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October 1, 2016

Constance Vepstas

Biography

Constance Vepstas is self-taught in Photography and Photoshop. She has travelled the world while creating art. An eight-time visitor of the Biennale Arte Venice, many days at Documenta, and the Istanbul Biennial, and visiting the art museums of the world have influenced Vepstas’ ways of seeing and making art. Vepstas aims to raise questions for the viewers.

Vepstas early influences included Artemisia and Arc Chicago women’s coop-galleries. She was part of a revolution of American women and politics following Judy Chicago and Joy Poe. Vepstas influences include by Chicago theater, such as Body Politics. Vepstas believes art, and in particular, surrealism can express a universal human experience.

Artist’s Statement
The Animal Within Us
Man and animal are one and the same. Spirituality of the soul triumphs in man, survival of the fittest in animals. Man questions his survival as he struggles to survive. It seems when there is no answer to situations man becomes surreal not being able to rationalize all things that happen. In these images I want to present the characteristics, animal instinct and the surreal we encounter by our dumbfounded state we experience when there are no answers to our situations. “The Animal Within Us” are manipulated photographs printed by the artist.

  • Location: Chicago, Illinois

Website

Surrealism, Digital Art, Photography

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April 7, 2016

Gunyoung Kim Ceramics

Fresh out of her MFA program in ceramic art, Gunyoung Kim has been creating mischievous and magical beings, embracing both the glittering and dark of her mind. She says, “I am interested in looking at a side of humanity that is subtle and spiritual.”

Kim’s focus is on the inner psychological aspects of her characters, forming subtle expressions on their faces—which read more like stylistic illustrations than accurate anatomy. Kim was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, and moved to the United States for graduate school.

– via Juxtaposed Magazine

Biography

Gunyoung Kim was born and raised in Seoul, South Korea. She received her Bachelors of Fine Art in Ceramics from Kook-Min University in Korea in 2010 and came to the United States to pursue an MFA in Ceramic art. Kim received her degree from The Ohio State University in 2014 where she developed her studio practice and gained teaching experience. After leaving graduate school, she moved to Kansas to participate Ceramic artist in residence program at the Lawrence Art Center in Lawrence. She is currently a short-term resident at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, MT.

  • Raised in: Seoul

Website

Surrealism, Ceramics, Sculpture

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April 7, 2016

Dave Martsolf

Biography

Dave Martsolf was born in 1949 in Manhattan, Kansas. He traveled with his mom and dad as the first of three children, all sons to the Beaver Valley in western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh at the age of one, and at age 12 moved again to New Hampshire where he lives to this day.

Martsolf’s father and grandfather were professional architects. His mother was a professional photographer before marriage, but opted for housewife as the family grew.

Martsolf attended MIT to study architecture, later transferring to UNH where he earned a degree in Fine Arts.
Dave’s early work was influenced by the masters of spacial representation and human expression, Raphael, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velasquez, et. al., as well as the Impressionists, post-impressionists such as Miro, Mondrian, Matisse, Kandinsky, Klee, Picasso, and the surrealist Salvador Dali. Architectural instincts present in his works developed due to his close association with architecture in his youth.

Martsolf’s style is a continual evolution and exploration of his love of many styles. He places his highest regards in what he calls rational surrealism (see Artist’s Statement), while also continuously being drawn to abstract, organic and architectural drawing styles and design roots.

At heart, Martsolf is a visual and intellectual Rubik’s Cube who delights not only in the simple solution, but in every other combination of idea and conception. His first love are those arrangements that tear apart and rebuild our concept of reality in ways that make us question our daily life assumptions. In so doing Martsolf bring us to secret doorways that invite passage to a higher state of awareness.

Artist Statement

Martsolf describes himself as both a rational and irrational surrealist. He has stated that when we speak of rational surrealism we are talking about the conscious choice of juxtaposition of subject matter that seeks to not only ‘shock and awe’, but intends to present itself as guided in its formulation by an intelligence that desires to show the observer something new about the world around him, or to consider some paradox generated by the unquestioned acceptance of past descriptions of our shared reality.

In truth, Martsolf has and continues to employ both branches of the surreal tree, depending on the work. Martsolf’s major canvases have tended to embrace his rational surrealist doctrine, while smaller pieces and drawing works are often irrational expositions of subconscious exhuberance. Martsolf has referred to some of these works as automatic drawings. They base themselves on the self-effacing principle of emptying one’s mind of conscious thought and letting pure, almost Brownian motion energy flow out of the moving hand with its seismic recorder lightly connected to the drawing instrument, guided by some deep emotional upwelling bumping into the ghosts of past forgotten experience.

  • Location: New Hampshire

Website

Surrealism, Painting

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March 20, 2016

Sammy Slabbinck


Sammy Slabbinck renders dynamic collage prints & original paper collages, combining found imagery with contemporary compositional styles. The images are cut up into pieces and redistributed, playing with exaggeration and proportions. Other times, the images are placed in a reverse context, juxtaposing modern ideals with traditional states of mind.

Sammy Slabbinck is a Belgian artist. His eye for muted tones and surreal compositions make his work engaging, memorable and sometimes humorous.

  • Location: Belgium

Website

Surrealism, Collage

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