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Art & Beyond Magazine is proud to present the incredible artists featured on the pages of this issue. Each possessing their own style, unique ideas and vision of the world around us. From scratch they are able to create things that inspire and enhance our lives.
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oil • acrylic • watercolor • mixed media • photography • digital artprint making • sculpture • glass • ceramic • jewelry
"Life is a mix of colors that makes things coherent when put
one next to another. Like pixels, we are able to dwell on each
precise moment, or design the frame all together" – Olivia Boa
art beyond&f r o m a r t i s t t o a r t i s t - m a r k e t , p r o m o t e , s u c c e e d
Vol. 2 • Winter/Spring Issue • 2013
Olivia Boa
Zermatt. Acrylic on canvas
Arthur Jackob
Seed Pod. Photography/Digital Art. 34" x 30".
CONTENTS
Winter/Spring 2013 • Art & Beyond • 3
Fine Art
Amy Cohen Banker 4Olivia Boa 5
Debbi Chan 6Flavio Galvan 7
Joachim Gerschler 8Carmen Armstrong 9
Jack Jasper 9Darlene Kaplan 10
Natalya B. Parris 11Anne Goffin Smith 12
Majd (Patou) Fathallah 12
Digital Art
Arthur Jacob 13
Jewelry
Sandra Den Hartog 14
Vol.2 • Winter/Spring • 2013
art beyond&
Art is a form of communication based on arange of emotions one can express usingbrush strokes, color, various techniques,differentmedium andmaterials. The viewer isable to experience the visual impulse thatcreates a fountain of feelings. Art is a universallanguage and one can experience its powerby merely looking at it.
Art & Beyond Magazine is proud to presentthe incredible artists featured on the pagesof this issue. Each possessing their own style,unique ideas and vision of the world aroundus. From scratch they are able to createthings that inspire and enhance our lives.
For this issue Art & Beyond held a CoverCompetition giving four artists the opportunityto be featured on four covers of themagazine.We had many talented artists compete and itwas very difficult for us to choose the winners.
We are proud to announce that the artwork“Zermatt” by Olivia Boa (p.5) has been chosenas the winner of the Art & Beyond Front Cover.
The artwork “W08.2011-5” by JoachimGerschler(p.8) has been chosen for the Back Cover.
The artwork “Seed Pot” by Arthur Jacob (p.13)won the Inside Front Cover.
And for the Inside Back Cover the artwork “HeyGorgeous” byDarleneKaplanwas chosen (p.10).
Congratulations to Olivia, Joachim, Arthur andDarlene! Art & Beyond wish you a greatsuccess in your artistic career.
We would like to thank all of the immenselytalented artists who participated in thiscompetition. We are excited to see who willbe entering next time!
Publisher/ Mila RykArt Director
Editor Alina Lampert
Art & Beyond published 8 times a year.
Six (6) Online issues and Two (2) printed issues.
Distributed to the galleries, museumes and other
art institutions electronically and by mail.
Entry Form to apply to be published in the Art & Beyond Online magazine isavailable at http://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/ab-online-entry/
Membership Program application is available athttp://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/membership/
For any additional information please contact Mila Ryk [email protected]
Cover Art Winners
Olivia Boa – Front Cover Joachim Gerschler – Back Cover
Arthur Jacob – Inside Front Cover Darlene Kaplan – Insid Back Cover
Amy Beth Cohen Bankerhas been exhibiting in New York and worldwide since
1992. A Cornell University graduate, she studied
environmental design, education, business and fine
arts. A native New Yorker, Amy resides in New York City
and Massachusetts.
Her paintings, installations, videos, multimedia,
photography are exhibited in museums, public and
private collections including the Hermitage Museum,
The Barcelona Modern Arts, The Jewish Museum
London, MOMA and the Whitney Museum. She works in
a variety of mediums, acrylic, oil, pastels, aquarelle, oil
sticks, varnishes, glazes, finishing and surface
techniques. She explores the basic issues of opacity,
color, form, depth, obfuscations and revelations in life,
language and art. She uses a background in design, two
and three dimentional techniques and aesthetics.
Amy's background is integrated with her writing,
psychology, early chiildhood and life experiences
evolving as a woman and mother combining
internationalstudy to explore these issues in an
organized but abstract way. She tends to reinvent the
same themes, works from a structure and then proceed
by distressing, demolishing, recreating and conserving.
