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Charles Bibbs

January 17, 2014, 9:55 am
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Charles Bibbs


Contemporary Visual Artist Entrepreneur and Philanthropist

Internationally acclaimed artist Charles Bibbs, whose work is featured in museums, galleries, organizations, and homes of many collectors, displays a deep sense of Spirituality, Majesty, Dignity, Strength and Grace in his images, that is done in a combination of realistic and larger-than-life interpretations of contemporary subjects that are ethnically rooted.

Born in San Pedro, California, and raised in Harbor City, California, Bibbs managed to work an eight-hour job, and use his God-given talent in his spare time. But In 1991, Bibbs decided to leave his management position of 25 years, to form his own publishing and distribution company, B Graphics and Fine Arts, Inc. Today, Bibbs is one of the top-selling artists in the country, and his company has grown to be one of the leaders in the African American art print market.

Bibbs strongly believe that we are the “Keepers of our Culture,” and as such, have spent much of his time serving on boards of museums and art organizations to support the art community. He has lectured, and conducted panels and workshops in major cities, including the Charles Wright African American Museum in Detroit, Urban League of Pittsburg and the Riverside Metropolitan Museum. He has a sincere passion for supporting the youth, and as such, has mentored, taught and conducted numerous workshops for young aspiring artists.

In his quest to preserve and develop the visual arts, Bibbs founded Images Magazine, the first national publication dedicated to contemporary African American art, Art 2000 Visual Arts Association (and Mentorship Program for young and emerging artists), Art on Tour, The Inland Empire Music and Arts Foundation, Co-founder of the Creative Quarantine, an artist and residence program. In his professional artist career, Bibbs owned 7 art galleries, including the popular 626 Art Gallery at Studio B, located in the historic art district of Los Angeles downtown.

Bibbs continues to receive recognition and appreciation not only for his distinctive style images, but for his philanthropic spirit. Through his art, he has supported numerous scholarship fundraisers, and youth programs, and made substantial contributions to organizations nationwide, including the NAACP, United Negro College Fund, Associated Black Charities, Morehouse College, Howard University, PNC Bank, Tom Joyner HBC Scholarship Foundation, National Urban League, Alpha Phi Alpha and Delta Sigma Theta. In 2012, Charles Bibbs was appointed a 3-year Artist-In_Residence for the Associated Study of African-American Life & History (ASALH), Carter G. Woodson, Founder and Founder of Black History Month.

Bibbs is profiled in many publications, Ebony Jet, Upscale, Ebony Male, just to name a few, and has interviewed on numerous radio and television programs including the Tavis Smiley Show, Steve Harvey Radio Show, and TV One Studio. His work has been shown on the sets of many popular television sitcoms, movies, and on the cover of major CD Albums and Books, including the popular Urban Knight CD Collection featured and produced by legendary musician Ramsey Lewis with other Jazz greats such as Grover Washington, Gerald Albright, and Rhino Record’s Smooth Jazz Collection. As an avid listener and supporter of Blues and Jazz, Bibbs is pleased to announce his 23 years as a commemorative featured artist for some of the largest venues across the United States: Old Pasadena JazzFest West, Long Beach Jazz Festivals, Riverside Jazz Festival, Essence Music Festival, New Orleans, Capitol Smooth Jazz Cruise, Washington DC, The Legendary Blues Cruise, Kansas City, Monterey Blues, Monterey, Ca, Two-Street Festival, Richmond, VA., and many more. Bibbs received his first book design commission in 1997 titled: “Ear, Eyes and the Arm,” followed by “Gifts of Virtue,” Alice Walker( Melanie L. Harris), “Deeper Shades of Womanism and Society” (Stacey M. Floyd), “Leaves of Spilled Spirit From An Untamed Poet” (Conney E. Williams) and others. In 2008, he was the first African American visual artist hired by Fox Searchlight Pictures of Century City, California to create for one of its major films. Bibbs created the “Black Madonna” image for “The Secret Life Of Bees” movie which featured Queen Latifah, Alicia Keyes, Jennifer Hudson, Sophie Okonedo, Dakota Fanning, and other noted artists.

