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Ewa Helzen
USA
Christopher Gunkel
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Christopher A Gunkel is a American artist, living in downtown Fort Pierce, Florida. Christopher obtained a degree in Art, majoring in graphic art and course study in photography. His professional career started in commercial graphics studios and retail advertising, work that he enjoyed immensely.
Christopher’s family have for two generations been rooted in printing, advertising, plus fine arts and; was lucky to have at home in his formative years, before pursuing a formal education in the arts. Christopher has extended education at Birmingham Art Association, Michigan; Art Center College OF Design, Los Angeles; and Glassell School of Art, Houston MFAH.
Christopher’s works are purely expressionistic, abstracts, at places where he presents the world solely from his own perspective, distorting it radically for visual emotional effect. The result is always subjective, we’re the viewers are encouraged to take in their own experiences by soaking in the visual spectacle of his art piece. He engages the viewer with a high-frequency palette that pretty much has all the colors possible in one space, the results being dreamy and mesmerizing.
THIS PAGE: Second Street
OPPOSITE PAGE- CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: DAWN THE AUDITION LAURENS POND INDIGENOUS
Canada
Christopher Pollari
Christopher Pollari is a Canadian artist living in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada. A self-taught and highly sensitive artist, he has been painting now for over 5 decades.
He suffers from severe bouts of debilitating depression, and painting is a therapy for him. “Painting allows me the outlet to express myself as I do not function well in the outside world”. He is fighting this depression by creating a world of romantic fantasy. He paints on canvas or on masonite, using oils.
Christopher’s art is biographical. “I mainly record my life in my art. My own experiences... the ups and the downs... and the people in my life,” he says with a wide smile. His works are surreal and are set in an imaginative and fantastic domain. The strong allegoric views of the edifices and its depicted imagery posed in the dreamlike surreal landscape along with various objects of desire reveal a deep dark secret of a functioning thought. A deconstructed memory - arising from perhaps his own childhood memories, embedded somewhere in his subconscious, where the demons and other mythological feline creatures
THIS PAGE - TOP TO BOTTOM: MY WORLD - oil on canvas - 36” x 36” RAINBOW - oil on canvas - 20” x 36”
OPPOSITE PAGE- TOP TO BOTTOM: BE STONG LITTLE FLOWER - oil on canvas - 30” x 40” DESIRE - oil on masonite - 24”x 24”
Christopher’s vision and vividly colorful large canvases of an imagined dream-like chilling landscapes, play with the mind of a spectator.
