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The Intimate Art of Cameron Bliss

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIO:

Cameron Bliss creates images of people, real and imagined, and somewhere in between. Her subjects are mesmerizing, moody and deeply evocative. Cameron received her degree from the Savannah College of Art and design. Her work hangs in private collections in Australia, Mexico, several countries in Europe, as well as in the United States. She lives and paints and Winterville, near Athens, Georgia, where she serves on the Winterville arts Council.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

If you were to step into one of my paintings, you might feel as though you suddenly interrupted a deeply intimate exchange. I am a painter of authentic souls suspended in their mundane realness; in moments of timeless suspense. My paintings are more than just “portraits” hanging over the mantle. I strive to go beyond a nose being placed in the center of the face. My desire is that the viewer asks my subjects “What are you hopeful for in your heart, your mind, and your soul?”

 

http://www.cameronbliss.com/

Instagram – cameronblissart

The Art of Michelle Vella

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ABOUT

Michelle Vella is a contemporary portrait artist known for her unique Big Eyes. The NY fashion scene quickly embraced Michelle’s style from the start. Fashion icon Diane von Furstenberg discovered Vella on Instagram resulting in a meeting in NYC and delivery of her custom portrait which is now part of the DVF collection. Vella has garnered commissions and collaborations with high fashion magazines, fashion designers, corporate and private collectors. Having an education in Fine Arts and a graphic design business for a decade, it was only recently that Vella unleashed this new found passion which has now become her full time career. Vella’s recognizable style is ever evolving and crosses the line between illustrator and artist. Michelle is based in Toronto, Canada.

http://www.michellevella.com/

All images are copyright ©Michelle Vella 2016

Favorite Bookstores

The Strand, New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When traveling to New York City, it’s always nice to stop in and browse around a good bookstore. For bookstore lovers, there’s nothing more comforting than wandering around aisle after aisle of new and used books. The United States has seen a lot of bookstores go out of business in recent years. It seems there used to be a cool bookstore at every major corner and intersection. We cherish the ones that remain, the bookstores that have withstood the ups and downs of the economy. We honor them for their commitment to the reader. Who reads books anymore? If you witnessed the traffic at The Strand bookstore on a Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. in early December, you would say that plenty of people still do. Certainly some were tourists. But the line at the cash register, and the people leaving with bright colorful bags filled with books, tells you that the book business is alive and well, at least in this part of the city. Having spent time at City Lights in San Francisco, and The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles, I would say that for some bookstores, the business of books is thriving. The Strand is one of those legendary bookstores you always hear about. The chance to visit and spend time there was a dream come true. Bookstores are one of my favorite places to visit, whether I’m at home or visiting another city, state or country. And The Strand was a memorable experience indeed. I left with a bag full of books.

 

The Strand, 828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003

Phone: 212.473.1452

 

The Strand – History

 

The Art of Jenny Mörtsell 

 

 

Cali

Cali

 

Flower Girl

Flower Girl

 

Meowiie

Meowiie

 

The Girl Stays in the Picture

The Girl Stays in the Picture 2

 

The Girl Stays in the Picture 1

The Girl Stays in the Picture 1

 

The Girl Stays in the Picture 3

The Girl Stays in the Picture 3

 

The Girl Stays in the Picture 4

The Girl Stays in the Picture 4

 

The Girl Stays in the Picture 5

The Girl Stays in the Picture 5

 

The Girl Stays in the Picture 6

The Girl Stays in the Picture 6

 

Rohmer

Rohmer

 

Inverted

Inverted

 

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

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Jenny Mörtsell is a Swedish illustrator dividing her time between Brooklyn, NY and Stockholm. After several years studying printmaking art and earning a MA in graphic design she returned to her childhood passion drawing, moved to New York and still hasn’t gotten bored of either. Her super realistic pencil portraits and still lifes have been commissioned by clients as New York Times Magazine, 3.1 Phillip Lim, Roberto Cavalli, Whyred, MTWTFSS Weekdays, Outdoor Voices, Aritzia, Urban Outfitters, ELLE UK, Vogue China, Lula, Grey Magazine, NYLON, The Swedish Post, The California Sunday Magazine, Twin Shadow, Harry’s.

