Life Is A Party
CELEBRATE LIFE, LOVE, LAUGHTER AND JOY
Every moment should be a celebration of life. Our senses and our emotions can put us in touch with the magic and beauty that is around us. That is what I try to portray through my art.
My joyful, playful, whimsical images come alive with vibrant colors. They evoke the most positive emotions. Feelings of Love, Laughter and Joy.
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.
Read More Featured Artist | Geoff Bent… 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. PRINT […]
Read More Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 52 IS HERE!!!!Victor Gomez Miami, FL fineartbiblio.com Victor’s art can be found on page 22 in issue 51. After venturing through different expressives ways, I reached a point where I commenced to get away from reality and lose interest in it. Then I decided to delve into the world of forms in themselves, without trying to convey […]
Read More Victor Gomez | Featured Artist Issue 51As an Artist I have always wanted to express the beauty of our African heritage. My paintings are an extension of the classic form of figurative painting using people of color.
Most of my paintings make statements on culture and the human condition. My challenges in creativity continue to evolve, the reason for this is evident in the many events in the times we live in and through.
Hari Lualhati Cape Town, South Africa harilualhati.yolasite.com @harilualhati Hari’s art can be found on pages 16 & 17 in issue 51. HARI LUALHATI: BIOGRAPHY Hari Lualhati is a full-time artist who is permanently based in Cape Town, South Africa. She prefers her latest artworks to be called as “SOULWORKS” because they are a direct connection […]
Read More Hari Lualhati | Issue 51 Featured ArtistI’m going into my junior year at FIT NYC and I major in illustration. Since I was a junior in High School, I’ve been into making social/political artwork. I feel it is necessary to bring attention to issues in our society through metaphoric creativity.
Read More Kailee Finn | Featured Artist Issue 51Chris Klein Sainte Therese, Quebec, Canada @chriskleinart Chris’s art can be found on pages 8-11 in issue 51 of Artist Portfolio Magazine. Chris is a British artist. Exhibiting his work across Europe and North America, he is most recognised for his series of costume paintings. These are mostly from theatre and film but also from […]
Read More Featured Artist | Chris KleinSihua Liu | Changde City, China twitter.com/SihuaLiu Sihua is our issue 51 Cover Artist. … Issue 51 I have been practicing art for more than 20 years and has earned an MFA from Hunan Normal University.I remember when I was a child there was a poster of the crucifixion of Jesus hanging in my home. […]
Read More Sihua Liu | Issue 51 Featured ArtistArtist Portfolio Magazine Issue 51 is now available Issue 51 Print $20 Digital FREE ARTIST IN THIS ISSUE Sihua Liu | COVER ARTIST Chris Klein | BACK COVER ARTIST Brooke Poeppel Hari Lualhati Toni-Lee Sangastiano Kailee Finn Larry Richardson Emily Rankin Victor Gomez Andy McIntyre Sam Dolman Veronica Winters Lisa Roggenbuck Andrey Pochernin Cécile Lobert […]
Read More Artist Portfolio Magazine Issue 51Melinda Gallop Miami, FL Facebook.com/GOJUArt @GOJUArt Melinda Gallop is a “Self Taught – Brushless Fine Artist” who has traveled the Country, creating and selling her original masterpieces since 2010. One would be hard-pressed to find a person more varied in her interests and talents than Melinda. In addition to being an artist she is also […]
Read More Featured Artist | Melinda GallopThomas Riesner Leipzig, Germany facebook.com/thomas.riesner.de @thomas.riesner1 I was born in Leipzig in 1971 and I still live here today. Alredy in elementary school I often painted “abstract” instead of the given concrete drawing. I later retained this style or changed it to “abstract Figuration”. I painted alot at home, always without professional guidance. I didn´t […]
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