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My Art Collection

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I can't afford Van Goghs or anything like that, but I like to get originals +by local artists, which are cheaper, and bring home original art as +souvenirs of places I visit. You've never heard of +any of the artists, probably. Here are some examples from a few of my +favorite artists: + +

Lebadang + Jon Rife + Gerta Farber + David Voigt + +

Anthony Holdsworth + Sue Averell + Bela Harcos + David Dion + +

Kathleen Petyarre + Fernando Reyes + Judith Corning + Kay Weber + +

The pictures on this page really don't do justice at all to +the actual artwork. (To make good photos of art that's framed behind +glass, as is most of my collection, you have to un-frame it, so as not +to see reflections, and you have to have your camera on a tripod. +I don't have a tripod and I don't trust myself to get the artwork back +together properly afterwards, so I just found the least glare-filled +spot in my house and put the framed works there. So I got dim and +crooked pictures, which I then tweaked digitally to the best of my +poor ability.) Just use your imagination, and then follow the links below +to see some professionally done web pages of these artists' works. + +

According to the EFF, the court ruling in the ditto.com case says that +posting "thumbnails" of images is fair use under the copyright act, but +linking to full-size images in a separate window isn't. So I have reason +to hope this page is legal! + +

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Lebadang is a Vietnamese artist who lived in France until his +recent death. What you can't see very +well in these photos (but try zooming in!) is that an important part of his +work is using custom-sculpted paper, with designs raised, especially in the +white areas you see here. Many of those images are of family groups. So, +while these are multiple-original works, to call them "prints" suggests an +image that doesn't do them justice. Lebadang also did paint-on-canvas works, +sculptures, and rugs (as shown below) in the same 3-D style. + +

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To see more: +http://viettouch.com/lebadang/ + +

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Jon Rife is a San Francisco artist. He's very interested +in textures, and I'm fascinated by the way he can represent +textures in a flat monoprint, most of which is lost on you in these +bad reproductions. (A monoprint is made by painting onto a smooth +surface, glass or metal, and then transferring the paint onto paper +in a press.) Rife's more recent works include both direct paint-to-canvas +and the integration of digital imagery with his painting. +The covers +of my Computer Science Logo Style books +are taken from three of his works. + +

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To see more: +http://www.jonrife.com/ + +

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Gerta Farber is a local artist, living in Oakland, who does mostly +watercolors on a range of subjects: landscapes, portraits, and +abstracts. Here we see a California mission church (the first original +artwork I ever bought!), a house, and some +semi-abstract trees. + +

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Alas, her artwork seems to have disappeared from the Web since she +retired, so I can't give a link. + +

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David Voigt is an Australian artist whose work I find interesting +partly because of the way he depicts motion (the birds' flight, the +wind, the river). He mostly does +landscapes from nature. These are watercolors; he also does even +more dramatic acrylic paintings. + +

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To see more: +http://www.davidvoigt.com/ + + +

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Anthony Holdsworth is a local artist, living in Oakland, who does +very realistic acrylic paintings. My favorites are his urban landscapes +featuring careful attention to the actual street surfaces, but he also loves +to paint the Italian countryside. + +

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To see more: +http://www.anthonyholdsworth.com/ + +

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Sue Averell is a local Marin County artist who paints very dramatic +acrylic semi-realistic works. I love the freedom in her style, and the +bold, thick blocks of color. + +

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To see more: +http://www.sueaverell.com/ + +

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Bela Harcos is a San Francisco artist who paints very vibrant +abstract acrylics. I love the colors and the textures! He's also a sculptor. + +

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To see more: +http://www.evolvingartgallery.com/artist_harcos_bela.htm + +

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David Dion is a San Francisco sculptor who works in wood and +plastics. He makes tabletop-sized fantasy buildings, boats, and things I'm +not sure about! + +

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To see more: +http://www.mesart.com/artworks.jsp.que.artist.eq.987.shtml + +

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Kathleen Petyarre is one of the most famous living Australian +Aboriginal artists. I confess that most Aboriginal art leaves me cold, but +the artists in the Utopia region are an exception, and the greatest of those +(imho) is Kathleen Petyarre. Her work has a depth that I can stare at for +hours. The pictures tell stories at several levels, but I know next to +nothing about that, I'm afraid. + +

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To see more: +http://www.gallerieaustralis.com/aspx/kathleen_petyarre.aspx +
http://www.aboriginalartstore.com.au/artists/kathleen-petyarre.php +
http://www.aboriginalartdirectory.com/artists/slideshow/kathleen-petyarre/ +

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Fernando Reyes is an Oakland artist who does landscapes and +thoughtful portraits in addition to his works in the style shown here, my +favorites, featuring parts of people's bodies overlayed in interesting +patterns. + +

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To see more: +http://www.freyesart.com +

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Judith Corning lives a block away from me! She does these gorgeous, +detailed nature paintings in acrylic, among other styles. + +

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To see more: +http://judithcorning.com/ +

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Kay Weber is in San Francisco. He does these very intricate paper +cutouts; the ones in these pictures are made from gift wrap paper. He also +volunteers some of his time teaching art to teenagers, several of whom tend +to pop in during his Open Studios stints, which is fun. + +

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To see more: +http://www.kayweberartstudio.com/ +

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Souvenirs of exotic places

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The cities mentioned below are where I bought the artworks, which may not +be exactly where the artist lives and works. +(For example, Jan Neil's studio is in Melbourne, but I bought this piece at +a gallery in Darwin.) In a couple of cases I was unable to find a web link. +

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From Bratislava, Slovakia (artist: Igor Piacka) + +

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