Art & Beyond July/August 2019

art&beyond Vol. 62 • July/Augus • 2019

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MARKET. PROMOTE. SUCCEED.

Lark Pilinsky

TWILIGHT REFLECTIONS.

oil • acrylic • watercolor • mixed media • photography • digital art • sculpture • glass • ceramic • jewelry

Nira Chorev

DEEP WATER. Mixed Media on Paper, 22" x 30"

Vol. 62 • July/August • 2019

CONTENTS

art&beyond Cover

Back Cover

Inside Front Cover

Lark Pilinsky

Sara Swan

Nira Chorev

Inside Back Cover

Point of Interest

Anabela Ferguson

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Evolve. Women. Wisdom.

LarkGallery Show 2019

4

H. Allen Benowitz

14

Chen Li-hua (Mickey)

15

Homage of the Russian Avant-Garde Show

6

Natalya Parris

19

Talia Prilutsky

20

Paul Scott Malone

21

Stephanie Holznecht

23

Sakinno Wu

24

Lynn Zubal

25

Fine Art • Photography

Lark Pilinsky

10

Nira Corev

11

Sara Swan

12

Igor Prokop

16

Anabela Ferguson

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point of interest

OPENING RECEPTION. 2019

The Memorable Moments from the Evolve. Women. Wisdom.

with Art & Beyond Magazine

LarkGallery team and volunteers at the EWW opening reception. From left: Lina Kogan, Tatyana Yartseva, Lark Pilinsky, Galina Kovshilovsky, Tatyana Sarycheva.

Art & Beyond magazine is on the display at EWW exhibition.

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GORGEOUS LADY IN RED by Donna Angers greet visitors at the the exhibition entrance.

Larkgallery Represented Artists: Susanne Belcher, Marlaya Charleston, Lark Pilinsky, Patricia Ferber and Sandra Cooper.

Artworks by young talented Las Vegas artist, Cristina Paulos.

Art by Sandra Cooper and Alex Sher. (left up) Art by Regine Legler and Elyze. (left middle) Art by Sara Swan and Jenik Cook. (left down) Art by Nancy Ney.

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point of interest

Competition Juror Peter Frank - second from the right with artists and visitors of HTRA.

The Memorable Moments from the H omage to the R ussian Avant -Garde with Art & Beyond Magazine

Winners of the Homage to the Russian AvantGarde competition from left Lisa Bahouth - 3rd place, Julienne Johnson and Laurie Yehia - 1st place Barbara Nathanson - 2nd place

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Laurie Yehia - 1st place winner with her certificate of recognition from the City of West Hollywood

Art works by Lina Kogan and Diane Holland.

Art works by Gerardo Castelan.

Artworks by Tatyana Apraksina, Barbara Nathanson and Lisa Bahauth.

Visitors had fun with artistic hat display in the style of Russian Avant-Garde

Exhibition visitors.

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Art by the Bunker Group Featured at the Homage to the Russian Avant-Garde Show Bunker members on the stage: from left Martin Patrosyan, Lark and Kiki

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fine art

Lark Pilinsky

ENCHANTED GARDEN.

Born in the remote mountains of central Asia, where her father was a geologist, and surrounded by wild nature, beautiful minerals and semi-precious stones, Lark (Larisa Pilinsky) developed from her childhood intimate relationship with the world around her.

From the beginning of her art career, Lark’s art caught the attention of art lovers and gained recognition from art jurors including LA Weekly critic Peter Frank, Sweeney Art Gallery director Tyler Stallings, Santa Monica Museum of Art director Lisa Melandri and MOCA curator Alma Ruiz.

"Nature for me is alive, tender, joyful and suffering, she tells me about her feelings and helps me to share mine through art and poetry. She gives me energy, inspiration and healing when I feel physical or emotional pain.”

Articles about Lark's art and achievements were published in the Painting World and Immigrant Magazine, the Art-to-Art Palette Journal and Online Art Magazine "Crave" describing her work and career.

Using her unique style, composed from meditation and intuition, Lark brings subconscious reflections of nature into her art, inviting viewers to experience its healing powers.

