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Thierry Fazian in his studio
The wondrous existentialist symbolism of Thierry Fazian’s mixed media paintings and collages owes its spectacular hybridity, in part, to the place where he has lived his whole life: the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. As he puts it: “The place where I'm living is a crossroad full of beauty and paradox.” That statement proves a fitting description of his art, too, which melds a series of artistic influences, stories and media into mystical visions and the occasional abstraction. Trying to enumerate the various facets of his work is virtually impossible, so complex is the network of influences and allusions woven through each piece, but two dominant styles and iconographies are unmistakable: European surrealism and Caribbean mysticism. The bright and color-saturated worlds Fazian depicts are populated by elongated human silhouettes, many adorned with drum-shaped heads after certain Caribbean folk traditions. It’s a world of surreal desert landscapes, floating orbs of light and astrological symbolism. Bold blues and greenish yellows dominate most pieces, suggesting a cool, infinite depth, and glowing heat. Fazian applies his acrylic paints in even and smooth brushstrokes, creating a sleek surface that he then embosses and embeds with other objects and media.
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Communication of Yesterday - Oil on Canvas 36'' x 48''
David Jough’s unique paintings present human faces as their own multidimensional canvases. He deconstructs facial features, while retaining their basic parts, and rearranges them as if to stir up and reveal the life within. In the process, he re-imagines faces as creatures unique to his imagined world. In David's work, faces can sprout musical instruments or landscapes, or become abstract investigations into form and color.
David is interested in exploring the many dimensions of human identity. The way a sculptor works with clay to form his material into art, he sculpts with color and forms, in a surrealist style, as he re-mythologizes portraiture according to psychological states instead of social status. His work reflects society’s current fascination with body alteration and stretching the definition of what it means to be human. These paintings seem to postulate that if technology can redefine the human with its own specific scientific tools, then so too can art, with the instruments at its disposal: the primal tools of color, imagery and especially imagination.
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Trapped 2 - Digital Print on Canvas 24'' x 35''
Drawing on imagery that connects to ideas surrounding family, collective memory and abandoned spaces, Goodash creates works with poignant, often haunting juxtapositions. He has developed his own technique by which he collages or draws on a surface and then sets up a photographic composition, a process he calls ‘Photodrawing’. As a soldier during Israel’s 1973 war, Goodash happened upon a photo album in a recently abandoned Egyptian house. The intimate images of the memories and lives of his ‘enemies’ deeply affected him—it inspired years later his ‘Memories’ series in which he collages isolated family photographs onto the barren walls of deserted houses. It is the photographic prints that truly place the work. Goodash has a rare talent for framing and composition, drawing the viewer to the flecks of rust on corrugated iron, or the beauty of the irregular pattern in brickwork.
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