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
I was always fascinated with the idea that colors can have an effect on our emotional, physical, and mental states. Examples of this can be found in the expressions, “seeing red” or “having the blues. I like to use bright bold colors set against each other in a geometric structure to create energy and motion.
I am a self-taught artist who has exhibited in a number of galleries which include SITE Gallery, 440 Gallery, Van Der Plas Gallery in New York City, La Galleria Pall Mall in London, and Chie Gallery in Milan. This Spring I will be exhibiting at the Saatchi-The Other Art Fair in Los Angeles, Limner Gallery in Hudson, New York, and Colorida Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal.
Farbe ist Alles #1 | Medium | Acrylic on canvas | 36 x 36 x 1.5 Farbe ist Alles #2 | Acrylic on canvas | 36 x 36 x 1.5 Farbe ist Alles #3 | Acrylic on canvas | 36 x 36 x 1.5 Farbe ist Alles #4 | Acrylic on canvas | 36 x 26 x 1.5
Born in 1965 in Paris. Self-taught artist. I live in Rennes (Brittany, France)
In 1986, I created with Bathelemy Schwartz the revue Dorénavant, one of the first avant-garde revue of comics theory: this revue (1986 – 1988) proposed a new definition of the comic strip as a simple juxtaposition of pictures. Also, were included with the comics some paintings of Klee, Kandinsky or Picasso. This statement was also a way to create a new connection between comics and paintings: what was at stake then, was not the graphics (like for Lichtenstein or Combas) but the division of the canvas. Thanks to this, the painting would find again its very old and deep temptation: the illusion of time, which can create a narrative or a musical dimension.
The French comics’ world reacted sometimes with curiosity but most of the time with rejection. The art world ignored it.
From 1988 to 2006, I gave up painting and drawing and rather liked to write novels and essays.
Born in 1965 in Paris. Self-taught artist. I live in Rennes (Brittany, France)
In 1986, I created with Bathelemy Schwartz the revue Dorénavant, one of the first avant-garde revue of comics theory: this revue (1986 – 1988) proposed a new definition of the comic strip as a simple juxtaposition of pictures. Also, were included with the comics some paintings of Klee, Kandinsky or Picasso. This statement was also a way to create a new connection between comics and paintings: what was at stake then, was not the graphics (like for Lichtenstein or Combas) but the division of the canvas. Thanks to this, the painting would find again its very old and deep temptation: the illusion of time, which can create a narrative or a musical dimension.
The French comics’ world reacted sometimes with curiosity but most of the time with rejection. The art world ignored it.
From 1988 to 2006, I gave up painting and drawing and rather liked to write novels and essays.
From 2006, a new generation of comics’ authors discovered again the revue Dorénavant. Some books and articles have been published about it. The website Du9 put online the whole revue.
At the same period, I decided to get back to drawing and painting.
May-july 2018, first exhibition in The Lavoir, in Rennes (France).
Fall 2018 : Publication of two paintings in the Parisian revue “L’Echaudée” (number 8)
January 2019, exhibit in Angoulême, during the bande dessinée festival.
June 2019, exhibit in the Rennes art market.
October 2019, exhibit in the YIA (Young International Artfair) in Paris
Articles in English about Dorévanant :
– Ann Miller, Bart Beaty, The French Comics Theory Reader, Leuven University Press, 2014
– Domingos Isabelinho, Barthélémy Schwartz’s, Balthazar Kaplan’s and Others’ Dorénavant, The Cribsheet, 14 mars 2009.
– Ann Miller, Reading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-language Comic Strip, Intellect, 2007
Our Time | oil on canvas | 120 cm x 100 cm Night and Day | oil on canvas | 73 cm x 100 cm The Carousel of the Life | oil on canvas | 73 cm x 54 cm Nothing Can’t Stop the Desire | oil on canvas | 120 cm x 100 cm
I consider myself to be an “outsider artist” because I never went to art school, I’m self taught, and I own my voice through art making. I appreciate the creative process because it’s a way for me to grow and learn. I am very drawn to abstract style and I love to use many different colors in a thick, bold way. I want to catch people’s attention with my full color palette and thick, textured style.
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Katelyn Feldman | Santa Fe, NM
feldmancat45@gmail.com
I consider myself to be an “outsider artist” because I never went to art school, I’m self taught, and I own my voice through art making. I appreciate the creative process because it’s a way for me to grow and learn. I am very drawn to abstract style and I love to use many different colors in a thick, bold way. I want to catch people’s attention with my full color palette and thick, textured style.
The creative process is so enlightening because it’s fun and I get to explore different colors and textures. I love making abstract art because it’s always new and exciting, and I can create my own interpretations of the things around me. I have shown my artwork at InsideOut, Artstreet, the Santa fe South Branch Library, Artstreet, and the Santa Fe Recovery Center benefit. I have also donated art to the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI).
