" Abstract Landscapes"
It feature six painters and mixed media artists, three photographers and one scultor.
Swiss Consulate San Francisco
Misho @ Museum Park in San Francisco
Meet the artist @ The Watermark
Rapallo Wall & Santa Margherita
Both pictures were taken while touring the coastal region of Ligura, Italy – I sensed tat the walls of various edifices were speaking to me. Each wall with remnant colors of paint accrued over the centuries resembled the colors of Renaissance masters – each with a story to tell. 2009.
Black Gold
In Buenos Aires, Tango music is everywhere, every corner, oozing out of the cracks of the streets. This picture is taken of a sidewalk where black tar and paint met, creating a musical spill. My eyes followed the musical flow sensing peace and tension gong back and forth – creating a feeling or chronicling of a moment in time. 2008.
Acid Rain & Light Arrow
Taken in San Francisco, these two pictures are part of my “Concrete Stains” series. They represented pylons that existed under the freeway structure to the Trans Bay Terminal. They are now immortalized, a part of history that is now gone. 2010.
259 & Bryant Street Lava
Those pictures were taken within a block of the WaterMark. I tried to personalize your building highlighting items that are just a step from outside. 259 is a picture of a parking space number located around the corner. Bryant Street Lava features a pipe which runs along the sidewalk on Bryant Street. 2011.
NCBH @ the Swiss Consulate San Francisco
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Well-known Swiss painter Matthew Kowalski "The Xyphoid Process"
Working with found objects and surplus paints and inks gives me a sense of well-being, esteem, and wholeness. When these objects are reappropriated, there is less waste running amok. It makes me feel as if everything we need is here, all around us; we don’t need to go out and get more. My work is itself a renewable resource.
For 25 years of my life, I was a homeless, disenfranchised, invisible person. My art became my vehicle of self-expression and a path to mental health. It allowed me to buy in, belong, and take my place in the community.
My work is spontaneous, and in some ways random. Finding the objects is up to fate. Each object has its own peculiar shape, and I play with those shapes to create electric contrast. My eye can see what needs to go where, what colors will create contrast for the object. The colors and shapes are my playground.
My current work includes adding vivid airbrush work to the painting and printing so the objects appear to crawl out of the compositions. I keep the theme of randomness. It’s like working on an engine while it’s running.
P.K.Frizzell and "le Groupe"
“Invisible Light”
These pieces are paintings made in two layers. The bottom layer consists of highly textured surfaces created by manipulating and compressing materials into paint, resulting in surfaces evocative of certain ceramic firing techniques (wood fire, soda ash fire, etc.) or surfaces that occur in inner city buildings, walls and sidewalks that have been acted upon by a human presence for a great deal of time. The surfaces are also evocative of those arising from disasters, such as floods, fires or war. I overlay shadows of people, dogs or trees that I’ve printed on clear sheets of acrylic or glass. Sometimes I overlay x-rays of large jars. These overlays interact with the under-layers in many ways. Sometimes they result in a narrative about nature, war, creation or destruction. I’m fascinated by shadows because they have a beautiful resonance with the materials they overlay, and yet they are absolutely nothing, not even light.
Misho at the " Watermark"
I have been comissioned for the Lobby of the "watermark" buliding in san Francisco.
I tried to personalize Their building highlighting items that are just a step from outside. 259 is a picture of a parking space number located in front of the building. Bryant Street Lava features a pipe which runs along the sidewalk on Bryant Street.
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