Art and Artists

Dan Civa

2009-10-26T15:09:00.000-07:00

The November 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Dan Civa. Dan was born in Denmark in 1939. He paints animals, people and nature in warm colors. Long stays in the Far East and kin in Sri Lanka influence his works. Glowing pictures with motifs from Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Denmark depict experiences of colorful people in everyday life.

Dan is known as the painter of 'HumanAnimals', transgenetic motifs in paintings and drawings that symbolize the combination of human beings and animals. His ideas and inspiration for the HumanAnimals comes from a deep interest in science and research.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Lynette Charlie Despanza. Soulful portraits.
2. April Kiessling. The flux and interaction between what is seen and unseen.
3. Jeanne-Marie Meyer. Map and photography collage.
4. Studio Raziel. Occult imagery.
5. Tibor Juhasz. Colored articulation of the purity and glow of passion.
6. Karen McNab. Still Life and florals from Canada.

Kevin Barr, Judy Puckett and Calico have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Pasadena Art Night
Open for Pasadena Art Night and continuing through January was the Pasadena Museum of California Art survey of more than one hundred twenty works drawn from the oeuvre of the celebrated painter Wayne Thiebaud. With his penchant for dazzling sunlight and high-keyed color and a gift for painterly, sensuous handling of oils and other media, Thiebaud's paintings link high art with popular culture while conveying a sunny optimism that is quintessentially Californian. Also at Pasadena Art Night along with exhibits at many other institutions and museums was Mantong and Protong at Pasadena City College. There, material never before exhibited illuminated two of the twentieth century's most unusual theories of human origins and the artists who originated them, Richard Shaver and Stanislav Szukalski .

Long Beach SoundWalk
Many art projects were on display at the 2009 Long Beach Soundwalk. Sound of Silence consisted of a guy sweeping the sidewalk with a broom. He was tethered to electronic devices and several sets of headphones worn by Soundwalk goers. When the sweeper moved, the broom sensors created eerie sounds which played through the headphones. As he swept, the people attached to him by headphone cords moved along with him.

Another one consisted of upright hollow cylinders. Each cylinder held styrofoam pieces with strings stretched over them. At the base of each assembly was a little motor which was activated by the viewers. The motor played the strings, and the sounds could be heard when one put an ear near the styrofoam. The simplest piece was water-filled plastic containers, each with a hole in the bottom, hanging over metal cans and inverted bowls. Other than a few traditional musical instruments, this was the only non-electrical piece. An art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://nanday.com/art

Owen A. Kelly

2009-09-23T02:02:00.000-07:00

The October 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Owen Kelly. Owen built the Mutant Vehicle Polaroid Photo Booth at Burning Man 2009. It was a large outdoor photo studio for Mutant Vehicles. Mutant Vehicles, or art cars, are great creative achievements. They are vehicles and are driven like cars or trucks or carts or pulled like trailers, but they don't look at all like their original form. They even go through a jury like process by the festival which only licenses ones which are sufficiently mutated. Photo Booth greeters mingled with the artist and crew of each creation before it was photographed. They took time to appreciate the many many details in each art car. Next, a countdown to the opening of the shutter: 3, 2, 1 . . . open. The essence of each of the artists and their work then emerged in the long held poses they struck. Owen then exposed the last remaining Polaroid film of its type.

The Booth was extra large and grand. Huge black tarps were affixed to the vertical surface of a 4 story climbable scaffold. White fabrics were laced together and strung from cables that ran from the top of the scaffold to poles taller than telephone poles. Even vehicles with tall masts fit under this canopy. It was oriented to put the vehicles in the best light during the day and illuminated at night. The Booth was in its full undamaged glory for only a day or so. An antenna from a vehicle tore the canopy and then winds did further damage overnight. The damage was expected, as it was an integral part of its post-apocalyptic vintage-carne poster look.

The 2010 Mutant Vehicle Polaroid Booth is currently looking for sponsors aiming to build a little bigger next year -- 50 feet high and 80 feet wide. Plans are for a system scaffold that has greater rigidity and strength, and also a faster assembly and breakdown. There will be four different teams: one for construction, one for tear down, one for photography and one for greeting, processing and promotion.

Illuminated and Climbable Metal Sculptures
Also at the festival were a great number of climbable metal sculptures. Mentioned here are the Natural Selection Dome built by Jessue, the Amethyst Portal by Harlan, the Rocketship, the Slide and the Portal of Evolution. The Natural Selection Dome was a big uncovered steel geodesic dome. The struts averaged about 5 feet and were painted many different colors. The whole thing was lit with black lights from a dozen columns mounted around it. People climbed on it day and night for a week. The slope of the climb lessened closer to the top. The views were great, of the playa and of the other climbers. They hung on it, rightside up and upside down, from their feet, from silk and from ropes.

The Amethyst Portal was an indigo stellated dodecahedron constructed of wood and steel with an open interior space. Inside it was a subsonic sound device that emitted the deep frequencies. The Raygun Gothic Rocketship was an immersive large-scale installation consisting of a 40 foot tall metal rocketship and scaffold walkway. People climbed into the rocket and explored its interior chambers. The ship was set to launch. At launch time, fireworks went off and then there were plasma gas explosions of most unusual and vivid violets and greens. Then there was a fire and the launch was aborted. The astronaut jumped out of the ship onto the scaffold. He shot so many fireworks out of all parts of his body, front and back, legs and arms that the air about him was completely full of fire and color. He kept it up as he did somersaults down the walkway. The Slide, just like the name suggests, a slide, may have been the only thing bigger than the Photo Booth. Thousands of people climbed it and slid down, ten or more at a time. The Portal of Evolution was also big. It was formed with petal like steel plates from which sprung fallopian tubes and ovaries. Emerging from the top was a kinetic butterfly on which one could perch.

Autumn Lights LA
Autumn Lights LA 09 was a one day, 7pm-1am, event. Next year it will be expanded to a 3 day weekend event. It was at Pershing Square for the first time. The backdrop of skyscrapers in the midst of a revitalized re-aestheticized downtown LA was spectacular. It was like the Festival of Lights in Berlin and White Nights in St. Petersburg. A Manifestation of Collective Subconscious, a geodesic non-dome steel and canvas assembly by Collabo was the focal target of three projections. Sean Sobczak displayed an illuminated dragonfly and caterpillar sculpture. There was a man sized fish and balancing designs painted on a black lit carpet that took the light so perfectly it looked like illuminated sculpture. Newaje had advanced technology laser walls and fans visible across the entire square. Silvia Rigon projected Dipsy-Doodle, hand-drawn animation exploring the growth and emergence of organic patterns. A multi-colored glow radiated from lights moving under a small cargo parachute covered dome. The parachute was like semi-transparent silk.

Frogtown Art Walk
The artists of Elysian Valley (Frogtown) displayed the creativity and talent that flourishes in the industrial buildings along the LA River. Visitors wandered along the river led by glowing arrows, the sound of music and a trail of flickering lanterns. Steve Graziani had a group of steel sculptures in the from a creatures with large cubical heads. He also displayed wall and functional sculptures and will create unique pieces that fit any contemporary setting. He opened his sculpting studio in 2005 after a film industry career. The Michael McCall photo studio let people see and use its makeup and costume rooms. Gallery Frogtown was open with its many rooms turned into galleries. The living skyscraper works exuded a softening energy. A terrific list of Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours & Art Festivals like these can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php See you there.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Maria Beatrice. Polymer dolls and sculptures.
2. Jonhomer. Geometric shapes from architecture and demonstrates a mechanical intuition.
3. Robert Thomas. Realistic portraits and characters.
4. Lise Boucher. Digital orbs.
5. Philippe Benichou. Color coordinated for primitive healing.
6. Owen A Kelly. The Mutant Vehicle Polaroid Photo Booth.

