ARTISTS

Martin Waugh
Liquid Sculpture images are fluids in motion, frozen in time by a flash of light. They are droplets
witnessed in mid-splash. I orchestrate these sculptures by accurately aiming the drops and releasing them
with precise timing. As nature takes its course, I photograph the unfolding forms using a digital camera and
electronic flash. I instigate the myriad of shapes by varying the drops' trajectories and manipulating their
physical properties. Color, viscosity, and surface tension are controlled with dye, glycerin, and soap. Fluids in
motion fascinate my senses. I feel their smooth and effortless curves: structures reflecting a perfect balance
of dynamic forces. They tickle some faint physical memory, like a scent evoking a forgotten mix of feelings.
I am currently working on several custom assignments, as well as preparing to take stereographic photos of
the sculptures. This will allow the viewer to better understand the shapes and see additional detail. Please
feel free to contact me with questions, queries, suggestions or musings.

AleatoricArt creator J. Coleman Miller was born in the heart of the Pocono
Mountains in Pennsylvania into a family steeped in the arts. Summer art camps, trips to
museums, art classes, and a host of relatives who were actors, painters, musicians, radio
station disc jockeys, inventors and more were a constant source of inspiration to the
artist, whose education and practical experience in art was well rounded by the time he
left high school. With an insatiable appetite for knowledge and a mean artistic streak,
Miller creates beauty every day of his life in the form of music, photography, culinary arts,
interior design, furniture, mosaics, and whatever else he can get his hands on.

Kseniya Nelasova practices her craft in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, and in
addition to her absolutely stunning paintings, this madly creative and accomplished artist has a
passion for textiles. Our search ended up here because of an incredible collection called
Changeability and Continuity, one of the thousands of portfolios we reviewed, with it's dreamy
landscapes of intricately woven fabrics and other media. The concept of taking small sections of
the larger pieces and assigning titles to them is a stroke of genius that AleatoricArt has not seen
before... This is truly an artist to watch.

Ksenia arrived in her last incarnation in Perm, Russia in 1976. Her passion and talent for
producing fine art led her to graduate from the prestigious Stigltz Academy of Art and Industry in
St. Petersburg. Nelasova takes advantage of her skills and vast knowledge of art in her daily
exploits as a textile artist, wallpainter, batik masterclass leader, drawing teacher and publishing
house art director, where she has produced books for children and also works as a poetry
illustrator. Her bio includes a mysterious entry, filznadel master, something that you will be best
advised to contact the master herself for an explanation. For more on this great artist, go to her
WEBSITE.

Howard Pugh attended U.C Berkeley and San Jose State University where he majored in music
and minored in Philosophy. By trade, he is a graphic and web designer, software engineer and abstract
photographer. His photography has been exhibited in several solo and group shows in the San Francisco bay
area. He currently lives in Hayward California. As an artistic guideline, Howard conciously avoids appareling
his images with trendy decorative styles or whimsical devices, opting instead for the less adorned, naked
portrayal of his subjects, lending them greater authenticity, and ultimately, he feels, a universality. The quest
for implicit archetypes or meta-archetypes is at the core of each image's design.

ARTIST'S STATEMENT
"Just because the symbolic elements in my photography tend to be biased toward the unintelligible does NOT make
them less meaningful. Indeed, it is from that great ocean of the unintelligible — swamping our daily awareness
with menacing regularity — that dreams emerge, visions haunt us, and spiritual hallucinations eat away at the
margins. Here is where the extraterrestrials are telegraphing us frantically, in every asymmetry and syncopation
that nature can throw"

David Lancaster has been a professional photographer since the 1970's. He has photographed
for corporations, advertising agencies and film production companies in New England, the American Southwest
and Europe. In 2003 David returned to his home in Massachusetts and on observing his immediate
surroundings began the Meditations on Nature series of images. The artist is admittedly sometimes hard to
dislodge from personal projects like the recent ice portfolio. The photographs made during this period record
nature itself suggesting artistic motifs: the strain of a crack in the ice, the vivid red petal of a tulip revealed
through the frozen surface, and the flux of time and the elements muting the original beauty of the flower. This
microcosm of an otherwise unnoticed world reflects an ever-moving dance, and the images encourage us to
observe both the energy and the minute details of nature. Through them we can meditate on our relationship
with nature, too often forgotten in an increasingly frantic world. Lancaster's work has been exhibited
throughout the US, and is held in several private collections. Be sure to visit David's WEBSITE to see more of
his fine work.

