ARTISTS I LIKE:
1. Margaret Withers
2. Dana Harel
3. Sarah FitzSimons
4. Paul D. Santoleri
5. Cecy Colichon
6. Melissa Manfull
7. Jason Robert Bell
8. Justin Gibbens
9. Marie Irmgard
10. Jarrod Beck
ARTISTS I DON'T LIKE:
1. James Chen-Feng Kao
2. Katy Horan
3. Rebecca DiDomenico
4. Caitlin Masley
5. Clara Lou Crockett
6. Dragica Antolovic
7. Leslie Baum
8. Megan Canning
9. Randy Wray
10. Gail Biederman
CECY COLICHON
Cecy Colichon uses a technique in her pieces that combines
technological and organic components through geometrical studies of shape and
movement. By doing so, she states that these surreal images appear to search
for the “Ideal,” but her sharp geometries in her pieces do more than just that.
They represent movement in a static space with a combination of light and color
that morphs into the ethereal and spiritual tone. She was inspired in her
homeland of Peru when she visited the southern Pacific coast and felt strong “metaphysical”
connections which later came across as an energy flow in her later works.
I personally was drawn to Colichon’s work because of her
color and line usage. It is very striking and engaging for the viewer, and the
longer you stare the more you begin to see. Her pieces take you on a ride
through your imagination creating your own narrative along the way. I thought
it represented cityscapes at night from an aerial view, or even circuit boards
at first, but she is very effective in the way she uses texture, line and color
to portray her ethereal and mystical themes of her homeland and its ancient
culture and people.
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| Codex VII, inks, glaze & pens on clayboard, 2011, 18x24x1 1/2 |
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| Dimensional Projections V, color pencils, gel pens on paper, 2003, 28x19 |
JUSTIN GIBBENS
An interesting artist as they come, Justin Gibbens combines
the images of ordinary animals and turns them into something extraordinary
through surrealism. He utilizes a traditional Chinese painting style to create
zoological drawings and paintings into stylized and highly exaggerated images
of mythical creatures. According to his statement, “beasts speak of evolution”
and they even grasp at mutation and biodiversity through the eyes of a 19th
century field artist.
What caught me at first was his use of bold contrasts
between the light source and the resulting shadows, especially in that first
piece. It looks like those herons could just fly right off of the wall and into
the sky. He executes everything beautifully with crisp lines and saturated
colors in earthy organic tones to match the animals he studies. It is also very
clear that Asian styles influence his pieces through the use of poised and
graceful curves of forms.
MARIE IRMGARD
Marie Irmgard is an old fashioned artist whose statement is
a list of 29 facts about her. For example, “I think it is a cliché to view
artist such as Jackson Pollock as clichés.” She provides an insight into
herself for her viewers to gather a better understanding of her artwork as a
whole body, as well as her beliefs that sometimes in life, you just have to get
up and do what you want even if it seems a clichéd cliché. I do have to say, my
favorite comment of hers is, “I think analysis can be paralysis and often is.” She
thinks in such a way that all artists should.
Irmgard’s artwork is stunning, eloquent, graceful,
uplifting, depressing, dynamic, and just amazing to me. She manages to capture
they beauty of flowers and organic shapes and continue to enhance the organic
feel to it through an extremely gestural style. Everything remains loose but tight,
controlled but chaotic. There is a disorganized organization to her pieces that
I absolutely adore. Without these elements, they would just be images of plants
as everyone sees them, but there is movement and real emotion at play that
kidnaps the viewer ever deeper into the paintings’ clutches.
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