Daniela Mastrangelo, Billo

Daniela Mastrangelo, Grehni

Daniela Mastrangelo, Jawan

Daniela-Mastrangelo, Radha

Daniela Mastrangelo, Sadhu

Daniela Mastrangelo, Tau

November 2012

BHARAT

Daniela Mastrangelo is a photographer from Livormo, Italy. Constantly looking for a union between photography and painting her medium of photo prints on wax covered cotton, felt and wood yeild the chiaroscuro Mastrangelo yearns for in her work. She perceives her wax medium as a flexible material able to withstand the elements of weather and tactile senses. A 1998 graduate of Ravenna Art School and a 2006 MFA graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, her influences come from multiple platforms as diverse as set design, art restoration, and theater.

Visit Mastrangelo’s website at danielamastrangelo.com

November 2012

Cutting People In

Christina King has been attracted to collage and the ability to add visual components to a work for a long time. In conjunction with this aesthetic, she began removing elements as she experimented with the street photography. The process evolved into a removal of specific individuals from the photographs with an exacto-knife. By choosing certain people and meticulously removing them from the scene felt powerful, conceptually and visually. On a whim, the artist could delete their presence and simultaneously adjust and highlight the composition of these photographs. The figural absences took away King’s anxiety and desire to protect the subjects: turning the focus back to the viewer, and how the mind wants to imagine the setting. Through doing this the people are no longer the subjects. They are a part of the setting.

Visit King’s website at christymking.wordpress.com

Leah Appel, Trash

Leah Appel, Hang Glider Dune

Leah Appel, Leesburg

Leah Appel, China Town

Leah Appel, Colorfiled #1

Leah Appel, Bean

November 2012

New Work: Elements of Design

Leah Appel is a photographer currently working in the Washington, DC area. She is a graduate from the Savannah College of Art and Design where she received her BFA in photography. Leah works as both a commercial and fine art photographer. She works in a variety of mediums including digital and film photography. Please contact for more information.

Visit her website at leahappel.foliosnap.com

October 2012

Label Me: Call Me A Name

What’s in a name or a title of a painting and how does it influence you? Do you look at an artwork and turn away confident in your interpretation of it and satisfied with your response to it? Or, do you look for more information to elaborate on the artist’s intentions? Do you look for a label or tag, a form of descriptor that perhaps clarifies or gives greater meaning to what the artist wants you to see or understand? Does that descriptor alter your perception of what you have just seen and change your experience. What if you, the viewer, could title the painting, could attach meaning to it, to lend further insight into it and perhaps supplant another person’s perception of the work?

Jackie Hoysted’s new paintings of contemporary women contribute to the interpretation of her work by assigning labels and tags, attributing names and titles to her work., which may or may not, confirm or contradict her own viewpoints. Visit her website at www.jackiehoysted.com.

October 2012

ART Options: Featuring artists with disabilities from St. John’s Community Services

In conjunction with Disability Awareness Month, St. John’s Community Services and Hillyer Art Space presented works by talented artists from the ART Options program at St. John’s Community Servivces, an arts-infused program designed to support the development of vocational, social and fine art skills for people with disabilities ages 16 and older.

Visit www.sjcs.org/pages/art-options for more information about ART Options.

Watch the promotional video here.