 

MORE WORK HERE:

Jenny’s Portfolio

The Art of Blythe Smith

 

Happiness is a Foil Balloon 2016

Happiness is a Foil Balloon – 2016

 

If You're Happy and You Know It - 2016

If You’re Happy and You Know It – 2016

 

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Last Fitting of the Spring Festival Dress – 2016

 

You Would, Wouldn't You - 2016

You Would, Wouldn’t You – 2016

 

Horticultured and Hilarious - 2016

Horticultured and Hilarious – 2016

 

The National Anthem - 2016

The National Anthem – 2016

 

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Dodging paparazzi while shopping for chicken nuggets at the local supermarket – 2016

 

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Baby, you shouldn’t have broken those promises – 2016

 

Deny My Integrity and I'll Deny Yours - 2016

Deny My Integrity and I’ll Deny Yours – 2016

 

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

My art starts from the private but often ends up being generally applicable. It starts from small seemingly unimportant incidents and often ends up being political.

My themes are (megalo)maniac: power, gender, addiction. I see meanings related to these themes everywhere.

I am interested in studying what meaning is, how meanings change, merge, and dissolve.

I think it is useless for an artist to declare truths, since they are scarce. In the best possible case, the meanings of the author and the experiencer enter into a dialogue with each other and nurture each other. Although art can never convey the truth, I hope that, when experienced, my art becomes true and that its meanings turn meaningful. That my art can influence and, whilst influencing, generate new art.

My art is multimodal, it is meant to appeal to all senses: I make use of language, puns, humour, irony, moving images, sounds, paintings, installations that you can touch, taste, hear, and smell.

www.blythesmith.com

 

BIO

blythesmith1Blythe Smith is a Finnish visual artist with a strong background in linguistics and literature. In her work, she explores meanings: how meanings emerge and merge, how they change and dissolve in human interaction.

Blythe Smith’s work ranges from drawings and watercolor paintings to experimental video art. She is a graduate of Art School MAA and holds an MA in English and Romance philology.

 

 

 

The Masterful Art of Angelo Deleon

 

 

Cloudy day over Metro

Cloudy Day Over Metro

 

The City View

The City View

 

City Harbor and Sailboats

City Harbor and Sailboats

 

Gray Skyline

Gray Skyline

 

Teal and Aqua Sky

Teal and Aqua Sky

 

Jazz It Up #4

Jazz It Up #4

 

Neon City

Neon City

 

Lilies in a Pond

Lilies in a Pond

 

The City Bay

The City Bay

 

Neurul Circuitry

Neural Circuitry

 

Panoramic View of a Colorful City

Panoramic View of a Colorful City

 

 

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Angelo Deleon

Angelo Deleon is an American artist and painter, Abstract Expressionist and Impressionist artist who is self-taught and lives in Middleburg, Florida.

 

Links to Angelo’s work:

Instagram

Facebook

 

 

 

 

The Beautiful Art of Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

 

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Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

 

Letisia Cruz

 

 

Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

Letisia Cruz

 

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT:

www.lesinfin.com

LetisiaCruz1My illustrations are primarily rendered in pen and ink on paper. I am inspired by strong, trailblazing, bad-ass women who push boundaries, forge their own paths, and define for themselves what it means to achieve success. I am also inspired by the take-no-shit attitude of the ’90s and transformative self-expression made possible through art, poetry and music.

My illustrations often depict tattooed girls straddling light and dark, gazing into their own abyss, and redefining their sense of self. My work is infused with elements of nature and religious symbolism, from classical Greek and Roman mythology to the goddesses of Nordic, Vedic, and Yoruba Mythology. Whatever I’m reading at the moment usually works its way into my drawings. Much of my work is centered around the seasons of nature and the passing of time, as well as on the endless cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth.

 

BIO

Letisia Cruz is a Cuban-American writer and illustrator. She is enthralled by nature and the acute connection to form associated with ink illustration. Her visual vocabulary emerges through this focus and subsequently explores the connection between man and nature.

