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Ivan Stratiev

January 10, 2014, 6:03 am
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Ivan Stratiev




The artist was born in 1960 in Tran, Bulgaria.

In 1984 graduated from the Veliko Tarnovo University St. St. Kiril and Metodyi specializing Graphic Art.

He has participated in many exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad. Has over 20 solo exhibitions in Sofia, Prague, Vienna, etc.

His works are onwed by galleries and private collections in many countries.

He works mainly oil painting and watercolour, also graphic art - lithography and etching.

The artist is member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists. Lives and works in Sofia, Bulgaria.


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Stefan Georgiev - Стефан Георгиев

January 10, 2014, 3:31 pm
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Stefan Georgiev




Born on June 24th 1954 in V. Tamovo city
Graduated in 1974 the Secondary school of Arts of Kazanlak city. From 1976 student in the St.Cyril and St. Merodius University of Veliko Turnovo

Common exhibitions:
1984 - Sofia - 'Shipka' 6 str. - Painting Of The Month
1986 - Sofia - 'Shipka' 6 str. - Painting and small plastic
1987 - Hollfeld - Germany - international exhibition - painting
1979 - 2000 Member of groups of painters
Haskovo and Kardzhaly




Personal exhibitions:

He has exhibited his pictures in many galleries and private collections in Europe, USA and Canada.
He is member of 'Camber o fine art of Greece'


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Emil Popgenchev - Емил Попгенчев

January 10, 2014, 3:52 pm
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Emil Popgenchev - Емил Попгенчев


Popgenchev Emil was born on 16/02/1942 in Gabrovo. National Academy "Nikolay Pavlovich" in 'Decorative Monumental Painting "(1967). The only contemporary Bulgarian artist who built a body of work in the style of cubism and his achievements earned international recognition. So in 1995 the famous French auction house Druon sold all his paintings presented, which is a precedent for Bulgarian artist. Emil Popgenchev is the largest donor to the Museum "House of Humour and Satire" - 43 paintings. His is the composition of the western facade of the DHS also a gift to Gabrovo (2003). Experts say this is the most famous in Bulgaria monumental decorative art . died in Sofia on August 8, 2010.


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Stefan Yanev - Стефан Янев

January 10, 2014, 4:20 pm
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Stefan Yanev -  Стефан Янев


Stefan Yanev was born on January 21, 1952 in Blagoevgrad. In 1978 he graduated in painting from the National Art Academy - Sofia. More than 30 years Yanev protect dying urban detail in the highest risk in the picture direct and frontal way - tells of the gate, window, balcony, and you even plaster of vanishing houses throughout Europe and the Orient - houses, a source of rural romance and universal poetry. Incombustible works are in the National Gallery, the National Gallery in Bratislava, collection "Peter Ludwig," private collections in the Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Venezuela, Japan, Belgium.











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Renato Costa

January 13, 2014, 3:47 am
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Renato Costa

Breve Curriculum

Inicia su formación en el taller de su padre, el pintor Manoel Costa (Rio de Janeiro).
Estudios de Bellas Artes (Facultad Complutense de Madrid).
Desde 2005 Vive y trabaja en Madrid.

Principales Exposiciones individuales

2013 Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Ceuta (Ceuta - Conjunto Monumental de las Murallas Reales). “Sombras de una Intersección”.
2012 Fundación Pons (Madrid). “Sombras de una intersección”.
2011 Movart Galería de arte (Madrid). “Memorias Póstumas”.
2010 Museo del Revellín (Ceuta). “Paramnesia Colectiva”.
2009 Movart Galería de arte (Madrid). “Paramnesia Colectiva”.
2008 Centro Cultural Fray Luís de León, Guadarrama, (Madrid). “Refugios”
2007 Casa do Brasil (Madrid). “En-Soñaciones”.
Principales Exposiciones Colectivas

