Leonid Afremov (born 12 July 1955 in Vitebsk, Belarus) is a Russian–Israeli modern impressionistic artist who works mainly with a palette knife and oils.[1] He developed his own unique technique and style which is unmistakable and cannot be confused with other artists. Afremov is mainly known as being a self-representing artist who promotes and sells his work exclusively over the internet with very little exhibitions and involvement of dealers and galleries.
Before the advancement of online sales and eBay, Afremov was a struggling artist. He was born in Vitebsk, Belarus, and lived there until 1990. Between 1990 and 2002 he lived in Israel, and from 2002 to 2010 in Boca Raton, Florida. Afremov currently resides in the popular resort town Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico, near Cancun. He paints mainly landscape, city scenes, seascapes, flowers and portraits. Most of his work is considered very colorful and politically neutral.
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"The artwork represents a striving to reconcile the inner world of instinct and emotions, with an external world that is both beautiful and hostile in its natural grandeur. It is an attempt to map the place where these worlds intersect. The paintings are an investigation of the struggle between a variety of human impulses: impulses that are as necessary as they are contradictory, and which therefore constantly undermine our psychic and social coherence even as they endow us with vitality, soul, and life.
The translucent layers of paint, contrasting soft ethereal brushwork and harder edged sweeping gestures, echo this divergence and depict a timeless place that hovers between dream and reality. The work is painted and partially destroyed many times before completion, resulting in a complex surface that is informed by the limits of the materials themselves in conjunction with a response to the traces of the painting’s former incarnations. " SKS
Bio
Born in Harlow, Essex, England, New York-based artist Samantha Keely Smith moved to the United States as a child with her family.
Smith started her College Education at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. She also attended the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, earning her BFA in Painting, with Honors.
HOSTIA
Nicola Verlato’s museum solo show "Hostia" opens at the Contemporary art museum in Lissone, Italy on May 10 and runs through June 22.
The exhibition will present Verlato's most recent art works combining several different media: painting, drawing, sculpture, music and video. It serves as a memorial to the Italian poet, Pasolini, assassinated in 1975.
Opening reception: Saturday, May 10th at 6:30pm
Address: via Gramsci 21, 20851 Lissone (MB)
See more at http://cromoforalapalomaonlinegallery.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/nicola-verlato.html
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