Featured Artist | Valentina Fedoseeva

Valentina Fedoseeva

Roscoe, IL
https://linktr.ee/Val_illusion_art
@val_illusion_art

“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul,” Valentina says, quoting Wassily Kandinsky.

Since Val discovered the Science of Color Therapy she continuously experiments with the healing power of colors. She realized on a deeper level the influence of colors on the lives quality.

“As for today, I use that knowledge in my paintings. Working on it I convey an emotional surge and sense of color. We know since ancient times that properly balanced colors have a mysterious effect on the human psycho-emotional state, improve our health and mood. So, I inlay the knowledge of how colors can transform a person’s life in every brushstroke. The correctly selected artwork has a permanent meditative effect which definitely will help you to find a balance and state of mind,” Valentina says.

Valentina loves to draw since early childhood. While she studied at the Art School, she was sure that creativity will always be a vital part of her life. Later she studied Interior Design where her favorite subjects were painting and art history. The mesmerizing artworks of Salvador Dali, George Braque, Amadeo Modigliani, Piet Mondrian, and Kandinsky had an indelible impact on her. Their artworks influenced more her perception of color than of style. It is harmoniously balanced both in color scheme and emotional components.

Val has a passion for traveling, as she considers it the best means for inspiration.

She was born in a small town in the place known as Bessarabia, and

from a young age, she moved from one place to another, gained experience, absorbing the charms of each of them.

At the age of 18, while her family lived in Israel, she moved to Russia, where she continued to study, meet other young artists, and share her experience.

For several years she lived in the foothills of the Caucasus on the shore of the Black Sea.

She traveled a lot and was inspired by the culture of different peoples.

Indelible impressions were received during a traveling through India where she dived into the riot of colors of the wild east. She traveled around Mexico and Guatemala exploring traditional Aztec and Mayan ornament. Great!

“I love to create something new, to experiment with styles and shapes, colors and textures. I observe how it influences the other people,” Valentina says.

For quite a long period, her choice was on soft pastels, it was a very bright wave in her life, the results were pleasing. Val started working on graphics, precise clear lines, and dot-work. This process absorbed her completely, but she didn’t want to stop there either.

Since 2017, Val lives and creates in the US. Along with the moving, acrylic paints and large canvases came into her life.

“It is like different poles of my nature, on the one hand, it is black and white graphics, clear lines and the smallest details, and on the other hand it is a colorful self-expression,” Valentina says.

Mountains and Thousands of Suns #01 | Acrylic paint on Canvas | 16 in x 20 in
Mountains and Thousands of Suns #01 | Acrylic paint on Canvas | 16 in x 20 in
Mountains and Thousands of Suns #02 | Acrylic paint on Canvas | 16 in x 20 in
Mountains and Thousands of Suns #02 | Acrylic paint on Canvas | 16 in x 20 in
Mountains and Thousands of Suns #03 | Acrylic paint on Canvas | 16 in x 20 in
Mountains and Thousands of Suns #03 | Acrylic paint on Canvas | 16 in x 20 in
Mountains and Thousands of Suns #04 | Acrylic paint on Canvas | 16 in x 20 in
Mountains and Thousands of Suns #04 | Acrylic paint on Canvas | 16 in x 20 in

 

Featured Artist | RINA Taytu

RINA Taytu

Nerima-ku, Tokyo, Japan
https://www.instagram.com/rina_taytuart
@rina_taytuart

The theme of my works is coming from “To Live”. Most of them, if anything, are based on “sorrow” and “trouble” around us. Among these sorrow things, I shift my thought to feel a thanks. When I feel a thank, I see a small “dream” near in the future. It is “drawing” for me to make a form from a small dream.

ARIN | coloredpencil/ballpoint/acrylic | 420mm×590mm
ARIN | coloredpencil/ballpoint/acrylic | 420mm×590mm
NAKED ISLAND | coloredpencils/acrylics | 210mm×297mm
NAKED ISLAND | coloredpencils/acrylics | 210mm×297mm
OIRAN (lotus) | coloredpencils/acrylics/photoshop | 1000mm×820mm
OIRAN (lotus) | coloredpencils/acrylics/photoshop | 1000mm×820mm
OIRAN (rebirth) | coloredpencils | 300mm×300mm
OIRAN (rebirth) | coloredpencils | 300mm×300mm

Featured Artist | Zoltan Molnos

Zoltan Molnos

Odorheiu Secuiesc,Harghita county,Transylvania
http://www.molnos-zoltan.webnode.hu/

David Gilmour | oil on canvas | 30x40 cm
David Gilmour | oil on canvas | 30×40 cm
Magician | oil on canvas | 50x70 cm
Magician | oil on canvas | 50×70 cm
Maria | oil on canvas | 100x100cm
Maria | oil on canvas | 100x100cm
Tree Gracias  oil on canvas | 50x70 cm
Tree Gracias oil on canvas | 50×70 cm

FROM| Outsider Art Magazine Issue Five

FROM| Outsider Art Magazine Issue Five

Outsider Art Magazine Issue Five
Cover Artist: WILD TYPE | Waiting, Gouache, Ink on Paper, 11″ x 8.5″

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Well, it’s finally ready! Issue Five.

