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A Photo Journal: Personal Work and Inspirations

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Curator’s Monday 150

Rafael Sottolichio (b.1972, Chile/Canada) - Engloutis

Born in Santiago, Chile, Rafael Sottolichio immigrated to Montreal at a very young age. Since completing his studies in Santiago and in Montreal, he has been exhibiting his painting in numerous galléries and showrooms throughout Quebec. (src. District MTL)

© All images courtesy the artist

[more Rafael Sottolichio | Curator’s Monday with fer1972]

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Thank you, artchipel! Sottolichio is fantastic…

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Cécile Desserle. Fench artist  from Montpellier who painted the Emma’s pictures in “La vie d’Adele”

http://www.ceciledesserle.com/16.html

https://www.facebook.com/Ceciledesserle

http://www.midilibre.fr/2013/06/03/la-vie-d-adele-sous-les-pinceaux-de-cecile,709469.php

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Finding Shade Under Sevilla’s Metropol Parasol

To view more photos of the Metropol Parsol, explore the Metropol Parasol location page and browse the #metropolparasol hashtag.

The Metropol Parasol provides a modern aesthetic against the medieval backdrop of Sevilla, Spain’s old quarter. Arguably the world’s largest wooden structure, it towers 28.5 meters (93.5 feet) over La Plaza de la Encarnación. Inside, one can visit a farmer’s market, archaeological museum, bars, restaurants and an elevated plaza providing beautiful panoramic views of the city. Most importantly, the stunning structure of interlaced panels (supported by concrete and steel) provides the people in the sweltering capitol of Andalucía with a precious resource: 5,000 square meters (53,819 square feet) of shade.

Completed in 2011, no two parts of the Metropol Parasol are the same. It stirs conversation among residents and tourists alike, and is described differently by nearly every person who sees it. Whether one compares German architect Jürgen Mayer-Hermann’s intricate design to waffles or mushrooms (one popular local nickname for the structure is Las Setas de la Encarnación or “The mushrooms of La Plaza de la Encarnción”) many appreciate the six connected parasols that replaced what was previously a car park.

Another fun fact? The structure in the center of hot and sticky Andalucía also claims an additional record—as the world’s largest structure held together by glue.

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Artist Profile: David Whittaker

About: 

David Whittaker was born in Cornwall and is currently based in Newquay. He is self-taught, has exhibited widely and won the first prize at The National Open Art Competition in 2011.

In 2011 Whittaker was also an invited artist at ‘The Discerning Eye’ Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London. He has also shown with The St Ives Society of Artists, The Lock Up, London, in The House of Fairytales at Millennium, in an NSA Exhibition at the Royal West of England Academy, at the Hyde Park Gallery, London and in 2005 he was selected to show at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Whittaker was elected a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists in 2009 and in 1998 he was listed in the ‘Dictionary of Arts in Britain since 1945’ by David Buckman.

I love his painterly style mixed with his hyperrealism. Even though his work is more loose than mine, I would like to head in this direction of collage. Explore new, loose techniques.

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Artist Profile: Ashley Mackenzie

Mackenzie's illustrations go beyond the page. I like her style and how she tends to focus more on one thing than the other. I especially enjoy the images of soft blues, greens, and reds.  Also, she incorporates illustrations on how we process things in our brains. 

About:

Ashley Mackenzie is an artist and illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario. She was born in Victoria, BC and grew up between Vancouver, BC and Edmonton, AB. After studying online for a year through AAU in San Francisco, CA she moved to Toronto to pursue a degree in Illustration at OCADU.

Statement:

Though she loves the challenge of creating complex conceptual illustrations and finding new ways to navigate ideas visually she also enjoys making concept art and decorative illustration. When not drawing she can be found reading, playing videogames or thinking about her next project.

Because she explains what each piece means, or gives it a little narrative, we don't need a long description of her work. 

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Artist Profile: Jeannie Lynn Paske

Illustrator, Paske, creates a world of her own by illustrating these lovely, hair-like creatures. There is something about them that I love. This could be because the creatures remind me of my childhood and reading "Where the Wild Things Are," and relating these images to that book.

