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Ted Nutall

February 24, 2014, 5:31 am
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Ted Nutall



Biography
A graduate of Colorado Institute of Art, Ted is a figurative watercolorist whose painting expression was born out of his observation of people, his experience and travels as an illustrator for the United States Air Force, and a twenty-five year career in graphic design. His work, as a designer, illustrator, and fine artist has won numerous national and regional awards.
Ted is a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, National Watercolor Society, Transparent Watercolor Society of America, Watercolor West and Western Federation of Watercolor Societies. He teaches watercolor workshops in portraiture and figure painting for arts leagues and organizations throughout the world. His workshops and private classes have been enjoyed by many who have benefited from his personal and insightful instruction.
Ted’s paintings continue to win awards in juried exhibitions throughout the country. His painting “Dreaming Wide Awake” was selected to hang in the 141st Annual Exhibition of the American Watercolor Society and was selected, as well, for the traveling exhibition. The Western Federation of Watercolor Societies awarded Ted’s piece “Cosi Comincia Il Giorno” best of show in their 34th annual exhibition. His painting “Her Eyes” was awarded first prize in Watercolor West XXXV Annual show and “Winter Sun | Red Bandanna” won the coveted Skyledge Award (Best of Show) in the 28th Annual Juried Exhibition of the Transparent Watercolor Society of America.
American Artist magazine’s 2010 summer issue of ‘Watercolor’, the Artist to Artist feature included an interview with Ted as well as an extensive representation of his new work. Ted’s painting “Whispering Smith” is featured on the cover of “Splash 12: Celebrating Artistic Vision”, which also contains three of his other works.
In 2011 he served as Juror of Awards for the American Watercolor Society as well as the Adirondack Exhibition of American Watercolors and as Juror of Selection for the National Watercolor Society.

Artist’s Statement
For as long as I can remember, I have been a fascinated spectator of human behavior – the quintessential people watcher. I naturally seek the unique character in everyone I encounter. Often, as I observe someone in his or her everyday environment, I am rewarded with a moment when the play of light and shadow combine with a gesture or expression – and I see a painting. A shadow cast by a pair of wire-rimmed glasses, hands cradling a book or carefully tying a shoe, a contemplative smile completely unaware – the important moment that tells a whole story. My paintings are an attempt to compose and thoughtfully record the nuances that have transfixed these moments, these stories, in my mind.



























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Vivian Thierfelder

February 24, 2014, 2:20 pm
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Vivian Thierfelder


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Member of the The Canadian Society of Painters and Watercolour

"In choosing the subjects for my latest works, I have concentrated on the linear aspects of flowers and still life, allowing colour and form to emerge with the use of strong natural light and often employing elements of chiaroscuro. Contrast heightens the impact for the viewer and reveals the objects - flowers, glass or metallics to their best advantage. I have a fascination with light playing on various textures (petals, leaves, cloth), reflective surfaces (brass, steel) and densities (water, glass). A secondary motif that I explore at times is colour-related borders "imposed" on the works, creating a kind of window, adding energy and an element of mystery. I find it quite magical - the manner in which a brush, pigments and paper can create a "reality": the illusion of three dimensions in two. I hope you enjoy these works and feel the same sense of wonder that I did in creating them.".

Vivian Thierfelder



Born in Alberta, Vivian received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alberta in 1970. Before turning to line art as a full-time pursuit in 1983, she worked in the areas of foreground preparation for the Natural History Diorama Program and in exhibit design and construction at the Provincial Museum of Alberta as well as in the graphics department of a major telecommunications firm. Since beginning to paint more than 30 years ago, Vivian has worked in oils, acrylics and today, exclusively in watercolour. Her subject matter has ranged from leaf, grass and snow compositions to elaborate still life and on into exotic tropical flowers.
Vivian’s works often utilize subtle diagonals to lead the eye into the heart of the painting encouraging the visual exploration of perceived three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface. Celebrating the lushness of the natural world is a main theme as is the glory of colour and detail revealed by strong, natural light.













