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Paul Cherwick

September 12, 2013, 2:10 am
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Paul Cherwick


Born in 1974, Winnipeg, Canada.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

Education
MFA, UCLA
BFA , University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Splinter Group, Brennan and Griffin, New York City

2011 Branched Ovidian (Knotty Naughties) ,China Art Objects, Los Angeles

2010 Paul Cherwick China Art Objects, Los Angeles,

2004 Wood you contain yourself (please), Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles

2002 Sculpture, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, USA

2001 Musings for the Sensitive Lumberjack, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange


Awards


2001 D’Arcy Hayman Award in Sculpture

2000 Manitoba Arts Council. Study Scholarship

1999 Manitoba Arts Council, Visual Arts Grant

1998 Manitoba Arts Council, Visual Arts Development Grant






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Christian Peschke

September 12, 2013, 3:52 am
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Christian Peschke



1946 Born in Säckingen, grew up in Spain, France and Stuttgart
1958 Already a student with special permission at the Stuttgart Art Academy under Professor Gollwitzer
1962 Training as painter and varnisher, then went self-employed
1967 first sculpture
1970 first free painting attempts
1976-80 Blocherer School of Applied Arts in Munich
1978 Friendship with the Russian sculptor Georg Kruk; met Rudolf Hausner; Vienna; sculpture versions of work by Ernst Fuchs, Salvador Dali and Arno Breker
1980-82 Creative director of a Munich advertising agency
1982 Happening at the ISPO for Uniroyal; gym shoe relief
since 1982 as a freelance painter and sculptor; first important scultures created in Spain. Cycle of life affirmation followed by cycle of socially critical sculptures; "Lifeline" created, a 10-metre-long tactile work.














1986 sculptural wall decoration for McKinsey, Munich
1987 Versions of the models "Dancer" and "Woman Jumping" as large sculptures; first abstract sculptures appear; search for new work materials
1988 Television report on "Christian Peschke's Fat Ladies" on MONA LISA, ZDF; created the "Fuchs" culture award of the firm Fjällärven; created the Bavarian Skiing Award ("in Form") for the Bavarian Skiing Association, later awarded to Willi Bogner, Walter Demel and Fritz Wagnerberger among others

1990 Transformed "Helplessness" into a large-format sculpture
1991 numerous large sculptures appear between 1991 and 1995, as well as paintings and goldsmith work.
1996 Exhibition in Monte Carlo under the auspices of "Christine Esswein"
1997-02 numerous exhibitions in Germany, Austria and Italy
1999 more exhibitions, including one at the "Schloss Seeheim" academy in Constance
2000-01 and 02 lecturer at the "Akademie Vulkaneifel" in Steffeln
2001 Wall relief created for the Hotel Mirabell in Olang, South yol
2001-02 Creation of large-format sculptures "QUO VADIS", "ANGER", "DANCE AROUND ONE'S OWN NAVEL" and "BULL" (POWER TO PEACE).
2003 Creation of sculpture "Dance of the Stars" onthe occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Club Allemand International de Monaco for S.A.S. Le Prince Souverain Rainier III of Monaco
2004 Intensive work on two large-format sculptures
2005 Creation of the sculpture "Woman Dancer" and official handover to his Highness Prince Albert II.
2006
Collective exhibition in the Museum in Bruneck – South Tyrol, Italy on the occasion of the publication of the art-book "Artisti & Atelier" by Fulvio Vicentini

2006 Creation of a sculpture for the UEFA on the occasion of the World Cup championships.
2007 Production of the video”The art of Christian Peschke”-Directed by Fulvio Vicentini Produced by Di Spazio Film.
2007 Anthological exhibition in the museum in Bruneck on the occasion of Christian Peschkes 60 th birthday.





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Lynn Muir

September 12, 2013, 4:47 am
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Lynn Muir


Lynn sculpts whimsical figures in wood, mainly from driftwood gathered from the beach near her home in Cornwall after a strong south westerly wind. Her pieces are characterised by their humour and by their simple shapes. Their forms are shaped with saws and sanding tools, the wood itself often suggesting the figure, its size, stance or hairstyle. Detailing is added with her fine painting, of facial features and decorative patterning of clothes, frequently jumpers which are “just like one I had”.