Donna C. Willis, Moustafa Al Hatter, Jaff Seijas, Judy Puckett and Kevin Barr have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Joan Myerson Shrager

2009-08-23T15:14:00.000-07:00

The September 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Joan Myerson Shrager. She has been a visual artist for over 30 years, working in acrylics, pastels, charcoal and other conventional media. In the last 10 years she has worked exclusively on the computer creating all of her paintings using complex software and then printing the work on fine art papers.

Shrager has exhibited in more than 75 juried, invitational and solo exhibitions. Her digital work is in the permanent collection of the University of Pennsylvania on exhibit at the Graduate School of Education. She is included in two texts printed by Harcourt Press and Ferguson Publishing illustrating digital art. Most recently her digital prints were shown at GFA, a Los Angeles gallery. She is also featured on many digital art web sites.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

Quan La Ba. Palette knife portraits from Vietnam.

S.K. Rajasekar. Abstract depictions of the space above the earth.

Ramesh Kher. Mixed media abstracts from India.

Samuel Monnier. Algorithmic art, patterns so complex that they could never have been imagined.

Moira Coon. Steampunk jewelry and frippery adornments.

Gabor Kruzsely. Stylized portraits from Hungary.

Adrian Sam. Art Deco nightscapes.

George Transcender. Socially conscious art.

Maja Sipilovic. Figurative drawing.

Mahenda Bhatt. Landscapes from Inida.

Igor Tarantul. Relief, three dimensional engraving and gold casting inlay.

Jean Francois Muller, Kevin Barr, Judy Puckett and Jaff Seijas have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Evolution a Tangled Bank
The following artwork is being installed at the 2009 Black Rock Arts Festival, one of the most fascinating and least understood phenomena of our time. For more, use the Burning Man category of the Internet Art Directory. http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/brc.phtml

2:22 Amethyst Portal. A subsonic non-linear dynamic analog feedback device that produces frequencies in the range of brain waves. It is housed in an indigo colored 17 foot high stellated dodecahedron.

Vishnu's Dream. Vishnu reclines on a bed formed by the thousand-headed serpent Shesha and dreams the world into existence as a lotus flower that blossoms from his navel. The sculpture melds whirling images of the playa scene with live infrared images of visitors in a dark chamber.

Cubatron L5. A 3D LED light sculpture. It consists of 5 cubes, each made up of 1000 lights within an 8x8x8ft open aluminum frame, all on top of a 5ft high steel pipe platform.

Fire Of Fires. Encased in thirty-two vertical feet of clear polycarbonate sheeting, nine gas lamps come alive as a tornado of flame.

Incunabulum. Our rational minds tell us that we are an inconsequential part of a vast, uncaring universe; yet, we know, in another sense, that we are responsible for creating our own universe and that nothing exists outside our own experience.

Luminous Passage. Large flower-shaped light sculptures, ten on each side. The design of each flower-lamp becomes progressively more complex and a more vibrant and visually evolved flower form.

H.E.Ai.D. A collaborative, generative experience that culminates in awakening the sentience of a Human Energized Artificial intelligence Device.

Burninator GRID. A fire art installation consisting of a closely packed grid of large flame towers.

Triassic Heron. A large modular sculpture, part prehistoric bird and part oil derrick. At night its wings move with fire, illuminating the skeletal structure.

Jaff Seijas

2009-07-24T01:15:00.000-07:00

The August 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Jaff Seijas. Jaff works on paper and canvas. His paintings and drawings are products of a rich and unique imagination in pursuit of self-actualization. He currently resides in Paris, France, Santa Fe, New Mexico and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

Jeff studied at the Atlanta College of Art and with Dutch artist Nan Hoover & William VanHettinga. He has had gallery showings since 1970. His work has been shown in New Jersey, Georgia, Oregon, Florida, the Carolinas, California and New Mexico. Also in Amsterdam, Munich and Paris. His Secret Lives Scrapbooks series, Aspects of the Masculine was exhibited at Gallery Nicholas Flamel in Paris this year.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Jason Jenkins. Large scale dark deep thought surrealism.
2. Debra Bretton Robinson. Acrylics on canvas and collage on wood.
3. Jonathon Baker. Art pirate.
4. d.a.gordon dart. Contemporary American Primitive, illustrator and sculptor.
5. Nabakishore Chanda. Spontaneous expression of creative impulse.
6. Franco Anselmi. Abstract animals from Italy.

Eva Gyorffy, Bob Dornberg, Donna C. Willis, Judy Puckett and Kevin Barr have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Southern California Art Calendar
Summer is a rich time filled with among other marvelous events, the Santa Barbara Solstice parade, Gallery Night Out (a new incarnation of the Miracle Mile Artwalk) the Laguna Beach Artwalk, the Sawdust Festival and the Pasadena Chalk Festival.

At the Pasadena Chalk Festival, large, beautiful, temporary artworks are created in chalk on the pavement. Some are original pieces, and others are reproductions of works such as famous paintings. Each artist created a smaller work on canvas, maybe a foot square, which was generally (but not always) a miniature version of the sidewalk chalk work. One artist, whose chalk creation was a reproduction of the Let It Be album cover, had a set of four minis at silent auction. Ringo's portrait was only bringing in about half as much as the other Beatles'.

A terrific list of Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php See you there.

The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
At the Huntington, the American galleries have been expanded and completely reinstalled. There was even a new room with bold abstracts, quite unexpected for the Huntington. A girl was overheard critiquing a huge abstract Frankenthaler to her father: "That is not art!" The giant stinky flower (Amorphophallus titanum) had bloomed in the Huntington's conservatory a few weeks earlier. This was the third blooming ever at the Huntington, and one of a small number ever in the country.

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Eva Gyorffy

2009-06-22T16:29:00.000-07:00

The July 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Eva Gyorffy. Eva was born in 1931 in Arad, Romania. She studied painting at the University of Fine Arts in Cluj, Romania. The art of Eva Gyorffy is expressionistic with signs of symbolism. Her portraits have a psychological content, and open up a deeper layer. Since she began working digitally in 1997, her work has become more colorful, without losing pictorial sensibility. One of her most appreciated experiences is redesigning oil paintings in the computer and giving them several different new expressions.

Works of Eva Gyorffy have been exhibited since 1957 at shows in Romania, the Netherlands, Hungary, Germany, Yugoslavia, and Italy. Also in museums in Arad and Timisoara, art books, television broadcasts and private collections throughout Europe, Israel, and North America. She illustrates the Hungarian paper of Arad and is the leading member of the Arad section of the Romanian Art Foundation and a member of the Hungarian Art Foundation.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Mimmo Alfarone. Chalk pastel on wood.
2. Gregory Burke. Animals being seen as human.
3. Menachem Yaffe. Stability in a disordered world, and a love of color from Jerusalem.
4. Clint Simmons. Mystical qualities that underlie photographs.
5. Maria Cristina Faleroni. Semi-abstract figures from Argentina.
6. Sahar Aljajeh. Abstract still life from Syria.

Bob Dornberg and Judy Arline Puckett have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Bob Dornberg

2009-05-23T20:01:00.000-07:00

The June 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month is Bob Dornberg. Dornberg was born in Los Angeles in 1940. He and his twin brother, Ken, had painted with their dad since an early age. Dornberg was inspired by Rempel in high school to explore juxtaposition, and by Elgart and Amato at UCLA to paint anything and to do it a lot. Over the last 12 years he has produced over 950 oil paintings. Images of his work appear on websites of poetry, in printed publications and on book covers.

