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Gail Roberts

September 2, 2013, 1:47 am
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Roberts’ work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the Galeria Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica, Musee Rochefort-en-terre, Brittany,France; Ballinglen Arts Center, Ballycastle, Ireland: Carnegie Museum, Oxnard, CA, Riverside Museum, CA, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, CA and Madison Art Center, WI. Her work has been critically reviewed in Art in America, Art ltd., Los Angeles Times, and Modern Painters and is included in permanent collections at the Oakland Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art, as well as numerous corporate and private collections. Art critic Robert Pincus writes, “She is exhorting us to see nature as a luminous mirror of our ceaseless obsession with mortality. Seeing nature wax and wane around her, she has become acutely aware of the fragility of life.”

Roberts has been awarded the 2010 San Diego Art Prize, a California Arts Council Fellowship and residency fellowships in France, Costa Rica and Ireland. She has completed public art commissions at the Chicago Public Library, Lux Art Institute, and the San Diego International Airport. Gail Roberts received her BFA and MA at the University of New Mexico and is a Professor of Art at San Diego State University.



EDUCATION

1974 M.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1973 Fellowship, Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT
1973 B.F.A., University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM


SELECTED GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS

2010 Ballinglen Foundation Artist Fellowship, Ballycastle, Ireland
San Diego Art Prize, San Diego Visual Art Network
2008 Julia & David White Artist Residency, Ciudad Colon, Costa Rica
2005 Alfred & Trafford Klots Artist Residency, Rochefort-en-Terre, Brittany, France
2001 Women Who Mean Business Award, sponsored by the San Diego Business Journal
1994 California Arts Council Fellowship
1991 Research, Scholarship, Creative Activity Award, San Diego State University
1990 Insite Honorarium, Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA
1988 NEA/City/Combo Individual Fellowship
1987 Meritorious Performance and Professional Promise Award, San Diego State University











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Grażyna Smalej

September 2, 2013, 2:00 am
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Grażyna Smalej


Polish painter. Lives and works in Krakow.

Education
2001 - graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow with the Master of Fine Arts degree.












Awards:
2011 - The Curator’s Award for the painting “The Bath XXXVII” (based on Andrzej Wajda film “Sweet
Rush/Tatarak”), Film Exhibition in Bazar Sztuki Gallery, Sanok, Poland;
2010 - Award of Distinction for the series “The Dreams of Mary Stuart” in the 4th Marian Michalik Triennial of
Painting by Young Artists, The City Art Gallery in Częstochowa, Poland;
2001 - The Minister of Culture Grand Prix for the painting “A Cart with the Sun”. In the 1st Marian Michalik Triennial of Painting by Young Artists, The City Art Gallery in Częstochowa, Poland;
1998-2001 - Scholarship of Hans Bernhardt, Germany










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Hiroshi Sato

September 2, 2013, 2:30 am
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Hiroshi Sato

Hiroshi Sato was born September 1987 in Japan. From the age of three to fourteen he spent his childhood in Tanzania. After school, he found his way to Rome where classical sculpture inspired his pursuit of a career in fine art. He enrolled in the fine-arts program at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco.

Hiroshi Sato is focused on contemporary realist oil painting. He draws influence from past and present artists including Vermeer, Andrew Wyeth, Euan Uglow and Chuck Close. Sato’s work shows his interest in geometric design principles of the old masters and is currently exploring the simultaneous illusion of form and flatness in space. His goal is to portray, and better understand our various states of consciousness within ourselves.







Education

Atlanta College of Art (2005-2006), Foundations

Academy of Art University (2008-2012), BFA Fine Art



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Iwona Zawadzka

September 2, 2013, 2:46 am
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Iwona Zawadzka


