August 2022
Artist Of The Month – Marlene Tseng Yu
Marlene Tseng Yu is an Asian-American artist known for her wall-sized, nature-inspired, abstract expressionist paintings. She has exhibited her “Forces of Nature” series extensively in Europe, Asia and North America. From 1969 to 2007, she lived and worked in SoHo, New York City for 38 years, and in 2008, opened a studio in Long Island City. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei in 1960, and her Master in Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1967.
From 1969 to 2007, she lived and worked in SoHo, New York City for 38 years, and in 2008, opened a studio in Long Island City. She received her Bachelor in Fine Arts degree from the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei in 1960, and her Master in Fine Arts degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1967.
She taught art at Denver University in Colorado in 1967 to 1968. Since 1994, she has been on the Advisory Committee of the Fine Arts Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. Since 1995, she has curated exhibitions for the new art movement, “Forces of Nature.” Marlene is Founder and Curator of the Rain Forest Art Foundation from 2001 to present http://www.rainforestartfoundation.org/. In 2014, Marlene established her museum in Shreveport, Louisiana, www.marleneyumuseum.org the Marlene Yu Museum.
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September 2022
Artist Of The Month – Ricardo Pulido – September 2022
Series: Myths
Title: The Destruction of the Tower of Babel.
Technique: oil on canvas.
Size: 80 X 60cm
Year 2022.
Ricardo Pulido is a Colombian artist with a focus on surrealism. In his paintings and sculptures he shows various mysteries and phenomena of the universe and unknown worlds. Themes from mythologies, parallel worlds and dimensional gates, ghosts and UFOs etc. invite the viewer to take a journey through these worlds of mystery. He lives and works in Freiburg, Germany.
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October 2022
Artist Of The Month – Lubomir Arsov – Canada
Lubomir Arsov
A storyteller at heart, Lubomir Arsov works as an animation writer/director. His personal work explores the psychological, parapolitical, and spiritual dynamics that define the momentous time we are collectively navigating. Professionally, he has worked in production and IP development for both major and boutique animation studios, on a variety of film and TV projects. He is currently in the process of completing his second short film “The Forest King”, as part of an animated short-film anthology.
An ARTIST Exploring the SHADOWS – Lubomir Arsov.
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November 2022
Artist Of The Month – John Dahlsen, Australia
John Dahlsen, Australia
Environmental Art – Unveiled at Sculpture by the Sea, Bondi, Sydney
Titel: “Absolut Dahlsen”
Size: 4,20 x 1,50 cm
Size 4.15 metres
Wide x 3.33 metres
High x 5.80 metres
By John T. Spike
Published in the International Art Magazine ‘Art & Antiques’ Summer Edition p. xx. Artists can be compared to bees, American philosopher Buckminster Fuller has pointed out. A bee gathers nectar to make honey; yet what it’s really doing, one might say, is pollinating flowers. So artists often find that their actions have unexpected consequences. John Dahlsen is a contemporary Australian artist whose wide-ranging interests lead him in many directions—from abstract painting to digital photography to sculptures in public squares. In his leisure time, Dahlsen enjoys strolling along the splendid sandy beaches near his home in Byron Bay. Unfortunately, even the virgin coasts of Australia are besmirched by picnic litter and soda cans washed up by the tide and on occasion, Dahlsen will pick these items up, as many of us would. One day about a decade ago it struck him just how much brightly colored junk was lying about in plain sight. The shore and dunes were sparkling with pieces of red, blue, black, white and clear plastic. In a gesture that initially seemed futile, Dahlsen started filling sacks with refuse and bringing them home to sort. Most of the bottle tops, children’s combs, bubble pipes, hair clips and innumerable other broken and sundry bits of plastic turned out to be dyed in the same few colors. Soon his rubbish bins w e r e o v e r – flowing with colorful assemblages of objects that were indistinguishable except for their shapes. Unified in this way, the beach debris seemed less ugly.
Please read more here: https://johndahlsen.com/art-critiques-reviews-media-articles-amnd-testimonials/
Artist CV: https://johndahlsen.com/john-dahlsen-biography/
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November 2022
Artist Of The Month – Şinasi Güneş, Turkey
Titel: “Simulation 4”
Şinasi Güneş, Turkey
Titel: “Simulation 6”
Size: 80 x 80 cm
Technic: Acrylic on canvas
https://sinasigunes.net/ <-Biografie and artist statement
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November 2022
Artist Of The Month – Irena Paskali, Macedonia
Timeless Drawing 25 meter
St Gertrud Church and Culture Cologne, Germany, 2019
Drawings with medieval-modern (pre-18th century) wood charcoal.
These landscapes have been drawn with wood charcoal and this wood charcoal is over hundred, even thousand, years old. And that is something special for the artist. She says she has great respect for it. She is fascinated by the immense time span concentrated in this material. She asks herself where this wood charcoal comes from. From wood, but what kind of wood, maybe it was furniture once or burned bone rests. When drawing she holds a piece of past times in her hands and creates something new with this little piece of charcoal. She is the nexus, the catalyst between the past and the present as if she could convey something from past times to the present by drawing on a sheet of paper. She likes the natural shade of color and does not want to mix it with other colors. For her, this wood charcoal speaks its own language. The drawing is clear, pure, distinct and elegant when the wood charcoal stands for itself. Irena Paskali loves the hardness of this material that is also soft at the same time and yet can appear strong and powerful in a drawing. The artist presents sleek perfection in the division, in the composition, in the display of feelings. Her sense for rhythm and proper balance between black and white tones is striking.
