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Casey Childs

January 31, 2014, 12:41 pm
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Casey Childs


BORN: -October 2, 1974 - Powell, WY

EDUCATION: -Apprenticeship - William Whitaker, Provo, UT
-Brigham Young University - B.A., Provo, UT
-Northwest College - A.A., Powell, WY

HONORS: -Merit Award, 88th Spring Salon, Springville, UT, 2012
-Merit Award, 9th International LDS Art Exhibition, Salt Lake City, UT 2012
-Charles and Ruth Whiting Award, 26th Annual Religious and Spiritual Art of Utah, Springville, UT 2011
-First Honors, Portrait Society of America International Competition, 2011
-Fourth Place Award, Portrait Society of America Member Competition, 2011
-Certificate of Excellence, Portrait Society of America International Exhibition 2010
-Merit Award, 86th Spring Salon, Springville, UT, 2010
-First Place Award, Lehi Arts Competition, Lehi, UT, 2008






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Barbara Pence

January 31, 2014, 1:19 pm
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Barbara Pence

My paintings usually suggest some kind of story. I strive to combine the critical elements of drawing, texture, composition, color, and meaning - as conveyed by the chosen objects of each work - to hold the viewer in front of my paintings to invent their own narrative.

Aside from their symbolism, I have a strong affection for the objects themselves in my paintings. Our lives are filled with objects, and we value them for many things, mainly related to their utility in our lives. However, our everyday familiarity with them often causes them to lose power to draw our attention. When an object goes into a painting, it is restored to the spotlight and we regard it anew and re-appreciate its special qualities. Partly for that reason I pay as much attention to an accurate rendering of the objects as I do to the symbolism of their presence.

Why contemporary realism? It seems to me that it narrows the distance between the viewer and the painting by not creating barriers to understanding. Viewers are not intellectually put off by being asked to “make sense” of an unrecognizable, abstract image. At the same time, use of realism runs the risk of seeming too obvious with respect to meaning. Therefore as the artist, my challenge is to structure the paintings so that the realism evokes more than a conventional emotion or reaction to the objects, thereby allowing deeper, perhaps more serious meanings to emerge for the viewer. I do this in a variety of ways: by using unconventional perspectives, formats, and/or unexpected objects. Excellence in rendering is also always a goal.

Awards:

2012 - Award of Merit, Springville Art Salon, Springville, UT

2005 - Best of Show, UTAH IMAGES 2005 , Equitable Insurance Co. Salt Lake City, Utah

2003 - Best of Show, Utah County Art Guild Exhibit

Collections:

Utah County, Utah, Permanent Collection
National City Bank, Louisville, Kentucky
Bellarmine University, Louisville, Kentucky
Club de Ejecutivos, Cali, Colombia
Hotel Los Tajibos, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Education:

From 2008 – 2011, attended the Jeff Hein Academy of Art, Salt Lake City, Utah.
Prior to that was self-taught and attended workshops with various artists, including Sherrie McGraw, Katherine Chang Liu, Lowell Smith, Alex Powell, and Fred Graff in the U.S. Also received instruction from Juan Fernando Polo, formerly head of the School of Fine Arts in Cali, Colombia
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Lisa Aerin Collett

January 31, 2014, 2:15 pm
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Lisa Aerin Collett




Statement
Art, to me is an experiment of old and new and how to make them work together, a fusion of materials that create an illusion that makes the creation mysterious. The process is just as important as the subject, and how they converse together is where the magic lies.

While working toward more complex themes and metaphors, the simplicity of nature has always captivated my attention. While discovering what the possibilities and limitations are of the process I am experimenting with right now, I enjoy painting simple figures from nature such as birds, buffalo, and butterflies, symbols of the human soul that are just as unique, and mysterious.

