Congrats to all the Artists who made it into issue four and thank you to everyone who submitted art for consideration. We had a name change, but we still have the same great art.
Check back in about a week or so for a new call for art.
Veronique Ivanović, K75 is a citizen of the world who started creating art at a young age. She was born and lived in Paris/France, London/Great Britain, then moved the United States.
She has been a professor/interpreter and volunteer of French language in New York City, and Atlanta, where she resides. Discovering and taking a deep appreciation for the surrealist movement, Veronique Ivanović K75 abstract art is inspired by geometric structures with experimentation of both subtle and bold integration of lines and colors.
Veronique Ivanović K75 has been working on found and recycled materials for a long time, favoring acrylics paint and collage.
For her, giving discarded things a second chance will help ameliorate the sustainability issues humanity has bequeathed itself. And, also allowing these otherwise discarded things another likelihood.
I was told by professional artists and, gallery owners that an artist should not be all over the place with her/his body of work, because she/he looses her/his audience.
It is very difficult for me to do just that, as I have a Ying/Yang personality type.
Because of difficult times in my life picking up a pencil, a brush, and my camera helped me translate feelings and emotions; captured things that I see and, one might not see, or be trying not to see!
I create, take pictures of what my instant awareness dictates me at that very moment, an intricate, mix of geometrical forms and unusual colors, a bug resting on a person, a graffiti in an abandoned building, or a person lost in her/his thought. This sometimes, drives me to work in series.
I am always fascinated by the dichotomy of the world! Hazy heat and reflections; lights being jealous of the shadows, strong colors against a cloudless sky, chaos and serenity. I like the architectural, the body of human nature, the landscapes that can be found in cities, people and nature alike. I have found myself attracted by multicultural and, multi societal consciousness.
My work, tender, eloquent, provocative and painful at times mirrors my “many lives” and my many foreign travels, as well as my view on cultural, social, and political issues.
Take the time to see me through.
I was told by professional artists and, gallery owners that an artist should not be all over the place with her/his body of work, because she/he looses her/his audience.
It is very difficult for me to do just that, as I have a Ying/Yang personality type.
Because of difficult times in my life picking up a pencil, a brush, and my camera helped me translate feelings and emotions; captured things that I see and, one might not see, or be trying not to see!
I create, take pictures of what my instant awareness dictates me at that very moment, an intricate, mix of geometrical forms and unusual colors, a bug resting on a person, a graffiti in an abandoned building, or a person lost in her/his thought. This sometimes, drives me to work in series.
I am always fascinated by the dichotomy of the world! Hazy heat and reflections, lights being jealous of shadows, strong colors against a cloudless sky, chaos and serenity.
I like the architectural, the body of human nature, the landscapes that can be found in cities, people and nature alike. I have found myself attracted by multicultural and, multi societal consciousness.
My work, tender, eloquent, provocative and painful at times mirrors my “many lives” and my many foreign travels, as well as my view on cultural, social, and political issues.
Take the time to see me through.
God’s Twilight | Acrylics on wood | D 25″Early Antique Mortuary Mask | Mixed media | H 12″ W 24″ D 2″Chaos | Acrylics and paper on plywood | H 53″ W 35″ D 1″Blue Lips | Collage and acrylics on metal | D 13″
Greg Szostakiwskyj is a Canadian artist whose paintings deal with subjects and figures. Born in Belgium of Ukrainian parents and raised in Canada, Greg’s unique paintings are influenced by growing up and watching his father as an artist. His early years were involved in art programs, winning awards throughout his early academic years. “My paintings reflect life but somehow surreal and distant…… as an observer.” Initially working with water colors and is currently working with oils.
Greg Szostakiwskyj is a Canadian artist whose paintings deal with subjects and figures. Born in Belgium of Ukrainian parents and raised in Canada, Greg’s unique paintings are influenced by growing up and watching his father as an artist. His early years were involved in art programs, winning awards throughout his early academic years. “My paintings reflect life but somehow surreal and distant…… as an observer.” Initially working with water colors and is currently working with oils.