2013 ART LIMA I, (Lima-Perú) Galería Casa Cuadrada. FIA CARACAS XXII, (Caracas-Venezuela) Galería Casa Cuadrada.
2010 Movart Galería de arte (Madrid). “CENTENARIO DE LA GRAN VÍA”.
2009 Museo municipal de Valdepeñas (Valdepeñas), II PREMIO JESÚS BÁRCENAS DE PINTURA.
Museo López Villaseñor (Ciudad Real), II PREMIO JESÚS BÁRCENAS DE PINTURA.
Galería Victoria Hidalgo (Madrid). ARTEGÉNOVA 2009 (Italia), Galería Espacio de arte Pablo Ruiz.
2008 LINEART 2008, Gante (Bélgica) Galería Espacio de arte Pablo Ruiz.
Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno IVAM) XXXV PREMIO BANCAJA DE PINTURA, ESCULTURA Y ARTE DIGITAL (Valencia).
Sala de Exposiciones del Ayuntamiento de Torremolinos, IX CERTAMEN ANDALUZ DE PINTURA CONTEMPORANEA (Torremolinos).
2007 Fundación Artecovi (Madrid), ”PINTURA IBEROAMERICANA CONTEMPORANEA”
2005 Galería de Arte Dom Quixote (Rio de Janeiro), “OBRAS PRIMAS DA ARTE BRASILEIRA”.

Algunos Premios
2009 II PREMIO JESÚS BÁRCENAS DE PINTURA (Valdepeñas): Mención de Honor y Premio Adquisición.
2008 XXXV PREMIO BANCAJA DE PINTURA, ESCULTURA Y ARTE DIGITAL (Valencia): Mención Honorífica. IX CERTAMEN ANDALUZ DE PINTURA CONTEMPORANEA (Torremolinos): Mención de Honor.









Statement

“Contra la impostura intelectual”

Desde el punto de vista de la disciplina artística, mi trabajo reivindica la producción manual de la pintura, en una actitud de libertad que intenta despojarse de todos los prejuicios.
Con la conciencia de que el objeto pictórico del lienzo pintado, ante todo, es una actitud y una potencia intelectual, que necesita la vista, el cuerpo y las manos para establecer una comunicación directa con la sociedad, mi trabajo en muchas ocasiones, esta basado en fotografías sacadas de los medios de comunicación, Internet, películas, que sirven como alimento de recuerdos fragmentados de acontecimientos mundiales. Con la intención, de “encapsular” estas imágenes, para tomarlas a modo de pastillas que actúan contra la enfermedad de la indiferencia. Es, sobretodo, una forma de mezclarme con lo sucedido, para la obtención de un autorretrato en forma de diálogo con uno mismo, y a través de él, lograr una interpretación, ó un entendimiento mas amplio de lo que significa la existencia desde el punto de vista de ser alguien artista.
En este punto, el encapsular una imagen fotográfica, en una forma de hacer pictórica que realiza giros, vueltas y revueltas entre los géneros y las técnicas, y que de una cierta forma reproduce una historia de amor con la historia de la pintura, genera una tensión, formulada como antítesis, entre una actitud artística fría y otra cálida, fruto de la oposición entre lo objetivo y lo subjetivo, entre lo maquinal y lo orgánico, o, en definitiva entre lo analítico y lo expresivo. Esta tensión, representa la condición de heredero de una contradicción, que habita en el corazón mismo del arte contemporáneo.

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Brian Lorimer

January 14, 2014, 2:26 am
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Brian Lorimer


Lorimer was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1961 and studied at the prestigious Ontario College of Art and Design from 1979 to 1982.

In 1995, Lorimer started Lorimer Studios Inc, Canada's leading fine art mural design and painting studio, employing and mentoring many young visual artists throughout Canada.

After many successful years building Lorimer Studios into the nations leading mural studio, he sold his company to pursue his interests in visual arts and since, has been painting full time from his studio and home on the shores of Lake Mississagagon.
Education
1979-1981 Ontario College of Art & Design
Specialization: Fine art Drawing and Painting


Professional Experience
2002-present Painting
1995-2002 President of Lorimer Studios Inc., mural painting
1989-1995 Freelance design and illustration for various clients
1985-1989 Senior Exhibit Designer, Exhibits International, Toronto, Ontario
1982-1985 Exhibit Designer, Geron Associates, Toronto, Ontario
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1979 Art Gallery of Ontario Scholarship















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Gary Cody

January 14, 2014, 2:54 am
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Gary Cody
Canadian artist

Artist Statement

"When people speak of a single, defining moment that was instrumental in shaping their careers, I remember a show that was featured at the Alberta College of Art when I was there as a painting student.

Two paintings absolutely entranced me- a pair of still life pieces by Giorgio Morandi. I really hadn't appreciated what could be done with still life until that moment. And although my work has little in common visually with Morandi, he continues to be a hero of mine.

