ABSTRACTION IS AN ART ALL IN ITS OWN.
NOT TO BE UNDERSTOOD BUT APPRECIATED.
FOR ME IT COMES FROM DEEP DOWN, FROM THE
HEART AND SOUL. IT IS MY WAY OF EXPRESSING
MY EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS. THE BRUSH IS MY VOICE.
THE PAINT ARE MY WORDS.
COLOR, DEPTH, SPACE, COMPOSITION
-THEY JUST APPEAR.~SAMOS
I spent most of my secondary education in the art room.
Any spare time that I had I was drawing, painting, or sculpting.
Not much has changed over the years. After high school I went
off to college. Gave it a shot and decided it wasn't for me.
So I took off for the Bering Sea to become a commercial fisherman.
I fished for about five years. After a knee injury I decided I was ready
for school again. This time I knew what I wanted to do. Study art.
I wanted to know everything there was to know. And so began the
rebirth of my art. I work in three different mediums. I paint original
abstract paintings on canvas using a brush and palette knife. I work
mostly in oils, but am branching out with acrylics and mixed medias.
I also create abstract figurative bronze sculptures in a female form.
I use line and texture as well as simplicity to convey my ideas. The
last of the mediums I like to work in is photography. While studying
abroad in Italy, I learned the skills of printing in the darkroom. With
education and the experience of running a local photo shop, I have
acquired a taste for the darkroom and all it has to offer. I hand process
images in my darkroom from time to time when I'm not in the studio
painting or sculpting.
Welcome to my world of art.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2009 Guest Artist Blue Pig Art Gallery Palisade, CO 2007 Discover Paquette Art Gallery Salida, Co Nine Muses Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery Grand Junction, CO 2002 SOLO Planet Earth & the Four DIrections Gallery Grand Junction, CO
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 4x4 Mini Push Gallery Phoenix, AZ Cartel Coffee Art Gallery Tempe, AZ Conspire Art Gallery Phoenix, AZ Soup R Bowl Ceramic and Pottery Fremont Center for the Arts Canon City, CO Extravaganza 2008 Language of the Heart Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery Grand Junction, CO 2007 The Dark Show Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery Grand Junction, CO 2006 The Dark Show Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery Grand Junction CO 2004 The Dark Show Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery Grand Junction CO 2002 This and That...Here and There Johnson Art Gallery Grand Junction CO 2002 18th Annual Art on the Corner Downtown Grand Junction CO 2001 Roaring Fork Open Aspen Art Museum Aspen CO The Dark Show Planet Earth & the Four Directions Gallery Grand Junction CO
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Fall Show 3rd Street Gallery Westcliffe, CO Go With the Flow Art Matters Gallery & Studio Salida, CO Excite the Palate Art Matters Gallery & Studio Salida, CO Art Around Town City of Carbondale Carbondale, CO 2008 Winter Focus ArtMatters Gallery & Studio Salida, CO Art Around Town City of Carbondale Carbondale, CO 2006 Brush and Palette Member's Exhibit Western Colorado Center for the Arts Grand Junction CO 2002 40th Fall Art Festival Ramada Inn Glenwood Springs CO 42nd Annual Art Exhibit Community Center Ouray CO Mesa State Student Art Show Western Colorado Center for the Arts Grand Junction CO
INVITED EXHIBITIONS
2009 Picasso Sings the Blues Highland Park, IL Florence Biennale Florence, Italy Marziart Internationale Galerie Hamburg, Germany 2008 Articipation Salida, CO
2007 Florence Biennale Florence, Italy
Brilliant Dimensions San Antonio, TX Boulder City First Public Artscape Boulder City, NV
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