Submitted by xray129r on
Art For me is a never ending exploration of mediums either intertwined or left on there own!
The need to create it comes from somewhere deep within my soul.
I am creative by nature, not by choice. Creativity has chosen me.
My work will be on display at Hunters Point on Nov 3 & 4th.
Hope to see you there!
Submitted by Kazuki Takizawa on
As a person who is filled with many different emotions, most of my work is cathartic self-expression. In expressing my emotions, I seek to connect with others and evoke a sense of familiarity and fellowship. Part of my body of work is based on my dark feelings such as pain, struggle and depression, however, beauty of human emotion is almost always stressed. Recently, I have been influenced by the texture and shape of a seashell, as well as its connotation of protectiveness, privacy and individuality. The harmonization of the radically different, such as, violence and meditation, spontaneity and meticulousness, and destruction and repair is found in the process, as well as the result of my work
Submitted by Carol Roseman on
After becoming interested in an observation or idea, I feel an overwhelming desire to explore, describe and share it. Subjects range from the improbable juxtaposition of things that I happen upon, to concepts that I find particularly interesting. The process of translation into imagery enhances my experience and distills information from whichever image or idea has captured my attention.
Context is the primary mechanism that I use to filter my perceptions. Relationships between a subject and its viewer, or between an object and its environment, create a contextual reference that orders and defines the way something is understood. Seemingly concrete concepts like east compared to west, up and down, or in front of and behind, become fluid depending upon the position of the observer in relation to direction.
People define and are defined by their experiences. In my art practice I use sculpture, two-dimensional media and performance to explore the interrelationships between forms and their implied observer in order to share that experience. My perspective in the observation and creation process inevitably becomes part of the art produced. This implied reference, manifested in the work, engages the viewer as part of the context, while they experience the art.
Submitted by katkaz on
I am interested in creating objects and sculpture that capture tenuous moments. The spontaneity and whimsy that develops through the process of repetitive manipulation and stress upon materials such as glass, wood, paper and metal has always captured my curiosity. I am interested in the moments where a material is mutated but not yet completely transformed or destroyed--the space where new patterns emerge. I am interested in the relationship of these patterns with one another and with myself, as an artist and an observer.
Submitted by Reddy Lieb on
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." Thomas Merton
I am an artist working primarily with glass, in its myriad forms. for over 30 years. my work often tells a story. I draw upon language,natural forms and abstraction to express my ideas. I leave room for mystery. I am deeply connected to the natural world and use mostly recycled materials.I've collaborated with Linda Raynsford on several large scale public art commissions.
Submitted by ryan.paulger on
My recent work is an exploration into the potential for an equal partnership with the medium. Rather than force the glass into a predetermined form I find it much more exciting to nudge the glass in a general direction, allowing it to deform and change, to a certain extent, on its own. This provides many opportunities for improvisation and has taken me to places with the glass that I may not have otherwise come to.
Submitted by RobinHumphreys on
Robin L. Humphreys is a glass and mixed-media sculptor based in the San Francisco Bay area. Humphreys addresses concepts of growth, decay, duality and emotion in her sculptural work, through the combined use of form, texture and material language. Her work is informed by natural forms and processes, optics, play and meditation. Robin L. Humphreys received a BFA in Glass from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2009. Past exhibitions include the Glass Art Society's 2009 International Student Exhibition, the MassArt Annual Senior Show (2009) and Chappell Gallery's 2009 Friends of Glass Exhibition. Humphreys currently works for Public Glass of San Francisco as the part-time Studio Operations Coordinator and a glass flame working instructor. Humphreys also works part-time as a studio administrator for sculptor Oben Abright. She has a passion for teaching and working with people.
Submitted by daVingy on
Born and raised in Portland Oregon. He graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the University Of Oregon in 1980. In the summer of 1982 he became extremely stimulated from a visit to the New York Museum Of Modern Art and realized he was an artist. David moved to San Francisco and took various classes at the San Francisco Art institute over the next several years. McGraw is mainly known for large welded abstract figures. Lately, David has utilized mixed media including found objects to further his vision of Bauhaus inspired ‘” Total Art”.The artist lives and works in San Francisco and Sonoma County.
Submitted by Lawrence LaBianca on
My sculptures explore and illustrate the parallels and interactions between these two worlds. Tree limbs—a material I use in many of my sculptures—illustrate this schism. I combine natural, organic materials such as wood with manufactured to create new hybrids.
Many pieces reference the human body to explore a variety of human emotions. Tree branches and trunks might be cut into discs and separated with blown pieces of glass to resemble a column of vertebrae, the natural sections of this structure being supported and augmented by manufactured glass-like prosthetics. In other pieces, steel supports will contain and extend the organic wooden components of the structures, in much the same way that braces or crutches support and stabilize human limbs.
Some of my finished artworks also acquire the form and function of tools. Tools are essential for a complete discussion about the process of making sculpture. They are the extensions of the human hand through which materials are manipulated and shaped, and they are the vehicles through which information can be unearthed. The tools we apply to nature—to contain it, shape it, understand it and categorize it—also have a profound affect upon it. It is this impetus to measure, understand, contain and manipulate nature that I enact through my work.
Submitted by Carrie Leeb on
I make art to bring the feeling that I get from being outside, in the natural world, inside.
The paintings and sculptures I create are inspired by organic forms, science, and rhythms and patterns found in nature. My process is intuitve, leaving me open to the exhilaration of discovery. A common theme that surfaces in my work is a feeling of lightness and balance; a place of contemplation. The paintings and sculptures are calm, slow, quiet. Objects float. Lines meander. Color is either soft or minimal.
I am a scavenger, a seeker, a collector. During my daily walks in the natural world, my eyes are constantly on the lookout for ideas and objects to use in my work. Morning dew drops on a leaf. Rocks split in half by nature’s forces. Driftwood and stones lying on the beach. These are some of the things I use as fodder to create. Being in nature fills the deepest part of me. I feel alive - my senses heightened - yet at the same time, completely peaceful.
The tactile quality in my paintings and sculptures is achieved through a combination of deliberate experimentation, fortuitous accidents, and an understanding of the inherent qualities of the materials with which I work. Gravity, the resist between wax and water, the introduction of organic materials, and my own hand drawing, erasing or scratching back into the surface are some of the techniques used to create the range of textures found in the work. The excitement that comes from experimentation, exploration and discovery is one of the most salient reasons I’m drawn to create.
Consistent with compositions in nature whose quiet rhythms give pause, my paintings and sculptures aspire to evoke a similar response.