Sozra – John and Deborah Sosnowsky
John and Debby have been making, designing and handcrafting Jewelry, Art & Music full time since 1980. They met at Towson State University in the Art department. John’s concentration was in Photography and Debby’s was in Fabric Design and Weaving. Shortly after they were married, they decided to combine their talents to create a jewelry business. Their son Corrie, a 2007 graduate from Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, joined the team as an apprentice in 1997 adding to their diverse creativity. John’s Music and Art is a never-ending creative endeavor. His 5th CD ³ Multiverse Vortex² will be coming out in the fall of 2013. The music is an extension of the ³Multiverse² Vortex 2D Art series.
Noi Volkov
St. Petersburg, Russia – master illusionist creating the likeness of Dali, Picasso, and DaVinci.
Art History Ceramic Statements
Born in Agapovka, Russia in 1947, Noi Volkov grew up in the Soviet Union. He graduated from both the Grekov Art College in Odessa and the Muckhina Art College in Leningrad, now known as St. Petersburg. He lived as a non conformist artist in Odessa facing limitations and hardships brought on by the Soviet government up until 1989 when he was finally able to move to the U.S. with his family.
He lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland and participates in many shows such as the SOFA show, Art Palm Beach show and exhibits in galleries through out the U.S. such as the Irving Gallery in Palm Beach, the Duan Reed gallery, International Images gallery, the Habatat galleries in Palm Beach, Washington, Barrington, MA.
https://www.noivolkov.com/about
Cynthia Erdahl
From Richmond, VA.
“Good art should move, ignite, inspire, excite feelings good and bad. It should challenge one to ask questions and ways of thinking. It might provide answers too.”
Feminist expressionist paintings in acrylic on masonry boards and canvas.
Richard Birkett
From New York. Found object fantasy clocks.
“Richard Birkett sees obsolete machines and bits of our past as NOT JUNK, but as objects with the potential for a new life. Birkett dismantles these defunct machines, and incorporates their intricate insides and outsides in his assemblages. Broken typewriters, dinosaur VCR’s, 1950s cameras, and superannuated engineering devices are favorites for rescue and demolition. Making clocks is his form of a romantic quest to save the flotsam and industrial debris of the recent past from ending up in a landfill.” – https://laughingsquid.com/richard-birkett-fantasy-clockmaker/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA_TrCahQwA
Eccentric sculptures made with engine parts, typewriters, bottle caps, nails, toy airplanes, and movie viewfinders.
Barbara Woods
Barbara Woods is an artist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She is known for painted silk using the Gutta Serti technique and encaustic wax painting. Her silk paintings and encaustic layered silk paintings can be seen online and at juried art shows, nationwide. Working in slab-constructed clay, Barbara carves the bases and bodies of her Chrysalis lighted art forms. Color is added to the ceramics using patinas and paint, matching bases with the painted silk. Light is added using common electrical components and LED bulbs. The results depict winged creatures, butterfly and moth chrysalises.
Besides painting, Barbara works in clay. She combines the 2 mediums of silk and clay to create exotic lighted sculptures. The ceramic and silk light sculptures have the appearance of chrysalis-stage moths and butterflies and have become a sought-after addition to homes all over the US and Canada.
The Chrysalis Lamps are 38″ H x 10″ W and are $385 each.
John Teal Crutchfield
From Richmond, VA.
Gallery Owner. Graphic designs applied to brass, encased with fiberglass creating an entire world of Art history and Art Deco.
Exhibiting nationally and internationally, John T. Crutchfield has produced graphic designs in mixed media fiberglass on brass for the past 25 years. These custom-made works of art consist of an unique amalgamation of advanced graphic designs and linear application of intense colors on a high quality brass base. The artworks are then cast in a durable clear fiberglass encasement. The purpose of these designs is to evoke the inner desires of one wishing to escape from the present to explore the past civilizations of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Persia, to get lost in a famous Da Vinci painting, or to fall into a bed of roses. To achieve these results, John draws on his influences from his studies in Europe. He aims to craft one of a kind pieces that transport the individual beyond reality into a world of grandeur and imagination.
http://www.metallicartgraphics.com/
Hudson River Glass
From New York.
Architectural glass casting imitating rivulets in the Hudson River.
