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Sonia Grineva
SOPHIA CALABA
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I am a 10-year old artist who loves to draw, paint and create. I am participating in the TGF Art Challenge because my mom has Glaucoma and I want to find a cure for this disease.
I am a 10-year old artist who loves to draw, paint and create. I am participating in the TGF Art Challenge because my mom has Glaucoma and I want to find a cure for this disease.
SOPHIA CALABA
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I am a 10-year old artist who loves to draw, paint and create. I am participating in the TGF Art Challenge because my mom has Glaucoma and I want to find a cure for this disease.
I am a 10-year old artist who loves to draw, paint and create. I am participating in the TGF Art Challenge because my mom has Glaucoma and I want to find a cure for this disease.
Kristl Scheerlinck
Introspection
Plastic shopping bags, cloth hangers, paper clay, plaster and stain varnish
My name is Kristl and I have no formal training, but I have a deep interest in art and photography. I like to start my projects using discarded or overlooked objects and material, and transform them into something unexpected. Through my art I try to convey emotions and encourage others to pursue their artistic vision using everyday objects like old magazines, clothe hangers and shopping bags.
Plastic shopping bags, cloth hangers, paper clay, plaster and stain varnish
My name is Kristl and I have no formal training, but I have a deep interest in art and photography. I like to start my projects using discarded or overlooked objects and material, and transform them into something unexpected. Through my art I try to convey emotions and encourage others to pursue their artistic vision using everyday objects like old magazines, clothe hangers and shopping bags.
Robert Wortmann
Grand Opening
Pastel
Robert is a retired physician who began painting later in life. He strives to capture an emotional response to beauty of nature.
Pastel
Robert is a retired physician who began painting later in life. He strives to capture an emotional response to beauty of nature.
Sonia Grineva
Piazza del Campo, Siena
Creating art is an integral part of Sonia Grineva's life.
Sonia Grineva was born in Moscow, Russia, and received her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the Stroganov Art Institute. (Stroganov Institute was founded in 1825 and is widely considered to be Moscow's leading art school, famous for its professors Vassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, among others.) After coming to the United States at the ago of 20, she studied at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, where she was awarded a coveted traveling scholarship to Italy and completed a course of study at the British Institute in Florence. Sonia has since traveled extensively and works on location in the tradition of many "plein air" artists. She has painted some of Europe's most impressive ports, waterways, and rivers, including those surrounding Venice, La Rochelle, Monte Carlo, Dieppe and Prague.
Ms. Grineva has gained an international reputation for her oil and watercolor landscapes and is well-known locally for her Manhattan cityscapes. In addition, she is adept at a variety of mediums, including printmaking and sculpture. Her work can be seen in galleries in New York, New England, Santa Fe, Georgia, Washington, and Europe and in numerous private, public and museum collections. She maintains an art studio on Union Square in New York City.
Sonia's work is the permanent collections of numerous institutions, corporations, and museums, including The White House, Washington, DC; Forbes Foundation, New York, NY; and Smithsonian Institution, Branch New York, NY.
Creating art is an integral part of Sonia Grineva's life.
Sonia Grineva was born in Moscow, Russia, and received her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the Stroganov Art Institute. (Stroganov Institute was founded in 1825 and is widely considered to be Moscow's leading art school, famous for its professors Vassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, among others.) After coming to the United States at the ago of 20, she studied at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, where she was awarded a coveted traveling scholarship to Italy and completed a course of study at the British Institute in Florence. Sonia has since traveled extensively and works on location in the tradition of many "plein air" artists. She has painted some of Europe's most impressive ports, waterways, and rivers, including those surrounding Venice, La Rochelle, Monte Carlo, Dieppe and Prague.
Ms. Grineva has gained an international reputation for her oil and watercolor landscapes and is well-known locally for her Manhattan cityscapes. In addition, she is adept at a variety of mediums, including printmaking and sculpture. Her work can be seen in galleries in New York, New England, Santa Fe, Georgia, Washington, and Europe and in numerous private, public and museum collections. She maintains an art studio on Union Square in New York City.
Sonia's work is the permanent collections of numerous institutions, corporations, and museums, including The White House, Washington, DC; Forbes Foundation, New York, NY; and Smithsonian Institution, Branch New York, NY.
Sonia Grineva
Amalfi Coast
Creating art is an integral part of Sonia Grineva's life.
