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Joseph Seigenthaler

January 18, 2013, 7:12 am
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Joseph Seigenthaler (born 1959) is an American sculptor and video artist who was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He earned a BFA in painting from the Memphis College of Art in 1981. Shortly after graduating, he freelanced sculpting life-sized wax figures for wax museums, primarily the Music Valley Wax Museum in Nashville and the Country Music Wax Museum in Tamworth, Australia. He studied ceramic art at the Appalachian Center for Craft in Smithville, Tennessee between 1984 and 1986. In 1990, he received an MFA from Northern Illinois University.













Seigenthaler has taught ceramic art at the University of Montana – Missoula, Harold Washington College in Chicago, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is married to the painter Anne Gilbert and currently lives and works in Chicago.

He is best known for his bizarre and/or imbecilic figurative clay sculptures, although he has more recently been creating computer animation loops of his creatures. The Honolulu Museum of Art, Museo de Escultura Figurativa Internacional Contemporánea (Murcia, Spain), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Racine Art Museum (Racine, Wisconsin) are among the public institutions holding work by Joseph Seigenthaler.




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Peter Gric

January 19, 2013, 7:15 am
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In the early nineties Peter Gric started to discover the possibilities of computer graphics for his paintings. From then on his organic-surreal visual imagery was enriched by complex architectural structures and artefacts. In place of using pencil and sketchbook he began to design his compositions with a 3D visualization software, he started to transfer the virtual reality into painting and consequently found within this fusion to his very unique and distinctive stile.
This method is most obvious in his “Artificial Spaces” series. These paintings are based on three-dimensional geometries built with something like a “virtual building block system” or other mathematical and algorithmic concepts. The creation of these images becomes a play with complex spaces and perspectives in order to create normally non-accessible places in a completely artificial arrangement of space and light. By translating these virtual concepts into paint, Gric attempts to enter into those artificial spaces, and render them tactile. He seeks to give form and substance, bringing them out of their virtual state to a substantial manifestation.
In addition to his Artificial Spaces Gric also experiments with the human nude combined with mineral, technoid and architectural structures. Despite the fact, that the bodies of this “Mnemosyne” series are often dissolved and fragmented, he wittingly obtains or even emphasizes the erotic component. In this series his phantastic and surreal origin is most apparent.

Peter was born in Brno, former Czechoslovakia in 1968 as the only child of the artist married couple Ludmila and Jaroslav Gric. Already in his early childhood his parents recognized and supported his talent for drawing and painting. In the year 1980 his parents decided to emigrate and via Hungary and Yugoslavia they arrived to Austria. They spent a year in Edlach/Reichenau an der Rax, afterwards they moved to Linz where Peter finished the primary school and a technical college for graphic-design. In 1988 he came to Vienna and started to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in the master class of Prof. Arik Brauer. Already during the study he participated in numerous group exhibitions and started to successfully sell his paintings. He finished the study in 1993 and earned a Masters degree in Fine Arts. 2009 Peter moved from Vienna to Oberhöflein at the Hohe Wand plateau nearby the Eastern Alps. He has two daughters, Emilia (2002) and Natalia (2005).

2010 Gric has been working on Concept Design for Guillermo del Toro's film project "At the Mountains of Madness".
Since 2011 Gric has a teaching assignment at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts.

Gric‘s works are in possession of numerous private and public collections: Austria State Gallery Oberes Belvedere in Vienna, Municipal Gallery in Traun / Austria, Künstlerhaus München / Germany, Art Visionary Collection in Melbourne / Australia, Collection Rardy van Soest in Houden / Holland, Trierenberg Art in Traun / Austria, beinArt Collection / Australia, Westermann Collection / Germany






































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Lucian Dedita

January 21, 2013, 1:10 am
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Lucian Dedita
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Romanian young painter living and working in Bucharest – Romania.