His paintings develop composition through relations of shapes, dark and light patterns, rhythm and color relations. His subjects are slices of life development after Degas, Diebenkorn, Vuillard and Monet.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Moira Buchanan. Explores personal interaction with the painting medium. She constantly adds and subtracts oil paint on the surface, whilst incorporating organic and figurative matter. This act of destruction and creation creates a paradox which captures the artist's subconscious and psyche.
2. Meg MacKenzie. An emerging photographer for a few years now. She studied art at York University.
3. Sajjad Ahmed. A visual artist living and working in Pakistan. He graduated from Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan in 2007. In the short time of two years, his work has become sought after by international curators, institutions and art buyers.
4. Tom Repasky. A pioneer in digital fine art with a surrealist orientation. He has been producing works of intricate detail and thought provoking composition since 1995
5. Dutchartistjelke van Beekveld. Creator from the new art style -- spacingart. Born Eindhoven in the Netherlands province of North Brabant, he is an industrial and art academy trained painter

Eugene Becker, Judy Puckett, Joseph DiSipio, Calico, Kevin Barr, David Derr and Gilbert Abric have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

My uncle John died this month. An epitaph:


Which of the two, when God and John meet,
Will occupy—you ask—the judgment seat?
Sure, our old friend—each one of us replies—
Will justly dominate the Grand Assize:
He’ll seize the scepter and ascend the throne,
Claim the Almightys thunder for his own,
Trump the Last Trump, and the Last Post postpone,
Then, if his strong prerogative extends
To passing sentence on his sinful friends,
Thus shall we supplicate at Heaven’s high bar:
Be merciful! You made us what we are;
Our jokes, our joys, our hopes, our hatreds too,
The outrageous things we do, or want to do—
How much of all of them we owe to you!
Send us to Hell or Heaven or where you will,
Promise us only you’ll be with us still:
Heaven, without you, would be too dull to bear,
And Hell will not be Hell if you are there.

David Derr

2009-05-04T15:31:00.000-07:00

David Derr
New Jersey artist David Derr is the May 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month. David has been drawing since he was a small child. He attended the Art Students League in the 1970s and studied life drawing. His passion for life drawing continued as a primary focus for nearly 10 years while he made a living as an artists' model and freelance commercial artist. Derr heads up his own design agency, D2 Studios Inc. Commercial success has never dimmed, in fact, has brought into sharper focus, his love for fine arts, and his expression of deep personal imagery.

His images explore what it is to be an imaginative thinking human being. The visual arts, music, dance, literature, myths, mysticism, spirituality and the sciences as well as everyday life all contribute in the creation of his images. He creates paintings that not only reflect his thoughts but engage the viewer to look deeper into their own thoughts and find the depths to each piece that are not initially apparent. To David, painting is not about technical expertise, but about creating a space where both the creator and the viewers' creative thoughts are set free to explore unexpected paths. His works are created in oil, mixed media and digital forms.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Kevin Rogerson. Rich, bold colors, texture and the effects of light and shadow.
2. Kim Leutwyler. Large scale figure paintings.
3. Jury Novikov. Realistic oils from the Ukraine.
4. Teddy Bozhinov. Pet and animal portraits from Bulgaria.
5. Hassan Hamroush. Cubist drawing.
6. Suman Kabiraj. Surrealistic narrative paintings from India.
7. Anny Cheong. Advertising design.
8. A Santos. Digital art, portraiture and image manipulation.
9. Shefqete Avdush Emini. Figurative abstract expressionism from Holland.

Joseph DiSipio, Judy Puckett, Eugene Becker, Kevin Barr and Calico have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml Joseph's new work uses infrared film, lith prints, tri-x film, frosted glass and selenium tones.

Dark Skies
Dark Skies is an annual Fire Art and burn festival held during the spring new moon near the Grand Canyon. Nightmare Nevada, Gurrwolf and Junior created the Harvesters to burn at the festival. They are three Icons each about twice the size of a man: the Creeper, the Reaper and the Collector. They were positioned in the Burn Bowl in front of the Pagoda Arch. The Creeper had fangs and triangle and square teeth, and an elongated arm stretched out way in front of him all the way to the ground. The Reaper held a scythe on a long pole that extended far above his head. The Collector held a sickle and had pumpkin like head with a green stem growing out of it. The papier-mache in the work was glazed in places so that parts of the sculptures looked to be metal. The Harvesters were dressed in black corduroy shirts and green burlap scarves and hoods. They had elbows and knees and even joints in their fingers and toes all bent in a balanced way.

The Harvesters burned before midnight Saturday. The paper and paint flashed and the cloth went up in flame leaving burning wood skeletons. Their skeletons were wood, built bone by bone. This made their skeletons more in common with humans than their outsides, and they did look more human after burning for a while, but still monstrous. The Reaper's scythe collapsed in the inferno, landing on the Creeper and bringing it down. The Collector's rib cage and mask glowed orange. His head fell off and rolled in front of us. Gurrwolf reached for the head, picked it up by a stick sticking out of it and held it aloft triumphantly as it continued to burn.

The disassembled Pagoda Arch burned pre-dawn Sunday. It was built by Pallet Man. It was 16 feet high and 20 feet wide. It was 65 pallets in the making. It looked like Stonehenge. It made seven piles of pallets stacked 1-3 high with lots of extra wood to keep the bonfires going. People rode a bicycle around the bonfires while they were burning.

Artistic Interaction
The Santa Fe Art Colony held its 20th annual Open Studio event on the first weekend in May. That weekend has been designated as the permanent Open Studio date, when residents of the colony open their private studios to the public. Upcoming Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours & Art Festivals can be found on the Digital Consciousness Art Calendar. http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Judy Puckett

2009-03-22T23:41:00.000-07:00

Judy Arline Puckett is the April 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Judy is a digital artist and photographer residing in Louisiana. She is also a creative writer, poet and a lover of jazz and blues music.

Her subject is often herself. Her work is a self reflection. Judy believes each of us should find the inner beauty within ourselves.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
We now tweet each new artist who registers with Digital Consciousness with up to 140 characters at http://twitter.com/DigitalCo To view work from an artist, follow the link in the tweet, or enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see the most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/ The following artists registered in the last month:

1. Rona Stelzer. Bright, bold, vibrant and visual acrylic paintings.
2. Nataly Samojlova. Painting, illustration and art photography.
3. Helen Moulinos. Portraits that capture what the subject is feeling at
a moment in time.
4. Rachel Lewis. Landscape photography that showcases the beauty of Britain's natural environments.
5. Laura Fowler. Bright fun acrylics from Australia.
6. Marthino Dias. Social and political criticism from Portugal.
7. Olga Levitas. Impressionistic oil landscapes from Canada.
8. Kimber Bosse. Gemstone, silver, gold, and clay sculptures.
9. Forest King. Oil portraits; respectful, yet out there enough to be "Wyoming alternative".

Shepard Fairey, Jason Jenkins, Joseph DiSipio, Gilbert Abric, and Kevin Barr have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Art exhibits, mostly in the March Pasadena Art Night (PAN)
The work of Edward Biberman, a famous California artist, and some Israeli-Californian artists, including a multimedia video installation of a meteor shower are on exhibit at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park. Biberman taught at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena which coincidentally is in the PAN.

The Norton Simon is a reliable good part of any PAN. Curators' comments about the Don Bachardy portrait of Norton Simon and the Matisse love poems exhibit were on podcasts which were available in advance.