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Frederick Ortner - Rick Ortner

February 24, 2014, 5:45 pm
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Frederick Ortner - Rick Ortner




Frederick Ortner was trained in New York City at Pratt Institute, the New York Studio School, and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. His painting has been supported by grants from the Skowegan School, the Royal College of Art in London, the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, the E. J. Noble Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony.

His work has been exhibited in New York at the Bowery Gallery, the Blue Mountain Gallery, and the Prince Street Gallery. He has also exhibited in public and private galleries in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Texas, Iowa, Norway, and France.

He is Professor of Art at Louisiana State University.



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Aaron L.

February 25, 2014, 3:06 am
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Aaron L.




Painting really is one of the greatest challenges of my life, and I love that challenge. I cannot think of a time in my life when some form of art was not part of who I am. Art definitely defines in part whom I have become. I love the process of painting. The decision making along the way seems to be part instinctual and part learned, which allows for an internal dialogue that somehow connects all artists of any discipline. I use Utrecht paints for no other reason than convenience in proximity. As for brushes, I currently use Utrecht’s watercolor brushes (which may seem odd for oil paints). I find they give a nice flat application of paint. I also like that these brushes are less expensive, compared to high priced oil brushes. As for the success of any artist, I believe the key is in the doing. For me that means learning as much as I can from artists I admire, while ignoring their advice; thus allowing for my own response. I have a BFA from the University of Utah, where I studied mainly under John Erickson. I was invited to be an Artist in Residence down in Helper, Utah during the summer of 2004.




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MICHAEL DICKTER

February 25, 2014, 3:55 am
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MICHAEL DICKTER

"My interest is in creating a permanent record of the impermanence of our world. In considering the exquisiteness of a moment shared, of a new connection, a new thought, an old memory, I am often stuck by the duality of permanence and impermanence all around us.

My work engages the natural world through this lens. Images of birds or flowers talk to me of connection, of beauty, of freedom, and of the precarious and profoundly precious nature of our world. Making marks on a surface, choosing colors, dripping, obscuring and replacing images talk to this through the act of painting.

Paintings are made of hundreds of distinct moments and of small decisions; each has its own “no” or a small ecstatic “yes”. The finished piece is a history of those fleeting, but profound moments."



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Ed Smith

February 25, 2014, 4:13 am
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Ed Smith


Ed Smith was born in Naples Italy in 1959. He received his BFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and his MFA from Brooklyn College CUNY. After working at Queens college in New York for 12 years Smith came south to teach at LSU, where he became fascinated by the Louisiana landscape; interested in the work of John James Audubon and intrigued by the intersection if wildlife and industry in South Louisiana. His paintings are about the results of the clash that occurs where nature and man collide. In 1979, Smith was one of the original crew members of the conservation ship, The Sea Shepard. Environmental concerns have played an important role in his work ever since.

Smith's work has been exhibited at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, The Islip Museum, Islip, New York, North Carolina Museum of Natural History in Raleigh, The Huntsville Museum in Alabama, The Walter Anderson Museum in Mississippi, The Contemporary Art Center in Mobile, Soren Christensen Gallery in New Orleans, Redbud Gallery in Houston, Clark Gallery in New York, Whitney Art Works in Portland, Maine, Dome Gallery in New York, among others. He is scheduled to have exhibitions at The Cape Cod Museum of Art in Massachusetts and The Appleton Museum in Florida.

He is represented exclusively by Soren Christensen Gallery in New Orleans and divides his time between Louisiana and Maine.

