Albert Schmidbauer

Glimmer of Hope 104

2020

For Schmidbauer, artistic abstraction is an approximation of the mind. With even more abstractedness, one can say: abstraction is the approximation of the mental. Changes lead us int...

Karen has always been interested through readings and travel in ancient cultures and their customs, dance, music, poetry, and visual arts and other forms of creative expression. Her travels took her to American Indian sites in many areas of the United States, the Mayan ruins in Central America, Cambodia, Greece, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, the British Isles, the Caribbean, and Canada. Using these travels as an impetus for further exploration as she became more fascinated with each culture that she studied, the influences and mark making techniques of the cultures were absorbed into her psyche and in her artwork. She decided to focus on these ideas and finished an MFA degree in painting at Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford. In this program, she studied with N.Y. artist, Susan Wilmarth Rabineau, wife of the deceased minimalist sculptor, Christopher Wilmarth...

Glimmer of Hope Like a diamond I see The sunlight is me I started this painting with acrylic paint and blended it like watercolors. Although I guide the paint, I also let the co...

#1272 (Abstract Painting) Oil on canvas - Unframed. Boecker begins each new work by penciling in his composition. But the work ultimately is about the colors and layers that will e...