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Judith Peck

2017 Series Catalogue | PoetsArtists Publication

Judith Peck is a Washington DC based allegorical painter who has exhibited her work continuously locally and internationally in museum, galleries and various art venues. While her paintings are figurative, usually of a single person, her paintings are not portraits. Instead, Peck uses iconic figures which dialogue with the audience. She has a long history of incorporating political and social concerns in her work. Peck’s work demonstrates a rich inner life which comes across on the faces of her subject and onto the canvas allowing a viewer to delve into the sitter's psychology. She says, “If we can actually see each other, we can pursue life compassionately without getting stuck in its rifts”. Working from these principles, her paintings combine plaster and oil translating into a narrative on how we heal ourselves in a broken world. The work becomes a guide to investigating our lives and place and, hopefully, the models’ lingering and penetrating presence will move us away from our complacency. This particular series is a commentary promoting democracy and human rights.

Black and White | oil and plaster on board | 11x14

Profiling | oil and plaster on board | 20x16

Hope Deferred | oil and plaster on board | 14x11

Steeled | oil and plaster on board | 40x60 diptych

Ripple Effect | oil and plaster on board | 33x31

The Ivory Gate | oil and plaster on board | 16x12

The Divide| oil and plaster on board | 40x30

Urban Dream | oil and plaster on board | 36x48

The Seed of Change | oil and plaster on board | 31x33

Pulled Over | oil and plaster on board | 40x30 Copyright ÂŠ 2016-2017. All material appearing in this catalogue is copyrighted. Reproduction in whole or part including images and copy is not permitted without permission in writing from the publisher and/or the artist. All measurements are in inches.

CONTACT

Judith Peck

judithepeck@gmail.com www.judithpeck.net

victoria selbach THE GODDESS SERIES a publication of PoetsArtists 2015 ARTIST CATALOG

THE GODDESS SERIES

Victoria Selbach is a contemporary New York painter best known for her life size nude depictions of women enveloped in light and shadow. Selbach’s 2015 series ‘Goddesses’ explores the significance of the diverse feminine through powerful images of contemporary women. Selbach focuses her gaze as a celebration of the individual and captures a glimpse of their singular complexity and strength. Framing contemporary women through the prism of celebrated deities challenges the viewer to reconsider established perceptions and acknowledge the inherent magnificence of each individual and the immense potential of embracing and maximizing the universal feminine. Web Site www.victoriaselbach.com

Durga

Durga | 54x34 | acrylic on canvas

The Goddess Durga, the invincible, is the principle form of the goddess, the form and formless and the root cause of creation. Durga represents the empowering and protective nature of motherhood.

Parvati

Parvati; Under The Ficus | 54x26 | acrylic on canvas

The Goddess Parvati, goddess of love, fertility and devotion, is recreative energy and the bond that connects all beings. She is the voice of encouragement, reason, and freedom, as well as of resistance, power, action and retributive justice. This paradox symbolizes her willingness to adapt as the universal mother. Parvatiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s numerous aspects reflect the belief that the feminine has universal range and her gender is not a limiting condition.

Chandi

Chandi; My Heart Burns | 52x28 | acrylic on canvas

The Goddess Chandi, holds the force of overwhelming omnipotence, the most spectacular of all personifications of cosmic energy. This supernova was created when the male gods became impotent during a long battle with the asuras and so combined their remaining energies to create Chandi, who went on to slay the demons. Chandi is the angry, terrible and passionate one, violent and impetuous. Yet she cures disease and bestows joy, riches and children as well as disaster.

Apsara

Daivika Apsara | 60x28 | acrylic on canvas Laukika Apsara | 60x28 | acrylic on canvas

Apsaras are sometimes compared to the muses of ancient Greece or seen as sent to distract a sage or spiritual master from his ascetic practices. Laukika Apsara are worldly feminine spirits, youthful, elegant, and superb in the art of dancing. Daivika Apsara are divine ethereal female beings who inhabit the skies and are often depicted as taking flight.

Vajrayoginī Vajrayoginī |58x 38 | acrylic on canvas

The Goddess Vajrayoginī is the supreme deity of the Tantric pantheon. No male Buddha approaches her in metaphysical or practical import. She can transform mundane daily experiences into higher spiritual paths. Vajrayoginī’s practice is well-suited to those with strong desirous attachment.

Golden Taras Golden Taras |50x60 | acrylic on canvas

The Goddess Tara, the goddess of universal compassion and the mother of liberation represents enlightened action. Tara was born of Avalokiteshvaraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tears of compassion as he looked upon the world of suffering and wept. One Tara was born from the tears of his left eye and the other from those of the right. Together they symbolize unending compassion, laboring day and night to relieve suffering.

Yemayah Yemayah |56x36 | acrylic on linen

The Goddess Yemayah, the very source of all life, is strong and nurturing yet furiously protective and destructive. She has been venerated for centuries as Protectress during the middle passage of slavery. Yemayah exemplifies active feminine energy, the power of the ocean, the fury of destruction and is the agent of all change.

