Marga was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, now residing in Atlanta, Ga

Marga was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has a French and Italian background in her family and a Brazilian heart.

Marga started painting and drawing very early in her life. Always in love with Art, at the age of 6, she already knew that she wanted to be a painter.

She began to paint with oils when she was 15 and at 17 she started her formal artist education.

She is graduated from the College of Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina with 7 years of studies in Paintings and Sculptures.

She was a cofounder of "Capitulo 7" [translation :chapter 7], a group of artists that held several exhibits and programs in Buenos Aires

Her multicultural life exposed to a mix of cultures living in Argentina with an European background, and her travels and love to Brasil, France, Italy, and Spain have a strong influence on her paintings. Marga also has a degree in yoga which has a strong influence on her work.

Her paintings are a mix of Magic realism with metaphysics and ironic images. Almost always figurative, the human image and nature are always present in her art.

 

Artist's Statement

The interaction between dreams and reality

The way they mix and transform one to another...

Past, present and Future, and the "incomprehensible" time, almost a dream for itself.

The human desire of knowing the mystery of Life. And the

water...always the water... beginning and end of everything...

All these things have been inspiring my work for many years...

And after all of the above, the simple pleasure of mixing colors and

navigating the small, and, at the same time, deep world of a painting...

Cecil Bernard

Cecil Bernard is the most passionate and exciting abstract artists in the contemporary art world. His work is contained in some of the most prestigious art collections around the globe while his reputation as the "Artist to the Stars" (Dallas Morning News, September 1990) grows daily.

Bernard was born in Austin, Texas, and started drawing at the age of six. He moved to Dallas when he was ten years old, living there until adulthood. He started selling art while in high school and later while attending Southwestern Adventist University in Keene, Texas.

Bernard, whose work often depicts musicians and athletes, began to attract the attention of numerous celebrities in the 1970's and today notable athletes, entertainers and serious art collectors worldwide proudly showcase his work in their homes and places of business. Bernard's work has been exhibited in fine art galleries throughout the southeastern United States and overseas and has been featured in numerous art shows.

Bernard's acrylic abstracts, pastel paintings and ink sketches exhibit great power. "Passion, color, texture, spontaneity, and balance are the core of my acrylic abstract paintings and contemporary jazz and music pieces," says Bernard. "Inspired by the struggle, humor and spirituality in the balance of life, I paint - usually without a brush." Bernard's unique method of painting - often using his hands, cardboard or rags - has become one of his trademarks. "I pour the paint, I throw it, I drop it and I spray it," he says. "Colors have value in every painting, and color itself is spiritual, if arranged in a manner that speaks to the soul and stirs the passion of the beholder. Every painting tells a story. No matter how simple, no matter how complex."

Website

http://www.cecilbernardart.com

Atlanta Georgia Artist Corey Barksdale Mural Painting

http://www.coreybarksdale.com

As a painter, Corey Barksdale explores the artistic landscape inspired by the music of jazz greats like Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker. The result is a stunning collection of paintings that celebrate the jazz experience.

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) February 5, 2005 -- As a painter, Corey Barksdale’s work is continually inspired by jazz. “It frees me to do what I feel when I’m painting,” Barksdale says. When he’s in the studio creating, he often listens to jazz greats like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. The result is a stunning collection of more than 30 paintings that celebrate the jazz experience. 

“Coltrane is at the top of my list when it comes to jazz musicians,” says Barksdale. A Coltrane recording he particularly enjoys is Africa. “Coltrane is improvisational in the piece, but he has structure in his sound. I like the freedom that he has when he’s playing Africa. It’s rhythmic and free.”

Barksdale admires Miles Davis with equal measure for his rawness. “Davis was into experimenting and trying different things with his sound. He was a catalyst for other musicians and he was a pioneer in his time, all without commercializing the music.”

So what is it about jazz that inspires Barksdale’s creativity as a painter? “I love the improvisation of jazz musicians from the ‘50s and ‘60s. There was a lot of experimentation going on. In much the same way, I want to create something totally new with my paintings each time - to be different in the way I portray certain subjects.” 

Barksdale clearly appreciates traditional jazz artists - the Jazz Crusaders and Sonny Rollins included - but he also gets a certain amount of inspiration from legendary contemporaries like Joe Sample and David Sanborn. 

Of all his paintings, his personal favorite is one he’s entitled Jazz Reflections. “The painting is of six guys playing various horn instruments, a bass and piano. It’s one of my favorites because it gives off the vibe of what it’s like being in a jazz club,” explains Barksdale, an Atlanta College of Art graduate. Many of Barksdale’s oil paintings are an infusion of vivid colors tinged with earth tones. His choice colors, a sky blue and a rich orange - almost like Georgia clay with a hint of brown - are used with bold strokes throughout his collection.

