“I Have Been Circling God ” – Oil, paper, ink and cut plastic on canvas - 36×53 inches
“  ….circling round that great tower and I still don’t know if I am a falcon, a storm or a great song” – Rilke.

“Down Here” – oil, cut paper, ink on canvas - 16 x 20 inches
I started this piece after reading personal accounts of the mostly anonymous builders of our grand public spaces.   One worker Mr. Kumaran  “.. I wish the rich people would realize who is building these towers, I wish they would come and see how sad this life is.”

“Traveling Thru” – oil, paper, crayon, ink on canvas - 20 x 26 inches
I struggle to put this one into words, as it was driven by the impalpable. It concerns the sense of aloneness common to all creatures big and small.

“Re:Henry”- oil, paper, plastic, pencil shavings on canvas – 36 x 26 inches
I completed this piece after the death of my best friend Henry forcing myself to go on out of respect for him and who he was. It was just one of the numerous gifts of his friendship.

Artist Statement

Over the past decade I have worked as a performance artist, a filmmaker and visual artist. Most recently I have been working on ever expanding collage. I start with a collection of my own drawings which I then tear, cut and layer before pencilling and painting into them. They are on both paper and canvas. Often however the foundation of a piece is text - most often my own - but also a range of words that haunt and continue to inspire. Some I have taken from the sublime ( the poet- Rilke ). Others from the absurd ( The New York Post ).

Biography (partial)

Exhibitions - Recent Work

ArtWalk 2008   Brooklyn , NY July 2008
Incongruities 2.0 – Ashawagh Hall East Hampton, NY July 2008
Private Viewing – Sunday Afternoon Series. Brooklyn Heights –Nov 2007
Letters to Joan  Emergency Arts - solo - collage –  NYC  - April 2007
Recent Works  Emergency Arts - group show - NYC- November 2006
2006 Square Foot Show - Art Gotham   NYC  - March 2007
Incongruities   Ashawagh Hall - East Hampton, NY. - March 2006
Cryptopsychographies  Tin Garage - Tarrytown, NYC - December 2005

Traveling the globe Ms. Enz exhibited in Corfu, Paris and Tel-Aviv as well as stateside at Hofstra University, East Hampton, North Shore Arts and NOW in NYC.  Due to the toxicity of materials and the proximity of her newborn daughter she worked to become a performance artist, filmmaker, and playwright. After winning a second Edward F. Albee Fellowship for writing which included a residency at The Barn in Montauk, she began with Mr. Albee’s encouragement to incorporate her own text into large collage which she now uses as a backdrop for performance work. They also stand alone as works of art .

More Information

http://rethos.com/pamelaenz

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“Feels Like Spring”, 2008
Acrylic on canvas
48″ w x 60″ h

“Shapes in Space”, 2008
Acrylic on canvas
36″ x 48″

“And the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters” 2008
Acrylic on canvas
48″ x 60″

Artist Statement

I am fascinated with abstraction and the way colors interact with each other. One reason I love to work abstract is that the ideas and images in my paintings are coming from somewhere mysterious inside myself. In other words, instead of trying to represent something I’m seeing outside myself, I’m attempting to listen to my intuition to create something from my imagination. In doing this, I feel that I’m connecting to my spirituality. Also, I try to feel joy in the act of creation and I hope that my work brings some joy to the people who view it.

Also, I am interested in art as a means of healing. I believe that when people create, they are activating a very vital and healing part of themselves. I like the quotation from George Braque: “Art is a wound turned to light.” Maybe art doesn’t always have to spring from a wound, but I agree that art can help us tremendously in healing the places where we’ve been hurt.

Peace on Earth.

Contact

Email: jon@jonbunge.com

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Black and Blue 2

Owl 1

Owl 2

Artist Bio

Yuri has been expressing her life through painting, journaling and dancing since she was 3 years old. Her upbringing in Tokyo was a very unconventional one - learning Japanese traditional arts and experiencing foreign culture through traveling abroad. These two elements, so drastically different, have influenced her work throughout her entire life.

Now, living the nomadic bohemian lifestyle, she explores the planet from the heart of metropolis to the outposts of the world wherever being guided by her own intuition while hopping between her base pad Brooklyn studio, Tokyo apt and her tropical jungle hideaway in Hawaii. This life balances her creative & spiritual yin and yang’. Besides her artistic endeavor, she is drawn to the world of indigenous cultures and has led her studying universal shamanism as a Reiki master. She is also a member of the art collective Barnstormers.

Yuri Shimojo has published several books in Japan, including: “Makkana Mangetsu~Crimson Full Moon”(1995), which showcase her earlier illustration works;”Vagabonds” (2001), a picture journal from her trip in Central America and Mexico. “Chiisana Rakugaki~Tiny Scribble” (1997), an autobiography of her unique childhood, which has just republished in 2007.

Website

http://www.yurishimojo.com/

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Lynn Christian “#12″ 18 x 24 inches, oil on canvas

Lynn Christian “#18″ 30 x 30 inches, oil on canvas

Lynn Christian “#13″ 20 x 20 inches, oil on canvas

Artist Statement

These paintings usually begin with an idea about color, and a feeling, sometimes of a memory. They evolve on the canvas through an interplay of application and correction, based on no program or requirement. Emotion, music, subconscious, and practice, attempts to visually represent itself while aspiring to a type of balance.

Website

http://www.lynnchristianpaintings.com/

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Paul Catalanotto, “Those Places That Once We Visited” 30×36 inches

Paul Catalanotto, “Seeping Beauty” 80×36 inches

Paul Catalanotto, “Neuron Roulette” detail

Artist Statement

My current work is about how we see and experience color. It is based on my theory that colors have universal physical properties. I rely heavily on these physical properties, how they react with each other and my plaster medium to embody our visual experience.

I developed a white plaster medium that, when mixed with colors, takes on the personality of each color. I apply the tinted plaster with trowels and other various plastering tools. My trowels become forces of nature, compressing, burying, scraping back, pushing and pulling the colors around. The stress I apply to my medium helps bring out its true colors.

My white plaster medium is stored energy, akin to other white things in nature — seeds, sperm, fat, clouds, snow. “The known undecomposed earths are, in their pure state, all white.”* When red is mixed in, the plaster is transformed. It runs, it bleeds, it seeps into the other colors like a virus. Blue, at the other end of the spectrum, makes the plaster thick and sticky. It stays. It blankets. So sticky that, as light, it clings to the air in the sky. Yellow, between the two extremes, has what I call the Goldilocks effect – it’s just right. Creamy and spreadable, it is the easiest color to apply with a trowel.

In order for my Polished Frescos to connect to people on an individual basis, I never have any set imagery in mind. My job is to pay attention to color order and harmony; light and shadow; and the laws of physics, especially gravity, to achieve some sort of imagery.

At certain points in the process, I let the colors take over while my role is to recognize and freeze moments in time. I strive to capture these spontaneous moments between the struggle to exist and the flow toward nothingness.

My work is a product of a long term relationship with tinted plaster and a sense of responsibility to let the medium thrive in an unrestricted environment. It’s about finding ways to work with the plaster as opposed to dominating it — to let it go in directions untethered to a set destination.

*from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Theory of Colours, first published in English in 1840.

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