Avran Catalog 2016

GLASS

PAINTINGS

SCULPTURE

MARTA JUHASZ

OWNER/DIRECTOR Marta Juhasz is a global entrepreneur who is now sharing her passion for visionary art through her gallery Avran Fine Art. Marta has always been known for her sophisticated taste and ability to reimagine spaces. Her gallery is no exception; Avran specializes in principal pieces that attract interior designers and well-versed collectors.

After spending 25 years in Orange County, Juhasz knew Laguna Beach would be the perfect location to reach an audience that appreciates innovation through art and design.

MARGO A. KOSIN

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Margo joins us from Los Angeles where she earned her Masters degree in Art Business from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and The Peter F. Drucker & Masatoshi Ito School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. As someone looking into opening her own gallery business someday, she brings a diverse palate of skills to the Avran team; these include knowledge and experience in business, fine art appraisal, art law, and the particular intricacies of the art markets.

ROBIN QUINTA

CURATOR/DIRECTOR OF SALES

Robin joins the Avran team with the distinctive perspective of having owned a gallery in Palm Springs, CA as well as a design firm in Indian Wells, CA. Well-versed in the art world, he prides himself on having a unique eye for design, color, composition, and arrangement that keeps the observer captivated. Whether working on residential design projects or in a corporate setting, Robin delights in working closely with his diverse clientele to guide them in creating their dream atmospheres.

BOLD. CONTEMPORARY. DISTINCTIVE. EVOCATIVE. Avran Fine Art distinguishes itself among the vibrant art scene in Laguna Beach by offering its clients a unique perspective on contemporary art for collectors and enthusiasts. The exquisitely edited gallery exhibits museumquality glass sculptures, original paintings, avant-garde photography, and distinctive jewelry. Lovers of both contemporary and traditional art will revel in the exclusive collection.

Owner Marta Juhasz and her team specialize in procuring art that serves as a focal point in any space. Her artistic intuition led her to create a gallery that provides her clients with statement pieces that have the ability to transform any space and satisfy even the most discerning of tastes. Juhasz’s experience as a high-end interior designer gives her a greater understanding of the ability art has to establish mood and tone in any room. Avran Fine Art realizes that selecting art for your space is highly personal and focuses on tailoring your experience while insuring the process remains fun. The Avran team remains dedicated to staying current with art world trends while offering a fresh perspective on design.

LASZLO LUKACSI

Big Blue (Deta il)

When eyes behold the glass art of artist Laszlo Lukacsi, a connoisseur journeys through the history of the glass art movement in Hungary. Lukacsi’s structured training in applied arts, dedication to the traditions of the medium and the influences of his predecessors are illuminated in each of the cold-worked laminated glass sculptures. The fluid, organic shapes and optic illusions reveal not only his vision but also the laborious techniques.

Lukacsi’s expressions drawn from nature and science, combined with humanity’s industrial and technical revolutions ingeniously transform his meticulous efforts into objects of beauty.

LASZLO LUKACSI

Spiral

Lily

PETER BORKOVICS

Leonardo (D et ail)

The glass sculptures of Peter Borkovics are consistent in their formal and technical analyses in which the artist enquires into the melting, flowing, and sudden hardening qualities at a certain stage, in any given form. “Glass is an unpredictable material, and my primary interest is in its manipulation and its consequential behavior. My enthusiasm is focused on its mode of existence as a congealed liquid carrying within its internal working forces. These forces are mystical, equal in age with the universe.

Gravitation, surface tension, volume, light, pushing and pulling forces‌ Time is indispensable to its operation, which lends a fourth dimension to the material.�

PETER BORKOVICS

Magnetic Spiral

Blue and Purple Prism

SHAYNA LEIB

Arc hipelago 8 (Detail)

Shayna Leib is a multimedia artist whose sculptural glass and metal art reflect her intelligence, sense of design, and rhythm. Her art highlights her ability to manifest a diverse artistic background with creative talents in an intelligent way.

Her intricate pieces focus on the beauty of single solitary unit, which both asserts and subordinates its autonomy in a work. When asked about her visual aesthetic, she states, “My visual concept of beauty has always been fractal. I am intrigued by multitudes of tiny little parts, for example, blades of grass all bending in the wind to the same rhythm.

As you pan out you have waves of form.

Zoom in and you see each individual blade of grass moving to the flow of the wind.

Everything in nature possesses this quality.�

SHAYNA LEIB

Archipelago 8 | 3

Archipelago 8 | 5

Aq ua de Beber (D eta il)

RICK EGGERT New York-born artist Rick Eggert creates dynamic glass sculptures of some of the basic elements of nature - water, wind, and fire - by assembling individual pieces into groups. Each of his colorful sculptures has a sense of movement, whether that be the powerful curl of a wave or a gentle flickering of a flame.

