Happy New Year

Happy New Year
Please imagine here a whimsical animated feel-good greeting that will bring you good cheer for all of 2009.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Dan Rohrmann. Unrealistic landscapes from Romania.
2. Albert Sellaman. Digital abstracts from Australia.
3. Russell Scott-Skinner. Cubistic landscapes from the UK.
4. Aniello Scannapieco. Drawing and painting from Salerno, Italy.
5. Irene Bou. Outsider art from Spain.

Gilbert Abric and Jose Carvalhosa have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Artistic Interaction
Digital Consciousness promotes interaction between artists. Everyone is invited to join the Facebook Digital Consciousness Artists Group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38563776510 Both our forum and facebook group are great places to post, or read about, new artwork or gallery exhibits or shows. Additionally, an art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

Digital Consciousness Facebook Group

Happy Thanksgiving
Let us be thankful for the gentleness around us when we are quiet.

Digital Consciousness Facebook Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=38563776510 Everyone is invited to join the Facebook Digital Consciousness Artists Group. It promotes global recognition and interaction between artists. It is a great place to post, or read about, new artwork or gallery exhibits and shows. Also, about artwalks or festivals you have participated in or have been to.

Elizabeth Hack
Elizabeth Hack is the December 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Her work consists of inner landscapes. She has created a series of paintings known as the Wave Series. Adding paint and ink to the canvas or paper, she feels the fire or the sea. Excavating through the composition, her paintings express energy and spirit.

The paintings of Elizabeth Hack have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries throughout California, including the Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara; the University of California in Berkeley at the ASUC Studio and the Heller Gallery; the Commonwealth Club Gallery in San Francisco; the Hayward Arts Council Gallery in Hayward; Gloria Delson Fine Art; the Soolip Gallery in West Hollywood; the Berkeley Art Center Gallery in Berkeley; Carol Dabb Fine Art; the Ashkenazy Gallery in Los Angeles; and the Orlando Gallery in Sherman Oaks.

Joseph DiSipio
Joseph DiSipio has a Lith print photography show in Santa Barbara. The opening reception is 5-8ish, December 4th during the Santa Barbara First Thursday Art Walk. It is at the Bookden at 15 E. Anapamu. He hopes to see you there. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/galleries/JosephDiSipio/

Southern California Art Walks
A continuously updated art calendar can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php Details about many spectacular monthly artwalks can be found there. The Santa Barbara, Laguna Beach, San Pedro, Downtown L.A., Palm Desert, Santa Ana, Pomona, Long Beach, Miracle Mile and Santiago artwalks all occur monthly. Also on the December calendar are the Ventura and Long Beach First Fridays (coordinated gallery openings), the Northeast L.A. Gallery Night and the Woodland Hills Rotary Club Arts & Crafts Faire.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/
Wojciech Ukianski. Abstract sculpture from Poland.
Kombizz. Macro photography: landscape, old and new architecture.
Marco Battaglini. Mechanical creativity from Costa Rica.
Jane E Porter. Visionary portraits from Scotland.
Nyugen Smith. Symbolic sculpture.
Jamie Thibault. Hardwood and Tagua and Corozo Nut sculpture.
Cedric Mnich. TradeArt. Complex mathematics and profit.
Warrior Richardson. Music and sports caricactures.
Jaclyn Brine. Realistic watercolors.
Hiroko Sakai. Surrealistic oils.
Joseph DiSipio, Gilbert Abric, Nathan Brusovani and Moses Masoko have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Moses Masoko

Moses Masoko
Moses Masoko is the November 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Moses was born in South Africa in 1979. Inspired by Picasso, Ben Macala and Gerald Sekoto, he started drawing and painting at an early age. In 2000 he studied fabric painting, sculpting and screen printing, in 2001-2004 printmaking and in 2005 graphic design and flexography printing. 

Currently Moses paints geometric shapes in water color. He also works as a curator at Gerald A Lee gallery. 

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Laviniu M. Draghici. Glass paintings from Denmark.
2. Fejzi Ali Beqiri. The invisible side of the universe from Italy.
3. Tomaselli Emilio. Interior design and architecture.
4. Charles Andraos. Mystical oils from Lebanon.
5. Stephen Shooster. Music inspired cubistic watercolors.
6. Andre Pourtales. Impressionistic oils from France.
7. Osvaldo Cibils. Digital art and drawing from Italy.
8. Darla Farner. Watercolor in motion.
9. Gillie and Marc Schattner. Husband and wife collectively on the same pieces.
10. John Mark. Landscapes and nature.
11. Danila Altmark. Personalized artworks.
12. Radomir Djukanovic. Abstract geometry from Serbia.
13. Calico. Photographs from SoCalDeCom.

