Carlino’s intention with her art is rather straightforward: to create pieces that are engaging and playful. “I want to create work that is playful: work that enlivens public and private spaces,” she relayed in an interview with Jung Katz. “I want to make work that is an amalgam of all my life experiences and influences, yet uniquely my own vision.”

She also want her art to evoke feelings of happiness. “I want others to see my art and feel that art can engage and challenge your perceptions and senses but also make you feel good, excited and happy,” she went on to explain.

Born in 1977 and based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, Carlino received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011 and has since exhibited locally and nationally, including shows at the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst and the 2019 Every Woman Biennial.

And while her work is rather abstract, it’s also a reflection of her natural surrounding. In a recent post, Carlino explained that she finds refuge in nature. “It’s where I go to think, to process, to look deeply and be enveloped in the present moment,” she explains. “So when it became clear that the pandemic was here to stay for quite a while and I wasn’t going to be able to go to my studio to make work, I doubled down on immersing myself in the landscape as a way to be with what was happening as well as the only place outside of my home I was actually allowed to go.”

According to Carlino, though this doesn’t translate in a representational way into her art, nature is infused in the themes in her work, dealing with relationships and connections. “Thinking about these themes through the act of painting is my way of making sense with the uncertainty of this time we are living in.”

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But Salas’ work also includes a healthy dose of playfulness. “I very much enjoy finding new color combos and I adore playing with them as much as possible,” she remarked once in an interview with Society6. “When I first started painting I knew I had to push myself to paint bigger canvases, use different types of paper, find my favorite brushes and doodle on photos I took. Life has guided me into a situation where I get to experiment on every single surface I could’ve ever imagined (even using spray cans for a 90-meter wall!). Even if I don’t like it, even if it’s not painting or design, I keep creating new stuff everyday.”

Her Instagram page is, therefore, a sort of playground where she shares her colorful results. Having worked as both graphic designer and art director, Salas draws from her own training. But inspiration is also found close to home. “To be completely honest, starting out with bold shapes was a mere representation of what I saw in the artwork of my son Lori, who was three at the time I started painting again,” she shared. “I could see how carefree he was—he didn’t have any objective and wasn’t concerned with what anyone would think of his painting.”

It’s this carefree spirit which Salas hopes to bring forward through her art. And with our social media feeds looking kinda blue these days, Salas’ Instagram page is a well-needed splash of color.

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“I think in many ways this is one of painting’s essential paradoxes: A flat surface that depicts depth,” he observed in an interview with Art Maze Magazine. “Reflecting on that idea gives me the space to experiment and play with composition in a way I find visually engaging and perceptually challenging. In another sense, I am interested in creating a paradoxical whole. Something that claims to represent and encapsulate the entirety of an experience, while being a figment or mirage. In some ways, my interest in Mobius-like forms comes from exploring this thought.”

Color is also important in the creation of these illusions and is often the starting point of Perkins’ paintings. “I have a catalog of images and sources that I use as a source for color relationships in my paintings,” he notes. “I find referring to something outside of myself really helpful for understanding and making color decisions.”

His catalog is composed of personal photos, photos of others, and photos from old magazines. The images and sources all depict or reference the natural world in some way. From these, Perkins distills and edit moments of color down into unified fields. Starting with images of the natural world as initial source material, Perkins edits, crops, cuts and rearranges these sources until an image emerges.

“In terms of working digitally, much of my work with color is first sketched out in photoshop in terms of general color relationships, however all drawing, masking, cutting, and painting is done by hand,” he stresses.

Take a look at some of his work in the gallery below.

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“As memories, unconsciousness and emotional movements are very hazy areas, it was difficult for me to find a definition for what I‘m really interested in my work,” she observed in an interview with Art of Choice. “I could feel it, but I didn‘t have words for it. And I still think it‘s hard to put in words what is moving you in deep inside, what you feel and what role memory is playing. That‘s why I‘m lucky to be a painter, as I believe that paintings (and art in general) have the great potential of representing that hazy area in a very poetic, nonverbal but strong, feel-able way.”

Born in Dresden in 1977, Richter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, before she continued her study at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. Now based in Hamburg, Germany, her works are extensively shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Not restricted to painting only, her artwork also includes installations and sculptures.

“My work is not about my personal memories or unconsciousness,” she stresses, “although they are the base on which I start to develop the ideas for my works. I believe that there exists something like a collective emotional structure which we share and which connects us. In my work I‘m trying to visualize the unrepresentable, to create an aesthetic parable of our inner world, and therefore I’m trying to find a visualization that connects and hits the common points in this collective structure.”

Take a look at some of her abstract representations in the gallery below.

