A/NT GALLERY ARTISTS STATEMENTS
Tatyana Brown
(206)-910-4574
instagram: blackandwhitebybrown
I love art, I can say I live through art. I'm in constant search for balance, beauty and harmony growing and evolving through my art. Receiving an extensive art education I continue learning new techniques, one of my favorite is engraving. Working in black and white gives character to the drawing while allowing me to focus on what the subject is expressing, leaving room for your imagination. These black and white graphics with occasional splashes of color, communicate my passion for life and art.
Currently residing in Seattle, I hold membership in COCA, ANT Gallery and Seattle Print Arts Association, while regularly showing my work throughout Seattle area and participating in numerous local and international shows and competitions.
James Burns
“ A frame is to a painting as a stage is to a play “
Mieko Hamblin
http://www.miekoartstudio.com/
I specialize in contemporary landscape paintings and portrait paintings but I also do abstract painting and other paintings. When I sense the moment, the air, or anything I think is beautiful, I try to remember that moment and take a picture and then turn it into a painting with my heart-felt feeling. Even though I try to recreate the core essence of the photograph in my painting it always ends up with my unique style and ultimately never looks exactly like the picture. But that is the beauty of painting and my style. Every painting tells a story in it. I want to share with everyone my joy of art and my point of view through my artwork.
Christina Jensen
My work reflects how I am seeing the world at the time. I like to create art that conveys a lot of energy and movement. There is a flow to life, and I try to captures that flow through lines, shapes, textures and colors that fit together. I currently paint on panel board or canvas using oil pastel, acrylic or oil paint. I find a lot of inspiration from working in the garden and traveling.
Maryna Kantsyr
MarynaKantsyr@gmail.com
Ideas for my paintings usually came from interactions with the outside world, that become an idea of some kind of logic or just emotions that transform to colourful lines and objects. Sometimes I just start with a line and an idea comes after, sometimes I start with one idea and find out that it's transformed to a different idea. A mix of feelings finds harmony on canvas. So I do not have a recipe for how I create art - I just do. And everything - my feelings, thoughts, interaction with people end up on my canvases. But they are mine and I can transform all this into an art - and you can see your story, your feelings or thoughts in my art. Or there are titles and descriptions that can help you to understand it.
Gretchen Shepherd
http://www.imagesbygretchen.com/
A Northwest Photographer who grew up in Eastern Washington, in the middle of an apple orchard, immersed in family, photography, and the arts. Early on her grandmother gave Gretchen her camera to take to camp. Gretchen never gave it back and that Kodak bellows camera holds pride of place in her home. Later, in high school, she was introduced to photography classes and the magic of the darkroom. This was her main focus over the next several years, but drama classes and the fun of being on stage in high school and college productions fed another love. Her degree from the University of Washington in Oral Interpretation of Literature led her to the education field where she took that love to her elementary students and later to the school library. Throughout the years being part of live performances as a performer or audience member has fed her imagination and creativity. Ultimately Photography won out as her true creative outlet. Being behind the lens is her favorite place to be creating abstracts, landscapes, and wildlife images. Now retired from teaching, Gretchen “Finds the Beauty, Hidden in Plain Sight” with her camera in hand. The pieces she has chosen for this show represent three essential elements of live theater. “Midnight Jungle” shows the depth, organized chaos, darkness, and the absolute magic that makes up backstage. “Release” is the story coming to life, the live performance itself, and what it brings to the stagehand, performer, or audience in a way that will be different for everyone and unique each time it is performed. Finally, “Perspective” embodies the after-show experience. It’s that bright moment that stands out, and the unnoticed crowd surrounding you. It’s the uncertainty of how the next show will go, and the anticipation and joy of finding a path, back to live theater, that needs to be opened and explored again.
David Sokal
206-322-8748
Theater at Night investigates the medial space between film and photography. While designed to be read like a comic strip (top row, left to right, then bottom row, left to right) corresponding to the time each frame was shot, it can also be viewed as a single photograph or a strip of movie film. In the bottom row, if you observe closely, you may follow the story of one individual as the camera serendipitously captures her moving about the scene as if an actor in a movie or on a theatrical stage. Please contact David Sokal if you have any further questions.