Morandi's work illustrates what, for me, is the paradox of still life painting - the simpler the work becomes, the more complex it becomes. I'm continually surprised at the visual complexity and richness of something as simple as an apple refracted through a glass jar- "worlds within worlds", all around us but rarely appreciated. It's the need to capture and share this wonderful complexity- these visual surprises- that is my motivation to paint.

My main interest remains glass - its transparency, distortion,
and how it affects objects around it. However, I'm trying to get away from more traditional elements such as fruit, vases etc. and replacing them with non-traditional objects - rusted metal, old toys, broken clock faces, cheap plastic flowers.

I'm also exploring variations on point-of-view, using more extreme "camera angles" than people might be used to. The third element I've been playing with is the format of the painting. They've been getting more extreme in their dimensions, both vertically and horizontally.

And perhaps the biggest area of ongoing change is the work's complexity. The pieces are becoming more complex as I add more and more elements to each piece. I love the complexity of composition that results from this."









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Jason Kozlowski

January 14, 2014, 3:29 am
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Jason Kozlowski


"Since last summer we have relocated to Port Perry Ontario from Oakland California to create a new life for ourselves as artists. I have gotten a chance to paint again, between job searching and being a busy dad. I have this blog to celebrate and document the moments in my life and though I have few readers I am sure, I hope to share my thoughts to those who by happenstance come across them."



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Shari Erickson

January 14, 2014, 4:11 am
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Shari Erickson


"Erickson's uncluttered island vignettes are characterized by an assured use of color, an elemental grasp of human movement, and her deceptively straightforward painting style that achieves an elegant simplicity."

THIS WEEK IN ST. THOMAS

American contemporary painter Shari Erickson gained early recognition as a figurative muralist in her home town of Atlanta. After graduating with honors from The Ringling School of Art, she became an accomplished drawing instructor, potter, and jewelry designer.



From early on, this artist's personal focus has been the creative contemplation of the human form. This remains at the heart of her authority, while the exploration of light and bold color always infuses her work.



Erickson's love of figurative painting was renewed on her first visit to the West Indies in 1979. She was beguiled by the magical, unsinkable Islands. The saturated colors and swaying people inspired a new rhythm in her work. Her vision of island society, distinguished by her 'coup de crayon', has quickly brought her numerous exhibitions and international collectors.



The U.S. Department of State honored Ms. Erickson by selecting her work for the global ART in Embassies Program. Among others, USAir and Liat Air published her images to promote their island destinations. The Minister for Development for the American Territories chose Erickson's work for its Virgin Islands Park Service publications. She has designed book covers for Macmillan-Caribbean Publishers. And recently she is translating her tropical designs into textile applications.



Although she spends much of her time exploring the Caribbean with artist husband Douglas Kahle Gifford, many of her Alkyd-oil, A la Prima studies are completed in their Smoky Mountains studio. Shari Erickson's images of the tropical kind are currently exhibited throughout the Southeast and the Antilles Archipelago.











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Thierry Marchal

January 14, 2014, 4:50 am
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Thierry Marchal


"Thierry Marchal né à Paris le 11 juin 1960, vit une enfance agitée près de Fontainebleau.
Deuxième d'une famille de 6 enfants, dès l'âge de 4 ans, il exprime sa passion et son attirance pour la peinture.
En effet, il n'a pas le comportement d'un petit garçon de son âge, il passe le plus clair de son temps à dessiner, à jouer du piano et à contempler les femmes.
L'enfant prodige au tempérament bien trempé, quelque peu rebelle n'accorde aucun intérêt à l'enseignement et préfère découvrir et vivre de nouvelles expériences. Il redouble de nombreuses classes, c'est pourquoi ses parents le place dans différentes pensions dont il sera exclu. Il se concentre sans retenue sur ses dessins et vend son premier portrait à l'âge de 14 ans.


