Artist of the Week Brett Dyer

Brett Dyer lives in Dallas, where he is currently exhibiting and teaching art history, art appreciation, design, painting and drawing courses at El Centro, Collin College, and Tarrant County College.  He is a part time art instructor and someday wants to own a gallery of his own exhibiting student and upcoming artists' work.  He continues to create, and he vows to never stop.  

Artist’s Statement
  As I create, I merely turn my hands over to my heart and my mind. I reflect what I see, hear, and feel.  I exhibit others and myself through a visual therapy to help myself understand and process daily life.  I do this because it is what my body and mind compel me to do.  I do not hate, judge or call names within my work.  I reflect human nature.
 
I ask myself, what do I need to say?  Why am I doing this at this moment?  What significance do I or my work serve in this world?  Then, it just comes out of me.  I believe that if you do not bring out what is inside of you, what is inside of you will eventually destroy you.    My work has developed over the years from complete representations of images and emotion towards a more heartfelt personal style of expression.  Instead of thinking before I create, I think as I create and resolve formal problems as I work through a piece.  Painting and combining forms gives me the freedom to put my emotions and actions into my work.  This places me present within my work.  If you do not present yourself to the world; you deny the world of yourself.
 
I know technically by certain opinionated “aesthetic” guidelines my work is full of flaws, but so am I and so is life, and I am totally aware of this.  My work is honest, vulnerable and raw.  Once the paint dries, the painting dies and then transforms to a memory of a moment in time that I existed in.  My work is both my shadow and my soul.    My experiences in life are my work.  I reflect what I am confronted with day-to-day.  I am a mirror to my environment and myself.  Everything I have ever seen or interacted with influences my work and me both intentionally and subconsciously.  I use all that is around me and inside of me to do what I do.  As an art instructor, each day I am submerged into art history and the art of my students.  Both inspire and educate me equally.   My work is my life, and my life is my work.  They would not exist without each other.    

Artist of the Week: Vincent Falsetta

Information Taken From Conduit Gallery


 Using brushes, cardboard, spreaders, palette knives and dry wall spatulas to achieve a rich, carved and grooved texture, Vincent Falsetta achieves virtuosic abstract paintings that cascade in and out of multi-colored striations of paint.  While each painting is at first glance a spontaneous composition, there is an underlying grid pattern that determines the movement of paint (and the viewers eye) across the canvas.

Artist of the Week H.L. Groen

 

http://www.hlgroen.com/

 

As an artist H.L. Groen paints with myth, religion, spiritualism and freedom of the mind; infused with symbolism and sublime obscurities of her unconsciousness. She imbues each painting with passion and takes great pleasure in the act (so she assures). Her images are filled with expression, bold colors and dominant wistful strokes, saturating her work with life and ENERGY.

As individuals we continue to change and seek truth in ourselves. Heather's art is how she finds her way; who she is, who she was and who she will become. Upon reflection, H.L. has surmised that creating is for her a type of therapy. It is also a natural high; a reward for the mind that requires incessant feeding. She likes to think that her audience visualize and encompass their own stories - personal connections to the works. What they perceive may be different than what she challenged herself to create. Heather feels that personal connection is the ultimate purpose of her art once released into the WORLD.

Artist of the Week Willie Baronet

Ever been on the hot seat?

• http://www.williebaronet.com
• http://williebaronet.blogspot.com
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/90612949@N00/
• http://www.weareallhomeless.com/

Artist of the Week Augustine Cordero

Another and Another and...  Augustine Cordero  

Watered-down acrylics, Witch’s Brew (ink), Prisma Markers, 

India Ink, pages from some British book printed in 1888, Gesso, and 100 lb watercolor paper.

 

 I saw this Painting at the Luminarte Gallery in Dallas this weekend.  I loved it!  So here is this weeks Artist of the Week -- Augustine Cordero.  To see more of Augustine's work click here http://www.redbubble.com/people/zombaug

Artist of the Week: Jacq Chubirka

"I believe reality is defined by an individual’s subjective perception and experience, not by constants; it may be considered amorphous and ever changing."

- chubirka

http://www.chubirka.com
http://www.chubirkagallery.blogspot.com

The _grab series and full artist statement can be viewed here

http://chubirkaart.blogspot.com


 


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Artwork of the Week Levi Leddy

 

"Verbatim I"   24 x 36 Levi Leddy

Painting is Levi Leddy's passion. He has been painting since he was a child. He has attended many seminars, art lectures, and studied art throughout his life. Levi completed his Associates Degree in Digital Imaging Technology and Design. He implements many design techniques and art principles throughout his work. His usage of color and his original style makes every painting an unique experience that captures and intrigues one's eye.

Artwork of Levi Leddy