Archive for the ‘Fine Artists’ Category
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Over the past 25 years Mark Bennion (b.1948 Seattle, Washington) has developed a unique painting process, which he calls fresco. Using oil, plaster and paper on a panel on canvas, his work shows a contemporary edge and a pallet of it own, yet it seems like we are looking at fragments ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
b. 1962 in Brazil. Lives and works in New York City.
Artist Statement:
“I’ve been paiting for almost 18 years. Painting, to me, is basically an intuitive process, I always find myself guided by intuition and led by emotion. As opposed to wide and long heavy brush strokes, I used to have, I ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Artist Statement:
“At its core, my work is about the duality of existence: positive/negative, male/female, physical/spiritual and the dynamics that occur when they converge or mix like the spirituality of sex or the effects of time on people and things. Yet it’s the unexpected that I find most compelling about painting. ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Born in Bavaria in 1944, the son of a Berlin film maker and a dealer of Oriental Antiquities, Stefan Beltzig attempted at first to turn his back on theartistic milieu in which he was raised, dropped out of school and joined a circustroop as an acrobat. After leading the life ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Sam Dolman was born in Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire, where he lived until he was 18. He then moved to Newcastle-upon-Tyne to study Accountancy, where he spent the next four years. After graduating it soon became apparent that figures were not the life for him. Following a year in Leeds and ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Born 1954, Wroclaw, Poland. Lives and works in Wroclaw. Members of The Association of Polish Artist and Designers.1980 - 1983 University Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan1980 - 1985 University of Wroclaw1994 - 1995 Graphic Practice on Academy of Fine Arts Wroclaw.
Artist Statement:
”My mind has always perceived painting as a process in which ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Work with abandoned places and desolate spaces, Mie Olise work is primarily painting, as well as building models of wood and cardboard and sometimes sowing. Also trained as an architect she is interested in constructions, perspectives, scales. Often spaces left by human beeings.Artist Statement:“I find the uncannyness of discovering a ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
Painting as View of the World Only at a first glance do the works of Kevin A. Rausch (born in Carinthia, Austria) attest to a brittle, bleak apocalyptic mood; to desolatedness, grey battlegrounds, catastrophes, isolation, and the appendant weltschmerz. Once one takes a closer look, one can discover ironical associations ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
The current project “Engage” explores each particular subject’s personality and how those attributes are expressed on both a outward physical and psychological level. Through each individual work, the viewer can become intimately aquainted with the subject not only representationally, but on an emotional, intellectual, and moral level.Anatomical incorrectness with impossible ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Artist Statement:
While working on my MFA at the University of Illinois, I 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 ...
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