Art & Beyond February 2019

art&beyond Vol. 57 • Februay • 2019

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Olesya Volk

THE WAKE. Ooil and Tempera on Wood, 18" x 24" oil • acrylic • watercolor • mixed media • photography • digital art • sculpture • glass • ceramic • jewelry

Ara Shahumyan

METAMORPHOSE. Mixed Media on Cardboard, 9.8" x 6.9"

Exhibiting Opportunities The City of West Hollywood, LarkGallery, NFP Rullywood, and Art & Beyond Magazine are collaborating on a project devoted to International Women’s Month - March 2019 and organizing an art exhibition, series of events in the City of West Hollywood Long Hall Gallery and publishing a Special Issue of Art & Beyond Magazine themed

Evolve. Women. Wisdom.

To participate invited: Artists, poets, musicians, writers, scientists, women business leaders and spiritual activists.

Participants: All women artists are welcomed to apply for this competition/exhibition with ANY theme they choose. Men are welcome to participate in this project as well, if the artwork, poetry or music devoted to Women.

How to: To be published in the Evolve. Women. Wisdom issue of Art & Beyond Magazine and have artwork for sales in the Gallery on LarkGallery.com (link to submit https://larkgallery.com/submissions.php). Poetry can be submitted as a word document accompany with an available images to illustrate. Musicians can publish songs as the lyrics with an available images to illustrate (photos from the concerts, head shots‌).

Please submit your images and/or poetry through LarkGallery submission page and click on the button Evolve. Women. Wisdom, after you log in.

To participate in the related exhibition please submit your images that you want to exhibit in the Folder Portal of Opportunities IX. For more details and to submit, please visit LG submission page (link to https://larkgallery.com/submissions.php) The exhibition for International Women's Month will be on display March 1 - March 24, 2019.

Deadline is February 1, 2019 The instructions for shipping artworks will be send email when a work is chosen.

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point of interest

The Intrepid Artist

by Kathy van Gogh

Chapter 1

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mmmm….she gropes for the phone in the dark, finds it, pulls it towards her and hears the water glass go crashing to the floor as the charger cord knocks it off her night table. Well she’s wide awake now! 2:46 am, might as well get up and paint. She’ll clean that up later she decides, it’s only water, but actually, she won’t get around to it until bedtime. She tries to dampen the snick of the door jamb opening with two hands on the knob and pads out to the kitchen in the ratty old t-shirt she uses as jammies. She loves it because she used an iron-on transfer to put her artist’s statement on it, but that never quite worked out into the huge craft fair seller she thought it would. Oh well...jammies for life and she’s damn proud of that barely legible statement.

She picks up the rose painting she struggled so hard with the night before. “Contrived crap” she says out loud. She looks at the poppies, the drips are all way too regular and evenly spaced. Art! Vancouver is six months away and she didn’t even have one piece she considered good enough to show. She picked up the Mason jar full of dirty water, poured it over the dirty dishes sitting in the sink and rinsed it out.

Drone Photographer TALIN WAYRYNEN

Chapter 2….in our next issue of Art & Beyond

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CONTENTS In This issue:

This February 2019 Issue opens with the Point of Interest column dedicated to the upcoming Art Vancouver International Art Fair 2019 follow by the pictorial article for the pasd Spectrum/Red Dot International Art Fairs 2018.

Cover

Back Cover

Olesya Volk

Anabela Ferguson

Inside Front Cover

Inside Back Cover

Ara Shahumyan

Herbert Hermans

This issue is also opened a new column Critique written by a prominent art critic Peter Frank on Lark (Larisa Pilinsky), artist, writer and gallerist.

Also do not miss the Art & Beyond Interviews with Herbert Hermans Inside Back Cover winner and Devon Govoni a Publisher Choice Award winner.

Art & Beyond is proud to announce the following winners published in this issue.

Congratulations to Olesya Volk, her artwork “The Wake” won the Front Cover for February Online issue.

The Inside Front Cover won artwork by Ara Shahumyan, "Metamorphose".

The Back Cover won the artwork “Ocean View” by Anabela Ferguson.

And the Inside Back Cover was awarded to Herbert Hermans for artwork “Trap Zollverein”.