She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University’s MFA program and currently lives in Miami, FL. She is the resident artist at Petite Hound Press and the Online Poetry Re-Features Editor at The Literary Review.

 

 

Dream Poetry

Last Night in a Dream

by Ashley Inguanta

 

Last night in a dream, I was healthy. You were a rose. You got into my car and I took you home, and when you saw the white flags at the Brooklyn bridge’s arc, you told me the story of a conflicted hero, all shadow and moon, and I told you a story about resurrecting the dead. In your story, the hero did not want to die, so she did not leap. Instead, she turned into a seed. In my story, I kneeled by your grave. When I heard gunfire, I dodged each bullet—and then, finally, I woke up next to you, all new, stripes of sunlight over your hair like a crisp photograph.

Sometimes I wonder: If God could really hear me, what would the moon do? Any good moon would reach over both white flags, carry them to you as you fall asleep. Any good moon would hold me here, in this dream, where I can run to you without losing my breath, where you are a rose and my heart is good as new.

 

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BIO

ashley inguantaAshley Inguanta is a small-press author, photographer, and yoga teacher who has dedicated her life to helping others heal by developing healthy coping mechanisms. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Central Florida in 2011, and she earned her 200 hour RYT certificate from YOGAMAYA New York in 2014. She is the author of The Way Home (Dancing Girl Press, 2013 / re-published with The Writing Disorder on Kindle), For the Woman Alone (Ampersand Books 2014), and Bomb, which is forthcoming with Ampersand Books this fall. As a mental health advocate and queer rights advocate, she’s volunteered with organizations and facilities like Equality Florida and Lakeside Alternative, and currently she teaches healing, restorative writing and yoga classes at several locations in Central Florida.

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

Alexander C. Kafka is a journalist, photographer, and composer in Bethesda, Maryland. His photography portfolio is at https://www.lensculture.com/alexander-kafka

 

 

 

The Illuminating Photography of John Tavares

 

 

Tree Line Northern Lights

Tree Line, Northern Lights

 

Reflections of the Light Show

Reflections of the Light Show

 

Moose Creek

Moose Creek

 

Aurora Borealis Ojibway CountryClub

Aurora Borealis Ojibway CountryClub

 

Frog Rapids Bridge Night

Frog Rapids Bridge, Night

 

Iron Bridge

Iron Bridge

 

Aurora Borealis Pelican Lake

Aurora Borealis Pelican Lake

 

Snowmobile Trail

Snowmobile Trail

 

Sioux Mountain Summer Morning

Sioux Mountain, Summer Morning

 

Aurora Borealis Pine Tree

Aurora Borealis, Pine Tree

 

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

In creative endeavors, I have a strong passion for writing, particularly creative writing, but I found photography an engaging form of free expression long before I attended journalism school. I first became fascinated by photography as a medium and art form through magazine cover illustrations and especially the photojournalism of Time-Life photographers such as Robert Capa while I was in high school, when I read World War Two and Viet Nam war history. I always gravitated towards the journalistic medium, so when I acquired the training afforded by journalism college I felt more assertive behind the camera lens. I found digital photography liberating – a tool that empowered me in efforts to photographically document, far and wide, various aspects of everyday life and the urban environment, including social issues and norms and morays, in Toronto and rural landscapes in the sparsely populated latitudes of northwestern Ontario. In the northern setting I am often overwhelmed by the vastness and inexorableness of nature and I experimented in slightly unconventional manners with capturing landscape images, including using very long focal lengths, extremely long shutter speeds, in very low light. Inspired by the photography of artists like Ansel Adams and Annie Leibowitz, I nonetheless tend to eschew efforts towards their technical perfection, which at times seems unattainable. Likewise, I’ve been content to keep photo editing to a minimum, so I simply don’t use sophisticated image editing programs like Photoshop or Lightroom. I have utilized Aviary, Flickr’s online photo editor, and its predecessor, Picnik, at a bare minimum, to crop, color correct, or to tweak saturation and warmth, but even then I’m often dissatisfied with the results. For some images I selected for The Writing Disorder, I’ve allowed myself to be enchanted by the color and beauty of the northern landscape, occasionally set against the intrusion of technology and human development.

