APÉRO CATALOGUE Fine Art Collection Illuminate February 2020
Margaret Minardi
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Created by APERO Curated by E.E. Jacks Designed by Jeremy E. Grayson Orange County, California, USA
Illuminate February 2020 Illuminate is a catalogue showcasing an interpretation of a light source. The work is comprised of drawings, paintings, photography, mixed media, digital and sculpture both representational and abstract in nature.
Luis Ardila Nature And Heaven Creating The New Human Being, 2018 Oil on Canvas, 48 x 48 in $16,000
Luis Ardila Mint Hill, North Carolina, USA luisgermanardila@aol.com https://ardilaart.com
Luis Ardila The purpose with my work is to find a way to communicate our history and where we are now so that people can understand that we have choices as to our present and future. I will continue to work on my presentation to create broader understanding to create a better future. The prophecies that are in every mythology, philosophy, or religion will be the same today as they were in ancient times. They become alive when the patterns that created that prophecy are repeated in history. They are a warning, that history will be repeated if the patterns are not acknowledged and behaviors changed. Many of the civilizations that we don’t know anything about today is because they were subjected to a decline that crystallizes in fear and anguish and a profound failure to return to the positive spirit that was in its roots. My focus is on these patterns.
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Guilherme Bergamini Fazenda das Areias, 2013 Digital Photography, 60 x 90 cm POR
Guilherme Bergamini Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil guibergamini@gmail.com http://guilhermebergamini.com/
Guilherme Bergamini Reporter photographic and visual artist, Guilherme Bergamini is Brazilian and graduated in Journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and social political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini participated in collective exhibitions in 30 countries.
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Jeremy Blair Rhizome, 2019 Photogram, 11 x 14 in $200
Jeremy Blair Cookeville, Tennessee, USA blairarted@gmail.com https://www.blairarted.com/
Jeremy Blair Inspired by the alternative process photography of László Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray, I have been practicing and exhibiting cameraless photography for the last ten years. Originally from Fairfield, Ohio, I received my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Miami University and my doctorate in Art Education from the University of North Texas. I have worked as a K–12 art teacher, art museum curator, and a university professor. I currently live in Cookeville, TN, where I am an Assistant Professor of Art Education at Tennessee Tech University.
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Jackie Clark The Lone Wolf, 2019 Oil on Linen, 52 x 42 in POR
Jackie Clark New York, New York, USA jackie4photos@yahoo.com https://www.jackieclarkartist.com
Jackie Clark Jackie Clark, is a New York based fine art painter, residing in Manhattan, NY. She enjoys traveling in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions to paint the landscape, and is a familiar participant in many of the plein air competitions throughout the region. Also a portrait and figurative painter, Jackie won the honored award of Best in Show in 2018 for her painting Big Sister at Yosemite National Parks Annual Museum and Gallery Exhibition. Jackie studied extensively with master painters, Frank Liljegren, David Leffel, and Mary Beth Mckenzie. Other areas of study within the field of the arts include, photography, scenic painting and design, and the decorative arts before dedicating all her time to her own studio practice, Jackie was a specialist in the field of the decorative arts, and has worked on many historic theaters, churches and state buildings throughout the country as a muralist, and conservator. She now dedicates all her time to fine art landscape, and figurative painting. There’s a verve to Jackie’s paintings; her use of exuberant brushstrokes lend a vitality to her work.
Curator Review: The Lone Wolf In this unusual and penetrating painting by artist Jackie Clark, a story of perspective unfolds. Clark’s purposeful placement of her two subjects boldly reveals an examination of ‘individual experience’, which is not for the fainthearted. Her painterly expression and singular use of the flashlight as a light source, is both engaging and symbolic. This strong work presents a striking narrative, in a beautifully singular style. - E.E. Jacks
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Joasia Dudek A Soul That Kindles A Body, 2020 Oil on Canvas and Board, 100 x 100 cm NFS
Joasia Dudek Warsaw, Mazowian, Poland joasiadudek.visuals@gmail.com https://www.joasiadudek.com https://www.instagram.com/joasiadudek/
Joasia Dudek Joanna Dudek is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and took a course at the Bauhaus Universitat in Weimar. She deals with spatial installation, painting, and graphic design. In her work, she deals with the subject of corporeality, studies the relationships between psyche and some, as well as the relationship between human and nature. In her work, she devotes a lot of attention to the selection of materials and their properties. She also deals with art theory and aesthetics, in particular: focusing on the impact of art on social behaviors.