education

2013 BFA painting/drawing, University of Utah College of Art, Salt Lake City, Utah

professional experience

2013 Curator/Facilitator of The University of Utah BFA exhibit
2012 Drawing Facilitator for The Leonardo during their Leonardo Da Vinci exhibit
2012 Creator/Curator of “Escalating Density” Portraits of John Erickson exhibit
2011 Featured Artist Facilitator for The Leonardo
2010-2011 President: The Painting and Drawing Student Association (PDSA), University of Utah, College of Fine Art, Department of Art and Art History
2010-2011 Coordinator/Facilitator of the figure drawing sessions for the PDSA
2005-2006 Art Tutor- Brigham Young University-Idaho

awards/scholarships

2013 Second Place painting and drawing University of Utah BFA exhibit
2012 First Place Williams Fine Art University of Utah Student Show
2011-2012 Florence Ware Scholarship
2011 Best of Show University of Utah Alternative exhibit
2011 Faculty Choice Award University of Utah Student Show

Working with packaging tape, has been challenging and exhilarating. Every painting can be different and new while still maintaining a similar look. The layers that are involved are or are not planned out and have different materials or unique layers in each painting. As I search for a way to build each layer in a minimalistic way I want to allow the other layers to play their part in the creation, pulling together the illusion without flattening out the image. It is simple yet complex and allows ugly things to become beautiful.












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Caitlin Connolly

January 31, 2014, 3:11 pm
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Caitlin Connolly


Caitlin Connolly is an artist, wife to a guitarist, musician, and creative enthusiast. Born and raised in Utah, the only girl in a family with three brothers, Caitlin grew up coloring the walls with crayons while becoming well acquainted with boy scouts and power tools. She graduated from the University of Utah in 2009 with a BFA emphasizing in Painting and Drawing and has been passionately pursing and cultivating her creative path since that time. She now lives in Provo, UT with her curly haired husband and almost-as-curly haired miniature dog, Albus. She loves spending time in her studio, touring on the road with her husband, journaling, song writing, and watching a good TV show.

ARTIST STATEMENT
I make art founded on the human experience. Life, death, tragedy, joy, loneliness, spirituality, and progression are concepts central to how I view this experience. Growing up in a family with all boys, it was difficult for me to identify with women. My work often explores the feminine experience as I attempt to understand myself and all women more fully and view them the way I see them - powerful yet flawed.













Caitlin Connolly

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Darrell Driver

February 1, 2014, 6:28 am
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Darrell Driver



Darrell is proud to say that he is a self-taught artist. He creates through very late nights determined to fulfill his passion for art.




  "I try to draw/paint, everyday... when I begin I have no post production in mind, i like to begin creating with a solid foundation of color and basic shapes then build upon that, I’m inspired by all the different things i notice everyday, my 3 children are a huge inspiration, I paint to get an excited reaction from them. My sweet wife Amber is highly influential on my work because she has a hard eye to please....

My Artistic goal is to have the observer excited to see my pieces and put them in a happy mood

  2010 is the first year i have decided to show my work, I’m a rather fast painter and have 5-10 works in progress at any given time, it allows my mind to stay fresh on a new canvas, and time for the paint to dry... I enjoy painting on both small and large scales, I have painted larger than life Murals as well as a 4”x6” canvas"


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Erik Jones

February 1, 2014, 6:59 am
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Erik Jones

Focusing on contemporary figure painting as well abstract for and space art.


Erik Jones was born in 1982 in a sunny beach community in St. Petersburg Florida. He received a bachelor degree from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2007. Out of college, Working primarily in cover illustration, Erik toured the US showing at different pop culture and art conventions. He gradually made his way to Brooklyn New York in 2009 where he now resides. Erik was recently featured on the cover of Hi-Fructose magazine issue 27. You can also currently find is work in other publications such as ImagineFX and Lola.

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Erik's work is vibrant and colorful, expressing a heightened sense of realism captured in his female subjects, juxtaposed with confident mark making and nonrepresentational forms that could be said to mimic geometric high-end fashion. This effect is achieved by using multiple mediums such as watercolor, colored pencil, acrylic, water-soluble wax pastel and water-soluble oil on paper.













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JP Keiffer - Joe Keiffer - Joseph P Keiffer

February 1, 2014, 1:02 pm
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JP Keiffer - Joe Keiffer - Joseph P Keiffer



Joe Keiffer was born in 1952 in New York City, N.Y. His father was a painter and his mother was a writer, which enabled the family to spend quite a few years abroad, mainly in Europe. He began painting at 17, while in Paris. The following year he enrolled at Brandeis, and after several leaves of absence to attend the New York Studio School, he graduated from college, having majored in philosophy and art history.