I paint large scale oil paintings, and use irony and metaphor in my depiction of birds and wildlife to address my political concerns, and also address the inherent difficulties that occur at the boundaries of the wild and developed world. My hope for my paintings is that they are visually appealing, intellectually stimulating, and tell a good story. - Smith, 2010

















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Edie Roberson

February 25, 2014, 5:46 am
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Edie Roberson



Edie is an academically trained artist who has been producing works of fine art for more than seven decades. Here, at her official website, you can view images of some of the many paintings she has created over the years. Be sure to explore the Gallery page, where most of these images can be found. In addition to her extensive "Post Modern" work, Edie is also known for her trompe-l'oeil paintings which "fool-the-eye". That is, it becomes hard to tell where the two dimensional painting ends and the three dimensional real world begins. But her unique style has evolved over the decades and has slipped the bounds of traditional artistic categorization. Her pieces range from colorful impressionistic natural landscapes, to super-realistic still-life, to ethereal free-flight through cloud-filled dreamscapes, to light-hearted parties and gatherings of various human, animal and antique toy "beings".
Although the majority of her art takes the form of two dimensional paintings (primarily acrylic, oils, pastels, pencil and watercolor), she also creates three dimensional works including sculptures, custom frames for her paintings and 3D "paintings". More recently, she has ventured into the fourth dimension with her moving automata creations. You can read more about her education, professional background and accomplishments on the Biography page. If you happen to be in town, you can see her work in person at the David Ericson Fine Art Gallery located in Salt Lake City. Edie usually has one or two new exhibitions each year and frequently participates and contributes to local art events. You can read about upcoming exhibits and her latest projects on the News page. If you would like to send Edie a comment, you can fill out and send her an email from the Contact page. However, she cannot answer every inquiry because she is much too busy right now creating new art! Welcome and have fun exploring the magical, whimsical world (and truly unique style) of Edie Roberson's fine art.











Edie Roberson



Artist's Statement
'Art is a passion for me. My creations come from a gestation period of whatever time it takes, then come to life in special magical moments in the present. Whatever goes into my paintings are chosen intuitively. They must "feel" right to me, and also in their relationship to each other. I would like each viewer to explore what they see, without limits imposed by me. What's "real".....and what's not? What's going on here? What do they see or imagine? What are their individual stories that they get from my paintings? Some of my work may be "surreal whimsy," but a little bit of humor is not bad, these days! Beauty, light, color, texture, and gesture are, and have always been, extremely important to me, in whatever art genre I happen to create.' - July 2007












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Tony Hernandez

February 25, 2014, 6:03 am
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Tony Hernandez



Works in Encaustic (Beeswax and Damar crystal emulsion). Fusing oil pigment with fire into the emulsion in a staining technique.


Tony Hernandez was born in 1964 in Atlanta and raised in Buckhead. He attended the Art Institute of Atlanta and went on to The Southern College of Technology, where he studied architecture. He has had solo exhibitions in Atlanta, Miami, Charlotte, New York, Krakow, and San Francisco. The San Francisco Museum of Fine Art purchased his work for their permanent collection, and the musical group Train bought the rights to some of his paintings for their album artwork.

The children in Hernandez's current body of work are inspired by the drawings on the walls in the kindercamps in Auschwitz, as well as by photographs of Jewish victims and refugees. The children appear to be not from this era, rather, they represent the haunting images of children displaced by the Holocaust. Hernandez says that the children are not expectant, waiting for hope; instead they are vessels of peace and enlightenment.

Hernandez paints on birch panel with thin layers of beeswax and damar resin, melted together to create a wax medium called encaustic, and oil pigment. The word encaustic is derived from a Greek word meaning "to burn in" and has existed for several thousand years. Using a blowtorch, Hernandez fuses this wax medium and oil pigment causing the wax to engulf the pigment and allowing for the addition of more layers of wax. A specific amount of paint is applied to each layer; the heat then infiltrates the paint so that the color is suspended in the wax before progressing to the next layer. This meticulous process achieves a deep, three-dimensional illusion that the image itself is afloat within the composition. This creates the mysterious depth and shadow that he is known for.









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Alicia Armstrong

February 25, 2014, 6:16 am
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Alicia Armstrong


Asheville's Alicia Armstrong paints memories, longings, dreams, inconsistencies. A single work often incorporates the questions posed by contrasts - both literal and conceptual - and captures the inescapable and dichotomous realities of life: joy and suffering, light and dark, closeness and distance. At the same time she offers viewers relief via temporary respite rather than finite solutions.