Somewhere Green | Acrylic on Canvas | 24″x 24″ Blue Moon | Acrylic on Canvas | 48″x 60″ Southwest Grass | Acrylic on Canvas | 8″ x 12″ Abstract Ocean | Acrylic on Canvas | 36″x 48″
I’m an autodidact who is fascinated by the process of creation and in particular the unadulterated pure creation associated with Art Brut and Outsider art.
I’m an autodidact who is fascinated by the process of creation and in particular the unadulterated pure creation associated with Art Brut and Outsider art.
I am on a journey to develop an artistic voice and practice by painting 100 sellable paintings in 1 year. I’ve never painted before in my life outside of childhood, and therefore I have seen a very steep evolution in my work over the last 6 months.
All my work ties closely to how i feel at the moment, and is somewhat refelctive of the general transformation i’ve undergone in this time.
#18 Puer Aeternus | Mixed Media on Panel board | 80cm x 60cm #20 Kia Kaha, Be Brave | Mixed Media on Panel board | 80cm x 60cm #26 Cultural Capital | Mixed Media on Panel board | 80cm x 60cm #38 Let go | Mixed Media on Panel board | 80cm x 60cm
”I was born in s’Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands in 1954. I have been a lifelong doodler.My work is influenced by children’s toy’s, folk and indigenous art forms. I am an amateur painter and maker of things. But I spend most of my time doing this and I will continue as long as there are new things to discover….I like my works to be joyous, colorful with a kinetic feel. I’ll work with and on anything available, including old wood, cardboard and all kinds of wonderful junk,” writes John van Orsouw.
”I was born in s’Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands in 1954. I have been a lifelong doodler.My work is influenced by children’s toy’s, folk and indigenous art forms. I am an amateur painter and maker of things. But I spend most of my time doing this and I will continue as long as there are new things to discover….I like my works to be joyous, colorful with a kinetic feel. I’ll work with and on anything available, including old wood, cardboard and all kinds of wonderful junk,” writes John van Orsouw.
John meets all the requirements to be himself.
He is completely self-taught which is not to say that he is not schooled. His schooling,however,has been the museums, the ideas, the movies and the streets of urban life both in the U.S. (New Orleans, New York City) and in Europe including his childhood home in Holland. Presently he is selling his work in New York City. His recent exhibitions include the Outsider Art Fair in New York and Paris, The 6th annual Outsider Art Exhibition at Galerie Belage in West Hampton Beach, New York , Musee de la Creation France and van der Plas gallery in New York City.
John’s paintings are part child, part expressionistic brut, part music and part CoBrA. He is Dubuffet filtered through Rembrandt and Bosch via Karel Appel. He is, in the composite, pure John van Orsouw, a free spirit inspired by daily life, its sounds, its smells, its colors, its culture and its language. Spontaneity is his medium, like the jazz he celebrates in his work.
His work is playful – a carnival of bright, primary-colored toys which he then, like a magician, swirls through scribbles of motion and ends with a figure, an animal or a musical instrument. He plays with the idea that art is a toy and works the shapes into shape and superimposes, imposes and just plain poses these shapes within the spontaneous, organic and sometimes conscious scribbles, squiggles and doodles. it looks like John is having fun. And that’s the way he wants it to look.
When he is working, John is in the center ring of a 3-ring circus. He is the ringmaster for the clowns, cartoons, the blues, jazz and colorful men and women. Wild-eyed dogs, cats and birds roam freely through his field of vision. As ringmaster he snaps his whip and whips his performers into recognizable shapes but in the end they all have a life of their own. His work, like the playful circus of his imagination, has been created for children of all ages!
Phil Demise Smith, New York.
PARADISE LOST Mixed media painting on canvas 48”x 48” RED HOT Mixed media painting on canvas 48”x 40” GOODBYE JOE Mixed media painting on canvas 48” x 48” A NIGHT IN LA BOCA Mixed media painting on canvas 50”x 34”
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″
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″
Ruby Michelle is an American artist that graduated with her BFA from California State University of Sacramento with a concentration in drawing and painting. Her artwork has a childlike quality that is inspired by fairytales, Asian culture, folklore and children’s literature, while the subject matter is often a reflection of everyday life with a twist of fantasy and surrealism.
“I enjoy drawing human expression and the feelings and bonds we have with nature as well as each other. This series of illustrations called “Blankspace” is a collection of snapshots or moments captured in time and representing both an everyday reality as well as a surreal fantasy. “
Ruby Michelle is an American artist that graduated with her BFA from California State University of Sacramento with a concentration in drawing and painting. Her artwork has a childlike quality that is inspired by fairytales, Asian culture, folklore and children’s literature, while the subject matter is often a reflection of everyday life with a twist of fantasy and surrealism.