“Ultimately, I want individuals to feel what I felt at the time I produced a piece. And whatever the scene happens to be in a painting, I want them to look beyond that and find other things in the painting they can relate to. It’s my attempt to connect on a more personal level.”

To learn more about Corey Barksdale visit www.coreybarksdale.com.

About Corey Barksdale
Barksdale (www.coreybarksdale.com) earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Atlanta College of Art in 1994. During this period he was heavily influenced by the abstract expressionists and admired such mainstream artists as Jasper Johns, Clifford Still, William deKooning. The African-American masters Aaron Douglas, John Biggers, Romere Bearden, and William Tolliver instilled in him an appreciation of African-American artistic heritage. Barksdale’s fine art subject matter ranges from human figures to non-objective abstracts. In recent years, he has concentrated his talents on themes that portray the love and strength that exists within the African-American community. His paintings grace the covers of books, magazines, CD covers, and posters. Among his convictions, is to give back to his community through art education.

Creative Fine Arts. Atlanta, GA

http://www.coreybarksdale.com/

Allison Shockley

Encaustic Paintings: This Body of encaustic work draws it's inspiration from natural forms, the microcosm, and chaos theory. In the natural world, as well as in our lives, there is delicate balance between chaos and order. What at first appears to be random or chaotic is often a part of a larger repeating pattern or structure. Although this may elude our immediate consciousness, our eye is so used to pattern recognition in the world around us, that I believe we percieve what we see as somehow right when the perfect balance chaos and order is achieved. As I build up the layers of my paintings there is a continual push and pull between chaos and order. A painting is resolved when there are unpredictable and unique areas to keep the eye interested within a structured, harmonious whole.

Photography. Parallel World: This body of work was inspired by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's "On Growth and Form," an interdisciplinary masterpiece which applies mathematics and physics to the study of the form and stucture of living things. Upon reading the chapter "The Forms of cells" I was in awe of the fact that in perfect conditions a drop of ink falling through water will produce a form analagous to a jellyfish, an organism that is created and formed in water. Using Gouache, a tank of water, and a camera, I set out to capture the forms that are created as pigment falls through water. Through experimentation with various methods of introducing pigment into the water, I created the semblance of a jellyfish, of gray matter in the brain, of flowers and eel-like creatures that moved, changed, and eventually dissipated. Craving more complexity in the final images, I began to consider each photograph as a building block, much like the initial cell of an organism. Using photoshop I juxtaposed or replicated the "bulding blocks" creating more complex forms, which, through symmetry, brought new life to the images. The resulting body of work recalls an incredibly real but imaginary parallel universe where the distinction between environment, inanimate object, and living organism are blurred.

DAVID CHARLES MENDOZA

Who are your favorite artists?

from Giotto, El Greco, Tintoretto, Michaelangelo, Caraviggio, Manet, Van Gogh, Whistler,Sargent, Man Ray, Braque, Picasso, Moreau, klimnt, Matisse, Mogdigliani, Klee, Dix, Miro, Bacon, Rodin.Moore, Basquiat,...and on...and on...

Biography

Curator, Director, Agent, Designer and Artist. My entire life has been graced with the experience of living a creative and artful existense...I will have to edit this info with incisive exhibition and professional history.

Jorge Arcos

Born in 1969, in Mexico City. He intruded in the art in a lyrical and incidental way
when he was a little boy, in the year of 1974, working with drawings. As a young
boy he received direct artistic influence from his father who was a Landscaping
painter at that time. Jorge regarded art as a part of himself during his childhood and adolescence. Later on he perfected his technique by taking drawing classes, painting, history of the art, human body drawing, art object, engraving, mixed media and abstraction. He decides to pursue a career in “Drawing and Illustration” in Mexico City and later on he move to Atlanta, Georgia where he focuses on Abstract Art. In each new work, Jorge looks out from within as he explores issues of outer and inner development. Currently his work is focused on his never-ending obsession with abstract painting.

“I am an artist because I was born to be one. I couldn’t live if I wasn’t one. I am alive because I paint. It feeds my soul. My motive to paint is to live and to express every moment of my life and the simple fact of being alive”.

Margaret Kokotow

Margaret Kokotow creates washi ningyo, a traditional style of Japanese paper doll called "Komako". Her dolls are based on characters and styles from the Edo period of Japan (1603 - 1867). At that time, Japan was virtually isolated from the rest of the world and political and military power was in the hands of the Shoguns.

Each doll is made of washi paper. The paper is made from the inner bark of Mulberry, Mitsumata and Gampi trees. The rich colos are dyed in and the patterns are printed on with woodblock or silk-screened.

Each of Margaret's dolls is a unique artistic creation.

Margaret acquired her doll-making skills from a Jaspanese artisan who studied the style and craftsmanship of the original creator, Komako Ishigaki.