Dana Xedos

The Little Boat

2017

Displays the artist's unique style of pallet knife application. Sparsely populated though replete with objects and evidence of the built environment, Gay Summer Rick creates iconic...

Depicts the terminal view from LAX. Sparsely populated though replete with objects and evidence of the built environment, Gay Summer Rick creates iconic urban and coastal land and ...

The artists impression of a moment of peace and clarity while driving on the freeway. Sparsely populated though replete with objects and evidence of the built environment, Gay Summ...

Oil on stretched canvas. Sparsely populated though replete with objects and evidence of the built environment, Gay Summer Rick creates iconic urban and coastal land and cityscape p...

Displays the artist's unique style of pallet knife application.

Depicts the terminal view from LAX. Sparsely populated though replete with objects and evidence of the built environment, Gay Summer Rick creates iconic urban and coastal land and cityscape paintings that evoke emotion and a sense of place. She creates scenes that are at once dreamlike and familiar. You may have been there; you are there. Revealing an unexpected beauty in commonplace elements within the urban landscape, Gay Summer’s style is a melding of impressionism and color-field painting describing the quiet vibration of life where cities meet the sea. Applying oil paint to canvas using only palette knives, Gay Summer Rick creates images through a series of interacting, melded layers. The paint is treated architectonically; it is engineered, built into layers, carved, scraped, accumulated, and almost sculpted, but never removed, never discarded. In part to avoid material waste and the use of toxic solvents for reasons of environmentalism, she finds this almost mnemonic accrual of paint a reflection of her experiences in the places she depicts. Growing up in New York surrounded by artists, Gay Summer Rick began her arts education early in life. She went on to formally study art and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in New York at the School of Art and Design, Alfred University, where she drew, painted and sculpted images on clay forms and vessels. After receiving a Masters degree in Business Administration, she continued her art training in Los Angeles in painting, which became the primary focus of her art practice. A resident of Southern California for over 25 years, the artist maintains her studio in Malibu. Gay Summer Rick regularly exhibits in California and Hawaii, and has shown in New York, Europe, and Japan. Her paintings have been featured in solo gallery exhibitions and museum group exhibitions including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Rental & Sales Gallery; and in international and national group exhibitions where she has received numerous awards and honors. She is a member of Oil Painters of America, California Art Club, Malibu Art...

Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities confer on Cole’s children an adult-like aura, empowering them. The artist cites Neil Postman’s 1982 book about the decline in innocence in American culture The Disappearance of Childhood as a text that informs her work. In it, Postman argues that communications technology, such as the invention of the television and later, the Internet, contributed to children losing their innocence, thus transforming them into young adults. A source of inspiration for Cole are the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848. They studied nature attentively, employed vivid colours and depicted unconventional-looking women. Just like in Pre-Raphaelite works, the girls in Cole’s paintings embody enigma, distance, and beauty. The past, in general, is a great source of inspiration for the artist. Cole’s cottage, or ‘artist’s retreat’ as she calls it, was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Since she kept all the original furniture and linens intact, the cottage, on the side of a lake, seems to belong to the past. Nature, another omnipresent theme in Cole’s work, is in many works represented by flowers, such as pink David Austin roses...

Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities confer on Cole’s children an adult-like aura, empowering them. The artist cites Neil Postman’s 1982 book about the decline in innocence in American culture The Disappearance of Childhood as a text that informs her work. In it, Postman argues that communications technology, such as the invention of the television and later, the Internet, contributed to children losing their innocence, thus transforming them into young adults. A source of inspiration for Cole are the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848. They studied nature attentively, employed vivid colours and depicted unconventional-looking women. Just like in Pre-Raphaelite works, the girls in Cole’s paintings embody enigma, distance, and beauty. The past, in general, is a great source of inspiration for the artist. Cole’s cottage, or ‘artist’s retreat’ as she calls it, was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Since she kept all the original furniture and linens intact, the cottage, on the side of a lake, seems to belong to the past. Nature, another omnipresent theme in Cole’s work, is in many works represented by flowers, such as pink David Austin roses...

Childhood, a reoccurring theme in Darlene Cole’s work, is represented by prepubescent girls and boys, engaged in some type of action. Without adult supervision, these activities confer on Cole’s children an adult-like aura, empowering them. The artist cites Neil Postman’s 1982 book about the decline in innocence in American culture The Disappearance of Childhood as a text that informs her work. In it, Postman argues that communications technology, such as the invention of the television and later, the Internet, contributed to children losing their innocence, thus transforming them into young adults. A source of inspiration for Cole are the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848. They studied nature attentively, employed vivid colours and depicted unconventional-looking women. Just like in Pre-Raphaelite works, the girls in Cole’s paintings embody enigma, distance, and beauty. The past, in general, is a great source of inspiration for the artist. Cole’s cottage, or ‘artist’s retreat’ as she calls it, was built at the beginning of the 20th century. Since she kept all the original furniture and linens intact, the cottage, on the side of a lake, seems to belong to the past. Nature, another omnipresent theme in Cole’s work, is in many works represented by flowers, such as pink David Austin roses...