The Publisher Choice Award to be published and promoted in the February issue was given to following artists: Greg Jackson, Natalya Parris, Olha Hernandez, Lina Kogan, Devon Govoni with One Page article and Igor Prokop and Cristina Paulos with Two Page article.

We thank all of the amazing and talented artists

who participated in the competition and wish you

all great success in your journey.

Point of Interest

Anabela Ferguson

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The Intrepid Artist

Herbert Hermans

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by Kathy van Gogh

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Igor Prokop

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Devon Govoni

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The Memorable Moments with

Congratulations to all!

Announcement

Art & Beyond invites all published artists to apply for the upcoming Summer Print Edition Magazine to be presented at Art Santa Fe July 18-21, 2019

Deadline May 21, 2019

Publisher Art Director Editor

Mila Ryk Mila Ryk Alina Lampert

Art & Beyond published 8 times a year.

Six (6) Online issues and Two (2) printed issues.

Distributed to the galleries, museumes and other

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Greg Jackson

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Olha Hernandez

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Critique

Lina Kogan

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Cristina Paulos

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Natalya Parris

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Art & Beyond: Spectrum/Red Dot

LARK (Larisa Pilinsky)

by Peter Frank

Fine Art Olesya Volk Ara Shahumyan

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point of interest

The Memorable Moments from the Spertrum/Red Dot 2018 with Art & Beyond Magazine

BLINKGROUP PROJECTS. ERNESTO DOMECQ. Red Dot 2018. Photo by Robert J Hibbs, © Redwood Media Group

WORLD WIDE ART .ARTAVITA. MAYA BOROWICZ Spectrum 2018. Opening Night Preview. © Redwood Media Group

you are born to create "YouIf work very hard.

If you work very hard You have to share it!

If you have to share it This is the place where all the Magic happens!

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HIKKURI CASA. Spectrum 2018. Opening Night Preview. © Redwood Media Group. Photo by Robert J Hibbs

JBIS CONTEMPORARY. Spectrum 2018. © Redwood Media Group.

Photo by Robert J Hibbs

MECENAVIE. Spectrum 2018. © Redwood Media Group.

Photo by Robert J Hibbs

CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS USA. Red Dot 2018. © Redwood Media Group. Photo by Robert J Hibbs

MIAMI ART COLLECTION. Red Dot 2018. © Redwood Media Group.

Photo by Robert J Hibbs

MONICA CAMPANA MONTANARELLA. Spectrum 2018. © Redwood Media Group. Photo by Robert J Hibbs

ACA ART CENTER. KISEOK KIM. Spectrum 2018. © Redwood Media Group. Photo by Robert J Hibbs

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critique

by Peter Frank, Associate Editor, Fabrik Magazine

LARK (LARISA PILINSKY)

THE VOICE OF SILENCE, Mixed media on Canvas, 48” x 34”, 2010

Larisa Pilinsky, the Russian-born, Los Angeles-based artist and writer, began her visual art activities as a collagist.

Actually, she began her professional involvement with art as a journalist advocating for other artists, specifically the Armenian-Russian Bunker group; but as her connection deepened to the adventurous and open-spirited Bunker artists, she found herself moved to make art herself, with their encouragement. Partly in deference to the Bunker artists’ powerful experiments with pigments and color materials, Lark turned to collage rather than to painting to make her first “mature” works. Entering artmaking this way opened up a kind of “back door” for her, allowing her to gain understanding of form and color and texture without picking up a brush. That came later. Over a few years Lark gradually weaned herself off collage (although more than occasionally she will still attach a two- or even three-dimensional object to her painted canvas or paper); she has emerged as a painter.

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reliance on texture, gesture, and flow. Her color sensibility, however, comes from somewhere entirely different, from artistic impulses that emerged a century and a half (or more) earlier. Focused on representational, usually landscape subjects – albeit ones that often disappear into a painterly scumble (only to reappear on second or third glance) – Lark describes those subjects with sweeping, almost sculpted brushstrokes and clots of paint, as well as a glowing palette that descends from the French Impressionists, luminous and mysterious atmospherics reminiscent of J.M.W. Turner, and a granular embrace of nature – a comprehension of space itself as part of the natural order – that brings to mind Gustave Courbet and the Barbizon painters.

