art & beyond winter/spring 2013

oil • acrylic • watercolor • mixed media • photography • digital artprint making • sculpture • glass • ceramic • jewelry

"Life is a mix of colors that makes things coherent when put

one next to another. Like pixels, we are able to dwell on each

precise moment, or design the frame all together" – Olivia Boa

art beyond&f r o m a r t i s t t o a r t i s t - m a r k e t , p r o m o t e , s u c c e e d

Vol. 2 • Winter/Spring Issue • 2013

Olivia Boa

Zermatt. Acrylic on canvas

Arthur Jackob

Seed Pod. Photography/Digital Art. 34" x 30".

CONTENTS

Winter/Spring 2013 • Art & Beyond • 3

Fine Art

Amy Cohen Banker 4Olivia Boa 5

Debbi Chan 6Flavio Galvan 7

Joachim Gerschler 8Carmen Armstrong 9

Jack Jasper 9Darlene Kaplan 10

Natalya B. Parris 11Anne Goffin Smith 12

Majd (Patou) Fathallah 12

Digital Art

Arthur Jacob 13

Jewelry

Sandra Den Hartog 14

Vol.2 • Winter/Spring • 2013

art beyond&

Art is a form of communication based on arange of emotions one can express usingbrush strokes, color, various techniques,differentmedium andmaterials. The viewer isable to experience the visual impulse thatcreates a fountain of feelings. Art is a universallanguage and one can experience its powerby merely looking at it.

Art & Beyond Magazine is proud to presentthe incredible artists featured on the pagesof this issue. Each possessing their own style,unique ideas and vision of the world aroundus. From scratch they are able to createthings that inspire and enhance our lives.

For this issue Art & Beyond held a CoverCompetition giving four artists the opportunityto be featured on four covers of themagazine.We had many talented artists compete and itwas very difficult for us to choose the winners.

We are proud to announce that the artwork“Zermatt” by Olivia Boa (p.5) has been chosenas the winner of the Art & Beyond Front Cover.

The artwork “W08.2011-5” by JoachimGerschler(p.8) has been chosen for the Back Cover.

The artwork “Seed Pot” by Arthur Jacob (p.13)won the Inside Front Cover.

And for the Inside Back Cover the artwork “HeyGorgeous” byDarleneKaplanwas chosen (p.10).

Congratulations to Olivia, Joachim, Arthur andDarlene! Art & Beyond wish you a greatsuccess in your artistic career.

We would like to thank all of the immenselytalented artists who participated in thiscompetition. We are excited to see who willbe entering next time!

Publisher/ Mila RykArt Director

Editor Alina Lampert

Art & Beyond published 8 times a year.

Six (6) Online issues and Two (2) printed issues.

Distributed to the galleries, museumes and other

art institutions electronically and by mail.

Entry Form to apply to be published in the Art & Beyond Online magazine isavailable at http://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/ab-online-entry/

Membership Program application is available athttp://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/membership/

For any additional information please contact Mila Ryk [email protected]

Cover Art Winners

Olivia Boa – Front Cover Joachim Gerschler – Back Cover

Arthur Jacob – Inside Front Cover Darlene Kaplan – Insid Back Cover

Amy Beth Cohen Bankerhas been exhibiting in New York and worldwide since

1992. A Cornell University graduate, she studied

environmental design, education, business and fine

arts. A native New Yorker, Amy resides in New York City

and Massachusetts.

Her paintings, installations, videos, multimedia,

photography are exhibited in museums, public and

private collections including the Hermitage Museum,

The Barcelona Modern Arts, The Jewish Museum

London, MOMA and the Whitney Museum. She works in

a variety of mediums, acrylic, oil, pastels, aquarelle, oil

sticks, varnishes, glazes, finishing and surface

techniques. She explores the basic issues of opacity,

color, form, depth, obfuscations and revelations in life,

language and art. She uses a background in design, two

and three dimentional techniques and aesthetics.

Amy's background is integrated with her writing,

psychology, early chiildhood and life experiences

evolving as a woman and mother combining

internationalstudy to explore these issues in an

organized but abstract way. She tends to reinvent the

same themes, works from a structure and then proceed

by distressing, demolishing, recreating and conserving.

Amy's major themes areinner restoration and survival

challenging always reality vs. myth

www.amycohenbanker.com

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EDEN.Oil on canvas.30”x 40”

BLUE FLOWERS 3. Acrylic and oil on canvas. 40”x40”


«Figurative Pixels»the new collectionby artist OLIVIA BOA

From a physical point of view…"Quantum mechanics ensures atoms are fuzzy entities,

which existence is described with statistical terms."