Lynn was born in East Anglia and trained at Colchester School of Art in Illustration. Her workshop overlooking the Atlantic was established when she moved to Cornwall in 1986.












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September 12, 2013, 6:52 am
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My laptop suddenly "burned". What a big noise !!!!!!!!!!!

I'm writing on my husband's laptop and here I don't have any of my files.
The next few days my activity will be reduced to almost "zero"
Sorry ! :(

I'm also having problems with my new gmail account, I can´t open my blog (perhaps because  session is opened on another computer) and with this account the limit of images should be almost exceeded!






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Mitch Griffiths

September 13, 2013, 10:54 am
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Mitch Griffiths

Mitch Griffiths uses a traditional, almost forgotten style of painting, inspired by the light and composition of Old Master paintings, but he uses this style to depict the issues concerning 21st-century British society. His main subject is the transient and throwaway nature of contemporary culture, which is held in stark contrast to the permanence and indelibility of oil paint on canvas.

















Mitch Griffiths

Mitch Griffiths was born in Nuneaton in 1971 and had an early passion for drawing that was fostered by his school, which he represented in various art competitions. Planning for a career in art, he enrolled at South Devon College, completing a Diploma in Graphic Design in 1987. This was followed by a Higher National Diploma in Illustration at Southampton Institute. His initial work as a commercial illustrator, on projects that ranged from magazine covers to murals, was supplemented by a variety of temporary jobs, such as sheet metal work, which brought in more reliable income.

Griffiths' first artistic success came unexpectedly, in 1994. An avid boxing fan, he painted a portrait of Chris Eubank and sent a photograph of it to Eubank's agent, Barry Hearn. The boxer was delighted with the piece, wanting to use the image to promote his matches, and he initially commissioned a series of pictures and then offered Griffiths a job. Eubank became his patron for the next three years, setting up a studio for him at his business centre in Hove.

Through Eubank, Griffiths met the entrepreneur Terry Johnson, who owned a luxury retreat in Cornwall called Hustyns, where many boxers trained. Griffiths became artist-in-residence and for the next five years created over 100 paintings to be displayed at the centre. He also helped to set up the Bishop Phillpotts Gallery in Truro, Cornwall, holding three solo exhibitions there in 2001 and 2002.

During these years Griffiths' distinctive style of figurative painting in oils began to emerge. He immersed himself in the culture of the Old Masters, reading widely on art history and making frequent visits to London's museums to examine seminal works. Returning to his studio, he would try out their painting techniques, their composition and lighting, toiling until he had honed his abilities to a level where he could replicate and then advance creatively from his models.

While his artistic language owes a debt to the past, in content Griffiths rigorously addresses the issues of the twenty-first century. Large, complex canvases, packed with detail, expose the immoralities and pretences of our time. Many of his images appear to echo familiar religious iconography. However, their symbolism reflects a modern quest for redemption from the overriding self-obsession and consumerism of contemporary society, with its vanity and greed, addictions and needless suffering.

In 2001 Griffiths entered the National Portrait Gallery BP Portrait Award with Armoured Heart. The piece was chosen for the exhibition's promotional poster, which resulted in wide exposure for his work across London. His first solo show in London was mounted at the Enid Lawson Gallery in Kensington in 2002. During this period Halcyon Gallery became one of his favourite haunts, following an exhibition of work by the painter Robert Lenkiewicz that caught his interest. A chance conversation with a gallery representative and an opportunity to show the sketchbook he was carrying resulted in what has become an enduring creative collaboration; Halcyon Gallery started permanently representing Griffiths in 2004.

His first show at the gallery, Reality (2006), examined the power of brand names in such works as Twenty-first Century Boy a portrayal of a figure in Calvin Klein underpants with a Coca-Cola trademark branded into his skin. Credit cards encircle the man's head like a crown of thorns and his chest and arms bear cut marks that suggest self-harm.

The Promised Land, another major solo show, opened in April 2010 with 25 paintings that delved into the pain and contradictions of modern British life. Griffiths took the Union Jack as a recurrent theme, wrapping figures in it to raise provocative questions about patriotism and identity. He draws attention to society's fixation on appearance in The Fitting Room, to its voyeurism and inconstancy in The Muse is Dead.