"Sphere" is an abstract oil painting by Maestro Lili Sotirova. The painting is unframed. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: Oil painting STYLE: Abstract, Contemporary Edition : Unique...

"Eve" is a painting, oil on canvas by Maestro Natalia Yampolskaya. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Contemporary Edition : Unique, signed Weight: Approximately 2 kg. The painting is unframed. Frame: Optional Snow Pearl gallery offers the possibility to increase the value of this artwork by adding a gorgeous wooden Italian contemporary frame on your choice. We can also offer a restored ancient golden frame. The frame can be hand-carved with composition ornamentation and hand-applied, with water gilded with 22 Kt. genuine gold leaf over rouge burnishing bole and then patinated to the appropriate patina. This will slightly increase the price, the shipping cost and the delivery time. Her paintings bring emotion of happiness, love, energy and beauty represented by the vast creative power of her talent.” Maestro Natalia Yampolskaya, is a professor of drawing, painting, composition and performance skills "Bendery Higher Art College named V. Postoykin Was born in Moldova 1982. EDUCATION: 2010 - Chisinau Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts - Master of Fine and Decorative Arts. 2001 - Bendery Pedagogical College, art department – teacher of painting 1999 - art department of theoretical lyceum No. 1 in Bendery WORK EXPERIENCE 2009 – present “Bendery Higher Art College”, chairperson of the cyclic commission “Decorative and Applied Art and Sculpture” 2016 - present the head Department of "Art, sculpture and design." Qualification category: the highest category Member of the Union of Artists of Transnistria since 2015. EXHIBITION ACTIVITIES: September 24, 2011 - September 28, 2011 "Portrait Festival" in the Tiraspol Art Gallery; • May 20, 2011 - June 8, 2011 "Larionovsky Opening Day" in the Tiraspol Art Gallery; • September - October 2012. “The Pokrovskaya Exhibition” art gallery. Zelinsky Tiraspol; • 11/23/2011 - 11/30/2011 - "Exhibition of Creative Works of Central Committee Teachers" within the week of the cycle commission "Decorative and Applied Art, Design and Sculpture"; • November 2, 2012 - December 7, 2012 mini - personal exhibition "Monologues" in the RKG them. A.V. Losev with the publication of a printed publication in the form of a booklet with works; (15 works) • December 19, 2012 - March 25, 2013 mini-personal exhibition of works by young teachers of BCS in the office of the OSCE mission in Tiraspol; (10work) • 2012 “Pokrovsky Opening Day CAMART” to the 220th anniversary of Tiraspol. Memorial House-Museum of Academician Zelinsky PMR. • April - November 2013 - the exhibition “Artists Strengthen Trust” on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the OSCE Mission to Moldova in the OSCE Mission Office in Chisinau and Tiraspol; • October 4, 2013 - October 30, 2013 - the exhibition of the MTO “KamArt” at the Rybnitsky Palace of Culture, Rybnitsa; • October 2013 - the exhibition “Pokrovsky Opening Day KAMART” in the CG of the Tiraspol United Museum; • December 6, 2013 - February 2, 2014 - the exhibition “20 years on the way with the Republic” at the State Administration of Chemical Industry in Bendery; • February 5, 2014 - February 27, 2014 - an exhibition of the works of teachers of the GOU VPO PGII Art College in the building of the HC Bender; • January-February 2014 - exhibition of Russian-speaking artists in KG Brankush, Chisinau. • March-April 2014 - "Spring Palette" exhibition in the city of Dubosari; • March 2014 - mini - personal mini exhibition "Small universes of our mind" in PG PGMM, Bender; (15 works) • March-April 2014 - Spring exhibition in the CG Tiraspol united museum; • 05/15/2014 - the exhibition "Return to the traditions" in PG PGMM Bender. • April - June, August-September 2014 - CX Transnistria exhibition “Dedicated to the Republic” • September 2014 exhibition in the National Art Museum of Chisinau "Return to traditions" with the release of a printed publication in the form of a brochure with works • 2014 Open-air and exhibition of the Artists' Union of Transnistria • November 2014, participant of the international project "Strange Art...

An oil painting of a Hamptons beach, Foster's Memorial Beach in Sag Harbor. A small rosebush in the foreground. A few beach umbrellas are posted along the shoreline. Nelson H. White...