In her most recent paintings Lark becomes most completely a painter at the same time as she employs paint in an almost collage-like way. She attaches strokes of pigment to one another and the canvas rather than modelling and blending them into conventional representations. The active quality

FOREST DREAMS, Mixed Media on Canvas,

AUTUMN PASSION, Acrylic on Board, 5" x 5", 2018

30" x 20", 2018

SUNRISE REVELATIONS, Mixed media on Canvas, 12" x 12�, 2017

of her surfaces emerges from this visceral approach; the paint retains its physical presence, its objecthood, perhaps at the expense of the subject but ultimately to the benefit of the mood. The image is not so much a depiction as it is a description in paint; the effect is not one of picture but of sensation. Floral and maritime and forest subjects churn and transmute as if seen not on the ground but in the clouds, or in a fever dream. This is paint-forward work, an anti-natural naturalism that proudly evinces its Bunker-induced sensuality and its debt to an earlier painterly avant garde. www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 11

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Olesya Volk

PUPPET TREE 4. Oil on Wood, 24" x 36"

OLESYA VOLK born in Baku, Azerbajan, lived in Moscow since 16 years old. She immigrated to USA in 1992 and reside to L.A. M.F.A. in Film & Tv (Animation major) from UCLA.

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Olesya involved in painting, writing and illustrating, cartooning, mixed media, paper theatre and small size dioramas.

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I LIVED HERE. Oil and Tempera on Wood, 36" x 24"

My paintings come out as attempts to "translate" from ideograms and fantastic hieroglyphs that I see in the patterns of nature, most often in the tree bark. It is like listening to a song in an unknown language. Everyone will have their own guess of what the words might say, but the main theme of the song will be recognized.I am so thrilled by the moments of gazing into the patterns of nature when intuition gives a glimpse from the world of archetypes. I think that trees are books and libraries that can be read, perhaps as well as any thing around if we attune to it… My paintings are sort of "snapshots" from the process of reading the Book of Nature by the mind;these "snapshots" are somewhere in between the imagery and the language.The mind projects meanings onto the shapes and lines, but they are being reflected back, startling and puzzling… there is always a sensation of a mirror dialog, of having been "read" yourself by the Book of Nature...

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Ara Shahumyan

EQUIPOISE. Mixed Media on Cardboard, 9.8" x 6.9"

ARA SHAHUMYAN (SHAH) was born in 1978 in Yerevan, Armenia and was trained in the art of painting under the instruction of his father, esteemed and world renown painter, Haghtanak Shahumyan. Ara Shahumyan graduated from the Panos Terlemzyan School of Art in Yerevan, Armenia in 1996, and later went on to attain his masters degree in Fine Arts from the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts in 2002.

His journey as an artist has since allowed him to exhibit his

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paintings and works of art throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.Since 2014 he has been endowed as an Art Expert in painting and graphic arts for the State Expert Centre of Cultural Values NGO in Armenia. He has also been commissioned as a resident paint restoration artist by the National Gallery of Armenia since 2016.

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BURST. Chinese Ink on Paper, 13.8" x 19.3"

BLUEBERRY FUME. Mixed Media on Cardboard, 6.3" x 12.6" FORMULA OF ETERNITY. Mixed Mediaon Cardboard, 9.8" x 6.9" www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 15

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Anabela Ferguson

OCEAN REFLECTIONS. Acrylic on Wood, 23 1/5" round

ANABELA FERGUSON is an established artist, fine art restorer and museum quality framer, she is servicing the communities of Virginia, Washington DC and Maryland and reaching out to other states to provide the very best in art restoration and fine art from her private studio collection to private collectors around the country.

This new round art on wood was a new inspiration from a series of Lazy Susans she began marketing to collectors over a year ago. The appreciation of the oceanic deep waters, the 16 • Art & Beyond • February 2019

ripples of tiny and brave gigantic waves have been a true passion in her life.

The blending of color and the magical outcome has giving her a new great pursuit to different exploration to shapes and surfaces. Anabela will continue to work on new round shapes for Home Decor ideas and you can see her future pieces. www.anabela-artist.com anabela@anabela-artist.com

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Art & Beyond Interview with Herbert Hermans

HET GROTE KANTOOR.

Q: Where do you find your inspiration?