Following a year at Sotheby’s “Works of Art” course, he was employed by Sotheby's as a cataloguer and appraiser of paintings, and after six years there and three years at Doyle Galleries, he became president of a non-profit art foundation. Now in his thirties, he started painting full time, and for a living. In retrospect, he says that he learned more about the history of art from his years in the art trade than he did in college, and that he learned more about painting by looking at reality than from anything taught in art school.












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Wieslaw Walkuski

February 1, 2014, 2:36 pm
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Wieslaw Walkuski





Wieslaw Walkuski
Born in 1956 in Bialystok, Poland. Between 1976 and 1981 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Main professors: Teresa Pagowska - painting and Maciej Urbaniec - graphic design. In 1981 he started to cooperate with a number of publishing houses , theatres as well as Polfilm and Film Polski - film distributors. Since 1987 he has been working as a freelancer. He has published about 200 posters. His prolific body of works includes paintings , artistic posters , illustrations. Lives and works in Warsaw.
Major awards:
Hollywood Reporter Key Art. Awards, Los Angeles 1st prize 1988 , 2nd prize 1990
Chicago Film Festival 1st prize 1986 , 2nd prize 1983 , 2nd prize 1988
International Poster Biennale , Mexico City 2nd prize 1990
Art. Directors Club , New York 2nd prize 1992
International Biennale of Theatre Poster , Rzeszow , Poland 3rd prize 1993
International Poster Festival , Chaumont , France 3rd prize 1996
International Theatre Poster Competition , Osnabrueck , Germany 3rd prize 1997
Poster competition ( by invitation ) "20th Pope John Paul II Pontificate", Warsaw 1st prize 1998
Biennale of Polish Poster , Katowice , Poland Grand Prix 1997 , 2nd prize 2001




















Wiesław Wałkuski
Urodził się w Białymstoku w roku 1956. W latach 1976-1981 studiował na Akademii Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie pod kierunkiem prof. Teresy Pągowskiej - malarstwo i prof. Macieja Urbańca - projektowanie graficzne. W latach osiemdziesiątych współpracował z szeregiem wydawnictw warszawskich, teatrami oraz Polfilmem i Filmem Polskim - dystrybutorami filmowymi. Od roku 1987, jako niezależny twórca, zajmuje się plakatem artystycznym, ilustracją , malarstwem. Na swoim koncie ma około 200 wydanych plakatów. Mieszka i pracuje w Warszawie.


Awards
Ważniejsze nagrody:
- Hollywood Reporter Key Art. Awards, Los Angeles, I nagroda 1988, II nagroda 1990
- Chicago Film Festiwal, I nagroda 1986 , II nagroda 1983 , II nagroda 1988
- Międzynarodowe Biennale Plakatu , Meksyk, II nagroda 1990
- Art. Directors Club , Nowy Jork , II nagroda 1992
- Międzynarodowe Biennale Plakatu Teatralnego , Rzeszów , III nagroda 1993
- Międzynarodowy Festiwal Plakatu , Chaumont , Francja , III nagroda 1996
- Międzynarodowy Konkurs na Plakat Teatralny , Osnabrueck , Niemcy , III nagroda 1997
- Biennale Plakatu Polskiego , Katowice , Grand Prix 1997 , II nagroda 2001
- Konkurs (zamknięty) na plakat z okazji 20 lecia pontyfikatu Jana Pawła II , I nagroda 1998


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Rogerio Silva

February 2, 2014, 3:43 am
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Rogerio Silva

Rogerio Silva, 1962 Lisbon
Artist since 1986. Represented in Portuguese Galleries in Lisbon and Porto city He has participated in International fairs of art - Arco, Madrid, Tokio Art Expo and Yokohama Fair in Japan.
His work is represented in private and Institutional collections of Art.