Sonia Grineva was born in Moscow, Russia, and received her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the Stroganov Art Institute. (Stroganov Institute was founded in 1825 and is widely considered to be Moscow's leading art school, famous for its professors Vassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, among others.)
After coming to the United States at the ago of 20, she studied at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, where she was awarded a coveted traveling scholarship to Italy and completed a course of study at the British Institute in Florence. Sonia has since traveled extensively and works on location in the tradition of many "plein air" artists. She has painted some of Europe's most impressive ports, waterways, and rivers, including those surrounding Venice, La Rochelle, Monte Carlo, Dieppe and Prague.
Ms. Grineva has gained an international reputation for her oil and watercolor landscapes and is well-known locally for her Manhattan cityscapes. In addition, she is adept at a variety of mediums, including printmaking and sculpture. Her work can be seen in galleries in New York, New England, Santa Fe, Georgia, Washington, and Europe and in numerous private, public and museum collections. She maintains an art studio on Union Square in New York City.
Sonia's work is the permanent collections of numerous institutions, corporations, and museums, including The White House, Washington, DC; Forbes Foundation, New York, NY; and Smithsonian Institution, Branch New York, NY.
Creating art is an integral part of Sonia Grineva's life.
Sonia Grineva was born in Moscow, Russia, and received her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the Stroganov Art Institute. (Stroganov Institute was founded in 1825 and is widely considered to be Moscow's leading art school, famous for its professors Vassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, among others.)
After coming to the United States at the ago of 20, she studied at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, where she was awarded a coveted traveling scholarship to Italy and completed a course of study at the British Institute in Florence. Sonia has since traveled extensively and works on location in the tradition of many "plein air" artists. She has painted some of Europe's most impressive ports, waterways, and rivers, including those surrounding Venice, La Rochelle, Monte Carlo, Dieppe and Prague.
Ms. Grineva has gained an international reputation for her oil and watercolor landscapes and is well-known locally for her Manhattan cityscapes. In addition, she is adept at a variety of mediums, including printmaking and sculpture. Her work can be seen in galleries in New York, New England, Santa Fe, Georgia, Washington, and Europe and in numerous private, public and museum collections. She maintains an art studio on Union Square in New York City.
Sonia's work is the permanent collections of numerous institutions, corporations, and museums, including The White House, Washington, DC; Forbes Foundation, New York, NY; and Smithsonian Institution, Branch New York, NY.
Sonia Grineva
Venezia
Creating art is an integral part of Sonia Grineva's life.
Sonia Grineva was born in Moscow, Russia, and received her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the Stroganov Art Institute. (Stroganov Institute was founded in 1825 and is widely considered to be Moscow's leading art school, famous for its professors Vassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, among others.)
After coming to the United States at the ago of 20, she studied at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, where she was awarded a coveted traveling scholarship to Italy and completed a course of study at the British Institute in Florence. Sonia has since traveled extensively and works on location in the tradition of many "plein air" artists. She has painted some of Europe's most impressive ports, waterways, and rivers, including those surrounding Venice, La Rochelle, Monte Carlo, Dieppe and Prague.
Ms. Grineva has gained an international reputation for her oil and watercolor landscapes and is well-known locally for her Manhattan cityscapes. In addition, she is adept at a variety of mediums, including printmaking and sculpture. Her work can be seen in galleries in New York, New England, Santa Fe, Georgia, Washington, and Europe and in numerous private, public and museum collections. She maintains an art studio on Union Square in New York City.
Sonia's work is the permanent collections of numerous institutions, corporations, and museums, including The White House, Washington, DC; Forbes Foundation, New York, NY; and Smithsonian Institution, Branch New York, NY.
Creating art is an integral part of Sonia Grineva's life.
Sonia Grineva was born in Moscow, Russia, and received her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the Stroganov Art Institute. (Stroganov Institute was founded in 1825 and is widely considered to be Moscow's leading art school, famous for its professors Vassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, among others.)
After coming to the United States at the ago of 20, she studied at the National Academy of Design in Manhattan, where she was awarded a coveted traveling scholarship to Italy and completed a course of study at the British Institute in Florence. Sonia has since traveled extensively and works on location in the tradition of many "plein air" artists. She has painted some of Europe's most impressive ports, waterways, and rivers, including those surrounding Venice, La Rochelle, Monte Carlo, Dieppe and Prague.