Joseph DiSipio, Kevin Barr and Calico have added new artwork to their galleries.http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml 


Ventura Art Walk
The fall Ventura art walk included gifted artists at the Stoneworks. Also of note was the installation called "Tubular Zen" with five black pillars which emit light and sound when buttons on them are pressed. An art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at:http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php 

SoCalDeCom
Pirates shot Cabbage Patch dolls and footballs from an air cannon over the Dawnship. The Dawnship was a big Bedouin tent flying Jolly Rogers. The event took everyday items and changed their identity. It brought about new perceptions causing people to question how to see, to re-examine and to re-invent. 

On the hill was Hatfield's illuminated Flying Saucer. From its control panel one could program the lighting pattern. The saucer as a symbol of aliens landing on earth could not be suppressed. Yet, beliefs and circumstances about them could be changed. 

The Living Room by Taz and Cooper was both an art piece and a chill space. Was it a living room or not? On one hand it had the feel of a living room, because there were two doors, a window, a framed 2D piece of art and miscellaneous furniture. On the other hand there were NO WALLS! Probably was a living room because the couch and chair were really comfortable. 

Emerald Portals in San Francisco
From Oct. 31 to Nov. 2. the Emerald Portals art installation by Harlan Emil Gruber will be on public display free of charge in conjunction with the 2012 Conference. The precise location is the Fort Mason Center at the intersection of Marina Boulevard and Buchanan Street in the Marina district. There is no street address. 800-984-0897 http://www.2012conference.org They incorporate geometry, sound and color to provide an interactive environment. The intention is to provide a portal to the vibrational dimension of the Earth and the participant's energy bodies. Once a vibrational alignment is achieved between personal, planetary and galactic, a harmonious shift of dimensions can take place.

Jett Vivere

Jett Vivere
Jett Vivere is the October 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Jett was born 1987 in Paisley and raised in Ayrshire, on the west coast of Scotland. With a history of art in the family, Vivere took an interest in art at a young age and has been a keen artist ever since. After studying fine art and having successful end of year shows and exhibitions in Glasgow and Edinburgh she has embarked on a career as an artist with work on exhibition in various galleries. She has been influenced by many artists including Peter Howson, Gerard Burns, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol.

Vivere’s work, like the artists who inspire her, is unique, stylish and quirky. Unafraid of creating bold images that make a visual statement, she chooses color wisely, using it to create a bigger impact on a large scale. When painting, Vivere uses oil bars for their flexibility and greater control than can be achieved by the direct application of the oils by hand. The simplicity of the lines and marks on the canvas belies the work and preparation required to produce such dramatic images.

Long Beach SoundWalk
Among the exhibits at the September 2008 Long Beach SoundWalk were:
* A room filled with about a dozen roundish sculptures hanging from the ceiling. Each is a bundle of electronics and each emits different soft sounds.
* A Tower of Babel sculpture. You speak or make noises into the nearby microphone, and the sculpture distorts and echoes the sound, mixing it with previous sounds.
* Household percussion jams, where people play mostly pots and pans, but other household items also.
* A station where you select a musical work and listen to it through headphones. The piece is distorted according to the ambient sound level in the room. The quieter the room, the more distorted the sound is.
* Laptop computers hanging by wires from the ceiling. Participants swing the computers, which have motion sensors and play sounds based on their motions.
* Gossip. Two pairs of nude female mannequins separated by some distance on the sidewalk. Tell a juicy secret to one pair, and it's broadcast from the other pair.
* An installation which translates the shape of mountain peaks into sounds. Hundreds of photos of Colorado mountains were digitally traced. These outlines, which resemble the shape of audio waves, were imported into an audio editor. The resulting low register audio waves resemble the rumbling of the earth itself. The installation displays the mountain photo and the wave form, which is traced through as the sound plays.
* A room with four large drums in front of loud amplified sounds. Ping pong balls which are suspended on strings from the ceiling bounce on the vibrating drum heads.
* A virtual maze in which the "walls" are merely sounds which you hear through the large stuffed toy mouse-head headphones you wear. This was called "Mice pace" (get it?).
An art calendar listing Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals can be found at: http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/
Doriana Rada. Spiritual art from Albania.
Taylor Denis. Artist and author from Sweden.
Richard Whincop. Realistic oils from the U.K.
Gilbert Abric, Moustafa Al Hatter, Joseph DiSipio, Kevin Barr, Donna Willis and Nirvana Blues have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Burning Man 2008

Burning Man is an annual week long arts festival that takes place in the Black Rock desert in Nevada. This issue of the newsletter describes just a few of the installations there.