Alex Volborth’s interest in art history, world cultures and spiritualism play a major role in his particular
brand of found art photography, which seamlessly blends decaying objects with geological formations. To call
his work simply ‘found art’ doesn’t suffice—'found artifacts' or 'undiscovered art' would describe it better, as his
photos may include anything from a rock formation bearing a resemblance to the Edvard Munch painting, “The
Scream,” to a small skeleton of an unknown animal perfectly silhouetted in red sandstone. But whether it's a
rusty piece of a broken bicycle or an old Sicilian ash tray, Volborth shows us more than that with his uncanny
ability to recognize the art in the mundane, and create the sense that he is uncovering a secret by revealing
for the first time what has been there all along.

Alex, a beloved husband and father, passed away in late 2009, but his spirit lives on in all of the hearts that
he touched in his long rich life, and also in his beautiful photographs. Although his accomplishments in his
chosen field of geology would be known throughout the world, his love of art was his passion from the time he
was in short pants. He attended every gallery and museum he had ever heard of and the works of the great
artists of all time were etched into his retinas. While pursuing his love of photography, the geological
formations that were his muses suddenly and magically started to reveal art in the most purest form. From
there, obsessed with the astounding initial results, he spent his golden years in search of the great works of
nature.

Qubais Reed Ghazala's pioneering work with circuit-bending
(modification via chance short-circuiting of low-voltage audio circuits) has become a
contemporary standard in chance music and instrument design, offering aleatoric
composition possibilities beyond the pseudo-random algorithms of "randomization"
encountered in most synthesizers, signal processors or sequencers.

Reed Ghazala is, as well, a self-taught, self-executed, self-exiled multi-media artist. As
the explorer of Reed's web pages will quickly discover, all of Reed's work --visual,
audio, musical instrument design and writing-- reflects an unusual thinking-space.
Reed not only bends the rules; more so, he makes up (and publishes!) his own.
Perhaps this might take shape in musical instruments that conduct electricity through
their players. Or those that are controlled by hand shadows and produce chance
music. Fantastic landscapes of never-never worlds might rise out of reconsidered film
stock. Digital mediums might resolve at atomic level. The visitor will find technical
theories and art mediums turned inside-out.

Don't hesitate to go to the WEBSITE, where you will find infinite possibilities and the
reason that Ghazala has been voted Honorary President of the Aleatoric Movement
by our AleatoricArt.com staffers. Need more Reed? Check out his LINK PAGE for
everything you always wanted to know about taking chances.

Stefan Beyst is a Belgium based retired lecturer in the philosophy of art
and modern art history. Many of his often controversial texts on art and modern
artists are to be read on his website.

I like pictures that are strong: revelatory and fascinating. That is why I am not feeling at
home, neither in the recent development of painting, nor in that of photography, where such
images seem to become increasingly more scarce. Both branches of the image production
are trapped in a hopeless trench war, in which they take opposite positions that cannot but
drive them into ever new dead ends: whereas painting threatens to degenerate into staged
reality, design, cheap philosophy or empty revolutionary gesture, photography seems to
become increasingly mesmerised by documenting or reduplicating the existent - however
interesting -if it does not altogether lose itself in the solving of all the technical difficulties in
rendering the real world. Precisely, the digital revolution opens hitherto unknown
perspectives to overcome photography's much scorned dependency of the given and to
freely transform the existent world in a self-created, self-contained reality of a higher order:
the world of art. That is why I opted for the digital camera and digital manipulation, and
above all for the immaterial digital screen, lighted from within, that only completes the digital
production of the image - in the hope that a further development of the technology of the
screen will free the digital image from its hitherto obligatory transformation into a printed
reflecting surface.