Ms. Grineva has gained an international reputation for her oil and watercolor landscapes and is well-known locally for her Manhattan cityscapes. In addition, she is adept at a variety of mediums, including printmaking and sculpture. Her work can be seen in galleries in New York, New England, Santa Fe, Georgia, Washington, and Europe and in numerous private, public and museum collections. She maintains an art studio on Union Square in New York City.
Sonia's work is the permanent collections of numerous institutions, corporations, and museums, including The White House, Washington, DC; Forbes Foundation, New York, NY; and Smithsonian Institution, Branch New York, NY.
Victor Calaba
Etna Gently Smoking
This is a picture of Mt. Etna as it was gently erupting in July of 2017.
This is a picture of Mt. Etna as it was gently erupting in July of 2017.
VICTOR CALABA
Untitled
Maryann Gilmartin
Spirit Bear
Spirit Bear
I am in my senior years and upon retirement began to enjoy traveling, painting, gardening. My husband, John, began to lose his eyesight to glaucoma about 12 years ago and our traveling and interest in golf and tennis became limited. He does put a lot of effort in our gardens in Vermont where we live from May-October. I have spent time learning how to paint with pastels by attending workshops led by professional and well known artists. These workshops were within driving distance from home to New York and New England. I also attended workshops out West in New Mexico and Arizona.
I feel when I am at my easel that I am on a journey which will continue for a long time with a good deal of learning and experimenting on the way. And now I have the opportunity to use art to raise funds for glaucoma research.
I paint in pastels on sanded paper. I find this medium easy to store and travel with. I mostly paint landscapes of places I have visited on my travels abroad or in the U.S. In this case the painting is from a reference photo taken by a friend of mine who was in search of the Kendrou bear on an island off the coast of British Colombia.
Spirit Bear
I am in my senior years and upon retirement began to enjoy traveling, painting, gardening. My husband, John, began to lose his eyesight to glaucoma about 12 years ago and our traveling and interest in golf and tennis became limited. He does put a lot of effort in our gardens in Vermont where we live from May-October. I have spent time learning how to paint with pastels by attending workshops led by professional and well known artists. These workshops were within driving distance from home to New York and New England. I also attended workshops out West in New Mexico and Arizona.
I feel when I am at my easel that I am on a journey which will continue for a long time with a good deal of learning and experimenting on the way. And now I have the opportunity to use art to raise funds for glaucoma research.
I paint in pastels on sanded paper. I find this medium easy to store and travel with. I mostly paint landscapes of places I have visited on my travels abroad or in the U.S. In this case the painting is from a reference photo taken by a friend of mine who was in search of the Kendrou bear on an island off the coast of British Colombia.
Jahkori Kenrick Dopwell Hall
Mrs. Black Moses
Jahkori Dopwell Hall is currently a senior - majoring in illustration at the Ringling College of Art and Design.
Born in Brooklyn, New York with primary congenital glaucoma, Jahkori has always had to balance creativity with his disability. Being immersed in a culture surrounded by the arts has allowed him to have his artwork displayed at many reputable locations and galleries.
Jahkori currently works as a private art instructor and freelance artist. In addition, he had become an ambassador for The Glaucoma Foundation Art Challenge this year.
Mrs. Black Moses is a digital illustration project, completed during my junior year of college. For this project, the class was instructed to create a portrait of someone famous using symbolic images that have meaning and tell a story. The reason I titled this piece, Mrs. Black Moses is because that is the nickname slavecatchers used to identify Harriet Tubman after discovering she was freeing enslaved people in the same fashion as the biblical Moses did.
In my piece, I chose to depict Harriet in her youth, surrounded by descriptive symbols. Instead of a stone tabled, she holds a wanted poster in her right hand. She is carrying the poster as a reminder of the danger she's in, symbolic of her fearlessness. The red shawl she's wearing is symbolic of the blood of her ancestors that could never reach freedom. The torch in her hand is a symbol of enlightenment on the path to liberty. The north star in the sky is a symbol of hope, inspiration and a guide to a purposeful destination. Harriet followed this star to freedom. The inclusion of water in the foreground is symbolic of the "Wade in the Water" spiritual that Harriet sang to warn slaves to abandon the path and move into the water.
Using these five symbols, I was able to honor the legacy of Harriett Tubman and the history of the Underground Railroad. I am very pleased with how educational my painting turned out to be. The lighting, mood, setting, and symbolism work together to give this piece a powerful meaning. Harriet Tubman will always be my hero and her bravery will always be an inspiration to me.