Tantalus
Tantalus is a life-size stroboscopic zoetrope. The mechanism produces an illusion of action from a succession of static pieces. It tells the tale of Tantalus, who stole ambrosia from the Gods. His punishment was to stand in a pool of water beneath a fruit tree with low branches. Whenever he reached for the fruit, the branches raised his intended meal from his grasp. The Tantalus zoetrope at Burning Man presents a revolving Uncle Sam hat. A man's arm reaches for an apple, or golden watch. The object goes up and down, but it is always just out of reach.

Tantalus is the creation of Peter Hudson, a San Francisco visual artist who has installed zoetropes at Burning Man since 2000. In 2000, Playa Swimmers was featured in a Time Magazine article about the art of Burning Man and in filmmaker Renea Robert's award-winning documentary, Gifting It. In 2001, Possession, a collection of six hands strategically placed on a model. In 2002, Sisyphish which depicts strobe-lighted swimmers in motion. In 2004, Deeper; in 2007 Homouroboros and this year Tantalus. Peter Hudson is the September 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

Babylon
The largest installation was Babylon, a 10-story steel frame tower rising 100 feet into the sky, with a stairwell to the top. It was built by union workers out of recycled materials to specifications that allowed for tear down. The festival is a "leave no trace" event, so everything is temporary. The process of quickly and cleanly building and tearing down a structure so big it would be fair to call it a skyscraper is in itself a work of art.

Brainfire
A few hours after dark the artist himself fired up the structure releasing fuel into the ceiling of a small open building. In calm conditions there is mesmerizing, creeping, undulating fire suspended overhead. In windy conditions there is still a partial coating of the fire just beneath the ceiling.

The Apocalypse Lounge Dinosaur Spider
This is a gigantic mechanical beast that looks like a dinosaur, but has eight legs so may be a spider. Three years in the making, it is powered by a single truck motor geared up enough to move the 7 ton object. It tromped across the festival straining to make a step, but doing it, pausing and then making the next. It was two stories high and people climb up and ride on the top story. It cannot turn. It makes loud thumps as it goes and stirs up dust as it pounds the earth.

Bummer
A super size Humvee measuring 38 feet long x 18 feet wide x 16 feet high. Half of the Hummer was painted in military khaki and the other half in bright sporty colors. The headlights were bright enough to bring day to night. The taillights were a shadow show.

Altered State
A symbol of the United States Capitol becomes a mirage of mythical creatures fabricated of elaborately carved white steel. Each cut is rendered in the archetypal graphic style of Pacific Northwest Coast Indian imagery. Gymnasts climbed the interior swing and as intended, a government building was transformed into an Altered State.

Temple of Community
A thirty-foot-high rendition of an origami crane. On the playa, the crane symbolizes the act of letting go – of people, places, feelings, ideas – making wishes, discovering hope, finding peace, and building the wisdom, happiness and longevity of a community that is united in this experience.

Shiva Vista
A circular fire installation with an elevated performance platform in the center. Sixteen large propane guns fire in rhythmic sequences while fire performers, dancers and musicians play along with them. Twelve of the guns are arranged in a 100 foot circle and four more are located at the corners of the platform, controlled from an elevated platform just outside of the circle. It is a place where humans and machines enter into a fusion of fire, movement and sound.

Flamethrower Shooting Gallery
Modeled after a county fair-style shooting gallery, this provides a new twist on a long-standing American tradition and pokes gentle fun at the American fascination with firearms and personal power, as well as the Burning Man fascination with fire and radical self expression. It does this by allowing and encouraging participants to literally play with fire and shoot things.

Emerald Portal
The Emerald Portal was originally made for Burning Man 2006. It is based on 3-dimensional sacred geometry heart chakra colors and incorporates the Quasar Wave Transducer, a subsonic nonlinear dynamic analog feedback device. It is made of specially painted plywood and has seating both within the lower area and on a raised central platform. The outline is a steel tubing version that clearly shows the geometry of the structure and can be climbed on. It catalyzes a personal connection to the Emerald within the participant's heart chakra and facilitates a connection to the Earth and Galaxy's energy bodies.

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. John Torode. Abstract expressionism
2. James Faulkner. Digital collage.
3. Tony Blue. Blutography art, a form of photo-illustration.
4. Cynthia Fusco. Landscape and nature photography.
5. Lewis Liu. Reproduction of famous oil paintings.
6. Liz Rogers. Transparent watercolors.
7. Paul Bonnie Kent. Brilliant abstracts and other offerings from Emilia Romagna, Italy.
8. J P McLaughlin. Image creation from Scotland.
9. Jett Vivere. Dramatic impressionistic oils from Ayrshire, Scotland.
10. Rollo West. Oil and colored pencil animals and wildlife.
11. Cody Wilkerson. Digital graphic photography.
12. Peter Hudson. Life-size stroboscopic zoetropes.
13. Kristina Wentzell. Landscapes and florals.