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Nira Chorev

LOW TIDE. Mixed Media on Paper, 22" x 30"

NIRA CHOREV was born in Boston MA (1952), raised and educated both in United States and Israel.

her art education at the Continuing Education Program and Workshops at the School of Museum of Fine Art in Boston.

In 1970 Chorev graduated from Vocational High School, TelAviv, receiving a Diploma in Fine Art, in 1974 she graduated from Israel’s Art Teachers College, receiving a BA.

“Using photos to capture moments as memories, the photos I take are the trigger to the landscapes I create from them, the continuing connections between me and nature, the positive and negative shapes that remind us of how things were before man changed nature.”

Chorev was accepted to the School of the Museum of Fine Art (SMFA), Boston, MA to the second-year level in 1974. She received her Diploma from SMFA in 1975. In her Fifth-Year, as a post-graduate, she majored in Silk Screen and Drawing.

Chorev won a fifth-year scholarship which she used to return to photography and merged it with the artwork she was doing at that time - painting landscapes on large canvases from a bird’s-eye perspective, looking for the contrasting forms in color and the positive and negative shapes.

In 1978 she received her Post-Graduate Degree from SMFA and returned to Israel.

Her artwork has been exhibited in: The Royal School of Art London (1988); Kennedy Center, Washington, DC (1998); Grossman Gallery/SMFA in Boston, MA (2010); Art Takes Times Square, NYC (2012); Post Office Gallery, North Truro, MA (2016).

Chorev’s work is in the collections of The Royal House, The Hague, Netherlands, and in private collections Israel, Europe and the U.S. https://nirachorev.wordpress.com

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fine art

Sara Swan

MAELSTROM. Acrylic and Oil on Canvas, 30” x 48”. 2018

Sara Swan was originally trained as an illustrator. Since 2007, she has been immersed in more personal work. First, as a figurative artist and now as an abstract painter. She is inspired by the expression of human emotions and seeks to convey them in a medium for others to understand.

Sara uses bold colors, along with undulating shapes and infuses them with feelings, both dark and light. She uses a wide array of materials including oils, acrylics, graphite, and wide brushes.

Sara’s recent work can be seen in Voyage LA and the soon to be published Contempto Annual. www.saraswan.com 12 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2019

Anabela Ferguson

WATERFALLS. Acrylic on Wood, 23.5" Round.

Waterfalls was created based on the radiant splashes small creeks and rivers in Virginia. The beautiful light of the day gives this creation a unique style and elegance.

ANABELA FERGUSON, Owner of Brush Strokes Fine Art LLC located in Springfield Virginia started exhibiting and creating art in different mediums and styles. Twenty years ago she began her works and selling them in malls, galleries, and soon developing her website and bringing her collections to the public.

Seven years ago art restorations became a unique service as well as museum custom framing to preserve works of art in all mediums. www.anabela-artist.com

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fine art • photography

H. Allen Benowitz

MANDALA SAND ART CEREMONY. Photography.

I was inspired the moment I picked up my first Minox camera as a young boy. After over four decades of success in the court reporting and video world, I returned to my passion to create a number of award-winning photographs. Growing up in Brooklyn at the Pride of Judea Children’s Home, someone gave me a Minox spy camera. I took candid photos of kids in dorms through unhinged door cracks, sometimes producing very humorous results. Invited into their darkroom, I began experimenting with black and white film. While the sparks of my passion for photography were ignited, it would be decades before I would circle back to light the fire. As a young man, I attended Interboro Institute of Business in Manhattan.

Ultimately successful, my two companies were acquired nationally by Veritext Litigation Services, where I served as VP-Florida.

nationally, have had my work featured in museums and galleries, and traveled the world to photograph landscapes, wildlife, people, architecture and adventure. I only take a picture when there is passion behind the shutter. My signature style can be recognized by its depth and texture and ability to draw the viewer into the picture, bringing still images to life.

I honed my photography through video conferencing and legal videography. Having my first exhibition in 2003 in Coconut Grove, over 175 people attended. I was very encouraged by the 24 sales.