Amy's major themes areinner restoration and survival
challenging always reality vs. myth
www.amycohenbanker.com
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EDEN.Oil on canvas.30”x 40”
BLUE FLOWERS 3. Acrylic and oil on canvas. 40”x40”
Winter/Spring 2013 • Art & Beyond • 5
«Figurative Pixels»the new collectionby artist OLIVIA BOA
From a physical point of view…"Quantum mechanics ensures atoms are fuzzy entities,
which existence is described with statistical terms."
Science & Vie.
In brief, everything is done and undone at such a speed
that we cannot really per see the infinitely small.
Nevertheless here are the mountains, immutable.
In the collection "Figurative Pixels" the artist wanted to
show the paradox of the infinitely small and volatile,
that is due to the infinitely large and static.
Each "pixel" represents a molecule with its own color
and specific properties.
"My painting’s life has a dimension both microscopic
from a molecular point of view, and macroscopic, from
the landscape they represent. They are both things at the
same time" Olivia Boa
From a philosophical point of view…"Life is a mix of colors that makes things coherent when
put one next to another. Like pixels, we are able to dwell
on each precise moment, or design the frame all
together" Olivia Boa.
Pieces from the collection "Figurative Pixels" represent
both the present moment, from a philosophical point of
view, and the time that has passed by as a whole.
The way of seeing it is relative, we are the ones who
have to find the right angle. With this new collection,
Olivia Boa continues to share her perceptions and
interpretations of life, symbolism, colors and light still
hold an important place in her work.
"With her figurative pixel concept Olivia Boa is
reinventing abstract impressionism” F.G.
Translate by Clarisse Asseng
www.oliviaboa.sitew.com • [email protected] DAWN. Acrylic on canvas. 100cm x 120cm.
THE TREE. Acrylic on canvas. 80cm x 100cm.
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debbi chanOn the cusp of two creative signs, the tiger
and the rabbit, I was born in Houston, Texas.
With a creative push from day one, I took up
the brush by age ten. In my early years as a
budding artist I decided that oil painting was
not my thing but watercolor and ink were.
That really never changed but the style
vacillated from realism to fantasy throughout
those formative years. It was not until a bit
of aging wisdom came to me that I sought
out a teacher and found Frank Chiu, a master
artist in traditional Chinese painting. He
mentored me for over a decade and was later
joined by his wife, Judy. They showed me
that just taking Sumi lessons was not
enough. I involved myself in Chinese culture,
philosophy, and art until it coursed through
my veins and I saw the world through
different eyes. My teacher gave me an artist
name – Sosum. He said I always do what I
say I will do and SOSUM was the He chose.
What He did not know is that the main
reason I got in to traditional Chinese art was
to paint on silk. Sosum also means, through
the root character, threads of silk. I learned
much from this wise teacher. then I took an
invitation to visit Idaho for a three weeks
vacation. Four days before my departure for
home, I decided to live here and when I went
back home it was only to pack my apartment
and say two goodbyes: one to the Buddhist
Temple where I was an ordained nun; the
other, to the Chiu's, my mentors and
teachers who had become family. Frank Chiu
threw the IChing without my knowledge and
four days later in my new home he told me
what the sticks had said..... GO TO THE
WESTERN MOUNTAINS...so now a decade has
passed. I own a farm on ten acres of
paradise, and my heart and art are reaching
heights not reached by many... I can truly say
that I am rich – rich with no money. And art
is still as exciting as it was when I picked up
that paintbrush fifty years ago.
http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/s/sosum/
INGE AND CHIMA ON COFFEE BREAK. Watercolor/ink on silk.14" x 16"
GARDEN MENAGERIE. Watercolor/ink on silk. 69" x 5".
"The End" Series byFLAVIO GALVAN 2012
Argentina is the most southern country of the
world; it is, as it were, at the end of the world. In
this immense territory occupied by Argentina,
Flavio was born in a city of the center of the
country. In Argentina he felt a kind of isolation in
relationship to the rest of the world and this has
generated in him a desire of communicating and
expanding his horizons: to go outside of the pre-set
limits, of exploring and tirelessly experimenting.
Flavio's subject-matters which were initially very
Latin-American-centric, inspired by the surrounding
scenery and its people, were nonetheless evolving in
themeasurement in which he thoroughly became
acquainted with the European painting of themiddle
of last century and the art movements of the 60s.
Miami has been a destination and goal for him
since he visited it for the first time 10 years ago.
The multiplicity of subcultures that coexist here got
Flavio in touch with realities that he did not know.
This abundance of cultures, the groups to study,
investigate and execute art or the international fairs.
The possibility of having contact with artists,
curators, gallery owners, museums, critics and collectors, was also a
factor that influenced his decision. But what really made him come
here is that in a moderate climate and a bountiful nature, he can
be related to two worlds: one Hispanic and the other Anglo-Saxon.