Griffiths' exhibition Iconostasis, taking its concept from the screen of icons dividing the sanctuary from the nave of an Eastern Orthodox church, will be launched in 2012 and will feature portraits of such famous figures as Ray Winstone, Sir Bob Geldof and Keira Knightley.







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Laura Krifka

September 13, 2013, 11:41 am
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Laura Krifka

Lives and works in Ventura CA.

Education

MFA University of California Santa Barbara 2010.
BFA California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 2008.













Awards

2009
Santa Barbara Art Association Scholarship Award, Santa Barbara CA.
Levitan Fellowship, University of California Santa Barbara CA.

2008
Broida Award, University of Santa Barbara CA.
Studio Art Scholarship, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo CA.
Cal Poly Arts Award, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo CA





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Johan Andersson

September 13, 2013, 12:50 pm
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Johan Andersson





After graduating from Central St.Martins in 2008 Johan Andersson became the youngest ever person to be shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award and named as The Independent’s top 20 Artists 2008. His selected work was displayed at the National Portrait Gallery and in the same year he was also selected for the Jerwood Contemporary Painters prize.
Since then Andersson has gone onto exhibit work along side artists including Anish Kapoor, Tracy Emin, Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk and Howard Hodgkin, and in 2010 was selected to exhibit work in support of BreakThrough Breast Cancer at The V&A Museum.
He has exhibited and sold on the international art market including The Scope Art Fair in Basel and Cutlog in Paris. His work has also been displayed in major London Underground stations including Bond Street, Baker street and South Kensington.
In 2010 Andersson was selected by Sky Arts as the ‘one to watch’ young British Contemporary Artist to feature on a 6 week Documentary called ‘Art of Survival’ broadcasted July 2011. Johan was recently selected as top 100 most influential creatives by TimeOut as well as being featured on a TED talk.
The climax of the STOLEN FACES series was a solo show at the elusively private Long Gallery of Englefield house in May 2012 where the paintings of individuals marginalised by society replaced 17th century portraits of prominent earls and countesses.




BP Portrait Award 2007
This portrait is of his friend Tamara; their friendship adds a silent tension which is revealed in the shyness of Tamara’s demeanour. ‘This insecurity of posing nude,’ he says ‘is evident in the awkwardness of the pose.’ Johan says he was trying to challenge attitudes to voyeurism through his portrait.













BRAND FOR LIFE is a reminder of the realities and effects of our consumerism, seeking to redefine iconography and to challenge perspectives by juxtaposing western branding to a wider story. The purpose is not to condemn corporate culture, but rather to reconnect popular products to the process of making them, highlighting its human cost.
With the explosion of social media, we live in a culture of self-elevation, performance and adoration rather than tangible accomplishment. BRAND FOR LIFE aims to challenge the superficiality of over-commercialisation, not by shock but by understanding our connection to a wider humanity and by giving these characters a voice. The paintings bear no secrets, and are stripped down to just one core product. The brands shown represent consumer icons as a whole and the paintings are not commenting on these brands in themselves.


















STOLEN FACES seeks to give representation and visibility, to those who do not conform to the artificial and image conscious (attributes so often propagated by onscreen and printed hegemony). In recognising the capacity of the global media (in line with public receptiveness) to distort ontological perceptions, the paintings stand both in defiance and pride, celebrating diversity in the knowledge that we are all uniquely made.
The presence of STOLEN FACES is an expression that encourages intimacy, whilst challenging continually emerging advertising milieus. In capturing both actuality and the elusive ethereal, the fusion of subtle technicolour has the effect of making ordinary details appear extraordinary. The subjects retain both an ephemeral and intense presence, provoking cognitive dissonance. By its nature, this encourages the viewer to confront their preconceptions of identity in a manner that is uniquely uncompromising.







