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″
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 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 man with the long mustache and the black cat | Acrylic on paper | 45 x 65 cm
When registering for her first semester of college, Hannah discovered that Intro to Photography was full. She had to fulfill an art requirement to graduate, and painting was the next best thing.
Over the next 3 years at Drew University, Hannah would go on to take classes in painting and drawing, beginning the journey of discovering themes and motifs that are both beautiful and meaningful to her.
At the same time, she was struggling with the mental and physical symptoms of anxiety, and began attending weekly therapy, and later starting medication. It was through these decisions and healing processes that she realized she wanted to paint about women and mental health, but not in the way one might assume.
She became fascinated with the nuanced topics of mental health. Setting boundaries, loving oneself, learning to accept imperfection while simultaneously appreciating progress. Through all of this, Hannah feels more impassioned than ever to create, both for herself and the incredible women that may connect with these themes.
Artist statement: The things that cause us shame tend to teach us the most. By trying to make the frightening, beautiful, I’m not taking away the fact that issues of mental health are painful, but rather trying to empower these feelings and show how much they can transform us. These experiences transform me as much as they do my paintings.
Through my therapy sessions and other conversations with powerful women, I am given endless ideas that express how complicated yet beautiful the human experience is, especially for those who undergo both direct and subtle discrimination far too often. Not only do my friends model for the pieces, but they often inspire the concepts as well.
By using both rendered and abstract elements, I am working to create multiple layers that on one hand read as interior spaces, but can also be broken up into many planes. This is essential to advance the narrative that these are invented spaces, and sometimes break down and begin again. With figures that are typically more rendered in mystical places, I use both oil and acrylic to play with how far back the eye can go.
My work is meant to be a microphone for the experiences I see and feel. I think that using art as a channel for these voices is the best possible reason to be an artist.
Women Ruminate 1 | Oil and acrylic canvas | 64×92 inDon’t Worry About It. Never Would when I’m Here | Oil on canvas | 42×50 in.When I’ve Got the Whole World in Front of Me | Oil and acrylic on canvas | 44×66 in.Do You Want Something to Change? | Oil and acrylic on canvas | 76×108 in.
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″
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
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″
I am inspired by accidental arrangements, pareidolia and dreams . These effects produce a quality of consciousness that makes art a magical journey for me. Much of my work is automatic , it happens while I do it. I enjoy this process of discovering a narrative. When I’m not painting, I’m busy making hand made jewelry.
I am inspired by accidental arrangements, pareidolia and dreams . These effects produce a quality of consciousness that makes art a magical journey for me. Much of my work is automatic , it happens while I do it. I enjoy this process of discovering a narrative. When I’m not painting, I’m busy making hand made jewelry.
The Pools of Cryptomnesia (or the stars journey through Pisces to Aquarius) | Acrylic | 24inx30in The lost i is in the spool of the cocoon | Acrylic on canvas, collage | 9inx12in Contagion of fear | Oil on canvas. collage | 9inx12in Green Man | Mixed Media | 20inx20in
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
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