About the Artist :

My work is about the flow of joy and consciousness that animates my inner world. I am an emotional person who believes that we can meet through art, and my art attempts to share my emotions and perceptions with each viewer in a very personal, intimate way. Although influenced by the dream imagery of Surrealism I have found that Abstraction is the style that allows me to endow my work with the greatest flow and energy.

In my paintings, I offer you a moment of relief from life’s distractions. If you can stand in front of my works and feel “lost” in the beautiful world I have created for you my artistic goals have been met. Please, take in the color and beauty, and share a momentary connection with me through the magical medium of art.

Contact :

http://fernandodeoliveira.com

artforpeople@aol.com

I am an artist and educator with a research-based and concept-driven practice founded in hand weaving. My research takes both theoretical and practical forms as I experiment with materials, processes, and loom technologies. Through the lens of the textile, in modes that include installation, performance, and writing, I investigate the material and abstract systems in which we participate. In my work, I seek to evoke tensions around ideas of abundance, logic, and value through the physical production and accumulated repetitive labor of weaving.

Narratives produced by anthropic systems are often central themes of my research. As a foundational piece and product of human technology, the textile is sensual and material while simultaneously embedded with systematic mathematical information. I draw parallels between the complex systems of woven structure and other wide-ranging but equally fundamental human systems that bridge the abstract and material worlds, such as platonic mathematics, the US petroleum industry, and standardized measurement.

I have acted as the Fountainhead Fellow at VCU, Fulbright Scholar in Paris, France, and artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, Ox-Bow, and ACRE. I have exhibited work recently at venues including Sediment Gallery in Richmond, VA, the Mission Gallery and Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago, and PointDom in Toulouse, France. I received my BA from Brown University and my MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Corinne DiPietro, born and raised in Vancouver, currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts. Recently graduating New England School of Photography with Honors, she focuses on fine art color and black&white photography, in both digital and analog formats.

Melding self portraiture and imagery from nature, DiPietro bridges benign and emotional states together, therefore witnessing and embracing the fallen beauty that surrounds as what is expressed from within the artist herself.