Featured Artists – Issue Zero
Artist, printmaker, painter, etc. Concentrating on the peripheral and the overlooked. Based in Houston, TX
Artist, printmaker, painter, etc. Concentrating on the peripheral and the overlooked. Based in Houston, TX
Featured Artist – Elizabeth Hermann
Grafting and merging are boring. They happen in nature. Collisions are interesting. Explosions don’t happen so often in nature—they require a particularly human capability for catastrophe. E started broken, continues hungrily, and pursues art content relentlessly. E encourages explosions. E’s agenda considers art’s democratic potential, the intrinsic overarching umbrella nature of the medium, collaboration and writing as imperative components in the process, and graphic design’s trend toward the fine arts in the post-print interdisciplinary environment. E wants your discarded bits, the castoff trash of restless purchasing power. Artists regularly claim technologies that are no longer commercially viable, but E also repurposes cultural elements and physical junk. This includes cardboard boxes and entire carnivals. Instead of justifying how these themes fit together, E argues they cannot without some fire. As famed thinker Franz Ferdinand queried, “What’s wrong with a little destruction?” E’s sandbox includes Adobe Illustrator, Potassium Ferricyanide, and civil disobedience. E’s work spans succulents, melted plastic, and guerrilla projection. Instead of justifying how these coexist, E breaks the one off in the other. And yes, then adds fire.
My name is William Tyler and iam a Neo-Expressionist artist based in Toronto Ontario Canada.I make art to bring light .To get people to feel .To understand and to open their eyes and hearts .We live in a world that has many issues that get ignored or overseen, both social and human issues .I want to not only bring light to the issues being represented in my work but also allow those that are apart of those issues to know they arent alone and they have Allies and people who understand.
Featured Artist
William Tyler – Toronto, Canada
My name is William Tyler and iam a Neo-Expressionist artist based in Toronto Ontario Canada.I make art to bring light .To get people to feel .To understand and to open their eyes and hearts .We live in a world that has many issues that get ignored or overseen, both social and human issues .I want to not only bring light to the issues being represented in my work but also allow those that are apart of those issues to know they arent alone and they have Allies and people who understand.
Born and raised in New York City, Jay’s early art creations were greatly influenced by comic book artists such as John Romita, Steve Ditko, and Jim Steranko. During the late 70’s and early 80’s, Jay tried unsuccessfully to join the artistic ranks of both Marvel and DC comics. By 1982, he had become discouraged with the comic book style art that he had been doing, and proceeded to drastically change his style of art. This was the year that he plunged headlong into Pen & Ink Pointillism. Over the next few years, Jay was able to display his art in shows all throughout NYC, Long Island, and Connecticut, and became a member of various art groups such as: The Huntington Township Art League, The Long Island Black Artist Association, and The Harlem StreetGallery. Jay has since abandoned the Pen & Ink Pointillism style (Too costly and time consuming) and now focuses on creating art utilizing Colored Pencils and Ink. He currently resides in Elkridge, MD. with his two daughters, Taja and Kassandria.
Featured Artist
Jay Thomas II – Elkridge, MD
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Born and raised in New York City, Jay’s early art creations were greatly influenced by comic book artists such as John Romita, Steve Ditko, and Jim Steranko. During the late 70’s and early 80’s, Jay tried unsuccessfully to join the artistic ranks of both Marvel and DC comics. By 1982, he had become discouraged with the comic book style art that he had been doing, and proceeded to drastically change his style of art. This was the year that he plunged headlong into Pen & Ink Pointillism. Over the next few years, Jay was able to display his art in shows all throughout NYC, Long Island, and Connecticut, and became a member of various art groups such as: The Huntington Township Art League, The Long Island Black Artist Association, and The Harlem StreetGallery. Jay has since abandoned the Pen & Ink Pointillism style (Too costly and time consuming) and now focuses on creating art utilizing Colored Pencils and Ink. He currently resides in Elkridge, MD. with his two daughters, Taja and Kassandria.
Gale Rothstein’s art practice has always been about ‘putting together the pieces’-as a child it was not unusual for her to take apart one thing to make another. Creating assemblage/collage sculptures provides her with unlimited opportunities for choice of materials through her penchant for collecting vintage objects, the harvested innards of discarded and broken appliances and hardware, and the amazing things found on the street.
Gale Rothstein’s art practice has always been about ‘putting together the pieces’-as a child it was not unusual for her to take apart one thing to make another. Creating assemblage/collage sculptures provides her with unlimited opportunities for choice of materials through her penchant for collecting vintage objects, the harvested innards of discarded and broken appliances and hardware, and the amazing things found on the street. Through the creation of her assemblage environments, the parameters of context are wide open; she creates fantasy worlds that incorporate references to Dada and Surrealism, historical content, and through juxtaposition of contrasting elements, prompt the viewer to question relationships to scale, location, and relativity. “Where are we? Who is here with us? How big or small are we? Are we awake or dreaming?” As we enter and journey through a crumbling amusement park, abandoned bathroom consumed by nature, or bedroom that is situated simultaneously inside a room and on an Italian piazza, the visitor is challenged to reevaluate one’s sense of time, place, and orientation. Her titles are also part of the creative process; identifying the work with compelling names further add to the mystique and are an essential finishing touch.
The artist dedicates her work to the memory of her father Milton Rothstein, a jack of all trades and one of the original recyclers and re-purposers, decades before it was a trend. She inherited his vintage collection of parts, and incorporates many of his objects into her assemblages, further supporting the historical and personal foundation of the work.
Hui-ju Chen (Mickey) graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Even though she has not been using art and design as her main profession, she has kept her passion of making art until today. Along with her teaching job at Shantou University, she always finds time to create various styles of work. It is interesting to see how her work has varied from photography to acrylic painting to mixed-media to collage. She hopes to keep being experimental because she believes that, in the art world, there are no real errors but different thoughts and processes with different outcomes. Without experimentation, she feels, art is not art. She gets inspiration from different aspects of life. She always hopes to learn and create different kinds of work by making use of her own different life experiences. It is normal to have lots of frustrations and doubts as one goes through the phases of creation. For Mickey, the biggest frustration has been the temptation and pressure to build and keep up one particular style in order to be a professional artist. Though it is true that a dedication to one style may enable one to come a little closer to perfection in that style, Mickey feels that art is about taking risks. If she is satisfied with one style, she believes that she loses a very important quality of art–the excitement of experiencing different things in the world. Therefore, she hopes to continue working in different ways and experimenting with different styles. Art making, for her, is not just a way to express herself but a way to define her existence.
I’m a self-taught artist and have been drawing and painting for nearly 40 years. I’m interested in the process that creates a painting. Though it involves imagination, this process is affected by chance, so that when I begin a picture I have only a half-formed image of what the finished painting will look like. The completed piece only slightly resembles the image that I had in mind when I began it. I think of this as improvisation. Over the years that I’ve been painting, I’ve learned to trust the brush and the materials – to let them take the lead – and not think too much about how it will end up.
I don’t know beforehand how a picture will turn out, and this is part of what makes painting interesting.
Robert Gorchov – Philadelphia, PA
I’m a self-taught artist and have been drawing and painting for nearly 40 years. I’m interested in the process that creates a painting. Though it involves imagination, this process is affected by chance, so that when I begin a picture I have only a half-formed image of what the finished painting will look like. The completed piece only slightly resembles the image that I had in mind when I began it. I think of this as improvisation. Over the years that I’ve been painting, I’ve learned to trust the brush and the materials – to let them take the lead – and not think too much about how it will end up.
I don’t know beforehand how a picture will turn out, and this is part of what makes painting interesting.
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