Lively and Lonely - Computergraphic painting 29'' x 20''

Japanese artist, Tetsuo Takashima's, intense study of the possibilities of the visual line through computer graphic technology has yielded unique images which are also as much about the space between the lines. It is through this skilled manipulation of space and the aesthetic gesture of the line that the true pathos, humor and sensitivity of his work comes through. Tetsuo pays close attention to shading as well, and at times the images can be busy with a world of colors and shapes, but whether he is conjuring ocean waves or wildlife with softly meandering lines, or the stress of contemporary life with a jumble of colors and jittery shapes, he remains committed to presenting the subject matter in its deepest expression.

Though his images vary in degree between abstract and representational styles, the unique spin on his subject matter always comes through fully in his pieces.

Homage to O`Keefe 2 - Oil on Canvas 16'' x 16'' With her paintings that are vividly allegorical in nature, lCUEVAS deliberately blurs superficial distinctions between skin, flora and stone, and generates a holistic sensibility which speaks of an artistic intensity and deep commitment to sensory experiences. lCUEVAS also develops a narrative strategy in her work, and her composition regularly points to larger metaphorical issues. Her concerns are informed by her parochial elementary school upbringing in addition to her personal, philosophical and aesthetic explorations. One theme that she explores is the mythology of humankind's fall from grace and expulsion from the Garden of Eden, for which the biblical character Eve was unfairly blamed. As a result, the visually lush shapes of fruit, forbidden or not, figure largely in her works.
lCUEVAS' brushwork is confident and free, yet also disciplined, which matches her strong composition and skilled arrangement of forms. Like Georgia O'Keefe, lCUEVAS uses the natural world as a starting point through which to put forth her aesthetic and personal ideas.

David LaBella in his studio Whether executed on an epic or intimate scale, in soft or harsh style, landscape photography, at its best, reveals new ways of seeing what has been in front of us all along. Often this genre privileges wide-open vistas of inaccessible wonders, but in Connecticut-born and based photographer David LaBella’s work, beautiful revelations occur on the smallest of scales. Mindful of both the American landscape tradition and its evolution in seemingly limitless space, and the more restrained scope of European landscape art, LaBella synthesizes the two tendencies eloquently.

As he puts it, his photographs feature “painstakingly rendered, visually balanced and composed images of details and large-scale scenes drawn from the natural landscape.” That relationship between vast landscapes and their lush details, between the immense forest and its layered carpet of fallen leaves, lends LaBella’s crisp photographs degrees of texture and subtlety that portrayals of nature unfortunately often lack. He lets us imagine, feel and create the larger environment based on small, gentle snippets of its intimate details. Whether his colorful compositions portray the surfaces and tones of gleaming rocks and shells on a beach, the lush petals of a flower, or the moist leaves yellowing on a trail, he gives us perfectly executed details from which we’re invited to extrapolate the surrounding landscape.

In addition to the incredible agency he offers viewers in imagining the scene outside his frame, LaBella confidently eschews markers of depth and proportion.