The highlight of PAN was the Pasadena Museum of California Art. The electron microscopy exhibit was beautiful, It included a photo of a human embryonic stem cell. The Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information exhibit was amazing. It included:

1. Little robots who sought out bright lights and left marks on paper as they traveled.
2. A large image of a dollar bill which had been assembled by an artist/supervisor who portioned it into tiny pieces. He subcontracted with 10,000 internet users, each of whom copied one piece. They only knew their own portion and were unaware of the larger project. Each person was paid a penny, so the total labor cost was $100.
3. A video/laser installation which scanned viewers and created beautiful and lingering images on large screens.

A Symphony rehearsal was open to the public. There was also live music at the Jazz Institute and the One Colorado stage. Also showcasing their exhibits at PAN were the Pacific Asia Museum, the Armory, the Pasadena Museum of History, Pasadena City College and the Shumei Arts Council. Look for the next PAN and other Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals on our art calendar at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

Jason Jenkins

2009-02-27T20:01:00.000-08:00

Jason Jenkins
Jason Jenkins is the March 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Jason was born and raised in Mississippi. He has been drawing and painting all his life. His work mixes realism and overflowing imagination with a unique style of bold, vibrant and energetic paintings.

Jason does live paintings alongside bands to create spectacular visual shows. As of late he is touring the galleries throughout the Jackson metro area such as The Ink Spot, The Artichoke Gallery and the One Blu Wall gallery. He has most recently been painting with the local bands around, and out of, town. He hopes to one day tour the world doing this.

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Geoff Gove. Magazine cover photography.
2. Jason Jenkins. Live painting to Mississippi bands.
3. Christian Bolt. Sculpture from Switzerland.
4. Kenneth Dinkel. Abstracts and landscapes.
5. Beatrice Feo. Artist and director for contemporary art spaces in Italy.
6. Barbara Jaskiewicz. Cityscapes and landscapes from Poland.
7. Alok Badal. Actor from India.
8. Glenn Jacques. Commercial painter and sculptor.
9. Robert Martin. Freelance digital artist.
10. Adam Pakurar. Abstracts from Austria.
11. Suthirak Chantragun. Painterly style abstracts from Thailand.

Joseph DiSipio
Joseph DiSipio has added new artwork to his galleries. http://digitalconsciousness.com/galleries/JosephDiSipio/

Nicholas Caputi
Long time Digital Consciousness artist, Nicholas Caputi, passed away on January 17, 2009. Some of Nicholas' art will be sold at Clar's auction house in Oakland, California on March 7 and 8.

Shepard Fairey

2009-01-23T21:54:00.000-08:00

Shepard Fairey
Shepard Fairey is the February 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Frank Shepard Fairey (born 15 February 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina) emerged from the skateboarding scene. He became known initially for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today's best known and most influential street artists. He usually omits his first name.

Fairey created a series of posters supporting Barack Obama's candidacy for President in 2008, including the iconic "HOPE" portrait. Fairey distributed a staggering 300,000 stickers and 500,000 posters during the election campaign, funding his grassroots electioneering through poster and fine art sales. "I just put all that money back into making more stuff, so I didn't keep any of the Obama money," said Fariey in a December 2008 interview.

Fairey created the portrait of Barack Obama that TIME Magazine used as the cover art for its 2008 Person of the Year edition issue. His influence, particularly with Obama's presidential campaign, contributed to him being named a Person of the Year 2008 by GQ Magazine. In January 2009, the 'HOPE' image was acquired by the US National Portrait Gallery, and became part of the permanent collection. It was unveiled and put on display at the Gallery on January 17, 2009. http://RenownedArt.com/prints.php?a=Shepard+Fairey

Burning Man Art Grants
The deadline for submitting an art grant proposal for Burning Man 2009 is February 1. Every year Burning Man issues a small number of grants for the purpose of partially funding specific art projects. These grants are awarded primarily for interactive art that is based on the annual art theme In 2009 it is Evolution. http://www.BurningMan.com/installations/art_guidelines.html

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Jesus Orendain. Nudes, flora, landscapes, texture and the subconscious.
2. Laura Knight. Handcut steel for catching the light.
3. Shane Crotty. Abstract imagery from Ireland.
4. Slava Deryuga. American landscape photography.
5. Sangeeta Pathak. Drawings of faces in conflict, from India.
6. Steve Fielding. Pen and ink portraits from England.
7. Ramesh Aanadh. Watercolors from India.

Gilbert Abric
Gilbert Abric has added a new gallery: http://digitalconsciousness.com/galleries/ABRICGilbert/Monuments.phtml

Artistic Interaction
Digital Consciousness promotes interaction between artists. Everyone is invited to join the Facebook Digital Consciousness Artists Group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38563776510 Both our forum ( http://DigitalConsciousness.net/forum/ ) and the facebook group are great places to post, or read about, new artwork or gallery exhibits or shows. Additionally, an art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Darla Farner

2008-12-21T23:15:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year
Please imagine here a whimsical animated feel-good greeting that will bring you good cheer for all of 2009.

Darla Farner
Darla Farner is the January 2009 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Darla was born in East Chicago, Indiana as Darla A. Vickery, a descendant of the legendary artist Charles Vickery. She has been a resident of Gresham, Oregon since 1979.

Darla learned to paint experimental watercolors at a workshop at the Oregon Coast through Portland State University and came up with something beautiful every time. She has since developed her own unique vibrant and abstract style using imagination and intuition to escape from reality. Darla has created nearly 200 Mixed Media paintings on 22 x 30 hot compressed archival paper with more to come.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Dan Rohrmann. Unrealistic landscapes from Romania.
2. Albert Sellaman. Digital abstracts from Australia.
3. Russell Scott-Skinner. Cubistic landscapes from the UK.
4. Aniello Scannapieco. Drawing and painting from Salerno, Italy.
5. Irene Bou. Outsider art from Spain.

Gilbert Abric and Jose Carvalhosa have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Artistic Interaction
Digital Consciousness promotes interaction between artists. Everyone is invited to join the Facebook Digital Consciousness Artists Group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38563776510 Both our forum and facebook group are great places to post, or read about, new artwork or gallery exhibits or shows. Additionally, an art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

Digital Consciousness Facebook Group

2008-11-30T23:39:00.001-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving
Let us be thankful for the gentleness around us when we are quiet.

Digital Consciousness Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38563776510 Everyone is invited to join the Facebook Digital Consciousness Artists Group. It promotes global recognition and interaction between artists. It is a great place to post, or read about, new artwork or gallery exhibits and shows. Also, about artwalks or festivals you have participated in or have been to.

Elizabeth Hack
Elizabeth Hack is the December 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Her work consists of inner landscapes. She has created a series of paintings known as the Wave Series. Adding paint and ink to the canvas or paper, she feels the fire or the sea. Excavating through the composition, her paintings express energy and spirit.

The paintings of Elizabeth Hack have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries throughout California, including the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara; the University of California in Berkeley at the ASUC Studio and the Heller Gallery; the Commonwealth Club Gallery in San Francisco; the Hayward Arts Council Gallery in Hayward; Gloria Delson Fine Art; the Soolip Gallery in West Hollywood; the Berkeley Art Center Gallery in Berkeley; Carol Dabb Fine Art; the Ashkenazy Gallery in Los Angeles; and the Orlando Gallery in Sherman Oaks.

