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″
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
Thank you to all the Artists who submitted their artwork for consideration and congratulations to Jim Kopp for getting his work on the cover of issue two. Tons of great art didn’t make it into this issue, but don’t let that detour you. We are now accepting art submissions for issue three. SUBMIT HERE
Stan Reed is an Outsider multimedia artist, photographer and musician who works in the genres of DaDa and Surreal art of all types. He specializes in collages, both digital and analog. His music projects include Blue Sabbath Black Cheer and The Broken Penis Orchestra. He has also worked with Steven Stapletons Nurse With Wound and Richard Rupenus Mixed Band Philanthropist.
Stan Reed is an Outsider multimedia artist, photographer and musician who works in the genres of DaDa and Surreal art of all types. He specializes in collages, both digital and analog. His music projects include Blue Sabbath Black Cheer and The Broken Penis Orchestra. He has also worked with Steven Stapletons Nurse With Wound and Richard Rupenus Mixed Band Philanthropist.
Sorrow Analog collage on hand woven pages 7″ x 10″ Jaws Of Life Analog collage on hand woven pages 7″ x 10″ At Arms Length Analog collage on hand woven pages 7.5″ x 10″
Kyle Rehm has been painting for over 35 years. He won a 4 year scholarship to MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art & Design) in 1985, but was unable to use it. This didn’t stop him from pursuing what he’d already committed to. At 17 he had the idea to create work that would be a one on one collaboration with the viewer. To create a more personal and intimate experience. He wanted the work to reflect differently with each member of the audience, like music. Music isn’t easily described or interpreted, yet everyone has a deeply intimate attraction to it, because of the imagination. Kyle wanted to create this experience in his work. To do this it had to incorporate all the ideas of art into one form. His idea was Imaginism, and the simple definition was this; Imagination delineates art through interpretation. This gave the viewer complete control of interpretation. In order to do this he had to create works that were enigmatically ambiguous, and yet welcomed the imagination in an intriguing way. He achieved this by his use of the line. This allowed the imagination an overwhelming number of possibilities. By doing so it also gave each viewer room to find a uniquely authentic interpretation that would evolve and change, and become more and more personal with time.
Kyle Rehm has been painting for over 35 years. He won a 4 year scholarship to MCAD (Minneapolis College of Art & Design) in 1985, but was unable to use it. This didn’t stop him from pursuing what he’d already committed to. At 17 he had the idea to create work that would be a one on one collaboration with the viewer. To create a more personal and intimate experience. He wanted the work to reflect differently with each member of the audience, like music. Music isn’t easily described or interpreted, yet everyone has a deeply intimate attraction to it, because of the imagination. Kyle wanted to create this experience in his work. To do this it had to incorporate all the ideas of art into one form. His idea was Imaginism, and the simple definition was this; Imagination delineates art through interpretation. This gave the viewer complete control of interpretation. In order to do this he had to create works that were enigmatically ambiguous, and yet welcomed the imagination in an intriguing way. He achieved this by his use of the line. This allowed the imagination an overwhelming number of possibilities. By doing so it also gave each viewer room to find a uniquely authentic interpretation that would evolve and change, and become more and more personal with time.
His work has been published by Oxford University Press in 2013, on the cover of “How to Build a Brain”. A textbook detailing how to build an Artificial Intelligence. Written by Dr. Christopher Eliasmith.
Currently, he’s working on a new experiment with his paintings. He’s creating new work from his original oil paintings by using digital tools. To be clear, the original works are only altered with these tools. Nothing is added, no colors or no images. These are not new paintings, but are completely reimagined original works. He first thought of this in 1989, but the tools back then were very primitive and very unintuitive. So he waited until the technology caught up to the idea. He considers the works as mixed media. A physical oil painting that’s been digitally altered. Each work is a progression toward something new.
No. 27 Oil painting Digitally altered, Mixed Media Digital Work No. 12 Oil painting Digitally altered, Mixed Media Digital Work No. 15 Oil painting Digitally altered, Mixed Media Digital Work No. 30 Oil painting Digitally altered, Mixed Media Digital Work
My name is Eric Polise. I am an American Artist currently creating out of Seneca Falls, New York/ USA. I have been a professional artist doing shows in London, Uk , Toronto, CA, Florida, USA, Pittsburgh, USA, Rochester, NY and New York, USA for over a decade.
My name is Eric Polise. I am an American Artist currently creating out of Seneca Falls, New York/ USA. I have been a professional artist doing shows in London, Uk , Toronto, CA, Florida, USA, Pittsburgh, USA, Rochester, NY and New York, USA for over a decade. I have noticed your magazine on the Internet and through email communication. I believe my work will be a great fit for your magazine as I have always been considered an “outsider artist” I am also the publisher of PUPPET MASTER MAGAZINE. Which is an underground art magazine on its 3rd issue and I have enjoyed diving into your magazine online to see the great work you and your team are doing. I would love to meet your team someday. I will submitting my own work of course for the submission that follows. I am submitting 4 pieces from a recent series of mixed media work.