Gilbert Abric, Kevin Barr and Nicholas Caputi have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year. Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Laura Perry-Eklund

Laura Perry-Eklund
Laura Perry-Eklund is the August 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Laura is an abstract artist from Olive Hill, Kentucky. Growing up in the heart of Appalachia she understands that happiness comes from the simple, natural things in life. Her interests have always been in the natural world, art and psychic phenomena from which she summons artistic visions.

Her creations are outbursts from these visions. She has to feel completely free from everything to create and so, during several periods in her life has lived in isolation. She paints using the skills and knowledge of a trained artist. She pulls the paint and color into the composition to achieve unity. The paint will do what she wants it to do. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

New Contemporary Artists and Galleries
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Jean Francois Muller. Haitian influenced landscape abstracts.
2. Lara Agnes Szabo. Harpist from Hungary
3. Bryan Crump. Magazine cover photography.
4. Ana Maria Barbos. Plastic artist from Romania who creates colorful landscape themes.
5. Stefania Vassura. Photography from Italy.
6. Miro Gabriele. Ecology photography from Italy.
7. Paola González Muñoz. Expressionistic mixed media from Mexico.
8. John Lathram. The transhumanist experience.
9. S. Shatrughan Gupta. Impressionistic cityscapes from India.
10. Zaher El-Bizri. Plastic and watercolor artist influenced by the medieval quarters of the ancient Lebanese port city of Sidon.
11. Joseph Gooders. Abstract light and color photography from the UK.
12. Mmoses Masoko. Picasso influenced watercolors from South Africa.

Nicholas Capote has added new artwork to his galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Glow Dusk to Dawn
On July 19 a huge crowd turned out to view art installations in Santa Monica. Among them, seemingly breathing constructions from Shih Chieh Huang. His works, about a dozen of them, each about the size of a person, dangled above the path under the pier. They incorporated plastic bags and fans that turned on and off so that the sculptures expanded and contracted to glowing illumination. Look for Glow 2009 and for more immediate Southern California Art Walks, Open Studio Tours, & Art Festivals on the Art Calendar. http://DigitalConsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

First Friday Vegas
On the First Friday of most months, galleries in the Art District in Las Vegas, just North of the Strip, host receptions for their artists. Free trollies run between The Arts Factory, the center of it all, the Commerce Street Studios and other points. http://firstfriday-lasvegas.org/

Guardian of Eden
Following its debut at the 2007 Burning Man festival, the Nevada Museum of Art is pleased to present Guardian of Eden, a large-scale, outdoor sculpture by New York–based artist Kate Raudenbush. The intricately carved, 12-petal lotus flower spans over 19 feet in diameter and is inspired by Hindu and Egyptian creation myths, Buddhist symbolism, and the ancient symbol of the Flower of Life. http://www.nevadaart.org/exhibitions/exhibition_display.php?id=98

Susan J. Sauerbrun

Susan J. Sauerbrun is participating in the

183rd Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art

at the

National Academy Museum

1083 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY

It is an honor to be included in this show. It runs until Sept 7th.

For further information please go to

http://www.SusanJSauerbrun.com/pressroom.html

Colin Tresadern

Colin Tresadern
Colin Tresadern (b. 1954) is the July 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Colin is inspired by the design of traditional Japanese interiors, and the ideal that 'less is more.' Colin believes that visual opposition and contrast achieve balance and harmony. Colin is also inspired by Kabbalah, and explores mystic concepts which, being essentially abstract concepts, are ideally expressed using abstract visual images.

Colin creates paintings using elemental geometric forms in a non-representational abstract space, in pure minimal designs combining interactive elements of colour, plane, and line. Aesthetic balance is achieved through the use of asymmetrical opposition in the constructional elements of the designs. This complexity underlies their apparent simplicity and the use of primary colours and primary values. Emphasising order, balance, and formal structure, the paintings are reduced to their fundamental essentials and core of self-expression. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

New Artwork in the Galleries
Joseph DiSipio and Kevin Barr have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Golden Cafe. A bar with art, exotic cocktails and live music on E @ 7:30 in the heart of Black Rock City.
2. Bill Tennant. Canadian landscape painter focusing mainly upon west coast marine subjects.
3. Frank To. From Scotland. Paintings inspired by the Renaissance sculptor, Michelangelo.
4. Michael O'Gorman. Surrealistic light and color oils from Wales.
5. Ray Laing. Statement Art. The written word.
6. Glenn James. Fantasy gothic illustrations.
7. Noureddine EL HANI. Digital abstracts from Tunisia.