Bibbs’ work has been featured in several exhibitions at museums, galleries, schools and other art venue. His partial list includes the California African American Museum in Los Angeles, The Metropolitan Art Museum in Riverside, The Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, The Charles Wright African American Museum, Detroit, Michigan, Beverly Hills Fine Art Show, Beverly Hills, CA., The National Black Fine Arts Festival,Soho,NY, the New York International Art Expo, and the Japan International Fine Art Show in Tokyo, Japan.

He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the “Entrepreneur Of The Year” Award, presented by the African American Chamber of Commerce, United Negro College Fund “Honoree Award,” Hardy Brown Community Award, Save The Arts Award, Greensboro, NC., presented the “Key to 6 cities across the nation and has received Honorary Life Memberships to several organizations.

Bibbs’ original works are featured in the homes of many collectors, businesses and organizations all over the country. His partial list of collectors includes Frankie Beverly, Anchor Pam Moore (Kron4), Jazz Musician Najee, Steve Harvey, Actress T’Keyah Kemah, TV Anchor Marc Brown, Earl Graves, Queen Latifah, Drs. Frank and Marsha Glover, Dr. And Mrs. Charles Mitchell, University of Arizona and Fox Searchlight Pictures.

“My most important goal is to make profound aesthetic statements that are ethnically rooted, and at the same time, arouse spiritual emotions within us”
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Awards & Recognitions

Mayor’s Proclamation – Presented by Office of the Mayor, Baltimore, MD
State Senate Resolution – Presented by State Senator, Detroit, MI
Mayor’s Proclamation – “Charles Bibbs Day” – Presented by Office of the Mayor, E. Cleaver, Kansas, MO.
Kellogg’s Expert In Residence” – Battlecreek, MI
United Negro College Fund – Honoree Recognition – UNCF National Office, Atlanta, GA
“Recognition Award” – Presented by President of Borough of Manhattan, NY
“Community Recognition Award” – Presented by National Council of Negro Women
“Appreciation Service Award” – CA.Assembly, Secretary of State, Board of Supervisors, SB, CA
“Honorary Lifetime Membership” – Presented by New York Boys Choir, Harlem, NY
“Honorary Citizens Award” – Presented by Mayor Cleaver, Kansas City, MO
“Key To The City Award” – Presented by City Council of Carson, Carson, CA
Entreprenuer of the Year” Award – Presented by African Amer. Chamber of Commerce, Riverside, CA
“Entreprenuer of the Year” Award – Presented by NAACP, San Bernandino Chapter, San Bernandino, CA
County of Los Angeles, The Links, Inc. Art Award, Palo Verdes Chapter
California State Assembly, Certificate of Recognition Wilmer Amina Carter, 62nd Assembly District
Office of City Attorney R. Delgadillo, Certificate of Recognition, Los Angeles, Ca.
California Legislature Assembly, Certificate of Recognition Award, Riverside, CA
International Benny Award, Printer’s Award “The Gift IV”
Central Partnership of Harlem, Recognition Award presented by President of Borough Manhattan


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Elizabeth Colomba

January 17, 2014, 3:56 pm
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Elizabeth Colomba


Born and raised in France, on the outskirts of Paris, amid the rich inspiring Caribbean heritage of her family, Elizabeth Colomba's life as an artist began in early childhood: “ I was six years old when I initially told my mother, I will be a painter… She patted me on the head, and insinuated I either have to win the lottery or be Picasso… As I was contemplating my two choices, 2 years went by… The school I was in, wanted to do something special for father’ s day, and decided that we would be copying a master work of art of our choice, as a gift for this significant occasion. My Van Gogh counterfeit made my parents ecstatic, and assured me off what I wanted to be.”

Elizabeth Colomba attended the high school of art in Paris. After receiving her degree in applied arts she continued her studies, continuing to paint and to intensively develop her own style. Upon graduation from college she achieved a first class honors degree and most importantly, a mastery of an individual style and artistic expression. In the late nineties, after trying out her skills in the world of advertising, Colomba moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in painting and storyboarding, working on feature films like Romeo and Juliet, One Hour Photo, Jesse James, ASingle Man, and several others.

