| Sarly Robert M. Sarly Inner Landscapes           Robert began painting at MIT in the 1960's under the influence of Gyorgy Kepes. He has been actively working in acrylic since 2002, and currently has work hanging in Boston, Wellesley, Waltham, Needham, Newton, and Provincetown MA, and also in Vermont, New York, New Mexico, and California. His philosophy of art is to represent the "inner landscape" of the human experience, and not to try to replicate external reality, which the camera does more accurately. Robert's canvas becomes a conversation between the artist and the observer, and between the conscious and unconscious minds, where deeper meanings sometimes appear but only over time. Also the colors of each canvas palette enter into dialogue in the ways they meet and merge, swirl and blend. Colors express their own nature and co-create the canvas image. No two compositions are ever exactly the same, and when the parts all come together the canvas sings its own song of life's joy that we each recognize as our own. The purpose of the work is to hear this song being sung from within the canvas. Robert is Senior Vice President for Wealth management at Smith Barney in Waltham MA. He is on the Board of the Andover Newton Theological School, and teaches Dialogue as a Spiritual practice at the adult learning center of Miriam's Well in Saugerties NY. He lives with his wife, Jane, in Wellesley MA. His two sons, Benjamin and Alexander, live and work in the New York City area. Leora Schiff          "My photography is an exploration of textures, contrasts, patterns and the relationship of subjects with their surrounding environments. My treatments include urban and natural landscapes, people, animals and objects, and abstracts. I enjoy the drama of black and white, but also the interplay of color with texture and pattern." Daniel Semeraro .jpg)  .jpg) .jpg) Daniel Semeraro received his certificate of learning from the venerable University of Universities in 1983 under rather awkward circumstances. Two years later (in 1975) he was the recipient of the prestigious Anderson M. Fuchs fellowship, honoring excellence in whatever was deemed excellent in that day. Since that time he has performed quite dishonorably in a fair number of capacities, creating images with great hustle and gleefully elongated processes; plucking and punching color from the pages of books, old maps, broad swaths of wallpaper, or simple stationary-- building cities, moving mountains. His works have been excluded from a large number of collections and numerous other museums, institutions, and universities across this particular planet. He currently lives in a cave on the west side of Providence. Contact him immediately at semerarodaniel@hotmail.com. Lanise Shelley The Orphelina " 'The Orphelina' is an Ode to the orphanage that I came from, The Foundation for the Children of Haiti. I fuse poetry, found text, and speeches with water (acrylics); the text represents the character's accessory (hat, mic, collar, bracelets...etc). Each piece has a splash of fantasy, a tinge of myth tied taut with a thread of Haitian folklore. I was born in
-Lanise Shelley Barry Shuchter    My paintings depict moments of activity that would otherwise be invisible: what wind looks like blowing through the branches of a tree... the meditation of washing dishes... the mutual influence of adjoining plants... deciding whether to stay inside and write or follow the path outdoors... the effect of an over-hanging branch on the river below. Whether the subject is a living being or an inanimate object, the paintings are stylized expressions of the play between inner and outer realities. Sidney Silva      Sidney Andrade da Silva grew up in Belo Horizonte, Brasil. There he learned to use anything he could get his hands on to create art and beauty. He was called on to paint murals and clothing, to building bird cages, and to use scraps of wood and rock to create conversation pieces. His self-taught, open eyes draw him to books, anthologies and museums where he looks for inspiration and learns technique. Sidney's ability to create with whatever is at his disposal has inspired his recycling based, home-made, Brazilian style. He also air brushes and paints canvases and can do portraits but his enjoyment comes from creating abstract and thick pieces. Mark Slater      Mark Says: "American Comic Books started in the Old West. Fashioned out of pulp paper and meant to be entirely disposable. This American invention has flourished into a multi million dollar industry and is now in this last decade has transcended its original medium (paper) and is now a multi-media bonanza. My art/style dabbles in many mediums, but Comic Books have always been the root passion for my inspiration. With this show at the All Asia I intend to bring the viewer into a simpler version of the ZAPF, POW, BANG comics that we have grown used to over the last few years.I present selected works from the last year 08-09, including original artwork from my forth coming title "Full Moon Havoc" from Severed Head Comics Publishing and many other inspiring and intricate images from my portfolio. Please come to my exhibit and teleport your older self to the youngster inside of you." Visit Mark's Website at: http://www.naturallinestudio.com Emily Smith      Emily Says: "My show is entitled In the Car because the car is like its own personal radio and decompression chamber away from the world. as long as you pay attention to the road i guess you aren't really bothering anyone. it really gives me time to