Curator Review: A Soul The Kindles The Body A mysterious and stirring relationship between these two celestial bodies painted by artist Joasia Dudek, draws the viewer in. Dudek’s provocative use of color and contrast bathed in soft light, heightens the emotional mood in this work. An almost melancholy flux between glowing and sharp edges ads to this sombre and sensitive atmosphere. The bold simplicity and visual purity of this piece, should be applauded. - E.E. Jacks
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Tony Gangitano Kengo Dawn, 1980 Hydrostone, 36 x 12 in POR
Tony Gangitano San Diego, California, USA tgartstudio@gmail.com https://tgartstudio.com
Tony Gangitano Born: Brooklyn NY, Lives: San Diego CA.Tony received a Bachelors of Landscape Architecture from the University of Georgia and returned to work in New York City. He moved to San Diego CA to study art. Independent study/travel in many countries led Tony to Italy, where he lived and worked as a sculptor for two years. He interned in ceramic and bronze with sculptor Alberto Ricci in Rome, then did internships and independent study of stone carving at Studio Sem and bronze casting at Tommasi Foundry, both in Pietra Santa, Italy. Upon returning to California, he pursued a Masters of Fine Art at San Diego State University. There the love of carving stone and casting bronze took a back seat to less traditional materials, which he incorporated into more conceptual sculptures and site-specific installations. Tony’s work has been exhibited in group shows, two-person shows, and featured artist shows in Europe and the United States. He is a creative, high energy, conceptually oriented mixed media sculptor. His current work is fresh and exciting, incorporating thoughtful concepts and new materials.
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Robert Gray Illumimated Fear, 2019 Photography Limited Print, 11 x 14 in $100
Robert Gray Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA grayelementsart@gmail.com https://www.grayelementsart.com
Robert Gray Engineer turned artist, Robert Gray brings a fresh eye to photography with a raw intimacy that captures the human spirit. Robert’s love of the arts, creativity and adventure led him to photography back in 2008 while he was in Egypt. This was the beginning of his journey to master the art of storytelling. Robert’s dynamic style of storytelling guides the viewers’ imagination to run rampant with their own creativity, while simultaneously reaching them on an emotional level. Robert will go anywhere to capture that “perfect shot” and loves to experiment with his art. His portfolio has a vast range that includes tableaux / narratives, street, vernacular landscapes, portraits, events, concerts, abstract and weddings by request. Street photography is a huge influence in all his artistic storytelling. Robert has received several awards including Top 100 Best New Photographers of 2015, 27 features in Fine Art America as well as numerous guest appearances in art galleries, magazines and international art catalogues.
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A. David Holloway An Exploration Of Time And Space #24, 2019 Photography, 150 x 226 cm 850€
A. David Holloway Brisbane, Queensland, Australia adavid@adavidhollowayart.com https://www.adavidhollowayart.com
A. David Holloway A. David Holloway (b. 1981) currently lives in Berlin, Germany with his boyfriend of 12 years. He began studying photography in high school and has loved being behind the camera ever since. He began his studies at the Bayside Technical College, and continued at the Queensland College of Art at Griffith University, where he graduated in 2010. He works primarily in abstract cityscapes, and portraits. He has had exhibitions in various locations, including his first exhibition at Brisbane Powerhouse, a major arts centre in Brisbane, Australia. He has also had several exhibitions in Berlin, Bremen, London, Paris and New York.
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Lori Horowitz Reflecting Back, 2019 Torched Copper Mesh, Photography and Light, 14 x 36 x 5 in $2,500
Lori Horowitz Dix Hills, New York, USA Lorihorowitzartist@gmail.com https://www.lorihorowitz.com/
Lori Horowitz My work is a study of personalities and environments that complement imitate and incorporate elements of everyday life based on society, political issues and place. My most recent series of works draw from historical use of relief sculpture and bring these methods to current topics. I am always equipped with camera in hand, photographing people in their natural environments. Often these individuals share a narrative, while other images are candid shots taken from afar when the subjects cannot be interrupted from their actions. My images digest the posture of individuals while faces reflect their stories. These strangers are subjects in her continuing series of mixed media life-sized theatrical characterizations. One example, All of these characters have stories to tell and a past that we cannot grasp from a momentary glance. I am particularly interested in body language, gesture and expression and how they relate to emotion and character. As viewers, we experience a commonality or empathy to these portraits, creating a connection or response. This series portrays society’s unseen, as well as attention seekers and brings to light “Who We Are.” I appreciate the challenge of each piece, collapsing three dimensional pieces into 2 and 3 dimensional space and the process working with photography, wire, papier mache, encaustic wax , wire and painting. I challenge myself to explore new materials and techniques as an essential component to my work. Light and shadow are essential to understanding the depth of my work. The translucency of the wax medium can be lit both from front and back, creating shadow and depth that bring these pieces to life. I have been experimenting with copper and its’ properties, combing painting along with wire sculpture and theatrical lighting. I have developed a technique where images burned into copper work like two way mirrors changing significantly based on lighting. The light either bounces off the copper pieces reflecting a strong image or travels though the mesh showing a translucent after image. I burn images into the surface of reflective copper to create subjects that are then sculpted and manipulated with intricate detail. The torching of the image is represents the scaring of the surface embedding the image in the copper skin. These pieces illuminate acceptance and place in society.
