Entries Tagged 'Visual Artist' ↓
April 20th, 2008 — EK30, Visual Artist
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 →
April 13th, 2008 — Sculpture, EK29, Kenosha Art Association, Visual Artist
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 →
April 13th, 2008 — EK29, Lemon Street Gallery, Visual Artist
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?
I was born in Hartford Connecticut and lived most of my youth in New England. I graduated high school in Providence Rhode Island.
What brought you to Kenosha?
A smokey gray 2004 Honda Civic with mud guards and a sunroof, actually, I started to look for a place that taught encaustic painting and found out about Lemon Street.
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April 6th, 2008 — EK28, Lemon Street Gallery, ExposeKenosha, Visual Artist
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.
April 6th, 2008 — EK28, Kenosha Artists, Visual Artist
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
March 23rd, 2008 — EK26, Lemon Street Gallery, Visual Artist
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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March 9th, 2008 — EK24, 716, Art Events, Racine, Visual Artist
by Scott Moore
Scott: Why did you decide to become an artist?
Scott: I didn’t have a choice.
Scott: You mean, it was fate, or destiny, or you were born an artist?
Scott: No. I was fired from every real job I ever had, so I needed something to keep me busy.
Scott: What do you think about while you paint?
Scott: My obligations.
Scott: Your obligation to society? Or to history? Or our collective culture? Continue reading →
February 3rd, 2008 — Kenosha Artists, Visual Artist
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 →
February 3rd, 2008 — Kenosha Artists, Artist, Visual Artist
by Franco Tarsitano
Anne Elisabeth Hogh has a raucous laugh, big, brash blue eyes, and a Danish accent to match it all. Anne Elisabeth, like her artwork, has a honesty you can’t help but enjoy. This one of a kind work really needs to be seen to experience the colors and dimension, and if you happen to be there when Elisabeth is there you may find yourself all wrapped up… literally.
So, where’s the beer?
In the fridge honey, in the fridge!
The first time I saw your work was at the exhibit you had at Lemon Street last year. At first, I think viewers love the bright colors, but then are curious as to how you get your paintings to get the 3 dimensional qualities they have… as if they are growing? How do you do that?
For me, painting is absolutely not what you see– it is a process!
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January 27th, 2008 — Lemon Street Gallery, Exhibit, Visual Artist
Born on the coast of Denmark “where light changes by the minute,” Anne Elisabeth Hogh grew to understand how color touches the soul. In the spirit of Picasso, who insisted “colors, like features, follow changes in the emotions,” Hogh captures the volatile nature of feelings by juxtaposing the warmth of orange or red against deep blue and icy white. Using vivid contrasts, textural sheen, and liquid geometry to convey the perpetual flux of human emotion, Hogh’s paintings shimmer with a living, sensible force. Progressing layer by layer, one color leading the next, Hogh dresses the naked canvas in a base application of acrylic, gradually building density and texture until she achieves a satisfying level of emotional resonance and visual complexity. Central to her art is a deep desire, an “inner necessity” in Kandinsky’s terms, to relate her experience, to reveal outwardly, what occurs within-to share the light of her childhood with an admiring audience.
Do not miss her Solo Show at the Lemon Street Gallery
January 23 - February 17, 2008
Click HERE to see pictures of the Show’s Opening
January 27th, 2008 — Exhibit, Kenosha, Visual Artist
“There were a total of 346 artists that submitted 922 prints from 44 states for this year’s exhibition. The juror selected 100 prints by 91 artists from 31 states to represent the twenty-first exhibition of original, small format prints.”
Director’s Statement Continue reading →
January 13th, 2008 — Stained Glass, Visual Artist
by Chet Griffith
Friends should not let friends… interview them.
Chet: O.k. question number one: What is your favorite color?
Riki: Are you serious?
C: Yeah!
R: That’s really it?
C: Yeah, that’s it. You see, I’m setting the bar low, so that there is nowhere else to go but up.
R: I’m gonna go with red.
After that revelatory, earth-shattering beginning I figured it was time to get down to business.
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January 6th, 2008 — Art Teacher, Painter, Visual Artist
by Joe Barr
Kathleen Laybourn, a lovely and gracious Lady, is a Kenosha native and resident and a painter of note. Kathleen recently won awards at KAA’s first Advent Art Show.
Joe: What did it feel like, winning both the first place, and people’s choice awards at the Advent art show?
Kathleen: Unbelievable! It was unbelievably wonderful. I didn’t expect it. That’s for sure. I knew the piece was good, but there are a lot of good artists around. To be singled out like that is always a wonderful thing.
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December 23rd, 2007 — Lemon Street Gallery, Kenosha Art Association, Photographer, Artivist, Visual Artist
by Franco Tarsitano
Kate Fallucca and her photography are a wonderful addition to the Kenosha art community. From the moment she arrived to our city her exuberance has involved her in Lemon Street Gallery, the board of the Kenosha Art Association, and helping out where ever she can like at the Pollard Gallery. The first day I met her at Lemon Street her energy overwhelmed me. Her work reveals a connection with nature and the out-of-doors. Frequently, looking at her photography makes you wish you could have been traveling with her.
Franco: Tell me a bit about where you’re from and your travels and what brought you to Kenosha. Continue reading →
