Art
X 9 A group show
From photorealistic to abstract, from sculpture to wood carving and from folk art to fine art, this group has it all. These professional artists have come together to form a supportive, intellectual oasis for conversation and discussion that is open, honest and not tethered by the kind of rules you find in traditional guilds and associations. Known as ‘The Art Group’ and defined by enjoyment not dues, these artists meet weekly, sit together and have grown for 3 years without bylaws or procedures to hamper their lively conversations. The Group meet weekly at a local restaurant. Their first group show, Art x 9, scheduled for February 2016 at The Casements in Ormond Beach came together just by one person announcing that they booked the gallery and asking who would also like to take part. It’s that simple, open, honest and welcoming.
Opening Reception: February 5, 2016, 6:00 PM The Casements 25 Riverside Drive, Ormond Beach, FL
Artists WILLIAM B BRANT
EMILE DILLON II
KATHERINE ELSHANT
MARY ENGLAND
BRIAN HAMMOND
DONALD S KOLBERG
WILLIAM MAZZIOTTI
LAWRENCE J PHILP
DAVID J RUBELLO
William B. Brant
My work is becoming more and more about how few elements it takes to make a good painting. I wish to minimize the subject matter to emphasize the power of space and color.
As a young man, I put it all in. As an older man, I’m taking it out, reducing the work to its basic elements. I want my paintings to have their primary voice through color.
So while many of the works reflect social themes, and a few are exterior or interior landscapes, they are ALL about COLOR and SPACE.
brantx2@cfl.rr.com Www.williambbrant.com
Pueblo on the Blue Ridge 22.5 x 26.75 inches Oil on canvas
Stark Street 24 x 18 inches Oil on canvas
Red Dwarf 36 x 36 inches Oil on canvas
In Your Face 1 60 x 51 inches Oil on canvas
EMILE DILLON II
Emile grew up in New Jersey in a family of artists. His grandfather was Frank Joseph Dillon a famous 20th century painter and his uncle Felix Vargas was a famous Latin American painter. Emile started painting at an early age watching both his grandfather and uncle. In the middle 1970’s Emile started working for the Eastman Kodak Company and also became a photojournalist and editorial photographer.
During the course of his career he photographed many famous people and traveled extensively in the United States, Mexico and the Caribbean. In 1998 Emile went back to his first love, painting, studying at The School of Visual Arts and the Art Student League in New York City. emiledillon@yahoo.com Www.emiledillonart.com
Apollo Theatre Acrylic on canvas 24 x 30 inches
Avalon Acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 inches
Last Spaces Remaining Acrylic on canvas 30 x 40 inches
White Castle Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36 inches
Katherine Elshant
Katherine Elshant’s art revolves around Mother Nature. Her inspiration is reflected in her work created from her wanderings throughout New England and Florida.
Katherine honors Nature and hopes that her art helps to teach people about the respect and sensitivity that should and needs to exist between humans and our natural environment of flora and fauna.
Ke.art1743@gmail.com Www.keart1743.wix.com/kecreations
Leopard Queen Palm boot Carving 18 x 11 x 4.5 inches
Black Rhino Queen Palm boot Carving 35 x 7 x 4.5 inches
Toadly Totem Cherry Wood Carving 13 x 7 4.5 inches
Delightful Abstract I Strappo 19 inch diameter
Walk in the Woods Rehoboth, Ma. Watercolor 14 x 16 inches
Quarried Stone Wall Little Compton R.I. Watercolor 15 x 18 inches
Mary England My art creates happiness for the viewer that revolves around color and texture. Yet for me it represents a healing. The reason that I’m doing what I’m doing is to meet the challenge that cancer has brought to my life. That fight has been part of my life since 2009. So in creating beauty in art, I hope that what I do is share the hope and joy of living. Part of me goes into each piece leaving my touch on the world.
You are not your illness Mary’s natural ability and strong desire to draw has been apparent since early in her life. Entirely self-taught, she has continually been developing her own techniques for blending charcoal and graphite to create realistic images. Her work includes painting in acrylics, mixing colors for brightness and cheerfulness, and fashioning works of art from stained glass and found objects.
maryengland03@yahoo.com Www.embertributes.wix.com/artist
Belly Dancer 16 x 20 inches Graphite and Charcoal on Paper
Galena Illinois Bed & Breakfast 11 x 14 inches Graphite on Paper
Mountain Village 40 x 60 Acrylic on Canvas
Condo Birdhouse Mixed Media
Red Apple 12 x 16 inches Acrylic on Canvas
Old Tom Turkey 11 x 14 inches Acrylic on Canvas
Brian Hammond
Brian is a Scottish born artist/crafter who has settled into a sunny Palm Coast community to enjoy time with his wife Kathleen and to release his heart of creativity and vision onto canvas and in other unique forms of artistic expression.