Jahkori Dopwell Hall is currently a senior - majoring in illustration at the Ringling College of Art and Design.
Born in Brooklyn, New York with primary congenital glaucoma, Jahkori has always had to balance creativity with his disability. Being immersed in a culture surrounded by the arts has allowed him to have his artwork displayed at many reputable locations and galleries.
Jahkori currently works as a private art instructor and freelance artist. In addition, he had become an ambassador for The Glaucoma Foundation Art Challenge this year.
Mrs. Black Moses is a digital illustration project, completed during my junior year of college. For this project, the class was instructed to create a portrait of someone famous using symbolic images that have meaning and tell a story. The reason I titled this piece, Mrs. Black Moses is because that is the nickname slavecatchers used to identify Harriet Tubman after discovering she was freeing enslaved people in the same fashion as the biblical Moses did.
In my piece, I chose to depict Harriet in her youth, surrounded by descriptive symbols. Instead of a stone tabled, she holds a wanted poster in her right hand. She is carrying the poster as a reminder of the danger she's in, symbolic of her fearlessness. The red shawl she's wearing is symbolic of the blood of her ancestors that could never reach freedom. The torch in her hand is a symbol of enlightenment on the path to liberty. The north star in the sky is a symbol of hope, inspiration and a guide to a purposeful destination. Harriet followed this star to freedom. The inclusion of water in the foreground is symbolic of the "Wade in the Water" spiritual that Harriet sang to warn slaves to abandon the path and move into the water.
Using these five symbols, I was able to honor the legacy of Harriett Tubman and the history of the Underground Railroad. I am very pleased with how educational my painting turned out to be. The lighting, mood, setting, and symbolism work together to give this piece a powerful meaning. Harriet Tubman will always be my hero and her bravery will always be an inspiration to me.
Cly Fowkes
Weather is Fine, Wish You Were Here
Created from multiple images in Photoshop
I am a native New Yorker, a writer, designer, and illustrator currently serving as director of special projects at The Glaucoma Foundation.
I have two accomplished, loving sisters, three cats, and a very good dog.
I'm a fan of the 'Polish School of Posters,' Milton Glaser, Japanese woodblock prints, Mark Rothko, and Myra Kalman! At home and at work, the walls are chockablock with art.
Created from multiple images in Photoshop
I am a native New Yorker, a writer, designer, and illustrator currently serving as director of special projects at The Glaucoma Foundation.
I have two accomplished, loving sisters, three cats, and a very good dog.
I'm a fan of the 'Polish School of Posters,' Milton Glaser, Japanese woodblock prints, Mark Rothko, and Myra Kalman! At home and at work, the walls are chockablock with art.
Cly Fowkes
Where Is My Wolf
Digital Collage, August 2021
Digital Collage, August 2021
Michael Karasik
Looking Out
Contented cat looking out the window, being closely observed by the spider in its web. This painting is entirely made with multi-colored clays which are blended and applied with my fingertips. The glass windows are approximately 12 layers of clay but only as thick as a sheet of window glass, while the cat is about ¼ inch thick. The three dimensionality of the cat brings her to life, and you feel like you could pat her and hear her purr.
Michael Karasik has been drawing for decades. His paintings have evolved from simple line drawings to elaborate clay creations. In 1999 he created his technique of using modeling clay on a marble dusted gesso board. The artist described this technique as “immediately resonated with me. I became captivated with the intimacy of using my finger as a brush, the unlimited range of color and the complexity of layered clay; pulling the clay across the board to create veils of colors utilizing the three-dimensional properties inherent in clay." The artist also employs other media including watercolors, pastels and crayons on heavy paper. Drawing was a respite from the sometimes-chaotic household growing up with an older brother with an autism spectrum disorder. This was at a time when few supports existed for individuals with disabilities in the 1950's and 1960's.
Contented cat looking out the window, being closely observed by the spider in its web. This painting is entirely made with multi-colored clays which are blended and applied with my fingertips. The glass windows are approximately 12 layers of clay but only as thick as a sheet of window glass, while the cat is about ¼ inch thick. The three dimensionality of the cat brings her to life, and you feel like you could pat her and hear her purr.
