galactic occurrences. Many of the artist's works are mixed media wall sculptures that incorporate objects from nature -- like the eucalyptus branches and sisal in CHASMA LARRISA -- to express his beliefs about a greater universal whole that encompasses man and nature. 'My visual art centers upon ideas and expressions that are as current as the latest space probe to Mars..........and as ancient as the flower-strewn cave burials of Neanderthal man'.........." Over time, I have developed a creative system of using modular units or grids which are developed into major overall works. My recent twelve-panel composite ANDROMEDA wall sculpture is one such example. Dimensionalities have become dissolved in space and shapes float without reference to horizons and gravities. Commonly experienced perspectives and gravities are dissolved in amorphic and geometric forms of richly layered textures, patterns and colors. Some recent works have been conceived within the matrix structures of interwoven...
Yoshihito Une - "Mon" is a gate or a gateway in English. Mon in general are situated between two spaces, typically private property and public property. In some cultures a Mon also has a spiritual meaning. Growing up in Japan I still remember being taught to always refresh my mind when entering the Mon into a temple or a shrine. This element of "mind refreshing" is a major theme of this particular work. By using Japanese caligraphic strokes into a three-dimensional object the front and the back have slight altered forms. Furthermore, it has always been of great importance to me to include the element of actual physical experience into my works. I have tried to make a work of large dimensions without the overpowering atmosphere typically created by enormous works. ...
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Dermot O'Brien - Over the past fifteen years i have developed my own very unique art form working with wood and light. Using light as an added dimension to highlight the spaces between the wood a new sculpture is created. The sculptures always consist of several shapes the light exploring and defining the relationship between the bodies....