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Stefanie Gutheil: Painting

March 21, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Born in 1980 in  Ravensburg, Germany, Stefanie Gutheil currently lives and works in Berlin.  Gutheil has a BA and an MFA from the Universität der Künste in Berlin. This young artist’s work has been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions around the world.

To see more of Gutheil’s work, visit the Mike Weiss Gallery, website.

Related Books:
Modern Art: Impressionism to Post-Modernism
Post Modern Art: 1945-2008
The 20th Century Art Book (Phaidon)

Filed Under: ART, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: German Art, Stefanie Gutheil

Dilyara Nassyrova: Painting

March 16, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Hisako © Dilyara Nassyrova

Dilyara Nassyrova (aka Dilkabear) is a painter and illustrator  based in Trieste, Italy. After years of working as a graphic designer, Nassyrova now makes her living full time from her art. Her work has been published in major magazines and also in several books.

To see more of Dilka’s work, visit her photostream on Flickr or her shop on Etsy.

Sources: ArtonFix

Filed Under: ART, Illustration, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Dilka Nassyrova, dilkabear, Dilyara Nassyrova, Italian Art

Mandy Tsung: Painting/Drawing

March 9, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Canadian artist Mandy Tsung was born in Banff, Alberta in 1984 and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 2006.

For Tsung, “People are fascinating and beautiful; the human face in it’s complexity of nuances will take a lifetime to fully capture. It is always the look in a person’s eyes that inspires me to pick up my pencil. I want to distill that moment and, more importantly, express how powerful it is for me.”

Mandy’s work has been exhibited in galleries in Calgary and Vancouver, Canada and has been featured in collections in LA, New York, Hong Kong, and Canada.

To see more of Tsung’s work, visit MandyTsung.com.

Filed Under: ART, Drawing, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Canadian Art, Mandy Tsung

Sayaka Ganz: Sculpture

March 3, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Emergence-Sayaka Ganz - 2008

Born in Japan and living in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Sayaka Ganz has a BA in printmaking and an MFA in 3D Study with a concentration in sculpture from Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

To create her sculptures, Ganz finds discarded objects including plastic utensils, toys, and metal pieces and gives them a second life and a new home..

“The human history behind these objects gives them life in my eyes.  My goal is for each object to transcend its origins by being integrated into an animal form that seems alive. This process of reclamation and regeneration is liberating to me as an artist. By building these sculptures I try to understand the human relationships that surround me. It is a way for me to contemplate and remind myself that even if there is conflict right now, there is a way for all the pieces to fit together.”

To see more of Ganz’s work visit SayakaGanz.com.

Sources: This iz Art

Related Books:
Recycled Re-Seen: Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap

The Altered Object: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration
Recycled Re-Seen: Folk Art from the Global Scrap Heap

Filed Under: ART, Eco-Art, Sculpture, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Recycled Art, Sayaka Ganz

Angelina Wrona: Painting

February 4, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Hive © Angelina Wrona“Angelina Wrona has been experimenting with various styles and media in her art for years. Earlier realist and folk art was rewarding yet not completely satisfying as darker, interesting and more peculiar ideas were beginning to form.

Never interested in abstract art, her first exposure to Juxtapoz Magazine was like opening a door to the art world of her dreams. The inspiration from this pop surrealist, exciting and vibrant art world so casually referred to as Lowbrow served as a catalyst for her developing style.

She began to realize and combine her delicate, dark subjects with surreal twists and ideas. Blending Japanese anime, folk art and representational styles to bring them to life, Angelina has created her collection, which she affectionately calls the “Senta-Mental Dolls”.

The twisted fairy tales the dolls inhabit are conjured up in the 19th century home in Merrickville, Ontario , Canada where she lives with her husband and their two beautiful daughters, who are a constant source of inspiration.” (bio from artist website)

For more information about Angelina Wrona, visit AngelinaWrona.ca.

Framed © Angelina Wrona Surf Turf © Angelina Wrona Bunny Couture © Angelina Wrona

Filed Under: ART, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Angelina Wrona, Canadian Art

Jenna Colby: Painting

February 2, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

The Explorers © Jenna Colby

The Explorers © Jenna Colby

“Jenna Colby is a self taught artist who has always been creative through different mediums, but decided to focus on painting three years ago. Originally from Ohio, Jenna has traveled and lived in both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, but has called Seattle home since 1999. Growing up in a small town Colby was always fascinated with cities and has been influenced by her travels and the people she has met and observed. “I make it a point to take note and assign a story to the passer by, giving each moment in time purpose and creating color.” After developing and beginning to show her work, Jenna came into contact with the work of artists like Mark Ryden and Yoshimoto Nara. Thinking back, she says, “Their work really moved me. It made me nervous, giddy . . . I’m not sure if there is a word for it. But after experiencing that feeling, I decided that is what I want to do to others. I want to make other people feel that way.”  (bio from artist Etsy site).

