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Paul Hartel
WWW.HARTELART.COM
By YaRo
With a masterful use of color, line, and form, American artist Paul Hartel creates works to celebrate the spirit of the “Inner Child.” His vibrant compositions are full of movement and blended reflections. His style reflects figurative, abstract, and neo-expressionism highly influenced by DeKooning, Mitchel, Kline, Twombly, and Wool. He employs layers and contrasts in his paintings using oils, acrylics, oil pastels, and charcoal.
With a background in Psychology and Medicine, Paul Hartel intersects the relationship between people and places. He creates depth by layering and blending blocks of color, allowing each figure to explore proportion while using inspiration from his creative role models to develop his own unique style.
Hartel’s “Happy Gardener” explores human emotions in a colorful, multilayer composition. The interplay of surface and layered imagery becomes an exciting provocation that urges the viewer’s eye to travel across the canvas to discover new details each time.
Harte’s work is both structured and free-flowing. His creative process is a compulsory exploration with genuine courage and curiosity. Learning and unlearning the life experience is a valued narrative he uses to follow his inspiration into the sparks of color that make the human journey a cherished memory.
“Girl In The City” Oil And Oil Pastels On Canvas, 20”x16”
His knowledge and relationship to Psychology are mirrored in his ability to play with lines and whimsy as a guide through the mind.
Hartel is an international artist and has exhibited in New York City, Los Angeles, West Virginia, Waterford, Sligo, and Dublin, with works currently in residence at Green Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
“Sarah’s Mafia” Mixed Media On Canvas, 40”x40” “Happy Gardener” Mixed Media On Canvas, 40”x40”
PHILIP NOYED
WWW.PHILIPNOYED.COM
“Molton Color Globe” Neo Art Space Virtual Reality Light Experience, 10’x10’
Philip Noyed is a luminary multi-media and VR artist. He uses light, color, and sound to create immersive, transformational art experiences. His art represents the quintessential contemporary art movement using innovative technologies that are changing the way art is experienced today. Color and light, and sound are all harmonic frequencies that affect people both emotionally and physiologically. Philip uses these ideas to create healing art that is accessible to people of all ages and backgrounds.
The RAINBOW PYRAMID light experience goes through the seven colors of the Rainbow/Chakras while music plays that corresponds to each of the frequencies of the chakras–from the base of red to the apex of the purple crown chakra. Thus, the sacred geometric dynamics of the pyramid, combined with color and sound, help elevate the viewer’s frequencies while bringing a sense of joy, peace, and being attuned.
NEO ART SPACE is a wow-inspiring immersive Virtual Reality (VR) art experience. Traveling through space and time, you emerge in a new universe as an explorer of planets, stars, galaxies, and dazzling moving colorful light art. You explore over thirty experiences orchestrated with ethereal music to help you move from everyday 3D experience to a transcendent 5D consciousness.
You can create your own experience via teleporting wherever you want to go on pathways through glowing light caves, into planets, through vibrantly
“Rainbow Pyramid at Sedona” LED Light Experience, 12’x12’x12’
“Radiant Wisteria”
Neo Art Space Virtual Reality Light Experience, 20’x20’x30’
“Rainbow Sparkles Walkway”
Neo Art Space Virtual Reality Light Experience, 20’x10’x50’
alive forests, inside zinging energy fields, or out into space observatory to see an eclipse. The array of experience and the levels you can go are as boundless as the universe you are in. You can even create your very own interactive geometric art. Sharing the experience with others only amplifies its effect. You can meet family and friends inside and experience the sense of awe and wonder in the Neo Art Space VR together, making unforgettable memories that are as unique as the environment you are in.
“Aurora Space View”, Neo Art Space Virtual Reality Light Experience
Philip and his team are actively developing the Neo Art Space VR experience for a release in a few months. You can follow the progress and enjoy magical images, animated graphics, and videos at:
@neo_art_space NeoArtSpace.com
MONIKA BENDNER
WWW.MONIKABENDNER.COM
By Viviana Puello
Through a digital overlay and collage process, award-winning master artist Monika Bendner creates multilayered, surrealistic experiences through a combination of photographic prints and mixed media. Her compositions which are printed on a variety of materials, create a narrative that evokes emotions and multiple responses from her viewers.