STUDIES:

2007-2009 – master degree at Plastic Art and Design Faculty, Cluj Napoca, profile „Oil Painting”;
2003-2007 – Plastic Art and Design Faculty, Cluj Napoca;
2000-2003 – Victor Brauner Secondary School , profile ”Oil Painting”, Piatra Neamț;















EXHIBITIONS, CONTESTS AND SCHOLAR AWARDS:

2008 – Volti – Identita Contemporanee Dalla Romania – Roma, Academia di Romania
2007 – Students’ Yearly Exhibition of Visual Arts, Piatra Neamț, (group);
2006 – Students’ Yearly Exhibition of Visual Arts, Piatra Neamț, (group);
2004 – Exhibition of Painting and Drawing ”Caffee Boulgakov” , Cluj Napoca ,  (group);
2003 – Participation at Olimpiad of Visual Arts and Art’s History, national stage, Bistrița Năsăud;
2003 – The first place at National Contest of Visual Arts , district stage, Piatra Neamț;
2003 – Exhibition ”The days of the District Library”, Piatra Neamț,  (group)- The excellence diploma for the quality work;
2002 – The third place at Olympiad of Visual Arts and Art’s History, national stage, Miercurea Ciuc;
2002 – The first place at National Contest of Visual Arts, district stage, Piatra Neamț;
2002 – Sculpture and Graphics Exhibition, Piatra Neamț,  (group);
2001 – Participation at National Olympiad of Visual Arts, Pitești;

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Pauline Jones

January 21, 2013, 1:37 am
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"Born in Merseyside in 1946, I studied painting at the Central School of Art and Design ’64 – ’68, and at the Slade for a post grad.

I fell out of the gallery system when I switched from painting landscapes to cracks in walls, dripping with existential angst. Over the years I earned my living by doing graphics, animation, illustration and textile design, all to support my painting habit and let it unfold without pressure. I became ensnared in Photo Realist paintings, ‘Waiting’ was the last one. A series of life events then sent me into a nosedive.

On recovery, with help, I then discovered my painting territory at the tender age of 45.

I am still exploring, obsessed with painting and not dead yet."


Pauline Jones








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Bonni Reid

January 21, 2013, 1:56 am
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As the daughter of an eccentric mechanical engineer and a stiff-upper-lipped British nurse, Bonni Reid lives in the space where these two worlds meet. The fact that these two worlds do not actually mesh hasn’t stopped her from residing there.

Exploring the underpinnings, bumps, and anomalies in all manner of historical arcana, Bonni Reid’s subject matter reflects a dark underlying mythos that belies the innocence, wonder, and imagination of a hazy past.

Whether it be eccentric adventures in science – the brilliant mistakes, the forgotten missteps, or the early icons of Progress (back when it had a capital “P”) – Reid combines these elements in a clear, graphic, almost deadpan style. With the results we are reminded of the turning points that got us here; the great and the small, the dark and the light, the sacred and the silly,


Bonni Reid lives in the West End of Vancouver, British Columbia. When not brewing her own visual concoctions, she freelances as a colour and graphic designer.
















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Lois van Baarle

January 23, 2013, 2:51 am
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"I've been drawing since the day I could hold a pencil, and started teaching myself to draw digitally in 2003. Although I was born in Holland and have dutch nationality, I've lived all over the world, including the United States, Indonesia, France and Belgium. Upon finishing high school in 2004, I studied animation in Ghent (Belgium) for a year and then moved back to my home country to study animation at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (HKU) in Hilversum. I am currently a freelance illustrator and animator located in Utrecht (the Netherlands) and living with my boyfriend and fellow animator Arjen Klaverstijn."

Lois van Baarle















Diplomas

European Media Master in Arts (2009)
Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Bachelor in Design (2009)
Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands
International Baccalaureate (2004)
International School of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium


Awards and Distinctions

2009 | HKU Award winner
Winner of the HKU (Utrecht School of the Arts) award 2009
2009 | HKU symposium 2009
Selected to present and exhibit graduation work at Utrecht School of the Arts graduation exhibition in 
Hilversum, The Netherlands, September 2009 
2004 | International Honor Society 
Selected to participate in the International Honor Society
International School of Brussels, Belgium











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Ian McWhinnie

January 23, 2013, 4:08 am
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Studied at Glasgow School of Art


McWhinnie’s paints in a personal and recognisable style depicting a variety of subjects including the circus, dancers and musicians. He often employs a set of recurring images such as vases of tulips or the pattern on the fabric of a dress. In many of the paintings the action is occurring outside of the tightly cropped frame and we are given clues as to what event the inscrutable spectators are watching.


Beyond the characters in the foreground we are offered a window onto scenes of architecture and landscapes as dusk falls over the provincial towns of McWhinnie’s travels through Italy and France.