Rogério Silva, 1962
• Estudante do 1º ano da licenciatura do Curso de Arte Multimédia desde
Setembro 2012 na Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
• Curso de Comunicação Visual, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes.
• Curso de Experiências Plásticas, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes.
• Frequência do 1º ano do Curso de Desenho, AR.CO
Rogério Silva nasceu no ano de 1962 em Lisboa, Portugal. Em 1975
ingressou na Escola de Artes Decorativas António Arroio, onde tirou o curso
de Artes Gráficas, tendo frequentado posteriormente o curso de pintura.
Desenvolveu a actividade de designer gráfico em vários ateliers de design e
publicidade. De 1982 a 1984 estudou Experiências Plásticas e Desenho na
Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes com os pintores João Vieira e Sá
Nogueira, respectivamente. Estudante do 1º ano da licenciatura do Curso de
Arte Multimédia desde Setembro 2012 na Faculdade de Belas Artes da
Universidade de Lisboa
Expõe pela primeira vez em 1988, iniciando a partir dessa data o seu
percurso como artista plástico, expondo individual e colectivamente em várias
galerias em Portugal e no estrangeiro. O seu trabalho de pintura tem sido
exposto em diversas Feiras de Arte em Lisboa, Madrid, Santiago de
Compostela, Tóquio e Yokohama, sendo distinguido com alguns prémios com
destaque para duas Menções Honrosas na 3rd e 4th Art Interview -
International Artists Competition em Berlim. Das suas obras em desenho
realçam-se “Porcelana” (2012), exposição feita na Delegação Económica e
Comercial de Macau, onde reuniu desenhos desenvolvidos a partir da poesia
dos poetas chineses Wang Wei (699-759) e Bai Juyi (772–846) e do
Cancioneiro Chinês de António Feijó; a exposição O Fado no Cinema (2012),
organizada pelo Museu do Fado, participando com uma das suas várias
obras dedicadas à figura de Amália Rodrigues; e Manual de Fascínios e de
Respirar (2009), com desenhos desenvolvidos a partir do filme The Kiss
realizado por Andy Warhol. Tem participado em workshops de arte sonora e
arte multimédia destacando-se o Workshop Interatividade Pós-Paisagem
incluído no Projecto de Investigação apoiado pelo CIEBA (Centro de
Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes) e pela FCT (Fundação para a
Ciência e Tecnologia), Multidimensional Interactivity, que decorreu na
Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa e do qual resultou uma
instalação interativa coletiva. A sua actividade artística tem vindo a ser
consolidada também na área da improvisação em tempo real como
trompetista, colaborando regularmente em concertos com os principais
nomes da música improvisada portuguesa, o IKB Ensemble e a VGO
Variable Geometry Orchestra.

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Julian Kimmings

February 2, 2014, 4:02 am
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Julian Kimmings


About
Julian Kimmings is a UK based artist. His work uses an amalgamation of acrylic, spray paint, ink and oil paint to create a vivid, engaging world of fanciful portraits.
With a background in Illustration and Design, Julian is fascinated by ancient cultures, folklore and mythology, using their stories to give his work a narrative that relates, in part, to an increasingly materialistic modern World.
Julian defines his subjects with strong gestures, mixed with rich brushwork that result in areas of detail fused with raw, energetic emotion, allowing the viewer to fill the blanks with their own imagination.
Julian says "I like to work quickly to capture the original spark of emotion that I feel at the moment of inspiration before it fades to memory. Like waking from a vivid dream and wanting to record it before it is lost".
He uses imagery from life alongside his vast world of imaginary subjects to construct a narrative to immerse his audience in these dream-like states.

Julian holds a BA(hons) in Illustration and has been exhibited at the Institute for Contemporary Arts, London. His unique, often graphic style has captured the attention and imagination of collectors across the globe and has gained acclaim from his peers in fine art, street art and graffiti circles.Rogerio Silva













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MJ Lindo

February 2, 2014, 4:28 am
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MJ LINDO


MJ Lindo's artworks translate a story through imagery and subliminal messaging using animals and motifs. They are stories told through the expressions on womens faces and through the suggested motifs used in her paintings. While her art evokes emotion and wonder it often shares insight into a contemporary women's story. It is up to the observer to put the pieces together of the story or emotion. MJ often works with a wooden canvas which adds a sort of strength and dimension to her paintings. It often leaves us with a feeling of transparency in her subjects.

MJ's women are often seen to have hair illustrated in a way that adds movement to her paintings. It is a trait carried through her work that allows our eyes to move along the painting.



