The Artwork of Jeannie Lynn Paske

There is a world tucked away behind this one. An old world made up of endless fields,distant hills and timeworn cliffs. A place where the sun is always setting. A land in which extinct slow-moving monsters and elegant gentle-faced creatures of all shapes and sizes reside. Delicately balancing their hope with despair. Reminiscent of long departed dreams and uncollected thoughts. Time stands still here, so as to let the residents gaze in solitude upon the vast, richly textured skies. Forever in search of a place to better sit and watch their world pass them by.

This statement describes her world perfectly. Creating her work in Portland, Oregon, she is currently finishing her book of these wonderful creatures. 

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Artist Profile: Patrick Bremer

Collage has always been a favorite of mine since I use it throughout my own work. After finding Patrick Bremer, It’s nice to see his collage work being incorporated with his drawings and paintings. One can see his hand throughout all and it doesn’t look like a separate person with each media. I chose the collaged pieces above because I am attracted to the color, layout (design), and the imagery that emerges from the placement of the collaged pieces of paper. 

About:

Patrick Bremer was born in Brighton in 1982 and studied painting at Wimbledon College of Art in London. His work predominantly focuses on the figure and portraiture, in oils or collage. In 2007 he won the DeLazlo Foundation Award for his portraits at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition at The Mall Galleries in London.

Patrick lives and works in Berlin.

This is just some background info, however I didn’t find an artist statement. Is it needed? He does mainly portraits and her emerges the portraits from the page with cut paper, paint, and even charcoal. 

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Artist Profil: Dima Rebus

These pieces by Dima Rebus are very mysterious and keep me guessing. She has incorporated text in some of her work, which works quite well, and her watercolor treatment is appropriate also. I’m attracted to her fragmentation and use of light to create deep contrast to keep the viewer guessing.

While researching her, I found she lives in Moscow, Russia and does illustrations, drawings, and paintings but doesn’t describe her work. Therefore I see these pieces as they are and don’t attach them to much. Some evoke certain emotions, but that is all. 

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Artist Profile: Melissa Murillo (Meyko)

Normally an artist is looking a specific details upon the face, however, Meyko concentrates on theses elaborate, patterned, yet hairy, designs. She overlays them amongst skulls, the face, and even uses them as hair pieces. The are quite wonderful.

Statement:

Meyoko fearlessly attempts to dissect the depths of human nature itself and she does it with surgical precision. Her work often incorporates emotions such as melancholia, vulnerability, the fear of abandonment yet she confronts them with dogmas such as utopianism, heroism or humanism to achieve a narrative dialogue of intense poetry.

The statement above is a little vague but after reading more into her, she practices with black ink and recently, gold. She has talent, I’m just not sure she knows what her work is about yet. That’s okay with me. 

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Artist Profile: Sean Mahan

The paintings above seem to mingle with the wood panel it has been painted on. I love how the wood grain acts as a texture through the piece, sometimes giving it space and sometimes works with the skin of the figure. 

A Statement About The Paintings…

This series of paintings by Sean Mahan is part of a larger series of figurative paintings on wood. The paintings are social-realist graphite renderings on oak and birch, colored with thin washes of acrylic. They depict a sense of wonder at the simple inherent sweetness of the human character and its conflict with structures of power and control. 

Between the statement above, along with his work, website, and showings of his work, I can see Sean Mahan is a hard working fellow. He gives a good description above and the viewer can relate the work to his statement quite well. 

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Artist Profile: Pierce Hargan

Although Pierce Hargan has different styles from each illustration he is working on, these illustrations from his Growth series are what got me interest in him in the first place. All the little details within his landscapes seem to become abstract, where my eye is string to piece the imagery together as one whole piece. Lastly, I love how the space is create with the different thickness of the detail. Absolutely gorgeous. 

Growth

Growth is a series that developed over the span of six months that grew from an exercise on spontaneous, free-hand drawings. After every day, I would scan the progress and put it up on my blog where people could follow the”growth” of the drawings until I was finished. Every piece was drawn without the use of reference, and grew into a personal landscape in which I was able to express myself while following what the individual pieces asked of me. Over time similar motifs began to show themselves in which the pieces could interact with each other, culminating into a unified body of work.