A glass studio casting functional and sculptural objects for over 20 years.
John and Wendy Gilvey, Michael Benzer and Jennifer Smith founded Hudson Beach Glass in 1987. Our main studio is located in a renovated ice house in the Hudson Valley of New York state. In 2003, we opened our gallery and glass blowing demonstration studio on Main Street in Beacon, NY. We are located in a restored firehouse just a short walk from Dia:Beacon and the Beacon Metro-North train station. Call us at 845 440-0068 to find a local gallery in your area.
Julia Watkins
From Colorado.
Energism – the swirls in these paintings represent the flow of energy between all things – man, animal, and landscape.
Artist Julia Watkins, known as “Energy Artist JuliaTM” is best known for creating powerful, vibrant, energy enhanced and channeled paintings and jewelry.
She was a prodigy artist, having started graduate school art classes at the age of 16 (NC State School Of Design) and finishing up her art instruction at the Art Student’s League in NYC where she studied under some of this era’s greatest portrait painters.
Of interest is that she supported her art studies back then by becoming a known international model and also received a degree in computer science (University of Texas), specializing in artificial intelligence. She was a member of a small team that developed the AI and graphics for the F16 fighter jet.
While she had the career option to make a steady living as a portrait artist, Ms. Watkins felt a higher calling following a powerful dream she had in September 2003 and began focusing on colorful, positive energy, spiritual subjects.
This decision to turn away from an easy living and start a new form of art was not without consequences. For 8 years she traveled the US with her husband, entrepreneur Spencer Kluesner, living out of a van and trying to gain acceptance for “Energy Art” selling at outdoor art fairs. This near homeless life came to its conclusion in 2011 when thanks to a number of supportive patrons, she was able to open her energy art and jewelry studio near Vail, CO.
Ms. Watkins is best known as the founder of the Energism Art Movement where artists focus on creating works that project positive spiritual energies to the viewer. Her artwork is in the collections of Carnegie Mellon, Longview Museum, Children’s Hospital and Deepak Chopra. She is represented by noted licensing agent Suzanne Cruise – Cruise Creative.
Helio & Gregorio Bracamonte
Three generations of pueblo potters from Nicaragua create terra cotta and stoneware. Colors created with paints and tree scraps, designs carved with scaffitto.
Mythological, Mayan, and Aztec themes.
Gregorio Bracamonte was born September 3, 1949 in the indigenous pottery pueblo of San Juan de Oriente, Nicaragua. Gregorio’s father was a stone carver and his mother a traditional potter who coiled large utilitarian urns. For centuries men did not make pottery in Gregorio’s pueblo since the Nicoyan Indian times. As a young man Gregorio Bracamonte began the journey of recapturing the lost process of his Nicoyan ancestors.
Mia Tyson
Hand carved porcelain vessels.
Rolled slabs formed into vases which are dipped in black silt and then carved into with a knife to create beautiful designs.
The Process
Mia’s pieces are individual works of art, hand-designed and crafted in a process that can take from several days to several weeks to complete. “After creating the form out of specially prepared clay slabs, I apply a thin coat of black glaze to the surface. I then carve my designs directly into the underlying clay body. Once the original etched drawing is complete, the piece undergoes a carefully executed firing process that produces the distinct finish that has become my signature.”
Sharron Leigh
Sharron has been hand crafting and painted gourds for 10+ years. She uses her extensive horticulture background and love for nature to create her one of kind vibrant and exciting designs on a substance crafted by earth itself. Her intensive process includes a 7 month wait for the gourds to become hard enough to carve with an exacto knife. Then she paints on the gourds from her subconscious using ink. She finishes it off with multiple layers of high glass lacquer. The finish makes the gourds water tight and washable, making them useful as bowls, vases, ect.
Rollin Karg
From Kansas, Karg makes hand-blown glass paperweights, made by rolling hot glass through sparks.
Rollin Karg, is a renowned glass artisan from the Midwest who designs and creates small and massive sculptural pieces from molten glass, usually shaped in a freeform, asymmetrical manner. He brings the glass to life through his dynamic use of color, especially dichroic colors – a color that transmits one color while reflecting another – which adds a unique dimension to the piece.