To learn more about Jenna Colby, visit SoopajDelux.com, or her Etsy store.

Tres Chicas © Jenna Colby Just Because © Jenna Colby Not So Far © Jenna Colby

Filed Under: ART, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Jenna Colby, Mark Ryden, Yoshimoto Nara

Elizabeth McGrath: Sculpture

February 1, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Deerhouse-Liz-Mcgrath

Here’s another great find by fellow artist and blogger Esther Barend.  “Los Angeles-born artist Elizabeth McGrath has always had an eye for the strange beauty in the grotesqueries of life; this appreciation is nowhere more evident than in her work. Inspired by the relationship between the natural world and the detritus of consumer culture, she brings forth a new cavalcade of creatures from the darker corners of the streets, the city, the imagination. It is this melancholy interaction between man-made status symbols and suffering specimens of nature that make up her intricate body of work.” (bio from artist webpage)

For more information, visit ElizabethMcGrath.com


Filed Under: ART, Sculpture, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Elizabeth McGrath

5 Women Artists You Should Know: Vol. 4

January 30, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Women in the Visual Arts © Wendy Campbell

Beatrix-Potter-Tales-of-Peter-Rabbit1. Beatrix Potter – July 28, 1866- December 22, 1943 – Born in South Kensington in London, England,  Potter is best known for her  illustrated children’s books. She was an author, illustrator, mycologist, farmer, and conservationist. In  her 20s, Beatrix developed into a talented naturalist. She studied plants and animals at the Cromwell Road museums and learned how to draw with her eye to a microscope.

In her thirties, Potter published the highly successful children’s book, “The Tale of Peter Rabbit”. She began writing and illustrating children’s books full time and became financially independent of her parents

Potter died on 22 December 1943, and left almost all of her property to the National Trust. She wrote and illustrated a total of 28 books, including the 23 Tales, the ‘little books’ that have been translated into more than 35 languages and sold over 100million copies.  Her stories have been retold in various formats including a ballet, films, and in animation.

Born-Kiki-Smith-20022. Kiki Smith – Born on January 18, 1954, in Nuremberg, Germany and raised in South Orange, New Jersey, Smith studied at the Hartford Art School in Connecticut from 1974 – 1976.   “Since 1980, Smith has produced a variety of work including sculpture, prints, installations and others that have been admired for having a highly developed, yet sometimes unsettling, sense of intimacy in her works’ timely political and social provocations. These traits have brought her critical success.”

The Kitchen in New York hosted Smith’s first solo exhibition in 1982. She has exhibited annually from 1982 at the Fawbush Gallery in New York.  In 1990, Smith received significant acclaim for her exhibition in the Projects Room at the Museum of Modern Art. “By manipulating everyday materials such as glass, ceramic, fabric and paper, Smith’s work examined the dichotomy between the psychological and physiological power of the body.”

Smith has also had major solo showings at the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva (1990), Williams College Museum of Art in Williamstown, Massachusetts (1992), Whitechapel Art Gallery in London (1995), Museum of Modern Art in New York (2003), and Walker Art Center in Minneapolis (2006).

In 2009 Smith was awarded the Brooklyn Museum Women In The Arts Award. She currently lives and works in New York.

Portrait-of-Marie-Antoinette-Elisabeth-Louise-Vigee-le-Brun-17833. Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun – April 16, 1755 – March 20, 1842 – Born in Paris, France, Vigée-Le Brun is recognized as one of  Europe’s foremost portrait painters of the eighteenth century.

At the age of 15, Vigée-Lebrun was earning enough money from her portrait painting to support herself, her widowed mother, and her younger brother. For a decade she was Marie Antoinette’s favorite painter. European aristocrats, actors, and writers were also her patrons and she was elected a member of the art academies in 10 cities.

Vigée-Lebrun married Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, a painter and art dealer who helped her gain access to the art world. In 1783, Marie Antoinette appointed her a member of Paris’s Royal Academy. As one of only four female academicians, Vigée-Lebrun enjoyed a high artistic, social, and political profile.

With the onset of the French Revolution Vigée-Lebrun fled France with her nine year old daughter. For  the next 12 years she was commissioned to create portraits of the most celebrated residents of Rome, Vienna, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Berlin.  Vigée-Lebrun returned permanently to France  in 1809.

Scholars estimate that Vigée-Lebrun produced more than 600 paintings. Her memoirs were published in 1835-37 and have been translated and reprinted numerous times.