A: I find my inspiration in abandoned and often ruinous buildings

Q: What do you envision a viewer experiences when they look at

and I add persons from real life and from my own phantasy. I record these often before demolition by photographs and sketches and these are worked out in my atelier at the Vest in the historic city center of Gouda in The Netherlands.

A: With the use of color, perspective and light I want to make my

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your work? paintings to be a special event for the viewer. Dark disconsolateness is changing into light and warmth. Regularly I add characters into my

GATEKEEPERS.

paintings who provide another or an extra dimension to the image, like brides, monks and observers. The tension in their relation is sometimes nearly tangible.

Q: As an artist, what would you say your ultimate goal is?

A: My ultimate goal is to make people enjoy my paintings and let them think and wonder about the meaning of the works.

Q: Who or what is your greatest influence?

A: I was influenced by architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and painters like Edward Hopper and M.C. Escher.

Q: Do you have any upcoming exhibits?

A: I have following exhibitions in the 2019: Bodegraven (The Netherlands): a solo exhibition with more than 30 works; Artexpo New York (USA); ClĂŠmont (Sologne, France); Annual Dutch Art Fair Amsterdam (The Netherlands). hegmhermans@xs4all.nl

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Igor Prokop

TRAVEL IN AN ALIEN'S BRAIN TISSUES. Acryl on Canvas, 115cm x 95cm. 2018

IGOR PROKOP was born in Budapest in 1953. He graduated from the Teacher Training College in Eger as a teacher of Biology and drawing in 1978. Igor studied Biology at József Attila University and Arts between 1981 and 1983 in Szeged, then philosophy in 1984 in Budapest. He also studied film aesthetics in 1987 and between 1991 and 1993 he studied design at the University of Applied Arts.

Auckland and several other places around the world.

Everything is connected - nothing is meaningless. It does matter how you live, what you create, if you are going to have children, and what you are going to leave to them and their children as well. It does matter how much enlightenment you achieve! Every one of us has his own inner world made out of experience and personal learning within the system.

Igor Prokop studied and worked in New York, Heidelberg,

“I want to preserve the past and to design the future. I want

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BIRTH OF GREENLAND. Acryl on Canvas, 118cm x 108cm. 2018

to protect the universal systems and I would like to protect the teachings of those that have thought me everything: The Organon by Aristoteles; Holbach, On the Road by Kerouac; Jack London, Arnold Gehlen, Stephen Hawking and several other teachers from art, music, history and even from the internet. They all became guides on my way.” – Igor Prokop.

final goal, the inspiration for my pictures: To create tolerant, creative and cooperative systems that are heading toward a spiritual unity. Everyone must learn and teach at his realm, everyone must learn to work together with the power of art.

For it is only possible to compare the power of art to that of nature herself” stated Igor Prokop.

“Our world permits no further mistakes. United mankind can solve its problems. We must work together! This is my

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fine art SECOND THOUGHT. Mixed Media on Panel, Triptych.

Art & Beyond Interview with Devon Govoni

CASTLES. Mixed Media on Canvas.

Q: Where do you find your inspiration?

A: I find my inspiration from mysterious aspects of life and the world in which we live. I feel like there is magic around every corner, whether beautiful or eerily intriguing. Nature is a powerful motivator in my artistic processes. Most often, there is something of living quality in my works. I tend to gravitate toward creating entities that could be labelled as monsters. I feel as though monsters can capture every intricate emotion that living beings can possess. Monsters are much more open in expressing themselves than the average human. Realistically, we are not going to remember every day in our lives, but we tend to remember the really good and the really bad. I like to focus on small moments of really good, great, and amazing, as well as negatively emotive states.

Trying to capture a true moment of peace or a true rush of rage in art arts in helping others at times too. This can also further influence my can be very inspirational. own art due to the endless options of artistic responding that can take place when engaging in the arts. For example, if sculpting is taking Q: How would you describe your artwork to someone who has never place in a session, I can then respond to a client’s artwork after the session to gain further and additional insights into their process and seen it? understanding of what is happening for them in their life. I can also do A: My artwork is typically quite vibrant in color. Portraits usually this with my own artwork. If I paint a monster depicting anger, I can capture some emotion which can then be open to interpretation by any then respond to that monster with another one similar or different, or viewers. Portraits will usually have backgrounds with texture and color however the moment prescribes it to be. The phenomenological nature and do not typically show any other real-life objects or landscapes. of it all truly makes art making, influences, and inspirations endless.

