Archive for the ‘Artists’ Category
Friday, August 1st, 2008
"I've always been interested in the fantastic, and the mysteries that exist just below the surface. I think that that is what I have always tried to represent with my work. For so long I felt like a satellite around somekind of 'truth' that I kept missing. Recently as I've ...
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
"I am my own person and reject culturally implemented or constructed scenes or trends, whether they be found in the realm of music, art or politics. If the cultural milieu were the sea, these constructed trends would be born underwater, only to float to the top and be swallowed whole ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Q: When did art first caught your attention?
A: I am quite sure it all began when I one day just decided to stop listening to my teacher. It simply felt better to stare out the window and pay attention to all the events taking place outside. My textbooks became the ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
"Painting allows my subconscious perceptions to register graphically, similar to the way they do in dreams. I have come to see painting as a developing solution to the unconscious. If I allow myself enough freedom , painting goes beyond the formal and aesthetic into a dialogue with the psyche."
Joe Goodwin
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Robert Raushcenberg (1925 - 2008).
Recognised as an heir to Dada and precursor of Pop Art, he glued, assembled and happily combined all sorts of images and materials from his era, playing on their interaction in terms of shape, texture and colour. In 1958, Léo Castelli took him under his wing ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
May 17 is the last day of the solo show of Howard Hodgkin at Gagosian Gallery (April 3 - May 17, 2008). His first show of new work in London since 1999, and his first at the Britannia Street galleries.
Hodgkin's paintings are unmistakable with their assertive, compressed gestures, brush-swept, complex ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
"Just like in his painting series, Fernando's photographs bring a new perspective to every image and everyone's imagination. You are invited to be more than a beholder, you are drawn to become part of his world." Heather Barker - Transart Editor.
Ferreira de Araujo's Solo show in Miami - Crossroad, The ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Iberê Camargo is an artist of singular strength and feeling, and one of the great names in 20th century art. Ibere created an extensive body of work which includes paintings, drawings, gouaches and prints. He was born in November 1914 in Restinga Seca, in the interior of Rio Grande do ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
While working on his MFA at the University of Illinois, Joe Goodwin became interested in the work and ideas of C.G. Jung, especially his concept of the collective unconscious and his interest in dreams. Dreams defy physics and amplify experience with their ambiguous spaces, symbolic meanings, and sensations that seem to speak from ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Featured Artist
:: Portfolio :: :: Q & A :: :: Fernando F. Araujo ::
Fernando Ferreira de Araujo’s series of paintings, are both evocative of and inspired by experiences he witnessed in his native Brazil, and those he continues to explore as a prolific artist in New York. His loose painterly brushwork ...
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