Out of Bounds Top Artists to Watch Visual Language Magazine vol 3 no 7 July 2014

OUT OF BOUNDS Artists to Watch and Collect

Demian . Kristine Kainer . Jody Anderson Lelija Roy . Rod Seeley .

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Artists to Watch and Collect Demian Kristine Kainer Jody Anderson Lelija Roy Rod Seeley

Visual Language Magazine Featured Artists this month delve into the beauty of each of the five different artists and their unique approach to creativity.

Demian uses several unique methods to create work that is abstract, avant-garde, and intense. Kristine Kainer specializes in realistic depictions of everyday items with abstracted, richly colored backgrounds. Jody Anderson appreciates the transition of warm and cool light on the turn of a face or the delicate shift of light on a restful hand in her painting. Lelija Roy creates mixed-media work that expresses texture as color and color as texture. Rod Seeley is a self taught digital artist that is always pushing his creative boundaries through his unique “Stylized Digital Fractal Art� creations.

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Demian

http://www.demianart.net

The intention of Demian’s work is fulfillment of the longing, the hunger, the rush of vital feeling that may be out of reach within, perhaps just beyond the fingertips...and the satisfaction, the relief, and the surging freedom of their presencing.

His works have been characterized as abstract, avant-garde, and intense. They typically display vivid color and rely on texture, depth, and fantastical themes.

Demian was raised in a remote area on Maui.

His nickname was “Doodles”, which he despised, but looking back it was apt as he was constantly drawing, painting, and writing calligraphy. He received an education balancing artistic development with traditional subjects, as the arts ran strong in his family.

Like Gauguin and Rousseau, Demian is an autodidact in abstract art. Somewhat a polymath, he received his Doctorate from Cornell, published a best-selling book, invented a cancer therapeutic, and was awarded two black belts. Similar to Kandinsky and Hofmann, he returned to art in the middle of his professional years. Through the insistence of his fine art consultant fiancé, the aptly named Beth Miracle (who he calls his “catalyst and muse”), he has released his private and personal works to the public.

Demian has developed several unique methods to produce his pieces. Not the least of these is a variation of Automatism, a process to infuse the subconscious into the works, while bypassing the rational mind.

Left: Primordium Above: Grandma’s Stories

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Demian

http://www.demianart.net

Left: Homecoming Right: Neither-Neither Tree

Demian’s work is made with acrylic, watercolor, and resins, usually on plastic, and then the image is impregnated in aluminum via dye sublimation and framed. There is no digital art other than routine adjustments for the dye sublimation transfer.

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Kristine Kainer

http://www.kristinekainer.com

Finding beauty in the ordinary is the guiding force behind Texas artist Kristine Kainer’s work. The daughter of a Marine, Kristine moved frequently along the Eastern Seaboard. She graduated from The College of William and Mary with a degree in Art History and began a career in colorimetric chemical analysis.

Later, she earned a Master’s degree from George Mason University and pursued a teaching career in mathematics.

In 2003, Kristine, her husband, and their young daughter relocated from the Washington, DC area to rural Texas. It was an opportunity to experience a slower pace of life while living on an old farmstead.

Here, while working closely with the land, Kristine’s creative spark was ignited in the form of painting.

A self-taught artist, Kristine specializes in realistic depictions of everyday items with abstracted, richly colored backgrounds. Oils are her medium of choice. A signature member of the Artists of Texas and a member of CFAI, her works are in both public and private collections throughout the United States and internationally.

Canning Jars 20 x 20

Aermotor 30 x 30

Clam Shell 20 x 20

Oyster on the Half Shell 12 x 12

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Jody Anderson

http://jodyandersonart.com

“To everything -- a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens” - Ecclesiastes 3:1 Jody Anderson’s season with painting began in the year 2000 when she was inspired to pick up a paintbrush for the first time. She found great delight in the laying down of color on a canvas and began exploring the works she has now come to greatly admire of Vermeer, Zorn and Sorolla. Their intentional purpose and apparent command of color placed a burning desire in her soul to work alongside the hearts of those brilliant Masters.

Jody works in oil and enjoys an array of subjects including still life, landscape and figurative work. Studying the transition of warm and cool light on the turn of a face or the delicate shift of light on a restful hand moves her spirit and easily translates to her still life work. As a lover of the outdoors, Jody also finds herself occasionally plein air painting and especially enjoys the camaraderie of joining other artists as they capture nature at its finest. With her passion for the arts, and her desire to evolve; she is grateful for the guidance from the talented minds surrounding her and feels blessed to be given the opportunity of this journey.

Shawna - Oil 16” x 20”

www.jodyandersonart.com

Yellow Pears and Blue Bottle - Oil 16” x 20”

Copper and Plums - Oil 18” x 24”

Peonies - Oil 16” x 20”

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Lelija Roy

http://www.lelija.net

When you walk into a grove of aspens--you enter the embrace of AspenSPACES. You are not walking among individual trees, rather the entire grove is a single, interconnected living organism.

AspenSPACES capture moments in time: the perfect place for a picnic, drifts of gold, snow covered elk poetry. The dance of light and color changes each time you look.

Denver-based artist Lelija Roy’s mixed-media work expresses texture as color and color as texture. She works with acrylic paints and a long list of other water-based media pigments. Her textures combine various rice papers, lace, silk, fibers, handmade paper and metals. Her process includes mono-printing, watermarks and numerous painting techniques. Resulting AspenSPACES typically include as many as twenty layers.

Her formal art trained began in the 1970s at the Art Students League in New York City and a BFA from the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Roy started her full-time art career in 2005. Her work is held in both public and private collections throughout the U.S. and in several foreign countries. Lelija’s AspenSPACES can be found in galleries in Sedona, AZ as well as Denver, Breckenridge and Vail, CO. For the latest from her Denver studio, please visit www.Lelija.net. Commissions are always welcome.

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Rod Seeley

http://RodSeeleyArt.com

Stylized Digital Fractal Art Rod Seeley is a self taught digital artist that is always pushing his creative boundaries through his unique “Stylized Digital Fractal Art” creations. My passion is utilizing creative shapes and vibrant colors combined with dozens of special techniques to create truly unique artwork. Many of my pieces are enhanced using a customized digital paint (oil) technique and customized filters. My artwork is designed to be done on high gloss metal in a metal shadow frame which adds an additional visual dimension to the artwork.

In 2012 Mr. Seeley started entering juried international exhibitions and has won awards for his work.

His artwork has also been included in the Museum of Computer Art and The International Art Guide – “Abstract Art Showcase”. His artwork also appears in Volume VII & VIII – “International Contemporary Masters” a Juried art publication.

His artwork also been exhibited at ArtExpo New York 2013 & 2014, Spectrum New York 2013 and Spectrum Miami 2013.

The insert on each piece artwork is the “Original Fractal Creation” used to create the finished artwork displayed.

Imagine It

Liquid Look

Prospective Vision

http://RodSeeleyArt.com

Green Looker

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