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Danielle Duer: Painting
Painter Danielle Duer works from her studio in Nashville, Tennessee. She describes her narrative pieces as manifestations of a romantic walk inside her own head. Duer sees this world and the people in it as “blissful and beautiful but equally heartbroken and sick.” She wants each piece of art to contain all of these Authentic elements of life. She is interested in human behavior and why we are the way we are, why we act the way we do, and how it often differs from who we are inside. How do we really feel? How do we cover this up? How are we sincere? What is the truth? Aesthetically, her paintings are illusive but they often symbolize her undying urge to expose our vulnerable hearts and the weapons that guard them, all from a feminine perspective.
To see more, visit DanielleDuer.com.
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Chris Berens: Amsterdam @ Jaski Gallery
The latest work from Amsterdam artist Chris Berens (featured). In his new exhibition at Jaski Art Gallery entitled “Amsterdam”, “Chris declares his love to his hometown. Again, he does this with beautiful, touching works, like always using the technique watercolor ink and graphite on paper on wood panel. The exhibition can be visited until Sunday, May 20. The opening takes place on Saturday, April 28, from 4 pm until 7 pm. Dutch TV personality Beau van Erven Dorens, a huge fan of Chris Berens, will deliver a speech between 5.30 en 6 pm.”
See more works from this exhibition at Jaski.nl. Learn more about his unique artistic process at ChrisBerens.com.
DAF Group Feature: Vol. 105
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Igor Skaletsky: Collage
Russian painter/collage artist Igor Skaletsky studied at the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute and began his adventures in collage only a few years ago.
Skaletsky works as an illustrator and when possible he makes it a part of his professional work. He works in both digital and analogue techniques, but prefers traditional collage because it gives him the ability to mix it with painting.
“Collage for me is a technique that widens possibilities to express myself. I think photography and painting perfectly complement each other and combining them, one can achieve an effect which is impossible in ”pure” traditional technique. Collage is unique in its ability to organically combine things which, at first glance, are absolutely incompatible and do not represent any artistic value in themselves. I like the moment when isolated pieces of paper suddenly start “playing” with each other when I put them in the common living space of collage.”
Recently, Skaletsky and drummer Evgeniy Labich, along with Russian indie animation team Self Burning, teamed up to make a stop motion animation film called “Piece” that represents the stages of making a collage.
To see more of Igor Skaletsky’s intriguing work, visit his profile (igorska) on Deviant Art.
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Victor Wang: Painting
Born and raised in northern China, Victor Wang is currently a professor of fine arts at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri. Wang has a BFA (oil painting) from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in China and an MFA from Fontbonne University where he works.
Of his painting, Wang says, “My path through life has been adventurous, exciting, and dream-like. My experience of settling into America in search of better opportunities has been both challenging and inspiring. I use the human face as a vehicle to paint human experiences – worry and wonder, sadness and pleasure – which reflect the emotional stage directly tied to my immigration experiences.
China’s Cultural Revolution played an important part in my life. During that time, sunflowers were used as political allegories to depict how citizens of China should follow Mao who represented the sun, since sunflowers follow the sun’s movements. People eventually inferred the deception that this symbol masked. After graduating from high school, I was sent to a labor camp in the country for ‘reeducation’ during China’s Cultural Revolution. There, I was subject to grueling farm work. Often, I worked in corn and sunflower fields from sunrise to sunset. Thus, for me, sunflowers evoke both personal joy and sadness. Therefore, to deliver my complex feelings, I use sunflowers as a metaphor to connote my background and emotional stage. My incorporation of collages of figures from China’s Tang Dynasty represents my Chinese heritage and is a constant reminder of where I came from. The texture and earthiness on the canvas’s surface are inspired by the texture of the soil on the farm where I worked in China.”
To see more of Wang’s work, visit VictorWang.net.
Jason Limon: Painting 2012
Some recent work by San Antonio, Texas based artist Jason Limon (featured). Check out more of Limon’s work at LimonArt.com, his photostream on Flickr, or his new shop site TheFirstOf.com.
DAF Group Feature: Vol. 104
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Lindsey Carr: “The Augmented Animal” @ Roq La Rue Gallery
Lindsey Carr is an artist living and working on the coastline in the South-West of Scotland. Many of her subjects however, tend to be from more exotic locations and her wanderlust is expressed in paint rather than travel. Her work is strongly influenced by European and Chinese natural history paintings and their subjects. She sometimes uses these to examine the problems of “nature vs nurture”. Her paintings are created to resemble antique decorative artifacts. Almost all of the frames are antiques and the paper is treated to give the impression of age. Sometimes Carr embellishes her paintings with gold leaf, embroidered glass beads and pearls.
Carr’s current exhibition, “The Augmented Animal” is on now at Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle, Washington and runs through May 5, 2012. To see more; visit LindseyCarr.co.uk.
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