While Karg prefers to use traditional techniques of glassmaking that are thousands of years old, he also adds his own inventive techniques to each project. It is amazing and awe-inspiring to watch him create massive works of art through the use of a five-foot blowpipe.
Although Karg spent the first part of his career as an industrial engineer, photographer, potter and woodworker before becoming a full time glass artist in 1983, he has quickly gained notoriety for his contribution to the world of glass art. He has won many awards in competitions and shows throughout the United States and his work has been shown at galleries and exhibitions throughout most of North America.
https://www.rollinkarg.com/index.html
Brian Prathrow
From Richmond, VA.
Twisted hand formed copper and steel wire sculptures with the feeling of a blind contour drawing.
Paul Snoldner
From Colorado.
Large sculptural ceramics with textured graphic surfaces.
http://www.paulsoldner.com/book/nth.html
Grant Kristler
From Richmond, VA.
Frames made with recycled found wood from construction sites and inlaid with glass mosaics.
https://www.custommade.com/by/grantkistlerdesigns/
Paul Phillipe Descroches
From France/Brazen, Canada.
Bronze sculpture through solder and metal construction. A male and female from embedded in river rock stone.
Lorrain Bennet
From Florida.
Plaster of Paris statues carved, decorated, and formed into Goddesses of Antiquity.
Patrick Owens
From Pennsylvania.
Oak and purple heart from Brazil. Velvet lined interior drawers.
Bill and Sue Baldwin
From Lynchburg, VA.
Masks, cut, formed, and dyed from a single piece of leather, molded while wet.
Ross Edwards
Large connected part vessels constructed, slipcast, and spun into majestic forms.
From Richmond, VA.
Gabriel De Silva
From Argentina.
His company Infinity Metal uses hand wrought copper, brass, and steel to make candelabras.
Byron Saunders
From Arizona.
Slab formed ceramics roll printed over a jar and spray painted.
John and Elizabeth Best
From New Jersey.
Stained glass cut boxes with inlaid agate stones. Mirror interior
Ingrid Hason
From San Francisco, CA.
Decorative hand-blown glass vessels. Myrinni canes and Biomorphic themes.
Neil Duman
From Richmond, VA.
Slumped and blown glass classic vessel shapes, sandblasted, and casted.
Amy Rouse
Based in Cape Cod, Amy makes hand painted Art Deco wine glasses.
Mauro Possobon
Ancient Egyptian Goddess Isis precursor of Venus.
Cast hydrostone, carved, sandblasted, heated, and aged.
Studio Inferno
Based in New Orleans, this artist group is known for their hand-blown glass with a playful mix of color and geometric shapes.
Key West Sunsets
Gouache paints and colors set to paper which is then twisted for depth and visual effect.
Genna Gurvich
Slipcase ceramics with pop art and art history themes like Oldenburg.
Marcia Riever
Handmade Raku Ceramics inspired by Art Deco. The crackle effect created with smoke to combustion from burning paper.
Emily Gartner
Geniune 60s albums laminated and made into fashion accessories.
Don Rea Designs
Found object wire sculpture people using junk found at flea markets and junk yards. Made with copper, brass, and silver.
Maria Smith
Hand painted black and gold vases, wine glasses, and champagne flutes.
Sylvi Harwin
From California, Sylvi anodizes aluminum to create her beautifully colored jewelry. She does this by passing an electrical current through the metal creating a funky and fashionable look.
Tunde Hidvegi
A romantic symbolist from Hungary.
She uses smashed antique plates to create fascinating mosaics.
Diane Clement
Diane Clement is an artist based out of Richmond, Va. She uses explosive painting techniques creating accidental, emotional colors while always pushing the boundaries with experimental mediums.
Judith Schwab
Judith Schwab is an environmental artist whose work has been featured in numerous shows around the world, including the Traveling Exhibition Woman Collared for Work, which Schwab curated. She has received many awards including the Individual Artist Cultural Arts Award from Broward County, The Delaware Division of the Arts Opportunity Grant in Painting, and the Facilitator James T Doty award for the International Art for Peace Project. Judith Schwab was also an honorary professor at the Xi’an art school in Xi’an, China. Her works are heavily influenced by the social and environmental conditions of the world.