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Carlino’s intention with her art is rather straightforward: to create pieces that are engaging and playful. “I want to create work that is playful: work that enlivens public and private spaces,” she relayed in an interview with Jung Katz. “I want to make work that is an amalgam of all my life experiences and influences, yet uniquely my own vision.”

She also want her art to evoke feelings of happiness. “I want others to see my art and feel that art can engage and challenge your perceptions and senses but also make you feel good, excited and happy,” she went on to explain.

Born in 1977 and based in Easthampton, Massachusetts, Carlino received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011 and has since exhibited locally and nationally, including shows at the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst and the 2019 Every Woman Biennial.

And while her work is rather abstract, it’s also a reflection of her natural surrounding. In a recent post, Carlino explained that she finds refuge in nature. “It’s where I go to think, to process, to look deeply and be enveloped in the present moment,” she explains. “So when it became clear that the pandemic was here to stay for quite a while and I wasn’t going to be able to go to my studio to make work, I doubled down on immersing myself in the landscape as a way to be with what was happening as well as the only place outside of my home I was actually allowed to go.”

According to Carlino, though this doesn’t translate in a representational way into her art, nature is infused in the themes in her work, dealing with relationships and connections. “Thinking about these themes through the act of painting is my way of making sense with the uncertainty of this time we are living in.”

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But Salas’ work also includes a healthy dose of playfulness. “I very much enjoy finding new color combos and I adore playing with them as much as possible,” she remarked once in an interview with Society6. “When I first started painting I knew I had to push myself to paint bigger canvases, use different types of paper, find my favorite brushes and doodle on photos I took. Life has guided me into a situation where I get to experiment on every single surface I could’ve ever imagined (even using spray cans for a 90-meter wall!). Even if I don’t like it, even if it’s not painting or design, I keep creating new stuff everyday.”

Her Instagram page is, therefore, a sort of playground where she shares her colorful results. Having worked as both graphic designer and art director, Salas draws from her own training. But inspiration is also found close to home. “To be completely honest, starting out with bold shapes was a mere representation of what I saw in the artwork of my son Lori, who was three at the time I started painting again,” she shared. “I could see how carefree he was—he didn’t have any objective and wasn’t concerned with what anyone would think of his painting.”

It’s this carefree spirit which Salas hopes to bring forward through her art. And with our social media feeds looking kinda blue these days, Salas’ Instagram page is a well-needed splash of color.

The post The Color Studies of Luisa Salas appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.

“I think in many ways this is one of painting’s essential paradoxes: A flat surface that depicts depth,” he observed in an interview with Art Maze Magazine. “Reflecting on that idea gives me the space to experiment and play with composition in a way I find visually engaging and perceptually challenging. In another sense, I am interested in creating a paradoxical whole. Something that claims to represent and encapsulate the entirety of an experience, while being a figment or mirage. In some ways, my interest in Mobius-like forms comes from exploring this thought.”

Color is also important in the creation of these illusions and is often the starting point of Perkins’ paintings. “I have a catalog of images and sources that I use as a source for color relationships in my paintings,” he notes. “I find referring to something outside of myself really helpful for understanding and making color decisions.”

His catalog is composed of personal photos, photos of others, and photos from old magazines. The images and sources all depict or reference the natural world in some way. From these, Perkins distills and edit moments of color down into unified fields. Starting with images of the natural world as initial source material, Perkins edits, crops, cuts and rearranges these sources until an image emerges.

“In terms of working digitally, much of my work with color is first sketched out in photoshop in terms of general color relationships, however all drawing, masking, cutting, and painting is done by hand,” he stresses.

Take a look at some of his work in the gallery below.

The post These Artworks Look Digital, But are in Fact Painted appeared first on https://everydaymonkey.com.

“As memories, unconsciousness and emotional movements are very hazy areas, it was difficult for me to find a definition for what I‘m really interested in my work,” she observed in an interview with Art of Choice. “I could feel it, but I didn‘t have words for it. And I still think it‘s hard to put in words what is moving you in deep inside, what you feel and what role memory is playing. That‘s why I‘m lucky to be a painter, as I believe that paintings (and art in general) have the great potential of representing that hazy area in a very poetic, nonverbal but strong, feel-able way.”

Born in Dresden in 1977, Richter studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden, before she continued her study at the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. Now based in Hamburg, Germany, her works are extensively shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Not restricted to painting only, her artwork also includes installations and sculptures.

“My work is not about my personal memories or unconsciousness,” she stresses, “although they are the base on which I start to develop the ideas for my works. I believe that there exists something like a collective emotional structure which we share and which connects us. In my work I‘m trying to visualize the unrepresentable, to create an aesthetic parable of our inner world, and therefore I’m trying to find a visualization that connects and hits the common points in this collective structure.”

Take a look at some of her abstract representations in the gallery below.

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