Angles and Curves

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Olivier Tourlet Paris, France Inception Fine Art Photography Artist Statement Fascinated by the reflection, I also search his resonance in the architecture. First part of my research is to find unusual focus for human eye, second part is affixing a “mirror” by creating a diptych reversed. Thus born a transfiguration where mutation of lines and curves takes us into the dream of the mirror. Born in 1965 in Paris, self-taught photographer by destiny from the age of 10 when I won my first amateur contest on duet with my brother in 1975. He became a photographerRead More →

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Anupama Jain Dubai, , United Arab Emirates Mind Map 1 Ink, Charcoal Artist Statement The process of creating art is unrestrained and unplanned for me. I work in an almost meditative state and allow my tools and materials to create lines, shapes and colors spontaneously. As the piece progresses and the feelings and emotions within me are given release onto my canvas, I am later able to engage conscious thought and carry the piece into its final state. This current series, ‘Mind Map’, is a visual documentation of the emotional and psychological activity that takes placeRead More →

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Anupama Jain Dubai, United Arab Emirates Mind Map 3 Mixed Media on Wood Artist Statement The process of creating art is unrestrained and unplanned for me. I work in an almost meditative state and allow my tools and materials to create lines, shapes and colors spontaneously. As the piece progresses and the feelings and emotions within me are given release onto my canvas, I am later able to engage conscious thought and carry the piece into its final state. This current series, ‘Mind Map’, is a visual documentation of the emotional and psychological activity that takesRead More →

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Bart Ross Pasadena, California, USA A Night in Tunisia or Side of Building Compton Fine Art Photography Artist Statement The image “A Night in Tunisia or Side of Building Compton” is one of my favorites. What I like about this image is that the pastel colors of the anti-graffiti cover up paint create a nice, tasty, flat color plane; the texture of the brick near the center of the image forces the eye into a hole (an almost tunnel like trap) that looks like fish gills. Then the diamond shape that dominates the image is brokenRead More →

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Eric Rennie Cromwell, Connecticut, USA Trolley Museum at Night Fine Art Photography Artist Statement “Trolley Museum at Night”Silver Gelatin PrintBy Eric Rennie The photographer’s job is to preserve what might otherwise be passed over in a moment and to declare its beauty. Each hour of the day offers its own revelation – in this case, the elegant tracery of steel rails illuminated by single lamp at a trolley museum in Connecticut after hours.Read More →

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Jill Duncan Long Beach, California, USA Rack n Rail Digital Art Artist Statement These sliding trolleys are used in garment warehouses along with a rail system to move hanging garments from receiving into stock. This is where I work. I like the look of these hanging pieces of steel with their nicks and marks. You can feel their weight, their cold surface. Digital photograph.Read More →

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Paul Hitchen Somerset, Massachusetts, USA Tallships Acrylic Painting Artist Statement I grew up in Southeastern Massachusetts on the coast in a rural area spending most of my time in, on or around the water. I have a BS in Advertising Design from the University of Massachusetts. I was trained as a “commercial” designer and worked in that field for nearly 40 years in various jobs. The whole time I wanted to paint, finally getting my chance after retirement. It took about three years to start producing real work. Now I can’t stop. I like acrylics forRead More →

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Paul Hitchen Somerset, Massachusetts, USA Kuranda Acrylic Painting Artist Statement I grew up in Southeastern Massachusetts on the coast in a rural area spending most of my time in, on or around the water. I have a BS in Advertising Design from the University of Massachusetts. I was trained as a “commercial” designer and worked in that field for nearly 40 years in various jobs. The whole time I wanted to paint, finally getting my chance after retirement. It took about three years to start producing real work. Now I can’t stop. I like acrylics forRead More →

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Rosanne Potter Key West, Florida, USA RosannePotter_Maelstrom_Pastels_and_oils.jpg Pastels Artist Statement I grew up in Central New Jersey wanting escape from suburbia. Before painting, my routes out were academic: my AB from Rosemont College, my MA from the University of Chicago, then my Ph.D. from UT-Austin led to teaching English at Iowa State. (Here many quirky details were deleted by a cruel editing knife.) Though I inherited my parents’ suburban home, in retirement I escaped to Key West. My Junior Year Abroad program changed everything. In Vienna I took a studio-art class with Clarence Giese, an AmericanRead More →

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Burton Rein West Hollywood, California, USA Phase Shift Oil Painting Artist Statement I am fascinated by the repeating curvilinear patterns of motion that abound in nature – from the coiled trajectories of sub-atomic particles, to the whirling vortices of tornadoes and hurricanes, to Saturn’s orbiting rings, to all those spectacular spiral galaxies pinwheeling through space. My abstractions are rooted in such wonders. I begin by painting various circular patterns, often slanted or distorted, onto separate rectilinear-shaped panels. Wet into wet paint application and directional brush strokes enhance the sense of flow, circulation, and movement within eachRead More →

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Burton Rein West Hollywood, California, USA Blue Streak Oil Painting Artist Statement I am fascinated by the repeating curvilinear patterns of motion that abound in nature – from the coiled trajectories of sub-atomic particles, to the whirling vortices of tornadoes and hurricanes, to Saturn’s orbiting rings, to all those spectacular spiral galaxies pinwheeling through space. My abstractions are rooted in such wonders. I begin by painting various circular patterns, often slanted or distorted, onto separate rectilinear-shaped panels. Wet into wet paint application and directional brush strokes enhance the sense of flow, circulation, and movement within eachRead More →

Angles & Curves Call for Entries Accepted Artists Artist Kristina Chan Paris, , France Obelisk Steel Sculpture Artist Statement Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, I am a Canadian artist currently living in Paris, France. I have studied painting and sculpture, printmaking and paper making in both Parsons The New School for Design in New York and l’Ecole de Parsons à Paris in Paris. Obelisk is a steel obelisk from my (Dis)Orientation Series created in spring of 2012. It is a composite map of Paris: All the places I have lived, routes traversed, rivers crossed, some areas recollected in vivid detail while blocked out, blank, andRead More →