Colomba begins the creative process inspired by faces, rooms, or even clothing, which spark her imagination, and evolves from there. She often begins by drawing nude figures; she then follows by creating sketches of several clothed figures, settled in a space, surrounded by meaningful objects. It is this careful preparation that leads to the very detailed style of painting she is creating.

When asked who her artistic heroes are, Elizabeth Colomba eloquently replies, “I'd like to have Sargent’s touch, Caravaggio's light, Degas' vision, Vermeer's inscrutability and Velázquez's knowledge”. The influence of each can be seen in Elizabeth Colomba's work.

For Elizabeth Colomba, painting is primal. She can't think of living without doing it. To say it in other words, she lives to paint. The roots of her artistic expression are cerebral: Leonardo da Vinci was right, 'Painting is a mental act.'










Elizabeth Colomba

"What's in a name? That which we call a Rose by any other name would smell (just) as sweet.”— Shakespeare

In this aphorism Sir William advocates Otherness. And it is this sweet Otherness that thrives in Colomba's work. In it she infiltrates, subverts and re-defines our collective memory of Black people and Black culture; pigmentizing a History that in the West has been written and transmitted as bleached.

The artist's pursuit is that of a perceptual paradigm shift in which Black people will no longer be remembered as being portrayed playing banjos in raggedy clothes or smiling meekly at an absent observer. Her paintings re-define not only how Black people have been conditioned to exist, but also how Black people have been conditioned to reflect upon themselves. They address the heirs of the African diaspora, who, in Colomba's words will find 'a dignifying self-image in my work, a portrayal that blurs racial lines. An environment in which each individual will find mutual respect and freedom unrelated to the color of their skin."

It is this erasure of the Other that Colomba's work is about. Her paintings don't 'insert' Black people into the oeuvre of Western art. They rather generate a space for her subjects to inhabit the re-writing of their history, a history that honors their presence and place in and through culture and time.

Black people are an integral part of world history and have undoubtedly played a decisive role in the shaping of cultures. Their cultural and pictorial representation, however, was essentially invisible or denied before the 20th Century. Prior to Picasso's or Braque's 'insertion' of Black culture into Western art, Black people were depicted as anonymous, less-than-human entities deprived of the right of presence. Their place in the Oeuvre of art was secondary or tertiary at best. Their social status undeserving of other more respectable depictions.

Colomba's work is born through collision and reconciliation. By co-opting and re-configuring Western myths, religious iconography and folklore —historically written in white ink—she de-territorializes the areas in our psyche that have been conditioned to label and suppress the Other. Her images take place at instances of anticipation or aftermath, thereby holding a present that has not-yet happened and not-yet passed. The content and countenance of her paintings are deliberately classical, representational. Her subjects however, are not.

Colomba's paintings depict 'traditional' historical and literary subjects as Black, enabling the artist to challenge our inherited perceptual modes of socio-political conditioning. In this manner, she utilizes the same pictorial methods and techniques which have generated and sustained these socio-political conditions to subvert and integrate a sense of Otherness into our collective psyche. Her message is an egalitarian one of beauty in co-existence.


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Ivey Hayes

January 20, 2014, 3:36 am
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Ivey Hayes was born and raised in eastern North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from North Carolina Central University. He went on to study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and ultimately obtained his Masters in Fine Arts at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1975. 

Ivey has developed a unique style, always drawing upon his own personal ex-periences. His use of bright colors to express feeling and emotion makes each of his pieces seem to come to life with their own distinct personality. This is one of the reasons his popularity continues to grow.

Ivey's artwork has garnered numerous awards from Presidential and Celebrity Awards to the North Carolina Azalea Festival Master Arts Exhibit. His artwork has been exhibited throughout his home state of North Carolina, Washington, D.C., Boston and New York as well as various galleries and private collections in the United States.

Owning an Ivey Hayes print or original is a true joy, a unique experience.