Joseph DiSipio
Joseph DiSipio has a Lith print photography show in Santa Barbara. The opening reception is 5-8ish, December 4th during the Santa Barbara First Thursday Art Walk. It is at the Bookden at 15 E. Anapamu. He hopes to see you there. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/galleries/JosephDiSipio/

Southern California Art Walks
A continuously updated art calendar can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php Details about many spectacular monthly artwalks can be found there. The Santa Barbara, Laguna Beach, San Pedro, Downtown L.A., Palm Desert, Santa Ana, Pomona, Long Beach, Miracle Mile and Santiago artwalks all occur monthly. Also on the December calendar are the Ventura and Long Beach First Fridays (coordinated gallery openings), the Northeast L.A. Gallery Night and the Woodland Hills Rotary Club Arts & Crafts Faire.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/
Wojciech Ukianski. Abstract sculpture from Poland.
Kombizz. Macro photography: landscape, old and new architecture.
Marco Battaglini. Mechanical creativity from Costa Rica.
Jane E Porter. Visionary portraits from Scotland.
Nyugen Smith. Symbolic sculpture.
Jamie Thibault. Hardwood and Tagua and Corozo Nut sculpture.
Cedric Mnich. TradeArt. Complex mathematics and profit.
Warrior Richardson. Music and sports caricactures.
Jaclyn Brine. Realistic watercolors.
Hiroko Sakai. Surrealistic oils.
Joseph DiSipio, Gilbert Abric, Nathan Brusovani and Moses Masoko have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Moses Masoko

2008-10-24T20:40:00.000-07:00

Moses Masoko
Moses Masoko is the November 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Moses was born in South Africa in 1979. Inspired by Picasso, Ben Macala and Gerald Sekoto, he started drawing and painting at an early age. In 2000 he studied fabric painting, sculpting and screen printing, in 2001-2004 printmaking and in 2005 graphic design and flexography printing.

Currently Moses paints geometric shapes in water color. He also works as a curator at Gerald A Lee gallery.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

Laviniu M. Draghici. Glass paintings from Denmark.
Fejzi Ali Beqiri. The invisible side of the universe from Italy.
Tomaselli Emilio. Interior design and architecture.
Charles Andraos. Mystical oils from Lebanon.
Stephen Shooster. Music inspired cubistic watercolors.
Andre Pourtales. Impressionistic oils from France.
Osvaldo Cibils. Digital art and drawing from Italy.
Darla Farner. Watercolor in motion.
Gillie and Marc Schattner. Husband and wife collectively on the same pieces.
John Mark. Landscapes and nature.
Danila Altmark. Personalized artworks.
Radomir Djukanovic. Abstract geometry from Serbia.
Calico. Photographs from SoCalDeCom.

Joseph DiSipio, Kevin Barr and Calico have added new artwork to their galleries.http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Ventura Art Walk
The fall Ventura art walk included gifted artists at the Stoneworks. Also of note was the installation called "Tubular Zen" with five black pillars which emit light and sound when buttons on them are pressed. An art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at:http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

SoCalDeCom
Pirates shot Cabbage Patch dolls and footballs from an air cannon over the Dawnship. The Dawnship was a big Bedouin tent flying Jolly Rogers. The event took everyday items and changed their identity. It brought about new perceptions causing people to question how to see, to re-examine and to re-invent.

On the hill was Hatfield's illuminated Flying Saucer. From its control panel one could program the lighting pattern. The saucer as a symbol of aliens landing on earth could not be suppressed. Yet, beliefs and circumstances about them could be changed.

The Living Room by Taz and Cooper was both an art piece and a chill space. Was it a living room or not? On one hand it had the feel of a living room, because there were two doors, a window, a framed 2D piece of art and miscellaneous furniture. On the other hand there were NO WALLS! Probably was a living room because the couch and chair were really comfortable.

Emerald Portals in San Francisco
From Oct. 31 to Nov. 2. the Emerald Portals art installation by Harlan Emil Gruber will be on public display free of charge in conjunction with the 2012 Conference. The precise location is the Fort Mason Center at the intersection of Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street in the Marina district. There is no street address. 800-984-0897 http://www.2012conference.org They incorporate geometry, sound and color to provide an interactive environment. The intention is to provide a portal to the vibrational dimension of the Earth and the participant's energy bodies. Once a vibrational alignment is achieved between personal, planetary and galactic, a harmonious shift of dimensions can take place.

Jett Vivere

2008-09-23T14:32:00.000-07:00

Jett Vivere
Jett Vivere is the October 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Jett was born 1987 in Paisley and raised in Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. With a history of art in the family, Vivere took an interest in art at a young age and has been a keen artist ever since. After studying fine art and having successful end of year shows and exhibitions in Glasgow and Edinburgh she has embarked on a career as an artist with work on exhibition in various galleries. She has been influenced by many artists including Peter Howson, Gerard Burns, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol.

Vivere’s work, like the artists who inspire her, is unique, stylish and quirky. Unafraid of creating bold images that make a visual statement, she chooses color wisely, using it to create a bigger impact on a large scale. When painting, Vivere uses oil bars for their flexibility and greater control than can be achieved by the direct application of the oils by hand. The simplicity of the lines and marks on the canvas belies the work and preparation required to produce such dramatic images.

Long Beach SoundWalk
Among the exhibits at the September 2008 Long Beach SoundWalk were:
* A room filled with about a dozen roundish sculptures hanging from the ceiling. Each is a bundle of electronics and each emits different soft sounds.
* A Tower of Babel sculpture. You speak or make noises into the nearby microphone, and the sculpture distorts and echoes the sound, mixing it with previous sounds.
* Household percussion jams, where people play mostly pots and pans, but other household items also.
* A station where you select a musical work and listen to it through headphones. The piece is distorted according to the ambient sound level in the room. The quieter the room, the more distorted the sound is.
* Laptop computers hanging by wires from the ceiling. Participants swing the computers, which have motion sensors and play sounds based on their motions.
* Gossip. Two pairs of nude female mannequins separated by some distance on the sidewalk. Tell a juicy secret to one pair, and it's broadcast from the other pair.
* An installation which translates the shape of mountain peaks into sounds. Hundreds of photos of Colorado mountains were digitally traced. These outlines, which resemble the shape of audio waves, were imported into an audio editor. The resulting low register audio waves resemble the rumbling of the earth itself. The installation displays the mountain photo and the wave form, which is traced through as the sound plays.
* A room with four large drums in front of loud amplified sounds. Ping pong balls which are suspended on strings from the ceiling bounce on the vibrating drum heads.
* A virtual maze in which the "walls" are merely sounds which you hear through the large stuffed toy mouse-head headphones you wear. This was called "Mice pace" (get it?).
An art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/
Doriana Rada. Spiritual art from Albania.
Taylor Denis. Artist and author from Sweden.
Richard Whincop. Realistic oils from the U.K.
Gilbert Abric, Moustafa Al Hatter, Joseph DiSipio, Kevin Barr, Donna Willis and Nirvana Blues have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Burning Man 2008

2008-09-09T13:59:00.000-07:00

Burning Man is an annual week long arts festival that takes place in the Black Rock desert in Nevada. This issue of the newsletter describes just a few of the installations there.

Tantalus
Tantalus is a life-size stroboscopic zoetrope. The mechanism produces an illusion of action from a succession of static pieces. It tells the tale of Tantalus, who stole ambrosia from the Gods. His punishment was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches raised his intended meal from his grasp. The Tantalus zoetrope at Burning Man presents a revolving Uncle Sam hat. A man's arm reaches for an apple, or golden watch. The object goes up and down, but it is always just out of reach.