If you loved the Dadaists and their close friends, the Surrealists, the way AleatoricArt does,
you will be pleased to know that Max Ernst and some of his pals have been found alive
and well, inhabiting the mind and body of the uber-talented Eastern European painter
Zoran Zugic
Born in Belgrade/Serbia in 1950, Zugic earned his degree at Ecole Nationale Superieure
Des Beaux- Arts in Paris France, where he graduated in 1979. His many solo and group
exhibitions have taken him all over the world, with successful showings in the best
galleries of Paris, Denmark, New York City, Boston, and in many parts of Eastern Europe
from 1986 until present.

Go to the artist's WEBSITE to see more, and check out the interesting "Parallel Gallery"
featuring his wife, Vlatka, also a talented abstract painter. You won't find much information
about Zoran at his website, but AleatoricArt will be conducting an interview in the near
future... stay tuned!

Courtney Hoskins
"Using polarized light and birefringent materials, Courtney Hoskins creates alien landscapes out
of mundane household items. By placing objects such as candy wrappers and melted plastic
cutlery in front of her modified lens, she offers a different take on the objects that we would
normally discard in our world. Her work is photographic in nature- the colors seen in her work
have not been digitally altered, despite their foreign appearance.

"Courtney has also been making films since she was fourteen years old and dreaming about
movies most of her life. Her passion for the cinematic medium and intense curiosity about the
world around her have lead her down many different paths in life. She's studied French,
meteorology and astronomy, traveled around the world, and has made a living as a makeup
counter artist, a volcanic ash image analyzer, a web designer, a visual effects artist, and has
recently delved into the world of 3D animation, teaching herself Maya along the way.

"Her works have spanned an equally broad range: from still photography and experimental films
to animation and live-action narrative shorts. The experience and skills she has gathered on her
wandering path have combined to form a unique vision of the world that she hopes to instill in
her artwork and share with whomever will listen."

Stoffel De Roover

The talented man at right is, at this point in time, floating in a creative haze... One look
at this artist's beautiful abstract prints will definitely put you under the influence of his
unique imagination.

In 2007, Stoffel was taken by surprise by a simple wisp of smoke he had just
photographed... There in the fog was the outline of a woman, the first breathtaking
image (and the catalyst) of the resulting onslaught of his superbly crafted series of
aleatoric artwork.

Addicted to his newfound palette of ever changing and never ending content, the artist
lit up the incense and snapped away, as nature herself composed with a free hand. A
true aleatoric artist never knows what his next piece will be, and with subject matter
ranging from beautiful goddesses to scary creatures, this series is an incredible
collection of chance art that must be seen!

De Roover was born in Leuven, Belgium, where he began his studies. He moved around,
first to the Netherlands, then to the United States and on to France where he lived for
about 7 years, earning his MSc, before moving with his wife and two children to
Montreal in 2006, where he now resides. Since he unveiled his Smoke Photography in
2007, De Roover's work has been featured in SNAP Magazine, UK, a NYC restaurant, on
Southern Rock band Widespread Panic's T-shirts, and on LifeInTheFastLane.com,
where we at AleatoricArt found him. Learn more about this smokin' hot artist at his
website and blog by clicking HERE.

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AleatoricArt Curator Allan Rodewald
"Creating to me is to take a developed style no matter what form or classification and becoming the
best at that certain style. To create interesting, thought provoking pieces that are unique and
individual to the artist is my passion. My personal challenge is to create anew. Feeling safe with a
painting is comforting but can to me become mundane and un-fulfilling after a while. I sometimes
while working on a painting wonder what if I applied a radical technique to a piece and how would
that look. Or in the same mode what if I ruin the painting and all the work so far will be wasted? I
then try to act with the thoughts of "well Allan you won't know if you don't try". Yes many times
ruining the piece but many time inventing a new alternative but always opening a door to new light.
People often comment on titles of paintings. My painting teacher in College felt titles can give the
viewer of abstract piece a preconceived idea about the piece. I believe in this form of thought and
don't put too much importance into the titling of my pieces for the most part. I will often take a
primarily red piece for example and name it "Red 1"or Satin 5" . This helps to keep track of a painting.
I do title pieces when the title seems obvious to me or when the paintings says "my name is _____".
Sometimes I wonder about the better marketing of art when a title is applied. People like titles I
believe for the most part for various reasons."