 














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Chidi Okoye

January 20, 2014, 4:24 am
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Chidi Okoye


Nigerian born, Chidi A. Okoye graduated with a distinction in sculpture (Higher National Diploma) from the Institute of Management and Technology in Enugu, Nigeria, in 1988. For the next six years he taught sculpture and drawing at Federal Polytechnic Oko Anambra State Nigeria. During this period, he created an outstanding collection, not only sculpting, but painting and writing as well. In Nigeria, He had his national solo exhibition “Textures of Life” and launching of his book “Lamentation” at national museum Lagos in 1993 sponsored by Mobil Producing Nigeria. Okoye is as famous for his poetry as for his painting and sculpture.

In 1994 Okoye moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he immediately became involved in a number of projects promoting international artistic exchange and was a leading light in the local Black creative community. Okoye believes that his art offers him a chance of relating to his environment, complementing the beauty of nature with man-made forms and images, which spring from his ancestral culture. He combines the strength, uniqueness and dynamism of his heritage with a technically skilled understanding of the power of forms, feeling and materials to create works, which continue to thrill audiences.

The wide appeal of his works seems to lie in its identifiably African approach to colors and lines, but with an ability to turn his distinctive style to a wide rage of subjects. Okoye’s paintings and sculpture have been praised for their capacity to raise awareness of important socio-political issues without resorting to militancy.

He participated in various creative competitions, like those to design posters for the Festival Sundiata in Seattle, which he won in 1995, 1996 and Sundiata best artist of the Year 1998. He designed a poster and logo, “Spirit of the Nation”, for the Canadian Heritage Art Society in Victoria BC in 1997. He designed and created an award statues for Black Historical Society in Vancouver BC in 1999, also in 1999 won first prize in the Co-op Radio Poster Competition in Vancouver BC.

In 2001 Okoye came to Atlanta where he has been actively involved in the creative art community. He won the first prize, South Fulton County Gallery Best Artist of the year 2002. He has participated in the jury art shows of National Black Art Festival Atlanta from 2002 to 2004. He recently executed Award commission for 2004 Clark Atlanta University ADVANCE Leadership Award. Chidi collaborated with Nelson Mandela in Unity Series in 2004.

Apart from being the artist of numerous sold-out limited editions Chidi’s works have won the admiration of local and international collectors. Among his long list of works in private and public collection are in Delta Airline Atlanta, Water Resources, Atlanta; Resurrection Life Center Montgomery Alabama; President office, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC; Villa Benzi, Caerano, Italy; Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, Nigeria, Institute of Management and Technology, Enugu; Federal Polytechnic Oko, Nigeria; Mobil Producing Nigeria Head office Logos, Nigeria to mention a few.

Among His long list of solo and group exhibitions includes his most recent international group exhibition “ The Nelson Mandela Unity Series, World Economic Forum, January 26th 2005 in Davos, Switzerland.

“His paintings are noble, vivid, honest and poetic…” Diversity News, Seattle WA, USA.

“…A sculptor whose creative instincts are clearly channeled towards a reflection of both his contemporary and cultural heritage.” Daily Times, Nigeria.











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Cbabi Bayoc

January 20, 2014, 4:56 am
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Cbabi Bayoc




"SO ... WHAT'S A CBABI?

... WELL LET ME TELL YOU.
IT'S A CREATIVE BLACK ARTIST BATTLING IGNORANCE
SO GUESS WHAT.....YOU CAN BE A "CBABI" TOO! I DON'T MIND.

but seriously, i'm a husband, father, and then a painter. i've been blessed with a supportive family and i am just getting started in this art thang y'all. please come along for the ride. i feel it getting real exciting!

Cbabi (pronounced Kuh-bob-bi) Bayoc is an artist who has always known, and lived, his calling: creating art which reflects his love of music and family. This was in fact the reason he changed his name in 1997 from Clifford Miskell to Cbabi Bayoc. He wanted a name that when said always sent him a reminder of his purpose in life.