The-Happy-Couple-Judith-Leyster-16304. Judith Leyster – July 28, 1609– February 10, 1660 – Born in Haarlem, Netherlands, Leyster was a Dutch Golden Age painter. She was one of three significant women artists of this period. Little is known of Leyster’s early training but the degree of professional success she achieved was remarkable for a female artist of her time. By 1633 she was the first woman admitted to the Haarlem Guild of Saint Luke and in 1635 she is recorded as having three students.

“Stylistically, much of Leyster’s work resembles that of Frans Hals. She favored the same types of subjects and compositions, notably energetic genre scenes depicting one or two figures, often children, engaging in some kind of merrymaking. In addition to these compositions, Leyster also painted still lifes.”

In 1636 Leyster married fellow artist Jan Miense Molenaer, and moved to Amsterdam, where the couple lived until 1648. She painted very little after her marriage. It is sometimes difficult to distinguish between the early works of Leyster and her husband, as they often shared studio props and models, and may have worked on each other’s pictures.

creacion-de-las-aves-Remedios-Varo-1957

5. Remedios Varo – December 16, 1908-October 8, 1963 – Born in Anglés, near Girona, Spain, Remedios Varo is often overlooked as an important surrealist painter. Varo studied art in Madrid and moved several times between Paris and Spain where she met and exhibited with other leading Surrealist artists. In 1941, Varo and her husband Benjamin Péret fled the Nazi occupation in Paris and moved to Mexico City where many other Surrealists had sought exile. Her first solo exhibition in Mexico at the Galería Diana in 1955 was a great success and earned her international recognition.

Varo’s palette consisted mainly of somber oranges, light browns, shadowy grays and greens. Her paintings were carefully drawn, and depicted stories or mystic legends. She often painted heroines engaged in alchemical activities. Varo was influenced by artists such as Francisco Goya, El Greco, Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico, Braque, pre-Columbian art, and the writing of André Breton. She also borrowed from Romanesque Catalan frescoes and medieval architecture, mixed nature and technology, and combined reality and fantasy to create paintings that defied time and space. Varo was also influenced by a variety of mystic and hermetic traditions. She was interested in the ideas of C. G. Jung and the theories of G. I. Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky, Helena Blavatsky, Meister Eckhart, and the Sufis.  She was also fascinated with the legend of the Holy Grail, sacred geometry, alchemy and the I-Ching. She saw in each of these an avenue to self-knowledge and the transformation of consciousness.

Sources: DAF-Varos, Wikipedia-Potter, V&A Museum-Potter, Wikipedia-Vigée-Le Brun, National Museum of Women in the Arts,  MoMA – Smith, Wikipedia-Smith, Wikipedia – Leyster, National Gallery of Art – Leyster

Filed Under: 5 Women Artists Series, ART, Drawing, Illustration, Photography, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Beatrix Potter, Dutch Art, Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, English Art, French Art, German Art, Judith Leyster, Kiki Smith, Netherlands Art, Peter Rabbit, Remedios Varo, Spanish Art, Surrealism

Daniela Huhurez: Illustration

January 25, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Together © Daniela Huhurez

Together © Daniela Huhurez

Today’s images are by 28 year old Manchester, England based artist Daniela Huhurez. Huhurez has a BFA and an MFA from George Enescu University of Arts in Iasi Romania. She is currently represented by  ArTzu Gallery in Manchester.

To see more of Huhurez’s work, visit DanielaHuhurez.com.

Silent-Afternoon © Daniela-Huhurez Cold-Portrait © Daniela-Huhurez Dreaming © Daniela-Huhurez

Filed Under: ART, Drawing, Illustration, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Daniela Huhurez

Marion Peck: Painting

January 22, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

Young-Lord-Oliver © Marion-Peck

Young-Lord-Oliver © Marion-Peck

“Marion Peck was born on October 3, 1963 in Manila, the Philippines, while her family was on a trip around the world, and grew up in Seattle, Washington. She received a BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design in 1985. Subsequently she studied in two different MFA programs, Syracuse University in New York and Temple University in Rome.” Peck currently lives in Eagle Rock, CA with her husband artist Mark Ryden and their children. They recently produced a short film called “Sweet Wishes” and published a picture book of the same title. (Bio from artist website)

To see more of Marion Peck’s work, visit MarionPeck.com.

Lamland © Marion Peck Supper-Club © Marion Peck Night in Venice © Marion Peck

Mice-with-Dairy-Products © Marion Peck Girl-with-a-Kitten © Marion Peck Girl with-Dog © Marion Peck

Filed Under: ART, Women in Visual Arts Tagged With: Marion Peck

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