Flavio's favorite medium is oil paint applied on wood. The plasticity
that comes from the essence of this material, allows him to express
the immense scale of feelings and emotions that nest inside him.
Flavio tells us: "Certain voluptuousness exists when applying this
substance on wood: to spread, observe, to find a gamut of colors
and unexplored sheens, to obtain definition of forms and volumes."
His deep feelings towards life are optimistic and he believes
that new times and changes are approaching to change the
energy in humanity; new times, new paradigms, another
renaissance perhaps??? where the individual once again returns
to the state of being free. He uses an explosion of pure and
brilliant colors in contrast to the somber theme as it allows him
to say that not everything is lost, that better times will come.
At present he is concentrating on a new series where he
recreates with his technique some classical, recognizable and
identifiable painting masterpieces as they are part of the
cultural visual heritage of humanity.
www.flaviogalvan.com
Winter/Spring 2013 • Art & Beyond • 7
WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS. Oil and ink on wood, resin glazed. 44” x 45.5”
Got my eye on you. Oil and ink on wood,resin glazed. 24” x 19.5”
Joachim GerschlerJoachim Gerschler is 67 years old. He has been working for a few
decades as the top restorer on historical buildings in Berlin doing
analysis of the building`s history, the technical requirements of
restoring them in the original sense and doing the restoration
work himself and with his staff. Since 2010 he has begun to paint
oil on canvas in rakel (spatula) technique and has produced up to now more than 150 such paintings, mostly in sizes of one to
two m2, some in smaller sizes and some up to 10 m2. In this field of art he is up to now rather unknown. He is still most busily
producing new paintings. Now he is looking to get known internationally and for a competent party which is best suited to
promote his works. Representing him is Dr. Hergen Heinemann who may be contacted under
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fineart
W06.2010-43.Oil on canvas.100cm x 80cm
W04.2010-M1.Oil on canvas.120cm x140cm
Winter/Spring 2013 • Art & Beyond • 9
Carmen ArmstrongAfter 30 years focused on contributing to the development of
superior art teachers, I returned to showing paintings a few times
in 1996-99. Juried art shows 2000-2012 average around seven per
summer. Shows entered are 2 to 3 day shows mostly around
Chicago suburbs. They are juried or I am invited, jury- free. My
figurative paintings originate often frommodels posed in open
studio sessions at The Drawing Studio in Tucson, AZ. These weekly,
non-instructional sessions provide a three hour pose by one
model for artists who work in their own choice of media. I often
paint more than one model on a canvas and create backgrounds
appropriate to the positioning and expression of the models. The
models are selected for their possible interaction and suggest an
appropriate setting for the communication of the painting.
Illinois Art Education's Distinguished Service awardJune King McFee Award for contribution to art educationNational Art Education Policy Studies selected memberIllinois Art Education Association presidentSelected as 1 of 4 art educators to draft the National Standards forArt in EducationReceived two Lutheran Student Art Awards in a national competitionSeveral art show awards including purchase awards and publiclibrary purchase
Jack Jasper“My art is relational. I have always been fascinated by creation myths and
I perceive the universe as having evolved from one catastrophic event.
From one point, everything emerges, with the best scenarios trying to
rush to completion.”
Jack grew up in Chicago and lived for years in Montana. While there he
studied medical technology and the life sciences. From the experience of
being surrounded by the powerful presence of nature in Montana and his
studies, Jack drawn to experimenting with combinations of elements,
sometimes alluding to air, earth, fire and water. Jack tries to represent
nature's electron dance, with an ambient underlying sexuality, unfolding as a
shimmering becoming—a synchronicity between disparate elements.
“My theory of art and life is dialectical. From the one point of creation, all
contradictions arise. I see my art as the struggle between thesis and antithesis.
I have moved from an imagist sort of art to abstraction to try to play this out.”
www.jackjasperart.com
SUNDAY VISIT TO THE DAHLIA BED. Acrylic on canvas. 36" x 36"
Nine jury-free "invited artist" letters for 2012 showsSeveral commissions for paintings
ARIANDNE.Acrylic on canvas. 52" x 38"
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Darlene KaplanFor many years I painted realism in oils before making the change to Oriental brush painting
over 25 years ago. All of my Oriental brush paintings are derived directly from nature.
The paintings are from the very simple, elegant brush stroke of the orchid bamboo to
the complicated soothing landscapes that your eyes can take a journey up into the
mountains and off into the mist before returning home.