Cbabi stands for Creative Black Artist Battling Ignorance and Bayoc (which he waited for his wife to discover) stands for Blessed African Youth of Creativity. Cbabi wanted to have a last name that included the attributes of the wife he was going to bear children with because the last name, he felt, should reflect both parents and not just the father."

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Campbell Jane

January 20, 2014, 5:20 am
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Campbell Jane is a full-time Christian Artist/Painter. Lives in Northern California right in the heart of Gold Country. Was born in South Carolina & has lived in Japan , Arizona & finally California.

"My art is inspired by sweet things in my life, my loving family , my friends and sometimes by my goofy sense of humor. My life is filled with music, artful things & loving people.I fell in love with faces in the early 90's after taking portrait classes with a former Art Director of Disney. I love the fun house effect, most of their eyes will follow you, watch over you. The human face is not symetrical, by exaggerating this feature, it is my intention to capture a greater sense of personality & emotions. There seems to be a few sides to everybody..."


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Michael Chapman

January 20, 2014, 5:56 am
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Michael Chapman  (b. 1957)


"With his own unique language, Michael Chapman interprets the world around him. His themes are thoroughly modern, addressing the perception of reality and it’s mutability. The parallels between his work and that of Edward Hopper are striking: geometric motifs, suggested narratives, and interiors with views through a window. But Chapman describes the relationship as indirect, one that is responsive rather than imitative.
Over the past nine years, the artist’s themes and subjects – beach scenes, interiors, city streets, trees and parks, and nocturnes- have become increasingly more complex in their content and composition. Consistently featuring such objects as fire hydrants, chairs, tables, cars, and trains. Chapman continually reconceives their arrangements, explaining that he has a “vocabulary of subject matter” that interests him. “I resolve the same ideas in different ways,” he says. “My mind keeps working on them without being conscious of it. It’s almost as if it’s a matter of time before I will come up with a final solution.”"

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BEAUTY - A Tribute to ART by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro

January 20, 2014, 6:25 am
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Aaron Paquette

January 20, 2014, 8:01 am
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Aaron Paquette



Aaron Paquette is the creator and founder of the Cree8 Success philosophy. As a troubled youth he struggled and wandered through depression, poverty, and confusion. He came to a crisis one morning on the guardrails of Edmonton's High Level Bridge. Though he didn't yet know his path he finally knew there was one for him and over the years developed a method of finding happiness and success that changed his life forever. He shares this message through his paintings and has garnered national exposure and interest for his work. He has been seen and heard in various media including documentaries about his life, interviews, and news articles.

He has been seen on Bravo, CTV, CityTV and heard on CBC, Aboriginal Voices Radio, and across Canada.

Aaron believes everyone can succeed if given the proper tools and methods to tap into their own personal truths and power and draws from his Metis and Cree background to teach these concepts. In demand to appear as a presenter, speaker, and trainer he has come a long way from the lost youth that saw no value in his own life.

His unique understanding of the personal challenges people face and how they achieve success on their own terms with the amazing power of their own creativity is reinventing the way people approach careers, money, and belonging in the New World.

"In my paintings, I seek to nurture a relationship with the viewer. I try to use colours that are calm and soothing, but also fresh and exciting. My goal is to create work that a person can be comfortable with and can invite into their home. In this manner, I hope to deliver a message. In each painting I try to include a story that is meaningful to me and encourages discussion. I hope that my work can act as part of a catalyst for greater understanding. I feel that it is important to allow art to be beautiful while conveying deep and sometimes very serious meaning. My work almost always features an aspect of nature and our relationship with the earth."

Aaron Paquette


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Dora Alis

January 20, 2014, 9:23 am
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Dora Alis  -  DORA ALIS MERA V.



DORA ALIS MERA V.
Pintora colombiana
Firma artística: Dora Alis


Niños de África - Niños de raza negra
Retratos de la Inocencia es una colección inspirada en niños.
Dora Alis selecciona y recrea en composiciones originales retratos en situaciones imaginadas que plasma en el lienzo conservando la mirada de la inocencia.
En esta ocasión se presenta una serie de retratos de niños que pertenecen a distintas etnias de África.
El trabajo del color es llamativo como la suavidad de las pinceladas logrando un significativo realismo pero sin perder la magia de la pintura.