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Hyunho Hwang Zero, 2019 Oil on Canvas, 50 x 60 cm NFS
Hyunho Hwang Sydney, New South Wales, Australia nahoda88@gmail.com https://www.aceartedu.com
Hyunho Hwang My name is HyunHo Hwang was born and grown up in the Republic of South Korea. I obtained a BS Degree in Bachelor of arts from University, Korea and I’ve been drawing, painting, sculpturing and designing over 30years of my life. I’ve taught university students in Art University in South Korea. I likes scenes of nature with harmonious light and shadows, especially in the sunny weather in Sydney. Because I currently live in Sydney, Australia and runs Art Studio teaching students. Although I’ve been teaching the students until now, I want to challenge myself to express my own artwork to the audience. I Have recently been listed as a “ Second Place” in the Nature Category of the Art Room Gallery international Competition July 2019. I also obtained many awards from various renowned international competitions such as the Light Space & Time Art gallery International competitions September 2019 “4th Place” Paint & Other Media Category and “6th Place” Overall Catagory, I have won a “Merit Award” from April 2019. Art is significant in my life and I will continuously work on it in futures as well.
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Ron Kenedi Night Crossing, 2018 Oil on Linen, 36 x 48 in $1,800
Ron Kenedi Nevada City, California, USA ronkenedi@hotmail.com https://wwwronkenediart.com
Ron Kenedi Born and raised in New York city, Ron received his art degree at the state university of New York at Stonybrook where he studied with well- known New York school artists and art historians such as Nam June Paik, Lawrence Alloway and Allan Kaprow. After graduation he spent a year teaching drawing at the Mediterranean Institute in Mallorca, Spain. Returning to New York, Ron attended the Art Students League to learn printmaking. He moved to Nevada County in 1971 and has maintained a residence there till today. While continuing to paint, draw and show his work both domestically and internationally, Ron became a leading presence in the Solar Power industry and headed up the N. American operations of three major, global, solar panel manufacturers. Today he lives with his wife and two small dogs in Nevada City.
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Kieum Kim Revealuxion, 2016 Video Projector, Pine Circle Plaques, Yarns, Wooden Mannequin Hands, LEDs, Acrylic Sheets, Bolts and Nuts, 15 x 18 ft
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Kieum Kim Baltimore, Maryland, USA thekieunkim@gmail.com https://kieunkim.com
Kieum Kim Kieun is a creative artist and performer. Featured in the New York Times and the Washington Post, Kieun’s work has been highly acclaimed as being truly unique and innovative, one of the very few artists today with a tremendous passion and gift for fusing artistic expression with technology. Her work displays interactive art, installation, physical computing, soft circuits, vital signs and wearable technology. This creativity also demonstrates self-portraits, emotional expressions, and the human connection. She aims to focus on interactive healing effects between people on a variety of projects. Kieun believes her art is expressed in everything she touches. As her portfolio illustrates, her passion for art is interdisciplinary and expressed across diverse media. She experimented and presented in various forms of multimedia installation. Her representative project, Revealuxion was invited to exhibit at Artrooms Fair Roma 2019, Roma, Italy, Five Continents International Film Festival (FICOCC2016), Puerto la Cruz, Venezuela, School 33 Art Center 2018, MD, USA., Space in Art New York Gallery 2016, NY, USA., Governors Island Art Fair 2016, NY, USA., and World Maker Faire 2016, NY, USA. Kieun received Master of Fine Arts degree in Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design in 2015. She is currently working as a New York/Baltimore based new media artist and a visual designer.
