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Artist Profiles -
Volume 22
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Reed Nest II - Acrylic on Canvas 16'' x 16''
Mark Ward has two feet outstretched; one remains in England, while the other is firmly planted in Africa. With amazing invention and a product designer’s sense for construction, Ward paints a fascinating and surreal world for our delight. His paintings are bright and clean with an unusual cast of characters. Insects, birds, and even elephants are rendered with a plastic sheen that is illustrative yet sculptural. Ward has a dazzling sense of rendering environments, we find ourselves in a jungle or forest, plains or mangrove, with all the trappings of an industrial origin. One may recognize the familiar flora within Ward’s environment, plastic tubing, pipe cleaners and cardboard sprout and arch toward the edges of the picture. He will often complement sketchbook studies by building sculptures out of real materials and found objects, lighting them like a stage.
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Artist Profiles -
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Hot - Oil on wood 24'' x 32''
Sweeping movements and vivacious colors invite the eye to participate in the engaging visual dance that is the experience of viewing one of Marco Antonio Didu’s masterful oil paintings. Playful yet serious, complex yet refreshingly uncomplicated, his works are a thought-provoking study in contrasts. Employing a refined palette of expertly mixed colors, Didu’s paintings are characterized by an irrepressible effervescence and perceptive use of line and shape.
Working in both representational and abstracted styles, Didu continuously explores the possibilities of rendering the human figure. Representational, almost classicizing paintings display his adept hand, while simplified arrangements of intriguing shapes reveal his experimental side. Deceptively simple at first glance, Didu’s abstracted, almost minimalistic paintings produce a harmonious, yet asymmetrical balance that lends the paintings their musical quality. And upon more meticulous inspection, Didu’s paintings reveal themselves as new interpretations of figurative representation.
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Artist Profiles -
Volume 22
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The Light at the end of the tunnel - Digital Photography 49'' x 35.5''
Refusing to accept one all-encompassing label, artist Tiziana Borghese considers her practice a hybrid of painting, photography and installation. Her beautiful digital images, which she terms “photographic paintings,” incorporate a breadth of mediums and influences. Although shot with a camera, each photograph is like a painting without pigment, with multiple artistic elements drawn from her multidisciplinary focus. Ambiguous in its imagery and interpretation, it alludes to a narrative hidden just below the surface. Sometimes, digitally altered, the photographs draw from Surrealist vocabulary, as well as contemporary issues, to produce a dreamlike vision that causes the viewer to ponder the image before him and thus question his trust of the natural world.
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Artist Profiles -
Volume 22
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c-2-09 - Acrylic on Canvas 29'' x 24''
Rie Osogoe’s lithe, layered compositions revitalize Modernism’s fixation with color and shape, giving geometric abstraction a fresh face. In Osogoe’s acrylic paintings, angular planes of color dynamically pile up, one on top of another, like note cards or swatches artfully stacked on a table. Osogoe experiments with arrangements and relationships, tilting shapes on their side, playing austere hues off against warm ones, or allowing fields of color to slip off the canvas’ edge.
Influenced by Warhol and Pop Art, Osogoe is particularly attuned to the rhythms and color schemes present in contemporary culture.
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Artist Profiles -
Volume 22
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Inner being of Complex Man - Acrylic on Canvas 60'' x 36''
Creating wondrous and arresting images, Bill Watson is an artist whose explorations take him to the very edge of knowledge and experience. Bridging the scientific and spiritual worlds, Watson works within both, connecting deeply to the folk tales and beliefs of indigenous American peoples, yet having taught university level chemistry after gaining a PhD. His scientific research took him to many remote parts of the world—he spent much time in the Andes and in Tibet, meeting with shamans and herbal doctors to share the sources of their preparations.
There are traces of this inner spiritual world evident throughout Watson’s work. He uses intense primary and secondary colors with dappled brushstrokes, often employing strong black lines to delineate forms, create spirit beasts or subdivide animals and people into inner sections. The paintings vary greatly between works as Watson tailors his style to the demands of the subject matter.
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