The ethereal paintings of Lorene Anderson will take you on a journey to another realm. The
initial beauty one sees quickly gives way to an overwhelming sense of space and time... You can literally see for
miles into Anderson's work, as if the canvas suddenly becomes an open window. Lorene's employment of chance
methods and her brilliant executions will dazzle you... The paintings are gorgeous otherworldly landscapes and
the automatic drawings bring to mind the Modern Master, Andre' Masson.

Go to the artist's WEBSITE to learn about Anderson's extensive background and impressive credentials, and to
see her compelling body of work. Lorene is one of the few painters in the world of contemporary artists using
chance methods with such amazing results, and will surely be making a big splash in the ocean of modern art.

Andrew Schrock ...in his own words

" I spent the first sixteen years of my life in the small city of Harrisonburg, VA, spending the majority of my
time skateboarding with friends. Many people say that this part of my life is reflected in my work, artistically
and symbolically. I moved to Bethesda, MD in order to finish up high school. This is where I feel that my
realization that I would be an artist occurred, even though I had been artistically inclined throughout my
earlier life, I began to really realize my passion.

I began producing short films with a crummy hand me down Hi-8 Camera. Once I learned that this wouldn't
suffice, I started working to save up and buy an Apple computer and a 3-Chip Camera; allowing me to better
capture my vision and to add post production with final cut. This interest led me to study photography at
school, where I learned many technical skills that I still find myself referring back to in my work.

I went on to become a student at The Catholic University of America where I have experimented in painting,
drawing, digital art, writing, and sculpture. My most preferred medium at this point has been welded steel. I
began my studies with steel during my freshman year with Mary Frank and have since been producing
sculpture from penny sized to 20ft towers".

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Mike Bloom is a self-represented Houston artist and received his B.S. Degree from
Stephen F. Austin State University in 1959, where he was commissioned to illustrate the Botany
manual for the Department of Biology. He did a year of Graduate studies at the University of
Southern California, followed by two tours of service in the U.S. Army. Mike became a member of
the Society of Graphic Communicators and had his first solo show in 1974. Mike has worked in
numerous mediums and styles throughout his life, arriving at his current creative style focusing on
traditional and nontraditional acrylic, enamel and mixed media paintings. Mike's use of vibrant
colors, taking many shapes, make his paintings come to life with a dramatic burst of intensity.

Ciro Totku's interview with Cambodia Daily by Matthew Rusling

While the slums of Phnom Penh may elicit attention from NGOs, journalists and the occasional
lawmaker, they may seem an unlikely source of inspiration for an abstract photographer. But
Ciro Totku, those latest collection is on display at the Raffles Hotel Le Royal until Nov 3, sees
Phnom Penh as a place imbued with an intensity of contrasts and shapes found in few other
places.

"The dirtiest places are the most inspiring," he says. "As a rule these are small areas: 200 by
200 meters inside dirty districts of big cities," he says, citing the area behind Phnom Penh's
central market, as well as parts of his home-town, Moscow, as prime examples. "You cannot
find the same images anywhere in the world," he says of Phnom Penh.

The name of the 21-piece exhibition is "Time Lapse", and the theme - while not always evident -
is the fleeting relationship of people with the things around them. "All subjects of images will
rapidly disappear with time and will never be decrypted," the 39-year-old photographer said.
"All multicolor walls will be repainted soon." Using tightly framed shots to tell larger stories,
perhaps the most obvious commonality among Totku's photos is their ability to arouse the
viewer's curiosity about the truth behind the image. "Hirayama Lake", for instance, looks like a
snow-covered mountain but is actually a photograph of a broken piece of wood and some
plastic that the photographer found in Sihanoukville.