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N.S. David

February 2, 2014, 5:54 am
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N.S. David



N.S. David sees unicorns on Main Street and leprechauns on Hill – N.S. David realizes she’s just a little bit delusional. This is why she paints, this is why she photographs; she harbors the hope that she can prove to her brethren that fairytales are more than just stories – she wishes to make her delusions real.
Born 26 years ago, N.S. David has never formally pursued art outside of the midnight hour of her home. Currently, she is tumbleweeding through the vastness of Los Angeles, fully employed as a student of its vibgyoric whimsy.













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Scott Rohlfs

February 2, 2014, 6:42 am
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Scott Rohlfs




"I am an artist who loves to paint portraiture style paintings of Big Eyed women. Sometimes I like to give them a little edge and add some tattoos. They are created using acrylic paints applied with both brush and airbrush."

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Randall Fischer

February 2, 2014, 7:11 am
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Randall Fischer

Randall Fischer, Los Angeles based painter/illustrator. Self represented at the moment.




















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Janet Searfoss

February 2, 2014, 7:54 am
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Janet Searfoss


Janet Searfoss is a painter of Batik, the antique appearing paintings done with hot wax
and dyes that often resemble stained glass in fabric form. Janet combines the ancient
craft of batik with the art of painting . Her technique is often a radical departure from
the traditional batik. Janet often combines acrylics and fabric paints with the hot wax
layering, creating her distinctive style of mixed-media batik painting which she refers to
as "American Batik" or wax-resist painting.

Her paintings often will take over 100 hours to complete. "I want my Batiks to have a
visual dialogue with the viewer"- Art that speaks to the heart. The Paintings show
various perceptions of reality and are intended to stimulate the imagination.

Janet's professional education began at Michigan State University and continued at
Wayne State University where she earned her degree. She taught high school art in the
Detroit area for eight years before her career with Batik. Janet shows and sells her
Batiks at Art Shows throughout the Country. She has won numerous awards and is
considered one of the Masters of Batik.

Husband, Harold, does the custom matting, framing and giclee printing. He makes it
possible to do the art show circuit throughout the country. The art acts as a portal to the
spiritual realm for her and others. Imagination and intuition is her way of connecting the
physical with the spiritual. Some of the art has deep symbolic meaning while other
pieces are light hearted. The art is the beginning of a story with the viewers becoming
the storytellers. The image opens up the "book" allowing the story to unfold and
allowing the light to enter.











Recent and Past Awards

Second Place Atalaya Art Festival Huntington Beach State Park Sept. 27-29 2013

Merit Award 61st Annual Arts & Crafts Festival Fairhope, Al March 15,16, 17 2013

Honorable mention Sanibel Arts and Crafts Festival Sanibel Island Fl February 16, 17 2013

Award of Distinction (2nd Place) Blowing Rock, NC May 12, 2012

Best of Show Historic Pendleton Spring Jubilee Festival Pendleton, SC April 7, 2012

Best of Category - Decorative Fiber Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff St. Joseph, Mich July 9, 10, 2011

Purchase Award Piccolo Spoleto Crafts Fair Charleston, SC June 3, 2011

Honorable mention Sanibel Arts and Crafts Festival Sanibel Island FL Feb.2011
www.SanibleCaptivaDaily.com (photos of event)

Honorable mention Amelia Island Art Festival Amelia Island, Fl. Oct. 2010

Second Place Whalehead Club Arts Festival Corolla, NC June 23, 2010

Award of Distinction (2nd Place) Blowing Rock, NC August 15, 2009

Award of Excellence (Best of Show) Blowing Rock, NC May 17, 2008

Judge's Choice Blue Ribbon Amelia Island Fall Art Festival Amelia Island, Fl Nov. 2007

Fourth Place 32nd Annual Atalaya Art Festival Huntington Beach, SC Sept. 2007

Award of Excellence Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 2007

First Place 37th Annual Golden Isles Festival St. Simons Island, Ga. October 2006

Award of Excellence Ann Arbor Summer Art Fair Ann Arbor, Michigan, July 2006

Batik Exhibit at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, Upstate Visual Arts Gallery
July-August 2006

