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Elliot Appel | Bayonne, NJ
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@elliotappel
Elliot Appel was born in New York City in 1952 and has been painting for over 30 years. A self-taught artist, he was fascinated by film and frequently sketched pictures of the celebrities he admired to see if he could capture a likeness. Mr. Appel continued sketching in this way through high school.
Subsequently, Mr. Appel enrolled in New York’s City College, registering for a degree in liberal arts but left college after one year to travel in Israel. In between jobs, Mr. Appel spent the next few years traveling through Europe, fortifying the education he’d begun with trips to museums in Paris, Geneva, Florence, Milan, Venice, Rome and Athens. He spent time in public squares, sketching the scenes around him, preparing the groundwork for future projects and developing his distinctive style.
Mr. Appel’s cityscapes and storefronts call to mind the iconic images of American artists like John Sloan or Edward Hopper, who were influenced by film, and whose crisp, light-flooded takes on modern realistic street scenes inspired American film sets for decades. Appel’s images of old New York City storefronts, with their graffiti-covered doorways, city grime and sharp perspective both confront and draw the viewer into the vital, cinematic-like worlds that he creates. He has often said that he tries to capture “details of everyday life that people may not notice or take for granted as they rush from place to place.”
Mr. Appel has exhibited his work at The Painting Center in Chelsea, Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, the Monmouth Museum and the Ridgewood Art League. In recent years, he has had one person shows at the Hoboken Historical Museum and the Watchung Arts Center in New Jersey. His work has been selected for exhibit by the National Oil And Acrylics Painters Society and Manhattan Arts International, among others. Mr. Appel is currently an exhibiting member of Pro Arts Jersey City. He is the recipient of several awards and has developed a small but loyal following within the tri-state area.
Andrew Binder | Bronx, NY
@andrewbinderart_2.0
andrewbinder.com
In my work, I strive to create imagery that invites the viewer to have their own subjective experience and interpretation. Though much of my work is figurative, I am uninterested in slavish representation. Instead, I use my art as an expressive outlet where I seek to convey a sense of feeling, atmosphere, transitory memory, and the existential experience of the individual.
Through an experimental and improvisational process that combines new and traditional media I distort, transform, reorder, and dismantle form. Digital painting or drawing is merged with analog elements such as acrylic paint, ink, coffee stains, torn paper, etc. These components are integrated to form a final digital composition centered on expression rather than precision or correctness. Through an intuitive technique, often concerned with distortion and the dissolution of form, I seek to create work that evokes an inner world — my own inner world, and hopefully that of the viewer.
Douglas Ferrin is a painter whose work explores intersections of realism and narrative. His style was dubbed “New Perceptionism” by the American National Gallery of Art lecturer Arthur DeCosta. This “new perception” is a style in which Roman illusionistic realism meets modern illusionism, and is camera corrected as opposed to camera conditioned.
Ferrin has done murals for clients as diverse as Gianni Versace and Sting, has paintings in the collections of Burt Reynolds, MIT, The First National Bank of Boston and many others. His work has appered in Architectural Digest, American Artist and a plethora of other publications. An accomplished musician and animator, his primary focus continues to be painting.
A professional artist since age 19, Ferrin now works and lives in Pennsylvania. He holds a degree from Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and studied at the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins.
Douglas Ferrin * Cover Artist
Andrew Binder * Back Cover Artist
Eva Lewarne
Elliot Appel
William Arthur
Hari Lualhati
Leila Vakili
Cris DK
Margarita Camps
John McCabe
Judith Rayl
Pearl Mintzer
Jenq Chian Daang
Lori Evensen
Jason Bryant
Jean Hershey
Suyu Chen
Dan McCormack
Geoff Bent
Thank you to all the artists who submitted art and congratulations to all the artists in issue 53! … Enjoy
Geoff Bent
Brooklyn, NY
geoffbent.com
@geoffbent_art
MANIFESTATIONS OF DEATH, a thematically united series of 27 oil paintings, is grounded on a simple visual dilemma: how does one physically portray nothingness? The incomprehensible can only be grasped obliquely, so I have constructed a crescendo of metaphors leading up to the bleakest embodiment of this disembodied concept. The continuity of the theme is echoed in the repeated use of certain objects: masks, stars, bones, cut flowers and dead trees. Taken together, MANIFESTATIONS OF DEATH creates a metastasizing dialectic that is both varied and focused, a powerful exploration of the one inescapable event in life: its end. The complete set of variations, and four other visual variations, are available on my website.
