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Apéro Catalogue APÉRO CATALOGUE Fine Art Collection Places October 2019 Denise McShannon APÉRO CATALOGUE Created by APERO, Inc. Curated by E.E. Jacks Designed by Jeremy E. Grayson Orange County, California, USA Places October 2019 ‘Places’ expresses a location that is real or imagined. The work is comprised of drawings, paintings, photography, mixed media, digital, and sculpture both representational and abstract in nature. Kordian Bogdański Pars Pro Toto, 2017 Various Stones 280 x 160 cm NFS Kordian Bogdański Cracow, Małopolska, Poland [email protected] Kordian Bogdański The Sculpture is a space for me, where the agency of my thoughts and actions has a tangible effect in contrast to daily life. Kordian Bogdanski is a young artist from Poland. Born in Rzeszów in 1989. In the years 2005-2009 he attended and then defended his woodcarving diploma at the art high school in Lublin. /LP im C.K. Norwida w Lublinie/ In 2017 he graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow at the Faculty of Sculpture. Now I deal with stone restoration and create small sculptural forms. APÉRO Catalogue Places - October 2019 2 Ellen Bornkessel Play I Köln #11, 2013 Pigmentprint I Alu-Dibond I Framed 80 x 120 cm POR Ellen Bornkessel Cologne, Germany [email protected] https://www.ellen-bornkessel.de Ellen Bornkessel Ellen Bornkessel is a german based photographer. She studied photography and mediaarts at the renowned Acadamy of Fine Arts, Leipzig. Her work is shown worldwide in museums, galleries and festivals. She is interested in parallel worlds, which exists besides our world. APÉRO Catalogue Places - October 2019 4 Holly Boruck Exist 09, 2019 Ceramic, Mixed Media, Oil on Canvas, Varies NFS Holly Boruck Altadena, California, USA [email protected] https://www.HollyBoruck.com Holly Boruck Exist is body of work that explores the creative and destructive energies inherent in the universe. The pain and suffering of existence is inevitable, but there is also the will to transcend and triumph. My work asks the audience to suspend ideas about status quo, the knowable, predictability, and instead to accept what’s out of our control, savor beauty that is fleeting and to embrace the scars we accrue through the extraordinary experience of existence. My artworks are grouped into triptychs connected through process, a mirror for the human experience. I begin by creating unblemished, ‘perfect’ ceramic sculptures; newborns. The sculptures are then shattered into pieces, a reflection of entropy, pain, suffering and the chaotic nature of reality. The damaged sculptures are re-constructed into new forms; disfigured but intact, flawed beauty, a reconsideration about the nature of ‘beauty’. The last stage of the process results in a painting that synthesizes the entire process of transformation, becoming the embodiment of a new ‘whole’. APÉRO Catalogue Places - October 2019 6 3rd Andrew Chalfen Vibration Lands, 2018 Mixed Media: Acrylic, Wood, Guitar parts, Model Train Track, Metal on Framed Panel 49.5 x 23.5 x 8 in POR Andrew Chalfen Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA [email protected] http://www.andrewchalfen.com/ Andrew Chalfen The ripples, radiance, fractal blooms, and clustered shapes of Andrew Chalfenʼs drawings and acrylic paintings reference aerial views, fly-over zones, cartography, architectural renderings, urban-like densities, and other natural and man-made patterns, many spilling out over edges, suggesting unseen continuations. His process mirrors that his songwriting and music arranging, involving the repetition of a small selection of formal elements, subtle variation, the timbre of color palate, rhythm, and randomization strategies. Early works reflected a sheer joy in precise, dense pattern-making. The effect of not knowing what to focus on first, becoming overwhelmed and subsequently absorbed in the details, is akin to the experience of mediation or a kind of visual acupuncture. More recent works, including painted sculptures, explore themes of nostalgia, climate change, play, allusions to scientific data and musical expression and notation, and deconstructions reflective of recent social and psychic instability in the world. Though the autodidact Chalfen has always been involved in artistic endeavors, specifically music, drawings first began appearing in earnest in 2008 after the artist had finger surgery due to a non-cancerous bone-eating tumor. Unable to employ his guitar-fretting left hand for months, he found that making intricate drawings with his right was in a way meditative and healing and fulfilled much of his ever- present need to be creative, to have the forward momentum of making art. From that point onward, making art became a welcome creative parallel to a long life of writing and playing music, one pursuit intimately informing the other. Curator Review: Vibration Lands This energetic and highly creative work by artist Andrew Chalfen exudes an almost electrical current of harmony and movement. The style and saturated colors, blend and spread out through the entire