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Footprints Oil on Canvas 31.5” x 39.5”
For Viennese artist Hedy
Maimann, the process is
all. Her intuitive method
channels her immediate
impressions and emotions
directly to the canvas
resulting in softly layered,
dense mixed-media
compositions that stand
as physical manifestations of her spiritual and aesthetic ideas.
Working primarily in oils, Hedy uses both representational and
non-representational imagery in combination with icons and
symbols relating to her spiritual beliefs in her harmonious compositions.
In this way, her works communicate not just her inner
psychological life, but also a larger vision pertaining to the
peaceful effects that art can induce in the individual and society.
As a child, she escaped the constraints of a rigid upbringing and
the pressures of cultural difference by committing herself passionately
to all forms of visual and performance art. She now
concentrates most exclusively on her visual art practice through
which she has found the perfect vehicle for expressing her calm
and soulful aesthetic philosophy. Hedy Maimann’s work has
been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Austria, Italy and
New York.
Websites: www.mon-art.eu
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Hedy_Maimann.aspx
Mind Explosion
Acrylic & Watercolor 30” x 57”
HEDY MAIMANN
NAOYUKI OKADA
Naoyuki Okada uses
delicate rice paper and
subtle light effects to
create compositions
that evoke a sense of
the sublime. The shifting,
expansive, non-objective
works remind the viewer of the most macrocosmic
and microcosmic events in nature. Okada, in essence, attempts
to recreate the same contemplative and communicative
state that a person experiences in connection with
the natural. Okada uses his work to remind us “how powerful
people’s perceptions can be.” Okada, a native of Osaka,
Japan, came to settle in New York in the early nineties after
spending his formative years in a nomadic trek all over the
European continent, a Bildungsroman that took him to Switzerland,
Holland, Italy, England and France. In his acrylic
and watercolor compositions, one senses universality.
These works appear to be born of a need to communicate
beyond culture and language and this artistic effort to communicate
a phenomenological truth is perhaps no less than
one would expect from such a genuine traveler.
Websites: www.naoyukiokada.com
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Naoyuki_Okada.aspx
PATRICK GIROD
Flowers Under the Sun Oil on Canvas 24” x 20”
The art of Patrick Girod is urgent and immediate. It
gives viewers little time to think, drawing them into a
kinetic, expressive reality that is far less spontaneous
than the conventional world we live in. Girod uses oil with
the abandon of Pollock and incorporates figuration with
a tongue-in-cheek wit that resembles Picasso’s. Yet, with
its contemporary, technologically informed palette, his
work has taken what it needs from art history and moved
confidently into the 21st Century’s cultural landscape.
Girod’s practice has been referred to as neuronal
impressionism, emphasizing the vivacious way in which his
paintings play upon viewers’ nerve endings. His work starts
with emotion. An event, sensation, or feeling bursts onto
an empty canvas, growing from an unrealized dream into a
fantastic reality. Paint pools and dances. Colors weave in
and out of each other. Gardens, sometimes jungles, emerge
out of vibrant choruses of marks. Yet Girod’s paintings never
become dense. He uses, at most, three hues per artwork
and he is firmly committed to simplicity; he understands
the range of intensity conveyed in a single mark. Girod’s
minimalism makes the dynamism of his work all the more
stirring, inviting viewers to experience the poignant force of
each gesture.
Patrick Girod has exhibited throughout Europe. He lives
and works in both France and Switzerland.
Websites: www.derisoart.blogspot.com
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Patrick_Girod.aspx
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