Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. -Leonardo da Vinci Susan Aaron-Taylor is a builder and a storyteller whose hands and spirit work ...
VIEW WORK >The primary focus of my work is to examine the process of metalsmithing while reflecting upon the audiences role. Through these considerations, I challenge and play ...
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My work comments on how adornment speaks about value, cultural role, and importance. The bow, as adornment, transfers these elements to objectification, commercialization ...
VIEW WORK >Artist Statement: Genna Cowsert is a graphic designer and chuppy maker with a BFA from Wayne State University. Chuppy Love is her crafty business venture and line ...
VIEW WORK >The selected group of digital images in this packet represents a body of work that I started in 2004 and continued to present. Mainly influenced by 17th century Dutch ...
VIEW WORK >Colin’s latest work focuses on blending abstract cityscapes with renderings of realistic hummingbirds. This work is for a series of paintings titled “Hope against ...
VIEW WORK >My passion for painting Detroit images began while attending CCS. Each day driving from my suburban home to the city I realized it wasn’t just the personal history ...
VIEW WORK >I began working with fused glass when I was fourteen. Through learning the technical process, I have been able to experiment with the medium. Making a variety of ...
VIEW WORK >Sculptures My sculptures, at first glance may seem decorative – basic, fundamental. But, in fact they deal with the most common denominators in all art- ...
VIEW WORK >Many of the painted constructions have used an x, xy, or triangular structure. These elements appeal because of the myriad number of meanings assigned to them from ...
VIEW WORK >My jewelry line is inspired by discarded watches. The watch glass and hands of time are removed and the side pin holders ground away via grinding wheel and sanded ...
VIEW WORK >I have read several artist statements about their styles which seem to be very philosophical….. how they use the application of light theory, exaggerated forms, ...
VIEW WORK >Texture to me is meant not only to be looked at, but to be interacted with. As soon as I catch a glimpse of the rough quality there is an immediate reaction for ...
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Metal has always been a way for me to bring my ideas to life because of its endless possibilities. This is something that really drives me to work on my excising ...
VIEW WORK >For me, site-specific installation art has risen above other mediums to become the most interesting and challenging form of artistic expression. I have been making ...
VIEW WORK >Driven by history, faith and fantasy I embrace a spiritual devotion to the ritual of art making pounding images into the surface with common tools and materials. ...
VIEW WORK >The only fictional characters worth reading about or watching are flawed, imperfect. The most compelling of them are studies in contradiction. They struggle to transcend ...
VIEW WORK >Through the techniques of hand-building and slip-casting I explore the boundaries of functional pieces. Alon with this I practice the process and art of what normally ...
VIEW WORK >I paint in oil on canvas. Beginning in my mother’s ceramic studio as a child, I have experimented with many mediums. And although I have over 20 years experience ...
VIEW WORK >I am working interdiciplinarily, and though I have a drawing, painting and design background, I am interested in using those skills to make interactive, mixed media ...
VIEW WORK >As a resident of Trenton, Michigan, Larry’s discovery and fascination with mobiles began in the late 1990’s, sparked by the American sculptor, Alexander Calder, ...
VIEW WORK >Patricia Izzo was recently recognized by American Photo magazine as one of the "hottest new talents" and an artist "destined for big things." This premier national ...
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My original training was in the history of culture and ideas. So when I first looked out at the world through a camera, I saw the aesthetic problems of the painter ...
VIEW WORK >Out of all the visual arts, photography has always infatuated me the most. I love the ability photographs have to simultaneously record and distort moments in time. ...
VIEW WORK >Ralph Jones has been experimenting with the photographic process since the age of 10. For the last few years he has been documenting the City of Detroit in an attempt ...
VIEW WORK >I use sewing as a prominent medium and have coined a term in English to describe my work, “Sew-lage”- the assemblage of mix-media sewn into iconic images. A ...
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Using Umbrella as metaphor of precious thing in my childhood which blow away from my life and did not exist anymore. Show the sorrow of lost precious as black busts.
VIEW WORK >The visual arts are like a mystery. Each work needs solving as it proceeds to the conclusion.Some solutions are more captivating than others; however the artist's ...
VIEW WORK >I would like to think my vessels have an organic almost grown appearance. The base forms are enhanced with rugged textures that occur naturally as part of the forming ...
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If you ask me where I am from, I will tell you it's a long story: born on the west, raised on the east, and schooled in the middle. I am interested in the snapshot ...
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Using digital photography and video to explore issues of class, race and gender in American history, I am interested in historical mythologies created by media, regionalism ...
VIEW WORK >These photographs were shot in Detroit, Michigan from February 2006 through December 2010 and in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on 22 June 2006 and computer processed December ...
VIEW WORK >My style of furniture is structured and architectural. The joinery of the pieces often shows through in their construction, revealing the relationships between the ...
VIEW WORK >I work with various printmaking techniques mixed with painting as well as sculptural objects and installation
VIEW WORK >Seeing the essence of the person or place and capturing that essence is what I seek in my paintings. Cities and the people who live there are my subjects. There ...
VIEW WORK >I am very interested in people. They never cease to surprise. With any person, there is a lot more than meets the eye. I have a habit of eve-dropping. I am constantly ...
VIEW WORK >Architecture is more than a static structural shell, impersonal, and perfunctory. Buildings also exist as a living record of time, history and the people who thrive ...
VIEW WORK >My artwork is the combination of sculpture, painting, printmaking and filmmaking. I see ost of my films as paintings, the reason I consider them as such is the process ...
VIEW WORK >I cannot remember a time when I didn’t feel like an artist. From the drawings in kindergarten...to the jewelry I design today...in my heart & soul, I am always ...
VIEW WORK >Through my work, I seek to understand self, concept, object and material to provoke thought and/or visual stimulation from myself and the viewer. Texture and object ...
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My work focuses on the relationship between industry and nature. This is ongoing battle is becoming a major topic in popular culture. I am inspired by current events ...
VIEW WORK >Raised within a filtering belief system and surrounded by the comforts of the material world, every element of my life including the ugly was put under an innocent ...
VIEW WORK >The primary reason I paint Detroit architecture and automobiles it to show a city that helped to shape our country with automobile production that led to the creation ...
VIEW WORK >Artist Statement My work is a fluid personal exploration of form and meaning. My imagery moves from realism to abstract to cubist to symbolism and back again. ...
VIEW WORK >Although my major in college was medicine, I have had a natural passion in art. I have continued to receive art training and participated in many art activities ...
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