Child’s Toy | Watercolor | 22″ x 30″ View From The Back Seat | Oil on canvas | 40″ x 36″ Two Fish | Oil on canvas | 40″ x 36″ Hotel Girona | Oil on canvas | 36″ x 30″
A self-taught artist, I make abstract, intuitive and impressionistic art. I create energy through my art, of real things but outside of the realm of realism and showing how I perceive that reality to be. I paint a lot of florals because flowers connect with my soul, occasionally working on landscapes and other subjects. I hope to spread happiness through my work. I am certain that they will bring positive energy for all who see and own them!
A self-taught artist, I make abstract, intuitive and impressionistic art. I create energy through my art, of real things but outside of the realm of realism and showing how I perceive that reality to be. I paint a lot of florals because flowers connect with my soul, occasionally working on landscapes and other subjects. I hope to spread happiness through my work. I am certain that they will bring positive energy for all who see and own them!
Spring Fling 7 | Digital Art | 16×16 printSpring Fling 8 | Digital Art | 16×16 printSpring Fling 9 | Digital Art | 11×14 print
My name is Alena Molozanov, and I am an experienced photographer and an amateur painter. I was born and raised in Ukraine, and in my adult life, my family and I have yet to spend more than three years in one place – Moscow, NYC, Latvia, and now back in the US in New Jersey.
Now that I have more time, space, and stability in my life, I have taken up decorating my home with my own art. I love photography, and have plenty of photos to decorate my new home. However, I’ve always been fascinated by painting, and quickly realized my home was missing this type of art. So, I decided to give it a shot and try it myself. I have a wall in my Hallway which is too awkwardly shaped for a photo – very long and a bit narrow. That’s where my first vertical painting came from.
My only art background comes from my Mom, who can draw beautifully. As a child, I watched her draw holiday cards, birthday cards, and banners for her friends and work events.
In order to learn and explore techniques and mediums, I recently enrolled in a local art school. I love every second I spend in class with my incredible teacher and amazing artists. Right now, I am experimenting with different styles and techniques, and have discovered my love for textures. I am still exploring to see what brings me the most joy, and I invite you to join me on my journey.
Uknown | acrylic on canvas | 24″/48″Ageless | acrylic on canvas | 24″/48″Unforgiving Pleasures | acrylic on canvas | 24″/48″Debacle | acrylic on canvas, gold leaf | 48″/30″
European Visual Artist Mj Tom chooses not to share any personal information. Since 2003 he established the Visual Poetry | Urban Art Group LosOtros with his alter ego Andrea Nada. He lives between Berlin, Barcelona and Paris.
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His work has been exhibited at London, Paris, Hamburg, Berlin, Barcelona.
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His current body of work includes mixed media, collage, sculture, installation, and digital printing. Irreverent and fleeting, able to define himself as a copy machine of art, sarcastic and deliberately anonymous, he questions almost every probable
fact. The veneer of normality, the history as written, the common way of understanding nature and oneself as a part of it.
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As he remarks “I don’t want much to be known “about me”. I am not trying to be elusive as some people might say. I just think what is important is the artwork, not the artist. I want you to have my work on your …wall, not based on who I am, where I have studied or where I have exhibited my work. I don’t want to get between “You” and the “Artwork”. I want to live quietly behind it… and pass away sometime quietly…”
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Adding that “We are low value with high purpose. We are dedicated to noneducational activities, self-indulgent thoughts, unfinished and incomplete actions. Our work is not easily classified or marketable. This protects us from analysis, judgment or criticism. We have no direction, motivation other than a cursed reflex to purge our anonymous mental overflows in a public forum and then run away from it and hide behind our cloak of concealment. Art is simply our lifestyle.”.
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[Curriculum Vitae on My Own Words] or There is no Reality | Until You Create One.
Art is my way to conciliate with reality. In some cases, I can bring it closer to my standards. And psychoanalysis too. Both of them are hopeless. It is a try to put an order in the hectic world around and inside me. To value better what had happened and possibly what is happening, at least a part of it. It is a lost war. Before I can understand what had happened in reality, or at least what I perceive as reality, the latter flips and turns to something else. I ‘m a witness, an eye witness. I revise meticulously what it is
around me. I examine, select, collect, put in order emotions. Stating what is important and what is not, what could be regarded as beautiful, or ugly, what would be funny or sad. If I can’t change it, I can barely transform it, good enough in order to compromise with it. Sometimes the attempt is successful, sometimes it isn’t. I ‘m urban. I like nature but I feel comfortable only in the city. It is my battlefield. Especially, the afterhours, when everybody sleeps so I can walk quietly in the streets and hear the sounds. My paints they are made for me, but in reality they refer to others. It is an attempt; to speak enough for me but not in a verbal way. What is entitled inside the frame, presuppose my aesthetic viewpoint. But what they produce is beyond my control. I exist in both of them. It is a miracle, when it happens. Unfortunately isn‘t an everyday experience. Or, I believe so.