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David Mesguich

September 13, 2013, 3:37 pm
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David Mesguich



David Mesguich's work is neither overdone nor artificial. "It immerses itself in the direct prolonging of a story, a way of life".
He turns his gaze to our world-cities, through which we construct our thoughts, identities, individual existences and even poetic speech.
It is not that we find ourselves succumbing to the power of denial; the desire to reject the universe in which we are always, and undeniably a part of. On the contrary, we must seek to get through it as we can, to pass by the rifts, to follow through the arteries of our existence, to explore its folds.
It's a question of making live the movement of an eye which uses trickery with the objectives of CCTV, which challenges the modes of control and which tries to open the perspectives of a singular vision.
This passes through the complete methodological process of the Image, between graffiti, photography, video and ink drawings-paintings.
Here photography plays a matrix role, a huge collection of instants and situations in which we can draw forms, open spaces, the flare, the transparency of windows and shadows that will feed not only an imaginary framework of post-modernity, but also a representative construction that lean against the history of paintings and cinema.

Jean Cristofol , philosophy teacher.

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Teodora Axente

September 14, 2013, 1:31 am
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Teodora Axente

Born in Sibiu, Romania, 1984
Lives and works in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Education
2005 – 2011 MFA - University of Art and Design, Cluj
2011 – present PhD - University of Art and Design, Cluj



Awards and Residencies
2011 ESSL ART AWARD CEE - Group Exhibition of the Winners, Essl Museum
2011 VIG SPECIAL INVITATION - Group Exhibition, Ringturm Vienna
2007 Erasmus program, Ecole superior des beaux- arts de Rennes ,FR


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Micah Ganske

September 14, 2013, 2:10 am
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Micah Ganske





"My recent body of work,Tomorrow Land, is a series of paintings and sculptures that contrasts the failures of modern industry with the my belief in science and technology to change our world for the better.

The first group of paintings start with the simple juxtaposition of a large shadow over an aerial view of abandoned locations. The shadows cast are of things that symbolize what I refer to as, "Aspirational Technology". These are things that represent, or at one point represented, the progress of our technological civilization and the glory which a future in space would bring. The locations depicted are towns, neighborhoods and population centers which have been recently abandoned due to industrial negligence. These areas represent the hubris of our species and lack of foresight that has been so catastrophic over the history of human civilization. For me these works embody my optimism along with a realism about what we as a species are capable of.

What is art for the viewer but a catalyst for inspiration? I want to make work which inspires and engages the viewer in what I truly believe is important and what drives me. I believe in space exploration and the pursuit of technology as a vehicle to the future. There will be bumps along the way, because we are flawed. Some advanced technology will be used irresponsibly or simply for evil. However, the progression of science and technology also represents the evolution of our species. We are the first species just smart enough to evolve ourselves outside of natural selection and Darwinian evolution. Do we need to be smarter? Yes. But we don't have to wait millions of years to get there naturally. We can do that through our ingenuity. Creating a body of work that can open a dialog about these ideas is what I am working towards with my art."


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Micah Ganske was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1980. In 2002 he received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Post-Baccalaureate certificate from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2003. In 2005 he received his MFA in painting from the Yale School of Art. In 2005 he was the recipient of the Adobe Design Achiement Award in Digital Photography at a reception held at the Guggenheim Museum in New York where his work was also displayed. In October 2007 Deitch Projects exhibited Ganske's first solo exhibition. In 2011 he launched his second solo exhibition at RH Gallery in Tribeca. Micah Ganske is also a 2012 Fellow in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.


Awards and Honors
2012 Fellow in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts
2012 Museum of Art and Design Open Studios Residency
2011 Canson Wet Paint Grant
2010 Cill Rialaig Residency, SW Kerry, Ireland
2005 Adobe Design Winner for Digital Imaging

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Francis Deransart

September 14, 2013, 2:55 am
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Francis Deransart

Francis DERANSART est né en 1935 à Dieulefit dans le Drôme. Il montre assez tôt plus d'enthousiasme et de dispositions pour se fabriquer des jouets ou dessiner des " histoires " que d'attirance pour les subtilités de la grammaire latine ou du calcul des fonctions à x inconnues.

A partir de 1955 il étudie le dessin, la sculpture, l'architecture dans différents cours et ateliers à Paris. Au cours des années 60 il publie des dessins humoristiques et publicitaires dans la presse et l'édition : Planète, Bizarre, Les chefs d'ouvre du Sourire, éd. J-J PAUVERT, Graphis...

Puis il se passionne pour le dessin animé et participe en tant que concepteur et assistant-réalisateur à la production de films publicitaires ou de courts-métrages au sein de l'équipe d'animation des Cinéastes Associés.

