Dr. Kevin Hsieh

Illusory

2010

1'2" x 4'2"

Mixed media

Kevin Hsieh Ph. D is Assistant Professor of Art Education at Georgia State University with specialization in Chinese Art History, technology integrated interdisciplinary art education, and museum education. He has a Ph D Art Education from Penn State and a MFA in Art History and a BA in Visual Art Education from National Ping-Tung Teachers College in Taiwan. His articles appeared in Museology Quarterly, Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Research, and Journal of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.

Juliarose Loffredo Triebes

Brown Horizon, 2005, 4'4"x3'6, Hand stitched wool.

 “The horizon is a visual approximation of the infinite; in my work it is a metaphor for the bounds of our mental and visual perception. Infinity is an enigma because unlike other numbers and concepts it cannot be defined by being told or demonstrated.

Although the works are minimal they are not impersonal or impassionate because the hand injects a level of emotion and feeling that is vital to their concept. The seemingly immeasurable surface of hand stitches is an inseparable part of the work’s message because time is revealed by their mark. The stitches take full advantage of the visual power of repetition and are a daily ritual of marking time.”

Juliarose Loffredo Triebes currently resides in Arizona. She is a textile artist whose work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including Sotheby’s New York and the Tilburg Textile Museum, Holland. In 2006 Triebes co-curated the national juried exhibition “Needle Culture” at CCA. She is currently employed fulltime in Flagstaff, AZ at Turrell Trading Company, the studio of artist James Turrell

Kyomi Tachibana

Tsunagi 繫

2009

3'1 x 2'6

Sumi ink on canvas

Kokoro Dokoni Kokoni

2008

2'8 x 5'8

Sumi ink on paper

Regarding Kokoro Dokoni Kokoni –Where is Heart and Mind, Here?

“I recorded the fluctuations of heart and mind through time and space.”

Regarding Tsunagari – Encounters

"Encounters we have in our daily life can provide the source of explanation in our awareness. Some encounters become void, others extend to form strong bonds. I expressed the dichotomy of human relationships I this work. I used string like style and layered the images.”

Kyomi Tachibana was born in Kochi, Japan in 1979. She graduated from Daito Bunka University in Japan. Tachibana won the Mainichi Calligraphy Exhibition in the Large Character Category in 2006.

Craig Dongowski

Fugitive Static, 2009, 5'x6', Oil pencil on wood.

Maoma, 2009, Oil pencil on wood.

“I am an artist working in multimedia technology while rooting it in the conventional practice of drawing. My work derives from investigations into the grey area between drawing and writing. The physical action of both practices has been a source of compelling curiosity for me. The relationship of the spoken and written word has led me to explore the connection between the drawn mark and the sound produced while inscribing.

The execution rate of these drawings is exceptionally slow. Visually and conceptually they are connected to and assimilate with geological time and sound waves. My working method is inverted: rather than responding to a sound that yields a pictorial result, I am responding to a visual (line) that yields a spectrographic result. I also see these works as internal expressions. The slow and obsessive nature of the process literally places me within the work at a microscopic (microphonic) vantage point.”

Craig Dongowski obtained his B.F.A. at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, and M.F.A. University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota. He is an artist living and working in Atlanta since June 1999. He has taught painting and drawing full-time at Georgia State University becoming a permanent faculty member in fall 2001. During the summer of 2001, he presented a fragment of a film and soundtrack he is involved in making, titled The Wisdom Connected with Children Freezing to Death. This film was shown at the Raymond Lawrence Gallery in Atlanta during the month of August 2001. Prior to his move to Atlanta, Dongoski lived and worked in Boston since 1991 where he was on the permanent faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He has been very active in exhibiting in the United States and in Europe, Further involvements include organising outreach programs such as the International Print Symposium in Boston and co-curating a major exhibition and print exchange for the First Africus Biennial in Johannesburg, South Africa. Dongoski’s work is a continuous and ongoing exploration of the self.

Artist Website http://drawingvoices.com/index.php

Georgia State University Faculty Website http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwart/art_design/3274.html

Caladan Gallery Website http://www.caladangallery.com/v2/thumbnails.php?album=784

Junko Matsumoto

Jakumetsu I: 6'3x1'6.5, 2010, Sumi ink on paper 

Jakumetsu II: 4'6x1'3, & III: 4'6x1'3, 2010, Sumi ink on paper.

Junko Matsumoto's relationship with 'sho' (East Asian Calligraphy) sprouted first in kana (Japanese syllabic characters). However, her recent works are not born from any type of 'sho' style, traditional or otherwise. They are far from the Academism found in the 'sho' that is taught at universities, and focus instead on drawing a single line. That she is not affiliated to any group or society that promotes or maintains a certain 'sho' style is felt to be the main reason for her independence of style. It is her feature and persistently communicates itself as such.

Matsumoto gropes and searches with the touch of her brush for the accidental chance-like element that instigates a feeling of fun and interest within us. In writing the conflict between emotion and will twists and contorts her as 'sho' secretes from within. Also when she makes the spirit of kanji (Chinese characters) or sumi (Indian ink) the motif of her work, she brings out the interposing beauty between the white and black that is at its base. She never constructively contrasts the two elements, but instead catches instinctively that perilous and ephemeral moment when all is about to collapse and be lost. It is nothing more than a sense. Her physical being seems to be simultaneously receiving and sending. In communication with an ever-changing providence that is out there somewhere. Junko Matsumoto was born in 1951. She graduated from Tokyo Educational University in 1975.