With thousands of tiny black dots encroaching on a few white slabs, the photograph entitled
"Epidemos" compels the viewer to imagine a virus overtaking the white blood cells. "The picture
makes me think about a global epidemic - past or future," Totku said. "Prostitution" is another
attention grabber, featuring an image as blunt as its title. A few blotches resembling a
2-year-old's finger-painting symbolize what Totku says is the wasted life of sex workers. "The
picture is banal. It's straightforward, primitive, but it attracts your attention," he added.

At times Totku has to wait for exactly the right weather and lighting conditions to coalesce in
order to capture the image he's looking for. "It happens that I had to wait weeks to make a
picture, In other cases, I have only few seconds," he said, adding that he never uses
PhotoShop or any other montage or alternation programs. Totku's personal favorite in the
collection is "Two Stars." "Personally, for me it looks like a ruined city after a nuclear attack. Do
you imagine the night of August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima?" he asked. "In fact, it is a photo of an
old garage door."

Vickie Marsango makes a statement

"Since I was a child, I have been an artist. Beginning with a box of colorful crayons and a drawing of flowers,
my second grade teacher noticed my interest in art and asked me to paint a picture on the class easel.
Growing up, I remember sketching detailed drawings at my Grandma's desk with an assortment of paper,
and a drawer full of pens and ebony lead pencils.

In high school, I was awarded an art scholarship to summer camp at the Allerton Art Academy in Monticello,
Illinois. I studied art in colleges and universities in Illinois and California, (Associates of Arts Degree, and
credits toward a B.A. in Fine Arts), but I consider myself as a self-taught artist. I believe that creativity is a
"Gift from God". Much can be learned/taught about art, but for most artists, I think creativity is driven by the
inner spirit within.
As an artist, my mission is to serve as an annointed messenger of divine inspiration; to assist in spiritual
growth/healing, by the use of creative meaning and symbolism. The use of colors, textures, and
unpredictible techniques create images that are unique and original. Many of the techniques used in the
mixed media work and wall sculptures were developed by experimenting with unexpected and
unconventional materials, creating many forms of textures. Subjects are sometimes portrayed as having
peaceful yet threatening moods or environments. Colors range from bold and bright with many shades and
tones, to muted and/or monochromatic. Brushstroke techniques are rarely ever the same. The developed use
of glazes and special final finishes are also prominent in many of the artpieces. I encourage my viewers to
feel the textures, materials, layers, and various brushstrokes of paint on the canvas of my artwork as it adds
to the visual experience. It is natural for viewers to associate a specific style or category to any artist's
work. However, my art does not reflect any particular conventional style. I find freedom in just creating art
without limitations, boundaries, guidelines, expectations, or comparisons to past artists and styles. My work
is constantly evolving and emerging into new directions. Each painting is a new journey with a new
meaning. It is all about going through life with struggles and strengths, and acknowledging the presence
and power of the divine spirit within us."

"He teaches my hands to war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze." - Psalm 18:34

Ted Lincoln

Through the influence of both eastern and western cultures, philosophies, and practices, Ted creates
paintings that explore the transitory nature of landscape. Drawing from his background and
experience in eastern culture he uses industrial materials such as steel, aluminum, acids, and
automotive enamel to create landscapes that simultaneously feel strong and illusive. The austere
nature of his materials are softened and rendered into contemplative spaces.

Using sumi ink and rice paper each piece is begun employing a chance driven process based on a
traditional style of Chinese landscape painting. The monk Wong Mo pioneered this method (the Pomo
method) during the T'iang dynasty (618- 906 AD). To this foundation he adds various combinations of
painting methods that include, but are not limited to, the use of acrylic paint, epoxy glazes and
automotive paint to create a hybrid of Eastern and Western techniques. With the addition of other
elements such as the bar codes, binary codes and geometric shapes, the modern is persuaded to
co-exist with the ancient. The combination of the abstract organic spaces created by the ink, and the
more formal modern elements, helps coerce a visual dialogue between nature and its filtration through
technology. In doing so, Ted dissects ideas of censorship, diversion, and manipulation, which are
themes that he continues to explore.This work manifested after an intensive study of landscape
painting in China in 2000.