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Showna Kim Objects More Or Less Interesting, 2019 Foresco MDF, Fluorescent Acrylic, LED Dimensions Variable POR
Showna Kim Seoul, South Korea hkim63807@gmail.com http://www.shownakim.com/
Showna Kim Showna Kim resides in Seoul where she develops work and exhibits internationally. Her work is based mainly on installation and extends to painting, drawing, photography, and graphic design. She consciously questions the ethics of our nature as seen through the lens of current scientific thought, using theories of gene variation and questioning the central dogma of molecular biology throughout the present age and the past. She previously studied visual merchandising and graphic design and worked for CheilWorldwide and major design and fashion companies in Seoul, South Korea. After moving to the UK, she studied fine art at University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury and Nottingham Trent University. From 20142016, she held a position as a director of an alternative art space where she created various art projects and exhibitions with national and international artists and directors. In 2019, she was selected as an artist for national and international projects and group exhibitions in Seoul and London as well as other locations. Recent exhibitions include - Solo Exhibition (Selection), ‘INVISIBLE, BUT THEY DO EXIST’, CYART DOCUMENT, Seoul, South Korea (2018); Group Exhibitions (Selection) 31st Festival Les Instants Video, Marseills, France (2018); ‘Urban Project’, Delphian Gallery, London England (2018); Europäische Kulturtage 2018: ‘Open Borders’, BBK of Karlsruhe curated by HfG-Alumna Lisa Bergmann – Changings, Awakenings: Equal Rights for All, BEZIRKSVERBAND BILDENDER KUNSTL ERINNEN, Orgelfabrik Durlach, Karlsruhe, Germany (2018)
Curator Review: Objects More Or Less Interesting The mindful aesthetic of artist Showna Kim can be seen in the glowing shapes, seducing shadows and reflections of this brilliant installation work. A connective quietude can be felt here, and within the ‘revealed’ spaces and darker fissures, a study of reaction and inaction is being explored. Showna’s marvelous presentation of light and dark, exposes itself as a contemporary garden, inviting the inquisitive mind to reach into the otherworldly. - E.E. Jacks
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Deborah Kommalan Steve’s Sunflowers, 2019 Oil on Panel, 11 x 14 in NFS
Deborah Kommalan Pasadena, Maryland, USA deborah@deborahkommalan.com http://www.deborahkommalan.com
Deborah Kommalan Deborah was born in Baltimore. She graduated from the Maryland Institute, College of Art, in 1970, with a diploma in Graphic Design. She studied basic painting as part of the freshman foundation courses, but never pursued it. After a fortyyear hiatus she enrolled at Anne Arundel Community College where she studied painting for six years, including three years with Leonard Koscianski and one year with Lillian Bayley Hoover. She continues her study with Anthony Waichulis at Ani Art Academy in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She has received first place awards in shows at the Maryland Federation of Art in Annapolis, MD, as well as the Caruso award for Still Life. She has shown also at BWI Airport, University of Maryland Medical Center, Anne Arundel Medical Center, and Quiet Waters Park among other venues. In 2013 and again in 2014, she took first place at the UMMC show, which is associated with the National Arts Program. She has studied some of the Great Masters by copying paintings in the National Gallery of Art, in Washington, D. C. She painted in a variety of styles while she searched for her own direction. Her preferred medium is oil. She prefers painting photo-realist still lifes with a strong leaning to tenebrism, and still lifes which imply movement, which she calls “kinetic” still lifes. She also painted a series of parking signs, which is very different subject matter than still life. More recently she has worked on a series which include hand grenades. In these still lifes she invites you to take an intimate look at everyday objects. She is represented by McBride Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland; she is a member of the Maryland Federation of Art in Annapolis, Maryland. and shows occasionally at Crystal Moll Gallery in Federal Hill, Baltimore, Maryland.
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Jarosław Kozioł Untitled, 2019 Stained Glass, 50 x 70 cm POR
Jarosław Kozioł Wrocław, Lower Silesia, Poland jaroslav.koziol@wp.pl
Jarosław Kozioł An architect active in field of housing and public utility building design. An art therapist working with children especially with autism spectrum disorders. A visual artist using various matters, methods and techniques to experiment and express, operating within such fields as photography and graphical photo manipulation, computer graphics, oil and acrylic painting, printmaking techniques, fusing and stained-glass. Graduate of The Opole University of Technology (B. Arch.), The Silesian University of Technology (M. Arch.), The SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities (pedagogical and therapeutic education) and The Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (printmaking and stained-glass studies). Interested in discovering inner states of the mind that appear to be complicated, complex and ambiguous and give us unlimited possibilities. Involved in today’s challenging issues, trying to use art to draw attention to what society does not cope with, what it misses and what it needs. All that to find relief and reflection, hope and strength to act, to find and establish appropriate signposts and the most basic foundations to build a conscious, valuable and better life.