Josef Gülpers Ph.D. Art historian
Irena Paskali, Macedonia
Irena Paskali “2202 m”, 2 min 38 sec.,
Finally free
– Escape from civilization – freed from all constraints. The mountain world, which is so hostile to life in the first place, immediately conveys a feeling of security and immediately becomes a place of longing for the beholder. The floating ceiling gives the place something mystical, there the little church, spirituality awakens – the so unapproachable place becomes the source of deeper knowledge for those who reach it. Shoes that no one owns, footprints in the snow – departure to another life. Part of the Project By the Way 365 Macedonia
Every grain buried in the ground brings new life Earth is the plane on which we live and die, on which we find hope. The grain is fertilized, grows and dies like man.
Please find more here: https://www.paskali-i.de/drawing/
Artist CV: https://www.paskali-i.de/cv/
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DEZEMBER 2022
Artist Of The Month – John Dahlson – Australia
Environmental Art
By John T. Spike
Published in the International Art Magazine ‘Art & Antiques’ Summer Edition p. xx. Artists can be compared to bees, American philosopher Buckminster Fuller has pointed out. A bee gathers nectar to make honey; yet what it’s really doing, one might say, is pollinating flowers. So artists often find that their actions have unexpected consequences. John Dahlsen is a contemporary Australian artist whose wide-ranging interests lead him in many directions—from abstract painting to digital photography to sculptures in public squares. In his leisure time, Dahlsen enjoys strolling along the splendid sandy beaches near his home in Byron Bay. Unfortunately, even the virgin coasts of Australia are besmirched by picnic litter and soda cans washed up by the tide and on occasion, Dahlsen will pick these items up, as many of us would. One day about a decade ago it struck him just how much brightly colored junk was lying about in plain sight. The shore and dunes were sparkling with pieces of red, blue, black, white and clear plastic. In a gesture that initially seemed futile, Dahlsen started filling sacks with refuse and bringing them home to sort. Most of the bottle tops, children’s combs, bubble pipes, hair clips and innumerable other broken and sundry bits of plastic turned out to be dyed in the same few colors. Soon his rubbish bins w e r e o v e r – flowing with colorful assemblages of objects that were indistinguishable except for their shapes. Unified in this way, the beach debris seemed less ugly.
December 2022
Artist Of The Month – Anke Augspach – Germany
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December 2022
Artist Of The Month – Doesjka Jasper – Netherlands
Doesjka Jasper has lived a large part of her life in Portugal. This amazingly colorful country has certainly contributed to her urge to create. Doesjka Jasper is a self-taught artist. Since she was a child, she was always busy to “create something”. Anything that came her way could be an ingredient to model something. Whether on the beach with sea sand, candle wax, papier-mâché, misted windows, or clay. Everything could be brought into one form. She often had horses and bulls as her theme. Later she began trying clay and wax, and this was cast in bronze. And of course the content changed over time. The subject was now the encounter with love, movement and dance. Lovers who melt into each other. Their figures merge into each other in a floating state. She expresses the state of love, as detached from space and time. Her works have been shown in the Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Canada and Portugal.
Visual impressions of the artistic work of Doesjka Jasper
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Januar 2023
Artist Of The Month – Alexia Papadopoulos – Switzerland
https://www.atelier-alexia.com/malerei.html
http://www.atelier-alexia.com/
Please find more about her recent artwork
Alexia Papadopoulos was born 1972 and grew up near Basel, Switzerland. She went from 1994 – 1999 to Vienna, Austria to study product design at the University of applied Arts and restoration and conservation of art at the Academy of fine Arts. When she returned to Basel, she founded her own atelier and works since then as an independent painter and illustrator. Some of her illustrations were published in newspapers, like NZZ am Sonntag, BaslerZeitung, Basellandschaftliche Zeitung, Aargauer Zeitung (ch-Media) and the Nebelspalter. She exposed her artwork among other places at the Kunsthaus Baselland, Kunstraum Riehen, CH, FabrikCulture in Hegenheim and Black Forest Artmeeting in Blotzheim F. The early painting of Alexia Papadopoulos use the aesthetics of the fifties. The colors in the movies and the advertisements have a special optic. Through the titles like „You are going to recognize me with the red hat“, or „When does he call back?“, stories are told, but just the introduction. The observer can imagine the continuation. The image of woman complete changes in the eighties/nineties, as it is shown in the following paintings „Girl 1“ and „Girl 2“.
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JANUARY 2023
Artist Of The Month – Andrea Weiss – Germany
Flash For Empathy
https://www.instagram.com/andrea_m_weiss/
The “flash for empathy” is a series of large-format works. Each work suggests a portrait but with three bars blocking a view like a blindfold. The series provides a wide margin of interpretation in terms of one’s media use and position in society. It raises questions and invites reflection. The artist brings to canvas her subjective impressions of our rapidly changing coexistence. She explores the characteristics that determine our personal and social identity such as sustainability, joy, empathy, reflection, enthusiasm, inner peace and happiness. The intense and radiant colour combinations speak of the artist’s heart-warming faith that every individual is different and perfect in their special way. Every work in the series is unique like a person. Her intention is to inspire the viewers to reflect upon themselves, to rediscover their true purpose and trust themselves more. Her work is also a call to take another look, to raise the gaze, tune in to a person in front of you and establish a meaningful dialogue. To extend this positive message of confidence and sustainability, each work is encased in a sturdy shadow gap steel frame. It’s complete.