En 1970 il entre à la Manufacture de Papiers-Peints ZUBER et Cie à Rixheim, et y travaillera plus de vingt ans à la création et au développement d'ateliers d'impressions sérigraphiques. A l'école des anciens et de leur savoir-faire il crée une collection de décors panoramiques contemporains, Les " Paysages de ZUBER " en sollicitant des dessinateurs tels J-M. FOLON, Alain Le FOLL, Georges LEMOINE et lui-même, puis consacre une grande partie de ses activités à la réimpression de très nombreux décors et documents des archives de la Manufacture ZUBER.

Bénéficiaire d'une retraite anticipée au début des années 90, il peut retourner depuis à ses premières amours, la fabrication de ses jouets, auxquels il consacre depuis quinze ans des milliers d'heures de travail dans le secret de son atelier. Il cherche alors à interpréter les thèmes de ses dessins humoristiques d'antan pour les restituer en trois dimensions. Il réalise ainsi une série d'objets en bois découpés et peints, composant jusqu'à ce jour, une collection d'une quarantaine de sujets.










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Yrjo Edelmann

September 14, 2013, 3:43 am
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Yrjo Edelmann




Yrjö Edelmann
Born 1941 in Helsinki, Finland




  "Reality or fantasy? What is the difference between fantasy and fact, between night and day, between torment and transports of delight? Yrjö Edelmann’s pictures are frequently located in the territory between dream and experience, in a vacuum where the eye wanders through a labyrinth of almost infinite proportions.
For centuries artists have endeavoured to delude the eye of the observer by conjuring forth a trompe-l’oeil image. And so too does Edelmann, with his wrinkled wrapping paper — storm-tossed seas that may just as readily be clouds sailing through a clear blue sky, or mysteriously undulating packages.
Ever since he stepped onto the stage as a thirty-something artist, Yrjö Edelmann has devoted himself to oil painting and graphic art. More recently his works have caught the eye of both public and critics, not only here at home in Sweden, but abroad as well, with exhibitions in New York, Tokyo and Paris. Since 1976 his works have been on display continuously in the USA.
Yrjö Edelmann was born in 1941 and moved from Helsinki in Finland to Sweden with his family ten years later. He started to draw at an early age, initially in comic strip magazines, and worked for many years as an illustrator with the publishers Åhlén & Åkerlund in Stockholm. While there he produced several book covers and other works in the magazine genre. Towards the end of the 1950s he studied freehand drawing at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm. Influenced by French surrealism with its irrational, dreamlike motifs, he developed his own pictorial language and also experimented with hyperrealism before becoming increasingly engrossed in his packages, wrapping paper and pieces of string.
His paintings play with shape and shade, with proportions and the properties of colour. His creations challenge our senses, capturing the sensation of hovering between what truly exists and what is merely the shadow of a dream. "

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Willem van Veldhuizen

September 14, 2013, 4:30 am
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Willem van Veldhuizen



The Artist Willem van Veldhuizen (Rotterdam 1954) worked over the past 30 years on an extensive body of work. The main theme in his paintings are 'Museum interiors'.
Van Veldhuizens paintings are generally painted in a fixed composition. A view from inside a space to the outside. The upper part of the canvas shows a wall or glass window through which a garden or an urban landscape is visible. The foreground shows a large floor area. The reality of the buildings, nature or the outside world is reflected in the floors. The upper part of the canvas is painted with a high degree of precision while the lower part of the canvas is generally painted in a more loose manner.
Besides painting, Van Veldhuizen is proficient in drawing from life, model drawing. His works are in various private and museum collections. There are also several monographs published















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Shaina Craft

September 14, 2013, 7:11 am
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Shaina Craft



Shaina will be attending The New York Academy of Art this Fall to earn her MFA in painting. She graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011 with a BFA in painting and currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA. Her work is primarily figurative and her obsession with the human form makes sure she never strays far from her favorite subject. Her large oil paintings are glazed with many layers of sheer color, creating a luminous effect. In addition to oil, she works in chalk pastel and digital photography.

