Steve Joester

Circles #8

2020

Abstract. Mixed media. Unique depiction of Shelter Island sunrise. About the Artist: I began sketching with a #2 pencil and lined paper in the first g...

Abstract. Mixed Media About the Artist: All I've ever wanted to be and all I've ever been is an artist. From a very young age, my view of the world was that of a moving painting. ...

Abstract painting. Mixed media. About the Artist: All I've ever wanted to be and all I've ever been is an artist. From a very young age, my view of the world was that of a moving p...

Abstract Painting on canvas. Blues and blacks. Not framed. About the Artist: Alicia is a versatile painter working in a variety of styles including impressionism, traditional and abstract. Her paintings are inspired by her love and passion for travel and seeing the aesthetic beauty of nature throughout the world. Along with the media of paint, photography has been in the forefront of her work as well. Her love of nature shines through in both her painting and photography capturing the essence of the moment in place and time. She has an excellent command of color and utilizes colors in sync with her mood - generally happy, bright and cheery pigments. With a unique ability to find new and exciting subject matter in her day to day surroundings, Alicia approaches every day as an opportunity to create something special. She has been represented at group exhibitions in Manhattan, Brooklyn Botanical Garden Cherry Blossom Festival...

Pastel, gouache and coffee on paper. Artwork size: 58 x 56 cm. Frame size: 78 x 76 cm. Free shipment worldwide. Acquired directly from the artist. Archive number (P90/37) “The heart is an eye,” writes Nobel laureate Octavio Paz in an essay on Matta’s paintings. Matta creates a world coloured both by a sunny faith in the future and by visions of impending doom. Roberto Sebastian Echaurren Antonio Matta, who died aged 91 on 23 November 2002, was born in Santiago, Chile, on 11 November 1911 into a family with Spanish, French and Basque roots, and raised in an atmosphere of religiosity. By the age of 21 he had graduated and begun work as an architect, but his leisure time he devoted to sketching and painting. In 1933 he travelled to Europe for the first time, visiting Greece, Yugoslavia, Italy and other countries, and subsequently taking the initiative to collaborate with the architect, Le Corbusier. As time passed, however, Matta’s enthusiasm for a career in architecture waned, and he began to devote himself full-time to art, making early acquaintances with surrealists such as Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, André Breton and others. Between 1939 and 1948 Matta, like many of his artistic contemporaries, lived in self-imposed exile in the USA, but, after almost 10 years’ absence from Europe, he returned to make first Rome and then, a few years later, Paris his home. Throughout most of the rest of his life Matta commuted between his studio in Paris and his creative refuge in the monastery outside Rome. And it is here, in Italy, that he produced his greatest paintings. Matta’s first retrospective in Sweden was organised in 1956 when his works were exhibited in what was then Galerie Colibri – run by, among others, the artist C O Hultén at number 36 Södra Förstadsgatan in Malmö, Sweden. This was also the time when Matta began to collaborate with poets and other artists in Sweden. He produced the illustrations for Lasse Söderberg’s first anthology of poems, Akrobaterna (“The Acrobats”), published in 1955, and was also responsible for the cover of the Swedish art and literary magazine Salamander. In 1959 the first museum exhibition of Matta’s work in Europe was arranged at the Museum of Modern Art (Moderna Museet) in Stockholm. Held under the aegis of Pontus Hultén, it was entitled “Fifteen Forms of Doubt” and included 15 or so gigantic paintings...

Jan Meyer Composition, 1979 Mixed media (oil painting and ink) Handsigned in pencil by the artist Dated 7-79 and dedicated to Henri and Simone B. (friends of the artist) On paper, s...

The Cubist, 2019 collage on paper 11 13/16 H x 15 3/4 W in. 30 H x 40 W cm The artist’s collages describe a series of characters composed of different materials – cardboards, textil...