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Paige Bradley

January 23, 2013, 5:27 am
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Focusing on tensions and liberations in my work,
I feel most of our emotions are locked into a
existential cocoon. My sculptures show the human
race as a singular individual searching for connection
but finding only alienation.
My recent work has become a symbol of struggle --
both being contained and liberating ourselves from 
self-inflicted boundaries. Fears of ostracism, avoiding
distinction and hiding from greatness are all thoughts
that come to mind. These fears create sculptures
wrapped in extraordinary tension. The figures
struggle to unveil themselves in order to become
understood and known. These bound figures give
me a sense of unrest as if too much life is jammed into
too restrictive of space. I feel as if I am trying to live
my truth free and unveiled in a society that would
rather keep us contained.











From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: a social security number, a gender, a race, a profession, an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?

Would we still be able to exist if we are authentically "un-contained"?

I attempt to expand my sculptures beyond the human flesh of the figure and create the brilliance within us. Simultaneously, I cannot help but to see a dangerous dichotomy between falling apart and expanding beyond our limitations. When devastation becomes deliverance, ashes from the past can become the foundations of the future.



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Maureen Gubia

January 23, 2013, 6:06 am
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born 1984, lives and works in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 

bio
Maureen Gubia is an autodidact freelance artist who uses art
materials from watercolors and pastels to oil paint. Her other
creative outlets include photography and music recordings. She was
born in 1984 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, where she continues to live and
work. 

education
2003-2004 Instituto Tecnológico de Artes del Ecuador (ITAE), Guayaquil, Ecuador 






























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Brian Despain

January 23, 2013, 7:07 am
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"I love art. I love looking at it, I love talking about it and I certainly love making it, so it’s really no surprise that art would be my chosen profession.

From early on there really wasn’t any doubt that a career in art was the direction I was headed. I was hardly interested in anything else and a lion’s share of my childhood was spent with my head in the clouds, doodling a veritable army of dinosaurs, space ships, demons and imps. Even much of my later schooling was spent failing other useful but mundane subjects like chemistry, math and english while art was the one area that I excelled at. College was hardly different, I spent six years finding myself and taking a lot of classes before graduating with a BFA. Documented and dedicated to my chosen profession I set out to make my veritable mark on the world.

Since then I’ve held all sorts of jobs, from graphic designer to 3D modeler, photo-retoucher to illustrator. I’ve studied, learned, grown and spent a lot of time as a professional artist making a decent living doing art, but in all that time and through all those jobs I’ve learned one all important thing. It was the time I spent, like the kid at the kitchen table, creating art for no other reason than sheer wonder of it all, that I was happiest. No matter the piece or the end result it’s the art that we do for ourselves that wholly reflects us as people. It is that art which is purest, it is that art which holds the most magic, it is that art which connects on the deepest level and it is that art that this site is all about.

So, on that note, take a look around, see what I have to offer and hopefully something in here pops, something connects you to that little boy, drawing spaceships and dinosaurs, and leaves you with a sense of wonder all your own."




















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Lara Dann

January 23, 2013, 1:29 pm
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Artist Bio 

"I am a self-taught artist. When most kids were glued to the television and the latest cartoons, I was 
drawing. I wanted nothing else, except to be outside. To explore nature. From the life of an ant to the vast
and endless sea. I would have slept on the Santa Monica pier, if allowed. 
My formative years were in California with my single mom. It was both difficult and exciting. Looking back, 
there are so many stories of the challenges we would face together, that I can't put it all in one bio. I 
honestly feel as though I have already experienced three lives. I tallied it up one day, and I think I went to 
sixteen different schools from K-12.  
Fast forward to the third phase of my life- I took design courses for a year at a privately owned art school 
in Rochester New York, after graduating high school in 89-90. I immediately landed my first job as a 
designer after a year of courses, and I spent the first six years in a competitive environment of design 
business. I had a strong personal desire to lead a life with more meaning and purpose so I decided to 
take a bold leap and a different direction into a career as a licensed massage therapist. I am pleased with 
the decision, as it enriched my life and also my knowledge of the human anatomy. I spent eight years as 
a deep tissue therapist with a focus in acute and chronic care and a very successful practice.  Within that 
time, my husband and I had two wonderful children. I decided to stay home and raise our children, 
working as a therapist part-time on a casual basis. We relocated a couple of times and in the process, I 
redirected my attention to the fine arts. My first love. I have been honing in on my skills and personal 
discipline as an artist for the last three years. Developing my vision as an artist  through my work is 
continuous and has been a process of both personal development and achievement.  
It feels like the beginning of a fourth life. "


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Ahren Hertel

January 23, 2013, 2:05 pm
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"Ahren Hertel was born in Fort Collins, Colorado in 1979.  Ahren received his BFA in Illustration from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2002. After graduating, he moved to Reno, Nevada where he later received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Nevada, Reno where he now teaches painting and drawing as an adjunct professor.  Ahren’s new series is a visualization of the everyday damage we do to the environment. His work depicts women making direct attacks on nature using sticks and stones." 