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MV Renju

January 20, 2014, 1:26 pm
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MV RENJU

Oil, watercolor and digital paintings

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BHARATHIAR PALKALAIKOODAM
Pondichéry, Puducherry, India


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Chinmaya Panda

January 20, 2014, 1:58 pm
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Chinmaya Panda


"I am a young, self-taught artist(An artist Or rather, in the process of becoming one, as I am still learning the finer aspects of artistry) from India. Since childhood, I have a keen interest in painting, especially watercolors. During school days, I managed to win four gold medals and one silver medal as well as many others. Though trained as a chemical engineer, my born urge made me take up painting with zest once again. I like to portray my subjects as they are. Speaking of subjects, I prefer my subjects to be different, far removed from the daily monotonous regularity of life. For example, the devotee at eh ashram, the Bonda tribeswoman..and yes, being an Indian, I am a bit more inclined to portray the spectacle, the wonder that is my country, my land , on my paper as much as possible. I consider myself as a beginner, a newbie, a student. And as being a student, curiosity comes naturally to me,and it is this curiosity that drives me, motivates me to paint ,to put my ideas, my perspective of the world around me into the paper."

Chinmaya Panda


CHINMAYA KUMAR PANDA

BORN: November 04, 1989 – Bhubaneswar, Odisha
EDUCATION:
• Self-taught artist
• 2011 B. Tech in Chemical Engineering from C. V. Raman College of Engineering, BPUT, Bhubaneswar
EXHIBITIONS :
Group Exhibitions:
• 2013: Salon de l'Aquarelle de Belgique 2013/ The 13th Biennale Internationale de l'Aquarelle: Namur, Belgium
18 May - 2 June 2013
• 2012 ‘Shraddhanjali 2012’, Lalit Kala Academy, Regional Center, Bhubaneswar
• 2012 ‘Together-III’, Lalit Kala Academy, Regional Center, Bhubaneswar
• 2012 ‘Art Mart’, Khajuraho
• 2011 ‘Sangam’, Lalit Kala Academy, Regional Center, Bhubaneswar

RECENTLY IN PRINT :
• Informed Collector: Fine Art Views: May 2013
• DECOR-magasinet : Norway ; Feature Article : February 2013
• The Art of Watercolour : France; Feature Article : December 2012
'THE ART OF WATERCOLOUR' magazine is Europe's leading watercolour magazine, which is also available in French 'L'Art de l'Aquarelle'. The two magazines together are distributed into 32 different countries.
Prizes

2013: 3rd Place; April 2013: BoldBrush Painting Competiton by Fine Arts View
• 2013: Outstanding Watercolor; March 2013: BoldBrush Painting Competiton by Fine Arts View
• 2005 Cash Award, Avantika International Talent Search Painting Competition
• 2004 Gold Medal, Avantika International Talent Search Painting Competition
• 2003 Gold Medal, Avantika International Talent Search Painting Competition
• 2002 Gold Medal, Avantika International Talent Search Painting Competition
• 2002 1st prize, World Environmental Day Painting Competition
• 2000 Silver Medal, Avantika International Talent Search Painting Competition
• 2001 Gold Medal , National Level, 15th All India Inter Kendriya Vidyalaya Children’s Painting Competition
• 2000 Categorized as Outstanding under All India competition in ARENA(Centre for Environmental and Multicultural Communication)
• 1999 Categorized as Outstanding under All India competition in ARENA (Centre for Environmental and Multicultural Communication)
• National level, A grade (CIART- Centre for Indian Art Resources and Training)








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Paolo Troilo

January 24, 2014, 4:47 pm
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Paolo Troilo -  Finger paintings


Born in Taranto in 1972 from Antonio and Lucia Troilo. Lives and works in Milan. From 1997 till 2009 he worked for several international advertising agencies, such as Saatchi & Saatchi and Arnold Worldwide, as Art Director first, then as Creative Director. He won the most prestigious international awards in the industry, and in 2007 he was nominated best Italian creative together with Alessandro Sabini. Self-taught artist. He started drawing by pencil at the age of 4, and never stopped since. In April 2005 he started his career as professional artist, and as a result of this long, unconscious stage of preparation towards a future change, he then starts painting with his fingers. Now we see him dipping his fingertips into jars of acrylic, black and ivory, and spreading color, definitely abandoning the "tools of the art". On April 21st 2010, in the city of Palermo, together with Brio, they become the proud parents of Antonio. His best piece of art.


