The question of value underpins everything. A decent meal. A romantic partner. Expressing vulnerability in an unfamiliar way. The right brand of rechargeable batteries. In every consideration, from the mundane to the profound, a risk/reward ratio is … [Read more...]
Artworks by Doren Robbins
My work is connected to the folk, DADA, and Surrealist traditions of collage, photomontage, and mixed-media works discussed in Herta Wescher's book Collage and Robert Motherwell's The DADA Painters and Poets. Duende is an incident of imagination. … [Read more...]
No Inherent Existence: mixed-media pieces by Hildy Maze
None of us can escape the habit of projecting thoughts and concepts onto reality itself— what Buddhists would call “pure perception”. But if we can access awareness of our inner, deeply ingrained conceptual biases, we can open new windows onto our mind. … [Read more...]
Mixed-media pieces by Cynthia Yachtman
I work primarily with acrylic and latex paints, inks, papers and charcoal. My images contain many diverse layers of meaning from the universal to the specific and personal. My works are often abstract. I am frequently interested in pattern and/or creating … [Read more...]
Divine Decay by Kon Markogiannis
Divine Decay is a series of photographic/mixed media constructions informed and inspired by holy texts, illuminated manuscripts, death memorials, sacred geometry, religious icons, and Renaissance panel paintings. The work deals with memory, … [Read more...]
The Roman Arch: paintings by Anna Carina Sinocchi
The Roman arch is the central theme and subject matter of the following works. Historically the arch is the foundation of Roman architecture and is hailed as a triumph of antiquity. It persisted in Italy and proceeds to be embraced by its utilization in … [Read more...]
9 mixed-media pieces by Mardi de Veuve Alexis
Mardi’s current body of work is inspired by an evolving local urban environment, urbanization as a condition, and contemporary culture. Working for several years from her Venice, CA studio, she was viscerally impacted by the changing neighborhood and … [Read more...]
All These Sensations: 11 artworks by Lita Kenyon
Painting With abstract painting I'm interested in a process which operates within a personal narrative in concert with the unexpected. I paint, remove paint and repaint striving to bring forward forms, strokes and colors that singularly are incomplete … [Read more...]
12 new collages by Gary Cummiskey
Five Pieces by Rose Knapp
These abstract mixed-media art works deal with contemporary social issues while leaving interpretations up to the viewer rather than taking hard line either/or stances. Themes include the disintegrating middle-classes, who has power and access in society, … [Read more...]
eye the beholder
“eye the beholder” is a mixed media digitally manipulated project that presents visual experiences through layering. The layered pieces are composed of both opaques and transparencies, colours, blacks, whites and greys. The result is a visual … [Read more...]
Thirteen mixed-media artworks by Hildy Maze
Artist's statement: My work is driven by a curiosity into the investigation of mind thru art. None of us can avoid thoughts, but through awareness of our pitfalls, beauty, strengths and weaknesses we can open windows into the mind. The core of my … [Read more...]
Insignia: Collages by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Artist's statement: Mail Art first influenced my artistic direction. In the 80s I began creating collages using found images, rubber stamps and stickers. I also practiced graffiti, using markers, stencils and spraypaint. I’ve retained some of those … [Read more...]
Mixed Media Paintings by Tina Garvin
Artist's statement: This collection of mixed media paintings is inspired by the tension between the nature that surrounds us and our own inherent natures.These paintings are a series of communications. The symbolism, color, and movement in each artwork … [Read more...]
Burning Factories: Art by Sander Steins
It was the summer of 1980 when I was seven years old that I sat in the back seat of my father’s blue Opel Kadett coupé and saw the first smoking chimneys of the German Ruhrgebiet. Those were the declining years of one of Europe’s biggest and heaviest … [Read more...]
Six Mixed Media Pieces by Donna Kuhn
Artist's Statement I make art because that is the only way life makes sense to me. A recurrent theme in my work is the face: semi-abstract, colorful and emotional. I don't choose to draw these faces. Their forms just come to me. They jump off the page … [Read more...]
Meditations by Kurt Rostek
Kurt Rostek says: education I have for the most part been self educated, with the exception of doing a visual arts diploma from Centennial College, and two years in the Fine Arts program at York University. In a slightly different discipline I have … [Read more...]