Baby Origami Cranes
The Temple of Community is building a large Crane Temple at Burning Man this year. The Temple will fill the void with a place of contemplation, grieving and letting go. It will be a place to say and express farewells. Artists who visit the temple have been asked to create their own wooden scaled-down versions of an origami crane. These smaller cranes will be gathered around the base of the main structure. Please make sure that your crane won't take flight on the playa winds! A burn platform large enough for the baby cranes will be provided. http://tribes.tribe.net/templeofcommunity

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission.
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year.
Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Barbara Bonnie Deutsch

Barbara Bonnie Deutsch will have her clay sculptures exhibited in the Edward Hopper House Art Center's Juried Art Exhibit and Sale to Benefit Gay Pride of Rockland from Sat. May 31 to Sunday Jun22.

Artist Reception is on Sunday June 1 from 1-4.  The exhibition runs from May 31 to June 22.

The Do LaB

The Do LaB
The Do LaB is the June 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. The Do LaB is a radical art collective committed to the expansion of minds and the destruction of conventions. Based in downtown Los Angeles, The Do LaB draws inspiration from the organic beauty of the Earth, and from the dazzling lights of its community . . . all of you. The Do LaB's goal is to nurture the creative spark within us all, and to strengthen the connections that bring us together.

Most recently The Do LaB produced Lightning in a Bottle (LIB) a green outdoor art and music festival near Santa Barbara. A record 6,000 people from all over the world attended the 4 day event. Shuttles took people into the festival area, throughout which there were dozens of blank panels. The panels were transformed into murals, some right on the stages while the musicians played. The finished works were auctioned off. The proceeds went to Sonic Muze, a non-profit organization that purchases musical instruments and art supplies for schools.

The forest vibrated to the beats of the Treehouse, Bamboo and Woogie stages. The Treehouse Stage was the steampunk junktification work of master creator Shrine. He made it from discarded windows and cans and other trash. The Bamboo Stage was the creation of bamboo artisan Gerard Minakawa and his crew. The Stanton Warriors, Kan 'Nal, Helios Jive, Yard Dogs Road Show and dozens of other bands played. Cirque Berzerk and Lucent Dossier performed high rope acts. A flat wire was strung out so people could try gymnastics themselves.

People wandered with guitars and ukuleles and jammed in their camps and in the Orchid Lounge in the middle of the festival. Tai Chi and Yoga people practiced and taught. One trail led out of the patches where people camped to and along a river; another up a hill with a view of lake Cachuma. Abundant potable water was pumped, filtered and dispensed with just the right pressure from lots of easy to turn valves. LIB was a leave no trace event with most of the waste recycled. http://renownedart.com/digitalcolor/

New Artwork in the Galleries
Bruce Price, Derek McCrea, Josef Marsal, Gilbert Abric, Joseph DiSipio, Kevin Barr and Robert Chami have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists were registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Merovee. Digital hermetic art.
2. Marabeth Quin. Both an earthiness and otherworldly quality.
3. Glen Allen. Photography of artistic images.
4. Sean O'Shea. Paintings of movement and grace from Australia.
5. Yuri Podolin. Oil portraits from Belarus.
6. Carmen Luna. Collage from Spain.
7. Cris Acqua. Surrealism from Spain.
8. Corne Eksteen. Large scale oils exploring sexuality and spirituality.
9. Christian Demare. Photography from France.
10. Massimo Caria. Computerized cityscapes from Italy.
11. The Do LaB. A radical art collective.

Michele Vincent
Michele Vincent has an exhibition from May 27 to June 14, 2008 entitled "The Fantastic Universe" at:
Montserrat Contemporary Art Gallery
547 W. 27th street
New York, New York 10001
http://www.montserratgallery.com
212-268-0088
Gallery Hours : Tuesday - Saturday 12-6pm.
Please join them at a champagne reception Thursday, May 29th, 2008 from six to eight o'clock.

Susan I. Sheehan

Susan I. Sheehan
Susan Isabella Sheehan is the May 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Susan works digitally on mindscapes and altered landscapes that explore hidden cores of thought. Her style is mostly surreal, often dark and complex, with a spiritual quality. History and mythology emerge from the images she creates. She works intuitively as the energies move her.

