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Artist Profile: Annika Connor

By On November 30, 2011 · 2 Comments

About the Artist
Annika Connor is a Contemporary Romantic painter. Her work depict a fascination with beauty and decadence. Overall, they seem to be fragments from a daydream, which portray a longing for a time of romance and pleasure.

Website
http://www.annikaconnor.com

Current Show
Contemporary furniture design company Bungalow 5 will be [...]

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Bird and Obelisk

Cecilia Andre

By On March 22, 2011 · 6 Comments

Statement
Birds, Jellyfish, Tornados, Mummies, Oceans, the Crust of the Earth; these creatures and places fill my paintings. The bird started out as an archeological vessel and is still probably an alter ego. The dream is the mystery of our unconscious ever-functioning mind. My colors are studied yet intuitive. The moment of painting is [...]

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Matthew Robinson

By On February 12, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Artist Statement
I construct mixed media paintings of defunct and desultory environments. They critique ‘progress’ as backwards thinking. I build a painting around pieces of photographs I have shot and cropped. I attempt to make order out of chaos by drawing and painting into the arrangements. This is [...]

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JoAnne McFarland

By On July 6, 2010 · 2 Comments

Artist Statement
My motto is be humble and stay busy, so I’m always working on either my poetry or art. I go to my studio every day. Going every day means I’m always a little bit ready. And I do something creative every day. I think of myself as a maker, stopping and starting [...]

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Jake Messing

By On June 13, 2010 · 1 Comment

Artist Bio
Jake Messing was born in Northern California in 1982. He graduated with a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design in May 2006. Messing works in a wide variety of media, ranging from silkscreen to pen and ink to paint and collage. His work has been shown in galleries and art [...]

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David Kassan

By On September 6, 2009 · 1 Comment

Metronome, Oil on Wood, 50×60 inches

Approaching Noise (in progress), Oil on Wood, 40×34 inches

Lucas at 3 Months, Graphite on Bristol

Head Study, Oil on Wood, 18×14 inches

Artist Statement

As an expression of his own calculated observation and visual consumption of surrounding environment, introspective glimpses of reality imbue the [...]

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Karen Connell

By On May 25, 2009 · 5 Comments

SEASCAPES
The seascapes are a series titled “Anywhere But Here”. The series consists of 436 different scenes.  The water is actually 1/8″ thick pieces of clear, vacuum-formed plastic.  The varied molded forms create the wave structure. The water color is created by placing layers of acetate underneath the plastic.  The coloring [...]

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Amy Bennett

By On February 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Up to Our Necks, Oil on Panel, 6×6 inches

From Now On, Oil on Panel, 13×13 inches

Losing It, Oil on Panel, 16×20 inches

Artist Statement
Two years ago, I contsructed a 1:87 scale model neighborhood, a fictitious cluster of eleven houses depicted through model railroading miniatures, styrofoam, cardboard, and plastic, [...]

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Louisa Armbrust

By On January 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Free Range Hockey, artist’s rendering of ongoing project, final materials are adhesive vinyl, dimensions variable

Melee 1, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40″, 2008

Scenario 3, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16″, 2008

Artist Statement
The conflicting characteristics of play fascinate me. Play is described as [...]

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Yuri Shimojo

By On August 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Black and Blue 2

Owl 1

Owl 2

Artist Bio

Yuri has been expressing her life through painting, journaling and dancing since she was 3 years old. Her upbringing in Tokyo was a very unconventional one – learning Japanese traditional arts and experiencing foreign culture through traveling abroad. These [...]

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