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Artist Profile: Jane Kenoyer

About:

She has shown work at the Roq La Rue Gallery, Stremmel Gallery, and the Sheppard Fine Art Gallery. Her current work of highly detailed portraits reflect real and imagined memories as well as connections to her families’ oral history and story telling. Kenoyer’s great-grandmother Pearl is the origin of why she depicts the female figure in her paintings.

 Statement:

For Kenoyer these connections spill over into the present and ultimately speak to the idea of human experience. She recognizes that these unique memories and moments in time cannot be recreated or replaced, they can only be re-imagined. 

Looking at the fine detail of each piece, I definitely get memory. Her technique is as if she has airbrushed the facial features of her women figures. This attracts to my eye and also plays a trick to what is real, or if anything is real at all.

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Artist Profile: Caras Iount

The images above are a mixture of the creations and subjects Caras Iount chooses to work on. I love the mysterious haze, or fog, throughout each work, as well as the dull, monotone-like color choice throughout. The hint of color focuses my eye to what's important, and in some cases, what may be off in the distance. 

Statement:

"…so much of my work shows depictions of fall and winter and my mechanics entail several hues  of blues and whites. Most people  when considering dreams would think of good positive dreams, and I like to think I capture that in my work. I also seem, not necessarily what one would see as negative, but possibly a dream that one could not quite understand or may feel alone."

The description describes perfectly what Iount is currently working on and us, the viewer, can even learn how he does the images above. Iount considerers himself a PHOTO MECHANIC, and he is at your service to either teach you or even create for you.

Check him out at: http://www.carasdesign.com/#!/Services

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Since we are looking at toy designs, here is another way to make something personal and custom, glasses. Love the design and the hand-crafted process put into each pair. 

OLIVER PEOPLES // OUR ELEMENTS AND MATERIALS

- The Process of Perfection

Production CADs denote how and where each frame will be cut from sheets of custom-designed acetate

Acetate sheets are cut by machine, specific to the shape of each frame

Extracting the raw frame shape from its acetate sheet

The manual, hand filing process carves raw angles into each prototype…

… Followed by further shaping and refining by hand

Acetate frame fronts and their corresponding temples

A metal hinge is fused into acetate for integrity of strength; no adhesives or glues are ever used in Oliver Peoples products

Using a lens pattern, the frame and lenses are matched

Along with the most advanced machinery in the world, hand tools like calipers and files are still utilized to create our eyewear

For a limited-edition product like the Sir Series Vintage capsule, the temple caps are hand-tooled with our signature designs

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Artist Profile: Agnes-Cecile

I have posted about Agnes-Cecile before, but I looked deeper into her work and I was astonished to find she was self-taught. The use of color, combined with bold lifework is quite lovely. I also appreciate the fact she is an independent artist, self taught, and is showing her work at galleries. 

About:

Silvia Pelissero was born in 1991, Rome. She is an Italian painter best known as agnes-cecile. She went in an art high school in Rome, than she has continued as a self-taught.

Even though there isn't a statement bout her current work, her "about" section is enough for me to be impressed. 

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Artist Profile: Sam Weber

The images above all seem a little different from each other; however, the soft, smooth details to each one is why I am so attracted to these illustrations. Color is added in where needed to amplify light and creating drama within the figures. Lastly, the expressions on the faces, especially the bottom two, are wonderful. It can be hard to capture certain emotions within works of art. 

ABOUT

"I was born in Alaska, and grew up in Deep River Ontario, Canada. After attending the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary, I moved to New York to pursue illustration and attend graduate school at The School of Visual Arts. I’m married to Jillian Tamaki."

"The Uninvited:

DVD Package for the rerelease of Lewis Allen's 1944 classic The Uninvited.

"Lolita"

Unpublished contribution to Lolita: Story of a Cover Girl, a collection of essays and new covers addressing Nabokov's classic novel.

"The Barrow"

Unpublished artwork for The Barrow, an upcoming novel by Mark Smylie set in the world of his Artesia comics.

The simple descriptions are great for the viewer to know what each piece is about any why it was made; however, Weber cold use a more in depth descriptions on how he makes his work.