My oil paintings have been exhibited in museums and galleries in 20 states, including one-person exhibitions in four major universities. Reproductions of my work has also appeared in journals and textbooks. My art criticism has been published with Oxford University Press, NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, ANTIOCH REVIEW, SOUTHERN REVIEW, BOULEVARD and BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS.
Nikola Gocic | Serbia
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Nikola Gocic (born in Nis, 1980) is an architect by profession and a film reviewer, comic artist and collagist by passion. For thirteen years, he has been publishing his reviews and pieces of artwork on NGboo Art blog. During 2016 and 2017, he was writing movie listicles for the Taste of Cinema website, and since 2017, he has frequently and successfully collaborated on film-related articles with Rouzbeh Rashidi – the Iranian-Irish filmmaker and founder of the Dublin-based company Experimental Film Society. Five of his essays are published in the book Luminous Void: Twenty Years of Experimental Film Society (Experimental Film Society, Dublin, 2020).
As a collage artist, starting with 2018, he has created numerous short film posters and music single covers for NYC-based underground artist Martin Del Carpio. For Hungarian avant-garde filmmaker Péter Lichter he designed the poster for his found-footage feature Empty Horses (originally, Üres lovak) which was screened at the 2020 edition of International Film Festival Rotterdam. He has also successfully collaborated with German composer and film director Martin Gerigk on his animated shorts Otonashi (2021), Once I Passed (2022) and Demi-Gods (2022) which have been screened on more than 100 festivals around the globe.
In February of 2019, he presented his first solo exhibition in Nis University Library Nikola Tesla, and by the end of 2019, he co-curated the inaugural edition of International festival of analog experimental cinema and audio-visual performance Kinoskop in Belgrade where some of his collages were shown at the closing ceremony. His latest two short comics – ‘Exhausted Peace’ and ‘F Mode’, both created in collage technique – were exhibited at the Belgrade International Comics Festival in 2018 and 2019. In 2020, his second solo exhibition took place in a cafe bar Julijan Djupon in Nis, and he also created visuals for five short films, two of which were based on the ideas by Martin Del Carpio (Kindle and LOS). In 2021, he held his third solo exhibition, Hypnos, in the Gallery of Cultural Center of Nis, and in the following year, he presented Hypnos II in the Center for Culture and Art in the town of Aleksinac. His 2020 collage ‘Ultrafantasia: The Spirits Gathering’ was selected as one of the 10 finalists for the Artbox.Projects Venezia 1.0 exhibition held in Tana Art Space, Venice, during May of 2022. In his art practice, he merges various and often incongruous influences, ranging from ancient art to experimental films to the 80s Saturday-morning cartoons, into his own esoteric mythology.
Deimante Bruzguliene | Issue 52 Cover Artist
Wickford, Essex, UK
dbartist.co.uk
@bruzguliene
Deimante Bruzguliene, originally from Lithuania, came to the United Kingdom in 2004. She is breathtaking realistic wildlife paintings of animals. Deimante works in a variety of media including acrylic, oil, pastel, watercolor, graphite and mixed media .
,,I have drawn with pencil for longer than I can remember. I love painting. I work with passion and love. It is like a second nature to me. My painting is a kind of therapy for me. It lets me say things that i cannot express any other way and at the same time allows me to populate the space around me with artefacts of myself.
Major achievements
Exhibitions:
01-31 December 2022 HMVC Gallery New York “Rebel Rebel” online. ,, Leopard’’
Awards:
2022 Leopard painting been awarded by Northern Light Gallery in England the Artist Choice 2 show as BEST OF DIVISION , and BEST OF SHOW.
Deimante Bruzguliene was awarded with the The 2022 American Art Awards Awarding 25 best Museums and galleries 3 th Places – Abstract.
Deimante Bruzguliene was awarded with the The 2021 American Art Awards Awarding 25 best Museums and galleries 4 th Places – Abstract.
The 2021 Finalist Circle Foundation for the Arts. Cat.
Deimante Bruzguliene was awarded with the The 2018 American Art Awards Awarding 25 best Museums and galleries 4 th Places – Tie Animals-Realism.
… And we’re back!
We are pleased to announce the release of Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 52! An email will be going out in the next few days and all artists in this issue will be receiving a featured post in the coming days and over the next month, until issue 53 is released.
ARTIST IN THIS ISSUE
Deimante Bruzguliene – Cover Artist
Nikola Gocic
Mitra Devon
Geoff Bent
Pearl Mintzer
Jiahan Fan
Glenn Murray
Barbara Crimella
Jacob la Cour
Jim Resnick
Jimmy Gockel
Virginia Gott
Pik Ying Wong
Josie Gearhart
Bore Ivanoff
Jason Bryant
Szuyu Liu
Carlos Jimenez
Tenisha Thomas
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