Science & Vie.

In brief, everything is done and undone at such a speed

that we cannot really per see the infinitely small.

Nevertheless here are the mountains, immutable.

In the collection "Figurative Pixels" the artist wanted to

show the paradox of the infinitely small and volatile,

that is due to the infinitely large and static.

Each "pixel" represents a molecule with its own color

and specific properties.

"My painting’s life has a dimension both microscopic

from a molecular point of view, and macroscopic, from

the landscape they represent. They are both things at the

same time" Olivia Boa

From a philosophical point of view…"Life is a mix of colors that makes things coherent when

put one next to another. Like pixels, we are able to dwell

on each precise moment, or design the frame all

together" Olivia Boa.

Pieces from the collection "Figurative Pixels" represent

both the present moment, from a philosophical point of

view, and the time that has passed by as a whole.

The way of seeing it is relative, we are the ones who

have to find the right angle. With this new collection,

Olivia Boa continues to share her perceptions and

interpretations of life, symbolism, colors and light still

hold an important place in her work.

"With her figurative pixel concept Olivia Boa is

reinventing abstract impressionism” F.G.

Translate by Clarisse Asseng

www.oliviaboa.sitew.com • [email protected] DAWN. Acrylic on canvas. 100cm x 120cm.

THE TREE. Acrylic on canvas. 80cm x 100cm.

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debbi chanOn the cusp of two creative signs, the tiger

and the rabbit, I was born in Houston, Texas.

With a creative push from day one, I took up

the brush by age ten. In my early years as a

budding artist I decided that oil painting was

not my thing but watercolor and ink were.

That really never changed but the style

vacillated from realism to fantasy throughout

those formative years. It was not until a bit

of aging wisdom came to me that I sought

out a teacher and found Frank Chiu, a master

artist in traditional Chinese painting. He

mentored me for over a decade and was later

joined by his wife, Judy. They showed me

that just taking Sumi lessons was not

enough. I involved myself in Chinese culture,

philosophy, and art until it coursed through

my veins and I saw the world through

different eyes. My teacher gave me an artist

name – Sosum. He said I always do what I

say I will do and SOSUM was the He chose.

What He did not know is that the main

reason I got in to traditional Chinese art was

to paint on silk. Sosum also means, through

the root character, threads of silk. I learned

much from this wise teacher. then I took an

invitation to visit Idaho for a three weeks

vacation. Four days before my departure for

home, I decided to live here and when I went

back home it was only to pack my apartment

and say two goodbyes: one to the Buddhist

Temple where I was an ordained nun; the

other, to the Chiu's, my mentors and

teachers who had become family. Frank Chiu

threw the IChing without my knowledge and

four days later in my new home he told me

what the sticks had said..... GO TO THE

WESTERN MOUNTAINS...so now a decade has

passed. I own a farm on ten acres of

paradise, and my heart and art are reaching

heights not reached by many... I can truly say

that I am rich – rich with no money. And art

is still as exciting as it was when I picked up

that paintbrush fifty years ago.

http://www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/s/sosum/

[email protected]

INGE AND CHIMA ON COFFEE BREAK. Watercolor/ink on silk.14" x 16"

GARDEN MENAGERIE. Watercolor/ink on silk. 69" x 5".

"The End" Series byFLAVIO GALVAN 2012

Argentina is the most southern country of the

world; it is, as it were, at the end of the world. In

this immense territory occupied by Argentina,

Flavio was born in a city of the center of the

country. In Argentina he felt a kind of isolation in

relationship to the rest of the world and this has

generated in him a desire of communicating and

expanding his horizons: to go outside of the pre-set

limits, of exploring and tirelessly experimenting.

Flavio's subject-matters which were initially very

Latin-American-centric, inspired by the surrounding

scenery and its people, were nonetheless evolving in

themeasurement in which he thoroughly became

acquainted with the European painting of themiddle

of last century and the art movements of the 60s.

Miami has been a destination and goal for him

since he visited it for the first time 10 years ago.

The multiplicity of subcultures that coexist here got

Flavio in touch with realities that he did not know.

This abundance of cultures, the groups to study,

investigate and execute art or the international fairs.

The possibility of having contact with artists,

curators, gallery owners, museums, critics and collectors, was also a

factor that influenced his decision. But what really made him come

here is that in a moderate climate and a bountiful nature, he can

be related to two worlds: one Hispanic and the other Anglo-Saxon.