Thank you to every artist who submitted artwork for this giant issue of Outsider Art Magazine. Get your art ready because in January 2021 we will be releasing a new call for art. In addition to visual art we will be accepting poetry, short (very short) stories, and interesting articles about artists and their creative journey.

Artists in this Issue

WILD TYPE
Robert Gorchov
Todd Brugman
John McCabe
Robbie Gallows
Dalia Goldberg
Stefan Pruteanu
Magdalena Sikora
Samantha Sadik
Sophie Jacobs
Paulina Klimek-Cornett
Abbott Philson
Nickolai Dostanko
Matthew Clarke
Szilard Juhasz
MRSN
Pracheta Banerjee
Baili Wise
Jimmy Gockel
Nicholas Teetelli
Karen Glykys
Robert Frankel
Charles McDowell
Arne Søvik Larsen
Nicole Sullivan
Hannah Bouchard
Xavier Yarto
Mark Pol
Joyce Thornbug
Ian Hartley
Margarita Henriksson
Harrison Ernst
Homer Johnson
Tiantian Ma
Kayle A. Martinez
Rocio Garcia Montiel
Brooke Mathews
Brian Simons
Oliver Quinto
Romero Pasin
Thomas Sciacca
Dawn Rettew
Erik Aleksiewicz
NPrima/Natalia Proskuriakova
Jesus Diaz
Noah Velez
Andrew Stackpole
Gwen Hallford
Barbara Redondo
Anastasiia Kruglova
Jack Oliver
Ken Berman
Monica Tiulescu
Kitty Taylor
Dio D’Brutto
Lisa Castel

Featured Artist | Nicole Sullivan

Being born in Truth or Consequences has shaped my outlook on life to be a black and white Rube Goldberg machine. I have always studied and been drawn to the Truth.

My work has focused on human struggles with societal pitfalls induced by the conception of morality, and the enforced standards we try and fail to uphold ourselves. Growing up poverty-stricken and at the hands of extreme child abuse, I feel an urgency in addressing these issues and thus issues of morality before true societal progress can be achieved. I believe that what are referred to as the Seven Deadly Sins along with Karma will define the trials and tribulations a person will interact with in their lifetime, and the demons they will struggle with along that path.

My intentions are to spread the word about the struggles within each of us to remain human at all times, and at times, at all cost. Is it okay to help those who admit struggle? Can we be judgmental without being unfair? I want the viewer to understand truths within themselves through my art, to progress and have a life free of burden. I want the viewer to achieve a visual nirvana and ascend to their further purpose.

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Nicole Sullivan | Las Cruces, NM
@thestarsandgod

Being born in Truth or Consequences has shaped my outlook on life to be a black and white Rube Goldberg machine. I have always studied and been drawn to the Truth.

My work has focused on human struggles with societal pitfalls induced by the conception of morality, and the enforced standards we try and fail to uphold ourselves. Growing up poverty-stricken and at the hands of extreme child abuse, I feel an urgency in addressing these issues and thus issues of morality before true societal progress can be achieved. I believe that what are referred to as the Seven Deadly Sins along with Karma will define the trials and tribulations a person will interact with in their lifetime, and the demons they will struggle with along that path.

My intentions are to spread the word about the struggles within each of us to remain human at all times, and at times, at all cost. Is it okay to help those who admit struggle? Can we be judgmental without being unfair? I want the viewer to understand truths within themselves through my art, to progress and have a life free of burden. I want the viewer to achieve a visual nirvana and ascend to their further purpose.

my socks | acrylic on canvas | 34"x61"
my socks | acrylic on canvas | 34″x61″
 filth | acrylic on canvas | 18"x21.5"
filth | acrylic on canvas | 18″x21.5″
This is What Happens When You're Away | acrylic on canvas | 20"x20″
This is What Happens When You’re Away | acrylic on canvas | 20″x20″
Daddy's Fleshlight | acrylic on canvas | 61"x54.5"
Daddy’s Fleshlight | acrylic on canvas | 61″x54.5″

 

Featured Artist | Joyce Thornbug

RAW AND INTUITIVE

I am a compulsive artist…I paint everyday because I have to!

