Tag: still life

Maciek Jasik

Maciek Jasik, “Secret Lives”

Maciek Jaskik is a photographer and pyrotechnician from Gdansk, Poland and living and working in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Arts from John Hopkins University in 2000 and has since been in many photographic exhibitions. He “seeks to understand society’s relationship with the natural world and explore ideas of identity, gender and the self while working in a parallel world of endless color and bewildering physical phenomena.”

“The modern world has separated us from the origins and uses of fruits and vegetables; we know them only for the flavors and textures they provide. Until only very recently, each held its own mystique, mythology, symbolism and connection to the culture and afterlife.

This series aims to reintroduce these mystical, invisible qualities to fruits and vegetables that have been lost amidst the clamor of nutritional statistics. Each offers its own indelible powers beyond our narrow habits of thought.”

Deer Antler Ritual Mjolnir

Troll Blood, Deer Antler Ritual Mjolnir

Troll Blood is a craftsman for Bear Claw Handcraft, who works with antler, bone, leather, hides, wood and metal. Mjolnir is the name for the god Thor’s hammer. Though most famous for as a weapon, Mjolnir played a role in Norse religious practices and rituals, used in formal ceremonies to bless marriages, births and funerals, as described in the Old Norse 13th century work of literature “Snorra Edda”. This work is ascribed to the Icelandic scholar and historian Snorri Sturluson.

Andrew Montgomery

Andrew Montgomery, (Tin of Chalk)

Born in 1969, Andrew Montgomery’s career in photography began at 14 with a darkroom in the garden; progressed to a five year degree course in Fine Art and then on to a three year apprenticeship in photography. Since 1995 his work has appeared in a diverse range of top publications with clients in the UK and Europe.

Commissions have included artisan workshops in Paris, Coracle makers in Wales, Costume dramas in Prague, portraits of designers, single mothers, fishermen, gypsies and Cistercian monks.

The artist’s site: https://www.andrewmontgomery.co.uk

 

Andrew Potter

Paintings by Andrew Potter

Andrew Potter is an artist who paints in a classical style. Following his initial training, he had worked for the Royal Academy of Arts in London for many years as a researcher. The knowledge he possesses informs many of his pictures and contributes to the classical form of his paintings.

He is an elected member of the United Society of Artists and his paintings are regularly exhibited in exhibitions at major London galleries. His paintings are characterised by solid composition, strong colours and a wide narrative content.

Andrew Potter moved in 2015 to Felanitx on the Balearic Island of Mallorca. In December of 2018, he opened The Andrew Potter Gallery, his own gallery and a studio space, in the town center of Felanitx.

Joseph Radoccia

Four Paintings by Joseph Radoccia

Joseph Radoccia is a painter, whose body of works have explored his interest in various forms of intimacy. Born in the small town of Hornell, NY, Radoccia was artistically inclined since childhood and was always excited by the prospect of drawing  He went on to hone his artistic ability, receiving his BFA in Graphic Design from Buffalo State in 1982 and his MFA in Painting from the University at Buffalo in 1985. In that year, Radoccia was featured in a group exhibition at the Albright Knox Art Gallery. Future exhibitions soon followed at Hallwalls and the Burchfield Penney Art Center

Deciding to pursue a professional career as a painter, Radoccia moved to Brooklyn, NY in the late 1980s. Surrounded by the devastating effects of the AIDS epidemic, particularly to the LGBTQ community, Radoccia began to express his feelings, through his paintings and sculptures, on the raising levels of fear and prejudice he was witnessing and to make a statement on the importance of public awareness.

Despite the success of this work within the art community, Radoccia felt it was starting to negatively impact him and perpetuate the negative tropes that already existed surrounding AIDS. He returned to his original love of painting, and began to explore themes of identity, love, fear and sexual expression. Many of these artistic explorations mirrored Radoccia’s own exploration into himself and his identity. He began exhibiting with the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and some of his works remain in the gallery’s permanent collection.

Radoccia longed to make a home that mimicked the peace and serenity that he experienced on trips to Madagascar. In 2011 he moved to Beacon, NY, in the heart of Hudson Valley where he currently resides. He has now concentrated on portrait works, continuing to explore the themes of intimacy that has prevaded his entire body of work.

Images of Joseph Radoccia’s work and contact information can be found at the artist’s site located at: https://www.joeradoccia.com