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by Joe Barr

Kathy Laybourn’s one woman show at the Pollard Gallery will be featuring a relatively new technique for her, encaustic painting.

Encaustic is an ancient technique used as far back as the Egyptians. Traditionally, oil paint is combined with a beeswax mixture and applied to either a canvas or board support. Then, the mixture is heated, in this case, with a heat gun. The paint is applied in layers as in more traditional painting techniques. The interesting thing about this approach is the lack of complete control one has over the way in which the media responds to the heating process.

Bring friends, meet Kathy, and enjoy her and her art at her Friday, May 2, opening. Continue reading →

Biography:
Marcos Chin graduated from the Ontario College of Art and Design, in Toronto, Canada. Since then, his work has appeared on book covers, advertisements, fashion catalogues, magazines, and CD covers. He has received a gold medal from the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles, and has had his work published in numerous award annuals such as Communication Arts and American Illustration. Continue reading →

by Tamara Walters

Pigs ears. I’m sure that’s what she said. I switch the phone to my other ear, and ask Cherie if she’s pulling my leg. She assures me this is true, naming the local butcher shop where she’d go to replenish her stock. Looking at Cherie’s sophisticated digital artwork, it is hard to believe that her early training as an artist involved using pigs’ ears as a canvas.

I’m talking to Cherie as she recovers from a bout with asthma that recently landed her in the hospital. Not yet having stumbled onto the Pig Ears Years story, I’ve been asking general questions about the ‘long and winding road’ that led to the birth of Mystic Moon Media.

Art has been a lifelong obsession for southeast Wisconsin native Cherie Gerhardt. Her earliest memories are of sitting in the hayloft in her family’s barn, sketching the horses. Continue reading →

by Rick McCluskey

Photography courtesy of Joe Barr

One of the first things I noticed about Vince Gedgaudas’ sculptures was that they didn’t have faces. Not one of them. The heads were a radical departure from the norm, looking more a futuristic impression of some terrestrial visitor rather than a human. Still, I found them fascinating and wanted to know more. I couldn’t get over how they complimented his amazing attention to detail.

“It’s interpretive. I sculpture a thought.” Continue reading →

by Franco Tarsitano

John Conlon and I first met in an abstract class at Lemon Street. At first John seemed a very shy person. Slowly his sparkle in the eye New England, dry wit surfaced. John’s sensitive, insightful comments of artists’ work, talent and personality integrated very easily into the gallery. There’s an appreciation for his thoughts and direction. His work exhibits these personal characteristics.

Where are you from originally?

What brought you to Kenosha?

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Without lines, there is no direction. Without color, there is no emotion. Composition breathes life.
~Erik Sosa

ExposeKenosha welcomes Erik Sosa to the artistic community of Kenosha. Erik relocated recently to Kenosha from Chicago, he is the newest member of the Lemon Street Gallery.
Click HERE to visit his website, and HERE to see his page at Lemon Street.

Dave won first place for both entries.
One for Acrylic Painting (the Barn) and one for Military Combat Experience (the Dream) at the North Chicago VA Medical Center Veteran’s art show for the 2008 National Veteran’s Creative Arts Completion. The first place-winning contestants will be invited to attend the National Veterans Creative Arts Festival to be hosted by the St. Louis VA Medical Center October 22-29, 2007.

Dave will also be participating at the North Shore Unitarian Church Art Fair 2008 April 26 & 27, 2008

by Franco Tarsitano

Melody Bigalke admits she’s a scrapper and a survivor. This feisty, crafty lady is a multi-disciplined artist that brings something unique to whatever medium she works. Ceramics, print-making, jewelry but her most distinctive art are her gourds.

Melody was a young transplant from Racine to Kenosha. A graduate of Bradford, and art from UWM, she has spent 24 years at HR Block where she enjoys working with people and says that every tax return is different and enjoys that challenge. Melody, along with her two very talented and artistic daughters Lisa and Becky, contribute greatly to the Kenosha art scene and community. Together they organized a Christmas show this past year at the Southport Beach House.
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by Scott Moore

Scott: Why did you decide to become an artist?

Scott: You mean, it was fate, or destiny, or you were born an artist?

Scott: What do you think about while you paint?

Scott: Your obligation to society? Or to history? Or our collective culture? Continue reading →

by Tammy Peacy

“I was born in Encino California. I have spent all of my life creating art. I was never formally trained; I never attended a fancy art school. I have had two individuals impact my work the first was a college art teacher who taught me how to not fear making a mistake. He aggravated me and challenged me. He broke my ego by telling me my work was terrible until I learned that it was a great thing to make a mess out of my work and then work it until it became art. The second person who influenced me was a crazy artist who showed me how to express the passion in my work. Until I met this man I spent my life Continue reading →