A 18 ans, Thierry retourne vers la ville aux multiples splendeurs, Paris.
Les mains dans les poches, avec comme précieux bagage, un cartable rempli de feuilles blanches et de crayons. Il mène alors une vie riche en expériences sans aucune contrainte. Il aime s'attarder Place du Tertre, à Saint Germain des Près où son regard est à la recherche d'un visage à immortaliser. Dans la rue ou dans son atelier, il sollicite des modèles inconnus pour réaliser leurs portraits.
Thierry mène alors une vie de bohème, il habite chez des amis, des modèles ou chez ses conquêtes féminines, qui d'ailleurs lui financeront sa première exposition.
Conscient de son talent grandissant, à 19 ans il passe son bac en candidat libre et l'obtient avec mention puis rentre aux Beaux-Arts en architecture.
Un an après, l'élève studieux qu'il est devenu, expose dans son école d'architecture. L'un de ses professeurs tombe sous le charme de ses oeuvres et lui achète un dessin au crayon en lui disant, «vous êtes le plus jeune artiste auquel j'ai acheté le plus cher dessin réalisé au crayon».
En 1979, grâce à un ami il rencontre Dali. Thierry est fasciné par l'artiste et s'empresse de lui montrer son travail. Après avoir observé les oeuvres de Thierry, Dali lui conseille d'affronter désormais la peinture car le dessin lui est acquis.

Thierry est pris dans le tourbillon nocturne parisien et mène une vie tumultueuse. Les femmes l'inspirent et l'attirent, il aime les croquer…
Pendant ce temps, ses dessins se vendent facilement, il expose au Salon d'Automne, au Salon des Indépendants au Salon des illustrateurs et à la Grande Masse des Beaux Arts. C'est un immense succès.


Fasciné par le nombre d'or sur lequel il écrit, Thierry Marchal est un grand mystique, très croyant, il pense être inspiré par Dieu et peint pour lui rendre gloire. Ce qui ne l'empêche pas de peindre essentiellement des nus féminins, parfois très érotiques. Il trouve ses modèles parmi ses amies, dans la rue, dans les soirées ou sur Internet ; elles sont rousses, brunes, blondes, toujours plus belles sous ses pinceaux.
Cet artiste fantasque utilise différents supports pour donner vie à son travail, en passant par l'huile sur toile, au pastel sur papier, à l'aquarelle et à l'encre. Il trouve son inspiration auprès de modèles vivants, d'après des photos et des croquis.
Thierry a cette étrange facilité à peindre ou dessiner rapidement et bien souvent oublie le temps pour passer 12 heures sans cesser de peindre.


A 24 ans, il rencontre sa “Gala”, sa muse.
A la minute où il l'a vu, il lui dit qu'elle serait sa femme. Elle rit, elle avait 17 ans, c'était Elisabeth de Chérisey.
Aujourd'hui, 20 ans après leur rencontre, un mariage et 3 filles, ils exposent pour la première fois ensemble. Elle a fait l'atelier Leconte et crée des modèles de tissus et de porcelaine. Les plus grandes marques françaises et particulièrement à Gien apprécient son style et lui achètent ses créations. Elisabeth aime poser pour Thierry, elle a toujours été son modèle fétiche. Elisabeth aime peindre la nature, des fleurs et des poires...
Elles sont pour elle, de véritables personnages et elle leur donne à chacune des prénoms et les met en situation.
Elle et son mari se sont influencés pendant 20 ans. Les sujets sont différents, mais l'osmose est là. Son atelier est situé à Asnières, où se trouve leur maison, quant au sien, il est situé Quai St Michel, face à Notre-Dame.

Leur style intemporel mais contemporain est figuratif, très dessiné et construit. Le nombre d'or, les racines d'architecte apparaissent dans toutes les oeuvres. Elisabeth et Thierry ont en commun l'amour, l'amour du trait, des couleurs, de la composition et de la lumière.


Ils préparent une exposition à Los Angeles pour fin 2006."



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Jenny Harmon-Scott

January 14, 2014, 4:59 am
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Jenny Harmon-Scott