Born in 1981Lives and works in Warsaw, Poland

IWONA ZAWADZKA HAS BEEN INTERESTED SITUATUON OF THE SUBJECT projecting his own illusions when faced with danger, isolation, reduction and an instrumental approach.The painter has collected her own images in the privacy of her home which separated from the aggressive outside world seem innocent and authentic. The not precisely defined gestures are visible under a veil of an intimate dshabill and house chores. A private photo album, composed of a series of girlish postures, is the place to identify female body language. The artist has specifically codified this. She has taken out figures out of their context, combined them into new, separate idol group images, and finally transferred these onto the canvas. Girls dressed in gym leotards are approaching the enigmatic spectrum characters from the canvas The Sneaking In. The illusory, phantasm like target that breaks human intestines is to claim them shortly (The Sneaking In II). The works by the artist put a viewer in the position of separating the reality form the Real. The spectral absorption, just as desires satisfactions, turns out to be incomplete and bringing no fulfillment. It merely stimulates energy fields of desire which permeate and stigmatize the body. As a result, partial object appear, autonomic organs with no body, the desires with no definite purpose, demanding to be fulfilled. The phantasm like Reality, in its purest form, provides the moving rhythm for these works. This is quite visible in the Rainbows, where a color spectrum holds all female characters in vertical positions in the state of being suspender over the ground, in the mood of melancholic submissiveness. Their hands raised in a gesture of surrender are an attempt to exceed the canvas framework to reach the real world.The dualistic division between the genuine and the Real has been present to a certain degree in all her works. In Six and a Half, Frame II and IV , The Pink, the spectral oriented nature of desires originates in things, protective layers covering a female body: a dress, underwear and pajamas. The intimacy confined to a painting laboratory, left her alone has been spreading visually like a phantasm. It has been permeating an object of desire, dissolving in it, becoming total, oceanic and resistant to all exterior meanings. Thus, the overwhelming aesthetic disarms the subject and cuts it out from reality. A chance to create authentic meaning has been immobilized. The beauty and aesthetics become a protective buffer against outside dangers, nevertheless they are empty notions, lacking the actual features of human existence. The primeval, unsatisfied desires are compensated by fantasy, creating the real, energetic fields that unconsciously guide human behavior. This is why the subject remains unfulfilled though constantly striving to escape and confront the reality, indefatigably looking for its own negative. Without modification of the basic data, quitting the aesthetic system appears to be impossible because freedom, authenticity and a pure chance are illusion exist that are used to refresh the standards and formats of truth.text: Robert Jasiski









Education
Iwona Zawadzka is a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts with a degree in painting. She was studying in Prof Wiesaw Szamborski's studio.
2006:
- A diploma awarded by the President of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.
- Annexe to the diploma in Prof Edward Tarkowski's studio (a mural painting).
- A master's thesis entitled About painting under Doctor Anna Lewicka- Morawska.
2004-2006:
- Pedagogical School in Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts.
Since 2006 she has been an active member of the Cultural Animation Association Meuma'lo - East Studio.
Individual exhibitions:
2008
- Exhibition of painting, Smolna Center, Warsaw
- Exhibition of paintings en title The Six and a Half, The Promotional Gallery, Warsaw
2007
- The exhibition en title Looking for myself at the office of Sanofi-Aventis, Warsaw
- Exhibition of painting at the office of Ewa Tomaszewska (Senator of the Republic of Poland), Warsaw
- Exhibition of painting at the Art Gallery of Katarzyna Napirkowska, Warsaw
2006
- Postgraduate exhibition of paintings in the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts



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Justyna Kisielewicz

September 2, 2013, 3:05 am
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EDUCATION:

2006 – 2011 – Master of Fine Arts in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw; Graduation with distinction;

2005 – 2008 – Master of Arts in Political Science at University of Warsaw;

2002 – 2005 – Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, specialization in American Studies at the Academy of International Relations and American Studies in Warsaw;


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Jake Wood-Evans

September 2, 2013, 3:22 am
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Jake Wood-Evans


Artist living and working in Brighton, Oil painter.
Biografia
Mixing the two worlds of classical and contemporary art, Jake’s oil paintings range from small, sensitive studies to large scale, epic canvasses. With his loose, instinctive use of paint he creates dark, ethereal works which capture imaginations, and provoke emotions, whilst at the same time being both unsettling and beautiful.
Jake came to Brighton as a classically trained artist fresh from a Fine Art degree at Falmouth University, where he was awarded a scholarship from the Royal Academy for classical study at the Prado museum, as well as winning the accolade of ‘Free Range’ Most Promising Graduate. After his stint in Madrid, Jake came back to Brighton inspired by the paintings of some of the finest Baroque artists in the world. Although still a new name, he has exhibited in London and Brighton to great acclaim.

He is currently based in Brighton, where he continues to paint full time.


