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INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE ARTS & CULTURE ZINE
JANUARY 2012 / WINTER
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art by randi antonsen
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IN THIS ISSUE ART FEATURES...............................6-27
Kevin Chupik, Ricardo Gonzalez Garcia, Matias Arm endaris, Ashton Elizabeth Hall, Emilio Santoyo, Randi Antonsen
SKETCHBOOK PROJECT 2012........14-16 DESIGN FEATURE.........................28-29
Sacred Geometry by Christie Powers
HOW TO PUT ON AN ART SHOW......32-37
An interview with Nubby Twiglet
SHOP: ARTSY................................38-39
A creative shopping guide to brighten up your winter
PHOTOGRAPHY FEATURES............40-45
Gabriela Alatorre, Madalin Gageanu, Sara Hertel, Max Sanders, Eni Turkeshi
TIPS FOR A STUNNING PORTFOLIO...46 MUSIC & BOOKS..........................56-57 CREATIVE DIRECTORY.................58-59
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Kevin Chupik LAS VEGAS, NEVADA
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My favorite quote, by Robert Collier is a curiously simple one. It says, “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” In my case, this small sentence is a encapsulation of how I approach painting these days. On a larger scale, it could describe life. My current body of work entitled, “Plumage” has been dominated by the presence of both women and birds. Avian and human figurative elements are set within a divided picture plane format. A staggering amount of dots and dashes are individually applied to create strangely
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congruent associations between these disparate forms. Color and composition continue to remain strong underpinnings for each piece. I continue to enjoy the poetic potential that this imagery suggests, as new pairings are discovered. The intricate nature of this process demands lengthy studio time. The larger works can take 300-400 hours to complete. My fascination with creativity began at an early age, but commitment started when I was a 21 year-old college student. I was fortunate to have a professor who mentored and shaped the way I
viewed the visual world. It was an awakening which allowed me to see shape, form and composition at work in all that surrounded me (an essential epiphany for every art student). There was no shortage of inspiration to be found in the world class museums of my hometown of Fort Worth,Texas. While attending undergraduate studies at Texas Christian University, many of my art history classes would meet at the Kimball Museum. I saw an endless string of pivotal shows at The Modern Art Museum Fort Worth. Rosenquist, Rauschenberg, Tansey and Fisher made me want to be a professional artist. I celebrated my new envy for these art giants by making a lot of work.
A prolific,unrelenting output of paintings from the studio was my biggest teaching tool. I was fortunate to sell a lot of work right out of the halls of that art department. That taste of success spurred me on to pursue grad school at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Oh grad school! Twenty years have passed since those impressionable days, but my dedication to making images has not wained. I too, now function as both mentor and instructor. Since 2003, I have taught drawing, painting and design to students of the College of Southern Nevada. Since moving to Las Vegas in 1997, my own work has changed and grown. >> DISCOVER MORE @ CHUPIKPAINTINGS.COM
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Since childhood I have felt an inclination for drawing and color. My paintings have been developing from an early stage of figurative, realist or expressionist, to spacial compositions that combine a collage configuration and abstrac-
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tion based in modulations, giving the viewer a place to go physically and conceptually. In each series that I approach, I try to introduce elements that hold a relationship together, placing them, so to speak, within a narrative that goes beyond
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Ricardo González García
the conventional to a uncharted territory of feelings difficult to explain or ineffable. The sum of the intention and the images is, overall, the result or message produced. >>>>> DISCOVER MORE @
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Matias Armendaris “ VANCOUVER, BC
As an artist I look for inspiration in what is left behind; I like to collect a lot of useless objects and sometimes shiny things. I love rocks and boxes and old books. I have a high appreciation for skilled craft and I have an obsession to make the smallest lines possible. I have currently lowered my scale and have been working on miniature drawings, sculptures and prints. I appreciate the delicate, the ephemeral, the intimate, the secret, the precious and the quiet. >> DISCOVER MORE @ MATIASARMENDARIS.COM
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Sketchbook Project 2012 The Sketchbook Project is like a concert tour for sketchbooks! The Brooklyn Art Library’s Art House Co-Op is organizing their second annual Sketchbook Project World Tour where thousands of sketchbooks will be exhibited at galleries and museums across the world for people to come and gather around to flip through the pages of thousands of participants’ sketchbooks. After they make their way through 14 cities in 4 different countries (USA, Canada, & Australia and possibly England to
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be announced), the sketchbooks will go on to rest permanently in The Brooklyn Art Library, where they will be barcoded and available for the public to view anytime. Unfortunately it is too late to be a part of the project this year, but If you decide to participate next year, there’s also an option to get your sketchbook scanned so that anyone can access it online as well! Anyone can be a part of the project no matter where you live in the world.
