Art

I strive for a dynamic relationship among color, line, shape and space, and I am interested in patterns of color, which I weave into my paintings. I work in oil on canvas because I love the buttery fluidity of oils and the give of the canvas, and I draw with my brush as I like the calligraphy of the first stroke. My paintings are a colorful celebration of ordinary everyday life, and my inspiration comes from our daily surroundings, whether it is nature, architecture, still lifes or people.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, I have spent most of my life in the area, and attended the Cleveland Institute of Art from 1985 through 1990.

I have shown in many exhibitions and competitive shows including solo exhibits at Kendal at Oberlin, Solon Center for the Arts, Dobama Theater, Malvina Freedson Gallery, and the Gallery at Vase to Vase. I was accepted in The Butler Institute of American Art National Midyear Painting Exhibition and in Ohio State University, Ashland University, Art Design Consultants, and Cleveland Clinic juried exhibitions. I am part of Sherwin-Williams’ mural in the West Bank of the Flats, and two of my paintings are on exhibit at the Governor’s Office in Columbus, Ohio. My work was published in Cleveland Galleries guide of Cleveland Magazine; 52 Weeks 52 Works calendar of Academy Graphics Communications, Inc., and MUSE Magazine. My work was also seen at Case Western Reserve University, Baldwin-Wallace University, Trinity Cathedral, and City Artists at Work exhibitions, and as Artist of the Week on Channel 8 TV News.

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Michael’s professional career spans both traditional and technology-based methods. He began his professional career as a technical illustrator in the early 1980’s, creating illustrations for the aerospace industry. As a freelance advertising illustrator his clients included Mitsubishi, Seiko Instruments, Mars Candy, Beckman Instruments, and Kodak. His personal work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, New York, the Society of Illustrators Los Angeles and Spectrum, Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art.

Michael was born in Cincinnati Ohio in 1956 and received his BFA Summa Cum Laude from Laguna College of Art & Design, California. While in the process of completing his MFA at California State University Long Beach, Michael was initiated into the National Honor Society April 30, 2005. He began teaching at Laguna College of Art & Design in 1996 and became the Chair of Illustration in 2005 where he continues to teach.

Kristina Vardazaryan was born in Kiev, Ukraine. Since the age of eight, she was trained as a classical pianist. When she moved to United States at age 14, movies were her biggest inspiration to pursue an artistic career. She currently lives in Southern California and has graduated from Art Center College of Design with the major of Illustration; Entertainment Arts track. She has worked on posters for games and feature animation movies such as Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Apocalypse Origins, BioShock Infinite, Bejeweled 3, How to Train Your Dragon 2, Big Hero 6, Planes: Fire & Rescue, etc. Currently she is working at Paramount Pictures Animation studio as a visual development artist.

Future Space Art by Scott Listfield

Scott Listfield (b. 1976, Boston, MA) is known for his paintings featuring a lone exploratory astronaut lost in a landscape cluttered with pop culture icons, corporate logos, and tongue-in-cheek science fiction references. Scott studied art at Dartmouth College, for which his parents have finally forgiven him. After some time spent abroad, Scott returned to America where, a little bit before the year 2001, he began painting astronauts and, sometimes, dinosaurs.

Scott has been profiled in Wired Magazine, the Boston Globe, and on WBZ-TV Boston. His work has also appeared in New American Paintings and Surface Magazine. In 2010 he was named a Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant finalist, and was the official artist of 2011 Boston First Night. He has exhibited his work in Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Miami, Boston, and many other nice places. You can see more of his work at his website.  If you want to get friendly with Mr. Listfield, which we encourage, follow him on his Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter.

Art by Ken Meyer Jr.

Ken Meyer Jr. has worked in/on comics, books, magazines,cds, role playing games and in the fields of military training, corporate training and educational media. He has worked with musician Tori Amos on a tour book and the RAINN benefit calendar. He has done illustrations for The Savannah College of Art and Design, Magic the Gathering, and Bell Helmets, and had a gallery in an issue of Heavy Metal Magazine. He has both a children’s book and a fantasy/horror art book in print, as well as appearing in “The Gathering”, a book with new work by 49 of the
early Magic artists. He also writes a monthly column on the fanzines of the past at comicattack(dot net). He has been nominated for the Eisner award, the “Oscar” of the comic book field.

Ken possesses an MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Sequential Art as well as a BFA in Illustration, also from SCAD. His work hangs in homes and businesses worldwide. He has lived in 15 states as well as overseas, and now resides in southern California with his wife and two daughters.

He doesn’t sleep much.

Tommy Ingberg is a self-taught photographer and visual artist, born 1980 in Sweden. He works with photography and digital image editing, creating minimalistic and self-reflecting surreal photo montages dealing with human nature, feelings and thoughts.

Tommy leaves the interpretation of his work up to the viewer but says, “For me, surrealism is about trying to explain something abstract like a feeling or a thought, expressing the subconscious with a picture. The Reality Rearranged series is my first try at describing reality trough surrealism. During the two and a half years I have worked on the series I have used my own inner life, thoughts and feelings as seeds to my pictures. In that sense the work is very personal, almost like a visual diary. Despite this subjectiveness in the process I hope that the work can engage the viewer in her or his own terms. I want the viewers to produce their own questions and answers when looking at the pictures, my own interpretations are really irrelevant in this context. ”

During the last couple of years he has received international recognition with his work shown in numerous publications and receiving awards and honorable mentions from many different competitions including International Photography Awards, Prix De La Photographie Paris and Sony World Photography Awards. In 2012 Tommy won the Lumen Prize with his picture “Torn”.

You can learn more about and view more work by Tommy Ingberg at http://ingberg.com/