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The Vineyard
Oil on Canvas 36” x 24”
JOSEPHINE GUIDA
Josephine Guida’s oil
paintings run the spectrum
from transcendent to tangible.
At times, she creates complete
abstraction, with dynamic
strokes and bright colors
mingling side by side to create
spontaneous, grid-like forms.
In more recent work, which
interprets the beauty of the
Australian landscape, Guida
captures simple countryside
scenes using complex
brushstrokes—each line a
dynamic, textural representative
of a delicate blade of grass, a reflection, or a shadowed
hillside; each line creating a sense of fluidity in composition.
Attracted to experimenting with new techniques and media,
her new series is the result of a natural progression. “Art
to me is more about intuition; the expression of a present
feeling or an emotion rather than an intellectual process,”
Guida says. “Finding a way to convey this is what continues
to intrigue me in the process of art making. The unknown is
where I prefer to be.” Josephine Guida, a South Australia
native, frequently exhibits with the South Australia Living
Artists (SALA); she currently resides and works in the West
Croydon suburb of Adelaide.
Websites: www.josephineguida.com
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Josephine_Guida.aspx
FLORA
Eruptive Profusions Wax on Canvas 39” x 39”
The Land of the One
Thousand Islands
Oil on Linen
60” x 23”
CRISTINA RODRIGUEZ
Simplicity of form and exuberant use
of color combine in harmony to produce
the uplifting and spirited paintings
by Colombian-born artist Cristina
Rodriguez. Well traveled throughout
the Americas, Africa and Europe, Rodriguez’s
paintings exhibit a well-developed
aesthetic and sophisticated
understanding of multicultural artistic
traditions. Her works, rendered in beautiful
tones of oil paint on linen, blend the
compositional balance of geometric abstraction
with the playful human spirit
of primitive artwork. Simplified figures,
reduced to their most essential elements,
relate with a dynamic rhythmic
movement to their solid or multi-colored
backgrounds. Shapes are boldly outlined
and imaginatively rendered, often
curving upward with graceful, dance-like movements. Rich
with narrative content, her paintings are continuously engaging
and universally appealing and reverberate with an
irrepressible, joyous energy, reflecting an intense enthusiasm
for not only art-making, but for life. She holds a BA in
Fine Arts from the University of Los Andes and an MFA from
the Slade School of Fine Art.
Websites: www.cristina-rodriguez.com
www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/Cristina_Rodriguez.aspx
The power of Flora’s paintings lies in the vitality of their
lyrical abstraction coupled with the vulnerability of their
self-expression. These works contain entire worlds, as well
as deeply emotional landscapes, and they are remarkable
for their resistance to easy categorization. Like all engaging
abstract works, they possess within their composition the
energy of their moment of creation. Although these paintings
are dynamic with creativity, the intense and dramatic eddies
of color that fill the canvases are not chaotic eruptions, but
examples of breathtakingly intricate designs.
As a result of Flora’s intense artistic integrity, her paintings
act as psychological and aesthetic mirrors for both the artist
and the viewer. Their sophisticated composition allows us to
plunge their depths as well as our own emotional reactions
and personal associations. To truly appreciate these images,
one has to be open to them, like a poem, as they gradually
work their subtle influence. The hypnotic forms suggest
the ocean as well as the patterns found in minerals or in
creatures on the cellular level. Flora’s inspiration and the
viewer’s response may intimately reflect each other, since
she uses the canvas as a means of conveying her love of
visual beauty and her commitment to creative honesty.
Website: www.Art-Mine.com/ArtistPage/FLORA.aspx
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