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January ALECIA D’ALONZO As a child, I accompanied my father, an architect, to many of his construction sites. These were my playgrounds, where I would trek over disturbed earth to reach planks of wood that led me to the skeletons of incomplete forms. While climbing through wood frames, under pipes, and around wires, I collected as many hidden treasures as my pockets could hold, especially metal and wood scraps. These were mysterious spaces to me and I imagined having to find my way out of certain doom. I am still trying to find my way through the mystery of a world still under construction. Through all the chaos, fragments, and hopelessness, there are always places of beauty and endless possibility. My work takes the viewer along for the journey
February ELIZABETH CORE My paintings are first and foremost about color and its ability to create an essence of spirituality. I layer color in a variety of shapes and marks to create rhythm, harmony, and movement. The resulting abstract landscapes are vibrant yet organic and mystical images. Each evokes an essence of my own spirituality and my belief that color can create supernatural sensations.
March JILL SPRAGUE Iam greatly attracted to images that impart a sense of natural grandeur and aged grace; whether it be the solemn, understated beauty of a stone angel perched upon its tombstone pedestal, or the sleek, shiny chrome finish on the bumper of a ’57 Chevy. My goal is to use my camera like Alice’s rabbit hole, to open an unexplored world, a place of curious self-expression, but also a world of new relationships, new chances, new beginnings and most importantly, new stories. I want to give the viewer a sense of looking at a hidden world we don’t normally “see”. like to capture an original photo of anything I find interesting, the beauty and mystery that is around us: I strive for a sense of pure, uncomplicated composition and hope that I can find the personality in sometimes impersonal subject matter.I have been a photographer for as long as I can remember. I used to sneak into my parents bedroom and take, without permission, my father’s old collectible Kodak camera. At such a young age, I would go out and take some fantastic photographs. My parents would always wonder how the photographs got there until I confessed. I bought my first camera from the back of a cereal box at the age of eight. Even as a small child, I possessed a passion and talent for capturing that magical moment in time. My sense of unique photography didn’t go over too well with one of my traditional photography teachers; at one point, that teacher told me to give up photography all together because I wasn’t following the “rules.” April BOB GORCHOV I am a self-taught artist and have been drawing and painting for the past three decades. Recently my work has been exhibited at Manayunk Art Center (summer 2009), ‘Off the Wall Gallery’ at Dirty Frank’s on Pine Street in Philadelphia (December, 2008), at the Ellen Powell Tiberino Memorial Museum in West Philadelphia (May, 2008), at Insomnia Café in Narberth, PA (March-June, 2008), and at Philadelphia Java Company on South Street in Philadelphia (April, 2007). My work is in private collections in places such as London, Chicago, Philadelphia, Elkins Park, PA, and El Cerrito, California. I’m interested in the process by which a painting is created. This process involves accident and chance, so that when I begin a picture I have only a half-formed image of what the painting may look like, and that image changes and develops as I work on the painting. The ‘finished’ picture may only slightly resemble the image that I had in mind when I began it. I was born in Atlanta, grew up in Philadelphia, and I’ve lived in New York City, New Haven, CT., and India.
June BURNELL YOW! There are no rules, only materials. As an artist, I am here to explore, investigate, experiment, and ultimately live out what Picasso meant when he said "Art is a leap into the dark." I am an intuitive artist working in the varied media of painting, collage, sculpture, assemblage, digital art and photography. I work from the heart, not the head. The unforseen event, the "accident," the unexpected all play a very large part in my creative play. I prefer to let the materials suggest the direction of a work. As far as materials go, I work with just about anything: paint, wood, glass, plastic, fabric, etc. I use a lot of "found" and "altered-function" objects in my work. And I frequently scan them for use in my digital works. By "altered-function," I mean objects that one buys new, let's say, at a hardware store and uses in a way contrary to its designer's intent. I can become quite inspired just spending a couple of hours in Home Depot. "Found" objects are generally discarded items rescued from the trash, or found at flea markets or thrift stores. They are old, used and with a mysterious history that lends them a magical quality. So, what I would suggest to anyone making art is to trust your intuition, your inner knowing; to allow yourself to be immersed in the process of creation as a joyous and sacred dance of materials; to neither listen to critics nor be one; and finally, to leap into the dark secure in the knowing that wherever your feet touch down will be the right place at the right time.
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2010 Artist of the Month Jan-June |
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Art is frozen Zen.
~Reginald H. Blyth |
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Zeus Loves Balance! |
