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Artist Statement
I construct mixed media paintings of defunct and desultory environments. They critique ‘progress’ as backwards thinking. I build a painting around pieces of photographs I have shot and cropped. I attempt to make order out of chaos by drawing and painting into the arrangements. This is [...]
Artist Statement
My motto is be humble and stay busy, so I’m always working on either my poetry or art. I go to my studio every day. Going every day means I’m always a little bit ready. And I do something creative every day. I think of myself as a maker, stopping and starting [...]
Artist Bio
Jake Messing was born in Northern California in 1982. He graduated with a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design in May 2006. Messing works in a wide variety of media, ranging from silkscreen to pen and ink to paint and collage. His work has been shown in galleries and art [...]
Metronome, Oil on Wood, 50×60 inches
Approaching Noise (in progress), Oil on Wood, 40×34 inches
Lucas at 3 Months, Graphite on Bristol
Head Study, Oil on Wood, 18×14 inches
Artist Statement
As an expression of his own calculated observation and visual consumption of surrounding environment, introspective glimpses of reality imbue the [...]
SEASCAPES
The seascapes are a series titled “Anywhere But Here”. The series consists of 436 different scenes. The water is actually 1/8″ thick pieces of clear, vacuum-formed plastic. The varied molded forms create the wave structure. The water color is created by placing layers of acetate underneath the plastic. The coloring [...]
Up to Our Necks, Oil on Panel, 6×6 inches
From Now On, Oil on Panel, 13×13 inches
Losing It, Oil on Panel, 16×20 inches
Artist Statement
Two years ago, I contsructed a 1:87 scale model neighborhood, a fictitious cluster of eleven houses depicted through model railroading miniatures, styrofoam, cardboard, and plastic, [...]
Free Range Hockey, artist’s rendering of ongoing project, final materials are adhesive vinyl, dimensions variable
Melee 1, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40″, 2008
Scenario 3, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16″, 2008
Artist Statement
The conflicting characteristics of play fascinate me. Play is described as [...]
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 [...]
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