look around at the changing of the lighting of the sky or the changing of landscapes, the rolling of a city going past me or even the bass-line of a car pulling up next to me at a stoplight and their momentary embarrassment at how loud it is. so i turn mine up. the car also helps me balance out what i need in terms of color and light and helps me figure out when i am just being too lazy to do anything else. it's a great timekeeper." Jo Smith      Jo Says: "For many years, I have been intrigued by the endless possibilities of art. As a self-taught artist, I discover new ways to visualize my feelings, ideas and ways to express myself by combining textures, colors, and abstract forms with symbols of reality. I use my paintbrush as a way to remember, a way to capture memories, a way to symbolize life experience and to colorfully paint the possibilities of the future. I am an artist who wants others to look through my eyes of imagination, as I have to others in my journey of experiencing art." Iana Sophia  Iana says: "The images that live on the canvas are ideas that have swept through my mind and materialized. They haunt me and I have to search for them. They are not trying to represent "reality" as it may appear to us, imitate or beautify it in a classical sense. Ideally, they just are. They are open, free. They may be the intense journey of a nomad or the quiet meditation of a seeker. The images may lure the viewer, the creator, into their realms to challenge her sense of aesthetics. One has to find one's own image in the painting, if it is there. I would like the viewers themselves to take a journey. Don't we all feel wanderlust?" "Iana Sophia's art pulsates between the seen and envisioned, the figurative and abstract. Inspired by a mystical sensitivity and an appreciation of nature, these paintings draw the viewer into a place of contemplation, where the secrets of the work begin to unfold. " (David Sirois, poet and critic) Iana Sophia is from Karlovy Vary, 100 miles west of Prague Kate B. Steer     As an Artist I have consistently been exploring the boundaries of realism through printmaking, mixed media collage, ink and abstract watercolor. Having studied Abstract Composition with artist James Powell Hendrix (UMASS), Plein Air Impressionism with Hilda Neily( Provincetown Art Association) and Watercolor at the Chateau de La Napoule Art Association (La Napoule, France); my work today is a fusion of my training in Realism, my aesthetic passion for mark-making and my fascination with abstract composition. It reflects an interest in the formal elements of drawing and painting, the properties of line and color, and how they react with various media and the process of abstraction. Inspired by the natural world and the forms and textures found in nature, I use the living world around me to build on. I intentionally co-create something real paired with something completely self created, making the actual and imaginary exist together. Process is a significant part of my work. I begin with quiet, gentle water color applied in layers. I then inundate the space with texture using media such as wax, sand, plaster, and ink, while applying line according to tonal boundaries. At some point during the process, an idea emerges. The painting becomes about my passion to create energy, the harmonies between the gentle and rugged, and the real and abstract. My goal is to create an aesthetic ‘in between’ - just as the eye is capable of perceiving two worlds at the same time, simultaneously capturing the reflection in a window and all that is outside. I use line and texture as a binding ingredient for the realistic and fictitious elements, creating the unknown and calling for a reexamination of reality David Stickney         3-D Layered Photographs by David Stickney Reagan Stunkel         I have been interested in and developed a love for all art, and the visual arts specifically, since before my tenth birthday, but I only seriously took up painting regularly around August, 2001. I have only attended one art "class" in my life, as far as technique or history are concerned, so I have actually learned by doing and doing over a thousand paintings in the last 9 years. More so than not, I consider this enormous output to have generated unsuccessful paintings, both obviously technically immature, and lacking in a strong central feeling and vision. However, while there have been moments where I have despaired at ever "getting it right" in a consistent way, I have always known, basically for all my existence, that by nature, I AM AN ARTIST. Knowing this, there remained only two things to do: stick with the enormous trust I have in my own self perception; and keep painting, creating an ever clearer reservoir of experienced painting facts to draw on. I have done this with great self trust in my own ability to CHANGE, to become the kind of Artist I most admire - one whose grasp of technique is so inherent that it is a permanent, ever-trustable support, allowing inspiration, feeling and vision to be clearly achieved in my works. This is an ongoing process. While I will say I have perfection in me, I will as well qualify that by saying that I am moving into or becoming MORE perfect with each painting, successful or not. With each work, there is always learning.
- Reagan Stunkel Noah Sussman        Noah Sussman is an active artist living and painting in Bobby Swainston More Information Coming Soon! Rowan Swanson         More Information Coming Soon! Paul Swigaret Pop Expressionism    More Information Coming Soon! |