Bill Kane   New Rayogramms statement

Johns once said "Do something, do something to that, and then do something to that." 

I've have always admired Man Ray's work and once had the opportunity to purchase an original Rayogram before they were 6 figures in price. I didn't (couldn't afford it) but always wished I could own one. Thinking of Johns I thought that since I couldn't own one of Ray's works, I could take his work as a departure point and do something to it. And then do something to that, and do something to that. 

This is the result of that exploration.

http://www.billkane.net/

Bill Kane Resume (PDF)

Catherine Richardson

Artist Statement   December 2011

2010-11 was the coldest winter on record for over 100 years in Britain.

I was working out of a studio in Cornwall England. Every morning I looked out on sparkling crystalline vista with every contributing pebble, leaf and seed haloed with shards of ice. I began experimenting with inks and paper and leaving buckets and trays overnight to “cook” in ice. The weather warmed up much to everyone’s relief except me. I returned to USA 2 months later and continued with these experiments using refrigeration, varieties of paper and inks until I found a method that cultivated “conversations” with this temperature induced transformation.

My quest was then to enlarge and accentuate this conversation.

I employed scanning techniques utilizing shapes created by freezing the natural flow of water, cutting and pasting imaginable icebergs and glaciers in mesmerizing Euclidean formations.

The geometry of ice is so captivating and wondrous. Our glaciers, icebergs and ice caps are endangered phenomena, cinematic yet terrifying in their possible melt down.

Since 2001 the rate of ice melt has accelerating at a rapid rate. Glaciers are calving big chunks of ice into the oceans with increasing frequency and these huge “ice islands” are melting and raising sea levels. More of the country of Greenland is being revealed having been blanketed by 100s of feet of ice for centuries.

http://cjrichardsonstudios.com

Catherine Richardson Resume (PDF)

Joseph McDonald - Statement

 My current artwork reflects my desire to go beyond straight photography and combine elements of collage, photography, printmaking and the application of digital technology to the artistic process.  I want to blend the traditional with the new in a seamless almost non-photographic image. Like a musician who might paste and blend layers of different instruments or sounds, my images are composed in the same manner. The objects, textures and surfaces I photograph are only starting points for my images and I then layer and blend them together. When successful, the images are simple, akin to an Irish melody, and are reflected in the beauty of the print, the final object.

http://www.jmcdonaldphotography.com/

Joseph McDonald Resume (PDF)

Pamela Holmes

RADIX IPSIUS

I am a very curious person. I ask lots of questions. I often wonder what were in
the Alexandria libraries that were burned down. What antiquities were lost in all of
the wars humanity has raged? What went on in the mysteries schools in Egypt?
What is going on in all the research laboratories in the world? What images are
passing thru humanity at night in their dream state? What are the unseen artists
all over the world producing? What is humanity at large creating? So many
secrets to unearth! I yearn to see what humanity has done and is doing; curiosity
incites imagination. The imagination is our own inner power. I use my
imagination to become an unbiased witness observing the past, present and
future of the world.

I wish to see humanity become more inclusive of the imagination. The advent of
alchemy brought the term radix ipsius to life. It means "the root of itself," or “the
universal substrate of life.” Radix ipsius is a mysterious creative center in the
universe. This is the root of our being and the state of absolute being any matter
can exist in. In each of us is a replication of the cosmos.
I believe art to be spiritual alchemy, a form of meditation where I can examine
my beliefs, my ethics, and my habits. In this process of examining myself I have
had to first learn to be an unbiased witness to myself in order for me to be
unbiased to humanity. Learning to be an unbiased witness to myself have been
an arduous task and a continuing one but well worth it. I find my creative state
becomes so much richer for it because I will consider everything that passes
before me and see so much more than I did before because I am not placing
conceptual veils on the experience.

My process of art making involves libraries. I have an obsession with libraries
and feel most alive when I am in them. I spend many hours going thru the stacks
in every section of the library, I collect images and thoughts that send an electric
feeling to me, I just know they have something in them for me to realize. I then
mix my collected pieces with my actual paintings. At this point they go into a
computer and I pry out sections of works and incorporate them into new
crystalline arrangements, just as our minds do, we are always reinterpreting
everything that passes thru us. No matter how much I may shape shift the
images they still contain the root of its beginning, its DNA intact, a process of
natural selection occurs. As the images develop, imperfections show up and I
allow them to be. I find the notion of perfection absurd, an absolutely unattractive
notion. This method reflects what I feel life is about; we are always ourselves yet
in a constant state of transformation. I feel our ability to change and shift our
beings is limitless and I see endless ways I can transform through art. Art
manifests the imagination and unites the collective consciousness.

http://www.pamelaholmes.net/

Pamela Holmes Resume (PDF)