6 - 9 April, 2016, HOFBURG Vienna, Austria | [email protected] |http://www.sgemvienna.org

David Heskin

The Vienna Academy of Art, Austria

SHORT PROFESSIONAL INFO

David Heskin’s art reveals a combined love of random shapes and concise figures, which he brings to our curriculum through his varied teachings in free expression and Sacred Geometry. The Colorado-born artist is largely self-taught, exploring a variety of technical approaches to express Nature’s randomness and elaborate hidden patterns. On the one hand, his mana prima technique uses water and white pigment to express the free-flow of energy, imbedding its manifold signatures in paint. On the other hand, his three-dimensional paintings explore complex geometric figures by abandoning the regular parallelogram and stretching canvas over pentagons, hexagons and even curvilinear supports. Within these multi-facetted shapes or gently-sloping surfaces he explores new worlds of fluid form and hyper-dimensional geometry. Inspired by visions of shared creation, he co-founded Dreaming Co:Nexus, an Artist Co:laboratory which combines different artist’s visions through collaborative Live Painting events and “Art Vigils” that can last anywhere from 18 to 48 hours – the artists coming and going to keep the candle of wakefulness lit, while passing back and forth the flame of creation. In 2010, he and his wife Aloria Weaver travelled to Europe to study the Mischtechnik with and Amanda Sage, returning in 2011 to collaborate with Caruana and deepen their studies with him. As a couple and as co-creators, “DnA” (David and Aloria) have travelled extensively throughout the US and Europe – painting, exhibiting, lecturing and publishing. They have also held numerous workshops that combine the Mana Prima and Mischtechnik. Recognizing the necessity for a conscious rebirthing of culture, they founded Art Spirit Now, an arts organization with the exhilarating declaration, “The Renaissance is Now.” Since moving to Loveland, Colorado, he and Aloria Weaver have organized CAVA – The Colorado Alliance for Visionary Artists – and founded The Luminous Flux Gallery and Studios where they regularly hold courses on the Mischtechnik, Figure Drawing and Classical Realist approaches to drawing. The couple’s rare talent for sharing their creative process makes them a wonderful addition to the Academy faculty.

SGEM Vienna 2016, 6 – 9 April, 2016, HOFBURG Vienna, Austria | [email protected] | http://www.sgemvienna.org