The Epiphany Gallery
Above - PRAYER FLAGS
THE ART OF JO ANN BROWN-SCOTT
THE CREATIVE EPIPHANY
CHAPTER 18, TITLED
"THE LOVE OF MAKING ART"
www.tenspeedstudio.com
Below - AFRICAN GIRL

PHRASISM and THE PHRASIST MOVEMENT
Originated In The Work Of Randy Pijoan

Most recently Randy Pijoan has originated a way to convey the social
interaction of people at this turn of the hectic 21st Century. Randy's new
term Phrasism evolved from his conversations with Poet Jonathan Allen.
Jonathan said that the paintings reminded him of visual Haiku poetry, and
that they serve as phrases, as from poems, or ‘distilled snap-shots of
poetic phrasing,’ as they capture moments in the lives of hurried,  
nameless people going about their lives. These ideas, plus
correspondence with other artists, such as playwrights, photographers
and sculptors soon resulted in a completely new body of work described
in The Phrasist Manifesto. The movement was launched in the first
national traveling show of Phrasism in 2001, and included invitations to
other national artists, poets and writers selected for their cutting edge
work in and around the Phrasist design concepts.

Phrasist concepts in the manifesto include the following artistic
components: eliminating the horizon line in all works, to better represent
the other half of our lives that interacts with those views. Showing
aspects of realism as a complete abstract reality that is without non-
representational expressionistic overtones, as well as embracing the
majority of our lives that continues to be un-posed, random and ever
moving; always oriented toward the destination yet never relaxing into
one place for very long.
Seven years after its conception in Randy Pijoan’s visual art, Phrasism
has appeared in plays, movies and in the work of many other artists
throughout the country. Now Pijoan’s work has once again pushed the
envelope of what exactly defines Phrasism, with his most recent show at
the Peterson Gallery in Santa Fe. He has currently been experimenting
with new ways of pushing all the elements of Phrasist design and
composition, in some of the largest and smallest paintings of his career.

Pijoan explains, “Phrasism has always been about a portrait of an event,
and never about the person; gambling on the fact that even within this
‘snap-shot world’ we can indeed find the beauty and paradox of a true
realism yet unnoticed by the masses or the casual viewer.
Below
THE ART OF RANDY PIJOAN
THE CREATIVE EPIPHANY, CHAPTER 5, TITLED
"MY MAGENTA RETURN"
Copyright 2008
www.randypijoan.com
non-profit arts foundation - www.ventero.org

Left - AN IMAGE REPRESENTING RANDY'S
PHRASIST MOVEMENT
Below -
AN EXAMPLE OF RANDY'S
NIGHTSCAPES






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KATHY PARK
CHAPTER 3  TITLED "JUST ANOTHER WORD"
MULTI-FACETED ARTIST, MUSICIAN AND WRITER
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Kathy Park reports:  Carving marble with an air
compressor is WAY faster than by hand. (News comes
slow to those of us with an affinity to the stone age.) It's a
large block of marble, maybe 700 pounds, and I'm
roughing out a reclining woman, a goddess biding her
time. Bliss inside my noisy, dusty bubble.

I'm headed for the homestretch grad school MFA-wise.
Due to graduate from Lesely University in creative
writing-nonfiction in July. That's a credential to teach at the
college level and hopefully get a REAL job, but as we're
all finding out these days, REAL jobs don't have the
bennies they used to. So I guess I'll dream on about
health insurance, social security, paid sick leave...I might
even have an "in" helping a friend teach English 101 this
coming semester. We'll see.

Meanwhile, I'm writing for My Healing Kitchen, folks based
in Santa Fe who are compiling info on healing foods for
every known condition and disease. So far I've done
research on diabetes and obesity. Now I'm on to cancer.
It's great info, basically boils done to eat lots of veggies
and whole foods - the Mediter-Asian diet. Check out their
website.

Also gardening in the greenhouse, even if there is snow
covering the ground outside and the temperature dips
below zero. We basically don't buy many veggies anymore
because ours taste WAY better.

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Jane says, "When I ordered these tulip bulbs (above left painting titled "Tango" ) I had another kind of composition in mind
for them, but when they graced my garden last year, they had other ideas for me!  
I love fancy ruffled, multicolored tulips so much,
and was so pleased when I saw these blooming.
At the Denver Art Museum there is a painting by Maria van Oosterwyck that is also published in my book,
which has one of the most beautifully painted tulips I have ever seen.  
Her 17th century Dutch painting has been an inspiration to me for years and
one of my artistic goals has been to paint a tulip as beautifully as the one in her painting.
Her's is an entirely different color and kind of tulip, but I think mine are painted with as much love for their beauty as Maria's.

I'm also very proud to have one of my paintings in a show at the C. M. Russell Museum in March.  Typically they show "Western" themed work
there, so I am particularly delighted that they invited me to send one of my floral paintings.  I chose this one, "Star of the Night" (above right)
because it is visually powerful and presents the beauty and power of this part of nature."

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Chapter 10, "ANGELS ALONG THE WAY"
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