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Jaxon Northon

January 23, 2013, 2:12 pm
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"Jaxon Northon is a self-taught oil painter specializing in realistic portraiture. As a full-time artist, he has exhibited his work between San Francisco, California and his hometown of Reno, Nevada.  Jaxon’s portraits present women who seem to be growing out of their surroundings. His representational works confront the viewer with a realistic subject interacting with elements of unreality."



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Archer Dougherty

January 24, 2013, 3:28 am
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STATEMENT

When Archer was small – smaller than she is now – she spent her time reading the Oz books, drawing, finding cicada wings her mother insisted belonged to fairies, and wending her roundabout way through private school.

Aghast at suddenly finding herself grown up, and that the wings hidden in her Oz books actually do belong to 
cicadas, Archer’s work deals with the uneasy transition from living in that imaginary world from her
childhood, and the harsh reality of adulthood. The femmes in her paintings and drawings are in a Neverland stage of growing up, the point at which the illusions fall away but adulthood is still some time off.

Dark and dreamlike; intense with an ethereal beauty, her work attempts to visually portray that inner struggle which finds its way into everyone’s consciousness. The point at which you ask yourself, “When did I change into this person? And who am I supposed to become?”

Archer, a graduate of the UNM college of Fine Arts, lives in Albuquerque with her husband and two children – some may call them dogs. She still reads the Oz books from time to time, and now tells her nephew the wings in her collection belong to real fairies.  She currently exhibits around the world, and her work is held in many private collections.









BIO

Archer grew up in Albuquerque, and studied every single medium but painting at the University of New Mexico. She took as much drawing as she could but her figurative tendencies were not popular with the generational abstract professors, and consequently she was never encouraged in her development as a draftsperson. Drawing was a means to an end, not a finished product of itself. She finished school with degrees in three-dimensional media.

Having been out of school for a few years, Archer came to realize that art is what you make of it, not what other people tell you it is. Two years ago she began drawing again, having become bored with her three dimensional work. Through drawing, Archer rediscovered her passion. Her figures began materializing once again in sketchbooks and paper, then finally onto wood panels. She then began experimenting with painting on top of her drawings and learned, because irony has a great sense of humor, that she was being drawn into the one media she never professionally studied.

Archer is currently hard at work developing her long overdue figurative training and painting techniques, while drawing and painting for shows across the globe.











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Melissa Hartley

January 24, 2013, 3:41 am
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Melissa Hartley is an artist, graphic designer, cat lover, tea drinker, Francophile, movie and music lover with a terrible sweet tooth. She graduated from the University of Western Sydney with a BA (Distinction) in design, minor in illustration.
Her compositions vary from simple still-life studies, to confrontation figures against undefined backgrounds, in a dream-like state. Others highlight the turbulent relationship man has with nature. Each subject is attractive 
yet somehow disturbing.
She desires to create images of beauty and mystery that allow the viewer to find their own personal significance in them.

She lives in Sydney with her husband and two cats, Ludwig and Wolfgang.










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Daniel J Valadez

January 24, 2013, 7:03 am
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Daniel J Valadez was born in Santa Clara, California. He was raised in Visalia, California, only to make his return years later to the Bay Area. It was while attending West Valley Jr. College in San Jose that Daniel came to the realization that his passion for art was worth pursuing and developing. As a result, he moved to San Francisco in the spring of 2005 and began studying at the Academy of Art University. Years later, in 2008 he received a BFA in Illustration.