Honorable mention Inman Park Arts Festival, Atlanta, Ga. April 2006

First Place 34th Annual Eastern Shore Outdoor Art show, Fairhope, Al. March 2006

Second Place Golden Isle Art Festival, St. Simons Island, Ga. Oct. 2005

Second Place St. Augustine Arts Festival, St. Augustine, Fl. April 2005



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Caroline Jamhour

February 2, 2014, 1:41 pm
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Caroline Jamhour



Digital and traditional art

Caroline Jamhour was born in Curitiba, Brazil, and has been drawing since young age. She is a self-taught artist, and likes to express herself through both digital and traditional art, depicting magic and surreal characters. Her work is inspired by nature elements, fairy tales, myths, dreams, symbolism and emotions.
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She also likes to collect animal bones and bird feathers, as well as stones, branches and any natural treasure she finds attractive or meaningful.
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She has two cats, Igor and Luna.


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Victoria Kalaichi

February 2, 2014, 3:15 pm
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Victoria Kalaichi

Born in 1986 in the city of Ordzhonikidze in the Russian Republic of Alania.
She graduated from the Crimean Art College in Ukraine named after Samokish in 2006.
In the same year, she entered the prestigious Kharkov State Academy of Arts and Design.
She studied in the Portrait and Genre Workshop of People′s Artist of Ukraine,
Professor Ganotsky, and under Honored Artist of Ukraine, Professor Chaus.



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Alfonso Rocchi

February 3, 2014, 1:50 am
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Alfonso Rocchi


Alfonso rocchi e' nato il 9 giugno 1951 a Villa d'Ogna(BG),dove attualmente ha lo studio.