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Nicholas Kozis Illumination 5, 2020 Digital, 12 x 12 in $500
Nicholas Kozis Redondo Beach, California, USA nkozis@mindspring.com https://www.nickkozis.com
Nicholas Kozis Apero, Illumination 2020: The following painting shows my investigation of illumination. The scientific properties of light waves and the spiritual descriptions are depicted in various environments. The blending of both the concepts of faith and knowledge are show with light be the common united element. This piece is a mixture of mixed media. The process is a blend of mediums from my several sources to create the art. Please enjoy.
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Aharon Kritzer In The Holy Womb (Inside The Church Of The Holy Sepulcher), 2017 Digital Photography, Various Sizes Avail. NFS
Aharon Kritzer Shoham, Israel ah.kr.gr@gmail.com http://xn--4dbffhj.co.il/
Aharon Kritzer Aharon Kritzer (Haifa, 1963) is a photographic artist. Aharon is involved with Jewish mysticism and is also an expert graphologist. He created the ‘PhotoMidrash’ technique combining old and new – Midrash and photography. His works have appeared in many exhibitions in Israel, New York, Berlin, Rome, Kentucky, Norway, Glasgow, and Budapest. In 2020, he will also present in South Korea. Two solo exhibitions have been mounted, one in Holon and one in Jerusalem. Aharon has participated twice in the ‘Local Testimony’ exhibitions at the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv, and one of his works was featured on the cover of the 2016 exhibition catalog.
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Maximilian Les Chambres Du Petit Garรงon, 2016 Acrylic on Cardboard, 65 x 50 cm $500
Maximilian Paris, France and Italy maxyoga69@gmail.com https://maxartparis.wixsite.com/maximilian
Maximilian Maximilian was born in Milan, Italy, on December 17, 1969. He started painting as a child and despite his art school training, he has maintained an instinctive approach to his work, letting his subconscious dictate his subject matter. The recurring figure of a pre-adolescent child, neither male nor female, lends a coherence to this free-form universe. Since moving to Paris, France, in 2012, his work has focused on that unripe phase of human existence when gender is still undefined and sexuality has yet to be expressed. The melancholy and reflective characters he portrays are experiencing the often difficult and painful transition from childhood games and innocence to the first upsets of adolescence and adulthood.
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Margaret Minardi Inner Light, 2020 Colored Pencil, 22 x 31 in $2,000
Margaret Minardi Ft Salonga, New York, USA margaretminardi@yahoo.com https://www.margaretminardiartist.com
Margaret Minardi My works tell stories. I have approached subjects such as infertility, Bi Polar disease and politics. A subject for a drawing might also be as simple as a fascination with a bird or animal. I start with a realistic portrait which lends itself to the story. I work in a stream of consciousness. I usually don’t know what a work is about until it unfolds in front of me. My drawings are predominately colored pencil. Years ago became allergic to oils. Since then I have made concerted effort to make colored pencil a more acceptable medium. I also use collage and acrylic as an adjunct texture to the colored pencil. Generally it takes anywhere from 40 to 200 hours to complete a piece of work.
Curator Review: Inner Light Margaret Minardi’s vivid and distinct style brilliantly captures the character and essence of her subject. Her deep understanding of composition, spills out in a beautiful articulation of movement and gesture. Wrinkles and folds of textured material both solid and transparent, balance harmoniously together with the warmer skin tones and dapples of light. Full of passion, precise technique, freedom and equanimity, Minardi’s skillful figurative portrait absolutely glows with expression. - E.E. Jacks
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Gergana Mutafchieva Pipalati / The Birth Of Light, 2017 Porcelain, Wadding, Metal, 1.50 m x 3.00 m POR
Gergana Mutafchieva Sofia, Bulgaria office@creativeline.info https://https:/creativeline.info
Gergana Mutafchieva I have work in the field of ceramics from 15 years professionally. I graduated National Academy of Art in Sofia, major Design of Porcelain and Glass like a MA. Now I am a PhD student in the same major, and my topic is in the lighting area. I am a co-founder in Creative Line Studio of ceramic art and design. Like an artist I have participation in different exhibitions and festival, Bulgarian and international, as well. I love to work with ceramics because it can give to me all possibilities to create a unique object - design products or art pieces. Also I work with other materials to present my ideas in installation and concept art. The project that I present is more than like an installation including other materials and a porcelain lighting fixture. The idea of the concept is to represent the birth of light like a unreal creature. It were born in darkness and it can grow up, only depence by the state of mind - the light of mind.
