PAULA J TYMCHUK
CAROLINE VALENTI
Caroline Valenti creates simple, alluring photographs that vividly depict an altered state of existence. Her images convey more information than would be expected from a still photograph, often hinting through the subject’s expression or posture to nebulous events not directly visible in
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Form and light are paramount in the alluring images captured by Paula J. Tymchuk, who describes herself as a multidisciplinary artist, storyteller, and filmmaker. She works in a variety of media, including photography, paint, and film, to investigate and represent the world around us through “beauty, grace, and color.” Focusing on the way forms—particularly human bodies—are affected by light and shadow, she renders the everyday as unfamiliar, prompting viewers to intuitively reconsider the resulting figures.
For this Canadian artist, art serves as a universal language; she strives to “find simplicity and raw human emotion and to inspire people to look beyond what is presented to them.” Paula J. Tymchuk has received a number of artistic awards in both fine art and film. She has recently published a book of photographs entitled “Freedom within the Skies.” Which is currently available on her website http://www.roguestormarts.com.
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the frame. Light plays a crucial role, illuminating and occasionally blurring—without digital enhancement—telltale features of a given scene, adding life and depth to the captured moment. This emphasis on light is not surprising given the artist’s background. Born and raised in Perth, Australia, Valenti’s most profound childhood memories involve “soft lines from the sun, the harsh lines of the land, and the reflections from the ocean.” She now operates in both film and digital media, and her work has received numerous awards and been featured in various exhibitions and publications throughout Australia and the United States.
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JOLANTA PATEREK
L'OR
Jolanta Paterek’s mixed-media creations can be intimidating. Their compounds of material and found objects contort outward, boldly confronting the viewer, who may find him- or herself lesser in size and pure presence than the work of art itself. And yet the viewer is drawn in by caliginous tones and enclaves of shadow. Twisted human forms and segments evince themselves, often not without a hint of blood. A theme that seems to obsess Paterek is what it is to be a
There is something about Québécoise L’OR’s pastels that transfix the eye. Fluid layers of fine, semi-translucent colors create an intense and vibrant palette, but with a lilting quality, an unexpected fragility. There is an emotional transparency in L’OR’s work that, however subtle, is unmistakable. A portrait artist working exclusively with live models, she succeeds in communicating her subject’s
A Woman, a man or a human #7 Mixed Media 48”x 90” x 48”
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spiritual temperature through gossamer layers of color. The texture of her chosen medium, on canvas or velvet paper, combined with her impressionistic use of light creates a sometimes lusty, sometimes brilliantly agonizing effect.
L’OR studied art and graphic design at Collége Marie-Vic-torin and Concordia University. She has shown widely in Eastern Canada, the United States, and France and has won several competitions. L’OR is president of L’Association l’Art en Soi in Quebec and is involved extensively with the pastel movement in Canada and abroad. Website: http://www.louiseprouleau.com
human, to exist as something with an undeniable physical reality in the world, a body, a mystery containing within its recesses something unseeable and haunting, a spirit trapped but transcendent.
Paterek holds an MFA in mixed media from Georgia Southern University. She is currently a full-time instructor at Georgia Perimeter College and has been included in Who’s Who Among American Teachers. She has given outside lectures on topics ranging from women’s art from a historic standpoint to contemporary trends in art.
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