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Emily C. McPhie’s life revolves around family, faith, and art, and her paintings reflect the tenderness and toil of these things. Her art explores motherhood and avenues for gathering strength, beauty and wisdom from life.
Emily was born and raised in Orem, Utah. She graduated with a BFA from Brigham Young University in 2001. Chandler, AZ is now home to Emily, with her marvelous husband Gavin and sweet daughters Cordelia Lavender, Clover Iona, and Ezra Petunia.
Nguyen Dinh Dang was born in Hanoi, Vietnam, in 1958. He began drawing at age five and became an outstanding student. He hoped to become a professional painter but the Vietnam war and lack of painting materials restricted his work and made it difficult for Dang to pursue a living as a painter. This did not dampen Dang's passion for painting but the war led him to pursue a career in science.
Dang graduated from the Moscow State University in 1982. He received his Ph.D in nuclear theory in 1985, and his doctor of physics and mathematics sciences in 1990 at the same university. He went to Japan in 1994 as a research fellow and joined RIKEN (the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research) in 1995. Currently, he's an Accelerator Research Scientist at RIKEN's Heavy-Ion Nuclear Physics Laboratory.
For the past two decades, Dang's painting has shifted from impressionism to surrealism, whose most eminent representative, Salvador Dali, remains one of Dang's favorites. Once he gets an idea, he spends nights and weekends painting. A self-taught painter, Dang believes it is not important to explain the literal context of any artwork. "In the creative process of both art and science, the most important thing is intuition. You feel something intuitively. You cannot explain how it comes to you," he says.
Master landscape photographer James Randklev has diligently pursued his unique portrayals of nature for 30 years. He is recognized as one of America’s finest photographers. After a career in biological science and medicine, he turned to photography concentrating on landscapes as his subject and color as his medium. Photographing primarily with large format cameras Randklev’s explorations have led him to travel throughout America. The richness and subtlety of his images, as well as his unique vision to find and capture vivid patterns of color and forms, has earned him the recognition and esteem of both his peers and publishers. Editor Dan Richards of Popular Photography Magazine quotes: “If photography could be thought of as music, James Randklev’s work might well be considered baroque: thoroughly grounded in traditional elements, but with a further layering of complexity and variety to intrigue us. And for all their lush profusion, there are no superfluous notes”.
The Artist was born in Campania in 1957. Rossana Petrillo inspires in her work the atmosphere of the "rive gauche" of the Seine, and the Belle Epoque of the lunatic parisians, excited by the force of the "chanteuses" with their long lacey skirts which flowed enthusiastically. For her productions, the artist uses a careful choice of silk and brocades instead of cold canvases which makes her work more harmonions and full of charm. Into the damasked grate, that seems to hold her "women" in a precious cage, and in the staticity that is predominantly provocate by the immobility of our own thought, makes those "figures" live reality and they renovate the relation between emotions and near or far memories they restore the climate of intimacy or of vaporous futile talkings; they recall the presence-absence of erotic objects (the sofa, the bed, the mirror, the make-up stuff...) among tables, chairs and above all among walls only apparently innocent and neutral.
Alexander Volkov was born in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad), Russia in 1960. He started painting with oil as a high school student. From the age of 7 to 17 he attended a special English school and in 1986 graduated from the Department of Physics at Leningrad State University. Following graduation Alexander worked as an animator at Leningrad Studio of Science Films and later as a stage artist in a small Leningrad theatre.
In 1981 he began to exhibit his paintings with a group of 200 Leningrad artists known as the "Brotherhood of Experimental Arts", a conglomeration of "underground" artgroups active in Leningrad at the time. Later, he joined a splinter group called "Ostrov" or "Island" which united 30 artists who felt that, ideologically their work was neither socialist realism nor extreme avant garde.
Since moving to the U.S. in 1990 he has worked as a teacher and exhibited his paintings in Princeton and Lambertville, New Jersey, New hope, Pennsylvania, Carmel, Laguna Beach and San-Francisco, California and Finland.
Francois Fressinier was born in Cognac, France in 1968. He attributes much of his passion for the human figure to the fact that both of his parents were professional portrait photographers. He studied advertising and fine art at the Ecole Brassart Technique et Privee in Tours, near Paris. He also received a strong academic training in art from his father, to whom he gives credit for teaching him not to paint, but to see. That unique sight, colored with an esteem for the expressive linear drawing of Egon Schiele, has evolved into a personal style that is fluid, truly lovely, and classical in nature. It is his mastery of light and shadow and the delicate economy of his line which call to mind the exquisite conte drawings of Leonardo or sketches done by Ingres or Raphael. He even states his favorite time in history as being In a time period where time, speed and productivity were not the number one occupation of our days.
Imogen Cunningham was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. She began her photographic studies at the University of Washington and went on to become one of photography's early pioneers and commenced what became one of the longest photographic careers in the history of the medium.
In the 1920's, Cunningham turned her attention to artistic nudes of friends and family and the study of plant forms found in her garden. The results are staggering; an amazing body of work comprised of bold, contemporary forms.
Born in Nice on the French Riviera, Samy Charnine immigrated to the United States in 1983. He has had shows in San Diego, San Francisco, La Jolla and Newport Beach in California, Lahaina on the Island of Maui in Hawaii and in Denver and Aspen Colorado.