A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Ted is 35, lives in Gainesville, and when not in his studio
he can be found riding or fixing his bikes and small engine vehicles.

Anne Brawer Schwartz earned her Bachelor of Science in
Graphic Design from the University of Oregon, and attended the Gemological
Institute of America, studying jewelry design and gemology. This led Anne to a long
and successful career as a custom jewelry designer with creations showcased
throughout the country by prominent retailers.

When Anne became a mother, she decided to leave the world of jewelry design,
but her creative and artistic nature led her to pursue other forms of expression.
Eventually, she found painting. Anne's paintings are done in oil on canvas and
other forms of mixed media on paper and canvas.

Artist's Statement
"My newest collections, entitled Crystal Auras, Zoom and A Journey Through
Infinity, reflect my artistic exploration of the infinite cosmic history. I am known for
pushing my palette of vibrant, and often translucent, colors to the limit, drawing
out the vivid hues of nature. My paintings draw upon the earth's energy in a
dangerous and imaginative drama... " READ MORE

AleatoricArt's resident art writer Ray Cabarga was brought up feeling let down by those
who raised him. He tried reaching for the stars but his father would always say, “The sky’s the limit
son.” When he asked his mother, “Mom, do you love me?” she said, “I can’t possibly love you any
more son.” Devastated, he sought guidance from the man upstairs and Jesus, was that ever a
disappointment. He then turned to Buddhism. Spending ten years living in total seclusion in the
mountains of Tibet as a Llama, studying, meditating, soul searching, enduring great hardships to
become a master and teach the ancient wisdom to hundreds of young disciples, however, was just
not in the cards for him. Later in life he would receive a masters degree in sociology and economics,
and a Ph.D. in physics, writing several books on those subjects, winning him the Nobel Prize, or so he
thought. But none of that would happen either. Predictably, his life took an unexpected turn in
another direction and after winning his bout with drugs and alcohol, he now embraces them as an
important part of his daily routine and the primary inspiration for his work...

...read more HERE

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The Fantastic Realism art of Robert Venosa has been exhibited worldwide and is represented in
major collections, including those of noted museums, rock stars and European aristocracy. In addition to
painting, sculpting and film design (pre-sketches and conceptual design for the movie Dune, and Fire in the Sky
for Paramount Pictures, and the upcoming Race for Atlantis for IMAX), he has recently added computer art to his
creative menu. His work has been the subject of three books, as well as being featured in numerous
publications - most notably OMNI magazine - and on a number of CD covers, including those of Santana and
Kitaro.

Perhaps the best description of Venosa's art comes from those who are respected masters themselves. Timothy
Leary said, "Robert Venosa creates mythical mindscapes that fascinate and illuminate. His tableaux are windows
into timeless vistas of the inner realities." The great Carlos Santana reveled in Venosa's work, noting "Robert
Venosa's art truly captures the imprint of a spiritual force, each painting so alive, seeming to breathe, pulsate
and stare back at you, challenging the viewer to also reach their highest potential." And the great Salvatore Dali
wrote "Bravo Venosa! Dali is pleased to see spiritual madness painted with such a fine technique."

Veron Ennis is a Fort Myers based painter, curator and art critic.
At the crux of her artistic foundation is painting. Stemming from this core
and in the broadest sense, all things art engage her interest. Immersing
herself into the vast contemporary art world provides an energetic drive,
inspiration, and a constant flow of challenges beyond the private,
contemplative life of painting in her studio.

As a painter, Veron’s works take on unique manifestations weaved
together by an underlying stream of consciousness. Each painting
presents a new mission, a new discovery, a new vision for expression, all
connected by the golden thread of her distinct style. Veron applies an
assortment of media in her paintings. She loves to experiment with water-
based paints, oils, polymer-based grounds, cotton rag paper and raw
canvas. Her toolboxes consist of brushes, archival pens, charcoal, rags,
trowels, knives, saws, drills, rulers, squares, buckets full of jar lids, scrap
canisters, odd metal shapes, various widths of tape, razors, a hand
sander…and a hair dryer.