Alicia holds a BFA with a concentration in Oil Painting from the University of North Carolina at Asheville and stood out early on as the winner of the Fine Art department's academic leadership award. After a decade working in traditional painting and photographic portraiture, she began to concentrate on producing more abstract works, pieces imbued with symbolic imagery.

Her paintings are included in numerous private collections, as well as those of the University of North Carolina at Asheville's Lipinsky Auditorium and Asheville's Bravo Concert Series.

The images on her canvases are contemplative and sometimes playful takes on the often bewildering constructs and confines of postmodern life. Armstrong's work is often figurative and segmented, influenced by both her life's trajectory and the conundrums posed by the compartmentalization and over stimulation we experience daily. The vicissitudes and joys she observes appear often as well, from the complexity of familial bonds, like motherhood, to the beginnings and endings of relationships.

Armstrong paints primarily on wood panels using graphite, oil, and charcoal; her process produces highly textural works, whose layers help convey the beauty and struggle of movement and transition. She captures moments, reflective and chaotic, by literally containing the image, with varnish. A self-described "mark maker," her images resonate with a diverse group of viewers and collectors. It's easy to identify with the struggles of her figures: a man whose bottom half is a wheel, engaging in a Sisyphean struggle up a vaguely delineated mountain, paired with disembodied boats seemingly floating toward an uncertain destination; siblings pushing and pulling at each other over a gulf, or a lifetime; a woman pondering choices.

Armstrong's canvases pose questions, yet inject comfort into discomfort; they encompass the archetypal play between light and dark, but encourage viewers to formulate their own answers, rather than attempt "correct" interpretation. This openness is a hallmark of the artist and her work; she not only presents images and ideas, but intimates unspoken possibilities.

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Shellie Lewis-Dambax

February 25, 2014, 6:43 am
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Shellie Lewis-Dambax

"My work is a direct reflection of my mood and emotional state. I have an obsession to paint. The Act of creating is also a struggle for me that opens a new conversation and awareness within myself. The process of my paintings begin with writing, sketching randomly and rhythmically, applying various marks and splotches of paint, then I apply and remove paint to reveal images, developing them to my liking. This process may take hours or weeks to complete. I paint, construct and explore new means to create works that I desire to be emotional and authentic. Each encounter and creation of art adds meaning to my life and is essential to my sanity. I seek to explore my humaness through my art in hopes to connect to others. My work is a struggle".

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Francesca Strino - Part II

February 25, 2014, 11:10 am
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Francesca Strino

Francesca was born in 1979 in Naples, Italy. Francesca Strino’s powerful paintings reflect the influence of her father, Maestro Gianni Strino. She graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli with specialisation in sculpture and portraiture. She was a pupil of the great master G. Di Fiore. Her potential as an artist was soon recognised and she was invited to submit her work for an exhibition held in 2002 celebrating the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli.

There is virtuosity in Francesca’s painting that should be admired in such a young artist. The unflinching gaze of an exhausted ballerina after a long performance and the ruffles of her tutu are painted with apparent ease. Manipulation of delicate brushstroke and a complex use of tone and chiaroscuro in Francesca’s painting excite the eye and stir the soul.

Her deep passion for her work has led to exhibitions throughout her country and around the world.


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Denise Stewart-Sanabria

February 25, 2014, 3:30 pm
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Denise Stewart-Sanabria

Born in Massachusetts, Denise Stewart-Sanabria and received her BFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. A resident of Knoxville, TN, Stewart-Sanabria produces both hyper-realist “portraits” of everything from produce to subversive jelly donuts, and full-scale, cut-out charcoal on plywood drawings of contemporary people that she uses to create conceptual installations.