Susan began by capturing the natural beauty of the Sonora desert in Arizona and of life around her in pencil etchings and watercolors. Now, composing visions using a computer, the placement, color balance and style from her early work are still present. She loves exploring thought and consciousness, and knows that the potential of the human mind and soul are without limit. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

Lightning in a Bottle
Lightning in a Bottle is a green outdoor music and art festival near Santa Barbara, California produced by The Do Lab artists network. It takes place before, during, and after Memorial Day weekend: the gate opens at 4pm Thursday May 22 and closes at noon Tuesday May 27. The stages will be live starting on Friday from 3pm till midnight, and from around 10am to midnight on Saturday and Sunday. The vending village will have clothing, jewelry, and a wide variety of organic vegetarian food choices. http://lightninginabottle.org/2008/

New Artwork in the Galleries
Gilbert Abric, Joseph DiSipio, Derek McCrea, Nirvana Blues, Kevin Barr, Josef Marsal, Robert Chami and Nicholas Caputi have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Mariusz Gutowski. Oil and tempera figures from Poland.
2. Danuta Krajewska. Impressionistic portraits from Poland.
3. Sergio Fasola. Surrealistic photography from Argentina.
4. Mark Highton-Ridley. Cityscape photography from the U.K.
5. Melissa Fair. Vintage photography and texture.
6. Colleen Gorlewski. Photography of the beauty around us.
7. Olga Gelfand. Watercolor landscapes from Russia.
8. Stephen Gomm. Digital landscapes from the U.K.
9. Colin Bailey. Oil landscapes and beachscapes from the U.K.

Brewery Art Walk
The Brewery is an artist colony in Los Angeles with semi-annual studio tours. The spring tour featured magnificent work. Ann Erpino displayed her Science Series. The Science Series consists of dozens of small complex paintings, each inspired by a different scientific project or scientist at Caltech. Sean Sobczak had illuminated sculpture; Bruce Gray magnetic sculpture. Max Grundy, consistent with his "Fear is the New Beauty" theme, had stylized depictions of people falling out of airplanes. CJ Kang showed abstract paintings about contemporary China.

Marek Swiatecki

Marek Swiatecki
Marek Swiatecki is the April 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Marek is a Polish painter of portraits, landscapes and masterpiece reproductions. His landscapes, done in pastels, are of forests and lakes where lights, shapes and colors create a rare, unusual atmosphere. His masterpiece reproductions, done in oil, are of works by Rembrandt, Willem Kalf, Willem van Aelst and other XVII Century Dutch still lifes.

Paintings by Marek Swiatecki are displayed in several galleries in Poland: TopArt in Torun; B-Gallery in Gdansk and Gallery Brama in Olsztyn. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

New Renowned Artists
March is Women's History Month in the United States, and the 2008 theme is "Women’s Art: Women’s Vision". In honor of this, biographies of the following female renowned artists have been added to http://RenownedArt.com/ in the last month:

1. Laura Alma-Tadema (b. 1852), British painter.
2. Sophie Anderson (b. 1823), French-born British genre painter.
3. Sofonisba Anguissola (b. 1532), Italian painter of the Renaissance.
4. Marie Bashkirtseff (b. 1858), Ukrainian-born Russian painter and sculptor.
5. Cecilia Beaux (b. 1855), American society portraitist.
6. Anna Boch (b. 1848), Belgian painter.
7. Fanny Churberg (b. 1845), master Finnish painter.
8. Evelyn De Morgan (b. 1855), English Pre-Raphaelite painter.
9. Adelaide Labille-Guiard (b. 1749), French history and portrait painter.
10. Maria Sibylla Merian (b. 1647), naturalist and scientific illustrator.
11. Marianne North (b. 1830), English naturalist and flower-painter.
12. Liubov Popova (b. 1889), Russian avant-garde painter and designer.
13. Faith Ringgold (b. 1930), African American artist, known for painted story quilts.
14. Olga Rozanova (b. 1886), Russian avant-garde artist.
15. Rachel Ruysch (b. 1664), Dutch painter of floral still-lifes.
16. Jenny Saville (b. 1970), English painter and a leading Young British Artist.
17. Beatrice Wood (b. 1893), American artist, dubbed the "Mama of Dada".

For the full list of female renowned artists, see http://RenownedArt.com/indexfemale.php

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Adib Fattal. Cities and villages inspired by middle-eastern architecture and life.
2. Susan Isabella Sheehan. The deepest hidden cores of thought.
3. Meagan Winterlude Babcock. Fire Art -- art that has been burned.
4. Benetti Andrea. Symbolic interiors from Italy.
5. Lisa Ingrey. Non-objective landscape and nature painting.
6. Dario Mohr. Visual expression of relationships.
7. Sarah Duke. Conceptual abstracts.
8. William Everly. Photorealistic portraits from family photos.
9. Julian CoxARBS. Drawing and sculpture from England.
10. Monica Palermo. Action abstracts from Italy.