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Brian Pollett

January 24, 2013, 7:16 am
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Calvin Lai

January 24, 2013, 7:25 am
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"Calvin Lai would describe his relationship to art as the “monkey on my back” which climbed on during a self portrait in kindergarten. It was drawing the shoelaces that day which got the “monkey” to climb on, and he remembered the care and feeling he had while making the loops of the laces just right. This fascination with getting things right drove him towards rendering realistic images, and he began teaching himself the basics of value and perspective at a very early age. Growing up in Los Angeles, his addiction to art progressed and people became his main and favorite subject. This eventually led him to San Francisco in order to pursue his study of art at San Francisco State University, as well as The Academy of Art. But it wasn't until 2008, at the Academy, that Calvin began to really study painting. Now oils are his main medium. Since then he has been pursuing a non-stop development of his painting skills, showing in galleries, group shows, and juried exhibitions, and appearing in the Southwest Art magazine. Though Calvin mainly focuses on figurative and portrait painting, he is driven to capture all that he finds compelling through his paints, brushes, and determination."







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Damir Šimić

January 24, 2013, 8:11 am
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"Damir Simic, who is professionally known as „Damir“ is a Croatian born artist. 
During his second year at the art academy in 2004 Damir participated in The Art Renewal Centre Scholarship competition and won first prize.
He graduated in 2006 from the Angel Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. 
He has exhibited in Florence, London, Aspen, Chicago, Birmingham, Battersea, Hampstead, Sisak and Zagreb. 
John T. Spike, Benedetto Annigoni, Michael John Angel and Virginia Piombo among many other art historians and curators wrote about his work. Articles about Damir have been featured in Sunday Morning newspaper, Picture Business, Luxury Living, Playboy, Contour and Life Style magazines. Recently his work has been featured in Art of England magazine and on Bluecanvas.com – an international, multi-genre, online community of artists and art lovers."









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Derek Harrison

January 24, 2013, 8:28 am
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      Born 1983, Derek Harrison began pursuing art since he was able to hold a pencil. It all began as an innocent journey of exploration and the excitement that came with applying a vision to a piece of paper. In later years Derek was consistently dabbling in art, always drawing, painting, etc...Initially the inspiration from graffiti played a large role in the type of art he was doing. Following years of experimentation with spray paint and eventually transitioning to canvas, Derek landed a tattoo apprenticeship with Colorado artist Brad Cramer. The formative years were spent drawing every minute of the day into tattooing full time for the next several years. In 2009 Derek made the move to Santa Barbara, CA and eventually landed at his current home and studio in Los Angeles. 

      Tattooing on the coast of California was incredibly inspirational and that's where the true journey of his painting would begin. Fellow tattoo artist Shawn Barber and contemporary painting phenomenon had recently moved into a new studio space in Los Angeles. This is where Derek began taking painting workshops on a regular basis. Two years later and he says "Shawn opened my mind to the revelation that art is not an innate "talent," it's the culmination of knowledge, study and relentless work. I wouldn't be where I am today without Shawn's influence and help. He instilled the values of hard work and determination relating to the pursuit of one's craft." After studying with Shawn Derek began a rigorous amount of self-study and began taking classes and workshops with other artists such as Sean Cheetham, Jeremy Lipking, Ignat Ignatov, Jeff Gogue and several others. All of this time was spent painting directly from life. "These years of self-study and learning from some of the best artists living today has provided me with the means to carry out my own visual expressions to the fullest."

     Derek's work has become one that combines aspects of the old masters and the admiration for artists such as John Singer Sargent and William Adolf Bouguereau with contemporary subjects and settings. In 2010 Derek submitted work for the historical annual group exhibition at La Luz de Jesus Gallery (Los Angeles, CA). A gallery where artists such as Mark Ryden, Michael Hussar, Don Ed Hardy, Sean Cheetham, Robert Williams, Shawn Barber and the list goes on…have all shown and many have received their career start with the gallery at the very same show. That year there were over 8,000 submissions which were narrowed down to 120. Three pieces of Derek's were selected to be shown and before the show opened two had sold. From the galleries 120, the "top seven" were chosen for feature exhibitions. In August of 2011 Derek had his first feature exhibition in Los Angeles. Since this debut he has continued showing throughout CA, as well as out east, Europe, etc. and his work has continually progressed. After several years in the tattoo industry Derek transitioned into painting full time. Fine art became his true calling and he soon came to be one of the most exciting upcoming contemporary realist painters today. His work is figurative in nature and portrays the world in which he lives and the people whom inhabit it. "My aim is to convey the inspiration and beauty in the subjects and settings I paint. Art has the amazing capacity to connect with all people. My hope is to bring the amazing qualities that many years of study and experience has lead me to understand and now express through my work.""








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