Knock On Wood
Karen is a self-expressive artist using a variety of materials & techniques to create original works of art. She strives to consistently come up with new ideas for creating art while maintaining a commitment to developing and producing high-quality artwork. Her skills include ceramic sculpture, understanding color, shape, and form, understanding production processes, and the ability to change ideas into 3-dimensional design. Online exhibitions include 5th Place (“Checkmate”), Special Merit (“Kohola”), and Special Recognition (“The Swing”) – Light, Time and Space 12th Annual International Art Competition; (“Beneath the Sea”) – Artistonish Magazine, 31st Issue; (“Whale of a Tail”) – KBM Art Gallery Juried Online Show; (“Shore Break”) – Marin Society of Artists Juried Online Fine Art Exhibit; and (“The TagAlong”) – True Beauty Juried International Group Exhibition. She also exhibits locally with the Florida art organizations and associations of which she is a member.
I have spent my life creating art and draw inspiration from my past experiences, current environment, and future goals. I don’t sketch out my ideas, they come from within. As each piece progresses, I build on or take away, step back, interpret what I see, and then alter where I think it’s needed. Sculpture is an art. It’s trial and error and experimentation. It’s frustration and joy. Each piece is one of a kind, born from my imagination and experience. It’s a craft – a set of skills that produces an original handmade work. At times, a science with unpredictable results. So many variables that result in an eye-widening spectacle or the heartbreak of a piece that didn’t quite reach its potential. I am constantly searching for the best way to adapt my ideas and turn them into inspiring artwork. If I capture a viewer’s attention to reflect upon my art for a moment I have succeeded. My goal is to create unique and creative art that speaks to who I am.
Koi Pond
The extensive breadth and excellence of the work of multitalented, multidegreed, modern Renaissance man, Dan Terry of Austin, TX is almost unfathomable.
Known for his work in film, television production, the fine arts of painting, digital 3D, interactive murals and animation, music performance, guitar design and restoration; set, film, product, and graphic design, writing (author of four books on human sexual chemistry on Amazon and several screenplays), and teaching.
His work has won national and regional awards and acclaim in Computer Animation (Siggraph Aurora Animation 1985), Fine art painting (many in juried and museum exhibitions including full election to the Pastel Society of America), Teaching (National Student Advertising Competition faculty advisor 1990, and others), acting and graphic design.
One of the pioneers in CGI 3D modeling and rendering, in recent times he’s returned to traditional media with a modern twist in the recent unveiling of two murals in the heart of Austin’s music entertainment district, one in which static painted images appear to animate as programmable LED lighting changes hue.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Witte Museum and the historic Alamo in San Antonio.
Education:
BAAS: interdisciplinary management with art direction focus, Texas State University 1984
MA photojournalism, University of Texas 1990
ABD Ph.D. mass communication/advertising, University of Texas 1996
There is magic and discovery in stepping back and seeing what is being created as it happens. The work emerges as Zen meditation. “I’ve worked many decades striving toward technical mastery, yet it’s ever surprising to see that energy on canvas shaping a vision that only emerges by the process of ‘listening’ to what the painting itself calls for along the way.” It is a journey in which the path ahead unfolds as each footprint of color lands on the painting’s ground and points the way to the next step on its path emerging into its own vision of what it will be. The process is a dance that comes together in the moment resulting in a visual with a life of its own, independent from any expected result. As a classically influenced and trained painter, my work is planned, structured, and previsualized, each work is a contemporary vision beyond mere pictorial illusion. Ultimately, while my work appears at first as diverse and even devoid of a ‘personal identifiable style” all share an unseen cosmic energy manifesting in everything. That interconnected life force energy imbues each work with a dynamism beyond the obvious pictorial subject.
Koi Pond At Cheekwood
For sixty years, Malcolm Glass has exhibited his art and photography in exhibitions across the country. His work has won dozens of awards, from honorable mention to Best of Show.
Glass’s work has been chosen for exhibitions at many galleries, including Kansas City Stockyards Gallery, Art Fluent, Red Bluff Gallery, Black Box Gallery, Northwind Art, the Hilliard Gallery, Photo Place Gallery, the O’Hanlon Art Center, and the HMVC Gallery in New York.