My images are raw and intuitive. Colors harmonize in unexpected ways and exuberance often collides with angst.

Faces predominate my work, many in frontal gazes that meets the viewer head -on; faces as maps that reveal places we’ve been…or may be going.

In the words of Zorba the Greek—

I embrace everything…the full catastrophe, speaking to the human condition of joy and triumph, suffering and celebration.

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Joyce Thornbug | Asheville, NC
@joycehthornburg

RAW AND INTUITIVE

I am a compulsive artist…I paint everyday because I have to!

My images are raw and intuitive. Colors harmonize in unexpected ways and exuberance often collides with angst.

Faces predominate my work, many in frontal gazes that meets the viewer head -on; faces as maps that reveal places we’ve been…or may be going.

In the words of Zorba the Greek—

I embrace everything…the full catastrophe, speaking to the human condition of joy and triumph, suffering and celebration.

Party in My Head | Mixed media on repurposed wood | 40" x 38"
Party in My Head | Mixed media on repurposed wood | 40″ x 38″
Gumby | Mixed media on panel | 11.25" x 11.5"
Gumby | Mixed media on panel | 11.25″ x 11.5″
A Day at the Beach | Mixed media on panel | 12" x 12"
A Day at the Beach | Mixed media on panel | 12″ x 12″
The New Normal | Mixed media on panel | 12" x 12"
The New Normal | Mixed media on panel | 12″ x 12″

 

Featured Artist | Xavier Yarto

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Xavier Yarto | El Cajon, CA
@xavier_Yarto

A Mexican painter who has managed to put in purely abstract work a very unique through the creation of particular colors that give great strength and impact to your work touch.

The author seeks to bring a point beyond abstract art by combining this technique with a job in high relief of pre-Hispanic culture, which he turned in its theme transforms in concept and reinforced with a new set of colors that the artist creates otherwise to highlight the meaning of each icon used in his work.

Artist ambassador in Tintoretto pennelli, Italy

Giorgio Vasari award winner 2019

Global art award nomination 2017 &18

Award winner images of the world, Bangkok, Thailand. 2019

After presenting several important and renowned places worldwide including Mexico, the U.S, Netherlands, Spain, England, Austria, Belgium, France (Louvre Museum in Paris), Italy (Palazzo della Cancelleria di Roma, Palazzo della Cancelleria Vaticana, Museo Villa Pisani di Venice) Denmark, Sweden, South Korea, Bangkok, Thailand.

No doubt his work hits again, because it not only offers the viewer the quality of an abstract work but takes the enigmatic world of pre-Columbian art . A job as its author calls it, ” a recreation of the Hispanic culture with a modern language.”

So Xavier Yarto contributes to art works full of color, strength and content. An artist who searches every new best to previous work.

 The Parisian girl of the long hear | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm

The Parisian girl of the long hear | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm
 The pretty girl with the pigtails and the cat named Keku | Acrylic on paper | 50 x 70 cm

The pretty girl with the pigtails and the cat named Keku | Acrylic on paper | 50 x 70 cm
 The woman with the beautiful curls Acrylic on paper | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm

The woman with the beautiful curls Acrylic on paper | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm
 The man with the long mustache and the black cat | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm

The man with the long mustache and the black cat | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm

Featured Artist | Robert Frankel

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Robert Frankel | Wilmette, IL
@robertfrankelart

Since I was a kid I kept myself busy carving sticks into mini-sculptures, doodling during class, and drawing figures on the sidewalk with chalk. Having never received any formal art training, I have managed to teach myself the basics of painting and wood sculpture.

I have exhibited in a number of Galleries that include SITE Gallery, 440 Gallery, and Van Der Plas Gallery in New York City, Galleria Pall Mall in London, and Chie Gallery in Milan Italy. I was one of 20 finalists in 2019 as part of the “Art Takes Manhattan Competition.” My goal is to make the world a happier place through art.

Portrait Painting #1 | Acrylic on Canvas | 16 x 20 x 1
Portrait Painting #1 | Acrylic on Canvas | 16 x 20 x 1
Farbe ist Alles #15 | Acrylic on Canvas | 24 x 24 x 1.5
Farbe ist Alles #15 | Acrylic on Canvas | 24 x 24 x 1.5
Farbe ist Alles #5 | Acrylic on Canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5
Farbe ist Alles #5 | Acrylic on Canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5
Urban Art #1 | Acrylic on Canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5
Urban Art #1 | Acrylic on Canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5