 

 

BIO

John TavaresBorn and raised in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, John Tavares is the son of Portuguese immigrants from Sao Miguel, Azores. His formal education includes a two-year GAS diploma from Humber College with concentration in psychology, a three-year journalism diploma from Centennial College, a Specialized Honors BA in English from York University. He’s worked as a research assistant for the Sioux Lookout Public Library and the Northwestern Ontario regional recycle association with the public works department. He also worked with the disabled for the Sioux Lookout Association for Community Living. Meanwhile, his short fiction has been published in a wide variety of “little magazines” and literary magazines, online and in print, in the United States and Canada. Following journalism studies, he had articles, photography, and features published in East York Observer, East York Times, Beaches Town Crier, East Toronto Advocate, Our Toronto – as well as community and trade newspapers such as York University’s Excalibur and Hospital News, where he interned as an editorial assistant. John recently wrote a novel.

 

The Comic Art of Brad Gottschalk

 

Gottschalk Curiosity

Gottschalk Curiosity

Gottschalk Curiosity

Gottschalk Curiosity

Gottschalk Curiosity

Gottschalk Curiosity

 

 

BIO

gottschalkBrad Gottschalk is an exile from the realm of live theater. Currently he is a cartoonist living in Madison, Wisconsin. His art and comics have appeared in Raven Chronicles, Nerve Cowboy, and Berkeley Fiction Review. Read more of his work at www.slienttheatercomics.com.

 

 

 

 

 

 

WAXenVINE Photography

The Beautiful Images of Scott Irvine & Kim Meinelt

 

WaXenVine

 

WaX en Vine

 

WaX en Vine

 

WaX en Vine

 

WaX en Vine

 

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WaXenVine

 

WaXenVine

 

 

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

HAUNTED ::: photographs

WAXENVINE is the collective vision of husband and wife team Scott Irvine and Kim Meinelt.  Their work centers around themes of light, shadow, texture and beauty. They are drawn to finding the unusual within the mundane and beauty in unexpected places. Their process often involves blending multiple images together – resulting in a haunting dreamscape that transcends reality and the singular image.

SCOTT IRVINE received his BFA in photography from Rochester Institute of Technology.   His work has been exhibited internationally. Scott manages one of the few remaining black + white darkrooms where he works and lives as an artist in Williamsburg Brooklyn NY.

KIM MEINELT studied at North Carolina School of the Arts with an intense focus on set design and scenic painting. After freelancing as a sculptor, painter and interior designer in NYC, she crossed paths with Eileen Fisher in 93 evolving into a successful career as the Creative Concept Director.

www.waxenvine.com

www.instagram.com/scottirvine57

 Scott Irvine scott irvine photography (@scottirvine57) • Instagram photos and videos

www.instagram.com

Brooklyn NYC. Film, Polaroid, Darkroom, Silver-gelatin, Rolleiflex, Holga, Lomo, Wet-plate, Vintage cameras, Hipstamatic.

 

www.instagram.com/kimmibird

 Kim Meinelt kim meinelt photography (@kimmibird) • Instagram photos and videos

www.instagram.com

See Instagram photos and videos from kim meinelt photography (@kimmibird)

 

http://theselby.com/galleries/kim-meinelt-and-scott-irvine-at-home-in-brooklyn/

Kim Meinelt and Scott Irvine at Home in Brooklyn « the selby

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Kim Meinelt – Artist and Visual Director at Eileen Fisher, and Scott Irvine – Photographer and Musician

 

The Art of Harumi Hironaka

 

Regret by Hironaka

Regret by Hironaka

 

Warg Witch by Hironaka

Warg Witch by Hironaka

 

Lenore by Hironaka

Lenore by Hironaka

 

Chimama by Hironaka

Chimama by Hironaka

 

Manos by Hironaka

Manos by Hironaka

 

Fetish by Hironaka

Fetish by Hironaka

 

