ARTISTS
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Andrew Auble
Andrew Auble is a printmaker that primarily works with silkscreen and lithography. Andrew sources most of his images from found fashion magazines and collages them with hand-generated textures on film. These textures are generated using string, china marker, and print toner mixed with floor wax and rubbing alcohol. Andrew is a conservationist that is always critical of the mass media and investigates topics like: consumerism, glamour, and courtship rituals through his work.
"Andrew Auble overlaps subjects and objects to create an environment that defines our place in it. The mind becomes an actual place, and a map becomes the interior of the mind. Inside are denizens of our consciousness, floating around, waiting for the order of understanding, somewhat in the way of symbolism and meaning. The colors are cryptic and suggestive, rather than saturated, which adds to the interactive nature of his pieces." –Caladan Gallery
"Liquidation", Limited Edition Silkscreen, 14"x 17", $300
"Bronco", Limited Edition Silkscreen, 12"x 16", $250
"Bulldozer", Limited Edition Silkscreen, 14.5"x 19", $375
"Fair Lady", Limited Edition Lithograph, 14"x 14", $225
"Happy Hour", Limited Edition Lithograph, 13.5"x 18.5", $300
"Vegas", Limited Edition Silkscreen, 12"x16", $30
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Carol Schiraldi
New York born Carol Schiraldi is a fine art photographer currently living outside of Austin, Texas with her curly black dog, Chase. A master of shooting architecture in all its many forms, Carol loves the detail, form and structure of buildings and man-made constructs, often contrasting them with her natural surroundings. Her passion for experimentation has given her work a dramatic signature style. Since her first public exhibition in a local ice cream parlor in Austin, her photographic work has gone on to be exhibited in galleries and museums around the world as well as included in publications and many sites on the web.
This exhibit, titled "Identity: Personae Electrica" explores the virtual “multiple personalities” we use in our everyday lives-the various on-line personae we assume throughout the electronic universe. As an artist who works both in print and on-line, I wanted to explore the various masks and identities we place on ourselves as we escape into the growing expanse of the Internet. In an electronic universe, such as our lives have become, we can assume any identity, put on any “virtual mask” we choose, but, perhaps, our choice reveals more about our true selves and our true notion of identity. Do we become the people we create on-line? Or are these “people” we create one small facet of our own true identities?
The notion of identity and self, when extended into the virtual world is a source of endless fascination. Sure, it can be used for malevolent purposes-identity theft, for example, is occurring at a record pace, but that’s only one side of the issue. Chat rooms, for example, have given birth to an entire new vernacular. It goes way beyond the LOL’s and the IMHO’s to challenge our “academic” notion of speech patterns and language itself. The Internet is real and our real existence is becoming a small part of the Internet in ways would could not have imagined when the technology was first introduced.
If we have created another world, as I speculate we’ve already accomplished, if a part of our “self” as we’ve actualized it does exist in another realm, our virtual “transformation” is just the beginning. Humans are an adaptable lot and so I speculate too that this notion of an online personae will only grow and evolve as technology matures. Is it really that difficult to imagine an entire “person” who exists solely on-line? Kind of like a “ghost in the machine” are we destined to become trapped in our own virtual playgrounds? Or will our human spirit rise above the machinery and adapt to this new sort of nebulous personae, accepting it as a small part of who really really are and who we would like to become?
Perhaps only time and technology will be able to answer these questions, but, this work is an attempt at exploring these concepts. My ultimate goal is to raise awareness, so we can better define and share the notion of a “personae electrica” in this brave, new, electronic world.
"Floating Face", 16x20" framed solarized prints $195.
"Face Jumping Out At Me", 16x20" framed solarized prints $195.
"Online Dating", 16x20" framed solarized prints $195.
"Pebble Beach", 16x20" framed solarized prints $195.
"Words", 16x20" framed solarized prints $195.
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Andrew Sloan
Over the past decade, Andrew Sloan’s post-Pop graphic paintings and illustrations have appeared on a wide variety of surfaces and media. From outdoor murals to gallery walls, to cars and clothes, Sloan has developed a distinctive style incorporating vivid colors and bold lines. With degrees in anthropology and marketing communications, a professional background in music and design, Sloan’s influences include street art and fashion, cartoons, maps, travel, graffiti, logos, typography, youth culture and popular music.
Working much of the time on canvas, Sloan also utilizes recycled doors, projection screens, found construction materials, wood and paper of any and all nature. Commercially, Sloan’s images and hand-drawn type have been used for restaurant signage, CD packaging, band backdrops, event flyers, t-shirts and print advertising.
