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"The accumulated mountain of mechanically produced forms
produces a curious metaphoric density to this pyramid of discard.
The forms suggest both fossilized remains of primeval creatures as
well as the plastic garbage of our urban landfills. When we consider
that our plastic consumer products are made from the distilled and
refined petrochemical remains of primeval organisms, we can see these
plastic products as a kind of instant fossil. We see imagery which
extends into the past as it makes its tentative look into the future.
If we look at these forms again, as symbols and language, we can
see the mountain of garbage as both the pyramid tomb of modernism
and as the industrialized volcano of media which reaches down into
the organic history of culture to regurgitate the processed immutable
signs and symbols of consumer science." - Den Lebel
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Sculptor from Egypt. |
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An artist’s job is to document the identity and culture of his day. |
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Ignacio Navarro, like all genuine artists, builds his syntax taking his experience as point of departure. Experience that, in this case, is that of the lonely sailor surviving a spiritual death and whose need for expression originates in the deep inquisition practised upon his soul by the different institutions: the Church, the State, the Capital, the jet-set... Just one allegory, always the same one, reproducing itself unceasingly, as a thousand-headed Hydra, in a stage where death and resurrection turn up in an auto-da-fé, in a programmed image of the Last Judgement, as in the Apocalypse by Beato de Liébana.
But beyond that sorrowful carnival--as in Ensor--there appears the mere need for expression, as an elixir which gives health, purity and renders the artist´s tortured soul to its original state. Maybe behind all that iconography--that deliberate and inevitable use of "those major symbols of the Spanish tragedy," that criticism of the Establishment, so sympathetic and merciless at the same time--there exists a profound need for transcendence, for a spiritualism always denied, time after time, by glances and silence. At the same time, it shows the horror that takes in the heart of the churches, the souls of the faithful stripped off the sacred, spirituality and beauty.
All uncovering, all description implies a commitment with what we hold to be true and real. For that reason, the implicit moral criticism in the figures that constitute Ignacio´s allegory is born of the need to build and create a space where the soul may transcend, free from the tyranny of those expressions that coerce and aggress it unremittingly. The sense of that uncovering has also to do with an inner purification. The pure and unrestricted human being, who is aware of the good that goes along being in control of his own destiny, rebels against the coercion that the institutions and the powers try to impose upon him by means of expressions, words and ideas. And he claims as of right, free expression, inspiration, the actual moment which is taking place. The artist, in this case, wants above all to live in the real world and for that reason exorcises the ghosts that attempt to avoid it by invading his conscience and affecting his sensibility. It is for that reason that he needs to reject them in an act of creation, exorcise them with vigorous lines and brush-strokes telling what words cannot suggest. |
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I have lived in Venezuela, the U.S., Mexico and France. I came back to my country of birth, Argentina, after 25 years abroad. I explore in my art subjects which are mine and everybody's: the search for identity, loneliness, hope, the myths that help us cope with the human condition. I use all kinds of techniques because I want to find the images- either graphic, painterly, digital or multimedia- which express my ideas and my life experience. |
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A motivating tenet behind the work is the exploration of communal evolution
through concept to destruction and eventual desolation, and in tracking the landscape's
clues to society's structure and mankind's role within said landscape - whilst tempered
with the mysticism such sites evoke in the process. "Mankind," says Paul
resignedly, "is inevitably missing from the final compositions." A recurring theme
to Paul's work being the stagnation decay of society, this series of ancient landscapes
provides a backbone to his parallel series of inner-city decline and redevelopment.
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"Gringolandia Studio" is Mark Nelson's factory of farce, a work-in-progress to
deconstruct, debrief,disseminate, and divest himself of world events. He uses mainstream theatrical parody and thriftshop mechanisms to create multi-sensual works. These projects are engineered with visitor/pedestrian as a participant. The planning that goes into these projects often results in painting studies of a complex nature and video. |
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Teresa Neptune - Black and white photographer - New Mexico |
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Charles E. Newland is an award winning artist a member by invitation of the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylics since 1977 with paintings & digital images in public and private collections. |
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My path began in the traditional, formal training approach (methods, etc.) to create visual imagery. However, I did not find myself there. So, I eventually altered my path and began to investigate and research ideas that were unfamiliar to me; ideas, which were unfamiliar to my quest to discover a new and different path. Searching for an understanding of the complexity of life’s experiences is a difficult endeavor. However, through this process, we discover ourselves. As an artist, I attempted to express these phenomena in a visual form that will communicate with the viewer. I attempted to dialogue with the viewer through my effort to create imagery for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It is my sincere hope the art created will assist in the process of resolving conflict, which is essential for the betterment of life. |
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Painter/Artist. |
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Johan Nieuwborg has been sculpting for 20 years now. Not a machinist, not a welder but
simply an artist. One of which is self tought and solo. With no preliminary sketches or basic
drawings on napkins, these works are progressions of spontinaiety. The form and the character
develop as the work progresses. This alone is an artistic virtue, but Johan has something else
exoskeletal and insectual. His art is unique, not only because of his technique, but also
because of his ability to express his perception of the motif. |
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The end result of a painting is a pleasant reward, but it is
not as importance as what I experience during the process of creating.