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Ewy Prończuk Kuziak

September 2, 2013, 7:16 am
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Ewy Prończuk Kuziak




Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw

Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen


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Regan Rosburg

September 2, 2013, 12:58 pm
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Regan Rosburg


"The complex, understated beauty and resilience of the natural world are signature components in REGAN ROSBURG'S work. Her inventive, multi-layered painting process has garnered award-winning recognition and exhibitions with internationally recognized artists. In addition to traditional painting methods, Regan also uses bones, feathers, lace, insects, mylar, metal, and found objects to create her extremely ornate, three-dimensional paintings. Regan also fashions miniature versions of her work, creating one-of-a-kind pieces exclusively for "The Woods" Fine Jewelry, based out of Aspen. Regan currently lives and works in Denver, Colorado."

















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Roman Zakrzewski

September 2, 2013, 1:09 pm
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Roman Zakrzewski was born in 1955 (Poland). He attended the public secondary school of fine arts in Bielsko-Biała. Then he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, where he received a degree from Jerzy Nowosielski’s studio in 1985. Since he was very young, the artist has shown interest in portraits, which have become the main theme of his artistic work.

„ In painting I’m looking for simplicity and harmony as well as the spiritual beauty of a human being. Naturally, there are certain ideas that inspire me, certain masters that I admire such as: Leonardo, Rafael, Botticelli and Modigliani. The works of these artists have shaped my attitude towards art. Beauty that they strived to achieve in their works has also become my aim and it has given the meaning to my artistic work. I believe that it is God’s intention that artists should create beautiful things, and it is every artist’s responsibility to protect the highest ethical and esthetical values and promote them in contemporary reality. ”
„ Only God is a genuine artist. He created beauty out of nothing. Artists must search for inspirations.”
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Rafał Gadowski

September 2, 2013, 1:47 pm
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Rafał Gadowski



Rafal Gadowski born in 1973.

Studied at The European Academy of Arts in Warsaw Faculty of Painting, as well as at the. Graphics Faculty of the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts under Prof. Zbyslaw Maciejewski. Cracow Academy of Fine Arts,
Graphics Faculty Diploma in 1999.

He participated in group and individual exhibitions of painting. Gadowski’s works can be found in many private colletions in Poland and abroad. He lives and works in Otrebusy near Warsaw.


I have never been interested in literary narration of Art. My subjects are everyday objects. Every motife, be it fruit, a deer, a child or a chair - can be inspiring. But not in order to copy stereotipical perception of the real world, but to show what is invisible at first glance. It is the colour and the light that constitute my paintings creating an imperceptable order of things.











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Rocco Forgione

September 2, 2013, 5:15 pm
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Rocco Forgione nato a Candela (FG) 1955

Formatosi sotto la guida di illustri personaggi della pittura e della cultura si ispira al surreale

fantastico e la propria arte pare poggiare le radici in quei fiamminghi cinquecenteschi creatori

di allegorie morali-satiriche e dei loro mondi popolati da figure fiabesche e forme bizzarre;

zoomorfe ed antropomorfe. Sperimentatore di diverse tecniche pittoriche opera curando ogni

minimo particolare in un gioco di cromatismi e velature. E’ stato insignito del titolo di professore

d’Arte onorario alla Scuola di Storia dell’Arte “G. Morandi” di Fidenza (PR). Ha partecipato a numerose mostre nazionali ed internazionali, ottenendo riconoscimenti. L’artista è membro di varie Accademie fra cui L’Accademia Albertina di Roma e la Legion d’Oro, sempre di Roma.

Espone dal 1970 partecipando a collettive e concorsi ed ottenendo premi, riconoscimenti e note

Critiche di eccelso livello.

Giorgio Barberis ha definito Rocco Forgione “unico vero interprete della nuova avanguardia”


















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Raul Colon

September 3, 2013, 2:37 am
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Raúl Colón



"As a child I had chronic asthma and would frequently be so ill that I could not leave the house for days or even weeks at a time. But all those times I spent locked up inside, I spent filling up dozens of composition notebooks with all kinds of drawings. I even tried to write my own comic books…. So my illness as a child, which kept me from going outside to play, became a blessing."

Colón was born in New York City in December of 1952 and moved with his parents in the 1960s to Caguas, Puerto Rico where he studied commercial art. In 1978 Colón made Florida his home, working at an educational television center designing everything from puppets to short animated films. In 1988 the artist settled with his family in New City, New York and began a freelance career. Today, Colón continues to be a versatile and acclaimed illustrator whose work has appeared in important national publications.