First noticed in 1994 while doing manhole cover rubbings in the streets of Washington DC, exposure for Sloan the last three years has grown exponentially. In 2005, he was asked to join the artistic roster of Damien B Contemporary Art Center in Miami, including a solo exhibition and representation at Art Miami 2006. His work has appeared in shows throughout New England, as well as Miami, Paris, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin and Sarasota, where he received a prestigious selection in the Bayfront Park billboard installation, Embracing Our Differences (2007).
In the summer of 2006, Sloan relocated from Miami to Providence, Rhode Island. He is an active artist-member of the Attleboro Arts Museum, the Newport Art Museum and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. He is active in solo and group shows, private commissions, live painting gigs and mural arts projects as artist and instructor.
The first half of 2008 has seen Sloan exhibiting his work in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, live painting at the Burton US Open Snowboard Championships, joining the artistic roster of Cortile Gallery in Provincetown MA, and exhibiting for the first time in Europe. In June 2008, he was represented at Art Shopping in Paris by Dima Galerie d’Art. In July, he presented a 54-piece retrospective entitled, American Pop Art at the Maison des Arts in Chatillon France. Most recently, he completed a 7’x16’ mural piece for Wrap ‘Em: Column Art Under McGrath, a juried public art installation in Somerville, Massachusetts.
For the 8 Visions exhibition at the Attleboro Arts Museum, Sloan has created a collection of eight original portraits of endangered indigenous peoples with proceeds to benefit the tribal peoples rights organization, Survival International (www.survival-international.org).
Upcoming events for Sloan include Wet Paint at Newport Art Museum, benefits for Project Aids RI, Slater Mill, and AS220, group shows at The Hive Custom Tattoo Studio and Gallery, Surf Art Nouveau at Montanaro Gallery, Male and Female Figure Shows at Cortile Gallery, and presentations of new works in Miami, Paris and San Francisco.
"Chuck"
"Scuba Doobie Dude"
"UV Session Legend"
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Cliff Speaks
Cliff integrates a variety of approaches in his work, including the styles and techniques of Jackson Pollack, Vincent van Gough and Henry Moore; and the traditions of Mexican Muralists, African Art, Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, Pop Art and Futurists.
A resident of Brandon, Mississippi, Cliff has great affection for southern culture and imagery. He comes to painting from a background in graphic design and has been painting professionally for five years. His art appears in galleries and exhibits from coast to coast. He has done commissions for Three Doors Down and Pearl River Casino. He holds a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and considers his paintings to be “temporary conclusions to ongoing ideas.”
Cliff is a master at capturing gesture, posture, movement and “performance” with iconic figures. The viewer cannot come away from his evocatively-familiar character-types without recognition of self, friend, family member, or universally-known stranger. His joyful abstract depictions rendering place and concept in charming, notorious mélange also utilize the icon. The epiphanies which he constructs for the viewer through his figurative and abstract representations endear the archetype, splice it with humor and pay it tribute. The total effect is insight and vision for a proverbial world.
Although Cliff depicts many iconic figures in a range of settings, music is a recurring theme and a present focus in his work. His images are vibratory vehicles for the visual counterpoint to music. He states: “I ‘see’ blues, punk, rock, rockability, classical, soul. I love dirty color, color that has life to it.” Resonant color drives his work, gathering under its lead design, line and form. Overt, deliberate brush-stroke follows at close pace. The distinctions between music and instrument, between instrument and instrumentalist vanish. He performs the miracle of transmitting the exclusive property of the ear to the eye and vice versa. The result is that the viewer “sees” the melodies, the harmonies and the beat of the painting and “hears” the movement of fingers over strings, the syncopation of a foot, the pulse of a head, the hunch of shoulders over guitar, and the bend of a waist reaching for that sweetest note on saxophone.
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Kerry Stewart
"I studied animation & painting at the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver, Canada, and have been painting and doing freelance illustration ever since. I like art that makes me smile. I recently had the privilege of doing a public art piece for the city of Edmonton, and I purposefully did something whimsical that I know will get a chuckle out of people as they walk by. To me, that's the greatest critique in the world."
"Paul's Pea", 16x16" Oil on canvas $225.00
"Joanna's Joystick", 16x16" Oil on canvas $225.00
"Tommy's Toad", 16x16" Oil on canvas $225.00
"Theresa's Tantrum", 16x16" Oil on canvas $225.00
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Dion Hitchings
"Spirograph People Series"
"Man #2", Ink on paper, framed $100
"Lady #2", Ink on paper, framed $100
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