I have struggled with conflicting emotions, with falsity and truth,
hope and despair, joy and sadness, comfort and pain, loss and revelation…The
solitude journey to the unknown to explore new spaces, forms, colors,
and my true self ”
Hung Viet Nguyen was born in Sai Gon Viet Nam . He escaped by boat
to Philippines , and settled in US in 1982. Hung is self-taught painter,
his artworks are in private collections in Canada , France , United
Kingdom , United States , VietNam.
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My art is about bringing forth my inner landscape and sharing it with the outside world.
I am dedicated to the process of living. It is through these eyes that I find life itself an inspiration. It is my intention to create images that will unlock and create a bridge for openness and to seek what is beyond ourselves. This is what I strive for. Freedom in the creative process... Freedom in life.
It is a journey of discovery, of value. Like an open canvas, like a new born child. I am willing to take the risk of being seen in this journey of exposing the inner self. Perhaps others will be stimulated to dream? or to heal?
I like to inspire those in my environment. It is not the method that I share, but rather the 'art of living", both inside and out.
When I work, I embrace my life with gratitude. And then in a moments time I embrace "all of life" including the essence of diversity.
My sculptural work is part of an on-going series to bring out reflections from meditations with the crystal mineral world. They are then created with the intention of "Other Worldly Beings". I use clay and paint to execute and discover the possiblity of how this stone may express itself, if living in a society based on universal acceptance. |
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John Nolan is an Irish artist living and working in Dublin. He explores colour through his modern figurative and abstract work. The canvases are upbeat, positive, cheerful, buoyant, optimistic and vibrant ; a true testament to a devoted colourist. His artistic journey started at the age of 7 guided by his father who was also an artist. |
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Max Magnus Norman (b.1973) makes his own path in the world of art. Sometimes when - if - you meditate or right before you fall asleep you might have seen clear pictures or scenes flash by in front of you eyes. What you see when you look at Max Magnus Norman's art is that kind of visions. Norman paints or sculpts the images he sees before him in the same manner as a scientist; without additions or subtractions, but not entirely without humour. The result is a very personal art, at the same time it is not uncommon that astonished exhibition visitors recognize details from their own dreams in the paintings. |
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Richardo Angel Norte is based out of San Francisco, CA. He creates bronze sculptures.
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My name is Rebecca Norton. Since I can remember, I have been walking with a pen in my pocket and a wild imagination in my head. Some pens are for writing. Some are wands for composing, while others the batons of dancers. Mine has been for drawing. The images on my website celebrate the progression of the translation of art through symbols and compositions. Many of the paintings portray images adopted from either my childhood, or others I have had the opportunity to work with, that are then collaged in a simple compostional format to elicit the ideas presented through the symbols. I use repetition and mimicry because it is through repetition and mimicry that we as children first began to learn and understand our world. As our minds move abstractly in the preadolescent years, so does our way of interpreting the things around us. What I present in the paintings are a combination of the simple and abstract, each of which have contributed, and will continue to contribute, to how we interpret ourselves in our environments. |
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For me it isn't an easy task to define my art. I don't like fixed rankings. I paint images. I draw images. I compute images. For over 40 years the images I create tend to be abstract and non-objective. They tend to exercise the foundations of Abstract Expressionism - both camps: gesture and color field; separately and in combinations. Starting in 2002 I desired to change this program. My research into alternative associations began. Minimalism and reduction secured my focus. Today images shift from one extreme to the other. I wander the polarities that define simple-complex, modulated-flat, brush-no brush, hot color-cold color, hard edge-soft edge, and further polarities that differentiate AE and Minimalist philosophy. At the moment, there is no single image that I identify exclusively as typical. I like the image chosen for this outing. |
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I’m an outsider and impassioned artist from Paris, France. I came upon "DIGITAL ART" a few years ago. |
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Illustrator and artist Ingemar Nyström from Sweden. Loves to paint: nature, birds and women. Works with watercolor, oil, ink and pencil. |
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