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Florian Nรถrl Textilstein Lampe, 2016 Textil, Fabric, Lamp, 16 x 6, 5 x 3 cm POR
Florian Nรถrl Linz/Regensburg, Upperaustria/Bavaria, Austria/Germany directionhome@zoho.eu https://www.floriannoerl.art
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Cindy Roesinger Transcend, 2019 Oil on Canvas, 36 x 36 in $3,800
Cindy Roesinger Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA cindyroesinger@yahoo.com https://www.cindyroesingerfineart.com
Cindy Roesinger Roesinger’s work in oil is created predominantly alla prima. Her unique style reflects intuitively created landscapes and still lifes. Creating a more organic aesthetic by expressing spontaneous, direct feeling, there is an energy and vibration created in her current work that emphasizes essential movement, form and color, while eliminating extraneous detail, leaving the viewer with the origin of the image, and the moment that inspired it’s creation. “I often align my work closely to what feels like musical composition to me. When I approach the creation of a new work of art, I am seeking a visceral response to the lyrical quality unfolding within the work. Sometimes that is expressed in a harmonious, quiet painting with soft tones, represented in kind by the palette and treatment of the shapes and edges within, perhaps punctuated by a moment of discord for emphasis, and other times it is like a symphony with layers of color and movement. My intention is to create a sonata of interlocking monologues that engage the viewer.” Cindy’s professional career began in 1984 in New York City at the International Center for Photography and Magnum Photos, leading to a successful career as a photo editor. A self-taught painter, Cindy transitioned from photography into oil painting in 2005, after moving to Bucks County, PA. Her internationally acclaimed work has garnished awards and inclusion in notable invitational and solo exhibitions and galleries. She currently resides and works in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
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Tra’ Slaughter I Carry My Heart In A Paper Bag, 2019 Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 48 x 84 in POR
Tra’ Slaughter Houston, Texas, USA amberterriaco@gmail.com https://www.traslaughter.com
Tra’ Slaughter I am a Houston, Texas based interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of mediums. My art is inspired by the exploration of different cultures and how social constructs define one’s growth and identity. I have discovered that art is not a private conversation; rather art is a communal experience between the artist and the community in which they choose to explore. My goal as an artist is to reveal to the world its humanity and our human connection. I am drawn to various and often unusual media for their symbolic potency. In my work, found and discarded materials tell a story of their history, community as a whole and at times, the humanity of one single solitary individual. I find energy, beauty, and a story in the world’s discarded and forgotten. As an artist, I am a storyteller. If there is no story, then how will humanity learn from its past? My art has always been inspired by the exploration of different cultures and how social constructs define one’s growth and identity. To many the artist serves merely as a cultural decoration. But through resistance and growth of both artists and their community, a shared experience takes place. My goal as an artist is to show the world their humanity not alone, but together. I’ve come to realize that art is not a private conversation; rather art is a communal experience between the artist and the culture in which they choose to discover. My current body of work can be described as Expressive Assemblage much like Rauschenberg “combines” method in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in various combinations. My work can also be seen as an amalgamation of culture, history and something entirely new. Every piece I create has numerous layers of stories and experiences that can only be seen by continuously searching, both for the truth and for the real story of who we all are when glamour and ego has been shed.
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George Smith Deep Water, 2018 Acrylic, Graphite and Pastel on Canvas, 36 x 36 in $5,000
George Smith Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada laughingtackle@gmail.com https://facebook.com/calmingvision
George Smith Studied sculpture at Liverpool art college England in the late 1970’s with David Nash as my tutor in my final year. Moved to London and continued to produce art. Exhibited in England and Wales before moving to Canada in 2000. Have exhibited in Nova Scotia and New York. My work is now predominately painting in acrylics with the addition of graphite. Each piece is a journey of both creating the image and systematically destroying it until through a series of decisions based on the impact of the image I step away.