Flavio's favorite medium is oil paint applied on wood. The plasticity

that comes from the essence of this material, allows him to express

the immense scale of feelings and emotions that nest inside him.

Flavio tells us: "Certain voluptuousness exists when applying this

substance on wood: to spread, observe, to find a gamut of colors

and unexplored sheens, to obtain definition of forms and volumes."

His deep feelings towards life are optimistic and he believes

that new times and changes are approaching to change the

energy in humanity; new times, new paradigms, another

renaissance perhaps??? where the individual once again returns

to the state of being free. He uses an explosion of pure and

brilliant colors in contrast to the somber theme as it allows him

to say that not everything is lost, that better times will come.

At present he is concentrating on a new series where he

recreates with his technique some classical, recognizable and

identifiable painting masterpieces as they are part of the

cultural visual heritage of humanity.

www.flaviogalvan.com


WHEN IT RAINS IT POURS. Oil and ink on wood, resin glazed. 44” x 45.5”

Got my eye on you. Oil and ink on wood,resin glazed. 24” x 19.5”

Joachim GerschlerJoachim Gerschler is 67 years old. He has been working for a few

decades as the top restorer on historical buildings in Berlin doing

analysis of the building`s history, the technical requirements of

restoring them in the original sense and doing the restoration

work himself and with his staff. Since 2010 he has begun to paint

oil on canvas in rakel (spatula) technique and has produced up to now more than 150 such paintings, mostly in sizes of one to

two m2, some in smaller sizes and some up to 10 m2. In this field of art he is up to now rather unknown. He is still most busily

producing new paintings. Now he is looking to get known internationally and for a competent party which is best suited to

promote his works. Representing him is Dr. Hergen Heinemann who may be contacted under

[email protected].


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W06.2010-43.Oil on canvas.100cm x 80cm

W04.2010-M1.Oil on canvas.120cm x140cm


Carmen ArmstrongAfter 30 years focused on contributing to the development of

superior art teachers, I returned to showing paintings a few times

in 1996-99. Juried art shows 2000-2012 average around seven per

summer. Shows entered are 2 to 3 day shows mostly around

Chicago suburbs. They are juried or I am invited, jury- free. My

figurative paintings originate often frommodels posed in open

studio sessions at The Drawing Studio in Tucson, AZ. These weekly,

non-instructional sessions provide a three hour pose by one

model for artists who work in their own choice of media. I often

paint more than one model on a canvas and create backgrounds

appropriate to the positioning and expression of the models. The

models are selected for their possible interaction and suggest an

appropriate setting for the communication of the painting.

Illinois Art Education's Distinguished Service awardJune King McFee Award for contribution to art educationNational Art Education Policy Studies selected memberIllinois Art Education Association presidentSelected as 1 of 4 art educators to draft the National Standards forArt in EducationReceived two Lutheran Student Art Awards in a national competitionSeveral art show awards including purchase awards and publiclibrary purchase

Jack Jasper“My art is relational. I have always been fascinated by creation myths and

I perceive the universe as having evolved from one catastrophic event.

From one point, everything emerges, with the best scenarios trying to

rush to completion.”

Jack grew up in Chicago and lived for years in Montana. While there he

studied medical technology and the life sciences. From the experience of

being surrounded by the powerful presence of nature in Montana and his

studies, Jack drawn to experimenting with combinations of elements,

sometimes alluding to air, earth, fire and water. Jack tries to represent

nature's electron dance, with an ambient underlying sexuality, unfolding as a

shimmering becoming—a synchronicity between disparate elements.

“My theory of art and life is dialectical. From the one point of creation, all

contradictions arise. I see my art as the struggle between thesis and antithesis.

I have moved from an imagist sort of art to abstraction to try to play this out.”

www.jackjasperart.com

SUNDAY VISIT TO THE DAHLIA BED. Acrylic on canvas. 36" x 36"

Nine jury-free "invited artist" letters for 2012 showsSeveral commissions for paintings

[email protected]

ARIANDNE.Acrylic on canvas. 52" x 38"


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Darlene KaplanFor many years I painted realism in oils before making the change to Oriental brush painting

over 25 years ago. All of my Oriental brush paintings are derived directly from nature.

The paintings are from the very simple, elegant brush stroke of the orchid bamboo to

the complicated soothing landscapes that your eyes can take a journey up into the

mountains and off into the mist before returning home.

Subtlety of a good painting lies in its being alike and yet unlike the subject where the absence

of content can itself create rhythm and variety.