Subtlety of a good painting lies in its being alike and yet unlike the subject where the absence
of content can itself create rhythm and variety.
I believe that an artist is a person who can see something within the mind that can be
brought into reality where it can be seen, felt, touched, heard, and even sometimes smelled.
My art is on display at the Ratner Museum in Bethesda, MD until February 25, 2013 where it
is part of a group exhibition. Youmay visit Soft Brush Studio, 4609 Franconia Rd, Alexandria,
VA to viewmy art in person or to visit my on-line gallery go towww.darlenekaplan.com.
For additional information I can be reached at 703-922-4175.
FALLING IN WATER.Watercolor. 21” x 24”
BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON.Watercolor. 30” x 19”
Natalya B. ParrisNatalya Borisovna Parris was born in
Moscow, Russia where she earned basic
and advanced degrees in construction
engineering from the Moscow State
Construction University. After moving to
the USA Ms. Parris has been working as a
professional artist, art instructor and
curator. She teaches Russian Folk Art to the
students at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg,
MD USA and shows them, from examples
of her own paintings, how knowledge and
centuries old traditions of Folk Art can be
used to create modern contemporary
artworks. She also adds her signature
technique “Emotional Counterpoints in
Paint” – dots to the paintings. The artwork
“A Learned Cat” was inspired by Alexander
Pushkin Fairy Tale “Ruslan and Ludmila.”
This is a quote from it,
“At the seashore’s golden chain;
That golden chain entwines an oak.
A learned cat around that oak
Day and night keeps his walk;
Goes to right – a song he sings;
Returning, left – a tale he brings.”
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A LEARNED CAT. Acrylic on canvas. 11" x 14". 2011
YOUNG MODEL. Photography. 2010
After a tragic 1988 earthquake in Armenia, I
discovered the importance of photography as an
art form and method of documentation. I had
recently returned to Moscow after a tour through
Armenia, were I fell in love with the history,
craftsmanship, art, gorgeous cities and
landscapes of this ancient land. During the tour,
I was too busy and excited to explore and too
young to understand the importance of
documenting the places and events I saw. After
that earthquake, I comprehended that I would
never be able to tell the story of that trip in
pictures because the historical masterpieces
were lost forever. Since then, I always carry my
camera, which I call “my third hand.”
www.facebook.com/pages/Natalya-B-Parris/111488538880248
Anne Goffin SmithI attribute my early love of art to my Belgian
grandmother, whose impressionist painting style and
encouragement resonates with me still.
After graduating from Georgetown University with a
degree in marketing, I attended Pratt Institute’s School
of Art and Design in New York City where I earned a
Master’s Degree in Package Design. I worked for several
years as an art director and a freelance artist.
I took up painting again in my 30’ s and have been
painting ever since then! Whether it is to capture the
effect of light filtering through trees or the sun
reflecting off a car, I become completely absorbed in
trying to render, with great detail, the image through
paint. I love color and the passing effects of light and
shadow, as reflected in my latest series: CARS. I feel
quite nostalgic when I paint these beautiful, old cars.
My work has been displayed in a variety of venues,
most recently at the Ceres Art Gallery in NYC, the
Montclair Art Museum, and the Phillips Lighting
Corporation in Somerset, NJ.
Majd (Patou) FathallahBorn in Marseille in 1956 to a diplomatic family Majd Patou
Fathallah is a British/Lebanese self-taught sculptor. Her early
years, where on the move, enriching her view and search.
In her late teens and early 20’s, Majd Fathallah
graduated in Mass Communication & Theater. She
dabbled in photography and had two radio shows, where
she played Jazz in one and Rock in the other and read
the news on the radio. It was the 70’s. Simultaneously
she also read the news on national TV (1st English news
to be broadcast on Lebanese TV) One thing she knew
nothing about was sculpture.
After a career in radio, television and film production
she became interested in philosophy, far eastern
thought and music which somehow naturally led her to
pursue her heart's passion: sculpture. Having witnessed
the civil war in the Lebanon and becoming aware of
life's fragility profoundly affected her work. She has
recently moved back to the UK, after spending four
years in Northern Tuscany where she lived an isolated
life dedicated to her sculpture.
www.majdsculpture.com
fineart
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TORTURE. Bronze.60cm x 50cm x 29cm. 2011Bronze abstract sculpturesuspended with marine wire overwooden base
1938 HORCH, PART II. Oil on Canvas. 60"x48".
Anne Goffin SmithAt Art Expo New York,March 21-24, 2013
[email protected] • www.annegoffinsmith.com
Arthur JacobRecognition of my work has greatly
expanded with participation in
several solos and many juried and
group exhibitions. Among them is
my most recent solo exhibition at the
Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa
Monica, California and hosted by
Gallery ArtLA. I have also been the
recipient of several awards and have
been featured in or as part of several
print media articles, among them
Professional Artist and Art & Beyond
Magazine, that are both national
print and electronic magazines. I
have also recently been juried in to
the winning on-line gallery hosted by
Manhattan Arts International, New
York, New York.