Little Things That Fall by Hironaka

Little Things That Fall by Hironaka

 

That Other Universe by Hironaka

That Other Universe by Hironaka

 

Sullen by Hironaka

Sullen by Hironaka

 

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Harumi HironakaHarumi Hironaka is a Japanese/Peruvian self-taught painter and illustrator, living in São Paulo, Brasil.

artemanifiesto.com

 

The Art of Giada Cattaneo

 

Giada art

 

Giada Cattaneo

 

Giada Cattaneo

 

Giada art

 

Giada art

 

Giada art

 

Giada art

 

Giada art

 

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Giada Cattaneo is an Italian Illustrator with a strong Italian accent. She’s based in Miami Beach, Florida. She studied Art History at the University of Bologna, Italy, and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 2014, with a thesis on Florida-based sculptor, Duane Hanson.  She recently showcased her watercolor paintings at Jude Papaloko’s “Jakmel Gallery” at Wynwood Art District in Miami.  She’s also collaborated with Italian Editors and Artists Associations: Enrico Folci Editore (Roma), SensoInverso Edizioni (RAvenna), UAO Edizioni (l’Aquila), Eventualmente Edizioni (Palermo), Freaks Edizioni (Faenza), Cacofonico Editore (Faenza), Fermenti Editrice (Roma), Progetto Flaneri Edizioni (Roma), Zacem Cultural Association (Savona), L’URLO Magazine (Ancona), il Cacofonico Magazine (Faenza).

Her paintings have been shown at Jakmel Art Gallery, Wynwood Art District, Miami. Her illustrations have been published in Fourteen Hills Magazine, Black Scat Review, Puerto Del Sol, and Meat for Tea Magazine.

Giada’s Website: www.honeyjade.com

 

 

 

The Illustrative Art of Alina Zamanova

 

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gareth

 

chantelle

 

Cristopher Kane

 

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Alina

 

 

 

BIO

Alina ZamanovaAlina Zamanova is a fashion illustrator and print/textile designer. She studied at University of the Arts London. Currently looking for permanent print design roles. Require sponsorship for working. Originally from Ukraine. She is also available for freelance opportunities both as a fashion illustrator and print designer.

 

To view more art by Alina:

http://alinazamanova.com/

https://www.instagram.com/alina_zamanova/

https://www.facebook.com/zamanova

 

Experience:

– Print Design for YANA CHERVINSKA SS16 collection; Art direction (make up, hair) for the show during Ukrainian Fashion Week (10.2015)
– Fashion Illustrations for SHOWstudio covering SS16 LFW collections. (09.2015)
– Fashion Illustrations Couture AW15 collections for HUNGER magazine. (07.2015)
– Fashion Illustrations for LITKOVSKAYA fashion brand; sketches for Vogue Italy Talents application (05.2015)
– Fashion Illustration job for VERA MEAT , NYC (06.2015)
– Print Design for ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE AW15 + SS16 + AW16
– Print Design for ELENA REVA AW15/16
– Studio intern at Jean Pierre Braganza (09. 2014)
– Print Textile Intern at ALEXANDER MCQUEEN (10.2013- 06.2014)
– Print Design for VALERY KOVALSKA SS14

Published:

– Sky Ferreira. Instagram (online)
– Marie Claire. Hungary (online)
– Hunger Magazine. Interview in Issue 8.
– Pigeons & Peacocks. Interview online
– Idol magazine (online)
– Vogue Italy, V Talents (online)
– ArtefactLifestyle magazine (online)
– Twenty6 magazine (online)
– DASH magazine (printed issue+Illustrator of the Week online)
– Showstudio blog (online)
– SpookMagazine (online)

Exhibitions:
2015 – External show at London college of Fashion, Shoreditch, London, UK
2014 – Art/Georgia/Paris
2013 – Illustrating Dreams, Fashionstyleology , Dash Magazine partners, at Gallery Different, Central London, UK
2013 – Exhibition at CAFE1001 Brick Lane, LovArts, Chaos Control, London, UK
2012 – Brick Lane Gallery, Art in Mind, London, UK

 

The Art of Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

Claudia Pomowski

 

 

BIO

Claudia Pomowski evokes visions of surreal landscapes and whimsical characters, often connected to German Romanticism. She creates poetic moments in her line drawings, graphics, collages and handmade art books. The freelance graphic artist and lecturer of book design lives in Germany near Trier.

