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Gregor Gaida’s Sculptures

artqmagazine — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:01:36 +0000

Gaida’s efforts to convey a story begin and end the moment he starts the execution. An execution that goes beyond the action of creation, it’s almost like working blindly, like knowing the outcome before tracing the blueprint. In his work “Teilen und Herrschen” or Divide and Conquer, Gaida’s story is told in two pieces, two figures that deliver a sense of fury and humility at the same time…..

Gaida’s work can be found on www.gregor-gaida.de

Cubism for Jazz: Martel Chapman’s Paintings

artqmagazine — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:50:10 +0000

Heavily influenced by music, Martel Chapman creates a world driven by jazz musicians and musical instruments. In a great effort to Rescue a traditional style, Martel uses Cubism as his basis to develop his complex compositions and deliver a musical atmosphere with his portraits.

Martel’s Paintings can be found here.

Havana by Alexey Titarenko

artqmagazine — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:33:12 +0000

Titarenko’s Havana series captures the essence of a decaying place. It depicts the agony of a helpless city, a city full of history, a city frozen in time. Alexey captured these ruins in a format that allowed him to deliver a nostalgic message. “But ruins are nostalgic only when they are not habited, because habited ruins are not appreciated by its habitants usually because the place doesn’t let you to.”Jose Ponte.

Titarenko’s monotone representation of this city adds a remarkable amount of melancholy keeping a realistic note throughout the series.

Alexey Titarenko’s entire Havana series can be found here.

Bruce Holwerda’s Magic World

artqmagazine — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 01:17:31 +0000

ALL IMAGES © Bruce Holwerda © www.bruceholwerda.com

I wanted to share these beautiful paintings because besides showing staggering technique and craftmanship, they show emotion and feelings. You can almost guess what type of mood the characters are in and therefore become more connected with the characters. Emotions are not always important but they definitely consign the piece a great amount of validity, not to mention a subject you can relate to. These beautiful paintings/illustrations are part of Holwerda’s ladies & hats, hot salsa and Portraits collection and can be seen here.

Mark Schoening’s Two-Dimensional Reactions

artqmagazine — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 01:22:27 +0000

Schoening’s paintings are full of emotions. These beautiful paintings seem like they were created off of a great impulse, an urge for freedom, a instinct of power. The random strokes and shapes are more than a directional path, they are the consequences of a massive statement.

Schoening’s work can be seen here

Mark Schoening © markschoening.com

Interview with Artist Henry Ballate

artqmagazine — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 01:56:13 +0000

Henry Ballate, more than an artist, a person with a different perspective on life, a person who truly believes in the power of his imagination and translates that into sensational works of art.

AQ: Who is Henry Ballate and where does he come from?

HB: I was born in the midst of chaos and confusion, it was already past “White on White”, and someone had already proclaimed that there was nothing more to paint. I was born after the second “urinal” and that’s too much to say. My journey began in a distant and isolated island. I have literally crossed rivers, mountains and oceans to get here.

AQ: What influences you?

HB: I work in an art form that deals with past and present, from the museum to the screen, mixing traditional methods of painting with the implementation of innovative techniques giving birth to new works that are rooted in art history while retaining contemporary relevance. Observing the works of art using the computer gives me the possibility of walking onto the piece and stop on those little fragments, which provoke and excite me. This is something that gives me a mysterious satisfaction; I feel like a thief in a museum, a thief with a mission; feeling like I’m vandalizing artworks, but also recovering them at the same time. I bring them out from the darkness of the museum, releasing them from their Baroque frames and bringing them to our context.

AQ: Where do you find inspiration?

HB: Artists like Caravaggio, Courbet, Duchamp, Warhol and Mapplethorpe are a few of the artists that I draw inspiration from.

AQ: What things helped to shape you?

HB: Education, practice, perseverance and my desire to keep learning.

AQ: At what point in your life did you decide you wanted to be a fine artist?

HB: Shortly after learning to walk and before getting to my first museum

AQ: What has been the single biggest obstacle against growing up as a painter?

HB: Time, space and money

AQ: Do you think yourself as an artist? and what do you think of the word “art”?

HB: When I was 18, I considered myself one of the most important artists of this time, and I am already past forty and still consider myself one.

AQ: If you had to reveal a secret what would it be?(something nobody knows about you)

HB: I am a pirate.

Henry’s work can be found on Miami Art Studio

Jaclyn Conley’s Altered Reality

artqmagazine — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:26:42 +0000

Looking at Conley’s paintings is like looking into a programmed kaleidoscope with just enough mirrors to capture reality and just enough shapes to distort them. The amount of details captured in her paintings are remarkable, specially because the strokes are carried percicely throughout the canvas with no exceptions. I am also blown away by her control over the difficult human angles which shows an enthusiastic understanding and personal preference for the subject matter.

Jaclyn Conley’s projects can be found here

Chris Yormic, Street art on Canvas

artqmagazine — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:40:59 +0000

Chris Yormic’s work is very transparent it says what he wants it to say keeping the same rhythm and harmony throughout the canvas, allowing just enough to air around elements to convey his message clearly and clutter free. Chris Yormic takes a street level style to canvas taking a different approach to the traditional public art and even post-graffiti.

Visit Chris Yormic’s website

MURMUR STUDY by Christopher Baker

artqmagazine — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 14:11:42 +0000

Murmur Study is an installation that examines the rise of micro-messaging technologies such as Twitter and Facebook’s status update. One might describe these messages as a kind of digital small talk. But unlike water-cooler conversations, these fleeting thoughts are accumulated, archived and digitally-indexed by corporations. While the future of these archives remains to be seen, the sheer volume of publicly accessible personal — often emotional — expression should give us pause.

This installation consists of 30 thermal printers that continuously monitor Twitter for new messages containing variations on common emotional utterances. Messages containing hundreds of variations on words such as argh, meh, grrrr, oooo, ewww, and hmph, are printed as an endless waterfall of text accumulating in tangled piles below.

For more information about this and other projects visit Christopher Baker’s website

Ferris Polock’s Reconstruction

artqmagazine — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:57:21 +0000

As part of a colaboration work between artists Ferris Polock and Kelly Tunstall, the project Reconstruction surfaced as a quest to reconstruct reality or i should say their interpretation of it. More than collective expounding of the physical existence, this project presents a clear declaration of deliverance towards the nature of oneself. -The things we do, the things we will always do and a path for acceptance and joy. Ferris Polock’s work represents a reality altered by imagination using a unique approach to human nature and its imperfections.

Visit Ferris Polock’s website to see the entire project.