Michael Karasik has been drawing for decades. His paintings have evolved from simple line drawings to elaborate clay creations. In 1999 he created his technique of using modeling clay on a marble dusted gesso board. The artist described this technique as “immediately resonated with me. I became captivated with the intimacy of using my finger as a brush, the unlimited range of color and the complexity of layered clay; pulling the clay across the board to create veils of colors utilizing the three-dimensional properties inherent in clay." The artist also employs other media including watercolors, pastels and crayons on heavy paper. Drawing was a respite from the sometimes-chaotic household growing up with an older brother with an autism spectrum disorder. This was at a time when few supports existed for individuals with disabilities in the 1950's and 1960's.
Victoria Brooke Valiquette
My Little Pony
This is a sketch of a pony at my barn. I used Prismacolor Premier pencils on tones gray sketch paper.
Hi! I am 10 years old and in 5th grade. I am a competitive figure skater and have been skating since I was 21 months old. I started riding horses in December 2020 and now spend almost as much time at the barn as I do at the ring. I discovered my passion for art during the COVID-19 quarantine and find it very relaxing to draw. I love to draw pictures of my pets, which include a pony, a dog, 3 birds, 2 guinea pigs, and a fish. When I grow up, I would like to be a lawyer.
This is a sketch of a pony at my barn. I used Prismacolor Premier pencils on tones gray sketch paper.
Hi! I am 10 years old and in 5th grade. I am a competitive figure skater and have been skating since I was 21 months old. I started riding horses in December 2020 and now spend almost as much time at the barn as I do at the ring. I discovered my passion for art during the COVID-19 quarantine and find it very relaxing to draw. I love to draw pictures of my pets, which include a pony, a dog, 3 birds, 2 guinea pigs, and a fish. When I grow up, I would like to be a lawyer.
Michael Coughlan
Untitled
New Smyrna-Titusville - The painting submitted for the TGF Art Challenge explores an ambiguous space between abstraction and representational landscape painting. Painted while a resident at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, the painting focuses on process, material breakdown, and the experience of looking.
Michael Coughlan is a visual artist living in Los Angeles, CA
His solo exhibitions have been seen in Europe, Los Angeles and New York. Recent group exhibitions include shows at Stalke Gallery, Kirke Saaby, Denmark and Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles. His work has garnered praise and been featured in reviews in Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The LA Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle and Tema Celeste, among others.
He is the recipient of a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant (1996) and was a resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida 2011. Coughlan earned an MFA from the California Institute of Arts, and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design for Painting.
New Smyrna-Titusville - The painting submitted for the TGF Art Challenge explores an ambiguous space between abstraction and representational landscape painting. Painted while a resident at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, the painting focuses on process, material breakdown, and the experience of looking.
Michael Coughlan is a visual artist living in Los Angeles, CA
His solo exhibitions have been seen in Europe, Los Angeles and New York. Recent group exhibitions include shows at Stalke Gallery, Kirke Saaby, Denmark and Wilding Cran Gallery in Los Angeles. His work has garnered praise and been featured in reviews in Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, The LA Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle and Tema Celeste, among others.
He is the recipient of a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant (1996) and was a resident artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach, Florida 2011. Coughlan earned an MFA from the California Institute of Arts, and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design for Painting.
Sonya Michel
Pink Recycle
This is a collage, 22 inches by 24 inches, made primarily from recycled corrugated cardboard and shopping bags, some of it painted in acrylics but leaving the Recycled icons visible, along with the creases and stains the materials acquired in the course of their history. The piece is meant to draw attention to the aesthetic qualities of these materials as well as their long useful lives.
After many years as a professor of history, American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies and author of numerous books and articles, I retired and began a new career as an artist. My work consists mainly of abstract paintings, collages and assemblages. I use acrylics and found and recycled materials. I am a member of the Touchstone Gallery in downtown Washington, D.C., and one of my pieces will be featured in the upcoming juried exhibition "Re-Cycle" at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery, opening in mid-September.
This is a collage, 22 inches by 24 inches, made primarily from recycled corrugated cardboard and shopping bags, some of it painted in acrylics but leaving the Recycled icons visible, along with the creases and stains the materials acquired in the course of their history. The piece is meant to draw attention to the aesthetic qualities of these materials as well as their long useful lives.