Featured Artist – Tatiana Klimov

A native Russian from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Tatiana found her second home in Los Alamos 23 years ago. In spite of having a college degree in metallurgy, she has worked in the fashion and beauty business. In Russia, she owned and ran a private crafts school. Shortly after relocating to the US, she opened her own business “Nature Care for Skin & Hair.” She has always enjoyed designing and making clothes, knitting, crochet, quilt, and embroidery based on her own designs. Even as a child she had passion for art and especially drawing. Around last spring 2017 she decided to pursue her desire for expressing her inner self in the form of “Happy paintings.” Her philosophy of paintings is to portray positive energy and happiness by splashing bright colors on canvas to share the beauty and inspiration she finds through her love of nature. In nature, there are shapes, colors, textures, fragrances, sounds, and tastes to be experienced. From rock formations to butterflies, all forms of natural scenery have a deep internal message of their essence. Tatiana is attempting to convey that spiritualis, or “breath,” from the nature around us, to the viewer through her art. She weaves a waltz of colors and shapes into a “happy dance,” to make the day of the viewer a better place.

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Tatiana Klimov – Los Alamos, NM

A native Russian from Saint Petersburg, Russia, Tatiana found her second home in Los Alamos 23 years ago. In spite of having a college degree in metallurgy, she has worked in the fashion and beauty business. In Russia, she owned and ran a private crafts school. Shortly after relocating to the US, she opened her own business “Nature Care for Skin & Hair.” She has always enjoyed designing and making clothes, knitting, crochet, quilt, and embroidery based on her own designs. Even as a child she had passion for art and especially drawing. Around last spring 2017 she decided to pursue her desire for expressing her inner self in the form of “Happy paintings.” Her philosophy of paintings is to portray positive energy and happiness by splashing bright colors on canvas to share the beauty and inspiration she finds through her love of nature. In nature, there are shapes, colors, textures, fragrances, sounds, and tastes to be experienced. From rock formations to butterflies, all forms of natural scenery have a deep internal message of their essence. Tatiana is attempting to convey that spiritualis, or “breath,” from the nature around us, to the viewer through her art. She weaves a waltz of colors and shapes into a “happy dance,” to make the day of the viewer a better place.

Frozen Medium oil Size 24"x24"
Frozen
oil
24″x24″
J Medium oil Size 12"x12"
J
oil
12″x12″
Love Medium oil Size 12"x12"
Love
oil
12″x12″
Feelings Medium oil Size 12"x12"
Feelings
oil
12″x12″

Featured Artist – Jeff Klena

I briefly attended the Cleveland Institute of Art (1992-1993) but found hanging out at the Euclid Tavern and the Cleveland Museum of Art much more educational.
Music And Art have been a constant force in moving my life forward. Although the past is a constant reminder of promises forgotten. I now make good on the little lies that get me through the night. The reinventing of the dream-self on every new morning. The doorway between the conscious self and the subconscious ideal has been left open. What remains of the journey lies in paint. My Style is subjective to the viewers preconceptions. I am a figure artist. The rest is up for interpretation.
The artistic influences on my paintings are quite varied. I am most influenced by the Symbolist. Which turned into the modern Illustration movement. Everyone from Klimt to Schiele from Bacon and Auerbach to Frazetta and Giger. All my idols are dead. It is my time to start a new generation of dreamers.
All my work is for sale. I am sick of being a slave to my alarm clock

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Jeff Klena – Elyria, OH
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I briefly attended the Cleveland Institute of Art (1992-1993) but found hanging out at the Euclid Tavern and the Cleveland Museum of Art much more educational.
Music And Art have been a constant force in moving my life forward. Although the past is a constant reminder of promises forgotten. I now make good on the little lies that get me through the night. The reinventing of the dream-self on every new morning. The doorway between the conscious self and the subconscious ideal has been left open. What remains of the journey lies in paint. My Style is subjective to the viewers preconceptions. I am a figure artist. The rest is up for interpretation.
The artistic influences on my paintings are quite varied. I am most influenced by the Symbolist. Which turned into the modern Illustration movement. Everyone from Klimt to Schiele from Bacon and Auerbach to Frazetta and Giger. All my idols are dead. It is my time to start a new generation of dreamers.
All my work is for sale. I am sick of being a slave to my alarm clock

Touching the Darkness in Death Medium Latex on Wood Size 23x36
Touching the Darkness in Death
Latex on Wood
23×36
Fertility Goddess Medium Latex on Wood Size 24x36
Fertility Goddess
Latex on Wood
24×36
First Glimpse of Fire Medium Latex on Canvas Size 30x32
First Glimpse of Fire
Latex on Canvas
30×32
Source of Origin Medium Latex on Canvas Size 30x32
Source of Origin
Latex on Canvas
30×32