Born in Oklahoma City in 1962, Jenny Harmon-Scott started oil painting at the age of ten. From that early age, she knew that painting was her true passion and that creating would always be the driving force in her life. Jenny began studying oil painting with Oklahoma artist Maria De La Juen every week after school. It was during this time that Jenny became greatly inspired by the works of the Old Masters. She soon developed a love for the rich glazes and dark dramatic tones of the Dutch painters of the Delft School, which is still reflected in her work today. Jenny spent her summers on the Oregon coast, painting and attending art workshops by world-renown artist; Frank Boyden. In 1980 Jenny moved to Oregon where she studied art at the University of Oregon and later at Oregon State University. After college she took time to follow her heart to paint and travel.Jenny returned a few years later to the Pacific Northwest, now ready for a challenge where she could use her skills in illustration, knowledge of color, and composition. In 1991 Jenny began working for the sportswear company Nike. Initially starting as an illustrator and graphic artist, she later moved on to become a creator of color and finish for the company on a global scale. Jenny traveled extensively through Europe and beyond, inspiring groundbreaking new thought in the design and use of color throughout the sportswear industry. While still at Nike, Jenny continued to paint, selling to both private and commercial parties. After sixteen years, including a six-year period at adidas Inc, and ending as a Senior Designer for Nike Global Footwear, she realized it was time to return to her true passion and paint full time.
Jenny has been commissioned for paintings worldwide. She continues to travel yearly for inspiration for her work.

Jenny currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband Shay Scott and their crew of dogs and cat.


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Vakhtang Kakulia

January 14, 2014, 5:27 am
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Vakhtang Kakulia

Vakhtang Kakulia was born in May 1974 in Tbilisi, Georgia. From 1985 to 1989 he studied at The School of Art in Tbilisi. In 1991 he entered the Tbilisi State Academy of Art and studied art design, interior and exterior design, monumental art and sculpture. He graduated in 1997.
A unique style is evident in Vakhtang Kakulia's paintings. The technical aptitude demonstrated in his paintings is remarkable, and draws on his knowledge of classic painting. his paintings are complex in terms of subject, composition, and color. The subjects of his works are often mundane objects from daily life, but are represented in a manner that is compellingly full of interest.

Paintings by Vakhtang Kakulia are in private collections in Germany, the USA, and Canada.
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Sarah Hickey

January 14, 2014, 6:41 am
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Sarah Hickey




Hickey’s series of female idols are inspired by images of women from a variety of contexts, histories and worlds. The complex layering of imagery and patterns depict beauty, spiritual iconography and the feminine.

After completing bachelor degrees in fine arts and education, and then five years of teaching art in Queensland high schools, Sarah Hickey started to produce art professionally after a long hiatus from her own creative practice.

In five years, Hickey has held nine solo shows and participated in nineteen group shows. A recent finalist in the Xstrata Percival Portrait Award, The Kenilworth Painting Prize, The Mandorla Art Award, Marie Ellis OAM Drawing Prize, Clayton Utz Art Award, $20,000 Metro Pearls Competition and recipient of the WLS Sponsors Award at the Art from the HeART; her work has featured in Curvy magazine and was chosen as the brand identity for Barossa Belle wines.

awards
2012 - Finalist Kenilworth Art Prize
2012 - Finalist Marie Ellis OAM Drawing Award
2012 - Finalist Mandorla Art Award
2012 - Finalist Xstrata Percival Portrait Award
2012 - Finalist Gainsborough Greens Art Award
2011 - Finalist $20,000 Metro/Pearls Art Competition
2011 - Finalist Clayton Utz Art Award
2011 - $500 Sponsors Award, From the HeART WLS Exhibition
2010 - Chosen as a contributing artist to Curvy magazine



















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Liu Yaming

January 14, 2014, 7:14 am
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Liu Yaming was born in June, 1962 in Nei Jiang city of Si Chuan province, now is living in Art base in Shang Wan of Beijing. Professional artist.

1991 the Centennial of Vincent Van Gogh Exhibition, Beijing
1992
European and Asian Art Biennial, Turkey
China Youth Oil Painting Exhibition, India
1993 China Oil Painting Biennial Exhibition
1994 Solo Exhibition in America
1995 China Oil Painting, Egypt
1996 China and Egypt Style Art Union-exhibition, Egypt
2000
China Oil Painting Exhibition, Algeria
Visited France, Holland and Spain under the invitation of French Art organization
2001 Asian Art Biennial Exhibition, Bangladesh
2002
Solo Exhibition in Belgium, Antwerp
China Famous Artists Oil Painting, Beijing
China Contemporary Art Annual Bibliography Nomination Exhibition, Beijing
China Contemporary Image Oil Painting Artwork Exhibition, Beijing
2004
Centurial Feng Gu, China Contemporary Famous Artists Exhibition, Beijing
Art Bibliography Nomination Exhibition, Wu Han
2006
Centurial Feng Gu, China Contemporary Famous Artists Biennial Exhibition
China International Art investment and collection Exposition, Beijing
Earth Life Peace China Image Artists Artwork Exhibition, Beijing
2007
Art interview to Russia under Russian Eastern Art Research Institution
Creating large-sized Oil Painting "The freedom way to the underworld"(provisional1600cm á300cm)
2008
the 3rd Beijing International Art Biennial Exhibition, Beijing
Olympic Art Conference, Beijing














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Shaun Berke

January 14, 2014, 7:47 am
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Shaun Berke



“Shaun Berke is delirious. An all-time old-time pleasure-monger. Slower; look too fast and you'll miss it.

