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Arthalion Nimlothmán

It’s my DnD character, Art!! He’s an elf ranger with a tragic backstory!! How fun!!

If anyone interested in actually seeing the character sheet for this guy, I’d be happy to share. But I based him off of Ciel Phantomhive (Black Butler) and Link (specifically from Breath of the Wild). His name is representative of both characters: Arthalion (Noble Hero) Nimlothmán (Tree Spirit). There wasn’t a direct translation for “phantom” or “ghost” so I settled for spirit.

I find it really funny how well the personalities of these two characters lined up, espcially in regards to the tragic backstories!

And this is another one of those projects where ince I got motivated I literally was drawing in the middle of my statistics class!

So yeah! I’d love to hear what you think, and I’ll be happy to share the character sheet if you want to hear about it. I haven’t been able to use him in a campaign, since we haven’t started playing yet, and this will be my first time playing DnD, so I used one of the online character sheet programs. Idk, but it was fun!!

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Art[squared] Spotlight: Douglas Miller

To celebrate the 5th anniversary of LVA’s “Art [squared]” event to benefit Children’s Fine Art Classes, we will feature five local artists who are contributing 24” x 24” paintings to be sold at the event through a Silent Auction. Today we highlight Douglas Miller:

Douglas Miller’s approach to art entered the Louisville consciousness subtly, evolving from handcrafted ear X-tacy signage to the mostly-dimensional animals familiar today to visitors of Cellar Door Chocolates, Copper & Kings American Brandy and Edenside Gallery, as well as gallerists from Asheville to Quebec.  

His current project finds him at U of L’s Cressman Center downtown achieving success by examining failure with a new exhibition he’s calling Title (strikethrough). Miller says these drawings explore themes of “indeterminacy, failed projects, and the complications of representation. This series is informed by preliminary drawings, marginalia, and written notations that are inherent in the formulation processes of both visual and literary compositions.” Miller was inspired by Russian author Nikolai Gogol’s unfinished 1842 novel Dead Souls “to conflate literary theories with visual representation” with his drawings. Compelled by process as a topic, Miller continues, “The Title (strikethrough) series presents fragmentary images, texts, and digressive narratives that demonstrate intermediaries between propositional states and reconciled concepts … ultimately finding interchanges between the methods of representation and what is represented, this series underscores the ruptures in the production of meaning.”

This literary digression is a turn down a fresh alley for Miller. He says, “Modeling this series of drawings on methodologies typically constrained to literary texts, I intend to identify parallels between generating drawings and the formations of literary texts. Central to this thesis and the series of drawings is an emphasis on the disruptions of meaning and the digressive characteristics that adversely occur in the development of projects and how these function to create a more diverse, complicated, and ultimately uncertain interpretation.” “In this way, the Title (strikethrough) series demonstrates a fictive series of narratives that are preparatory and indeterminate in anticipation of a larger conclusive work that is never reconciled.”

Miller’s MFA exhibition Title (strikethrough) is on view April 27 through August 4, 2018 at The University of Louisville's Cressman Center, with an opening reception April 27 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. He will also have work on exhibit at Lenihan Sotheby's International Realty in May of this year. Education: BFA, University of Louisville, 2009                              Scroll down for more images Website: www.douglassmillerart.com Facebook: facebook.com/douglasmillerart/ Instagram: @douglasmillerart

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Art[squared] Spotlight: Ewa Perz

To celebrate the 5th Anniversary of LVA’s Art [squared] Event to Benefit Children’s Fine Art Classes, we will feature five local artists who are contributing 24” x 24” paintings to be sold at the event through a Silent Auction. Today we highlight Ewa Perz:

Art isn’t easy. It demands commitment and effort over time - in a word: passion. When one listens to Ewa Perz talk about her studio practice, there can be no doubt that there is great drive and energy driving her work, but it also reads in the images and their sensuous color and texture. The loose applications of marks that belie the discipline underlying each decision.

“I paint for myself. I paint for my family, I paint to cope with my emotions, and I paint to fill up an empty room. But most importantly, I paint for the color. I see a world defined by its color, whereas others see it defined by shape. To me, color is what bares the essence of an object, and that is what I seek to portray. Forget about the strict lines of realism or the literal composition of reality, instead, by painting with a loose hand and abbreviated images, color is what comes forth as the main element and takes over my paintings.”

“Painting is my journey through life. It is an exhausting, exhilarating, and frustrating task. Colors have faded and gone wrong, proportions have morphed, and canvases have warped, only to be stretched again. Yet whatever I go through, whatever obstacle that comes in my way, I simply cannot stop loving it. Painting is my passion, it is my love, and it is my life.

Although Perz counts Joseph Sargent and Henri Matisse as influences, she has studied with Felo Garcia in Costa Rica and David Laffel in Santa Fe, both of whom she calls, “contemporary masters”.

Her paintings are currently on display in Revelry Gallery Boutique, Tim Faulkner’s Gallery, European Splendor, Anne Tower Gallery (Lexington), Art on the Levee (Cincinnati), and Galerie Municipale (France). Her paintings have been featured in galleries in US, as well as Mexico, and France.

Perz’s one-person show, Water Strokes, was at Revelry Gallery in November 2017. In May 2018, she will be the first artist to exhibit in the new AC Hotel when it opens in the NuLu neighborhood in Louisville.

 Hometown: Gdansk, Poland Education: Masters in Plant Physiology Website: http://www.ewaperzgallery.com Gallery Representation: Revelry Gallery, (Louisville) Ann Tower Gallery, (Lexington), Gallery Municipale, (Antibes, France)

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Written by Keith Waits. Entire contents copyright © 2018 Louisville Visual Art. All rights reserved.

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Art [squared] Spotlight: Billy Hertz

To celebrate the 5th Anniversary of LVA’s Art [squared] Event to Benefit Children’s Fine Art Classes, we will feature five local artists who are contributing 24” x 24” paintings to be sold at the event through a Silent Auction. Today we spotlight Billy Hertz:

“My paintings of landscapes have become far removed from any traditional definition of that genre; yet they still maintain a slender but sustaining thread to the concept of representational image. I paint "ariel" views of farmland - the furrows of plowed fields are sometimes rendered as transparent textures.” 

Hertz has exhibited all over the United States, and in Germany, Italy, and Russia, and his work is included in several private collections. “My fascination with the dark, fertile earth of cultivated fields led to loose interpretations of the landscapes; this manipulation into near abstraction by unorthodox perspectives i.e. Clouds and fields occupying the same plane and geometric shapes are built from layers of oil washes.” 

“The determined physicality of the color fields is accentuated by a collage element, so that the terrain is rendered with a dash of topical relief that introduces a new element to my vocabulary.” “The blurring of naturalism and non-representational in the imagery obfuscates the intention enough to create some mystery in a subject usually thought of as straightforward (the landscape) and hopefully seduces my viewers into completing the narrative for themselves.”

In addition to his own inestimable work as an artist, Hertz has been a gallery operator for more than 20 years, and was an early pioneer in transforming the near east downtown area of Louisville, KY that is now known as the NuLu district. Galerie Hertz now operates in the Smoketown neighborhood of Louisville.

Hometown: Boynton Beach, Florida

Education: BFA in Ceramics, Florida State University, 1972; 1974 Post Graduate, Painting, Florida Atlantic University Painting, University of Louisville, Post Graduate Painting

Website: www.galeriehertz.com

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