New Artwork in the Galleries
Josef Marsal, Robert Chami and Nicholas Caputi have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

Gabe Kirchheimer
Gabe Kirchheimer, prolific and outstanding Burning Man photographer has a show in Oregon: Chemeketa Community College Gallery Building 3, Rm. 122 4000 Lancaster Dr. NE, Salem, Oregon April 2–April 30, M–F 10a.m.–6 p.m. Opening reception: April 2, 12–2 p.m. Burning Man Image gallery: http://tinyurl.com/24sl4k Show details: http://www.chemeketa.edu/collegelife/arts/gallery/index.html

Broad Contemporary Art Museum Inaugural Installation
The newly opened Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art offers visitors the distilled essence of contemporary American art. It provides iconic artworks from some of the most important artists of the last forty years, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, Ellsworth Kelly, Cindy Sherman, Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Baldessari, Jeff Koons, Chris Burden, Mike Kelley, and Richard Serra.

Richard Serra's minimalist steel sculpture, Band, occupies most of the first floor. It is so large, 13 feet tall, 70 feet long and 40 feet wide that the viewer walks inside it. Interestingly, each of about a dozen plates that comprise Band are freestanding. It's not that the structure once put together holds itself up; it's that every part is free in terms of its gravitational load.

Ad-free Galleries With No Commission.
Artists with Digital Consciousness Gallery Service can create and edit on-line galleries from a control panel. These galleries contain no ads and are among the most prominent pages on Digital Consciousness. Artists may sell artwork from their galleries free of commission. Gallery Service requires registration and $30 a year.
Registration is free and registered artists may create an Artist Page without purchasing Gallery Service. Registered Artists can use the Edit link at the bottom of their Artist Page to edit their Artist Page or to upgrade to Gallery Service.

Art and Robots

Worth1000 has merged art and robots into contest.

Take any classical work of art and robotize it. Quality is a must. You will have 48 hours for this contest so make your submission count.

MARK FISCHER

EXPRESSIONS GALLERY

2035 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, California, 94703

AN AFTERNOON WITH MARK FISCHER,

Sunday, March 30, 2008 1-3 PM

"Where Nature, Science and Art Meet"

Mark Fischer will speak on his Cetacean and Avian Art work. The art work is currently on display at Expressions Gallery through April 4th

Engineer/Artist Mark Fischer will give a presentation on 'Whalesong Art', 1-3pm on Sunday, March 30th, 2008, at Expressions Gallery in Berkeley, California.

For seven years Mr. Fischer has been researching ways to visualize the sounds of birds, whales and dolphins. Recent work includes investigations of the sounds of the Minke whale, the subject of 'research whaling' near Antarctica, the sounds of the Blue whale in the north Pacific; and tropical birds native to Kaua'i.

His work has been featured in the New York Times, Utne Reader, Greenpeace (Germany), NRDC's OnEarth, the Discovery Channel, GEO, Expressions and Odyssey magazines, San Diego Union Tribune, and AAHA's Trends.

Alexander Sadoyan

Alexander Sadoyan
Alexander Sadoyan is the March 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Alexander was born in 1954 in Yerevan, Armenia and has resided in Los Angeles since 1996. He graduated from Terlemezian Art College of Fine Arts and has participated in more than 50 exhibitions.

Alexander paints forms and shapes to convey energy and spiritual conditions. He is inspired from life and nature. The colors and rhythms along with the mysterious inner life of mankind become his themes. His images are put together in a dreamlike sequence to reinforce the realty of metaphysical worlds.

Alexander has sold paintings in numerous auctions and his work is in private collections in the US, France, Germany, Canada, Russia, Switzerland, China, Norway and Lebanon. He is a member of the Artist’s Union of the Republic of Armenia and the International Association of Arts at UNESCO. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

The Renowned Art Domain
Biographies of over 500 renowned artists are now indexed on this domain: by century (13th-20th Century), by artist's name, or from an alphabar. These are the most significant, famous, and influential figures in the history of art. The biographies emphasize the artistic style of the artists. Included is an index of female artists. http://RenownedArt.com/

Art Events
February marked the 10th anniversary of the Laguna Beach First Thursdays Art Walk. At the North end of Laguna, the Whitney Gallery exhibited wonderful pastel portraits by Bradford J. Salamon. The Kush Gallery exhibited paintings of Vladimir Kush, the Russian surrealist painter known for metaphorical realism. More on the Laguna Art Walk and on other Southern California art walks, open studio tours and art festivals can be found through the calandar: http://digitalconsciousness.net/directory/artcalendar.php