He started by getting born about 28 or 9 years ago in Larrabee County, a mythical small town above the San Fernando valley. A long time later, he went to art school at Art Center College of Design, following which he was apprenticed to a mentor in the traditional manner. Now he runs a painting workshop for his alma mater, then goes home to paint some more in his north-light-lit cave in Pasadena. Along the way he joined The Getty Research Institute, lectured at Moorpark College, acted as teaching assistant to his mentor in Venice (the one in Italy), and was given awards by the Westlake Village Art Guild, Thousand Oaks Art Association, Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, and Alyce De Roulet Williamson.

His hobbies are working as a janitor and building shrines to gods I can't remember anymore.”


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Derek Gores

January 14, 2014, 1:28 pm
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Derek Gores



"Born in New York 1971
BFA RISD 1993

In his collage portraits, Derek Gores recycles magazines, labels, data, and assorted found analog and digital materials to create the works on canvas. The series showcases Gores' contrasting interests in the living beauty of the figure, the angular and abstract design aesthetics of fashion, and a fearless sense of play. His fine art canvases are exhibited by galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Sydney, Cologne, Miami, Santa Fe and more. Gores' design clients include Dwell Magazine, Lincoln Motor Co., ESPN, Lenny Kravitz, Lucasfilm, Kings of Leon, U2, Adidas, Madonna, Harley Davidson, Standard Collective, the National Football League, LiveNation, SEIU and more.

The Rhode Island School of Design grad lives and works in Melbourne, Florida, exhibiting and curating with the bold upstarts there, surrounded by the intellect and culture of the Space Coast. Derek was honored to have his work selected for the Manifest Hope DC exhibit coinciding with the Presidential Inauguration in 2009, and in 2010 he was named "One of the 40 important artists of the New Contemporary Movement", while in an exhibition in London.

"I like my pictures to barely come together with teasing little details. Sort of like how the mind can't help but wander, even when trying to focus on one thing. In the collages, some of the little bits I use are deliberate, but in most I'm trusting randomness to help build an end result more interesting than I could have planned. One friend calls it a 'Zen Narrative.'"

His subjects are simply figures and objects in a space, influenced by heroes Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Franz Kline, Rube Goldberg, Max Ernst, and, "those great old long-exposure photos of Abraham Lincoln, where you can feel the whole minute inside each image. I love that buzzing stillness. I do reference a classic beauty, but made of raw and geometric and un-designed parts. My real subject in the figurative women is the study of 'Fierce'. Strength, honesty, vulnerability- admired with utmost respect. I'm not interested in heavy, conscious concepts- I make something simple and let the elements combine in the head, reacting with each history the viewer brings to the table. When it goes well, I hope to create a real experience, instead of just a picture of an experience. But that sounds a little too huge... really I'm always hoping for that feeling of having the senses of a kid, where everything is new.""













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George Yepes

January 14, 2014, 2:04 pm
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George Yepes




Yepes (born 1955) was born and raised in the City Terrace neighborhood of East Los Angeles. He earned a degree in business administration at California State University, Los Angeles, while taking painting classes at night at East Los Angeles College. He then started his own financial planning business, working for several years as a part-time muralist and a full-time accountant. Between 1979 and 1985 he was one of the East Los Streetscapers. Since 1988 his works on canvas have been exhibited in group and solo shows in several local galleries and museums. In 1992 Yepes established the first free mural art school in Los Angeles-Academia de Arte Yepes. In early 1998 he completed a 68-foot vaulted ceiling mural for the Golden State Archives Museum in Sacramento.