Shaina's Flesh Experiment 117 has been chosen for this year's Art of the State exhibition at the PA State Museum in Harrisburg. In August, Shaina will be participating in a group show called "NIGHT: The Different Painting" at Brooklyn FireProof in Brooklyn, NYC. Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia included two pastel drawings by Shaina in their group show, "Global Conscious, Local Artists" (June/July 2013). Shaina also participated in a group show at FWS Gallery in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square in 2013. A piece from her Identities Like Onions series was on display in “A Show of Heads 2011″ at the Limner Gallery in Hudson, NY. Shaina has shown work at the Multiple Choice Gallery in Bluebell, PA where she received awards for Best in Show as well as both Judge’s Picks. She has also exhibited at the Hexagon Gallery in Baltimore, MD, and participated in various exhibitions on MICA’s campus.



Education
2013- New York Academy of Art, MFA Candidate

2008-2011 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting

2006-2008 Montgomery County Community College (MCCC), Blue Bell, PA, Fine Arts coursework











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Sashie Masakatsu

September 14, 2013, 9:50 am
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Sashie Masakatsu


1974 Born in Ishikawa
2000 MA, Kanazawa Collage, Ishikawa
Lives and works in Ishikawa


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Marzena Slusarczyk

September 14, 2013, 3:34 pm
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Marzena Ślusarczyk


Was born in 1976 in Katowice.


In 1995 she graduated from The Secondery Arts School in Gdynia.
In 2003 he graduated from the painting department of The Academy of Arts in Gdansk with the excellent grade.
She studied in the studio of prof. Mieczysław Olszewski
She received The scholarship of the President city of Gdansk in 2001.













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Monika Detkos

September 14, 2013, 3:56 pm
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Antoni Falat

September 14, 2013, 4:31 pm
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Antoni Falat

ANTONI FAŁAT. Painter and graphic artist. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 1993 he founded the European Academy of Arts in Warsaw. In his paintings he often refers to old family portraits. He creates compositions presenting people in slightly comic yet casual situation of everyday (...). The impression of unnaturalness is deepened by strong contrasts of colors. Fałat’s art, related with the movement of ‘new figuration’, is also related closely to pop-art. (source: ‘The Encyclopedia of Polish Art’ by ‘Kluszczyński’ Publishing House.)
















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Marek Okrassa

September 14, 2013, 5:00 pm
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Marek Okrassa

MAREK OKRASSA. Born in 1975, he studied painting in the studio of professor M.Swieszewski and drawing in the studio of Maria Targowska. Okrassa was twice awarded with a grant from the Ministry of Culture and Arts and in 1999 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts with a special award. He was awarded with the Silver Spur in 2000 and he received an honourable mention of Franciszka Eibisch Foundation in 2004 at the National Museum of Warsaw. "Is it possible for a painting to be simultaneously a deep sociological analysis of the human being and a complex poetic metaphor? It proves that yes, indeed. Marek Okrassa seeks out for inspiration for his art by visiting crowded beaches, popular cafes and amusement parks. He observes various human types and tries to follow the typical patterns of behaviour. Numerous sketches, drawings and notes are being made, from which emerges a complicated web of interhuman relationships. In such a public places people move as if they were free particles, but the painter, being a keen observer, recollects some logic out of the chaos of urban life. Okrassa is fascinated with the hidden aspects of the life of a common man. It is the way of how this anonymous world becomes concrete, well known and acceptable. Perhaps it is a personal way of familiarising oneself with the reality, of translating the new into a complete artistic show. This is the simultaneous creation of a complex sociological fresco and a metaphorical image of the reality. The world of Marek Okrassa pictures, due to the talent and the intelligent narration, may tell us much about man." J.Napiórkowska
















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Nick Gentry

September 14, 2013, 5:22 pm
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Nick Gentry is a British artist from London. Much of his artistic output has been generated with the use of contributed artefacts and materials.
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Nick Gentry is a British artist from London. Much of his artistic output has been generated with the use of contributed artefacts and materials. He states that through this process "contributor, artist and viewer come closer together". His art is influenced by the development of consumerism, technology and cyberculture in society, with a distinctive focus on obsolete media.

He is best known for his floppy disk paintings, placing an emphasis on recycling and the reuse of personal objects as a central theme. Such artistic works of social commentary have been featured in galleries in the UK, USA and in cities throughout the world. His work has been exhibited alongside established street artists and as such has been linked to the urban art scene in London.










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