After many years as a professor of history, American Studies and Women's and Gender Studies and author of numerous books and articles, I retired and began a new career as an artist. My work consists mainly of abstract paintings, collages and assemblages. I use acrylics and found and recycled materials. I am a member of the Touchstone Gallery in downtown Washington, D.C., and one of my pieces will be featured in the upcoming juried exhibition "Re-Cycle" at the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition Gallery, opening in mid-September.
Olga Mikhlina
Into Eternity
Egret flying into the sunrise.
A curiosity about and affinity for nature compels Olga to spend hours observing plants, birds and animals. Having a camera handy only adds to the enjoyment. Loves seeing the world through a lens.
Bird stalker; deer whisperer; avid collector of sunrises and sunsets.
Egret flying into the sunrise.
A curiosity about and affinity for nature compels Olga to spend hours observing plants, birds and animals. Having a camera handy only adds to the enjoyment. Loves seeing the world through a lens.
Bird stalker; deer whisperer; avid collector of sunrises and sunsets.
OLGA Mikhlina
Sun Spot
A deer on the beach at sunrise...not an unusual sighting early in the morning.
Bird stalker; deer whisperer; avid collector of sunrises and sunsets.
A curiosity about and affinity for nature compels Olga to spend hours observing plants, birds and animals. Having a camera handy only adds to the enjoyment. Loves seeing the world through a lens.
A deer on the beach at sunrise...not an unusual sighting early in the morning.
Bird stalker; deer whisperer; avid collector of sunrises and sunsets.
A curiosity about and affinity for nature compels Olga to spend hours observing plants, birds and animals. Having a camera handy only adds to the enjoyment. Loves seeing the world through a lens.
Sarah Block
Collaboration
This piece is pastel on black paper, with dimensions of 50 cm x 70 cm (18" x 24"). It tells the tale of working as a team and the feelings that go with it. When collaboration is approached with an open mind, passionate discussion of difference leads to enlightenment and clash turns into beauty.
I have been living in Italy for over 25 years, which has inevitably had a strong impact on my artistic development. I have always been very drawn to the wonderful sense of space, light and color of this country. When I was in my twenties and thirties, I was highly influenced by the great masters and my work was figurative. In time, my work has become increasingly more abstract. I work a lot in pastels, oils and mixed media (collage).
In addition to being an artist, I am also a classroom teacher. I work a lot with my kids in helping them find their own artistic expression. Teaching for me is a very creative process. It feeds my soul and has shaped me into the artist I have become.
website coming!
This piece is pastel on black paper, with dimensions of 50 cm x 70 cm (18" x 24"). It tells the tale of working as a team and the feelings that go with it. When collaboration is approached with an open mind, passionate discussion of difference leads to enlightenment and clash turns into beauty.
I have been living in Italy for over 25 years, which has inevitably had a strong impact on my artistic development. I have always been very drawn to the wonderful sense of space, light and color of this country. When I was in my twenties and thirties, I was highly influenced by the great masters and my work was figurative. In time, my work has become increasingly more abstract. I work a lot in pastels, oils and mixed media (collage).
In addition to being an artist, I am also a classroom teacher. I work a lot with my kids in helping them find their own artistic expression. Teaching for me is a very creative process. It feeds my soul and has shaped me into the artist I have become.
website coming!
Kyna Leski
Camera Eye
A dream: The image projected inside my eye onto my retina while sitting in an eye looking at the image projected onto the retina of an eye looking into a mirror.
I explore, witness, and practice the creative process through my work and my teaching. As a child, I was reprimanded for “getting bored easily,” and now I see that weakness, like all “weaknesses,” as a strength. (Getting bored keeps me moving ahead.) I live in a city whose name, (“pro-videre”) signifies what creativity is: a process of “seeing ahead.” We "see ahead" when we make designs that are materialized in the future, when we write problems that anticipate solutions, when we link one step to another in navigating our lives and the way through anything, especially the empty page, writer’s block, confusion, chaos, needs, and questions. The creative process is the story of this passage and speaks for the author, to the user, the reader, inhabitant, audience or viewer. I have listened and observed these workings as a teacher, a student, a maker, a writer and an architect myself. As an educator I am dedicated to embodied learning, to the precision of mind that comes from measured making and to the clarity of abstraction. As a student, an aspiring/practicing actor and witness I seek to learn something, to be surprised by the author/director's soul voice and to find coherence where there wasn’t any. As a maker of things, designer, and writer, I dwell in uncertainty, follow poetry as a process, reason with material, construct, deconstruct and reconstruct—conceptual clarity appearing as a guide. I watch the sunrise almost everyday from a rowing shell, am moved to tears by honesty, and take dreams very seriously.