My images transcend the surface layer we call reality. By using double exposure and partial hand-coloring for “The Light Without” and color infrared film for “Koi Pond at Cheekwood,” I have created layers that suggest other-worldliness and magi surreality that pull the viewer into new perceptions, thought patterns, and emotions. In this way art enhances our notions of reality, giving us new worlds to explore.
Komodo Killer Dragon
Karen Safer, a native Angeleno, is an internationally exhibited, award-winning photographic artist and poet with a musical bent. Her passion for art began when she was given a camera and crayons at age three and was immersed in California’s visual language. A lifelong traveler, she has explored over 230+ countries & territories, embracing both the exotic and the unexpected. Influenced by her father’s black-and-white photography and her mother’s insatiable curiosity for knowledge and travel, her inspirations range from ancient Assyria to the conceptual works of Cindy Sherman. She began as a painter before discovering photography in college, earning a master’s degree in art (UCLA & CSULB) and building a career in design and architecture.
With 14 solo exhibitions and participation in over 800 shows, she has received more than 680 awards, including the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, PISPA, TIFA, reFocus, Global Lens, Arch Photo Awards, Exposure One, etc.. Her work has been featured in 190+ publications, such as LENS, Dodho, ArtTalk, ArtTour, One Eyeland, and Spotlight. She has exhibited in major cities worldwide, including London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, Venice, Florence, Barcelona, Budapest, Dubai, São Paulo, Seoul, Tokyo, Vienna, Zurich, New York, and Los Angeles. Her work is held in numerous collections, and she is a member of many organizations, including LAAA (825 Gallery), LACP, etc. A self-described “romantic old soul” with intellectual cravings, she navigates the digital world while remaining deeply connected to art’s timeless essence. She embraces color but venerates black and white, both realistic and abstract.
“I am a ‘romantic old soul’ with intellectual cravings now living in a Digital World.”kjs
I’ve always been an artist. My passion for art and photography began early in my teens. I embrace the natural world and man-made as well. I am influenced by everything from the ancients to Cindy Sherman, and while I embrace color, I revere black and white, realistic and abstract. I am a student of the universe, history, art, architecture, music, literature, and all the arts.
I got a camera and some crayons as a kid,
journeyed along a path in life – far from what I’d expected,
moved from youth to middle age,
did some work, had some fun, got high, got low,
and just continue doing it – never tiring of the next visual surprise.
– Life is still a mystery, after all. – kjs
My Motos: “A photographer has the whole world, big or small, to capture.” kjs
“And, wherever I am in the world, it is my favorite place!!” kjs
Kudu Blue (Grietjie Nature Reserve, S.A.)
Art has been Lydia’s passion since she was 4, providing a stable sanctuary from her crazy world as the second youngest of nine siblings. She followed her passion with formal training at Penn State (BS in Art Education) and Kutztown (MS in Education) Universities, followed by many studio classes and workshops at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and several other schools.
Professionally, Lydia was an art teacher for 34 years, spanning elementary through high school levels in districts from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Northern California, to suburban Philadelphia. She retired from her position of 20 years at Greater Latrobe Sr. High in June of 2019, where she served as department head and taught a variety of studio art and art history courses.
Lydia lives with her husband, Andy, on a small farm in Fairfield Township, Pennsylvania, spending as much time as possible painting in her studio. She has been professionally showing her work, mostly in Southwestern Pennsylvania, for the past 13 years. Lydia’s work hangs in the Special Collections of the Greater Latrobe School District and many private collections.
My work is often inspired by experiences I have while traveling. “Kudu Blue” is based on the sighting of a magnificent male kudu we came upon during a late afternoon safari drive on a trip to South Africa. The clear air and bright sunlight of that area of Kruger National Park, especially in the dry season, intensify the colors and shadows of the rocks, plants, and animals. I hoped to capture the way it highlighted this incredibly beautiful antelope.