Tantalus is the creation of Peter Hudson, a San Francisco visual artist who has installed zoetropes at Burning Man since 2000. In 2000, Playa Swimmers was featured in a Time Magazine article about the art of Burning Man and in filmmaker Renea Robert's award-winning documentary, Gifting It. In 2001, Possession, a collection of six hands strategically placed on a model. In 2002, Sisyphish which depicts strobe-lighted swimmers in motion. In 2004, Deeper; in 2007 Homouroboros and this year Tantalus. Peter Hudson is the September 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

Babylon
The largest installation was Babylon, a 10-story steel frame tower rising 100 feet into the sky, with a stairwell to the top. It was built by union workers out of recycled materials to specifications that allowed for tear down. The festival is a "leave no trace" event, so everything is temporary. The process of quickly and cleanly building and tearing down a structure so big it would be fair to call it a skyscraper is in itself a work of art.

Brainfire
A few hours after dark the artist himself fired up the structure releasing fuel into the ceiling of a small open building. In calm conditions there is mesmerizing, creeping, undulating fire suspended overhead. In windy conditions there is still a partial coating of the fire just beneath the ceiling.

The Apocalypse Lounge Dinosaur Spider
This is a gigantic mechanical beast that looks like a dinosaur, but has eight legs so may be a spider. Three years in the making, it is powered by a single truck motor geared up enough to move the 7 ton object. It tromped across the festival straining to make a step, but doing it, pausing and then making the next. It was two stories high and people climb up and ride on the top story. It cannot turn. It makes loud thumps as it goes and stirs up dust as it pounds the earth.

Bummer
A super size Humvee measuring 38 feet long x 18 feet wide x 16 feet high. Half of the Hummer was painted in military khaki and the other half in bright sporty colors. The headlights were bright enough to bring day to night. The taillights were a shadow show.

Altered State
A symbol of the United States Capitol becomes a mirage of mythical creatures fabricated of elaborately carved white steel. Each cut is rendered in the archetypal graphic style of Pacific Northwest Coast Indian imagery. Gymnasts climbed the interior swing and as intended, a government building was transformed into an Altered State.

Temple of Community
A thirty-foot-high rendition of an origami crane. On the playa, the crane symbolizes the act of letting go â€“ of people, places, feelings, ideas â€“ making wishes, discovering hope, finding peace, and building the wisdom, happiness and longevity of a community that is united in this experience.

Shiva Vista
A circular fire installation with an elevated performance platform in the center. Sixteen large propane guns fire in rhythmic sequences while fire performers, dancers and musicians play along with them. Twelve of the guns are arranged in a 100 foot circle and four more are located at the corners of the platform, controlled from an elevated platform just outside of the circle. It is a place where humans and machines enter into a fusion of fire, movement and sound.

Flamethrower Shooting Gallery
Modeled after a county fair-style shooting gallery, this provides a new twist on a long-standing American tradition and pokes gentle fun at the American fascination with firearms and personal power, as well as the Burning Man fascination with fire and radical self expression. It does this by allowing and encouraging participants to literally play with fire and shoot things.

Emerald Portal
The Emerald Portal was originally made for Burning Man 2006. It is based on 3-dimensional sacred geometry heart chakra colors and incorporates the Quasar Wave Transducer, a subsonic nonlinear dynamic analog feedback device. It is made of specially painted plywood and has seating both within the lower area and on a raised central platform. The outline is a steel tubing version that clearly shows the geometry of the structure and can be climbed on. It catalyzes a personal connection to the Emerald within the participant's heart chakra and facilitates a connection to the Earth and Galaxy's energy bodies.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. John Torode. Abstract expressionism
2. James Faulkner. Digital collage.
3. Tony Blue. Blutography art, a form of photo-illustration.
4. Cynthia Fusco. Landscape and nature photography.
5. Lewis Liu. Reproduction of famous oil paintings.
6. Liz Rogers. Transparent watercolors.
7. Paul Bonnie Kent. Brilliant abstracts and other offerings from Emilia Romagna, Italy.
8. J P McLaughlin. Image creation from Scotland.
9. Jett Vivere. Dramatic impressionistic oils from Ayrshire, Scotland.
10. Rollo West. Oil and colored pencil animals and wildlife.
11. Cody Wilkerson. Digital graphic photography.
12. Peter Hudson. Life-size stroboscopic zoetropes.
13. Kristina Wentzell. Landscapes and florals.

Gilbert Abric, Kevin Barr and Nicholas Caputi have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Laura Perry-Eklund

2008-07-25T13:04:00.000-07:00

Laura Perry-Eklund
Laura Perry-Eklund is the August 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Laura is an abstract artist from Olive Hill, Kentucky. Growing up in the heart of Appalachia she understands that happiness comes from the simple, natural things in life. Her interests have always been in the natural world, art and psychic phenomena from which she summons artistic visions.

Her creations are outbursts from these visions. She has to feel completely free from everything to create and so, during several periods in her life has lived in isolation. She paints using the skills and knowledge of a trained artist. She pulls the paint and color into the composition to achieve unity. The paint will do what she wants it to do. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

Jean Francois Muller. Haitian influenced landscape abstracts.

Lara Agnes Szabo. Harpist from Hungary

Bryan Crump. Magazine cover photography.

Ana Maria Barbos. Plastic artist from Romania who creates colorful landscape themes.

Stefania Vassura. Photography from Italy.

Miro Gabriele. Ecology photography from Italy.

Paola González Muñoz. Expressionistic mixed media from Mexico.

John Lathram. The transhumanist experience.

S. Shatrughan Gupta. Impressionistic cityscapes from India.

Zaher El-Bizri. Plastic and watercolor artist influenced by the medieval quarters of the ancient Lebanese port city of Sidon.

Joseph Gooders. Abstract light and color photography from the UK.

Mmoses Masoko. Picasso influenced watercolors from South Africa.

Nicholas Capote has added new artwork to his galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Glow Dusk to Dawn
On July 19 a huge crowd turned out to view art installations in Santa Monica. Among them, seemingly breathing constructions from Shih Chieh Huang. His works, about a dozen of them, each about the size of a person, dangled above the path under the pier. They incorporated plastic bags and fans that turned on and off so that the sculptures expanded and contracted to glowing illumination. Look for Glow 2009 and for more immediate Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals on the Art Calendar. http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

First Friday Vegas
On the First Friday of most months, galleries in the Art District in Las Vegas, just North of the Strip, host receptions for their artists. Free trollies run between The Arts Factory, the center of it all, the Commerce Street Studios and other points. http://firstfriday-lasvegas.org/

Guardian of Eden
Following its debut at the 2007 Burning Man festival, the Nevada Museum of Art is pleased to present Guardian of Eden, a large-scale, outdoor sculpture by New York–based artist Kate Raudenbush. The intricately carved, 12-petal lotus flower spans over 19 feet in diameter and is inspired by Hindu and Egyptian creation myths, Buddhist symbolism, and the ancient symbol of the Flower of Life. http://www.nevadaart.org/exhibitions/exhibition_display.php?id=98

Susan J. Sauerbrun

2008-06-23T15:06:00.000-07:00

Susan J. Sauerbrun is participating in the

183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art

at the

National Academy Museum

1083 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY

It is an honor to be included in this show. It runs until Sept 7th.

For further information please go to

http://www.SusanJSauerbrun.com/pressroom.html

Colin Tresadern

2008-06-22T17:09:00.000-07:00

Colin Tresadern
Colin Tresadern (b. 1954) is the July 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Colin is inspired by the design of traditional Japanese interiors, and the ideal that 'less is more.' Colin believes that visual opposition and contrast achieve balance and harmony. Colin is also inspired by Kabbalah, and explores mystic concepts which, being essentially abstract concepts, are ideally expressed using abstract visual images.

