Baie de Cassis
(Blackcurrant Bay)
46 x 33 cm

"Pictorial space, where the color and the matter clash, is a means of concretizing my sensitive vision of the word. During my artistic studies, I take courses of the evening of drawings in workshops of the town of Paris. Then I improve in a workshop of visual art in the sixth district and course of many exposures and permanent collections. I then start to conceive scenographies for theatrical companies and carry out painted fabrics of large size. With the wire of the meetings and voyages, I create landscapes and my style continues. Consequently the use of the knife and the oil-base paint is for me the post expressive means to translate intact emotions.
My pictorial research is articulated around two axes : the superposition of plans colour and making of a rich and contrasted matter."




On his site, I found that there is a current showing of Alexandre Rabory's artwork at the l'hôtel Montfleuri Arc de Triomphe until the 29th on November.

Stark and stoic, his images are calming and mystical. If you can't make it to Paris, you can see more of his art on the web.

COUNTRY ROADS

This scene is uniquely rural. Driving the country roads of rural America you encounter this friendliness. Each stranger you meet has their own distinct manner of waving. Exhibited: Blue Cloud Abbey, Meredith Corporation, Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center

40 inches x 26 inches cm
Pastel
Figurative, Realist

Since 1964, Roy E. Burgess has painted the people, the life and the cultures of the plains of America. The artist’s inaugural museum exhibition was Rural Roots, a series of painting of farmers and small town people. In the mid to late 1980’s, the Rural Roots Rural was viewed in art museums in America and Russia. Burgess follows President Eisenhower’s belief that one on one relating among people could solve most problems in the world.

Burgess returned to Russia in the early 1990’s with his latest museum exhibition Urban Roots. These paintings portray city people. After a three-year tour of art museums in Russia the exhibition returned to America in 1996.

After the Urban Roots opening in Russia, Burgess had a chance encounter with a Benedictine monk from Blue Cloud Abbey; a monastery dedicated to serving in the Indian people in the Dakotas. Six months later Burgess was living with 35 monks.

Dakota and Black Robes are the third and fourth museum exhibitions created by Burgess. Dakota is about the Native American people of South and North Dakota. Burgess researched and painted the Indians during his two years as artist-in-residence at Blue Cloud Abbey. Black Robes is about the monks he lived with during his residency at the monastery.

In the late 90’s, Burgess moved to the West Indies to research the 82 nationalities living in Caribbean Islands. Returning to America, the artist is designing and painting the Caribbean series in Excelsior Springs, Missouri.



Roy E. Burgess’s latest series is called “OHANA”, which means “extended family” in the Hawaiian language. The paintings tell the stories of the Native Hawaiian people and their culture. The Ritz Carlton at Kapalua, Maui as presenting sponsor will premier the “OHANA” exhibit on the Hawaiian Island in the Fall of 2006. The paintings will be exhibited for three months at the Ritz Carlton or the Maui Arts and Cultural Center. At the end of the exhibit the paintings will be sold on eBay to raise funds for a charity serving the Native Hawaiian people.

An interesting site on flickr called Eye Hand with side by side photos, then drawings. It's a coordination game. You should play!

From an art piece entitled "Present"
(1998)
7000 x 600 x 600

Recently, Masahiro Fukuyama has a gained a presence on the internet as a sculptor inspired by the ancient culture of the Samurai and contemporary game-culture. His suits or wearable scultures are very eccentric, but his other artwork is very interesting as well.

Born in 1976 in Kumamoto, Japan, Masahiro Fukuyama now lives in Amsterdam. He graduated from Tokyo National University of Art and Music in April 2002. He entered Sandberg Institute for post graduate work in 2004.

Exploring his site, I find myself amused and intrigued. Click on "art works", then run your mouse over the blank squares at the top. It might take a moment to load. I like the animal therapist (2000)! It is the 4th square from the left.

Violetta wearing a bird mask
3D bust of Violetta, a little
girl at a garden wedding party
Paper sculpture painted in
oils and acrylics
8" x 16 cm


In Rachel Slick's first memories of working with paper mache she is with her Grandmother, making calaveras for Dia de los Muertos on the patio of her Tijuana home.

Now a recognized self-taught artist, Rachel creates work which combines a Mexican sentimentality with a contemporary take on the symbolism of transformation. These sculptures represent layers of existence, and describe the human experience in lyrical terms.



This is "The Dance of Life and Death". It reminds me of my experiences at Burning Man.

For more of her art, see her art pages.