New Synthesis is a body of work by Neil M. Perry slated to debut at Portland’s Antler Gallery on April 24th in a two man show titled Entwined, (also featuring the wonderful work of Josh Keyes).
Of this new work the artist states: “Each of the paintings in this series depicts human relationships via a combination of animal association and color psychology.
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Roxanna Walitzki is changing the opera world by continually testing the bounds of traditional opera and art-song performance. Roxanna is currently working on an art-song recording and video collaboration with Seattle’s Toy-Box Trio and Wolfram Productions. The project will reinterpret Schubert’s famed song “Erlkönig” in an exciting video format.
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In her paintings, Redd Walitzki focuses on the balance between the inevitable entropy of nature, and the unattainable beauty invented through high fashion and technology. In her work, she brings to life a compelling world of haunting, fleeting beauty. Her creations are an equal mixture of the breathtaking, the ethereal, uncanny and unsettling.
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Lauren Smith is the creator of these gorgeous makeup looks, ranging from fresh-faced beauty to the darker, more dramatic ones.
Lauren is a Seattle-based, self-taught makeup artist who started off in other areas of art, like poetry and sketching. She also loves surrealism (which is so Miroir!). She has a passion for colours and that surely translates in her beautiful work seen here. more » “Makeup artist: Lauren Smith”
Of all the photographs, I am particularly captivated by the one of Dasha Balashova at work over a midnight blue canvas, in a white room accented with other midnight blue furnishings. She simultaneously blends with and stands apart from the space she herself has created, an artist amidst, almost within, her art, and as I read the writing inscribed into the work in progress, I translate, “What you see is not what you see,” and that, to me, is the essence of Dasha Balashova’s vision. more » “Interview with Dasha Balashova: the Visionary Artist”
