frrresh visual arts magazine
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artists featured in issue 36 are: Michelle Kingdom Jun Kaneko Yoshitoshi Kanemaki Ella & Pitr Yoskay Yamamoto Ignacio Canales Aracil Mari Andrews Souther Salazar Victor Dubrovsky Winnie Truong
Michelle
Kingdom
My work explores psychological landscapes, illuminating thoughts left unspoken. I create tiny worlds in thread to capture elusive yet persistent inner voices. Literary snippets, memories, personal mythologies, and art historical references inform the imagery; fused together, these influences explore relationships, domesticity and self-perception.
www.michellekingdom.com
Jun Kaneko
Jun Kaneko was born in Nagoya, Japan in 1942. He studied painting with Satoshi Ogawa during his adolescence - working in his studio during the day and attending high school in the evening. He came to the United States in 1963 to continue his studies at Chouinard Institute of Art when his introduction to Fred Marer drew him to sculptural ceramics. He proceeded to study with Peter Voulkos, Paul Soldner, and Jerry Rothman in California during the time now defined as The Contemporary Ceramics Movement in America. The following decade, Kaneko taught at some of the nation’s leading art schools, including Scripps College, Rhode Island School of Design and Cranbrook Academy of Art. Based in Omaha since 1986, Jun Kaneko has worked at several experimental studios including European Ceramic Work Center in The Netherlands, Otsuka Omi Ceramic Company in Japan, Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia PA, Bullseye Glass in Portland OR, Acadia Summer Arts Program in Bar Harbor ME, and Aguacate in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Over the course of his career he has partnered with industrial facilities to realize large-scale, hand-built sculptures. The first was his 1982-1983 Omaha Project at Omaha Brickworks. Later sculptures include his Fremont Project, completed in 1992-1994 in California, and most recently his Pittsburg Project completed in 2004-2007 in Kansas. Both of these later series of sculptures were created at Mission Clay Products. This past spring, his exhibition Myths, Legends and Truths opened at Millennium Park in Chicago. The exhibition features thirteen nine-and-a-half foot tall Dangos and twenty-three of his Tanukis. This new body of work by Kaneko draws upon the myths and legends of the tanuki figure.
www.junkaneko.com
www.thekaneko.org
Yoshitoshi
Kanemaki
“I am trying to stimulate people living in this time to pay attention to the significance of being “alive” and “human”, I think that asking that question is more important than answering it. I hope my work will be a stimulus to ask that question. There are traditional techniques cultivated from old times in Japan where Japanese have been living. I have learned and always applied them for the basis of production of my work. I am pouring “time” and “questions” into fundamental wooden techniques so that I can create works.
www.behance.net/gold44104
Ella &
& Pitr
Ella & Pitr met on an Autumn night in 2007, in a random street, as each of them was pasting posters on the walls. That same year, they united their talents and formed “Les Papiers Peintres�. Over time, they have made a great number of works in France (mainly in St Etienne), Chile, Portugal, Canada; their passion always leading them further. Their mastering many techniques allow them to work on different media. Their large format collages are part of the urban landscape of cities they travel to. They simply represent the people they meet in the streets, adding a burlesque, often absurd touch, with a sense of humor.
www.ellapitr.com
www.ellapitr.tumblr.com
Yoskay Yamamoto
Born and raised in Toba, Japan, Yoskay Yamamoto moved to the United States at the age of 15. A self-trained illustrator, Yamamoto’s artistic tastes expanded as he fell in love with the urban culture of the West coast. Yamamoto discovered a way to fuse the two different cultural backgrounds together into his work. Yamamoto nostalgically blends pop iconic characters from his new Western home with traditional and mythical Japanese elements, balancing his Asian heritage with urban pop art.
www.yos
skay.com
Ignacio Can
nales Aracil
Ignacio Canales Aracil (Madrid 1984), graduate in Fine Arts at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, coursing later a BA(Hons) in Sculpture at Wimbledon College of Art (University of the Art London). Thanks to the Stanley Picker Fellowship he continued his studies in 2009 with an MA(Hons) Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art and Design (University of the Arts London). There grew his interest towards botanics in order to explore new possibilities in the artistic creation. In his first works Ignacio collaborated directly with the most renowned landscape designers in Europe (inspired by the work of those who build spaces with nature, rather than in it), such as Piet Oudolf, Ton Ter Linden and Pam Lewis, picking flowers for the sculptures in their private gardens or in public spaces such as Isabella Plantation (Richmond Park/Royal parks London) and Millennium Garden (Pensthorpe Natural Park in Norfolk). Ignacio presents an accesible and intimate work that celebrates spring and keeps it. His work explores the meanings of nature and flowers with shapes that capture their beauty in sculptures where life is hold. His works speaks with irony and longing about the aims of our society, in a natural stage full of dramatic contrasts. In his last pieces, Ignacio works directly woodcarving on large logs, creating landscapes that blend the fantasy of abstraction with the serenity of the ancient paintings.
www.el-nogal.tumblr.com
Mari Andrews
My work has evolved out of years of drawing and obsessive collecting. Through sculpture I weave these two actions together. Wire, pine needles, branches and other linear material carry on the drawing practice while moving the work into the sculptural realm. Time spent gathering, cleaning and storing of collected objects, whether they are man-made or natural, allows for a kind of wonder and intimacy with each object. This gleaned information is crucial while combining materials to make new, hybrid forms. Structures of all kinds from cellular and mineral to plant and skeletal, inform the work. The pieces become a collaboration of materials and intention, with the materials often altering my concept and practice of working. Various temporal and delicate objects I elect to work with often mirror our human sensitivities and vulnerabilities. For the most part these three-dimensional drawings are presented on the wall. They are made as singular pieces and often come together in larger wall installations. The individual works relate to and play off of each other like words forming sentences or sentences telling a story. I transform the materials used in these sculptural drawings to bring attention to fragile and often fugitive objects that might otherwise go unnoticed.
www.marian
ndrews.com
Souther Salazar
Portland-based but California bred artist Souther Salazar’s installations transport the viewer into a vibrant and endless world of overlapping drawn, painted, sculpted and animated narratives and dreamscapes — half-remembered, half-imagined places where stories can develop and take on a life of their own. Utilizing a variety of mixed media, found objects and layers of assemblage, his work evokes the wonders and imagination that many of us abandoned in childhood.
www.souther
rsalazar.com
Victor Du
ubrovsky
Victor Dubrovsky’s needle felted animals – sad elephants, fat lambs and pigslike heartwarming children’s cartoon characters, all have their own character and their own unique charm. The eyes, mustache and hooves are made of other materials, but the final result always looks very natural. Dubrovsky not only uses natural wool, but also man-made materials – beads, wire base, and other handy tools that are used to decorate the toys and create elements that can not be created from felted wool. Victor Dubrovsky works together with his wife Natasha and brother Grisha – the three of them sell felted toys on Etsy, and their work has always had a great success.
www.chushka.com
www.facebook.com/vriadlee
Winnie Truong
Winnie Truong is a Toronto based artist working in pencil crayons on paper to produce large scale portraits that challenge our ideas of beauty and discomfort. Using pencil, crayon, and chalk pastel on giant sheets of paper, Truong creates portraits with great detail. Her aim is to explore notions of beauty and discomfort and, inspired by science fiction, she portrays hair in all its ‘whiskery, wispy, curly, bristly’ brilliance. Winnie Truong was born in Toronto, where she still lives, and received her BFA in painting and drawing from Ontario College of Art and Design.
www.winnietruong.com
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