Colin creates paintings using elemental geometric forms in a non-representational abstract space, in pure minimal designs combining interactive elements of colour, plane, and line. Aesthetic balance is achieved through the use of asymmetrical opposition in the constructional elements of the designs. This complexity underlies their apparent simplicity and the use of primary colours and primary values. Emphasising order, balance, and formal structure, the paintings are reduced to their fundamental essentials and core of self-expression. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

New Artwork in the Galleries
Joseph DiSipio and Kevin Barr have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

Golden Cafe. A bar with art, exotic cocktails and live music on E @ 7:30 in the heart of Black Rock City.

Bill Tennant. Canadian landscape painter focusing mainly upon west coast marine subjects.

Frank To. From Scotland. Paintings inspired by the Renaissance sculptor, Michelangelo.

Michael O'Gorman. Surrealistic light and color oils from Wales.

Ray Laing. Statement Art. The written word.

Glenn James. Fantasy gothic illustrations.

Noureddine EL HANI. Digital abstracts from Tunisia.

Baby Origami Cranes
The Temple of Community is building a large Crane Temple at Burning Man this year. The Temple will fill the void with a place of contemplation, grieving and letting go. It will be a place to say and express farewells. Artists who visit the temple have been asked to create their own wooden scaled-down versions of an origami crane. These smaller cranes will be gathered around the base of the main structure. Please make sure that your crane won't take flight on the playa winds! A burn platform large enough for the baby cranes will be provided. http://tribes.tribe.net/templeofcommunity

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission.
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year.
Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Barbara Bonnie Deutsch

2008-05-29T19:20:00.000-07:00

Barbara Bonnie Deutsch will have her clay sculptures exhibited in the Edward Hopper House Art Center's Juried Art Exhibit and Sale to Benefit Gay Pride of Rockland from Sat. May 31 to Sunday Jun22.

Artist Reception is on Sunday June 1 from 1-4.  The exhibition runs from May 31 to June 22.

The Do LaB

2008-05-27T22:31:00.000-07:00

The Do LaB
The Do LaB is the June 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. The Do LaB is a radical art collective committed to the expansion of minds and the destruction of conventions. Based in downtown Los Angeles, The Do LaB draws inspiration from the organic beauty of the Earth, and from the dazzling lights of its community . . . all of you. The Do LaB's goal is to nurture the creative spark within us all, and to strengthen the connections that bring us together.

Most recently The Do LaB produced Lightning in a Bottle (LIB) a green outdoor art and music festival near Santa Barbara. A record 6,000 people from all over the world attended the 4 day event. Shuttles took people into the festival area, throughout which there were dozens of blank panels. The panels were transformed into murals, some right on the stages while the musicians played. The finished works were auctioned off. The proceeds went to Sonic Muze, a non-profit organization that purchases musical instruments and art supplies for schools.

The forest vibrated to the beats of the Treehouse, Bamboo and Woogie stages. The Treehouse Stage was the steampunk junktification work of master creator Shrine. He made it from discarded windows and cans and other trash. The Bamboo Stage was the creation of bamboo artisan Gerard Minakawa and his crew. The Stanton Warriors, Kan 'Nal, Helios Jive, Yard Dogs Road Show and dozens of other bands played. Cirque Berzerk and Lucent Dossier performed high rope acts. A flat wire was strung out so people could try gymnastics themselves.

People wandered with guitars and ukuleles and jammed in their camps and in the Orchid Lounge in the middle of the festival. Tai Chi and Yoga people practiced and taught. One trail led out of the patches where people camped to and along a river; another up a hill with a view of lake Cachuma. Abundant potable water was pumped, filtered and dispensed with just the right pressure from lots of easy to turn valves. LIB was a leave no trace event with most of the waste recycled. http://renownedart.com/digitalcolor/

New Artwork in the Galleries
Bruce Price, Derek McCrea, Josef Marsal, Gilbert Abric, Joseph DiSipio, Kevin Barr and Robert Chami have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists were registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

Merovee. Digital hermetic art.

Marabeth Quin. Both an earthiness and otherworldly quality.

Glen Allen. Photography of artistic images.

Sean O'Shea. Paintings of movement and grace from Australia.

Yuri Podolin. Oil portraits from Belarus.

Carmen Luna. Collage from Spain.

Cris Acqua. Surrealism from Spain.

Corne Eksteen. Large scale oils exploring sexuality and spirituality.

Christian Demare. Photography from France.

Massimo Caria. Computerized cityscapes from Italy.

The Do LaB. A radical art collective.

Michele Vincent
Michele Vincent has an exhibition from May 27 to June 14, 2008 entitled "The Fantastic Universe" at:
Montserrat Contemporary Art Gallery
547 W. 27th street
New York, New York 10001
http://www.montserratgallery.com
212-268-0088
Gallery Hours : Tuesday - Saturday 12-6pm.
Please join them at a champagne reception Thursday, May 29th, 2008 from six to eight o'clock.

Susan I. Sheehan

2008-04-23T19:16:00.000-07:00

Susan I. Sheehan
Susan Isabella Sheehan is the May 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Susan works digitally on mindscapes and altered landscapes that explore hidden cores of thought. Her style is mostly surreal, often dark and complex, with a spiritual quality. History and mythology emerge from the images she creates. She works intuitively as the energies move her.

Susan began by capturing the natural beauty of the Sonora desert in Arizona and of life around her in pencil etchings and watercolors. Now, composing visions using a computer, the placement, color balance and style from her early work are still present. She loves exploring thought and consciousness, and knows that the potential of the human mind and soul are without limit. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

Lightning in a Bottle
Lightning in a Bottle is a green outdoor music and art festival near Santa Barbara, California produced by The Do Lab artists network. It takes place before, during, and after Memorial Day weekend: the gate opens at 4pm Thursday May 22 and closes at noon Tuesday May 27. The stages will be live starting on Friday from 3pm till midnight, and from around 10am to midnight on Saturday and Sunday. The vending village will have clothing, jewelry, and a wide variety of organic vegetarian food choices. http://lightninginabottle.org/2008/

New Artwork in the Galleries
Gilbert Abric, Joseph DiSipio, Derek McCrea, Nirvana Blues, Kevin Barr, Josef Marsal, Robert Chami and Nicholas Caputi have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

Mariusz Gutowski. Oil and tempera figures from Poland.

Danuta Krajewska. Impressionistic portraits from Poland.

Sergio Fasola. Surrealistic photography from Argentina.

Mark Highton-Ridley. Cityscape photography from the U.K.

Melissa Fair. Vintage photography and texture.

Colleen Gorlewski. Photography of the beauty around us.

Olga Gelfand. Watercolor landscapes from Russia.

Stephen Gomm. Digital landscapes from the U.K.

Colin Bailey. Oil landscapes and beachscapes from the U.K.

Brewery Art Walk
The Brewery is an artist colony in Los Angeles with semi-annual studio tours. The spring tour featured magnificent work. Ann Erpino displayed her Science Series. The Science Series consists of dozens of small complex paintings, each inspired by a different scientific project or scientist at Caltech. Sean Sobczak had illuminated sculpture; Bruce Gray magnetic sculpture. Max Grundy, consistent with his "Fear is the New Beauty" theme, had stylized depictions of people falling out of airplanes. CJ Kang showed abstract paintings about contemporary China.

Marek Swiatecki

2008-03-23T00:35:00.000-07:00

Marek Swiatecki
Marek Swiatecki is the April 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Marek is a Polish painter of portraits, landscapes and masterpiece reproductions. His landscapes, done in pastels, are of forests and lakes where lights, shapes and colors create a rare, unusual atmosphere. His masterpiece reproductions, done in oil, are of works by Rembrandt, Willem Kalf, Willem van Aelst and other XVII Century Dutch still lifes.

