Andrezj Michael Karwacki liminal, ex05

36″ x 48″
acrylic paint and resin on birch panel

Andrzej draws his ideas from philosophy of Buddhism and works with an intention of equanimity where it is neither a thought nor an emotion. He creates works of art where the painting expresses immeasurable mood suggested through use of color and composition.

In his development, Andrzej’s painting technique is alike processes of weathering, where wood panel, paint and water meet and dissolve into each other imitating nature and it’s material. He lets thin layers of paint and water wash over each other and meet in its liquid form thereby creating their own magical chemistry.

Andrzej’s work does not exhibit separateness of colors but the merging and integration of each. The overlaying hues and tones form a mystic marriage where new qualities are created with their own unique essence. Andrzej’s current painting works explore aspects of color, texture and forms of natural world. Andrzej sees painting as a visual language between form and composition, color and emotion. His artwork, uncomplicated and soothing, creates feeling of a larger elegant space, an outdoor surrounding.

“Andrzej’s earthy birch panels challenge the calculated detachment of minimalism. They recapture fundamental quality of pictorial fields and intrinsically overcome limitations of flatness and implied depth”, (Flavorpill, February 2008).

Website: www.andrzemichael.com

Aximillion Helga Duson underneath

25″ x 20″ x 2″
mixed media/wood cut, archival fram, non glare glas

Aximillion Helga Duson lives and works as a full time artist in Antwerp, Belgium. She studied Free Arts at Sint Lucas in Antwerp, Belgium and specialized in silk screen printing, woodcuts, etching, lithography, and photography.

Her work is like a book with fragments of her life, constantly filled with new images. She tries to connect the intimacy of daily life with thoughts about culture, identity, sexuality. Like taking a look into an inner world of images, multiplying but without an end… Every moment in life is a cliche but at the same time it is a unique moment.

Website: www.aximillion.com

Geoffrey Dryan The Blue Miracle, ED. 1/10

25″ x 25″
chromagenic print

I was born in 1974, but it was my parents generation which has always brought on a special nostalgia. Images from the 1930′s up until the late 1970′s, have left a deep imprint upon my creative sensibility. Photographs from this era were always proof of America’s greatness, in a time of great world historical importance. There was something about the way things looked back then which had the weight and importance of an era that said both innocence and distinction.

When I go out shooting, I look for settings which include remnants from this time period that remind me of this unique era. My intention behind shooting vintage cars, suburban homes and uncomplicated and open portraits, stems from my wish to preserve the hope imbedded in these things, and make them the focus of the present once again, so that their meaning is brought back to life.

Website: www.geoffreydryan.com

Tali Barr last night I dreamt of my dead father

36″ x 48″
oils and varnish

Tali Barr is a psychologist in private practice in Berkeley having recently returned from spending a year’s sabbatical in Paris studying art. Before becoming a psychotherapist, she received advanced degrees in painting, photography and philosophy in Israel (Bezalel Academy of Art and Hebrew University). She has also studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and has published articles in both psychology and art journals. She has had her art exhibited in galleries in both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. In addition her work was included in the well known collection: “Hot City – Tel Aviv in Photographs 1908-1988″ by Ronit Shany. With respect to art and the creative process she believes that art, just like psychoanalysis, helps shed layers of artifice on the way to the true self. Over the last year she has been contemplating time, age, and how past events shape the present. The painting “Last night I dreamt of my dead father” is a reflection of these meditations.

Kate Shepherd Bridge – Orange Blue Green Rust, 2006

29 1/8″ x 18 3/4″
graphite transfer on screen Print

Kate Shepherd (born 1961 in New York City) is an American painter. Kate Shepherd is an American minimalist painter known for her original use of intense color, scale and a delicate yet descriptive painted line, Shepherd’s work has references to architecture, gesture and portraiture. In her painting, she often superimposes a matrix of delicate lines on vibrant fields of color to depict the planar structure of interior or exterior spaces. The paintings are pared-down and bold in composition, but betray an emotional, humanist sensibility. Shepherd’s pieces are built on spatial complexity with simple and clean surfaces. The surfaces of the works are flat with an implied depth. The occupied spaces are recognizable and familiar. Shepherd’s uses of perspective bring a three-dimensional vision to a two-dimensional plane. Shepherd’s paintings typically consist of a combination of different panels to comprise a whole. Each panel is coated in seamless, high-gloss paint. The color relationships of the panels are tuned to create a unified light. Delicate lines are then painted on the grouping of panels, creating a space – interior or exterior. Repeated, linear patterns in perspective move over the painted surfaces to often connote water, steps, wallpaper, etc.