Eggert began working in glass in 1992 and received his BFA in Glass Sculpture from the Rochester Institute of Technology in upstate New York. “We use a glass base that uses high quality sand but is standardized to allow the use of a wide range of colors. All the materials are places in the furnace and heated to 2400 F. Once it cooks, it is cooled down to 2100 F where we gather it onto metal rods and create our masterpieces.�

RICK EGGERT

When the Storm Blows Through

Autumn Evening Breeze

BALAZS SIPOS

Yuc k

Balazs Sipos is a not only a remarkable applied artist but also a gifted sculptor who spends much of his time creating crystal figurines of unmatched beauty.

His inspirations come mostly from nature, and from the everyday life of people.

Balazs has a deep interest of the rich wild life of the third continent and that obsession can be well observed in his kiln cast or pate de verre crystal works.

Balazs creates wonderfully detailed yet slightly magical figurines, which are governed by their mysterious, wondering characters. Crystal is such a wonderful but technically difficult medium, which Mr. Sipos masters well. His pate de verre crystal figurines demonstrate outstanding qualities of craftsman ship and reflect a sensitive gift for portraiture.

BALAZS SIPOS

Hot Bath

Suzy

Inward Attentio n (D et ail)

STEVE PERRAULT

Steve Perrault’s acrylic landscape paintings are a distinct aesthetic in contemporary metaphoric realism, and speaks the language of our times. Architectural metaphors of light and darkness, containment and expansion, inside and outside, promote a sense of place and hope, while asking questions concerning passages, boundaries and vision. These acrylic paintings express harmonious environments of modesty, honesty, order and calm, allow spontaneous insights and moments of introspection.

STEVE PERRAULT

Theater of Wonder

Upward Spiral

Wait ing on the Mo on (Detail)

PAN QIQUN Pan QiQun’s artistic style is unique, he finished a complete and diverse art education and training in an art college in the United States, so that his artistic style was formed by a variety of factors including abstract expressionism, hardedge art, traditional Chinese art, and even extended to the integration of Western and Eastern cultural communication. In addition to these factors, nature deeply affects Pan QiQun’s art. Influenced by traditional Chinese cultural spirit, Pan QiQun applies the concept of the whole while gazing at nature, so that the chaos of the universe, rhythms of upheaval, the forms of material polymerization and elimination, endless changes in space and time… are all indistinctly visible in his work.

PAN QIQUN

Earth’s Gift II Eternal Connection Diptych

ANDY BAIRD

Kiss (Detail)

In Baird’s distinct manner, his driptechnique-portraits shift back and forth between highly energized, gestural abstraction to ‘solid’ depictions of his human subjects. Baird’s large, colorful portraits also comprise a subtle use of light and dark values, underscoring their “chaotic” palette. Because his images are defined by value, Andrew Baird is liberated from total gestural abstraction, to proceed with his intriguing ‘portrait drips:’ value-andcolor combinations that tease his imagery/ technique to intriguingly appear and disappear, actively engaging the viewer.

“Each time I visit the painting, I drip paint either to lose the image or strengthen it. I build layers of color until I see in the painting that perfect quality that I’m looking for.”

ANDY BAIRD

Angela

Warhol

S ED NE E AG

IM

The Day Growing Darker (Detai l)

FATHER BILL MOORE SS.CC.

Father Bill approaches each canvas without a definite plan. Working with mixed media, he lets his ideas flow spontaneously onto the canvas and then adds bits of metal, glass, and other discarded materials to each painting to create a simple piece of artwork with deep autumnal colors and a rich surface texture that is ridged and rippled. Despite their contemporary feel, his canvases exude a timeless and spiritual quality that is almost mystical. Father Bill’s art expresses a love for the physical world, where he encourages his viewers to touch and feel the surfaces of his paintings.

FATHER BILL MOORE SS.CC.

Exploration Diptych

STEPHANIE PAIGE

The Coast (Detail)

Stephanie Paige has been captivated by all things creative her entire life as she was born into an extremely creative family full of painters, writers, musicians and craftsmen. Stephanie began painting abstracts as a young adult and started selling her paintings to private collectors.

Stephanie Paige creates beautiful textured pieces of art that are made layer by layer of hand-made plasters. Each layer of colored marble dust plaster takes three to five days to dry, then she sands the surface down into the under layers then burnishing and polishing the finish. Each piece takes from four to six weeks to complete. She combines marble dust plasters, iron and copper paints, patina, rusting effects, sand, stain, fabric, glazing, and recycled materials.