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Randy Sprout Hiolani II, 2019 Pen & Ink with Soft Pastels, 12 x 9 in $450
Randy Sprout Los Angeles, California, USA r.sprout@att.net https://randysprout.net/
Randy Sprout Randy Sprout began his art career in 1964 at the University of Iowa earning his BA in printmaking. Before entering graduate school, he served as a 1st Lieutenant on the DMZ in Korea. He moved to California in 1969 where he graduated with a MA and an MFA from UCLA in painting. Randy worked for LA County Museum of Art restoring priceless art works. He has taught printmaking and painting at USC, UCLA, UCLA Extension and Pierce College. He co-authored the book “Innovative Printmaking” 1977 Crown Publishers, New York. In 2004 he gave a sold-out lecture to Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles with a re-creation of Synchrome Kineidoscope performance, a machine he helped work on with Stanton MacDonaldWright in early 1970. He recently won the “Best Artist Over 65 Award” from Plein Air Magazine for December/January 2018.
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Squarcia Light From Within (Memorial For Victims Of Car Crashes), 2018 Metal, Recycled Hub Cap, Paint, 24 x 36 x 24 in $800
Squarcia New York, New York, USA umbertosquarciajr@gmail.com https://www.umbertosquarciajrart.wordpress.com
Squarcia My art reflects on society’s “endangered virtues”, it reaches the depths of mankind’s soul and purpose, life and death, time and space, dignity and suffering. My paintings, sculptures and installations draw inspiration from my upbringing in Italy’s cultural & historical scene as well as from the vibrant & dynamic architectural environment of New York City, and they become the result of constant engagement between history and contemporary life. Consequently, my artworks are often generated as an elaborated personal & original reinterpretation and re-visitation of art movements from classical to contemporary times. Revealing society’s inherent problems as well as discovering and reclaiming (almost as if bringing back to life) the latent aesthetic potential within industrial, natural and construction ruins & fragments, the allusive and vibrant products of my artistic research seem to lead to the idea of “nature as imitation of art” coexisting with “art as imitation of nature”.
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Ira Stein The Mistake, 2020 Acrylic and Graphite on Custom Ampersand Gessoboard, 60 x 30 x 2 in POR
Ira Stein Los Angeles, California, USA ira@irastein.com https://irastein.com
Ira Stein Over the past years, I have painted the most unique women to me based on our chemistry and their story. I believe that their behaviors are genetically determined and not a result of experience or societal influences. My paintings, mixed media collages and sculptures will not necessarily go with the furniture but it will leave you with the unbelievable documentation supporting my belief that behaviors are predetermined by genetics. Genetics is a brutally honest summation of all my work – which is more profound than a pretty picture.
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Paul Trichel Contents Under Pressure, 2019 Digital Photography, 18 x 12 in NFS
Paul Trichel Ruston, Louisiana, USA paultrichelphotography@gmail.com https://paultrichel.com
Paul Trichel Paul Trichel is a second year Master of Fine Arts candidate at Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. Trichel’s work addresses the concept of LGBTQ identity in the American South. Using photography and video, he provides a sense of community and inspiration for individuals who feel a need to belong. Trichel’s active participation in the Society for Photographic Education (SPE) led to his work being shown at Jackson State University in Alabama and selected for SPE’s Multi-caucus exhibition at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Park School of the Arts Arts Center Gallery.
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Christel Van Hemelrijck Four Days In Lisbon, 2019 Oil on Canvas, 120 x 80 cm POR
Christel Van Hemelrijck Mechelen, Belgium christelvanhemelrijck@telenet.be https://www.christelvanhemelrijck.com/
Christel Van Hemelrijck Christel uses oil painting to present us her lyric expressionism visions. She is a self-taught artist, based in Mechelen, Belgium. She has had a career as an executive producer in television before she discovered art as a way of expressing herself. The island of Crete remains her major source of inspiration, along with her travel experiences. Christel has lived in Crete during the 90s and she still spends a lot of time there. Her emotions are expressed through the language of bold colours, with laconic, solid composition and delicate texture mainly on large canvasses. Every painting is a story. Soon after starting out she has had several exhibitions in Belgium. Lately Christel had the opportunity to present her work in Lisbon, Amsterdam and London and she was a semifinalist of the Artbox Project - Art Miami 2019. She will show her work in Venice, Italy in February in a group exhibition and will be represented by DgArt Gallery at the ARTIST 2020 Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid.
