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| Above - SEA CHANGE Webster’s says: Sea change n (1612) 1: archaic: a change brought about by the sea 2: a marked change 3:Transformation Size: 24 x 30 Right - TWENTY FOUR The university fine art professor who first opened my eyes to the possibilities of collage art was an eccentric and gifted man, and collage was a relatively new concept in the sixties. We had no exotic papers available to us – we had no precedent to follow except his wild and confident direction. He went into the restroom and brought us paper towels, he gave us newspapers to tear apart, we used brown paper bags and string and trash - we used the same kind of paste that kindergartners used. He taught us the value of texture, layering paint with paper and placing pattern on top of pattern. Look how far we have come! Are you familiar with the art of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)? He and others put mixed media collage on the art map for us. This composition takes me right back to that time in my life – and it signifies for me all that is basic, primitive, simple, raw and beautiful. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, the moon shines in between. People around the world do their thing, every 24 hours. Size: 24 x 48 THE ART OF JO ANN BROWN-SCOTT THE CREATIVE EPIPHANY CHAPTER 18, TITLED "THE LOVE OF MAKING ART" www.tenspeedstudio.com www.placerarts.org LINK TO ART SLIDESHOW: www.tenspeedstudio.com/rituals1.pdf |
| REGAN ROSBURG, CHAPTER 8 TITLED "WARPAINT" Regan has recently relocated to the land of green hills and whiskey, Tennessee, to join her loving new fiance'. This year Regan will be working on her show for David B Smith in Denver, CO, which debuts next summer. She has also begun collaborating on small jewelry pieces with famed artist Shawn Hecox, and her line will be showcased in Nashville this fall. If you are interested in prints of Regan's painting "Catharsis," please contact her via her website. And if you are in the Denver area this June, please see her piece, included in the Denver Biennial of the Americas. The show is called "Objectophilia," and is sponsored by the MCA. FOR ADDITONAL INFORMATION ON IMAGES AND SHOWS GO TO www.reganrosburg.com |
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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| Above THE PAINTINGS OF JANE JONES Chapter 10, "ANGELS ALONG THE WAY" in THE CREATIVE EPIPHANY |
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| Below and Left - THE MIXED MEDIA COLLAGE PAINTINGS OF JO ANN BROWN-SCOTT |