A dream: The image projected inside my eye onto my retina while sitting in an eye looking at the image projected onto the retina of an eye looking into a mirror.
I explore, witness, and practice the creative process through my work and my teaching. As a child, I was reprimanded for “getting bored easily,” and now I see that weakness, like all “weaknesses,” as a strength. (Getting bored keeps me moving ahead.) I live in a city whose name, (“pro-videre”) signifies what creativity is: a process of “seeing ahead.” We "see ahead" when we make designs that are materialized in the future, when we write problems that anticipate solutions, when we link one step to another in navigating our lives and the way through anything, especially the empty page, writer’s block, confusion, chaos, needs, and questions. The creative process is the story of this passage and speaks for the author, to the user, the reader, inhabitant, audience or viewer. I have listened and observed these workings as a teacher, a student, a maker, a writer and an architect myself. As an educator I am dedicated to embodied learning, to the precision of mind that comes from measured making and to the clarity of abstraction. As a student, an aspiring/practicing actor and witness I seek to learn something, to be surprised by the author/director's soul voice and to find coherence where there wasn’t any. As a maker of things, designer, and writer, I dwell in uncertainty, follow poetry as a process, reason with material, construct, deconstruct and reconstruct—conceptual clarity appearing as a guide. I watch the sunrise almost everyday from a rowing shell, am moved to tears by honesty, and take dreams very seriously.
Charlotte Moss
Untitled
With 35 years in the business of design, Charlotte Moss has received numerous honors, including the New York School of Interior Design’s Centennial Medal, Housing Works’ Groundbreaker’s Award, The Royal Oak Foundation’s Timeless Design award, and is named one of Elle Décor’s Grand Master List of Top Designers. Charlotte has used her experience culled from thirty-five years of decorating homes to design collections of furniture, fabrics, china, carpets, ceramics, framed photography and clothing.
With 35 years in the business of design, Charlotte Moss has received numerous honors, including the New York School of Interior Design’s Centennial Medal, Housing Works’ Groundbreaker’s Award, The Royal Oak Foundation’s Timeless Design award, and is named one of Elle Décor’s Grand Master List of Top Designers. Charlotte has used her experience culled from thirty-five years of decorating homes to design collections of furniture, fabrics, china, carpets, ceramics, framed photography and clothing.
Randy Brozen
Birds and Flowers
Collage on hand-made Nepalese paper, magazine cut-out, photographic images.
This work is part of a series of collages in response to the pandemic; this image of the Quan Yin (Goddess of Mercy), and lots of birds and bright sunflowers comfort and give hope for a brilliant and colorful future for us all.
Randy Brozen is an award winning New York based artist, papermaker and photographer with an MFA in Sculpture from the City College of New York, where she teaches as Lecturer in the School of Education program. As an Artist-in-Residence, Art Consultant, and Teaching Artist, she has taught all ages and all media all over New York City. She especially loves to work with children and help them discover their own inner artist.
Collage on hand-made Nepalese paper, magazine cut-out, photographic images.
This work is part of a series of collages in response to the pandemic; this image of the Quan Yin (Goddess of Mercy), and lots of birds and bright sunflowers comfort and give hope for a brilliant and colorful future for us all.
Randy Brozen is an award winning New York based artist, papermaker and photographer with an MFA in Sculpture from the City College of New York, where she teaches as Lecturer in the School of Education program. As an Artist-in-Residence, Art Consultant, and Teaching Artist, she has taught all ages and all media all over New York City. She especially loves to work with children and help them discover their own inner artist.
Dominik Koscinski
Squirtle Turtle
Dominik is an aspiring character artist with a passion for storytelling through appealing and engaging characters. Having studied computer animation at The School of Visual Arts, Dominik co-directed his own animated short 'The Misadventures of Chubzilla'. Ever since, Dominik has challenged himself to learn new skills so that he might be able to push his craft and create more likeable characters that convey a story with personality.
Dominik is an aspiring character artist with a passion for storytelling through appealing and engaging characters. Having studied computer animation at The School of Visual Arts, Dominik co-directed his own animated short 'The Misadventures of Chubzilla'. Ever since, Dominik has challenged himself to learn new skills so that he might be able to push his craft and create more likeable characters that convey a story with personality.
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