 

See more of Claudia’s work:

www.c-pom.de

https://instagram.com/c.pom/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/75678715@N03/albums

https://www.facebook.com/CPOM-328767923908045/

https://de.pinterest.com/claudiapomowski/

http://www.poste-aerienne.com/Schlaft-Weiter-Mir-Ist-s-Egal

 

 

 

The Art of Howard Skrill

 

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Washington Square Arch

 

Asia Customs House

Asia Customs House

 

Grandfather Daughter Watson2013

Grandfather Daughter Watson

 

Soldier on Tomb

Soldier on Tomb

 

Four Angels

Four Angels

 

Brooklyn War Memorial

Brooklyn War Memorial

 

Flute Player

Flute Player

 

Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc

 

Washington

Washington

 

 

 

ABOUT

howard skrillThe Anna Pierrepont Series, my drawings of public statuary in NYC, is plein air appropriation. Plein air drawings come into being through visual encounters with the constant changes of light and color in things ideally encountered out of doors. I roll a blue whole foods cart behind me, jammed with a folding chair, pencils, oil and chalk pastels, oil sticks and a pad of paper. I encounter a statue I wish to draw, unfold my chair, lay out my materials and struggle to represent the object emerging from the light and shadows of its surroundings onto a sheet of paper. The drawings are appropriation because the subjects I invariably select are public monuments created by other artists. In 2014, I began to augment the drawings with pictorial essays that enable me to explore beyond the plein air limitations of sight. The essays enable me to explore how the monuments came into being, their connection with their surroundings and their fate after installation. I have named the entire project after Anna Marie Pierrepont, a grand dame of 19th century Brooklyn interred in one of the most magnificent tombs in Greenwood Cemetery. I named the work in her honor as a comment on the gap between my silent and anonymous wanderings and her exulted self presentation.

A central theme of the Anna Pierrepont Series is the utilization of public figurative monuments in the creation and perpetuation of collective ‘American’ identity among a diverse population whose cultural and national identities typically originate elsewhere. In order to create this identity, other identities need to be subsumed and rendered invisible. Statues installed in public spaces act as soil to be churned and tilled in order to transform identities thro

 

 

EXPERIENCE

St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights NY, 2001 – Principal Instructor in Studio Practice

Essex County College, Newark, NJ – 2001 – Senior Lecturer in sculpture and drawing

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015 – “HMS Jersey” at the Callahan Center Gallery/St. Francis College and online

[http://howardskrill.blogspot.com/], youtube video of reception

[www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TsThl0aC5I ]

2011 – “Anna Pierrepont Series” at the Callahan Center Gallery at St. Francis

2006 – “Thru Rain” at Chashama Gallery, New York, NY

2006 – “Thru” at Safe-T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2001 – CUNY – Queens College, “Thru”, Thesis Exhibition

2000 – Liquitex Corp. – “Artist of the Month”, www.liquitex.com/aotm/howard/home.cfm

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006-13 – “Faculty Exhibition”, CUNY – Bronx Community College

2005 – Dumbo ‘Under the Bridge Festival” at Safe-T Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2005 -‘Color Mix’, Studio/Gallery 64, Brooklyn, NY

2004 – ‘Friends’, Studio Gallery 64, Brooklyn, NY

2002 – “Site Lines”, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY

2002 – Object Image Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2000 – Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY -Intervention/Tiffany Permanent Collection

2000 – “Altered Realities”, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY

1997 – “Urban Landscape”, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Mass.