Thank you and keep up the great work!
Eric Polise
THE GETAWAY CAR MIXED MEDIA INCLUDING OIL, ACRYLIC, INK AND FOUND OBJECTS 36″x48″ LUCIFER’S FARM MIXED MEDIA INCLUDING OIL, ACRYLIC, INK AND FOUND ITEMS 24″X48″ DOMESTIC GODDESS MIXED MEDIA WITH OIL, ACRYLIC, FOUND OBJECTS AND A RESIN FINISH 24″X36″ FIRST DAY OF REFORM SCHOOL MIXED MEDIA INCLUDING OIL, ACRYLIC, FOUND OBJECTS AND RESIN ON STRETCHED CANVAS 24″X36″
The integration of quasi architectural and natural landscapes forms the spine of my social, historical and political commentary. Neoexpressiinism is my sphere of operation. It suits my temperament. This genre also accurately reflects the distorted paradigm in which we live.
The integration of quasi architectural and natural landscapes forms the spine of my social, historical and political commentary. Neoexpressiinism is my sphere of operation. It suits my temperament. This genre also accurately reflects the distorted paradigm in which we live.
“Old-school entertainment “ Acrylic, pastel, collage 143cm x 123vm “Beggars became choosers” Acrylic, charcoal, pastel, collage 143 cm x 123 cm ” Lip synching leaders forget their lines “ Acrylic, pastel, charcoal 95 cm x 95cm “The symphony of economics “ Acrylic, pastel, charcoal 95cm x 95cm
Amy O’Hearn is a New Orleans, Louisiana artist who works from her home studio. Amy uses a meditative and intuitive approach in her paintings. She thrives on the risk and spontaneity of not having a plan before starting to paint, she simply clears her mind and lets the colors and the brush take her away. Amy finds it very fulfilling when other people interpret her art, noticing things she hadn’t intended. She often names her paintings after the visions others see.
Amy O’Hearn is a New Orleans, Louisiana artist who works from her home studio. Amy uses a meditative and intuitive approach in her paintings. She thrives on the risk and spontaneity of not having a plan before starting to paint, she simply clears her mind and lets the colors and the brush take her away. Amy finds it very fulfilling when other people interpret her art, noticing things she hadn’t intended. She often names her paintings after the visions others see.
Amy has always been interested in art, especially drawing and painting. She enjoyed being in the Art program during high school and continued to draw and paint after her graduation in 1999. Her favorite memory of that time was drawing tattoos for her shipmates when she joined the U.S. Coast Guard in 2000. Then “life happened,” as Amy says, and she veered off her artistic path for a while. Words cannot describe the joy it brings her to be reunited with inspiration.
Artist Statement
Amy O’Hearn’s artwork is the culmination of tiny triumphs and mistakes that make it beautiful. She chooses different colors and adds new layers throughout her creative process; each session inspires the choices for the next. When painting subject matter, Amy likes to incorporate the same intuitive approach. The object is the inspiration and the painting is not limited to the rules of reality.
Amy’s goal is to capture the essence of perfect imperfection and self love that nurtures growth, countering the cultural pressures to change who we are to fit others’ expectations.
Banjo Oil on Wood 18 in X 28 in Cow Skull #1 Acrylic on wood 12 in X 12 in Resolution Acrylic on Wood 12 in X 12 in Believe Acrylic on Wood 12 in X 12 in
Amy O’Hearn is a New Orleans, Louisiana artist who uses a meditative and intuitive approach in her paintings. She thrives on the risk and spontaneity of not having a plan before starting to paint, she simply clears her mind and lets the colors and the brush take her away. Amy finds it very fulfilling when other people interpret her art, noticing things she hadn’t intended. She often names her paintings after the visions others see and views her role as a conduit for their experience.
Amy O’Hearn is a New Orleans, Louisiana artist who uses a meditative and intuitive approach in her paintings. She thrives on the risk and spontaneity of not having a plan before starting to paint, she simply clears her mind and lets the colors and the brush take her away. Amy finds it very fulfilling when other people interpret her art, noticing things she hadn’t intended. She often names her paintings after the visions others see and views her role as a conduit for their experience.
Her artwork is the culmination of tiny triumphs and mistakes that make it beautiful. She chooses different colors and adds new layers throughout her creative process; each session inspires the choices for the next. When painting subject matter, Amy likes to incorporate the same intuitive approach. The object is the inspiration and the painting is not limited to the rules of reality.
Amy’s goal is to capture the essence of perfect imperfection and self love that nurtures growth, countering the cultural pressures to change who we are to fit others’ expectations.
Beaver Skull #1 Acrylic on wood 12 in X 12 in Antler #1 Acrylic on wood 12 in X 12 in Coyote Skull #1 Acrylic on wood 12 in X 12 in Desert Rose Oil on wood 21 in X 26 in
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