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Artist Profile: Elisa Decker

image-5466Artist's Statement My photographs celebrate serendipitous findings, ambiguities and the possibilities for transformation in the everyday. I acknowledge the poetry in what most often goes unnoticed. http://www.elisadecker.org/ 1. Mask, archival pigment print, ©2011 Elisa Decker 2. Grey Squares, archival pigment print, ©2008 Elisa Decker 3. Pieces, archival pigment print, ©2010 Elisa Decker 4. Counterpoint, archival pigment ...

Dawn Henning

image-1835 Artist Statement My love of birds and their gift of flight is a recurring theme in much of my work often used used as a metaphor (although I rarely paint them in flight.) for life. The subtlety of patterns in natural forms and the colors as they appear in the natural ...

Amy Talluto

image-856 Artist Statement I work exclusively with landscape in my oil on canvas paintings, using that theme as a platform to explore new ways of representing space and form. I am also interested in using psychological content and color to investigate the impact of nature, and natural space on ...

Jessica Baker

image-550 Centerpiece Multiple Leaf Print Leaf Relief Pile of Maples Ginkgo Leaf Circle Artist Statement In 2007, while walking home from my studio on a rainy Fall day and looking down at sidewalks covered with leaves, it occurred to me that the damp, resilient surface of a recently fallen leaf might be able to hold the image ...

Leah Oates

image-542 Leah Oates, Transitory Space, Beijing, China, color photography, 2008-09 Artist Statement Of human life time is a point, and the substance is in flux...and what belongs to the soul is dream and vapor.... Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations The work I create first originates as a response to overlooked space that is in a continual ...

Ralph Maratta

image-3869 The Fowlers Trap Tangled with the Rabbit Holes The Shortest Distance Between Two Kindred Souls Is Love Wormholes in a Tree Artist Statement Big Dreams focuses around the idea that humankind shares a sort of imagery bank; elementary ideas from the beginning of time or archetypes as described by Carl Jung. With that said, ...

Alex Downs, Laura Gibson, Chad Rimer

image-3866Exhibit at Sweet Lorraine Gallery, contact artists for viewing information. Alex Downs - Vessels Email: downs2681@gmail.com Web: http://www.flickr.com/photos/downs2681/ Phone: 347-387-2382 Laura Gibson - Drawings Email: bella.gibson@gmail.com Phone: 718-775-1557 Chad Rimer - Sculpture Email: chadrimer@yahoo.com Phone: 718-775-1556

Steve Riley

image-3862 Good Morning Universe, 8x9.5', 2009 Brave New World, 8x9' 2008 Broken World, 8x9', 2008 Stream, 10x10', 2008 Artist Statement I am drawn to everyday objects that are often overlooked or discarded. Using a wide range of disciplines, I transform the materials into small works. With a modern primitive style I balance the positive and negative ...

Randall Stoltzfus

image-303 'Bear Lithia,' 2009, oil, iridescence, and gold leaf on linen, 48'x72' 'Passing,' 2009, oil on linen, 46'x74' 'Five Miles Out,' 2009, oil and gold leaf on canvas over panel, 20'x36' Artist Statement When I moved to Brooklyn from Virginia I started making these dark landscape paintings lit in strange ways.  When I started the ...