HERE’S HOW IT WORKS: 1. Art House supplies the sketchbooks. They’re made with 100% recycled paper, printed with vegetablebased inks, and produced with renewable energy in order to reduce the carbon footprint that a project of this multitude would normally leave.
2. Participants pick a theme from a list of 40 (or choose their own) and receive a package containing their custom-designed Sketchbook Project sketchbook with a barcode on it, their chosen theme, and detailed instructions about the project. 15
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3. Once the sketchbook is filled up and sent back, it will tour across 14 cities and the participating artists will be able to follow its journey as well! Every visitor receives a library card to use while browsing the exhibition and the artists can sign up to receive e-mail or text message notifications each
time their book is checked out and read & where in the world it is being viewed. 4. The final home of the 2012 Sketchbook Project sketchbooks will be the Brooklyn Art library, but, in late Spring 2012, they will be a part of the inagural exhibition in the Art House’s brand new West Coast hub.
Want to be a part of next year’s Sketchbook Project? Follow @arthouse on Twitter or watch for updates on the official website for the Sketchbook Project at www.arthousecoop.com/projects/sketchbookproject2012.
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FIND An event NEAR YOU: Brooklyn, nyY April 14-30th
PORTLAND, ME July 11th-14th
CHICAGO, IL May 3rd-5th
TORONTO, ON July 18th-22nd
PORTLAND, OR May 11th-13th
vancouver, bc May 15th-16th
vancouver, bc May 15th-16th
PHILADELPHIA, pa August 23rd-25th
los angeles, ca May 24th-26th
atlanta, ga August 29th-Sept. 1st
san francisco, ca May 11th-13th
austin, tx September 8th-16th
Boston, maY July 6th-8th
MELBOURNE, AUS. November 10th-25th
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Emilio Santoyo LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
“EMILIO WORKS AND LIVES IN CALIFORNIA. AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT, EMILIO MAY BE DOING A LIMITLESS AMOUNT OF TASKS. HE COULD BE WORKING ON A WEEKLY COMIC FOR A NEWSPAPER, A MAGAZINE, A BOOK, NEW PRODUCTS FOR HIS ONLINE STORE, EATING QUESADILLAS, OR MAKING SKETCHES FOR A NEW INSTALLATION.”
What was it that initially drew you TO BE an artist? I like that the word “drew” is part of this question. Very appropriate, but I think the answer might be in the question. I was the kid that was always drawing in class and not really paying attention to the teacher. When the end of high school was near, it was decision time. I didn’t know what to do. I found out it was possible to make a living doing this when I went to a tour at the Art Center College of Design with a friend. Actually, I was just tagging along because we were gonna go to a Dilated Peoples show afterwards. Little did I know that this was the jump off to me starting to take this art business seriously.
I get really excited when I hear from friends and their new projects they just finished or when they get a sweet write-up somewhere. I get inspired from the work ethic my friends have. It keeps me going. We give high fives to each other and then we get back to making cool happen. I would say mainly that and just going outside having adventures, eating everything, getting in trouble, jumping on things.
What are some of the things or people that inspire you most in the world today? It’s kind of silly, but to be honest the people that inspire me the most of all are the people I am around.
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