“I enjoy drawing human expression and the feelings and bonds we have with nature as well as each other. This series of illustrations called “Blankspace” is a collection of snapshots or moments captured in time and representing both an everyday reality as well as a surreal fantasy. “
Space Station Mixed Media on Paper 8 x 8” Solar Sanctuary Mixed Media on Paper 8 x 8” Sunset Supernova Mixed Media on Paper 8 x 8” Galaxy Diner Mixed Media on Paper 8 x 8”
Painter JoAnn Moy works in oils, acrylic, and collage while simultaneously pursuing her career as an independant graphic designer. Born to young parents in western Pennsylvania, JoAnn’s favorite childhood memory is of fingerpainting with her sister. Her parents split up early and she never knew her father, beside the fact that he was creative.
JoAnn’s mother too, has her own artistic bend and taught her the importance of precision and quality in crafting. She wanted the girls, JoAnn and her sister, to experience more of life than the countryside of Zelinople had to offer and the little family moved to a town just outside of Pittsburgh.
Painter JoAnn Moy works in oils, acrylic, and collage while simultaneously pursuing her career as an independant graphic designer. Born to young parents in western Pennsylvania, JoAnn’s favorite childhood memory is of fingerpainting with her sister. Her parents split up early and she never knew her father, beside the fact that he was creative.
JoAnn’s mother too, has her own artistic bend and taught her the importance of precision and quality in crafting. She wanted the girls, JoAnn and her sister, to experience more of life than the countryside of Zelinople had to offer and the little family moved to a town just outside of Pittsburgh.
Growing up, JoAnn continually sought out a variety of artistic endeavors like sculpting with clay, designing jewelry, sketching and painting. Her visual development grew further with her involvement in her high school theatre’s stage crew as costume and makeup designer. In college, she established a foundation of color theory, spatial and shape proportion and reveled in a new found passion exploring 3-dimensional drawing with wire. She graduated from Philadelphia’s Drexel University in 1995 with a BS in Graphic Design. While in Philadelphia she loved the city and the variety of people surrounding her, people from all over the world.
After graduating she stayed in the city, working for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Among other things, she was responsible for hanging labels next to the paintings. With this opportunity to spend time in the galleries, empty of their crowds, JoAnn was enamored by the history and talent around her, and tried to soak it all up. Around this time she also had some of her own paintings in a few cafés in Philadelphia and Manyunk, PA, but unfortunately didn’t keep any records.
After leaving the museum, she worked as an art director for a few different pharmaceutical advertising and medical education companies, but eventually realized how far she’d veered from her passion for fine art. JoAnn found herself depressed and full of anxiety. Finding control of these mental diversions became apparent when she gave herself over to her creativity and got back to painting again.
In 2016, she again hung her art publicly at Green Wolf’s Village Barn and also Schang-Hai Gallery, both of Skippack, PA. JoAnn hopes that viewers of her art can recognize and absorb some of the peace and happiness she found in making it. She currently lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and 2 incredible kids.
Artist Statement
BREAKING IT DOWN
People ask how long I’ve been an artist. I can’t remember a time that I wasn’t an artist, so the answer must be all my life. I love the complexity of shadow and highlight layered together to compose a face, an object, or a scene. I break down the components like puzzle pieces, forgetting what I know I see and deconstructing it into fragmented color, sometimes with hard edges, sometimes blending into one another. Conversely, I also love the simplicity that flat color and simple lines can combine to demonstrate vast emotion. Various weights and tones can hold texture as well as inspiration and sensitivity.
I think of objects in terms of their form; breaking elements down into fields of color, subtle gradients and contrasting shades. I seek to explore edges and the shadows they can create.
BUILDING IT UP
I build up tactile layers of paint gradually, while building up visual layers between foreground and background. I form my subject on the canvas using thin layers of paint, trying to be aware of the entire canvas at once, keeping in mind that one thing’s configuration affects another’s shape and shadows. The process has to be amorphic in that there is no one single path. As the piece grows with each level the image become more intelligible. In the final layers, I like to get messy, splashing paint and smearing with a palette knife. My goal is not to be photographic, but rather impressionistic.
For many years my focus was on portraits, still life and landscapes, keeping some kind of bond with reality I thought. I continue to explore nature in my work, but have also branched out into a new realm for me, what I like to call Abstract Humanity. My depictions of personal interaction live in environments not recognizable from our world, but from a place unique to varying perceptions or consciousness. In striving to provide a visual for emotions, often chasing circles and swirls across my canvas, I’ve noticed that I’m trying to once again find my true self, find the center.
My intention is to open a visual communication between myself and you, the viewer; I want to keep you engaged and your imagination active. Ultimately my wish is for you to become a collaborator in my work as your ideas about my art develop and grow.
Edgewater Plea Acrylic and Cut Paper on Canvas 18″ x 24″ God, Have We Prayed Enough Yet? Acrylic and Cut Paper on Canvas 12″ x 16″ Lost without You Acrylic and Cut Paper on Canvas 12″ x 16″ Lost in a Room Acrylic on Canvas 12″ x 12″
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