"Art is transformation" Art is the purpose of art as love is the purpose of love.« Heinrich Heine Ines Hildur starts her paintings intuitively, without any preconceived programme. From the subconscious things occur, which she cannot predetermine. The artist does not convert these inner pictures to specific things. With a special feeling for rhythm and through subtile color sounds she tells about free, associative picture stories. The works exude tranquillity, clarity and sensuality. The visible aesthetic sensitivity has a suggestive power, which captivates the observer. If you get involved in these pictures – in the colored moods, the symbolic, fragile lines, symbols – they appear to be the beginning of a story, which the observer can continue in his imagination. At the trans-lation into the terms of language, however, something mysterious remains, which cannot be translated. The painter apparently leaves the processes for the creation of the painting: color layers overlay each other, lines are covered and released again, used papers are stuck onto the work. The artist describes her way of painting like this: » violations at places of change are connected, sewed, covered in a varnishing way, shine through like under a wax layer or can still haptically be realised. Special importance is attached to the picture passages, which appear to be particularly successful, they support their environment – are significant for fringe areas, however, can also lose their function again during the working process and have to be given up – sometimes this is quite painful like the loss of a good friend.« She discovers special beauty in apparently everyday things. This can be a crumbling wall, moss between concrete slabs, traces of transience. Due to this special talent of perception the artist converts her impressions to compact pictures, which sometimes remind me of releasing layers, preserving a certain state, which could quickly disappear: also the forms of cocoon are ambiguous, a cocoon for wrapping something up, giving protection and security – or are they projectiles reaching new shores? In an environment of over-stimulation the artist wants to train our ability of perception to see things in a new way. For several years she has been communicating the interrelation between painting and seeing at the private art school Wameling Richon in Baden near Zurich. The painter and architect Ines Hildur – this is her pseudonym – belongs to the cross-border artists, to whom one attributes a special open view due to the different fields of activity. Since 1991 she has intensively been occupying herself with painting. By encountering the Berlin film-maker and painter Jürgen Böttcher Alias Strawalde, the Vienna painter Gunter Damisch and the artist couple Nancy Spero and Leon Golub at the renowned Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg she received particularly lasting ideas and stimuli. In the meantime the artist, who presently lives in Leipzig, shows her individual and group presentations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and France. The paintings of Ines Hildur appear to be very open, they invite to discuss about them. Perhaps it will be a dialogue between her expectations and those aspects you can find here. You can take up this trace if you want to come closer to the secret behind the obvious things, which works of art always have for us. Andrea Richter-Mahlo I Art Historian I Leipzig. Ines Hildur is born in Freiberg / Saxonia in Germany She studied architecture at the University Dresden from 1977 to 1982. In 1991 she study Arts in the Arts School of Fine Arts & Design and in the International Summer Academies of Fine Arts Saarbrücken Living and working in Leipzig as an Artist Painter she still working as an Architect and Interior Designer in Dresden, Saarbrücken, Salzburg and Leipzig since 1982 and Temporarily in Saint Paul De Vence - Cote d'Azur Teaching free painting at serval academies of Fine arts since 2002 . Selected Solo Exhibitions 1994 Galerie Filmhaus Saarbrücken 1995 Atelier Studio Silke Wagler Leipzig Galerie Mittelsächsisches Theater Freiberg 1996 Galerie Alcatraz Hallein/Austria 1997 Galerie Hofhaus Saarlouis Galerie Pro Arte Hallein/Austria 1998 Galerie Schubert Neunkirchen Mdr-Galerie Leipzig 1999 City Managment/Galerie Spandow Berlin Galerie Kunst + Objekte Leipzig 2000 Regierungspräsidium Dresden Galerie Hanstein Saarbrücken 2001 Galerie Spandow Berlin 2002 Galerie Wameling Richon, Baden/Suisse 2003 Kunstverein Die Treidler, Frankenthal Galerie Ferry, Paris 2004 Drive - Die Medienagentur, Hannover 2005 Galerie Ferry Paris Galerie Wameling Richon Baden/Suisse Galerie Victoria Wittek Schwalmtal/Rainrod/D 2006 Kunstverein Ebersberg 2007 Nexolab München 2010 Art und Ambiente Leipzig Kunst und Justiz Karlsruhe 2013 Helmaxx Salzburg 2014 Werkschau Salzburg 2015 2018 Galerie Schöllerbank Salzburg Galerie Katapult Basel Galerie Mikhail Nefedov Nizza Galerie der Havilandbank Monte Carlo Selected Group Exhibitions 1994 Galerie Filmhaus Saarbrücken 1996 Galerie am Damm, Dresden Galerie Hanstein, Saarbrücken Galerie Pro Arte Hallein/Austria 1997 Landeskunstaustellung Saar, St. Ingbert 1999 Passages - House of Artists, Saarbrücken Art in the Box - House of Artists, Saarbrücken 2001 Galerie Hanstein, Saarbrücken House of Artists, Saarbrücken 2002 Galerie Hanstein, Saarbrücken Galerie Pro Arte Hallein/Austria 2003 Galerie Hanstein, Saarbrücken Galerie Ferry, Paris 2004 Galerie Wameling Richon, Baden/Suisse Grosse Kunstausstellung, Wasserburg/Inn Galerie Nicole...