New Artwork in the Galleries
Gilbert Abric, Joseph DiSipio, Barbara Rose Guada, Robert Chami, Nicholas Caputi and Nirvana Blues have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Chris Kelly. Interpretation of formative energies that govern seeds and natural shapes.
2. Pam Houle. Watercolor florals.
3. Adam Rowell. Fantasy photography.
4. Sej. Organic abstracts from Australia.
5. Rhonda Hall. Realistic interior landscape and nature compositions.
6. Jan Zaremba. Landscape Sumi-e, East Asian ink and wash painting.
7. Dawn Secord. Pastel dogs.
8. Susan J. Sauerbrun. Light and color abstracts.
9. Eemeel. Portraits and nudes from the Netherlands.
10. Chris Heisinger. Stained Glass mosaics.
11. Peter Hobden. Cityscapes from Switzerland.
12. Renso Castaneda. Photo-realistic portraits from Peru.
13. Miklos Legrady. New media and visual art.
14. Max Conrad. Celebrity photography.
15. Stephen Rivers. Xismtic modernism and cubism.

Mark Fischer

Acutorostrata yunaska

Lines, Patterns and Textures
Feb. 16 - Apr. 11 expressionsgallery.org
Location: Expressions Gallery
2035 Ashby Avenue
Berkeley, California 94703

Highlight: February 18, 2008: Reception 6 - 8:30 p.m.

Notes: Mark Fischer's sonic mandalas from the sounds of birds, whales and dolphins will be among the works exhibited at the Lines, Patterns and Textures show at Expressions Gallery, from February 16th through April 11th, 2008. Join us for the opening night reception from 6pm until 8:30pm.

Contact: 510.644.4930, expressionsgallery AT msn.com

Norman Engel

Norman Engel
Norman Engel is the February 2008 Digital Color Artist of the Month. Norman is a prolific artist specializing in contemporary paintings of women. His approach to painting is reminiscent of the painters of the early twentieth century. His style combines the traditions of the Old Masters with contemporary abstraction to create original canvases of layered color, sensitive line and classical composition.

Norman's subjects include modern women, girls, and the nude figure, as well as still life, landscapes and abstracts. He works in oil and acrylic and also sketches and draws. Norman's studio is located in Houston, Texas and he teaches at the Art Institute of Houston. His paintings are included in collections all over the world. Although painting is his full time passion, he is also active in animation, illustration, graphic design, photography, and teaching. http://RenownedArt.com/digitalcolor/

New Artwork in the Galleries
Nicholas Caputi, Maggie Connell, Joseph DiSipio, Gerard Van den Berge and Derek McCrea have added new artwork to their galleries. http://DigitalConsciousness.com/gallerylist.phtml

New Contemporary Artists
The following artists registered in the last month. To view the work of an artist enter the artist's name at http://DigitalConsciousness.com To see these most recent artists go to http://DigitalConsciousness.com/new/

1. Manfred Kielnhofer. Mystical sculpture from Austria.
2. Nizar Sabour. Internationally exhibited art professor from Syria.
3. Paulina Sydney. Alaskan fantasies.
4. Zsuzsa Doszkocs. Cityscapes from Hungary.
5. Uvi Poznansky. Bronze and ceramic sculpture.
6. Isabelle Hayeur. Installation art and digital montage from Canada.
7. Neil Howe. Surrealistic art and music from Australia.
8. Arash Helali. Landscapes and nature from Iran.
9. Robert Chami. Pastels and inventions from Syria.
10. Alan Estes. Digital abstracts from photographs.
11. Patricia Estes. Florals and still-lifes.
12. b jAXON, E.C.A.D. Realistic pencil drawings.
13. Funism. Art movement started in 1991 by Norm Magnusson.
14. Phil Slattery. Elementalist manipulation of shininess and texture.
15. Jeff Fisher. 3D science fiction, and fantasy modeling.

Avant Duck
The Sullivan Goss Gallery of Santa Barbara, California has an exhibit entitled "Avant Duck." The artist, Martha Mayer Erlebacher, interpreted basically the entire history of art through the filter of . . . a duck. Now, this idea sounds like it could end up being kitschy or too cutesy, but instead it was an extraordinary exploration of art as interpreted by the world of the Duck. There was a Munch ("The Scream" become "The Quack"), a Duchamp/Da Vinci Mona Lisa duck, as well as duck versions of Magritte, Picasso, O'Keeffe, Dali, Warhol, and many other works. Particularly of note was the Ofili. Ofili is famous for using elephant dung in his work, so Erlebacher of course incorporated duck droppings into her work. A spectacular exhibit!

Burning Man Ticket Sales
This year there will be no ticket sales at the event gate. $210 and $225 tickets are sold out. 10,000 third level are available for $250, and after that, fourth level tickets at $295, while supplies last.

Artist live/work Community Survey
The developers of "Artist Walk", an art colony in New Jersey, are conducting a short survey. The purpose of the survey is to help plan and design the community. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=lFDyB6PQsWTj47RqBk6ntw_3d_3d