Brian likes to recycle old materials like wood, metal, hardware, canvases and any other form of matter that has seemingly no use anymore. He rescues these parts, cleans them up, shows them some love and gives them a new lease on life, shapes them into a one of a kind art/craft to be enjoyed by many admirers.
dununited@aol.com Www.openmindartstudio.com
Evening Flower Garden Mixed Media 36 x 32 inches
Whimsical Circles Mixed Media 25 x 21 inches
Square Circles on Paprika Mixed Media 47 x 47 inches
Greyhound of Many Colors Mixed Media 42 x 13 inches
Donald Kolberg Donald Kolberg graduated with a Fine Arts Degree from California State University, Los Angeles. He taught at the Los Angeles School of Art and co-founded Art Core, an organization dedicated to the open dialogue and display of the work of emerging artists. He continued his Masters at Otis Art Institute where his teacher and main influence was internationally recognized painter Arnold Mesches. Through his guidance Donald learned the value of depth, texture and form in images and surface. He incorporates these ideas into his concept of Life Forms, the portrayal of the human figure as a landscape of life and a celebration of form captured in the new medium of steel mesh. Additionally, his recent Strappo work will be displayed for the first time. These reverse paintings on glass are Monotypes, a process developed by friend and mentor Harold Garde. They reflect Donald's exploration into reducing the elements of physical forms and color into exciting abstractions that flow from these acrylic transfers. dskolberg@gmail.com www.DonaldKolberg.com
Purple Sky Strappo-Reverse painting, acrylic transfer from glass approx. 6 x 11 Bristol mount 14 x 17
Shoreline Strappo-Reverse painting, acrylic transfer from glass approx. 6 x 11 Bristol mount 14 x 17
Red Reeds Strappo-Reverse painting, acrylic transfer from glass approx. 6 x 11 Bristol mount 14 x 17
Trees Strappo-Reverse painting, acrylic transfer from glass approx. 6 x 11 Bristol mount 14 x 17
Palette Flowers Strappo-Reverse painting, acrylic transfer from glass with collage elements approx. 10 x 16 inches Bristol mount 14 x 17
Don Q Acrylic and mixed media on Archers WC 12 x 16 inches
White Petals Blue Buds Strappo-Reverse painting, acrylic transfer from glass approx. 6 x 11 Bristol mount 14 x 17
Blue Flowers Strappo-Reverse painting, acrylic transfer from glass with collage elements approx. 6 x 11 Bristol mount 14 x 17
William Mazziotti
For the past year and a half I have been working on a body of work titled the Waterfall Series . In these pieces importance was placed on structure, space, materials and the application of paint to a chosen surface. By paying attention to how paint is applied a texture is born.
wmazziotti@gmail.com Www.wmazziotti.com
Waterfall series #5 Acrylic on canvas 16 x 20
Waterfall series #22 Acrylic on canvas 16 x 20
Waterfall Series “Untitled” 16 x 20 inches Acrylic and Graphite on canvas Wood Mounted
Waterfall Series “Untitled” 16 x 20 inches Acrylic and Graphite on canvas Wood Mounted
Lawrence J Philp I work now as a sixty-six year old with zeal and curiosity. I have lived through many art movements and spent time in Museums, art galleries, art venues and quirky art neighborhoods around the country and parts of the world. I have had my work characterized as “Some weird synthetic Cubism” and “Folksy”. I don’t really know that I fit in those categories given the vagaries of painting. I have painted on cardboard and more recently on canvas. I use acrylic paint and have also been using various paint additives and water-soluble latex enamel paint to make paintings with. Part of my practice is to make small paintings which I make on canvas using acrylic paint and water-soluble latex enamel paint. I have also started making some small paintings on laser printing paper 8.50” x 11” which act as a warm-up for me and sometimes end up as finished paintings in their own right. These painting are being made with tempera paint. These are some of the things that I do that inform my current work.
ljphilp@gmail.com Www.lawrencejphilpartwork.com
Summer/Garage/Music #7 Mixed Media 8 x 10 x1 inches
Summer/Garage/Music #10 Mixed Media 8 x 10 x1 inches
Summer/Garage/Music #6 Mixed Media 8 x 10 x.25 inches
Summer/Garage/Music #4 Mixed Media 8 x 10 x.25 inches
Summer/Garage/Music #5 Mixed Media 8 x 10 x.25 inches
Summer/Garage/Music #9 Mixed Media 8 x 10 x.25 inches
David Rubello These two-dimensional paintings made on canvas in the last two months of 2015 are part of my Color Moves/Ribbon Series. They can be read as horizontal ribbons of ascending or descending movement. My interest in clear color began in 1970 and still dominates. At the same time placing one or more vertical bands of light and dark color offers the optional illusion of a fold or bend. Like the paintings, my titles are invented words. Since the late 1960s David Rubello has experimented with line, shape, color and perspective in an expansive, evolving body of work that retains an essential precision and verve even as it charts new territory in geometric abstraction, dimensionality and interactivity...Rubello’s formalist paintings exist in an idealized, apolitical and a geographic universe of pure visuality where form is content and content simply form. Matthew Piper, Art Essay Writer
David Rubello began his studies in Detroit Michigan and one could say he is a Detroit artist, however he has studied and lived in Rome, Italy, Copenhagen and Demark for eight years—exhibiting in invitational and one-person exhibitions in Spain, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and the USA. djrubello@gmail.com Www.Davidrubello.com
BlueZ Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 inches
BlasZ Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 inches
Blus Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 inches
Blues Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 inches
Bluz Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 inches
Blez Acrylic on canvas 20 x 20 inches
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