Paintings by Marek Swiatecki are displayed in several galleries in Poland: TopArt in Torun; B-Gallery in Gdansk and Gallery Brama in Olsztyn. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

New Renowned Artists
March is Women's History Month in the United States, and the 2008 theme is "Women’s Art: Women’s Vision". In honor of this, biographies of the following female renowned artists have been added to http://RenownedArt.com/ in the last month:

1. Laura Alma-Tadema (b. 1852), British painter.
2. Sophie Anderson (b. 1823), French-born British genre painter.
3. Sofonisba Anguissola (b. 1532), Italian painter of the Renaissance.
4. Marie Bashkirtseff (b. 1858), Ukrainian-born Russian painter and sculptor.
5. Cecilia Beaux (b. 1855), American society portraitist.
6. Anna Boch (b. 1848), Belgian painter.
7. Fanny Churberg (b. 1845), master Finnish painter.
8. Evelyn De Morgan (b. 1855), English Pre-Raphaelite painter.
9. Adelaide Labille-Guiard (b. 1749), French history and portrait painter.
10. Maria Sibylla Merian (b. 1647), naturalist and scientific illustrator.
11. Marianne North (b. 1830), English naturalist and flower-painter.
12. Liubov Popova (b. 1889), Russian avant-garde painter and designer.
13. Faith Ringgold (b. 1930), African American artist, known for painted story quilts.
14. Olga Rozanova (b. 1886), Russian avant-garde artist.
15. Rachel Ruysch (b. 1664), Dutch painter of floral still-lifes.
16. Jenny Saville (b. 1970), English painter and a leading Young British Artist.
17. Beatrice Wood (b. 1893), American artist, dubbed the "Mama of Dada".

For the full list of female renowned artists, see http://RenownedArt.com/indexfemale.php

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Adib Fattal. Cities and villages inspired by middle-eastern architecture and life.
2. Susan Isabella Sheehan. The deepest hidden cores of thought.
3. Meagan Winterlude Babcock. Fire Art -- art that has been burned.
4. Benetti Andrea. Symbolic interiors from Italy.
5. Lisa Ingrey. Non-objective landscape and nature painting.
6. Dario Mohr. Visual expression of relationships.
7. Sarah Duke. Conceptual abstracts.
8. William Everly. Photorealistic portraits from family photos.
9. Julian CoxARBS. Drawing and sculpture from England.
10. Monica Palermo. Action abstracts from Italy.

New Artwork in the Galleries
Josef Marsal, Robert Chami and Nicholas Caputi have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Gabe Kirchheimer
Gabe Kirchheimer, prolific and outstanding Burning Man photographer has a show in Oregon: Chemeketa Community College Gallery Building 3, Rm. 122 4000 Lancaster Dr. NE, Salem, Oregon April 2–April 30, M–F 10a.m.–6 p.m. Opening reception: April 2, 12–2 p.m. Burning Man Image gallery: http://tinyurl.com/24sl4k Show details: http://www.chemeketa.edu/collegelife/arts/gallery/index.html

Broad Contemporary Art Museum Inaugural Installation
The newly opened Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers visitors the distilled essence of contemporary American art. It provides iconic artworks from some of the most important artists of the last forty years, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, Cindy Sherman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Baldessari, Jeff Koons, Chris Burden, Mike Kelley, and Richard Serra.

Richard Serra's minimalist steel sculpture, Band, occupies most of the first floor. It is so large, 13 feet tall, 70 feet long and 40 feet wide that the viewer walks inside it. Interestingly, each of about a dozen plates that comprise Band are freestanding. It's not that the structure once put together holds itself up; it's that every part is free in terms of its gravitational load.

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Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Art and Robots

2008-03-19T19:43:00.000-07:00

Worth1000 has merged art and robots into contest.

Take any classical work of art and robotize it. Quality is a must. You will have 48 hours for this contest so make your submission count.

MARK FISCHER

2008-03-09T21:07:00.000-07:00

EXPRESSIONS GALLERY

2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, California, 94703

AN AFTERNOON WITH MARK FISCHER,

Sunday, March 30, 2008 1-3 PM

"Where Nature, Science and Art Meet"

Mark Fischer will speak on his Cetacean and Avian Art work. The art work is currently on display at Expressions Gallery through April 4th

Engineer/Artist Mark Fischer will give a presentation on 'Whalesong Art', 1-3pm on Sunday, March 30th, 2008, at Expressions Gallery in Berkeley, California.

For seven years Mr. Fischer has been researching ways to visualize the sounds of birds, whales and dolphins. Recent work includes investigations of the sounds of the Minke whale, the subject of 'research whaling' near Antarctica, the sounds of the Blue whale in the north Pacific; and tropical birds native to Kaua'i.

His work has been featured in the New York Times, Utne Reader, Greenpeace (Germany), NRDC's OnEarth, the Discovery Channel, GEO, Expressions and Odyssey magazines, San Diego Union Tribune, and AAHA's Trends.

Alexander Sadoyan

2008-02-29T18:16:00.000-08:00

Alexander Sadoyan
Alexander Sadoyan is the March 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Alexander was born in 1954 in Yerevan, Armenia and has resided in Los Angeles since 1996. He graduated from Terlemezian Art College of Fine Arts and has participated in more than 50 exhibitions.

Alexander paints forms and shapes to convey energy and spiritual conditions. He is inspired from life and nature. The colors and rhythms along with the mysterious inner life of mankind become his themes. His images are put together in a dreamlike sequence to reinforce the realty of metaphysical worlds.

Alexander has sold paintings in numerous auctions and his work is in private collections in the US, France, Germany, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, China, Norway and Lebanon. He is a member of the Artist’s Union of the Republic of Armenia and the International Association of Arts at UNESCO. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

The Renowned Art Domain
Biographies of over 500 renowned artists are now indexed on this domain: by century (13th-20th Century), by artist's name, or from an alphabar. These are the most significant, famous, and influential figures in the history of art. The biographies emphasize the artistic style of the artists. Included is an index of female artists. http://RenownedArt.com/

Art Events
February marked the 10th anniversary of the Laguna Beach First Thursdays Art Walk. At the North end of Laguna, the Whitney Gallery exhibited wonderful pastel portraits by Bradford J. Salamon. The Kush Gallery exhibited paintings of Vladimir Kush, the Russian surrealist painter known for metaphorical realism. More on the Laguna Art Walk and on other Southern California art walks, open studio tours and art festivals can be found through the calandar: http://digitalconsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

New Artwork in the Galleries
Gilbert Abric, Joseph DiSipio, Barbara Rose Guada, Robert Chami, Nicholas Caputi and Nirvana Blues have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Chris Kelly. Interpretation of formative energies that govern seeds and natural shapes.
2. Pam Houle. Watercolor florals.
3. Adam Rowell. Fantasy photography.
4. Sej. Organic abstracts from Australia.
5. Rhonda Hall. Realistic interior landscape and nature compositions.
6. Jan Zaremba. Landscape Sumi-e, East Asian ink and wash painting.
7. Dawn Secord. Pastel dogs.
8. Susan J. Sauerbrun. Light and color abstracts.
9. Eemeel. Portraits and nudes from the Netherlands.
10. Chris Heisinger. Stained Glass mosaics.
11. Peter Hobden. Cityscapes from Switzerland.
12. Renso Castaneda. Photo-realistic portraits from Peru.
13. Miklos Legrady. New media and visual art.
14. Max Conrad. Celebrity photography.
15. Stephen Rivers. Xismtic modernism and cubism.