Education:
Bishop Mora Salesian College Preparatory, East Los Angeles, California
East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park, California
California State University, Los Angeles, California
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey


Artist Statement:
"I speak with my brush"

George Yepes, Painter/Muralist


Selected Awards:
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 2013
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 2012
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 2008
Mayor of Los Angeles: JPL/NASA 2008
The Best of San Antonio, San Antonio Current 2003
Hispanic Heritage Month JPL/NASA 2001
City of Council of Los Angeles: Resolution 2001
City of Council of Los Angeles: Resolution 1999
State of California: Mural Competition "The Promise" 1998
City of Los Angeles: "Treasure of Los Angeles" 1997
State of California Department of Education: Arts Task Force 1997
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 1997
State Assembly of California: Commendation 1997
City of Commerce/City of Montebello: Mural Competition 1996
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 1995
Mayor of Los Angeles: Commendation 1995
United States Congress: Commendation 1995
JPL/NASA: Commendation Award 1995
FAA U.S. Department of Transportation: Commendation 1994
St. John Bosco: Award of Excellence 1994
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 1993
County of Los Angeles: Commendation 1993
State Assembly of California: Commendation 1993
California State University, Los Angeles: Presidents Award 1993
Hispanic Support Network, Cal State Alumni: Commendation 1993
Los Angeles Unified School District Award 1993
United States Congress: Commendation 1993
Los Angeles City of Council: Commendation 1993
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 1992
County of Los Angeles: Commendation 1992
First AME: Fame Award 1992
California Arts Council: Arts Fellowship 1992
Communication Arts: Award of Excellence 1991
SPARC Great Walls Unlimited: Mural Competition 1989
City of Los Angeles: Commendation 1984
Los Angeles Community College: Presidents Award 1981
National Endowment for the Arts: Visual Fellowship Grant 1981
National Endowment for the Arts: Visual Fellowship Grant 1980


BEST INDESCRIBABLE WALL ART" - BEST OF LOS ANGELES
George Yepes. "Muralist and Painter Yepes is Los Angeles' greatest living Baroque artist".

Marc B. Haefele, Writer
LA WEEKLY


"When it comes to sheer touch that combines beautiful control over line and brushwork, yet seemingly spontaneous expression, George Yepes is among the best. His darkly romantic excess can't help but make you think he would have been Dante Gabriel Rossetti's (1828 - 1882, London, England), equal among the Pre-Raphaelites. But these saints and sinners are hardly a throwback. Yepes' painting has a visual density and suggestiveness that is as
tantalizing to the intellect as it is arresting for the eye".

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"But for those wary of celebrity endorsement, remember this: Even if the [Chicano Visions] exhibit is not a definitive collection of the genre, it presents works rarely seen in Texas, like those of L.A. Hotshot George Yepes. That alone makes this show worth seeing".

Katy Vine, TEXAS MONTHLY



"Yepes was a child when he first encountered his muse in the form of a statue of 'La Virgen Dolorosa' at the Catholic church his family attended in East Los Angeles. Carved out of wood, the Madonna with a heart skewered by daggers looked exquisitely lovely in her anguish to the 4-year-old boy kneeling before her."

Elda Silva, Staff Writer
San Antonio Express News
San Antonio, Texas




Axis Bold as Love
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego

"On the opposing side of the spectrum, however, sits the serenely beautiful portraits of George Yepes. Yepes'"Axis Bold as Love," reminiscent of Gustav Klimt's "Dane," is a prime example of his art nouveau-inspired strokes and brilliant color in his delicately sensuous portrayals of women, a popular theme in Nouveau."

Sarah Wilkins, Senior Staff Writer



'Axis Bold as Love' is a major addition to Yepes' cult of the Madonna. This is Yepes' re-imagination of the sacred at its best, for which he is studied by scholars. Yepes describes this as a portrait of his 'Axis Mundi' - Courtney Reid - the Center of the Cosmos. Named after the Jimi Hendrix song to which Yepes painted this piece, the image is derived from Yepes' earliest impression of the beauty, Our Lady of Soledad de East Los Angeles. La Soledad is the Madonna after the burial of Christ. She is alone, in nature (the wild), in a storm (from within) of agony and ecstasy, before the Resurrection (in the threshold). Having come full circle, (from the nature goddess - to the idolatry of church - to the woman) this Madonna calls to mind the naturalistic Madonnas by Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 and Sandro Botticelli 1415-1510: close, human, mortal, yet divine.



