“There are also letters on the spine of each book; these letters do not indicate or prefigure what the pages will say. I know that such a lack of relevance, at one time seemed mysterious…”
Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel
In my paintings, the world is turned into a place that is slightly more mysterious and evocative than a naturalistic landscape, as it is intended to celebrate the oddity within it.
Jena Thomas
“Strangeness is the condition of the landscape.”
Lyotard, 1988
Landscape is everywhere. It defines our particular idea of nature, but it is not nature in its simple definition. We can think of a landscape as “a social product, the result of a collective transformation of nature, and the cultural projection of a society in a given space.”
“It was a non-objective approach that naturally led me into the field of abstract painting. In the year 2005 I became a painter—strictly committed to a non-objective approach.”
Vincent Serbin
“If I knew that painting was dead, I would kill myself right now.” Raquel Forner It is not surprising that, in contemporary times, in the face of the great diversity of expressive modes or ways of making art, the presence of painting seems diminished. The tools available to generate artistic creation are innumerable, but the […]
“My work encompasses the architectural, geographical, cultural, and social spaces encountered as a person of the diaspora.”
Eugene Agyei
Current migrations are reflected in the complexity of their displacements and their desires for insertion in the new territory of arrival or reception, in which they raise their particular concerns as active subjects of their individual and collective history.
“No human being can exist in complete independence from a nation or a culture. Yet… while individuals might be geographically bound within a nation, while they might be located within a given culture, their imaginations are not; they can transcend boundaries”.
Megan Sickmueller: Understanding Afropolitanism
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Director Emerita, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at University of Florida. “(…) the arts are “essential” to a meaningful and fulfilling life and are absolutely necessary to a livable, lovable community where people can thrive and prosper.” Rebecca M. Nagy Dr. Rebecca Nagy has devoted her career to work as an educator, curator, and […]
“I have been interested in light for as long as I can remember. Light is everywhere and affects the world and our daily lives in many ways.”
Kari Kola
If there is anything contemporary Art has taught us, it’s that Art does not need to be restricted to paint and marble. It comes in many formats, materials, and media. In one variation, the use of electrical light as the predominant medium in a work is known as Light Art. Light Art is created through […]
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