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.