 

ONLINE PRESENCE

HowardSkrill.blogspot.com – 2011

Kickstarter.com – “Anna Pierrepont Series on the Road”

Electric Gallery – “egallery.com” [Abstract Realism] 2003-

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Green-Wood Blog by Historian Jeff Richman, Fall 2015, [https://www.green-wood.com/2015/another-artist-inspired-by-green-wood/]

Kyso Flash, ‘Works from 1990s’, Fall 2015, [http://www.kysoflash.com/SkrillFivePaintings.aspx]

Red Savina Review, Cover of the Fall 2015 Issue [http://www.redsavinareview.org/]

Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts and Letters of St. Francis College, ‘Civic Virtue’

Columbia Journal [from Columbia University], ‘Liminal’, Summer 2015, [http://columbiajournal.org/the-anna-pierrepont-series-by-howard-skrill/]

Newfound:An Inquiry of Place, ‘Erasure’ [newfoundjournal.org/archives/volume-6/issue…/nonfiction-howard-skrill]

3Elements Review, Issue 5, Fall 2014, plate/http://3elementsreview.com/past-journals,

Doppelgänger, Bludgeon, Dirge] ‘Brooklyn Dirge on pg. 50, 51 and back’

Slag Magazine, Issue 2, Fall 2014/http://issuu.com/jonhenry5/docs/slagmagissue2fina ”Return’ on pg 11′

 

EDUCATION

Queens College – CUNY, 1999-2001, MFA in Studio Arts, June 2001

State University of New York, College at Purchase, BFA with Honors,1985 – Faculty Award in Painting and Drawing

 

The Art of Olga Furman

 

Billie

Billie

 

Welcome

Welcome

 

Taurus

Taurus

 

The Clown

The Clown

 

Wanda

Wanda

 

Sarah

Sarah

 

 

 

ARTIST BIO:

OlgaFurman3I was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, where I spent my childhood years. The Soviet Union was ruled by Leonid Brezhnev at the time and the USSR called itself the most powerful country in the world. At age four, my parents left for the Polar Far North for jobs in the Soviet oil and gas industry. They left me with my grandmother, who lived in a town called Luga, which was famously called the “second worst city in Russia” by the great Russian poet Alexander S. Pushkin.

My childhood memories of the town were quite different. The town was situated in a beautiful natural setting consisting of a luscious pine forest and blue lakes covered in yellow water lilies with golden sandy shored. This was my first encounter with vivid colors and I immediately attempted to reproduce them on paper.

My grandmother would spoil me. I distinctly remember the smell of a new pack of crayons she bought me. I loved to color, and my grandma would always buy me coloring books. There were only two different coloring books available in the store. One had line drawings of dogs, and the other of all kinds of fish. I would outline and color them again and again.

At the age of seven I joined my family in the Far North . The colorful palette of Luga changed to the black grey and white of the arctic north. My parents weren’t really supportive of my art. Their plan was to train me as a piano teacher. They never denied my requests for art supplies however, and I was drawing and painting constantly. At school, kids noticed my love for doodling and made me the illustrator of the school newspaper. I really enjoyed doing this. Most of the drawings  I made for the paper were caricatures. I took my inspiration from a magazine called Krokodil (crocodile) which was a Soviet propaganda magazine. One of my first tasks was to copy a caricature of president Reagan playing a grand piano with the caption “Reagan is playing the strings of International Capital.” I was praised for the result. This was the beginning of my fascination with portraits.

We left Russia in 1991. We immigrated to Israel and we were penniless since all our property was taken away by the Soviets together with our citizenships. New life, new language, new college (I studied industrial engineering). I put my art on hold for a while to provide for myself and my family. One of my new friends later on brought me to the School of Art in Tel-Aviv, where I attended still life painting classes.

15 years ago I got married and immigrated to the United States, where we live happily with two kids and a pup in the suburbs of New Jersey. In the present, I am a full time artist and own a home art studio where I create my paintings and give art lessons.

 

My art is available for viewing here:

https://www.facebook.com/olga.furman.1

https://instagram.com/olga.s.furman/

http://olgafurmanart.blogspot.com/

The Art of Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

 

Svetlana Gayvoronskaya

 

 

Artist Statement

I create drawings and conceptual artwork, illustrate children’s books and fashion campaigns as well as create concepts for animation and the gaming industry. I currently live and work in Toronto, Canada.