My Reality | Ιn Halftones.
My work is an exploration of paradoxes and contrasts which are torturous and utopian, wild and serene but definitely resilient.
As my reality is in halftones, I capture fragments of life often ignored or forgotten. My art echo’s the unease and mixes it with the uncomfortable reality of continuous transformations of the urban environment in which I live. Faces, pseudo familiar situations, characters belonging to various walks of life… they all inject emotions with such a warm identity to characterize the experience of
ordinary people, those people who would say and tell through the eyes their own existence. Ι represent ordinary people; those actors unaware of being protagonists of present days and to represent them in spite of a reality in half-tone that essentially results a kind of summary, which, in the end, is life! An arrested motion in time. In arresting motion there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality, so I don’t arrest motion in time. I make it. I love my subjects although I don’t know them. I mean, they’re my friends. I’ve never meat any of them or I don’t know them at all, yet I live through them, or I can’t live without them.
They constitute my curriculum vitae.
Memento Mori aka ad Verbum [?] v.9.21 | Mixed Media | 100 x 170 cmS… like Solveig aka What [?] If [?] or a New Grate v.6.24 | Mixed Media | 205 x 100 cm.Memento Mori aka ad Verbum [?] v.11.13 | Mixed Media | 100 x 170 cm.S… like Solveig aka What [?] If [?] or a New Grate v.7.13 | Mixed Media | 100 x 176 cm.
Harris is a painter that likes to experiment with different materials, styles and techniques. His main material is acrylic, in combination with watercolor, gouache, soft and oil pastel, oil, woods, or whatever his creativity will imagine.
He used to say that he had no specific style, however you can identify his style in many different paintings.
The themes of his paintings or drawings show situations in life, experiences, fantasy worlds, imaginary revolutions and ideas about life, and humanity.
He studied in young age, for 6 years in private art schools in Greece, and now he continues his studies in Strykejernet art school in Norway, mostly in sculpturing and ink prints techniques. Harris paintings are walking the path of expressionism, neoexpressionism with abstract, impressionistic and figurative influences.
Until now he have done four solo and group exhibitions in Greece, and eight in Oslo. He is a very active painter and he works around six hours a day.
“God takes his creatures in his hug” | Medium | 63x52cm “Memory Bound” | Mixed media, Acrylic and crayons on paper | 70×100 “He had the moon in his mind” | Mixed media, acrylic and markers on paper | 70x100cm “I won’t do my lessons” | Mixed media, acrylic and crayons on paper | 70x100cm
Art from the Outside is a magazine dedicated to Outsider Artists! We use the term “Outsider” loosely to cover various other art forms. Below is a non conclusive listing of what you can expect to see in Outsider Art Magazine:
Outsider Art
Art Brut
Self-Taught Artists
Folk Art
Underground Arts
Lowbrow Art
Dark Art
Naïve Art
Neuve Invention
Intuitive Art
etc …
Of course, the is not a list set in stone and there are more than a few ways to interpret what constitutes an Outsider Artist.
My pictures are thoughts on different subjects, sometimes surreal. As a rule, my pictures are thoughts of the mind and emotions, sometimes only emotions.
Contemporary Times . Mystery Travel . #28 | Pastel on paper | 30×20 cm Contemporary Times . Mystery Travel . #4 | Pastel on paper | 30×20 cm Contemporary Times . Mystery Travel . #5 | Pastel on paper | 30×20 cm Contemporary Times . Mystery Travel . #15 | Pastel on paper | 30×20 cm
Finally!!! … Outsider Art Magazine Issue Three is now available for free downloads and not free print purchases.
Congratulations to Bill Skrips whose art has landed on the cover of issue three.
Thank you to every artist who submitted their art and to those who made the cut for issue three, We are now accepting free art submissions for issue four.
Cover Art | The Sylph | Mixed Media | 21″ x 15″ 8″
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