STEPHANIE PAIGE

Fire Within

Calm Cadence

S ED NE

JAMES C. LEONARD

Shore to Shore (Deta il)

E AG

IM

Leonard’s compositions are entirely nonrepresentational and move the viewer’s eye vertically or horizontally across the space.

This basic movement is complicated by layers of dripped, speckled and fragmented colors that infuse not only a rich language of color, but also a visual history left to be discovered by the eye as it moves across the surface. Leonard’s inventive layering process using an “extended palette knife” results in heavy impasto, or textured, surfaces with a glossy, wet shine making them particularly stunning when seen in person. He prefers to call himself a “colorist” and listens to the work as it develops, often carrying an element of smooth transition that he relates to water.

JAMES C. LEONARD

Weather’s Fine

Autumn Leaves

Grey Woods 9 (D eta il)

MICHAEL KESSLER Michael Kessler’s work explores the continuum between gesture and geometry.

Each work consists of as many as 50 microthin layers of translucent and transparent acrylic. Biomorphic tendrils branch to and fro, while arcs of line and color slip over and under matrices, balancing nature’s sinuous curves with the mindfulness of structure. He likens the gestural freedom in his works to a kind of painterly “tai chi” – a visible expression of a line of energy – and imbues his structural motifs with a sense of play and buoyancy. Like the yin and yang, the organic and geometric elements in his paintings speak not of dichotomy, but of integration. Nature provides the basis upon which his work exists.

MICHAEL KESSLER

Judogi

Exarate

NINA K. CULLEN

Changing Trends (Detail)

Nina K. Cullen’s love of color, design, and texture is what allured her to paint.

A burst of passion sweeps over the expanse of canvas with such a sense of color magnetism. She has developed her own technique of applying thick layers of oil paint with a palette knife which allows her to achieve rich textures and dimensions. Each piece takes several weeks to complete, building layers of paint and glossy glazes to finalize the journey until her vision is achieved.

Nina was born in Croatia and after completing her education in Switzerland and London, turned her talents to creating art in Southern California. “My oil paintings are an expression of how I see life and its vibrant energy.”

NINA K. CULLEN

Summer by the Sea

Fire Dance

Sunny lands (Detail)

MICHAEL RUFFINI

Despite his unique and contemporary modern style of works, Ruffini looks to Art History and his travels for inspiration.

Developed his own language of creation in different mediums; a narrative through different rhythms of color, texture, technique and style. Vibrant richness of expressionism, bold dynamism and pulsating energy of abstraction gives to the Artist a great field of action in celebrating the vibrant energy of life. His works present various aspects of our world in ways that will gift the audience with a new appreciation for the wonder that surrounds us.

MICHAEL RUFFINI

Pioneer Town

Petals

S ED NE E AG

IM

Smoked Po llo ck (D eta il)

R. CHARLES

R. Charles’ works are expressions of his experiences in the world around him. It is those intimate feelings he transfers onto canvas. He works in abstraction so that the layers, textures, and colors speak to each viewer in their own way. The artist’s hope is that the viewer has a reaction with their emotional being, and not simply their minds. The artist challenges himself each time he paints: Can the initial idea be felt through his creations? In a world oversaturated by media and constant mental stimulation, R. Charles seeks to capture that simple innate concept we can all relate to.

R. CHARLES

Reflection

Exhale

Aut um n Flowers (Deta il)

MICHAEL HALL

Michael Hall’s artwork conveys a distinctive interpretation of life which is fresh and inspiring. With his exclusive use of rich, vivid colors, thick texture and dimensionality, Michael speaks a universal language to which everyone can respond. From a very young age, Michael has had an intrinsic response and relation to the arts.

He was a singer and a pianist and later became a classical dancer performing with major ballet companies across the United States. In his mid-twenties, painting became his ultimate passion and soon translated into a professional career.

MICHAEL HALL

Midnight Flowers

Spring Flowers

JENNYFER STRATMAN

My Thoughts Beco me Me (Detail)

Stratman’s main communicative method is empathy. Her figures are dynamically placed in their surroundings, attempting unification where they are blocked, striving for movement or extension where they are grounded. We recognize their need to maneuver within and gain control over their specific environments as a common human response to adversity.

Stratman approaches her work with sparsity of detail; her figures are bare sketches, yet with the subtlest inflections they indicate intense emotions such as love, yearning, loneliness, or kinship. A delicious tension exists between the femininity of her subjects and the masculinity of her techniques.

JENNYFER STRATMAN

Grafted with the Blossoms (Detail)

Flowering From Within (Detail)

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