An award-winning illustrator of over thirty books for children, Colón was chosen to illustrate Dr. Jill Biden’s recently published Don’t Forget, God Bless Our Troops as well as Frank McCourt’s bestselling Angela and the Baby Jesus, both from Paula Wiseman Books. The industry has recognized Colón with a Golden Kite Award, a Pura Belpré Award, and both a gold and silver medal in The Original Art show.

Colón uses very unique techniques in his artwork to create texture and rich, deep colors. The illustrations are done on watercolor paper and combine watercolor washes, etching, and the use of colored pencils and litho pencils. Colón himself explained his technique for the illustrations in Angel and the Baby Jesus. “I began with textured watercolor paper. I added a wash of golden undertone watercolor. On top of that I drew the image - sketched it - and then added the middle tones. There are about 5 to 8 washes on top of each other. I then used colored pencils to make the texture of the paper come out. I also use a scratchboard instrument appropriately called a "scratcher" to draw down through the layers.”

Colón currently resides in New City, NY with his family.

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Kamil Lisek

September 3, 2013, 3:03 am
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Kamil Lisek



ur. 1980 r. w Gdańsku

Absolwent Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Gdańsku. Dyplom z wyróżnieniem w pracowni prof. Macieja Świeszewskiego. Oprócz malarstwa zajmuje się grafiką warsztatową.



Nagrody i wyróżnienia:

2006 – GRAND PRIX w konkursie fundacji im. Franciszki Eibisch

2006 – I miejsce w konkursie „Artystyczna podróż Hestii” – miesięczne stypendium w Nowym Jorku

2005 – III miejsce w konkursie na „Pomorską Grafikę Roku”

2005 – stypendium Ministra Kultury na rok akademicki 2005/2006

2005 – stypendium Prezydenta Miasta Gdańska na rok akademicki 2005/2006

2005 – wraz ze studentami z pracowni prof. Macieja Świeszewskiego, którzy zrealizowali projekt malarstwa ściennego w Klinice Onkologii i Hematologii Dziecięcej AM w Gdańsku otrzymał nagrody: Ministra Kultury, Rektora Akademii medycznej w Gdańsku, Prezydenta Gdańska

2005 – nagroda artystyczna Hestii za realizację malowideł ściennych w klinice Onkologii i Hematologii Dziecięcej w Gdańsku








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Krzysztof Rzeźniczek

September 3, 2013, 4:22 am
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Krzysztof Rzeźniczek



Born in 1979 in Mikołowie. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Graduated in 2005, the painting studio of prof. Kazimierza Cieślika (Casimir Cieślik)

Urodzony w 1979 w Mikołowie. Absolwent Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Katowicach. Dyplom w 2005 roku, w pracowni malarstwa prof. Kazimierza Cieślika, aneks w pracowni rysunku prof. Antoniego Cygana. Obecnie asystent w katedrze malarstwa na macierzystej uczelni w pracowni rysunku prof. Antoniego Kowalskiego, oraz technologii rysunku i malarstwa prowadzonej przez wykładowcę Agnieszkę Trzos. Zajmuje się malarstwem, rysunkiem i fotografią. Autor kilku wystaw indywidualnych oraz uczestnik kilkudziesięciu wystaw zbiorowych w kraju i zagranicą. W 1999 roku otrzymał stypendium Ministra Kultury i Sztuki. W 2006 Wyróżnienie na XXI Festiwalu Polskiego Malarstwa Współczesnego w Szczecinie oraz Grand Prix Fundacji im. Franciszki Eibisch.









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Leslie Watts

September 3, 2013, 4:50 am
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Leslie Watts


Born
1961 Weston, Ontario

Education
1984 Honours BA, Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Work
1987 Began a two-decade career as a children’s book illustrator and author
2007 Became a full-time painter











Awards
1986 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
1986 Guelph Creative Arts Association Juried Exhibition Prize
2004 Blue Spruce Honour Book, Ontario Library Association, for You Can’t Rush a Cat
2006 Saskatchewan Shining Willow Award for You Can’t Rush a Cat
2006 Amelia Frances Howard Gibbon Illustrator’s Award, Canadian Library Association, for The Baabaasheep Quartet
2006 Foremost Magazine Book of the Year, Honourable Mention, for The Baabaasheep Quartet
2009 People’s Choice Award, Perth Huron Juried Exhibition, Gallery Stratford, Stratford, Ontario
2009 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant
2010 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2011 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2013 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant
2013 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant








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Lillian Bayley Hoover

September 3, 2013, 5:46 am
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Lillian Bayley Hoover



EDUCATION
2005 MFA Interdisciplinary Maryland Institute College of Art, Mount Royal School of Art
2002 BFA Painting University of North Carolina, Asheville (Magna Cum Laude, Distinction in Art,
University Research Scholar)

Lillian Bayley Hoover earned her BFA from the University of North Carolina, Asheville and her MFA from the
Maryland Institute College of Art. She has taught studio art and art theory courses for colleges and universities in
the Baltimore area since 2006. Hoover’s work has been featured in exhibitions in the Baltimore area and beyond,
and was recently profiled in New American Paintings and the Little Patuxent Review. In 2012, Hoover won the
Bethesda Urban Partnership’s Trawick Prize. She has received many other honors, including the Bethesda Young
Artist Painting Award, two Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and a grant from
Philadelphia’s Center for Emerging Visual Artists—enabling her to conduct research and photograph in Istanbul,
Turkey. Hoover has been selected as a semifinalist for Baltimore's Sondheim Prize on three occasions.




PROFESSIONAL AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
2012 Trawick Award, Bethesda, MD
Sondheim Prize Semifinalist, Baltimore, MD
Bethesda Painting Award Semifinalist, Bethesda, MD
2011 Trawick Award Finalist, Bethesda, MD
Bethesda Painting Award Semifinalist, Bethesda, MD
New American Paintings profile, juried exhibition in print, issue #94
2009 Bethesda Young Artist Painting Award, Bethesda, MD
Trawick Award Semifinalist, Bethesda, MD
2008 Center For Emerging Visual Artists Travel Grant, Philadelphia, (to Istanbul, Turkey)
Bethesda Painting Award Finalist, Bethesda, MD
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award: Painting
2007 New American Paintings, cover and profile, juried exhibition in print, issue #69
Sondheim Prize Semifinalist, Baltimore, MD
Center For Emerging Visual Artists Housing Grant, Philadelphia, PA
Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award: Sculpture
Bethesda Painting Award Semifinalist, Bethesda, MD
2006 Sondheim Prize Semifinalist, Baltimore, MD
2006-2008 Fellow at The Center For Emerging Visual Artists, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Undergraduate Research Travel Grant, UNC-Asheville
2002 S. Tucker Cooke Scholarship in Painting, UNC-Asheville
Undergraduate Research Grant, UNC-Asheville
2000 Walter Ogilvie Scholarship in Painting, UNC-Asheville
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Magdalena Gedroyć

September 3, 2013, 6:29 am
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Magdalena Gedroyć


She was born in 1975. A graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Zamościu.
Studies at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Maria Curie-Skłodowskiej University in Lublin.
In 2003, she obtained a degree in graphic art - lithography from Prof.Piotra Lecha After graduation,
she engaged in oil and watercolor painting. He lives and works in Roztoczu.












Urodzona w 1975 roku. Absolwentka Państwowego Liceum Sztuk Plastycznych w Zamościu.
Studia na Wydziale Artystycznym Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie.
W 2003 roku uzyskała dyplom z grafiki warsztatowej - litografii w pracowni profesora Piotra Lecha.
Po ukończeniu studiów zajmuje się malarstwem olejnym i akwarelą. Mieszka i tworzy na Roztoczu.






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Vasilis Avramidis

September 3, 2013, 7:10 am
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Vasilis Avramidis





Vasilis Avramidis uses oil on canvas to work with the idea of false perceptions in painting language. Gestural brushwork, painted objects and people are translated as pieces of land, which then become an ideal terrain for smaller scale landscapes, scenes and narratives. Avramidis explores the ability of painting language to speak about itself, while at the same time it incorporates worlds, which refer to external situations. Avramidis draws inspiration from video game mechanics, where game play can dominate over narrative and vice versa, resulting in barely manageable challenges which maintain the pleasure factor.

Avramidis is interested in locations which defy easy interpretation, fiction as a channel to address real-life concerns, the physicality of paint, 17th Century Dutch Still Life painting, Hollywood films, expressionistic distortion, science fiction, parody, mythology, and the process of moss, vegetation and land taking over disused objects or structures.