Veron’s pursuits, beyond her painting, enable her to examine a diverse
range of theories and constructs in the art world. Veron served as the
curator for the Ferrari Gallery in Cape Coral, where she designed shows by
noted artists including David Hatchett, Uri Berger and Jeffrey Scott Lewis.
Her writings in art theory and criticism have appeared in Art Districts, Times
of the Islands, RSW Living, Bonita Living, and Gulf and Main.

Nicola Parente creates expressive abstract paintings and photography from his studio in
Houston, Texas. Born in Italy, he draws from his rich Italian heritage and a deep well of cross-cultural
experiences to bring his art to life. Working in a variety of media, he engages the viewer in dialogues
of human encounter within the urban environment. Inspired by changes in metropolitan communities,
his art defines the intersections of daily urban life and timeless multi-cultural celebration. His
paintings capture the fluidity and static elements of the urban matrix, referencing the architectonic
images, reflections, and rhythms of its landscape. Mr. Parente completed his undergraduate studies
at King’s College and his masters from the University of St. Thomas. Most recently, Parente’s work
was selected for Texas Art 2010 juried exhibition. In 2009, his work was featured in an exhibition,
Transparent/Translucent, at the Museum Gallery, University of Texas, in San Antonio. In 2008,
Parente was featured artist and collaborator for Domenic Walsh Dance Theater’s Terminus, and was
selected for the Texas National 2008 and Texas Art 2008 juried exhibitions. His works can be seen in
public and private collections in the US and abroad, and at his WEBSITE.

Around the center of the periodic table, JB Bond finds the elements that inspire his heavy
metal urges- the hard metallic substrates he uses extreme temperatures and immense force to
manipulate in the creation of his stately and graceful artwork, which appears both ancient yet
timeless in form and finish. A contemporary fine art blacksmith/metallurgist, Bond uses recycled
scraps of anything from bronze, copper, and aluminum to stainless, carbon, and mild steels, heats
them to white-hot and power-hammers them into submission before plunging them into ice water
to contrast hand-forged, organic-looking finishes within the geometrically precise and elegantly
orthogonal designs of his wall hangings and floor sculptures. This earthy, hand forged, almost
medieval quality that characterizes his work is more of what galvanizes his place in this gallery.

Carrier of the Aleatoric Torch...

Finding anthropomorphic manifestations within the uninhabitable hell of a conflagration, seeing
serendipity in incendiary circumstances is Jeff DeRose's forte. But he’ll find figurative fertility in
subzero frigidity with equal dexterity. Within the polarity obtained through facility with extremes,
DeRose finds a state of artistic equilibrium. His sculptures are driven by a fascination with the
essence of form, stripped of its trivial affectations. His work is deeply rooted in philosophy, and
through the processes of nature he sees the embodiment of what he believes. In a sense, DeRose
is an Aleatoric Prophet, Sooth Sayer, seeker of truth, and discoverer of evidence that in all stages of
existence: birth, life, destruction and death, there are elements essential to the beauty of the
whole.

Fung Kwok Pan's work is an exploration of forms in various degrees. It is striving towards an
equilibrium between the properties of material and structural integrity in relation to human perceptions
and functions. As such, his design processes ranges widely from building and experimenting with actual
materials, referencing, juxtaposing and challenging typologies, to observing human behavior. It is by
treading on these boundaries with failures in between that his works come into meaningful existence.

Kwok Pan is based in Singapore. Please drop an email at fungkwokpan@gmail.com for inquiries.