I believe that an artist is a person who can see something within the mind that can be

brought into reality where it can be seen, felt, touched, heard, and even sometimes smelled.

My art is on display at the Ratner Museum in Bethesda, MD until February 25, 2013 where it

is part of a group exhibition. Youmay visit Soft Brush Studio, 4609 Franconia Rd, Alexandria,

VA to viewmy art in person or to visit my on-line gallery go towww.darlenekaplan.com.

For additional information I can be reached at 703-922-4175.

FALLING IN WATER.Watercolor. 21” x 24”

BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON.Watercolor. 30” x 19”

Natalya B. ParrisNatalya Borisovna Parris was born in

Moscow, Russia where she earned basic

and advanced degrees in construction

engineering from the Moscow State

Construction University. After moving to

the USA Ms. Parris has been working as a

professional artist, art instructor and

curator. She teaches Russian Folk Art to the

students at the Arts Barn in Gaithersburg,

MD USA and shows them, from examples

of her own paintings, how knowledge and

centuries old traditions of Folk Art can be

used to create modern contemporary

artworks. She also adds her signature

technique “Emotional Counterpoints in

Paint” – dots to the paintings. The artwork

“A Learned Cat” was inspired by Alexander

Pushkin Fairy Tale “Ruslan and Ludmila.”

This is a quote from it,

“At the seashore’s golden chain;

That golden chain entwines an oak.

A learned cat around that oak

Day and night keeps his walk;

Goes to right – a song he sings;

Returning, left – a tale he brings.”


A LEARNED CAT. Acrylic on canvas. 11" x 14". 2011

YOUNG MODEL. Photography. 2010

After a tragic 1988 earthquake in Armenia, I

discovered the importance of photography as an

art form and method of documentation. I had

recently returned to Moscow after a tour through

Armenia, were I fell in love with the history,

craftsmanship, art, gorgeous cities and

landscapes of this ancient land. During the tour,

I was too busy and excited to explore and too

young to understand the importance of

documenting the places and events I saw. After

that earthquake, I comprehended that I would

never be able to tell the story of that trip in

pictures because the historical masterpieces

were lost forever. Since then, I always carry my

camera, which I call “my third hand.”

[email protected]

www.facebook.com/pages/Natalya-B-Parris/111488538880248

Anne Goffin SmithI attribute my early love of art to my Belgian

grandmother, whose impressionist painting style and

encouragement resonates with me still.

After graduating from Georgetown University with a

degree in marketing, I attended Pratt Institute’s School

of Art and Design in New York City where I earned a

Master’s Degree in Package Design. I worked for several

years as an art director and a freelance artist.

I took up painting again in my 30’ s and have been

painting ever since then! Whether it is to capture the

effect of light filtering through trees or the sun

reflecting off a car, I become completely absorbed in

trying to render, with great detail, the image through

paint. I love color and the passing effects of light and

shadow, as reflected in my latest series: CARS. I feel

quite nostalgic when I paint these beautiful, old cars.

My work has been displayed in a variety of venues,

most recently at the Ceres Art Gallery in NYC, the

Montclair Art Museum, and the Phillips Lighting

Corporation in Somerset, NJ.

Majd (Patou) FathallahBorn in Marseille in 1956 to a diplomatic family Majd Patou

Fathallah is a British/Lebanese self-taught sculptor. Her early

years, where on the move, enriching her view and search.

In her late teens and early 20’s, Majd Fathallah

graduated in Mass Communication & Theater. She

dabbled in photography and had two radio shows, where

she played Jazz in one and Rock in the other and read

the news on the radio. It was the 70’s. Simultaneously

she also read the news on national TV (1st English news

to be broadcast on Lebanese TV) One thing she knew

nothing about was sculpture.

After a career in radio, television and film production

she became interested in philosophy, far eastern

thought and music which somehow naturally led her to

pursue her heart's passion: sculpture. Having witnessed

the civil war in the Lebanon and becoming aware of

life's fragility profoundly affected her work. She has

recently moved back to the UK, after spending four

years in Northern Tuscany where she lived an isolated

life dedicated to her sculpture.

www.majdsculpture.com

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TORTURE. Bronze.60cm x 50cm x 29cm. 2011Bronze abstract sculpturesuspended with marine wire overwooden base

1938 HORCH, PART II. Oil on Canvas. 60"x48".

Anne Goffin SmithAt Art Expo New York,March 21-24, 2013

[email protected] • www.annegoffinsmith.com

Arthur JacobRecognition of my work has greatly

expanded with participation in

several solos and many juried and

group exhibitions. Among them is

my most recent solo exhibition at the

Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa

Monica, California and hosted by

Gallery ArtLA. I have also been the

recipient of several awards and have

been featured in or as part of several

print media articles, among them

Professional Artist and Art & Beyond

Magazine, that are both national

print and electronic magazines. I

have also recently been juried in to

the winning on-line gallery hosted by

Manhattan Arts International, New

York, New York.