My work is a process of discovery,
strongly influenced by a very strong
visual sense of the world. My work
offers an infinite variety of visual perceptions and interpretations
for the viewer. The viewer is first told what the “real Life” image is
in the title of the piece, but through abstraction and
reconstruction of that image, they are then asked to undertake
an adventure of discovery and challenged to explore the shapes,
colors, movements and forms, which the abstraction and
reconstruction present. Colors and shapes become emotion,
while form and movement become attitude. Even when a work
is easily recognized there is still a predominate thread of color,
movement, shape and form. My creative process is a thoughtful
and purposeful digital manipulation. Using a mouse rather than
a brush to achieve a powerful medium of expression and
communication, creates this style of fine art.
After leaving the work-a-day world, it was in Las Vegas that I
began to discover my creative abilities and focus on the
mediums of photography and digital art. In 2008 I decided to
move to the Portland area where I presently reside, after a short
stay in Coos Bay, Oregon. Believing that it is important to stay
connected with one’s community, I have actively served on
several community boards and committees, most recently, the
Contemporary Arts Collective in Las Vegas and the Coos Bay Art
Museum in Oregon.
http://www.arthur-jacob.com
Winter/Spring 2013 • Art & Beyond • 13
digitalart
BUTTERFLY IN THE GARDEN.Photography/Digital Art.
32” x 26”.
Sandy Den HartogTake these stones into the palm of your hands. Mold them into
the shape of your most public need. But Sculpt them into the
image of your most private self. Lift up their hearts. These
beautiful stones hold for some, Chances for a new beginning.
Years ago Sandy Den Hartog embarked on a trip to Africa to
discover the adventures of a Safari. She arrived a week before and
began shopping. That is where she found some Ethiopian Crosses.
She bought them for her daughters and granddaughters. When she
returned to the United States she decided to design for each one of
them a necklace. They loved them.
She thoroughly enjoyed creating these necklaces. Liked how
stones come to life when put together with other things. Not so
good on their own but come alive when surrounded with other
Findings. That began a love for the mixture of stones and other
elements which she has over the years collected. She has brought
back many things from her travels, with a thought about making
them into jewelry. She has collected Artifacts and unusual items
along the way. Her collection varies from very Ethnic, to partial
Ethnic, South West, Classic, Sophisticated, and even Over the Top
and on occasion it incorporates all of them in one design.
Unique, different, one of a kind. For the discriminate woman.
In a workshop where she does all of her custom designs in her home
in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. She remains excited about her work.
Putting a gathering of her rocks and Precious Metals into something
she feels is worthy of display to the world. This has made her a
sought after artist.... Her pieces are one of a kind designs.
From a personal view, She has given to charities such as Hospice,
Cancer Society Fund Raisers and has donated a piece from her
collection to be raffled with proceeds to go to whomever the Fund
Raiser is for....and her favorite place to be is by the Ocean.
Her work is currently exhibited at David Rafaels at the Palace Hotel
in San Francisco, and James Ratliff Gallery in Sedona, Arizona.
She has placed in several Juried Art Shows in Arizona.
http://www.sandzibarjewelry.com/
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jewelry
From Left to Right:BLESSINGSEthiopian HAndmade Silver Bicone Beads, With Red Tiger Eye.Pendant is and Etiopian Orthodox Cross with Red Tiger EyeBehind the center.
BLUE NILELapis Lazuli Stones, All the Silver Beads are made using theLost Wax Method, from Ghana, Africa. Pendant is an AncientTurkamen Pendant from a semi nomadic tribe. The metal usedin the Pendant is called "Gillett" and is melted down old coins,silver,etc. and made into lovely jewelry. Wouldn't you love toknow the story about this piece and WHO wore it.
NUBIAN PRINCESSAfrican Hammered Brass with a Patina.African Bone Beads. Very Regal yet the Hammered Brass andBone Beads really gives this Necklace a Tribal Flair.
Darlene Kaplan
Hey Gorgeous. Watercolor. 38” x 30”
Joachim GERSCHLER
W08.2011-5. Oil on canvas. 150cm x 110cm