EDUCATION

Bachelor of Fine Arts: The University of Massachusetts at Amherst
School of the Worcester Art Museum



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Wolfgang Harms

February 26, 2014, 2:57 am
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Wolfgang Harms



The artist: Wolfgang Harms, born 1950 in Unterbissingen, Bavaria, completed an apprenticeship as painter. He is a graduate student of Nürnberg Academy of Fine Arts (1972 to 1978). He has also worked there for five years as his professor’s assistant, putting an emphasis on Painting and Interior Design. He consecrated himself to panel painting. He has always been fascinated by Surrealism and Fantastic Realism, which he also studied with Ernst Fuchs. Since 1980 he has especially been concerned with mural painting and has completed several national and international works. The highly technical perfection is characteristic for his work. In the last ten years he has once more put his focus on panel painting. “Moonbird” and “Flower-Trumpet” are favorite motives of his paintings. He took part in several national and international exhibitions. The artist lives in Nürnberg.















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Cody Seekins

February 26, 2014, 3:55 am
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Cody Seekins



Cody Seekins was born in Jamestown, North Dakota in 1977 and then quickly relocated to live in Kaiserslautern, Germany at a few months old; initiating his childhood as a military brat. By high school graduation Cody had lived in over seven United States, in addition to Italy, and a second tour in Germany.

Cody’s interest in fine art began through concurrent influences; the cover art of fantasy and science fiction novels which enthralled his imagination, and the saturation of cultural history woven into the fabric of European society. As a boy living in Naples, Italy, his mother took private painting lessons from a professional Neapolitan artist, introducing into the home a crucial sense of personal relevance to the arts.

As a late teenager and young adult Cody became hooked into art making as a platform for psychological exploration. Shortly thereafter he attended Wichita State University in Kansas where he earned his B.A. in Studio Art. During his tenure Cody was awarded a Freeman Asia grant used to live in Bangkok, Thailand for 6 months; traveling throughout the region and studying Buddhist Institutions at Thammasat University.

Between earning his bachelor’s degree and submitting to attend the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California, Cody lived in Frederick, Maryland, where he was accepted into faculty at both the Delaplaine Center for Visual Arts Education and Frederick Community College.

In May 2013 Cody earned his MFA in Figurative Painting from AAU.


Artist Statement
My interest in painting sources from a recapitulative process; using personal experience, identities, revelation, and reflections across time to build novel images. To this end I have found my education on Theravada Buddhism to be a fascinating and relevant system. I focus on treating impressions of my life in a similar vein as the stories of the Gautama Buddha prior to reaching enlightenment, as described in The Jātaka tales of Buddhism.

The Jātaka tales are an interesting collection of allegories in how they recognize the subject’s direction toward enlightenment yet center on the narrative of the self as manifest identities and egos working out the karma, or groundwork, which precedes. This framework allows me to build a body of paintings pulling from both my exterior and interior life. The modus operandi, therefore, concerns the illustration of abstract psychological objects and relationships through figurative and comparatively concrete forms. Ultimately this means I am building my own contemporary Jātakas.










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Kolaboy - Danny Malboeuf a.k.a. Kolaboy

February 26, 2014, 5:16 am
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Danny Malboeuf a.k.a. Kolaboy




Danny Malboeuf (born 1960) is a visual artist and musician from Statesville, North Carolina. As kolaboy he is a member of the breedArt collective and a Senior Member of deviantART, where four of his paintings have received the site’s top award. His musical project is Cowgirl in the Snow.


Danny Malboeuf is a self-trained artist/illustrator.Working mainly in acrylics, he paints in an allegorical figurative style that combines surrealist, symbolist and pre-Raphaelite sensibilities,often in conjunction with subtle pop-culture references. Malboeuf counts music and literature as his greatest sources of inspiration; specific artistic influences include the painters Arnold Boecklin, John Martin, Ferdinand Khnopff, and Leon Frédéric.While many of his paintings deal with mythological and religious themes, the frequent incorporation of sci-fi and pop-culture imagery from the artist's youth establishes tentative connections with movements such as pop surrealism. He has a strong bias towards painting female subjects, "perhaps because the essence of female is more poetic, and the male more prosaic."

