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Glass Houses: Photography by Kalliope Amorphous

Kalliope Amorphous

Sunset by Kalliope Amorphous

Glass Houses is a series of conceptual self portraits created using distortion mirrors. These portraits explore the fragmentation of the self, or the hidden self which is often underlaid beneath a … [Read more...]

Six Mixed Media Pieces by Donna Kuhn

Donna Kuhn

donna kuhn art (detail)

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 … [Read more...]

La Picaudiere — and Hundertwasser’s Honey

Kenneth Tindall

La Picaudiere - and Hundertwasser's Honey

Asked in an interview what he would remember most about his life as an artist, Man Ray replied "the women." I was a bee whisperer, like Edmund Hillary who climbed Mount Everest and who was a beekeeper … [Read more...]

Beat Generation Photos by Rob Lee

Rob Lee

rob lee poets photos

[Editor's note: These photos are small! This page was first created many years ago for smaller screens. I have larger photos somewhere and will update this page as soon as possible.] Shig … [Read more...]

Rik Lina: 5 Paintings

Rik Lina

rik lina - painting - surrealist - featured image

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Meditations: Paintings by Kurt Rostek

Kurt Rostek

Renunication, Mixed media on paper, 22x32, 2006

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 … [Read more...]

A. D. Winans: 11 Photographs

A.D. Winans

House Cat, Abandoned Planet Bookstore, San Francisco, 2000

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In Memoriam: Bruce Conner, 1933-2008

Michael McClure

In Memoriam: Bruce Conner, 1933-2008

THE ARTIST for Bruce Conner THE ARTIST has faces that are nude ladies and feathers. Women pose in the visage of the whirlpool raising bare arms and arching bare thighs. Tentacles of … [Read more...]

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