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Art is color infused by spirit. It is texture pulled and pushed by meaning and it is the raw emotion of the artist transcending one being and appreciated by another. Art does not exist in a vacuum. Art creates an everlasting connection between the artist and the onlooker. My art is only as precious as its ability to move you.
My art is derived from a place of real vulnerability and honesty. The art is born from form organically. Emotion is drawn out of the form through my rendition of that which has appears as I paint. I am not perfect and I share with those who understand me through my art my personal story of growth- emotionally, politically, socially.
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My paintings are inspired by film stills and photography from the decade of my adolescence (1970s). Idealized images of women and romance are the starting point but I aim to show an underlying darkness and also how the distorting prism of memory can add to this twin feeling of desire/unease.
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These new paintings demonstrate the increased rarity of experiences that deal with nature. By altering proportions and using out of place imagery I wanted to create surreal environments where everyday occurrences seem strange. Ordinary animals are seen as exotic if placed in the right environment.
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Gregory Hardin has been drawing for most of his life. After a 6 year stint in the Navy, he decided it was time to put his talents to good use. So he quit his job, relying on commission and good fortune, and decided to paint and write full time.
Gregory's favorite painting subject is women. He likes to paint from photographs many he finds on todays pop-culture/social web hubs and photographs that he himself takes.
He did not attend art school but was spurred on by a Design course at San Diego Community College.
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Painting is an exercise in quietening the mind. I work intuitively, allowing images to manifest themselves and become visable to me in the process of working. I juxtapose what we percieve as reality with so-called non-reality. To make the invisible visible, to make the intangible somehow within grasp. This search for the order between the two is inseparable from the physical act of mark-making on the surface of the paintings.
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My artwork explores our interaction with the natural and built environment. Recognizing and appropriating the space we inhabit, can make us more aware of how we interact with it and people, and responsible when using natural resources. Humans are territorial by instinct, and not being fully aware of our space causes many social, environmental, political and economical problems. We want to think that we are free, but we are really conditioned by the space that surrounds us, and the better we understand it, the better we can pursue our goals.
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Whereas the modern impressionists explored the effects of diffuse light, a significant branch of Katana's paint-work may be considered an impressionism of shadows. By utilizing low-light and images from her own personal phobias, Katana captures a sense of foreboding mystery and tension. Frequenty employing subject isolation and magnification, she uses colour phases to evoke three-dimensionality, while off-setting her subjects from their occasionally abstract environments with strong contrasts. Her work covers a traditional range of subjects from self-portraiture to landscape to still life, but treats each of these subjects with her distinctly ominous, contemplative style.
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Dysfunction is central to my work. It arises from the simultaneous pursuit of diametrically opposed interests.
I think of the images which populate my paintings as derelicts, akin to a Google image search result, or a logo which the viewer doesn't connect to whatever it is supposed to represent. The process of decontextualization has left these images without a history or a purpose. They are alienated by their proximity to other, different, images.
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My favorite treasures of all were the 27 gesture diagrams for one-armed clowns. It was quite a collection. I called it Paraphernalia for Defending Myself in a Nightmare and it served me well until recently when the bag broke on 161st and Broadway in Washington Heights. There was quite a commotion at first, and perhaps I underestimated the power of 35 years of accumulated chaos. When the bag split open there was no mystery left just a dry heat and a grey light. The purse was no longer in there. I had outgrown it.
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One of my earliest memories as a child was the way death and religion played an important role in my family’s life. My parents were born in Mexico with traditional beliefs, and their beliefs made their way into my subconscious. The fact that many of those beliefs seemed to render no logical explanation has also influenced me. These unanswered questions find a home in my work, which evokes the mystery, fear and irony of those vivid memories of my past. I do not claim to understand these questions. I just paint and let them reveal themselves to me.
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Gideon Boomer studied at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, graduating with a BFA in Illustration. He now works full time as an artist and children’s book illustrator. His work is a mash up of comic book culture, anthropomorphic animal hijinks, and lush color.
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I use various mediums to explore the eerie perceptions that arise from the simple act of living. My paintings churn calm hallucinations into deliciously twisted casualties, and my drawings use the movement of lines to depict nearly-invisible minefields dancing all around us. Visual drama, whether real or imagined, is what connects me to my environment, and is the language I use to speculate about things that intrigue me. Some of my photographs behave like drawings; others I alter to convey a meaning outside the realm of truth. The artwork I create is mostly inspired by the curiosity I derive from watching attraction, distraction, and other forces as they prod us around town.
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i am an artist, a designer, a girl who loves color and fashion. most of my paintings are eventually cut up to make one of a kind handbags for my collection of wearable art accessories.
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As I'm greatly affected by observed social issues and psychological struggles of my own, my subject matter tends to have a heavy emphasis on portraiture. In my current work however, I'm also endeavoring to showcase some of the natural textures in the underlying wood panels. To me trees represent history, wisdom and heritage. For many years these wood panels were living things. They remind me that I am an impermanent continuation in a long line of often misguided individuals working to diagnose and treat a failed and broken condition.
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Blais works illustration into several different mediums. His past has included several music themed pieces making the round at several festivals. At times his struggles display themselves in his work, these include his fascination for the female form.
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I am a young artist wanting to immerse myself in the art world. I have always loved painting and drawing as far back as I can remember. In High School I was part of the AP art classes, and received a Gold Key for my portfolio. For college I attended the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford where I received a BFA in illustration. Since my graduation in 2005 I have sold a few paintings and have been able to broaden my skills be attempting subject matters I didn’t think possible before. I am interested in doing commission works now so I can further explore new images to make my own.
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I grew up in Southern California back in the 1950's and 1960's. Back then, a day at the beach meant packing up the family station wagon and driving past miles of open farmland and vast orange groves. And when we finally got to the beach, there were actual sand dunes for us kids to play on instead of a coast lined with luxury hotels and condos. So before they pave over all of California, I try to record some of the last remaining open spaces in oil paint. Enjoy it while we can!
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Found photographs usually provide the springboard for my work. I collect discarded strangers' albums, snapshots from my family's archive, and historic photographs from my hometown. Typically, these photographs are seemingly innocuous pictures of past holidays and milestones. Through painting and drawing, I attempt to unearth additional or varied meaning in the imagery. I use a wide range of materials in hopes visual elements such as color, pattern, and texture allude to the cultural, biological, and narrative forces that pervade these memories.
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I'm not gonna go into some esoteric treatise on what art is, or is not, for me.
I've been drawing since I could hold a crayon at 2 years of age.
I've been making paintings and illustrations for a long time as well, most of them involving the computer lately.
I hope you enjoy my use of color and line and I hope that the joy and satisfaction I get from creating these pictures comes through.
Thanks.
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