Malboeuf is represented by The Queen’s Gallery and Art Center in Charlotte, North Carolina,and is a member of the international Surreal Visionary Art Collective. In the past twenty years, his work has been exhibited in numerous solo and joint exhibitions, including one at the Huntington Museum of Art, and his paintings can now be found in private collections in Europe, America, Asia and Australia.

Malboeuf's outsider leanings and penchant for dark themes and forbidden mixtures can be disquieting or even controversial. “If you've never contemplated the odd, spellbinding paintings by Charlotte original Danny Malboeuf, now's your chance to catch up. An uneasy feeling mixed with awe at the artist's painterly skill is not unusual with these acrylics. Holy Water and Consecration of St. Joan both deliver a biting admixture of religion and sexuality.”Another critique reads "This artist's idiosyncratic slice of surrealism, dark and Gothic, is imbued with a strong dose of high-techno metallica in a strange quasi-religious vein that incites uneasy thoughts. If Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft rose from the dead and co-wrote a series of stories — and Max Ernst collaborated with Dante Gabriel Rossetti using Giger's Alien as a prototype to illustrate these collaborative tales — the result might resemble Malboueuf's series of images. [...] Malboeuf's intensely symbolic paintings do occasionally depict a sunnier mood, [...] but more common is a decaying, bittersweet morbidity — futuristic pre-Rapahelite paintings corrupted by the forces of the darkside. There's a repellent attraction to this work that's compelling."

Online, where he uses the screen-name kolaboy, Malboeuf is a member of the breedArt collective; he also holds Senior Member status at deviantART, where his online gallery has had over 213 000 page-views and is subscribed to by some 2700 members.He is listed in deviantART's Top Artists directory and has four times won the site’s top Daily Deviation award, a recent win being accompanied by the editorial observation "One of dA's finest Surreal artists, kolaboy never ceases to amaze."

Three of Malboeuf’s paintings have been published in Mostro, an Italian-language literary/art journal, with one gracing the cover.His paintings have also been featured on the cover of OLOGY magazine, with the editorial comment "Speaking of things that are sweet, check out this issue’s cover artist, Danny Malboeuf. Take a good look, folks, because long after we are all dead, people will still be talking about his work." The same outlet has also showcased some of Malboeuf's writing. His artwork is featured on the cover of Bandersnatch, a hardcover anthology of horror stories,as well as on the cover of the Ruby Vileos album This is the Day. His painting The Eternal was featured in Web Digest Weekly.Three of his paintings are reproduced in the literary/arts journal Antithesis Common.

Malboeuf has also provided two invited pieces for the Pornsaints website; his art was included in their 2008 exhibition at A&D Gallery in central London,and their 2010 exhibition at the Birdhouse Gallery in Austin, Texas. Firebird was chosen to illustrate the exhibition review in the Austin Chronicle; as arts critic Wayne Brenner observed, " Most of the depictions of saintly pornstars are depictions of women. Which is fine by this (admittedly biased) reviewer ... especially when the artwork is as gorgeous as Danny Malboeuf's finely detailed and cyberpunky Firebird painting". Also in 2010, Malboeuf was described as "a Surrealist for our times" in a review for The 405, a music and culture magazine. The October 2010 issue of visual arts magazine n-sphere featured Malboeuf's art on the cover and in the lead article, accompanied by a 26-work exhibition in The Spheres guest gallery. A positive review of Malboeuf's Statesville exhibition in early 2014 noted the artist's reclusive nature and prolific output, estimated at 6000 paintings. On the academic front, Malboeuf's painting Holy Water is the subject of a Master's dissertation. Early in 2011, Malboeuf published an illustrated book, Saestralle - A Tale of the North, which presents a poetic legend imagined in the Arctic region. He has since published other illustrated books which are suitable for young readers.