"Like Jacopo Robusti Tintoretto (1518 - 1594, Venice, Italy), George Yepes has the ability to pull down from heaven the designs which God has for humans and paint them so people can discover through the paintings what they
are deaf to in words".

Dr. David Carrasco, Professor - Historian of Religions
Editor-in-Chief, Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures
Director, Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project
Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America
Divinity School - Harvard University


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KAMU ART - Olga and Sergei Kamu

January 15, 2014, 7:21 am
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Olga and Sergei Kamu



KAMU - a creative union of two artists, Olga and Sergey working under a pseudonym. Artists live in France.

"Art of KAMU combines male and female - yin and yang, combines delicate feminine image with brutal scenes of battles or hunting. Yin - a passive, receptive, preserving, feminine world. Yan - is primarily active, pass, transforming, masculine world. Yin and Yang is quite natural complement each other, although in a sense opposed to each other.
Through the medieval theme KAMU provided for the women most important role. Dreamer, it goes from the real men’s world to the world of her dreams. Contrast between drawings and delicate female body highlights the vulnerability and fragility of the model.
Medieval stained glass windows and Renaissance portraits, murals fresques de Kvatrochentto and engravings by Durer, profiles on coins and reliefs of Gothic cathedrals, tapestries - had a tremendous impact in creating paintings. Strong influence on the work also had a style « modern », one of the main means of expression is ORNAMENT, the rejection of straight lines and angles in favor of more natural, "natural" lines, the combination of decorative and structural elements of the composition, dynamics and fluidity of form. Background art flatness, embroidered with fine patterns. Contrast to this background is illusory, volumetric interpret image - a woman’s face. Sergei, a fine artist and expert in art history, brings to these works the grafizm, creating a new visual language. Olga, being subtle colorist and, simultaneously, a model and muse, create in the paintings unique harmonious way. The eternal themes make these works timeless. "

V.A.Rotenberg, art critic


"All the times, the artists enspired with art created in the previous era. Roman art absorbed the aesthetics, techniques, images of art of Antic Greece. Renaissance art was created under the influence of Greece and Rome, Byzantium and the Early Renaissance. Gustav Klimt and Van Gogh absorbed and reinterpreted Japanese prints. Picasso created works under the influence of African sculpture and Russian icons. Strong influence on the Impressionists had the appearance of photography.
The paintings, which are created by artists also rich of the culture and art of the great eras. The works of KAMU giving us the image of a woman, lost in her reverie. The peculiarity of the technic of the artists is a unique technology of preparation of the canvas with the application of several layers of colors and wax, use of gold leafs and combinftion of acrylic and oil painting. "

AG Savitsky, art critic















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Gérard Le Nalbaut

January 15, 2014, 8:00 am
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Gerard Le Nalbaut

Gérard Le Nalbaut est né à Lorient en 1946. Ses œuvres nous transportent dans un pays coloré où femmes élégantes se promènent au milieu d'une végétation luxuriante.

Il crée un exotisme imaginaire. Ses grandes œuvres figuratives hautes en couleur sont des créations à la gloire de la femme. Sa peinture est un bonheur de couleurs vives et de formes suggérées se donne ici à l’évidence mais sans vulgarité. Il a trouvé le secret de l’alliance des contraires. Ses toiles frappent les sens et le cœur d’un coup de poing ganté, de cette douce violence qui joint l’élégance à la brutalité, la retenue à la vivacité, la féminité à la virilité.





















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Arbe Berberyan - Ara Berberyan

January 15, 2014, 8:27 am
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Arbe Berberyan - Ara Berberyan


"The son of a distinguished artist, and Professor of Art & Design, Ara Berberyan (Arbe) earned the praise for his artistic talents as a youth, and by the age of 12 Arbe had his first Exhibition. His paintings were sent by the U.S.S.R. on an International Tour, called "The World by Childrens' Eyes." This exhibition visited France, Italy, Canada, and the United States. When Arbe was older he was invited to matriculate into the University of Art & Design in Yerevan, Armenia. Although it was complicated to find books from the west, Arbe managed to attain and study those of the artists he appreciated most: Dali, Picasso, Titian, Rembrandt, and Klimt. As a scholar of art & design books on Klimt particularly motivated him. He earned his Masters Degree in 1981 and quickly began his career as a fine artist by accommodating government commissions for murals at the Yerevan Airport, theaters, hotels and other government projects."










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