Category: Art

Peanut Butter

By Robin Young

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Robin Young – “Lady J Prevaricates”
Robin Young – “The Great Pumpkin Gives Thanks”
Robin Young – “All the Happy Little Furs”

– Robin Young

Author’s Note: I spent much of my formative art-making years dabbling and being inquisitive about many art-making techniques including sculpture, architecture, furniture design, painting, and collage. I found that even though collage has become the art medium I am most comfortable utilizing on a daily basis, it is the ability to freely move from one interest to another that pushes me. In 2010, I took a mixed media art class at the local community college. This is where I began working more extensively in the medium of collage, utilizing both existing images and forming my own imagery with paper.

Sometimes these pieces will host only a few clippings from magazines to tell the story in my mind, other times it will take many clippings weaved together for the piece to take shape.…

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Jerusalem Florists

By Nekoda Singer

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Nekoda Singer – “Aviv Flowers”
Nekoda Singer – “Lakhish Flowers”
Nekoda Singer – “German Colony Flowers”

– Nekoda Singer

Author’s Note: These acrylic paintings from Jerusalem Florists series deal with the merging positive and negative colours, as well as everyday life with classic art. I started by using for inspiration frames of colour negative films taken in downtown Jerusalem (instead of painting in the open air, which was very tenable considering our extremely hot climate and the sun that in summer kills any distinguishable colour). By adding to these nearly documentary scenes free quotations from the old masters’ still lives, I tried to create complex visions to trace the link between the real and the surreal, between colourless and colourful, between present-day and old, between cultivated and wild, and between daydream and nightmare.…

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