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Arsen Roje

February 26, 2014, 7:11 am
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Arsen Roje (1937-2007)

"Body Parts"


"The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint."
-Samuel Beckett, "Three Dialogues" (1949)

 " ...Arsen Roje was born in Croatia in 1937. He briefly attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb before moving to Paris in 1965. In 1968 Roje moved to New York before finally settling in Los Angeles in 1971, where he lived until his death in 2007.
Roje painted tirelessly in various degrees of success and isolation, grappling with the push-pull of abstraction and representation, but always coming back to the figure and ultimately his own body. In his later work, presented here, he identified with the reductionism of Samuel Beckett, who remained his chief intellectual influence throughout his life.
A forerunner of his later work, the now-famous poster image for the 1970 film M*A*S*H shows Roje's own hand flashing a peace sign while wearing an army helmet and standing on high-heeled legs. In essence, this iconic American image creates an anthropomorphic figure from human parts –a prosthetic mash-up of the body acting as signifier.
Painted in the artist's final years, each of the canvases on view reflects the peculiar brand of representation that so obsessed Roje: inward, indexical, without context, without distance. Roje's lush, sculptural renderings of the human form pop out from the surface towards the viewer while the backgrounds remain uniform, deploying the sheen and saturation of marine lacquer, house and auto paint. This laid-bare combination of flatness/negation and the imperative of the figure offers Roje his ultimate resolve.










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Manuel Miranda Parreño

February 27, 2014, 2:34 am
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Manuel Miranda Parreño


He visto la luz hace cincuenta y seis años en el hospital de Belén de Trujillo. Soy el segundo hijo de Santiago Miranda Alcántara y Dolores Parreño Cardozo. Mis estudios primarios lo hice en la escuela de varones Nº 261 “Pedro J. Rivadeneira” de la avenida Mansiche. Hoy, ya no existe.
Los secundarios en el Politécnico Regional del Norte “Marcial Acharán y Smit”, desde 1971 a 1975. Cambié la especialidad de Técnico en Electricidad por las artes plásticas: me hubiera gustado llevar la especialidad de carpintería como Jesús de Nazaret. El año de 1977 ingreso a la Escuela de Regional de Bellas Artes de Trujillo, dirigida por el maestro escultor Héctor Sánchez Delgado. Aquellos días los estudios incluían todas las disciplinas, desde escultura, dibujo y pintura, pasando por xilografía y cerámica, siempre me atrajo el grabado. Culmino mi carrera de artista plástico en 1981, de 30 ingresantes solamente terminamos cuatro: Bens, Rosa, Juslissa y yo.
Desde 1985, me desempeño como docente de dibujo y pintura en mi alma mater: nuestra Escuela de Bellas Artes.


DISTINCIONES.
Diploma de Honor. I Salón Nor Peruano. Piura 1981.
Diploma de Honor. Artistas Bienalistas. Concejo Distrital de Ferreñafe.1988.
Mención Honrosa. I Salón de Primavera. Trujillo 1984.
Mención Honrosa. II Salón de Primavera. Trujillo 1986.
Mención Honrosa. I Concurso Nacional de Pintura Coca Cola. Trujillo 1992.
Mención Honrosa. II Concurso Nacional de Pintura Coca Cola. Trujillo 1993.
Diploma de Honor. Municipalidad de la Ciudad de Reque. 1994.
Mención Honrosa. IV Concurso Nacional de Pintura Coca Cola. Trujillo 1995.
EXPOSICIONES.
Ha realizado varias muestras individuales y participado en más de 90 exposiciones colectivas: Nuevos Pintores del Perú. Municipalidad de Miraflores. I Bienal de Grabado, Cusco. III Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo Trujillo. Pintores Latinoamericanos, España. II Salón de Arte Contemporáneo Ecuador. Correo de la Pequeña Estampa, Cuba. Pintores Trujillanos, México, entre otras.











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Harold A Cuevas Vasquez (Cuevas)

February 27, 2014, 2:51 am
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Harold  A Cuevas Vasquez (Cuevas)


Peruvian Artist, lives and works in Switzerland


Education
Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de Trujillo

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Toto Fernández Ampuero

February 27, 2014, 3:18 am
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Toto Fernández Ampuero



Desde mi ingreso el año 90, hasta mi salida de la Facultad de Artes en el 98 siempre me interesó la pintura al óleo, como materia principal en mi obra. Uno de mis principales intereses gira en torno a los conceptos formales de la pintura, técnicas y soportes, así como también el oficio de pintor como punto vital para la creación de una obra.

