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Friday, March 7th, 2008
March 2008 - Featured Artist
::Portfolio:: :: Q & A :: ::Cindy Jackson ::
Cindy is presently developing a project called “REQUIEM for Babi Yar” - A proposal for a monumental sculptural environment to honor all those who perished in the Babi Yar ravine. The Babi Yar massacre is considered to be ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Born: 1960Education:
B.S. Webster University
B.F.A. Art Center College of Design
A.A.S. Southern Illinois University "Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our greatest interest is with things human." Cindy Jackson uses figurative sculpture is as a way of connecting with the outside world. "My desire is to make art that ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1974) was a spanish artist whose name is almost synonymous with 20th century art. No artist was ever as famous as Picasso was in his own lifetime, or has been since. The controversies over his personality, arrogance, affairs with younger women, and unwillingness to be classified ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Edward Hopper, the best-known American realist of the inter-war period, once said: 'The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.' This offers a clue to interpreting the work of an artist who was not only intensely private, but who made solitude and introspection important themes in his painting. ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Vera was born in southern Brazil, where she completed her BFA and MFA degrees and started her artistic career. Art is her passion and since the 90s she has been showing her artwork in several group and solo exhibitions. In addition, she’s contributed to community projects aiming social consciousness. She ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
Max Miller was born in 1980 to a family of artists and craftsmen. His early years were characterized by his family constantly moving among various locations throughout North Carolina and Texas. Without any steady playmates, drawing became his chief activity. Max's parents would bring home reams of discarded paper, which he ...
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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. Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 1960
Established Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes has attracted international attention with her colorful compositions since the 1990s. Her art features elements of both Brazilian pop culture and modern visual languages. Overlapping floral motifs, ornamental arabesques and abstract patterns convey an excessive, sensuous energy.
COLLECTIONS:
Solomon R. ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
b. Brazil - Rio de Janeiro - 1937-1980.
Hélio Oiticica used to say that he was not a 'career artist', reflecting his wish not to be categorised under an established label. Oiticica's early works were influenced by the Brazilian neo-Concretists and fell within the framework of geometric abstractionism, but his particular ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
b. 1904, Rotterdam; d. 1997, East Hampton, New York
Willem de Kooning was born April 24, 1904, in Rotterdam. From 1916 to 1925, he studied at night at the Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten en Technische Wetenschappen, Rotterdam, while apprenticed to a commercial-art and decorating firm and later working for an ...
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