The Arteurtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-18758532013-05-29T18:13:00-04:00The ARTeur is an "art auteur". The Arteur blog showcases all artists - established and emerging - across all mediums.TypePadLeah Oatestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef0191029c9c93970c2013-05-29T18:13:00-04:002013-05-29T18:13:00-04:00Leah Oates captures time and space in her photographs. She says, "The work I create first originates as a response to space that is in a continual state of change. In everyone there is a sense of flux and a familiarity with this type of space. Transitory spaces have a messy human energy that is always in the present yet constantly changing. I find them endlessly interesting, alive places where there is a great deal of beauty and fragility. They are temporary monuments to the ephemeral nature of existence." Essay by David Gibson The power of the photographic image has...TheStarryEye AstrologerKathy Ruttenbergtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef019101ca308a970c2013-05-09T11:39:00-04:002013-05-09T11:39:00-04:00Kathy Ruttenberg’s themes started taking shape in the early 1980s; her concern with the figure, the natural world and human relationships is evident in efforts that included painted papier-mâché sculpture, painting and jewelry. But she didn’t come into her own until about 15 years ago, when she turned to glazed clay after enduring a painful divorce and moving to the country, where she lived full time with a retinue of rabbits, pigs, cats, dogs and goats. Inspired by them, the woods and their inhabitants, she began constructing a wonder world in which species merge and figures serve as landscapes. Trees...TheStarryEye AstrologerMaria Creytstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef017eea7396ae970d2013-04-21T14:20:03-04:002013-04-21T14:19:31-04:00Artist Maria Creyts creates extraordinarily long photos depicting subjects she designs from textiles. Her works are concerned with hand-sewn garments as subjects in same-scale photography. Large photo compositions and the clothing subjects themselves are often exhibited together with the matching image and subject just out of view of each other. Complete ensembles suspended on hangers seem like mysterious gallery goers whose boldly patterned dress outshines the individual to the point that we do not see him or her at all. In 2012 the artist focused on custom clothing design while preparing an African-themed fashion collection for Kansas City’s West 18th...TheStarryEye AstrologerMarcelino Vicentetag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef017c38a325d9970b2013-04-15T17:34:21-04:002013-04-15T17:37:12-04:00In the rural Mexican state of Michoacán, devils, mermaids, saints, sun gods, and drunks can all be found mixing it up and having a great time. Each of these characters, and many more, inhabit the strange universe depicted in sculptures produced in the tiny town of Ocumicho. These bizarre pottery tableaux feature hybrid scenes from everyday life, religious allegories, and native folklore, all borne from the mind of a unique young man named Marcelino Vicente. Resembling Hieronymus Bosch’s nightmarish landscapes from the 1500s, but with a Catholic-folk art twist, these ceramic fantasies are found nowhere else. Yet during the 1960s,...TheStarryEye AstrologerAshes57tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef017d4101a7ce970c2013-04-09T15:27:00-04:002013-03-15T15:36:37-04:00Ashes57 is a graphic artist who has lived and worked in the UK, Canada and the United States. Her artistic career began in earnest in 2003 when she moved from London to Montreal. Surrounded by the city’s large musical and artistic community, she was able to focus exclusively on creative projects and developed her unique line drawing style and vector graphics. Ashes spent the summer of 2005 working with Shepard Fairey in his Los Angeles de-sign studio, where the richly creative atmosphere proved an enormous source of inspiration. She worked on a number of Obey exhibitions and street art projects...TheStarryEye AstrologerTiffany Bozictag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef017ee48e941c970d2013-03-22T18:09:00-04:002013-03-15T15:33:10-04:00Tiffany Bozic is a self-taught artist currently living and working in San Francisco, California. Bozic has spent the majority of her life living with and observing the intricacies of nature. Her work has the traditional air of tightly rendered illustrations with a highly emotional range of surreal metaphorical themes. In her paintings and sketches she presents her vision of life’s struggles and triumphs that are largely autobiographical. Her wide array of subjects are inspired both from her extensive travels to wild places, and the research specimens at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California. Over the years, Bozic...TheStarryEye AstrologerEl Anatsui tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef017d41e8dcda970c2013-03-15T17:12:00-04:002013-03-15T15:31:06-04:00There is something wonderful, mystical and very satisfying about the sculputral work of El Anatsui who uses found objects and throwaway trash to construct is ever flowing and changing sculptures. El Anatsui was born in Anyanko, Ghana in 1944. Many of Anatsui’s sculptures are mutable in form, conceived to be so free and flexible that they can be shaped in any way and altered in appearance for each installation. Working with wood, clay, metal, and—most recently—the discarded metal caps of liquor bottles, Anatsui breaks with sculpture’s traditional adherence to forms of fixed shape while visually referencing the history of abstraction...TheStarryEye AstrologerFred Hatttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef017d40cc76c2970c2013-02-11T16:05:00-05:002013-02-11T16:05:00-05:00Fred Hatt works large and fluidly. His energetic and graceful drawings of the human form are almost abstract in their grace and harmony. Each piece is a portrait of one model. These are not different bodies sharing a setting, but different moments exposed on the same emulsion. "When I am drawing, I am close to the large paper and cannot see the overall pattern. I am down in it, exploring whatever passage I have found for the moment. Later, looking at the drawing from a distance, I see it abstractly, as veins of color in a crystal, or as objects...TheStarryEye AstrologerJill Friedmantag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef017ee8201c87970d2013-02-01T10:09:25-05:002013-02-01T10:09:25-05:00Jill Freedman is a highly respected New York City documentary photographer whose award-winning work is included in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, George Eastman House, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the New York Public Library, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, among others. She has appeared in solo and group exhibitions throughout the world, and has contributed to many publications. Jill Freedman is best known for her street and documentary photography, recalling the work of André Kertész, W. Eugene Smith, Dorothea Lange, and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She...TheStarryEye AstrologerMary Ellen Marktag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341cdd0d53ef017ee67770cc970d2013-01-12T17:14:00-05:002013-01-12T17:14:00-05:00MARY ELLEN MARK has achieved worldwide visibility through her numerous books, exhibitions and editorial magazine work. She is a contributing photographer to The New Yorker and has published photo-essays and portraits in such publications as LIFE, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair. For over four decades, she has traveled extensively to make pictures that reflect a high degree of humanism. Today, she is recognized as one of our most respected and influential photographers. Her images of our world's diverse cultures have become landmarks in the field of documentary photography. Her portrayals of Mother Teresa, Indian circuses, and...TheStarryEye Astrologer