Nasce a Taranto nel 1972. Vive e lavora a Milano.
Dal 1997 al 2009 ha lavorato come creativo pubblicitario in Saatchi&Saatchi prima e in Arnold Worldwide Italy (direttore creativo) poi. Si è aggiudicato tutti i più prestigiosi riconoscimenti del settore (Cannes Lions, Eurobest, Clio Award).
Nel 2007 è stato Grand Prix all’Art-Director’s Club. Dipinge dal 2005.




















 
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Steven Labadessa

January 24, 2014, 5:39 pm
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Steven Labadessa


Painting and drawing serve as a physically enacted ritual of praise and contemplation, aspiring towards a devout pursuit of a severe beauty. It is an aesthetic of imperfection alluding to the underlying nature of matter and memory: everything is subject to age, wear & decay. Yet, obstinately, the invisible is made visible, suspended in the mythical timelessness of the medium – still, but never silent; wherein, this uncertain truth is knowingly implied to antagonize the loneliness of our lives. Therein, it may be countenanced, stared down, transfigured, and treated.
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A more grounded discussion of my work begins with considering its "operatic" tone. I exact a preference for hyperbole and "psychological" texture in my work. It comes, as most art forms, from reflections on my life (episodes, experiences, etc.). And, it is imagery that I explore specific to painting within the confines of self-portraiture that typically runs counter to modern western notions of beauty. I re-render the flesh of friends and relations (lasting & temporary) serving as a surrogate for me by “compositing” my imagery from a variety of observed, imaginary and digital sources. In so doing, I seek to continue to resolve/meld both “low” and “high” influences with a conscious restraint airing on subtlety to yield tension.

Among the influences that orbit my visual mind are Japanese popular/fringe culture from Butoh to anime stemming from my early fandom of Toho films (notably, featuring Godzilla) to an early introduction to anime via UHF PBS broadcasting subtitled anime in the early 70s/80s airing from New Jersey, whilst I wistfully watched on my parent’s bed (their TV was the only one to clearly received the signal, so that I could watch “Captain Harlock” every Sunday night), western comic book art (particularly the “Silver Age” of Marvel Comics), as well as Northern Renaissance Art (for example; Jan Van Eyck, Hans Memling)


EDUCATION

MFA Painting University of Pennsylvania (Departmental Grants)

Post-Bacc (2nd) Painting School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Scholarship)

Post-Bacc (1st) Painting School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Scholarship)

JD Boston University, School of Law (Scholarship)

BS w honors Psychology Brooklyn College* (Scholarship)
BA w honors Fine Arts (Drawing) Brooklyn College* (Scholarship)

*summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Scholars’ Program, Dean’s List

ADDITIONAL STUDIES…

Painting The Art Institute of Boston (Lesley University)
Painting SVA (i.e., School of Visual Arts, NYC)
Painting New York Academy of Art
Anatomy, Pastel The Arts Students’ League of New York
Writing New York University
Theatre Arts H.B. Studios, NYC











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Sarah Wyman

January 27, 2014, 3:03 am
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Nanda Corrêa

January 27, 2014, 4:15 am
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Nanda Corrêa


Illustrator & Architect from Brazil with a passion for travel, music, photography, poetry, colors and nature.