Curator Review: Four Days in Lisbon The superbly articulated flow of reflective pattern and rich color in this work, thoroughly exudes expression. Artist Christel Van Hemelrijck offers up a subtle yet stimulating state of transcribed ‘murmuration’ in her connective piece. An almost trance-like, harmonious composition of introspection and symbolic reflection has been achieved here, and a further exploration of those narratives can be felt. Her wondrously stylized abstraction, most certainly leaves an indelible impression in the mind. - E.E. Jacks
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Sara Zanini That Thing..., 2019 Porcelain and Battery Operated Lights, 15 x 13 cm POR
Sara Zanini Sevilla, Spain szanini84@gmail.com https://www.instagram.com/mme_zaboubou
Sara Zanini I was born in Verona in 1984, but since an young age my curiosity and impatience took me to live in places like England, Brasil and France: Initially I focused my main activities on sociology, anthropology and social work, experiences which shaped my personal worldview: multicultural and permeable. However, art has always come along and after having experimented different techniques like mural painting, illustration and mosaics, the call of creativity led me to abandon Paris, where I was living and working and move to Seville, where I decided to study contemporary ceramics at the “Escuela de Arte de Chile”. The plastic relation with the clay, the need for respecting every single step of the process, the lack of complete control on the final result of the piece, together with the countless possibilities...all of these aren’t for me simply part of an artisan work, they are the reflection of a philosophical attitude towards life. My work focuses on identity, inspired by my experience as a woman with a multinational sense of belonging, on memories, relations and emotions, using a barroque, colorful and sometimes provocative aesthetic.
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Nina Zdanovic Bukhara, 2019 Japanese Mineral Pigments on Rice Paper on Wood Panel, 58 x 70 cm 780â‚Ź
Nina Zdanovic Tokyo, Japan ninazdanovicart@gmail.com https://ninazdanovic.com
Nina Zdanovic Nina Zdanovic, a graduate of Vilnius University Oriental Studies Center, is living and working in Tokyo, Japan. “Ever since I left my home country, one’s memories and identities became a focal point of my creative work. In an attempt to arrange my scattered emotions and nostalgic feelings, I start to pour them out on canvas. In my paintings, I often refer to situations that have happened, to places that I have visited, to people that I have met. Real stories merge with other similar memories, resulting with a compromise between reality and nostalgia. People and objects in my paintings are an important part of the story, yet the details, just like in a distant memory or a dream, become blurry. It is almost like a snapshot of a lucid dream: some things are real, some things are not, and it is almost impossible to tell them apart.”
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INDEX Luis Ardila
Nature And Heaven Creating The New Human Being, 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Guilherme Bergamini
Fazenda das Areias, 2013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Jeremy Blair
Rhizome, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Jackie Clark
The Lone Wolf, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Joasia Dudek
A Soul That Kindles A Body, 2020. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Tony Gangitano
Kengo Dawn, 1980. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Robert Gray
Illumimated Fear, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
A. David Holloway
An Exploration Of Time And Space #24, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Lori Horowitz
Reflecting Back, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Hyunho Hwang
Zero, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Ron Kenedi
Night Crossing, 2018. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Kieum Kim
Revealuxion, 2016. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Showna Kim
Objects More Or Less Interesting, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Deborah Kommalan
Steve’s Sunflowers, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Jarosław Kozioł
Untitled, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Nicholas Kozis
Illumination 5, 2020. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Aharon Kritzer
In The Holy Womb (Inside The Church Of The Holy Sepulcher), 2017. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Maximilian
Les Chambres Du Petit Garçon, 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Margaret Minardi
Inner Light, 2020. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Gergana Mutafchieva
Pipalati / The Birth Of Light, 2017. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Florian Nörl
Textilstein Lampe, 2016. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Cindy Roesinger
Transcend, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Tra’ Slaughter
I Carry My Heart In A Paper Bag, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
George Smith
Deep Water, 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Randy Sprout
Hiolani II, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Squarcia
Light From Within (Memorial For Victims Of Car Crashes), 2018. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Ira Stein
The Mistake, 2020. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Paul Trichel
Contents Under Pressure, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Christel Van Hemelrijck
Four Days In Lisbon, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Sara Zanini
That Thing..., 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Nina Zdanovic
Bukhara, 2019. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 APÉRO Catalogue is a juried and curated publication showcasing established and emerging artists from around the world. APÉRO Catalogue www.ShowApero.com ShowApero@gmail.com
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