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Kim Dingle, Pop artist and social commentator, was born in Pomona, California in 1951. She is known for cartoon-related images of little girls in surreal situations that explore both personal and perceived societal dilemmas. Dingle received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988 from California State University, Los Angeles, and her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1990, from the Claremont Graduate School, California. selected group exhibitions 2014 “Secrets and Lies” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego 2014-2015 "The Avant Garde" Orange County Museum of Art 2014 Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emillia, Italy 2013 “Untitled (Giotto’s O) , Sperone Westwater, Lugano, Switzerland Museum of Contemporary Art, 6 October – 14 January 2001; P.S.1Contemporary Art Center/MOMA Affiliate, Long Island City, 4 “Uncomfortable Beauty,” Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera, New York, 8 December 2000 – 13 January 2001 “Pop & Post-Pop (On Paper),” Texas Gallery, Houston, 23 January – 3 March 2001 MOMA, New York "Mapping" Robert Stor curator Los Angeles County “Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000,” Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, 22 October 2000 – 25 February 2001 “The Darker Side of Playland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1 September 2000 – 2 January 2001 (catalogue) "Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 23 March – June 2000 (catalogue) "Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio," Museo d'Arte della Citta di Ravenna, 1999 "Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 9 January–20 April 1999 (catalogue) 1998 "Family Viewing," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles "Presumed Innocence," Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University "Sunshine and Noir: Art in L. A. 1960–1997, - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, -Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany - Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, - Hammer Museum, Los Angles, fall...

Tom Carapic (born 1939), full name Tomislav Sava Čarapić, is an artist who specialises in found object artwork. He also does street art. A prominent Outsider Artist he was a featured artist in the American Visionary Art Museum's End is Near Exhibit. His work was also featured in the exhibition catalog. His work has been sold at Slotin Folk Art. Carapic was born in Velisevac, Serbia (then Kingdom of Yugoslavia). He was educated at a military school in Herzegovina in the 1950s, and served as a sergeant in the Yugoslav People's Army. Afterwards he was denied a college education, possibly because he was not a member of the Communist Party, illegally crossed into Italy in 1961, and, from there, emigrated to the United States. In 1965, he began attending classes at the New York Art Students League, but dropped out soon afterwards, eventually attending the Wilfred Academy of Beauty Culture. He was unable, however, to find steady beauty parlor employment, and worked in menial labor while attending classes in Spanish Education at Manhattan Community College. Due to a problem with accreditation, he was forced to switch to classes in the field of studio art. There he experienced hallucinatory visions that explained his repeated failures to obtain a degree. In the late 1970s, Carapic began experiencing more hallucinatory visions; claiming that his degree problems were caused when "the evil marriage bureau massed the troops" against his college and proceeded with "an Air force bombardment" of the school. After receiving other visitations, he began making and showing his art. Most of his art is centered on found objects, most famously computer keyboards, especially those by IBM. Most of his art consists of these objects, marked with black Sharpie markers, and with green thumbprints and handprints along the objects. His most famous exhibit in New York City is "Big Bang Theory," a doomsday warnings painted on computer keyboards and shoes and construction debris. Bears similarity to the Art Brut movement made famous by Jean Dubuffet. He was inluded in The End is Near! an exhibit which included an unprecedented group of noted thinkers, from His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Stephen Jay Gould to Reverend Howard Finster and Apocalypse culture expert ,Adam Parfrey, visionary artists brought together by curator, Roger Manley, for an amazing exhibition at the American Visionary Art Museum, the world’s largest ever mounted on the subjects of Apocalypse, Millennium, and Utopia. The End is Near! featuredwork from the following visionary artists amongst others: William Adkins Z.B. Armstrong Bill Bruley Frank Bruno Harry Leroy Brunson Tom Carapic Pierre Carbonel Howard Finster Tim Fowler Mary Mac Franklin Victor Joseph Gatto Robert Gie Patrick Gimel Hugo Hempel Oskar Herzberg Vojislav Jakic Norbert Kox Charles Keeling Lassiter...

This framed "Mandala" thangka is hand painted on canvas with 24K real gold. Golden Mandala and other figurative depiction on black background and red border makes it an incredible piece. Measurement of art without the frame: 12" x 17" A handout on process of making a thangka will be included with the purchase. Mandala represents "wholeness" and is also used as an aid in meditation. The term mandala has become a generic way of describing any circular geometric pattern. The word mandala originated from Sanskrit which means “Circle”. Early versions of the Mandala can be found in the Hindu faith where we would see geometric shapes representing deities. Buddhism took this concept one...

Thangka painting dates back to 7th century after Buddhism was spread in the Himalayan region (Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet and Northern India). In Eastern world Thangka is considered to be a...