I am gratified when people enjoy my work. If my photographs evoke a connection or emotion, I have succeeded in sharing my work with others.

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A sample of my style is illuminated in my work “Cigar Lady,” taken in Old Havana, Cuba, as she inhales on what looks like a foot-long cigar. The photograph received seven awards and was displayed at a private reception at Musee de Louvre in Paris. One of my most treasured assignments was when King Mohammed VI of Morocco invited me to photograph his country’s annual festival, Moussem de Tan-Tan. It was an honor gifting my work to the King. I am humbly pleased by the awards and honors I have received, numbering over 40.

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Chen Hui-Ju (Mickey)

THE SHITTY WORLD. Marker on Paper, 26cm x 18cm

HUI-JU CHEN (MICKEY) graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Even though she has not been using art and design as her main profession, she has kept her passion of making art until today. Along with her teaching job at Shantou University, she always finds time to create various styles of work. It is interesting to see how her work has varied from photography to acrylic painting to mixed-media to collage. She hopes to keep being experimental because she believes that, in the art world, there are no real errors but different thoughts and processes with different outcomes.

Without experimentation, she feels, art is not art. She gets inspiration from different aspects of life. She always hopes to learn and create different kinds of work by making use of her own different life experiences.

It is normal to have lots of frustrations and doubts as one goes through the phases of creation. For Mickey, the biggest frustration has been the temptation and pressure to build and keep up one particular style in order to be a professional artist. Though it is true that a dedication to one style may enable one to come a little closer to perfection in that style, Mickey feels that art is about taking risks. If she is satisfied with one style, she believes that she loses a very important quality of art--the excitement of experiencing different things

GREEN MOOD. Marker on Paper, 26cm x 18cm in the world. Therefore, she hopes to continue working in different ways and experimenting with different styles. Art making, for her, is not just a way to express herself but a way to define her existence. www.ratgoofy.com www.artandbeyondpublications.com • 15

fine art

Igor Prokop

GOD AND DEVIL. BATTLE. GLOBAL WARMING.

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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GOD AND DEVIL. AND ME. GLOBAL WARMING.

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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Natalya B. Parris

FROG EMBRYOLOGY. Acrylic on Canvas, 8" x 10". The artwork won 2nd Place at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair 2018

NATALYA B. PARRIS is a strong believer in contributing to the community by promoting art awareness and education.

This is why she likes to display her artworks at the agricultural fairs, community centers, and public libraries. By visiting those places, children from a very young age have an opportunity to see diverse art media and learn that the world is very colorful with many unique ways to express yourself such as writing books or creating an artwork.

Ms. Parris created a unique artistic style - “Emotional Counterpoints in Paint – Dots” where perfectly round dots are overlaid onto sections of a previously painted picture. To express very powerful emotions, she 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. Her dots connect her past as a civil engineer, when she was doing many engineering drawings by hand (it was the time when she learned to paint such perfect dots) and the present time, when she uses those dots to create her “Emotional Counterpoints in Paint “– dots artworks. Artwork Cherry Blossom in Washington, D.C. won 2nd Place at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair 2018 in Gaithersburg, MD.

Ms. Parris teaches art classes for children and adults at the Arts Barn, Gaithersburg, MD and at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown, MD. Through the art she explains her students that there is a place for every individual to express their inner world; there are as many options as there are souls.

Ms. Parris hopes her artworks encourage each adult to look at the world around them as they did when they were children; You can see more of her artworks on Facebook page Natalya to be very open-minded and curious about new things.

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fine art

Talia Prilutsky

THE CAT. Ink Paper, 16" x 20"

THE MAN. Acrylic on Paper, 9" x 12" THE KING. Acrylic on Paper, 9" x 12"

Colored sketches, made in the style of alaprima, are designed to convincingly show the momentary mood in which a person arrives at this second naturalistic poses.