I see my work as an attempt to use color, texture, a combination of motion and emotion, a lot of details and wide range of textures to create a visually stimulating image. It is also a way for me to expand my abilities through constant experimentation.

My drawings tend to show everyday objects and ordinary people combining them with a zero-gravity feeling and a touch of  mystery. I like to involve the viewer and offer to dream a bit about magical moments in our daily lives such as chances, matches and luck. I believe that everything is connected and has its own energy. Everything that makes our lives so fulfilling. We just need to watch carefully.

All my illustrations are made with black ballpoint pen, my favorite tool for creating graphics, which I’ve been devoted to for more than 10 years. Other tools may vary from colored pencils to watercolors and graphic software.

 

BIO

Svetlana GayvoronskayaI was born in Vladivostok, Russia, and spent my first twenty years of life by the seashore. After graduating Far Eastern National University (Vladivostok, Russia) with my Bachelor degree in Math in 2007 I spent about seven years working in the financial industry in Russia and abroad. In 2012, I was in a car accident entailing ten days being in coma and  ten months of rehabilitation. During that period, I started to draw prolifically as an artist, illustrated one book, the full Tarot deck (78 cards) and made more that 50 illustrations for different projects. This was helping me to fill my time as my abilities were pretty limited at that time. After I left hospital I moved to Canada and continued working as an illustrator and concept artist for animation and gaming industry.

 

www.illusori.com

Portfolio: https://www.behance.net/Juspa

 

The Art of Andrew James Woodyard

 

 

Unrealistic Abnormalities

Unrealistic Abnormalities

 

Cluck cluck cluck

Cluck Cluck Cluck

 

Oak Tree

Oak Tree

 

Nature-1, Civilization-0

Nature-1, Civilization-0

 

Circles and Vanishing Points

Circles and Vanishing Points

 

Madness and Mayhem

Madness and Mayhem

 

Red Brick Blue Sky

Red Brick, Blue Sky

 

What Lies Below

What Lies Below

 

Hallway Abstract

Hallway Abstract

 

The Narrows

The Narrows

 

Skeleton

Skeleton

 

 

 

BIO

Andrew WoodyardI’m originally from Running Springs, California, in the San Bernardino Mountains, although I’ve lived all over Southern California. I wrote and drew a few webcomics for a few years, and was the writer and publisher of a web series called Supernaturals Presents for two years which is available to read online. I’ve had artwork, fiction and poetry published in Phineas Literary Magazine, Morpheus Tales, Statement, Inlandia and The Realms Beyond since 2014. I’m currently an illustration student at Cal State Fullerton.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Art is weird and so am I. I love the traditional use of perspective and the interplay between light and shadows. At the same time I’m drawn to the abstract and the macabre. My work ranges from mechanically themed abstract drawings with a limited use of perspective to depictions of horrifying nightmares.

I primarily use a variety of markers and pens for my work, which allows me to produce work with an obsessive amount of detail, while at the same time leaving great expanses of white negative space open to balance out the extreme complexity. In addition, my work is framed with a backbone of thick graphic lines of solid black that gives it a bold IN-YOUR-FACE look. More than anything, my work is full of patterns which make it interesting to get up close to and study, but at the same time when you step back you’ll see the complete picture out of all the detail. I find myself moving toward a more gestural style with more uneven, jagged lines in big, bold, black strokes of ink, and with splashes of color with strong highlights in-between all of that.

I’m particularly interested in themes of world culture, human evolution, science fiction, feminism and gender equality. My work has been influenced by contemporary artists like Jeff Soto, Brian Cooper, Susan Logoreci, and Sam Bernal: all very modern artists who use very detail oriented styles with their work, and often strong graphic styles as well. In addition, I’ve always been inspired by artists like Piet Mondrian, Andre Derain, and Franz Kline.

EXHIBITIONS

I’ve shown artwork at the Center Gallery at Cal State Fullerton, the Gresham Art Gallery in San Bernardino, as well as the Redlands Art Association Gallery, and the Avantgarden Gallery in Santa Ana.

http://falconire.deviantart.com/gallery/

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