Shekhinah Shekhinah | 36x24 | acrylic on canvas

The Goddess Shekhinah, the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;dweller withinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, is the mystical embodiment of the feminine and the earth-centered presence of god. Although Shekhinah embodies joy she is a symbol of shared suffering and empathy for all the hurts of the world especially of those in exile. Shekhinah is a reminder that there is no division between us or between creation and divinity.

Hestia Hestia |36x24 |acrylic on linen

The Goddess Hestia is the goddess of the hearth and the right ordering of domesticity, the family and the state. The community and state are sacred to Hestia. She was served by the most powerful state officials. Her presence is essential for warmth. She watches over the ember that connects all hearth fires, binding together even those distant within a form of extended family.

2015 Group Exhibitions My Favorite Things S Panepinto Gallery Hoboken, NJ What’s Inside Her Never Dies Yeelen Gallery Miami, FL 5 Year Anniversary Show Dacia Gallery New York, NY Immortality & Vulnerability Zhou B Art Center Chicago, IL The Artist’s Gaze Sirona Fine Art Hallandale Beach, FL Residency Show Dacia Gallery New York, NY Small Works Show Sirona Fine Art Hallandale Beach, FL

Pricing and Further Information VICTORIA SELBACH STUDIO victoria@victoriaselbach.com 516.220.9909

DAENA TITLE

a publication of PoetsArtists magazine 2016 ARTIST CATALOGUE

ARTIST STATEMENT

“From Barbie dolls to Pageant Queens, the bar for feminine beauty is set unreachably high. My lifetime obsession with the types of female icons our society cherishes, with the physical standards our society demands of its women, and with how those expectations effect women’s sense of self is what feeds my work. In this catalogues’s two series, Beauty and Drown the Dolls, I am drawn both to beauty and its distortion. I use a mix of representation and abstraction, aiming in turns for drama, emotion and irony to hopefully raise some questions, tell a story and, of course, share a love of paint.”

Feminist painter Daena Title’s colorist, expressionist work centers on her obsession with the seductive force of modern female icons. Her work explores the on-going love/hate relationship between women, societal standards, and self-esteem as well as Title’s fascination with the line between beauty and distortion, both in formal and narrative terms. Raised on Long Island, Daena Title received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Theatre Studies from Wellesley College, and then lived in Manhattan until 1991 where she worked as an actress and a writer. Title then returned to painting as the best avenue with which to control her artistic message, mine her ongoing fascination and obsession with the relationship between women and society, and indulge her love of color and design. Her work of modern female icons, has been shown in gallery and museum spaces since 1998, including recent group exhibitions at the Carnegie Art Museum, the Long Beach Art Museum, The Oceanside Museum, the Riverside Musem, the Torrance Art Museum and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, and the Zhou B Art Center in Chicago. She has received critical praise for past solo exhibitions from the Los Angeles Times, the LA Weekly, and Huffington Post among other publications and is proud that her work is part of the Brooklyn Museum’s On Line Feminist Art Base and the Tullman Collection in Chicago.

Daena Title currently resides and works in Los Angeles. Contact Information Web: daenatitle.com Email: detitle@daenatitle.com

Calm Down Mommy

Nirvana

Beautyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Army

That Crowning Moment

Winning Counts

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s All A Blur

Liquid Anna

Great Britain

Fists and Confetti

Big Doll

Black Arm

Dirty Fighter

Gulliver Girl

Madonna of the Dolls

Smile

Stockholm Syndrome

Sweater Doll

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Worrying About The Wrong Thing

erica elan ciganek a publication of PoetsArtists 2015 ARTIST CATALOG

2015 was a time of transitioning and beginning to open my work up. The human experience of water and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obscuring qualities within intimate observation have carried through the work and pushed me further. I have considered the resonance of the work of humanizing others within the political sphere as well as my personal sphere. The practice of seeing people continues to be the foundation for my pieces, and what it means to see people in a world of dehumanization is the eternal question I wrestle with. - Erica Elan Ciganek

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Cece | on wood | 18 circular

Dorothy | oil on wood | 48x48

Drift | oil on MDF | 36x36

Girls 1 | oil on MDF | 36x48

Untitled | oil on wood | 8x8

Offering | oil on wood | 72x48

Miguel II | oil on canvas | 48x60

Miriam Through the Parting | oil on MDF | 36x49

Oasis | oil on MDF | 24x48

Stone in Hand I | oil on wood | 48x36

Study III | oil on wood | 5x5

This Too| oil and gold leaf on wood | 8x8

Bath | oil on MDF| 10x18

Selfie Study | oil on wood | 6x6

Stone in Hand II | oil on wood | 8 x 8

Study I | 5X5 | oil on wood

Gilrs III | 5X5 | oil on wood

Girls IV | oil on wood | 6x6

Breath | oil on MDF | 48x48

Girls II | oil on wood | 6x6

Contact Erica Elan Ciganek eeciganek@gmail.com www.ericaelanciganek.com

Erica is a painter currently pursuing her MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle. She graduated in 2013 from North Park University with a BA in both Art and Conflict Transformation. Her work has been featured in blogs, shows, and publications such as Juxtapoz, Hifructose, and PoetsArtists. She continues to paint mainly portraits with an emphasis on the power of truly seeing people in a world that is quick to dehumanize.