In this series of works, the Chicago artist Talia Prilutsky tried to convey not only the mood, but also the realism of what was happening for 20 minutes - a frozen pose, tension, or vice versa detachment from reality. With the help of unusual compositional solutions and using tonal and color spots, the artist managed to convey the vibrations of the moment. www.myartishock.com 20 • Art & Beyond • July/August 2019

Paul Scott Malone

UNTITLED (FLORAL, 04/19). Acrylic on Canvas, 36” x 30”. 2019

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TUTTI-FRUTTI. Acrylic, Tempera and Latex Paint on Canvas, 36” x 24”

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fine art

Sakinno Wu

ALL WE HAVE IS NOW. OIl on Canvas, 18" x 18''

SAKINNO WU is a contemporary artist and educator, born and raised on the east coast of China, currently residing in San Francisco, California. Her curiosity about the unknown and the new inspired her to experience the world through travel and exploration. Socrates said, “know yourself,” and her work has allowed her to explore the meaning of life itself. Studying abroad transformed her identity and art, while her background has retained her native Chinese sensibilities.

Sakinno’s experience as an artist has given her the opportunity to show her work in several venues and galleries in San Francisco, promotion in newspapers such as SingTao China, and to win the abstract award from the Academy of Art University in 2019.

Through her exploration of femininity, and the mysteries surrounding the soul, Sakinno seeks to bridge the gap between the people viewing her paintings and the people inside them. Her art examines how the human body is, often, merely just a means for transporting memory and history. The total sum of each one of us transcends time, language and the limits of our own understanding. Through her paintings, Sakinno seeks to show our passage through time, how small each of us are, and also how important.

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Human evolution has led us to sometimes choose to ignore, or forget, some of those natural states which we deem “unruly” or “unreasonable.” Through her work in collages, Sakinno always seeks to bring the unnatural back to earth. By taking images of humanmade objects and reconfiguring them as plants, animals and people, whole new forms of life appear before our eyes. The nature of creation and natural selection is subversive by nature, and Sakinno relishes any opportunity to call attention to the anarchic nature of life and it’s strange course through the stars.

Art has the ability to expand our minds, while also focusing our attention inward. Through it we are able to glimpse, if for just a moment, how interwoven the universe is, and how chaotic it can be. During her youth, Sakinno was fascinated by Ancient Greek anthropomorphic sculpture. The unrestrained personalities at play in these classic pieces is still an inspiration to her when she approaches her art. That narrow bridge between chaos and order, human and animal, is where Sakinno finds her inspiration. https://sakinno.com

Lynn Zubal

BILL WALGREE. Oil on Canvas.

As far back at the age of seven I learned to draw. I was fascinated by the illustrations in science books or any textbook, and architectures of various structures. As a child able to combine diverse mediums creating art, this I enjoy.

It was like science combining two elements to find out the outcome.

Woodburning. A skateboard with a burned image of an owl.

This technique I use for various types of furniture and other objects. Woodburning was introduced to me in the nineteen seventies while I was in school.

I have painted cars, murals, created t-shirts, sculptures, ceramics, list goes on.

By twenty-thirteen I lost my sight, I began seeing double even after several operations to this day. This is a curse and a blessing. Loss of sight makes the brain register things in a perplexing way causing reactions to be laborious, but awareness strengthens as far as creating art. “Bill Dozer” is

a portrait of a family member created with acrylics. I create colors I want to see. I create exaggerated detail which may not exist but is important because of my sight. After one hour my eyes hurt, suffer from nausea, but I keep painting.

Digital images important for the twenty first century and a new exploration of art.

Digital art is time consuming and contains a vast number of thoroughfares in creating art. I have studied amination, graphics, computerized 3D sculpting. The digital image of myself on a kayak is color stippling created with Photo Shop software. Creating this image took one press of a button compared to months using various ink on paper. I have created animations, many digital images and digital images called “Foot Fetish”. Foot Fetish are occupational feet. If you ask what occupation I desire, I would reply, Art. Chewyru.blogspot.com.

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SPRING AND SHIRLEY. Gallery Wraparound Fluid acrylic on Canvas, 24" x 36" x 1 1/4"

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PLUSH TOY. Acrylic on Canvas 30” x 48”.2019