"Momentum" Exclusive - Veronique Meignaud
Jul 16, 2009
posted by: Patricia
Although Veronique Meignaud describes herself as a freelance concept illustrator with extensive work in character and environment design for the video game industry, looking at her collection of work it is apparent that she is not limited to just one genre.
On exhibit, we have examples of her peculiar, illustrated sketchbook drawings. These works are streams of her subconsciousness onto the page. Creatures, humans and their environment distort, and morph together becoming abstract yet insinuate a terrifying and bizarre world.
"Momentum" Exclusive - Brooks “Shane†Salzwedel
Jul 15, 2009
posted by: Patricia
Salzwedel's delicate and subtle landscapes reflect the friction between urban development and nature. Even his medium of choice is a statement of this clash, despite being a natural product (resin is the hydrocarbon secretion from plant), the actual hand layering process is considered very toxic and even dangerous to inhale or touch. With this painstaking rocess, Salzwedel is able to accomplish incredibly ethereal artworks with overwhelming depth.
"Momentum" Exclusive - Tessar Lo
Jul 15, 2009
posted by: Patricia
The contradictions and paradoxes of Lo's personality and past are what allow him to create his works that deal often with human concepts, dreams, and relationships. On one hand he is an Indonesian-born artist that produces "Asian aesthetic" works. On the other, he is a North American artist raised and taught in Canada and inspired by Gauguin.
Better yet, on another level, he is considered one of the gallery circuit's new "It" boys with already more than 30 shows attributed to him, three of them: solo. Still yet again, on the other side of that same level, he is still a very young artist who not that long ago was just an art student at Sheridan's School of Animation, Art, and Design.
Continuously evolving as an artist, it's the lack of clarity and the unknown that excites him. Metaphorically and literally, this mystery appears in paintings with haunting figures floating against empty space.
"Momentum" Exclusive - Chigi
Jul 14, 2009
posted by: Patricia
Chigi's intricate drawings, accomplished with only a red ballpoint pen, demonstrates her inherent ability of connecting different elements with pattern and flow. Nymph-like beings entwine with organic elements and they become untied, get twisted round then become one again - as it is with cycle of the natural world. Drawing for her is a meditation, and in its' process she can find answers to the millions of things going through her mind. We are ultimately inspired that such a simple and humble tool can create such a delicate and striking aesthetic.
"Momentum" Exclusive - Tiffany Bozic
Jul 14, 2009
posted by: Patricia
Tiffany Bozic has spent the majority of her life living with and observing the intricacies of nature. Blending her external observations with the internal world has led her to refine a distinct style in which richly pigmented acrylic paint reference real anatomies against solid maple wood panels. Though inspired by John James Audubon and Ernst Haeckel, her work dives more deeply into the imaginary and darker aspects of the natural world. Bozic views the making of art as a kind of therapeutic process - a way to make sense of the world, of her relationship to life as it unfolds, of its power over us, and perhaps most importantly, of our power over it.
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