Coral Gables - Art Booklet
BEN GORDON ARTIST BIO: Ben grew up in sunny Central Phoenix. As a child he went often to the Phoenix Museum of Art with family, and on school field trips. Curiously, he rejected the more commonly appreciated Cowboy artwork, and started exploring and investigating more contemporary abstract works. After several years away from Arizona in his early adulthood, he finds himself once again, back in the Phoenix area, again enjoying the sun. His work now reflects the landscapes of his various places of residence throughout the United States. STUDIO LOCATION: Seattle, WA AKIKO HIROMOTO ARTIST BIO: Akiko was born in Hokkaido, Japan. She moved to Taiwan at an early age and eventually immigrated to the United States after getting married. Akiko finds inspiration in fabric patterns, weavings, found objects and images, and the unique color patterns she encounters during her travels and daily life. Her work is about the exploration of process and color. She works through building up and scraping away paint to excavate the image within. Her canvas is a playground where she plays with the line qualities, mark-making, shapes and colors. ARTIST LOCATION: Seattle, WA CAROLINE ALKIRE ARTIST BIO: Caroline Alkire creates stunning, surreal collages from images cut out of vintage National Geographic magazines. Drawing inspiration from artists like Dali, she creates introspective dreamscapes with paper, scissors, and glue. You can see more of her work and buy prints here. ARTIST LOCATION: Burlington, VT BEN GORDON, AKIKO HIROMOTO, & CAROLINE ALKIRE DAWSON DESIGN ASSOCIATES 22
JB HALL ARTIST BIO: JB Hall was born in Springfield, Illinois in 1963. He relocated many times in the upper Great Lakes region until finally settling in the Chicago area. Those displacements helped motivate and shape his versatile nature and quick sense of humor often making it easier to assimilate into new surroundings. He also began to develop an ability to view the same subject from different perspectives; a trait he feels is the foundation of his philosophy on art and art making. After graduating from Beloit College with a degree in Geology and a heavy load of Art History, JB moved New England before finally settling down in Arizona in which he’s resided for more than 20 years. During this period in the wide-open Southwest, he experimented with many artistic mediums including, but not limited to, monoprinting, painting, sculpture, photography, and serigraphy. His dabbling in these mediums has forged his philosophy of art making into shape. He used his view of an individual’s perspective as the foundation for his statement, “Truth is Perception”. This belief allows a new medium to tell a new story at a new point in time. He is not afraid to fail at an experience, and believes success in art, as with life, is truly trial and error. "Each piece or chapter is an incomplete exercise and can be reshaped and pounded into a success." Currently, he is using his passion for digital media and blending it with analog media such as serigraphy and painting. This new hybrid language allows him to take ideas and concepts that were technically unapproachable in the past and turn them into reality. ARTIST LOCATION: Arizona MERCEDES MARIN ARTIST BIO: “Mercedes spent most of her life living in cities by the water, having grown up in sunny Southern California. Her studies led her to San Francisco where she was exposed to the emerging West coast art scene. Mercedes did her graduate studies in Boston, Massachusetts, where she immersed herself in the rich and age-old art culture. She often wandered through the monolithic museums of Boston and New York and stood in front of many Rembrandts and Titians. Mercedes’ paintings are inspired by both the natural landscapes and the geometric juxtapositions of the man-made cityscapes. She currently lives and works in the rainy city of Seattle, Washington.” ARTIST LOCATION: Seattle, WA JB HALL & MERCEDES MARIN DAWSON DESIGN ASSOCIATES 23
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JB HALL<br />
ARTIST BIO: JB Hall was born in Springfield, Illinois in 1963. He relocated many times in the upper Great Lakes region until finally<br />
settling in the Chicago area. Those displacements helped motivate and shape his versatile nature and quick sense of humor often<br />
making it easier to assimilate into new surroundings. He also began to develop an ability to view the same subject from different<br />
perspectives; a trait he feels is the foundation of his philosophy on art and art making.<br />
After graduating from Beloit College with a degree in Geology and a heavy load of <strong>Art</strong> History, JB moved New England before finally<br />
settling down in Arizona in which he’s resided for more than 20 years. During this period in the wide-open Southwest, he<br />
experimented with many artistic mediums including, but not limited to, monoprinting, painting, sculpture, photography, and<br />
serigraphy. His dabbling in these mediums has forged his philosophy of art making into shape. He used his view of an individual’s<br />
perspective as the foundation for his statement, “Truth is Perception”. This belief allows a new medium to tell a new story at a new<br />
point in time. He is not afraid to fail at an experience, and believes success in art, as with life, is truly trial and error. "Each piece or<br />
chapter is an incomplete exercise and can be reshaped and pounded into a success."<br />
Currently, he is using his passion for digital media and blending it with analog media such as serigraphy and painting. This new<br />
hybrid language allows him to take ideas and concepts that were technically unapproachable in the past and turn them into reality.<br />
ARTIST LOCATION: Arizona<br />
MERCEDES MARIN<br />
ARTIST BIO: “Mercedes spent most of her life living in cities by the water, having grown up in sunny Southern California. Her<br />
studies led her to San Francisco where she was exposed to the emerging West coast art scene. Mercedes did her graduate studies in<br />
Boston, Massachusetts, where she immersed herself in the rich and age-old art culture. She often wandered through the monolithic<br />
museums of Boston and New York and stood in front of many Rembrandts and Titians. Mercedes’ paintings are inspired by both the<br />
natural landscapes and the geometric juxtapositions of the man-made cityscapes. She currently lives and works in the rainy city of<br />
Seattle, Washington.”<br />
ARTIST LOCATION: Seattle, WA<br />
JB HALL & MERCEDES MARIN<br />
DAWSON DESIGN ASSOCIATES<br />
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