Los temas que me interesan son netamente urbanos y contemporáneos, incido mucho en la psicología creando personajes con una gran carga emotiva que pueda generar algún nexo con el espectador. Busco que la obra sea un punto de partida para empezar un descubrir. Abordo temas como la sensualidad, la soledad, la culpa, la búsqueda de la identidad, la rutina, entre otros padecimientos de estos tiempos. La figuración es la predominante en toda mi obra. Abundan las imágenes de glamour de décadas pasadas y contemporáneas, sobre todo en mis personajes femeninos, dejando a los personajes masculinos, el rol de una comparsa que a distancia y silenciosamente acompaña en algunas obras.

Uso la representación femenina como figura de conflicto: objeto de deseo, ideal estético, de sofisticación y glamour pero también objeto -y no sujeto- esquivo al deseo. Procuro que predomine una mirada "masculina" del tema del género, los roles y la configuración del erotismo en este contexto.

Mi paleta, la considero sobria, depurada y restringida en mis primeras obras, mientras que en la actualidad hay un uso considerable de color y multiplicidad de tonos debido a la influencia de la cultura urbana actual, así como del diseño y media.

Mi gusto por valores y patrones globales, históricos y mediáticos hizo de la apropiación de imágenes una constante en mis primeros años, actualmente produzco mis propias figuraciones y las fotografío para usarlas como punto de referencia para mi pintura.

Si bien todo ésto ha sido un proceso he procurado que sea algo orgánico y natural, en la actualidad mis intereses están en la pintura en gran formato, siempre de manera figurativa. A la vez de la colaboraciones en la producción de obras con otros artistas plásticos y nutrirme de la experiencia. Si bien es cierto la pintura es un oficio solitario y hasta autoritario, este ejercicio me obliga a buscar dentro de mí para conciliar y ver desde otra perspectiva el proceso de creación, a la vez que me aporta y


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February 27, 2014, 3:44 am
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Narrador de cuentos! Hay cosas que me invento, digo si quiero que soy hombre y que soy bello. Pero del mismo modo, me sé como la nada; espacio vacío que alberga todo el universo.

Fuera de eso, soy cosas si tú quieres… soy pintor y soy poeta; pintor siempre, poeta sólo, cuando de súbito suceden cosas que me estrujan el sentimiento.
Tengo la suerte de ser artista, y siéndolo es que puedo, escupir todo lo que trago, y aún más; vivir de ello.

Aunque la verdad es que vivo de mi suerte, soy la suerte; del universo, del aire que respiro, del agua que me baña, de la luz que me da forma y de todas las estrellas que alumbran el firmamento.

Y qué más puedo decir de mi? Algo tengo que inventarme… esta página así me lo exige. Entonces me invento que soy humano! que elige vivir las cosas que quiere.

Y ahí me detengo, y una pregunta queda latiendo: quién es el que quiere? Quién eligió ese criterio? Y como la respuesta señala al condicionamiento; quedo mudo y quedo desnudo frente a la verdadera ausencia de mi mismo.

Cantan las aves allá en el parque que en mi ventana se sostiene. Alarga la noche sus manos de sombra porque el sol aún no llega. Y donde todo desaparece yo me apoyo! Ahí encuentro estas palabras que brotan, como el agua de una fuente.

Por última vez busco algo serio que me describa, pero nada encuentro. En su lugar lo más preciso será señalar; al bosque en mi ventana, al aire que no respiro, a la luz del cielo y todos los mares y a todos los vientos.

Gracias por estar presente es todo lo que digo. No hay más que lo que venimos a inventarnos en cada momento. Y acá donde nos encontramos yo agradezco, dentro de la falsedad del universo acá una pequeña y bella mentira que hemos tenido la suerte de inventar juntos.




























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