My work is a process of discovery,

strongly influenced by a very strong

visual sense of the world. My work

offers an infinite variety of visual perceptions and interpretations

for the viewer. The viewer is first told what the “real Life” image is

in the title of the piece, but through abstraction and

reconstruction of that image, they are then asked to undertake

an adventure of discovery and challenged to explore the shapes,

colors, movements and forms, which the abstraction and

reconstruction present. Colors and shapes become emotion,

while form and movement become attitude. Even when a work

is easily recognized there is still a predominate thread of color,

movement, shape and form. My creative process is a thoughtful

and purposeful digital manipulation. Using a mouse rather than

a brush to achieve a powerful medium of expression and

communication, creates this style of fine art.

After leaving the work-a-day world, it was in Las Vegas that I

began to discover my creative abilities and focus on the

mediums of photography and digital art. In 2008 I decided to

move to the Portland area where I presently reside, after a short

stay in Coos Bay, Oregon. Believing that it is important to stay

connected with one’s community, I have actively served on

several community boards and committees, most recently, the

Contemporary Arts Collective in Las Vegas and the Coos Bay Art

Museum in Oregon.

http://www.arthur-jacob.com

[email protected]


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BUTTERFLY IN THE GARDEN.Photography/Digital Art.

32” x 26”.

Sandy Den HartogTake these stones into the palm of your hands. Mold them into

the shape of your most public need. But Sculpt them into the

image of your most private self. Lift up their hearts. These

beautiful stones hold for some, Chances for a new beginning.

Years ago Sandy Den Hartog embarked on a trip to Africa to

discover the adventures of a Safari. She arrived a week before and

began shopping. That is where she found some Ethiopian Crosses.

She bought them for her daughters and granddaughters. When she

returned to the United States she decided to design for each one of

them a necklace. They loved them.

She thoroughly enjoyed creating these necklaces. Liked how

stones come to life when put together with other things. Not so

good on their own but come alive when surrounded with other

Findings. That began a love for the mixture of stones and other

elements which she has over the years collected. She has brought

back many things from her travels, with a thought about making

them into jewelry. She has collected Artifacts and unusual items

along the way. Her collection varies from very Ethnic, to partial

Ethnic, South West, Classic, Sophisticated, and even Over the Top

and on occasion it incorporates all of them in one design.

Unique, different, one of a kind. For the discriminate woman.

In a workshop where she does all of her custom designs in her home

in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. She remains excited about her work.

Putting a gathering of her rocks and Precious Metals into something

she feels is worthy of display to the world. This has made her a

sought after artist.... Her pieces are one of a kind designs.

From a personal view, She has given to charities such as Hospice,

Cancer Society Fund Raisers and has donated a piece from her

collection to be raffled with proceeds to go to whomever the Fund

Raiser is for....and her favorite place to be is by the Ocean.

Her work is currently exhibited at David Rafaels at the Palace Hotel

in San Francisco, and James Ratliff Gallery in Sedona, Arizona.

She has placed in several Juried Art Shows in Arizona.

http://www.sandzibarjewelry.com/


jewelry

From Left to Right:BLESSINGSEthiopian HAndmade Silver Bicone Beads, With Red Tiger Eye.Pendant is and Etiopian Orthodox Cross with Red Tiger EyeBehind the center.

BLUE NILELapis Lazuli Stones, All the Silver Beads are made using theLost Wax Method, from Ghana, Africa. Pendant is an AncientTurkamen Pendant from a semi nomadic tribe. The metal usedin the Pendant is called "Gillett" and is melted down old coins,silver,etc. and made into lovely jewelry. Wouldn't you love toknow the story about this piece and WHO wore it.

NUBIAN PRINCESSAfrican Hammered Brass with a Patina.African Bone Beads. Very Regal yet the Hammered Brass andBone Beads really gives this Necklace a Tribal Flair.

Darlene Kaplan

Hey Gorgeous. Watercolor. 38” x 30”

Joachim GERSCHLER

W08.2011-5. Oil on canvas. 150cm x 110cm

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