Kurt
Los Angeles-based artist, James Frost, creates works of magical realism focusing on portraits and animals, presented in more unusual situations. James prefers to work with oils in the classical fat-over-lean style made popular by 15th-century artists. The eternal and dynamic qualities of time and space, the terrifying oceans, and the peaceful mystery of forests are strong inspirations for him.
As an emerging artist in 2023, James continues to advance his craft, venturing into the realm of abstract art, though using similar, classical techniques. His storytelling ability through painting can be described as literal and genuine, and much can be interpreted from his unique designs. His subjects are usually solitary and bold, leading the viewer on an unexpected journey.
I paint my favorite people and animals in ways that I haven’t seen before. Sometimes the story pops into my imagination, other times it percolates for a while. My work has been described as literal and genuine; there is much to interpret from my solitary subjects in their unique environments.
I work with oil on canvas in the classic, fat-over-lean method. I am naturally slow, I love the smooth texture of oils and I prefer structure, so this style suits me. I plan on remaining in my oily comfort zone, creating improved pieces until I’m dead, and even then I’ll keep painting in the Great Beyond. I will get more done without earthly distractions like eating or cleaning my brushes. Time is a construct anyway; I’m both a dead and a living painter in the multiverses. I am the Schrödinger’s Cat of artists.
Küvvet (Pool)
Arda Ergin was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He moved to the United States of America to pursue his education in illustration at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. After finishing his undergraduate, he got his Master of Fine Arts from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Ergin currently resides in Philadelphia, USA.
Arda Ergin, also known as Baba Yoqi, born and raised in Istanbul Turkey, tries to depict the world around him. Inspired by the cultural background of growing up in Istanbul, Ergin aims to mesh his cultural heritage and his representational painting background in his work. Arda is interested in human interaction, whether that be with another living being, an object, or one’s surroundings. Ergin uses his practice to convey his inner challenges and emotions in his life-sized oil paintings and ink drawings.
La Caida De Las Torres Gemelas
Sixto R. Jeannot Vélez, San Juan, PR, 1972
Painter, draftsman, installer, graphic artist. He studied Drawing and Painting at the Central High School of Fine Arts in Santurce, P.R. with Professor Gabriel Cruz Díaz. Between the years 1993 and 1997, he obtained an Associate Degree in Graphic Arts at Atlantic College in Guaynabo, P.R.From 2012 to the present, he has participated in various art workshops of the PROA program of the MAPR and in Local and International Calls such as the NFAA Miami Florida, obtaining an Honorable Mention in 1990. He is currently studying at ICPR Junior College in the town of Bayamón, to become a Digital Graphic Designer with a concentration in Web Design. He is a very creative artist who combines in his graphic arts, drawings, paintings, and installations the use of Adobe Photoshop as an indispensable tool for his creations in his Surrealist, Expressionist, and Neorealist movements with a high degree of chromaticism.
The art of fantasy or fantastic art invites the creation of retrospective worlds with new concepts or paths. To express this discourse I have adopted, I use newspaper paper and add an explosion of chromaticism that presents images within the surrealist, expressionist, and neorealist movements. My schizophrenia, as well as self-management, lead my work towards tenebrist expressions. These works transform into simplistic surrealism through which I invite the viewer to question and play with the piece. They are at the forefront of the new challenges that lie ahead.
La Cima Del Exito
The daughter of parents from Madrid and the third of six siblings, from a very young age she learned to negotiate and set limits. Skills that helped her in her professional adult life to make a career in the business world.
After a long career in the communication sector, she decided to return to her creative roots and resume painting as a means of expression, which later led her to the need to write, plots that she develops from a point in the south of Spain.
Currently, she is completely dedicated to giving free rein to her imagination through painting. Transmitting in each painting of her her emotions and her state of mind trying to give a little color and joy to the world around her.
Through the canvases I manage to express my deepest thoughts and emotions, trying to capture everything that would be impossible to express with a few words. That is why cubism, as I like to call the style of my creations, is a freestyle with a wild and indomitable soul, but at the same time a healer where the greatest reward is being able to reach my audience and transmit the accumulation of sensations so special that it contains each frame.