Just when you thought you had chaos neatly organized and under control someone comes up with a
new way of throwing a monkey wrench. Mark Stock’s work is to aleatoric art what virtual
reality is to, well, reality. Extremely complex fluid dynamics simulation software capable of generating
algorithms for multilayered patterns of interaction between physical forces allows Stock to create
startling images of the surprisingly organic yet surreal quality which characterizes his unique brand
of aleatoric art. The appearance of water boiling, for example, is a result of the effects of viscosity,
inertia, baroclinicity, combustion, heat transfer, surface tension, reflection, and refraction, among
others, all engaged in an elaborate ballet of interaction. Mark Stock choreographs these physical
forces in simulation, often experimenting with combinations that could not occur in the physical
universe. By digitally imaging the resultant patterns Stock shows us forms that appear natural, yet
we would otherwise never encounter in a million years of observation.

1925-2009

“Newel Hunter’s monochrome paintings have been all about gesture for some time. His
swirls, drips and bleeds of fluid black acrylic whirl like dervishes against the blank page. Yet, while
the artist’s gestures stand only for themselves, his collaboration with the laws of chance results
in ambiguous fields of positive and negative space that invite interpretation like the blots of a
Rorschach test ...Hunter moves around his studio with astonishing animation, enlisting paint, raw
pigment, dust, detritus and some remarkable tools to embue his surfaces with a highly personal,
unconventional character. The result is art impossible to ignore – abstract expressionism that is
contemporary, uncontrived … and beautiful."

Jake Seniuk, Executive Director, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center

Sam Shendi grew up in a small village in the North of Egypt, and started his
art at a very young age. He studied Fine Art at the University in Cairo specialising in
Sculpture from 1992-1997. Sam also had other roles, fashion designer, interior
designer and also 3D cartoonist. After going professional with his art he moved to
the UK and settled in North Yorkshire, giving him much better possibilities of selling
his paintings and sculptures, and commissions from local people quickly followed.
Sam also has his own Interior Design company in Hurgarda, Red Sea

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The most current work from Mark Weber is a series called "Special Intentions".
These are paintings and sculptures using found objects, collected from backyards, junk
yards, and railroads. Their primary existence may have been as a piece of metal on a
car, a spray can, a handle of a shovel. After its existence was seemingly served, it was
discarded to rust or decay away and return to the earth. Weber has re-instituted these
discarded objects into another existence deviating from their original function. They
now serve as crosses and other abstract forms. These objects, which are about a
confluence of spirituality and hope, become the subjects of Weber's paintings.

Weber received his B.F.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and his
M.F.A. degree from Washington University in St. Louis. He has participated in 22 solo
exhibitions and over 50 group exhibitions. His work is in numerous public and private
collections including the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Ralston Purina,
Southwestern Bell, and Hunan Normal University in Changsa, China. Weber served as
Professor and Chair of the Department of Art at St. Louis Community College-Forest
Park for thirteen years prior to his current position as Professor is the Visual and
Performing Arts Department Chair at St. Louis Community College-Wildwood

Exhibiting in Miami for Art Basel 2011 at...

Isabel Pons Tello's experimental metal compositions are developed using
various alloys, resin, minerals and oxides, establishing a dialogue pertaining to the
dismantling of industrial society, resizing context and function with the process moving
towards an almost sculptural painting. Tello's unconventional works question time and
the effects of nature, while exploring the limits of the materials and playing with the
paradoxes of the ways that the pieces evolve.
Tello studied at the Municipal School of Art and Design in Barcelona (La Massana) and
graduated with a degree in Applied Arts, specializing in Graphic Design and Painting.

Victoire is a trained digital artist who has turned to a form of free, creative art and has
produced a series of digital artwork illustrating the earth's live forces, the elements, matter
and parallel dimensions. Born in Brittany, she draws her inspiration from this untamed, highly
magical region. A member of the French Photographical Federation's jury for competition
examinations, she throws a new light on contemporary photography. "We are directly linked
to nature, marked with its mythical legends, firing one's imagination.", says Victoire.
Victoire's conception of her artwork is elaborated from digital picture conception tools,
photography, 3D modeling and vector design software. She explores means of artistic
expression offered by this modern technology. Her oneiric and surrealistic work is conceived
by using a mixture of gems, water, metals and chaotic landscapes inhabited by creatures from
outer dimensions....For more information click HERE

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