piece, evoking Orphism and an artistic impression of symbiosis in a cityscape. Chalfen’s incredibly imaginative mind has brought to life a kinetic consonance and fluid realization of space and communion. - E.E. Jacks APÉRO Catalogue Places - October 2019 8 Susan DeRosa Swimming Hole, Applegate River, 2019 Acrylic on Gessoboard 8 x 8 in $500 Susan DeRosa Jacksonville, Oregon, USA [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/SusanDeRosaArt/ Susan DeRosa “Since earliest memory she has been drawing and painting, which felt natural to her.” Susan received a BFA in Drawing and Painting at Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna Beach, CA., after working in graphic design for over a decade. She returned to her alma mater to work as Associate Director of Admissions, until her retirement. She taught community education classes, pre-college programs at the Art College, as well as Fundamentals of Drawing at the University of Irvine Extension Program. She loves painting outdoors, in nature, and is presently involved with various plein-air events and workshops through out the year. Susan has exhibited in juried shows, galleries, and art events in Southern California, NW Arkansas, and in Southern Oregon. She is presently showing at Earthworks Gallery in Yachats, on the Central Oregon Coast, and Rogue Gallery Members Show, Medford. Her art works hang in private collections, nationwide. “To become embedded in the process is ultimate. She calls it an ‘artist high’.” The capture of atmosphere, the play of natural light is emphasized, suffusing landscapes with life and emotion, it is with the Impressionist masters, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cezanne, Claude Monet, and Eduard Vuillard who have influenced, and inspired her art making. She enjoys working with ink, pastel, charcoal and watercolor, and is currently using acrylics. Her finished landscapes incorporate mystery, passage of light and soft edges. They have a delicacy of line with the illusion of a solid place one would enter. She has no trouble starting a piece, and then allows the piece to pull her in. Mysterious, emotional, sensitive, moody, are words that have been used to describe her art. A mentor’s advice to her was: “Follow your own path and never waver. Never compromise or feel you need to change to follow the trendsetters, or what’s popular at the moment. We are born as ourselves, and as artists we spend our lives expressing that self.” APÉRO Catalogue Places - October 2019 10 Matthew Evans Tenby, South Wales, 2015 Watercolour on Paper 76 x 56 cm POR Matthew Evans Brighouse, West Yorkshire, UK [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/matthewevansartist Matthew Evans I was born in 1968 and live in Brighouse, West Yorkshire. I discovered an early flair for art, initially taking inspiration from local surroundings with a preference for buildings and landscapes. Graduating from Leicester Polytechnic BA (Hons) Graphic Design in 1989, I worked for Hallmark Cards, Bradford for twenty one years but now work in Customer Services. I have a lifelong love of art and photography with many favourite themes including florals, sunsets, seascapes and townscapes. I worked in the greeting card industry for 21 years developing my painting style in my spare time. My art has provided me with a wonderful hobby and I have been able to exhibit both locally, nationally and on the internet . APÉRO Catalogue Places - October 2019 12 Gala Pilgrim, 2019 Oil on Canvas 24 x 36 in POR Gala Bozhurishte, Sofia, Bulgaria [email protected] https://www.artbukova.com Gala Galya Bukova (Gala) was born in Sofia (Bulgaria) in 1978. She was raised in an artistic family: her father was a painter and her mother a writer. The artistic atmosphere of her childhood home was the main influence in her development as an artist. She graduated from the Secondary School for Applied Arts and Painting in Sofia. While a teenage student, she turned to painting professionally full time. Her hand painted silk scarves and paintings have been shown in local galleries and over the Internet. If her art could be described in two words, one might use, “contrasting” and “bold”. She works in several styles, such as cubism, realism, pop art, abstractionism and surrealism, exploring new media and new techniques in order to express herself. Just like nature, her art is continually changing and growing. She responds to the caprices of contemporary spiritual events aesthetically, depicting the changing beauty of life in it’s true colors and moods. Her art works are part of many collections around the globe. APÉRO Catalogue Places - October 2019 14 Stefania Grasso Braies Lake, 2017 Photography 20 x 30 cm 5€ Stefania Grasso Vercelli, Piedmont, Italy [email protected] https://www.stefaniafoto.altervista.org Stefania Grasso Stefania Grasso was born in Vercelli Italy in 1977. She is an Italian biologist specialized in Microbiology. She started to photograph in 1990. In 2006 among 1172 photographers she won the 4th price in a nature competition in Valle d’Aosta.
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