Backgrounds of that nature typically appear in my pen drawn portraits.

Colorful, expressive, vibrant, weird, interesting, and cool are typical words offered to be from viewers. I do have a range of styles that also Q: As an artist, what would you say your ultimate goal is? differ across media usage. Overall though, color is a very important A: This is an interesting question. I would have a different answer for component to my work. I tend to gravitate toward using all of them with this question every day. As an arts therapist, I want to reach larger popheavy additions of black and moderate additions of white. ulations of people and help on a much larger scale than just in my

Q: How has your degree in mental health counselor and art therapy influenced your painting, drawing, and photography?

A: Emotions are everything in what I do for a living as an artist and as a professional in the mental health fields. People come to counseling due to the overwhelming nature that emotions can have in life. Assisting people in sifting through the layers of emotions that life’s curveballs throw them can be incredibly fascinating and inspiring. It is especially inspiring when people make true efforts at making change in their lives and allow me alongside in their journeys. I use a variety of expressive 22 • Art & Beyond • February 2019

community at my private practice. There is incredible healing power in the arts and I feel it is important to spread that message in whatever manner open to me on a given day. So, sharing my art with the world and answering questions like these perhaps spreads that message a little further each time. I am fortunate to know of the healing in creative processes and to be able to assist in other people’s healing through creative facilitation. I just want more people to be able to experience it. I want everyone in the world to be able to experience it. Selling my art for a trillion dollars would be a cool ultimate goal too however ! www.devongovoni.com

THE TOWERING PATH, Watercolor (gouache), 14" x 21"

Gregory Jackson I'm the sole owner of Painted Land. Painted Land's purpose as well my own, is to enrich people's lives with the wondrous colors of nature's ever changing atmosphere. My Business isn't just about growth...its about bringing a smile to people's faces, working with people, in person, to fill their life with joy or To Build Them Up. Through careful study and years of practice, I've perfected various approaches utilizing watercolor. To capture my unique and vibrant perspective.

Whether you purchase today or never, Know that I'm always ready to Build Your Dreams and share ideas.

You can Follow me on my main website, www.Paintedland. deviantart.com. Where I show Step by Step how I paint my latest paintings and you can purchase prints. I'm also on Patreon: Paintedland. For those that wish to donate to help out with future painting series and an opportunity to win a free painting. Instagram: Jacksonwatertree. For quick updates and my Sketch to Finish series www.Paintedland.deviantart.com

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BRIGHT LIFE 5.

Acrylic on Wood.

Olha Hernandez Olha Hernandez ia a nationally recognized abstract artist from South Bay known for her Modern Art. She was born, raised and educated in Ukraine, residing in Los Angeles since 2007.

“I am an artist in my heart with life long interest in Art”.

She has developed her skills through independent study, art courses, and associations with other professional artists.

Her work has been exhibited in local and regional shows where she won various awards.

Her work can be found in public institutions, books, medical offices, and private collections. “Eyes on: Abstract”, “Eyes on: Landscapes “- books are edited by Joe Guimera, Manhattan Beach.

“My goal when creating art, is to do it with my heart and to breathe life into each of my peace of art.”

Music is my favorite source of inspiration!

I process song as a color, music that translates into brilliantly colorful paintings what is sharing the same story. I am painting what i hear, feel, sense...

My brushes are dancing on the canvas. and my paintings became alive with story behind..

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BRIGHT LIFE 6. Acrylic on Round Wood Circle.

ATTENTION! (Deconstructed series).

Mixed media on computer panel, 6" x 10"

BRIAMERICAN DREAM. Collage, Mixed Media on Paper, 12" x 16"

Lina Kogan Lina was born in Kiev, Ukraine, where she graduated from the School of Visual Arts. She has always strived to find balance between her passion for arts and interest in technology. In 2000 she obtained a masters degree in computer science with a specialization in multimedia and creative technologies from USC, and now enjoys a successful career as a software engineer working for a leading aerospace company. Lina has pursued her interest in visual art and has studied ceramics and sculpture in Los Angeles since 1996.