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Adolf Vondra

January 27, 2014, 6:22 am
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Adolf Vondra

Painter Adolf Vondra was born in 1932 in Kovářov nearby the South Bohemian town of Písek. He commenced his art education as a student of ceramics and porcelain painting at the State Ceramics School in Bechyně, while simultaneously preparing for enrollment in the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. Recognised as an exceptionally gifted candidate he was admitted at the early age of 16. He studied under leading Czech artists M. Holý and Vladimĺr Sychra, the latter being his tutor in the field of monumental painting. Under his guidance Vondra created his first major work intended for public display: the frescoes for the interior of Prague's Bethlehem Chapel. An excellent student, he was awarded an extra three-year honorary scholarship at the Academy, followed by training at the Oscar Kokoschka School of Colour Vision in Salzburg. Upon his return from Austria he settled in Prague for good.

Vondra specialises mainly in portrait and figural paintings.

He is also appreciated as an illustrator. His drawings and pastels grace many books by contemporary Czech poets and fiction writers.

As a painter, Vondra draws additional feedback from his work as stage designer in the service of the Prague Municipal Theatres and other prominent Czech stages, esp. those in Brno, Karlovy Vary, Mladá Boleslav, Hradec Králové etc.

His original artistic orientation stood him in good stead a few years ago in the course of a truly grandiose project-renovating the pseudo-renaissance sgraffito façade of the Stříbro Town Hall in West Bohemia.

His works are displayed in the South Bohemian Gallery in Hluboká, other art galleries throughout the Czech Republic and in private collections in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States. He has exhibited in some of these countries and in France.

Adolf Vondra is a member of the prominent Czech art society Mánes.








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Arjuna G. Aasehaug

January 27, 2014, 6:30 am
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Arjuna G. Aasehaug


Arjuna Geir Aasehaug is an Norwegian painter living in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was born in Bergen, Norway 1967, but moved to Sweden in 2003. He lives and works today in Partille outside Gothenburg. Arjuna works mostly with acrylic paint on canvas and paper.

Jeg heter Arjuna Geir Aasehaug og jeg er en norsk billedkunstner som bor i Partille utenfor Göteborg. Jeg ble født i Bergen i 1967 och flyttet till Sverige i 2003. Jeg jobber for det meste med maleri i akryl på lerret og papir.


CV:

Bergen Art School - Kunstskolen i Bergen - KIB, 1989 -1990.
Oslo Art School - Oslo Kunstskole - Strykejernet, 1990-1991.
School of writing - Forfatterstudiet i Bø, 1999-2000.
Keramik - ABF Göteborg, under Marc Dagorn, 2005-2007
Improvisationsteater - Studiefrämjandet Göteborg, under Pita Skogsén, 2005-2008




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Jerzy W. Bielecki

January 27, 2014, 7:11 am
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Jerzy W. Bielecki


Jerzy W. Bielecki was born and grew up in Poland. He and his wife, Mira Smerek-Bielecka, are citizens of Olsztyn, the capital of the Warmia-Masuria Province in the northeastern part of the country.

He studied painting, graphics, drawing and illustration under the supervision of Edmund Piotrowicza in the Department of Fine Arts at the Copernicus University of Toruń.

Over the years he has exihibited his painting in his own country and in France, Germany, Czecholovakia, Greece, the United States, Russia, Sweden and Denmark. His artwork has been acquired by public institutions and private collectors in a number of countries.














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Mira Smerek-Bielecka

January 27, 2014, 7:20 am
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Mira Smerek-Bielecka

Mira (Mirosława) Smerek-Bielecka was born and grew up in Poland. She and her husband, Jerzy Bielecki, are citizens of Olsztyn, the capital of the Warmia-Masuria Province in the northeastern part of the country.

She studied painting in the Department of Fine Arts at the Copernicus University of Toruń, where she gained her degree in 1979 under the supervision of Professor Mieczysław Wisniewski.

Over the years she has exihibited her painting in galleries and at cultural events in her own country and in France, Germany, England, Greece, the United States, Russia, Sweden and Denmark. She is also an organiser of workshops, where painters get together on a campus to form a small working community for a couple of weeks.

She has received several awards and distinctions, and her artwork has been acquired by public institutions and private collectors in a number of countries.











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