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″Gumby | Mixed media on panel | 11.25″ x 11.5″A Day at the Beach | Mixed media on panel | 12″ x 12″The New Normal | Mixed media on panel | 12″ x 12″
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 1Farbe ist Alles #15 | Acrylic on Canvas | 24 x 24 x 1.5Farbe ist Alles #5 | Acrylic on Canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5Urban Art #1 | Acrylic on Canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5
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″
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 have been drawing ever since I burst forth, urgent and confused, from a municipal bed into England. Initially I doodled as a way of alleviating childhood angst; now I do it as a way of alleviating angst that’s all grown up and running around with scissors.
Working in a variety of media, I parody mass culture by exaggerating formal aspects inherent in our society. I make work that sometimes appears idiosyncratic and quirky; at other times a by-product of Western hyper-consumption; yet more, humorously indecent.
My artworks are given improper functions; implications are contrary, form and content merge. Shapes are dissociated from their original meaning and the system in which they normally function is thereby exposed. Initially unambiguous meanings are shattered and disseminate endlessly.
By putting the viewer on the wrong track, I gently prod various overlapping themes and strategies, with several recurring ideas (such as class, provocation, violence, family and sexual desire) eventually being throttled. Being confronted as aesthetically resilient and thematically interrelated for memory and projection, my work seems true and, as we all know, the truth exists but it has many faces.
Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed absurdly. In a search for new methods to read the city, I focus on the idea of public space and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment; the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting but socially and historically wondrous.
I often refer to popular culture in all of this. Using written, drawn and photographic symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules (some of the time), and where rules are undermined, is created. And, lurking somewhere in the chaos, you will find signposts; signposts to a community only now seen through a blurred lens, enmeshed in hyperbole and ultraviolence; signposts to a country that may never have even existed.
But, ultimately, I just like drawing pictures.
Nutter Digital, photography, collage (anti-depressant medication leaflets), acrylic and ink on board 14″ x 18″ Stable Genius Ink on board 24″ x 28″ Honeypot Collage (escort cards) and ink on board 23″ x 33″ I Want What I Do To Be Memorable Collage (adult magazines), acrylic and ink on board 23″ x 33″
In rural Appalachia, where tradition reigns supreme, an emerging art and music scene has dared to challenge the outside notions of the region. Steeped in history, awash in natural beauty and with a culture rarely visible outside of the hills, this oft-forgotten region of America is carving out its place among the most culturally relevant to the 21st century. Among those seeking to change perspectives and bring new eyes to the rolling hills is Cory Graham. With no formal training, and only a passion to break down walls surrounding his community, Graham seeks to share views and moments not typically associated with rural America. Deeply political, often angry, and with a focus on progress at all costs, Cory Graham’s work shouts with the voices of forgotten Americans who demand to be heard.
In rural Appalachia, where tradition reigns supreme, an emerging art and music scene has dared to challenge the outside notions of the region. Steeped in history, awash in natural beauty and with a culture rarely visible outside of the hills, this oft-forgotten region of America is carving out its place among the most culturally relevant to the 21st century. Among those seeking to change perspectives and bring new eyes to the rolling hills is Cory Graham. With no formal training, and only a passion to break down walls surrounding his community, Graham seeks to share views and moments not typically associated with rural America. Deeply political, often angry, and with a focus on progress at all costs, Cory Graham’s work shouts with the voices of forgotten Americans who demand to be heard.
Silence Oil on Canvas 18 X 24 Rapture Photography 11 X 14 Collapse Mixed Media 24 X 36 Chechnya Digital 18 X 24
Artist, printmaker, painter, etc. Concentrating on the peripheral and the overlooked. Based in Houston, TX
Edifice Screenprinted by hand 11″x14″ Giraffe Ladder Face Screenprinted by hand 11″x14″ Threshold Watercolor 11″x14″ Shaman Screenprinted by hand with watercolor detail 9″x12″
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.
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.
‘lady with bird’ – acrylic, water color, ink, pencil on canvasette paper – 16 x 20 inches
‘blue hand’ – acrylic, ink, pencil on canvasette paper – 18 x 21 inches
‘subject [defaced]’ – acrylic, water color, pencil, ink on canvasette paper – 16 x 20 inches
‘tiger’ – acrylic on canvasette paper – 16 x 20 inches
![Title 'subject [defaced]' Medium acrylic, water color, pencil, ink on canvasette paper Size 16 x 20 inches](https://outsiderartmagazine.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/de0f8-gorc3.jpg?w=817&h=1024)
Outsider Art Magazine 