mixed media art

Melinda Crider, mysterious mythological characters, saints, hybrids

Mysterious mythological characters, saints, hybrids and goddesses underline my work. Other images formed from dreams to realities create the symbolism embedded within my figurative sculptures. I began my formal education at the Atlanta College of Art, focusing on painting and sculpture. In the Apprenticeship Program at Callanwolde Fine Arts Center I began an in-depth study …

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Lannie Hart, exploring female sexuality & empowerment

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Lannie Hart is a sculptor and painter born in Jacksonville, Florida. Raised in a family of creative women, Hart was exposed as a child to needle crafts, painting and the possibilities of making art from found objects. These inspirational women had a major impact on her development as an artist. After graduating from Virginia Commonwealth …

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Sigmund Abeles, expressive & psychological figurative painting

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Sigmund Abeles was born 1934 in New York City and raised in South Carolina. His work deals with the expressive and psychological aspects of the figure; an art focused on the life cycle. Drawing informs all of his work. Abeles works in pastels, oils and the graphic media as well as sculpture. Currently Professor Emeritus …

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Chris Roberts-Antieau, NEVER give up on your dream

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Chris Roberts-Antieau – textile and mixed media artist If is one thing I could hope to say to all of you, it is to NEVER give up on your dream. I was a C and D student school, I had to repeat the ninth grade, I was not recommended for college (I didn’t go..) and …

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Gregory Grenon, representation of pure emotion, oils on glass

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I lived in Detroit, Michigan with my mother and father and three sisters for twenty-five years. When I left there, I was a working artist in what is known as the Cass Corridor, where artists made art and did not talk about art. I then lived in Chicago, Illinois and worked as an assistant printer …

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Robyn Cochran-Ragland, lively pastel life drawings

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. I am forever pulled by the simplicity and complexity of the human figure. I attempt to capture a pose quickly and fluently. The figure and facial likeness are so close, so personal and I am so very aware of them, that I feel I must work within their confines again and again. I strive …

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Deborah Bowe, the complex frailty of the human soul

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ARTIST STATEMENT Creating art is my recollection of fragments of emotions, moods and feelings that are transferred and visualized onto canvas. I portray the beauty and the complex frailty of the human soul in my paintings. My paintings are often inspired by women of divine origins, courageous heroines, literature, poetry, nature, music and everything that …

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Inez Storer, an imagined surreal journey

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My work usually has an aspect of implied history, both through the use of the figure as well as objects that are a part of my “home” collections. The figures have a tendency to be slightly off balance, or passing from one reality to another. The absurd is of great interest, usually through the use …

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