LA RAPPRESENT-AZIONE NELLA PITTURA DI ALFONSO ROCCHI

LA RAPPRESENT-AZIONE NELLA PITTURA DI ALFONSO ROCCHI

Parlare di pittura presuppone il forzare l’immagine all’interno di una modalità di rappresentazione che per sua natura non le appartiene. Immagini e parole seguono canali differenti di narrazione e forniscono racconti assai diversi intorno al mondo.
Per questo la parola intorno al quadro è necessariamente labile, precaria, frammentaria: non può essere, in nessun caso, definitoria o interpretativa, se non correndo il rischio di ingabbiare il quadro nel mondo culturale che abita la mente di colui che ne parla.
Accostandosi alla pittura di Rocchi, si rimane colpiti da qualcosa di cui oggigiorno si sente difficilmente parlare in ambito artistico, qualcosa di “innominato”, a cui tuttavia noi tutti aneliamo, ovvero la bellezza.
Sono quadri belli, prima ancora che simbolici, nutriti di archetipi, evocativi… sono innanzitutto belli.
La leziosità gioiosa di talune figure, il loro candore seducente, la femminilità che è tensione e ricerca ma al tempo stesso appagamento sono i volti della bellezza con cui l’artista ci intriga, ci ammalia ed agisce sul nostro mondo interiore.
“Il bello è ciò che piace universalmente senza concetto” disse Kant più di due secoli fa e forse proprio a quest’idea di una bellezza che sia tale non senza ma a prescindere dal concetto dovremmo tornare, per riscoprire il valore profondo, rituale e formativo, di un modo di essere umani che torni ad essere “universale”, ad avere la forza e la potenza del rito, che sia nuovamente capace di farci accedere al sacro.
Ogni opera dipinta è la materializzazione di una rappresentazione destinata all’altro, è al tempo stesso apprensione e restituzione del reale,anche se talvolta il rapporto con il reale può rimanere volontariamente nascosto o andare smarrito nella fruizione dell’opera.
Lo sguardo, attraverso gli occhi, raccoglie dati fisici sul mondo visibile. Di un quadro coglie ad esempio le forme, i colori, la disposizione spaziale degli oggetti, il movimento: tuttavia, il semplice disporre di queste informazioni non consente di conoscere ed interpretare il quadro, poiché il suo “significato” va oltre la dimensione percettiva, va oltre forme, colori, spazi presi singolarmente e scaturisce dall’interazione di ciò che si vede con la mente di colui che guarda, con il mondo interno di colui che osserva.
Già Matisse affermava che per l’artista “vedere è un’operazione creatrice che richiede un certo sforzo” e che si delinea come un configurare il mondo nell’atto stesso in cui lo si guarda. Andiamo oltre ed affermiamo che anche guardare un’opera d’arte è inevitabilmente un’operazione creatrice, poiché il quadro “diviene” e si manifesta non solo in relazione all’intenzionalità dell’artista ma anche in funzione dello sguardo del fruitore.
Il pittore inscena, dipingendo la tela, una “rappresent-azione”, ovvero un’azione che si rappresenta, si narra, affinché qualcuno, guardando, la veda: il quadro presuppone colui che lo guarda e ne gode, colui che è capace, tra gli altri, di trovarlo bello e di sceglierlo affinché divenga parte della sua vita, della sua storia.
I Greci possedevano una sola parola ed un solo concetto per definire l’arte e l’abilità manuale: tekné, a significare ed enfatizzare il ruolo del fare nella genesi dell’arte, fare che noi qui ora interpretiamo come animato da una duplice fiamma, quella prassica e concreta del dipingere il quadro e quella della “rappresent-azione” connessa al fare simbolico dell’intenzionalità che si dispiega.
La percezione dell’opera d’arte non può in questa prospettiva essere considerata solamente un fatto individuale; se la rappresentazione è un fatto sociale è sociale anche la fruizione e si configura come costruzione di senso insieme all’artista che, dipingendo la sua opera, ha scelto di destinarla all’altro affinché la guardasse e ne fruisse.
L’artista non è vita incarnata, è un concetto. Abbiamo costruito attorno al mondo una rete di riferimenti, una cornice culturale che aveva originariamente la funzione di avvicinarci alla comprensione del mondo, ma abbiamo commesso l’errore di scambiare la rete di riferimenti per il mondo. E’ al mondo che dobbiamo tornare e la pittura, come apertura nei confronti della bellezza e della sacralità può aiutarci a realizzare questo ritorno; l’artista diviene allora guida, apertura alla bellezza che abita il mondo.
Forse è questo il motivo per cui le opere di Alfonso Rocchi continuano ad affascinarci, perché nelle sue figure di donna, così spesso rappresentate e ritratte nell’atto di abbozzare un sorriso, la bocca schiusa, l’espressione vaga e lo sguardo talvolta perso in un altrove, troviamo sì l’alterità della pittura rispetto al mondo ma anche la sua imprescindibile vicinanza alla nostra psiche, al nostro mondo interiore. I volti di quelle donne, nella loro bellezza, ci ricongiungono al mondo, ne mostrano la bellezza, ci aiutano a desiderarla in noi ed a riconoscerla e rispettarla fuori di noi.

Delfina Maffeis

FINALISTA DEL "PREMIO ARTE MONDADORI 1992" e

FRA I VINCITORI DEL" PREMIO ARTE MONDADORI 2000"

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Alfonso Rocchi

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Audrey Marienkoff

February 3, 2014, 2:17 am
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Audrey Marienkoff




Artiste-peintre professionnelle, née à Angers. Technique mixte, acrylique, .feuilles d'or
Dans un style semi-figuratif, entre Orient et Occident










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Hilly Kessler

February 3, 2014, 3:47 am
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Hilly Kessler


"Im Kopf war und ist das Bedürfnis, sich durch Pinsel und Farbe auszudrücken immer präsent. Die Malerei war meine erste Leidenschaft."

Nach ihrer Ausbildung zur Technischen Zeichnerin studierte Hilly Kessler Medizin und ist seit 1997 in Luxemburg als Frauenärztin tätig. Die Malerei jedoch ist bereits seit ihrer Kindheit ihre Leidenschaft.


Werdegang

1959
in Würzburg/Deutschland geboren
1978 - 1979
Fachabitur für Technik mit anschliessendem Facharbeiterbrief zur technischen Zeichnerin für Maschinenbau
1979 - 1981
Vollabitur auf dem Erzbischöflichen Graf Spee Kolleg in Neuss
1989 - 1997
Facharztausbildung mit Spezialisierung in Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe
1997
Übersiedlung nach Luxemburg, Fachärztin in der Maternité CHL
1999
Eröffnung einer gynäkologischen Praxis












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