Lina brings found objects from the modern high-tech world into her highfired clay sculptures and mixed media collages. Her mixed media creations have been very well received in exhibitions at the Orlando Gallery, The Style Lounge, Pacific Design Center, VIVA Art Center, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Xiem Gallery, and Red Dot Gallery in Palm Springs. Her art is in private and corporate collections nationwide, and she participates in the Annual California Conference for the Advancement of Ceramic Art in Davis, California, where she exhibits her work.

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Cristina Paulos

FRCKING CAPABLE. Drawing Study. Acyrlic Paint, Watercolor, Graphite and Charcoal on Watercolor Paper, 22.5" x 30"

CRISTINA NATSUKO PAULOS is an award-winning artist and animator whose work has appeared in an original animation short for Sesame Street, prestigious galleries such as La Luz De Jesus and Giant Robot, as well as the Cirque du Soleil Contemporary Art Collection. In addition to having her work featured in two books, Garden Of Eye Candy and La Luz de Jesus 25: The Little Gallery That Could. Her films have screened at festivals in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, and she has collaborated with numerous puppeteers to create toy theatre puppetry performances.

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A BFA graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, Paulos grew up in the San Fernando Valley but has made Las Vegas her home since 2002. She has been the recipient of several grants from the Nevada Arts Council, including twice winning the NAC's Jackpot Grant and a 2008 Artist Fellowship, as well as a 2005 Sesame Street Workshop Scholarship.

As an artist, Paulos incorporates a variety of materials and techniques, including ink, paint, dye, handmade paper, canvas, wood and mixed media. Her work is a mixture of fine art

YOUNG WOMAN AND RAVEN. Watercolor, Acrylic, Dye, Graphite and Charcoal on Watercolor Pape, 30" x 22"

My artwork derives from life and vulnerability. My goal is to reveal the marks and capture the articles we often remove from ourselves and in our personal identities. These would including our flaws, our uncomfortableness and our explorations of our own vulnerabilities when truly, completely naked, apart from our bodies and form. In often times, I use my own vulnerability and emotional journey in my work. I hope to show strength in vulnerability by using emotional driven approaches to art marking. I use materials such as: loose graphite, charcoal, acrylics, watercolor and gouache, sumi inks, dyes, on paper/ handmade papers, canvas and fabric. These fusions are often chaotic, emotional, and infused with the fluidity of movement.

The process of abundance to minimal principles creates a balance and unity within the work. I hope to create work which show the organic foundations of humanness.

- Cristina Natsuko Paulos

and illustration, primarily focusing on imagery of twinned and mirrored characters, as well as portraiture and imagery and subject matter drawn from life.

“My artwork derives from life, juxtaposed with the cartoon world,” says Paulos. “My art is created from the philosophies of drawing. Using these philosophies, my goal is to reveal the marks and capture the articles we often remove from ourselves and in our personal identities whether in cartoon form or from life, of the perception. These would including our flaws, our uncomfortableness and our explorations of our own vulnerabilities when truly, completely naked, apart from our bodies and form.

“Using the materials of drawing loose graphite, charcoal, sumi inks, dyes, found material and handmade papers, I hope to create work which show the organic foundations of humanness.”

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STARDUST WOMAN. Acyrlic Paint, Charcoal and Graphite on Glitter Paper, 36" x 24"

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POP A SNOWFLAKE.

Natalya B. Parris Natalya B. Parris created "Pop a Snowflake" artwork while getting ready to teach Pop Art classes and as an example for her students. This is why she designated a popular and very recognizable image of a snowflake for this artwork. The choice of neon colors were also determined by Pop Art legacy.

But, this artwork is not by any means a singular educational sample. For Ms. Parris, it was a new step forward in her art adventure and a new development in her unique artist style - “Emotional Counterpoints in Paint – Dots” where perfectly round dots are overlaid onto sections of a previously-painted

picture. To express very powerful emotions, Ms. Parris piles the dots on one another and the dots, like music notes, interact with the rhythm of the melody - creating emotional counterpoints in a three-dimensional painting.

In this artwork, she blended “her dots” with Pop art and intensified them with neon colors to create something different – Pop Dots. She enjoyed painting Pop Dots and plans to work in this style more in a future.

You can see more of Natalya B. Parris’s artworks on her Facebook page Natalya B. Parris.

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