“Hi What There” Drawing, Silhoutte, Phtography, PC Bearbeitung on Canvas
“Harlekins Auftritt” Drawing, Silhoutte, Phtography, PC Bearbeitung On Canvas
Monika's use of abstract lines and shapes conveys movement in their dimensionality, and her bold, rich, textured application of color emanates meaning through their saturation. Visually connecting disparate elements and creating a visually stunning image is the hallmark feature of Bendner's work throughout her metamorphosis. Her collections of impressive, starkly captivating imagery continue to be thought-provoking and stimulate audiences around the world.
"I love colors and the 'non - colors.' Now I thought to portray it in a series of pictures. That's how I see nature. The beauty there is in the abundance of colors, but also the beauty in the melancholy of the "non - colors." This is how my pictures were created, designed in abstract forms. Now everyone can decide for themselves what they like better." - Monika Bender
“Vivi Kleiderpuppe” Drawing, Silhoutte, Phtography, PC Bearbeitung On Canvas “Hi Dear Audience” Drawing, Silhoutte, Phtography, PC Bearbeitung On Canvas
“Harlekin Vorstellung” Drawing, Silhoutte, Phtography, PC Bearbeitung On Canvas
“Harlequin” Drawing, Silhoutte, Phtography, PC Bearbeitung On Canvas
Originally from Switzerland, award -winning artist, sculptor, and engineer Jean-Jacques Porret was exposed to art from the day he was born to a family of art and antique collectors.
Being surrounded by beautiful antiquities, statues, and artwork planted the seed of art early on in his life, and he began carving wood when he was just six years old. He specialized in creating magnificent works with the lost wax technique of casting Bronze.
As an artist, Porret is continuously evolving, and his work and style have changed over the years. From sharper to a softer expression of molten metal. Porret muses, “If my approach seems figurative, I do not aim for a reproduction of the human form: what interests me is to transmit an abstract feeling or an idea rather than an image of reality. I use recognizable forms to arouse emotion, to give birth to sensations. I consider myself, in fact, an impressionist.” This vision drives his work, and each sculpture imbues depth and intensity.
JEAN JACQUES PORRET
WWW.JJPORRET.COM jj@jjporret.com
"Comcubine" Bronze Sculpture, 22.5" Height
“Opulence”
Bronze Sculpture, 19” Height
2021
When viewing one of Jean Jacques Porret’s sculptures, the human form seems to leap out at the viewer. Jean-Jacques describes this movement as “rhythm in space.” Likewise, Porret said of his artistic method and vision, “I work without any preconceived idea…(I) continue instinctively, with one shape leading to the next, until the figure is simply rhythm in space”.
Where it all started: Born into a family of art and antique collectors in Switzerland, art was in Porret’s blood from the moment he was born. As soon as his hands were able, he began carving wood at the age of 6. That propelled him forward, finished his engineering degree, and traveled to Chicago, traveling to the United States to begin his journey as an engineer and Artist.
"Harmonious" Bronze Sculpture, 8"x11"x15"
1979
Honing his technique and growing his bronze collection, Porret began to showcase his work. His first opportunity to be featured was a group exhibition in the Peter Miller Gallery in Chicago, IL.
1985
As Porret’s name and work gained notoriety, so did his exposure. Benjamin Beattie Gallery jumped on the opportunity to be the first to give Porret a solo exhibition to showcase his incredible bronze sculptors created by “The Lost Wax Process.” “Lost wax is a slow multi-step process that has endured only because of the results…knowing that my bronze sculptures will outlive me provides a comforting whiff of immortality. I believe everyone wants to leave something behind.” Jean Jacques Porret
"Rocambolesque"
Bronze Sculpture, 22.5" Height
1985 - 2018
Over the next 33 years, Porret’s work would be featured in over 46 gallery shows, both solo and group exhibitions. Not only was his work being seen all over the world, but he also received many awards and recognition, including RMG Artist of the Year in 2016!
"Compromise" Bronze Sculpture, 8"x18"x12"
"Insolite" Bronze Sculpture, 20" Height
HIS WORK
2019 - 2020
Jean-Jacques Porret's bronzes can be seen in numerous collections throughout Europe, Japan, and the United States. With many of his pieces now on permanent display in galleries and showrooms, Porret continues to create. Being recognized in 2019 as #4 of Important World Artists to Follow. He was also named one of the Top 10 Contemporary Artists to follow for 2019 and 2020, also receiving the Artist of the Decade from Arttour International Magazine in 2020.