Following a BA in Fine Art at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki in 2004, Vasilis Avramidis graduated from Central Saint Martins, London with an MA in Fine Art in 2011. Avramidis has exhibited widely, including two solo exhibitions in Thessaloniki in 2009 and 2007, and group exhibitions and art fairs in London, Shenyang, Athens, Nicosia, Bratislava, Piestany, Crete, Berlin and Belgrade. In 2011 Avramidis was shortlisted for the Salon Art Prize.


Vasilis Avramidis
b. 1981, Greece

Education

2011 MA Fine Art, Central Saint martins, London
2004 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki

Awards

2011 Salon Art Prize (Shortlist), Matt Roberts Gallery, London
2006 Spyropoulos Foundation, Athens
2004 3rd Biennale of Schools of Fine Arts in Greece









Press release from the exhibition "Caretakers" at Jacob's Island gallery, 2012:

"...The exhibition comprises of a series of oil paintings depicting a set of self-invented locations and scenarios that shift the sense of scale within the traditions of landscape and still life.

Within the setting of his captured vistas Avramidis typically paints an arrangement of symbolic motifs, rendered in a way to be suggestive of neglect. These depicted scenes and objects are overgrown with moss and ivy, alluding to an overriding sense of decay that the paintings’ inhabitants desire to control and maintain. These characters are gardeners, keepers of sites, land and buildings. They are the caretakers.

The paintings express a repetition of varying hues of green, a reference to the duality between sickness and growth and how the land eventually reclaims everything that sits upon it. Objects being imbued with foliage confirm these concepts of the ongoing and endless conflict between the forces of destruction and the forces of philosophical cultivation. This force of nature against man-made structures and ideologies not only conveys a relentless struggle but also comments on the history of art and architecture being overwritten and unearthed with the passing of time.

Avramidis draws inspiration from gardens that are both real and imaginary, his references vary from the far away reality of Gilgamesh’s Garden of the Gods to the gothic Highgate Cemetery. The paintings’ subject matter, their very conception and the marks they bear of human care and cultivation refer to how gardens stand as restorative, nourishing and necessary havens. In many ways the paintings pictorial space conveys a wide-ranging examination of how gardens evoke the human condition.

The growth of the garden camouflages the structure of the objects and subject matter within the paintings and serve as a check against the destruction and loss of history. His paintings investigate the ways in which the concept and reality of the garden has informed human thinking about mortality, order, and power."

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Tilo Uischner

September 3, 2013, 9:16 am
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"Always been asked why I have chosen to work with wood I can only say that I love this material for so many reasons. It brings its own story into the picture, it reveals its character while you work with it and keeps its final secret till the moment when you apply the first layer of laquer. Wood for ages was around people to create homes, warmth or to decorate. I think it is almost exclusively seen as something very positive and in my pictures it constitutes an inviting familiarity although one might find something unexpected behind trusted facades.

I focus on people and try to portrait them as they would tell me the truth about who they are and what they have experienced. Moments of honesty, situations of importance provocing questions, answers and all kind of interpretations I want to conserve and to present in a neutral and subtle way. Very often these stories are about me.

Mostly I avoid titles or symbols explaining too much or directing the viewers to a certain interpretation. Always searchin Tilo Uischner g for ambivalent facial expressions or circumstances I want to prevent the possibility of a clear, an absolute, an objective way of explanation. One should just feel it as an impulse and refer to ones own character. For me it is very exciting how different the spectators respond to what they see. And when they oscillate between two different ways of reading, such like between play or danger, trustfull naivity or aware coquetry, pure satisfaction or existential boredom it is like they would be stuck between the two sides of a medal.

Although the need to paint aroused at an early age I followed different ways till I became a full time artist. Getting in contact with the fascinating technique of marquetry happened by coincidence and like painting I taught myself by reading books, copying old masters and trusting in the method of try and error. Now I combine the traditional craftsmanship with contemporary acrylic painting trying to blur the line between wood and paint. "


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Born - Riesa, Elbe, Saxony 1969

He began drawing at an early age and is mostly self taught.
Moved to Berlin in 1989 just months before the wall came down to study Economics at Humboldt University.
He earned his Diploma in 1995 and started working for a governmental enterprise.

In 2000 he changed subject and became a creative consultant for event creation and organization companies.

Painting large scale, changed his medium from oil and watercolors to acrylic paints. His preoccupation with furniture design made him interested in old techniques of woodworking in general and marquetry in particular.

Today he is masterly combining the medium of acrylic with his skills of intarsia creating something entirely new.


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