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Joseph Chahfe'
and
Julia San Roman - Dennis M. Ellman

Joseph Chahfe' (Canada)

He says: The process which underlies the creation of my paintings ensues from the aesthetics of the mark. The creation occurs in two stages. One of them is entirely manageable, the other one stems from a far-reaching game of chance. It's this very game of chance, which gives shape to the background texture, which looks like time reflecting marks. It's a way of hiding and covering up in order to develop signs bearing an ambiguity between their function as a meaning vehicle and their status as illegible signs.

Two canvases are glued together then with a tearing off process, one of them remains while the other is pulled out. The remaining canvas bears the marks of it's torn off twin and becomes its reflection. The pulling out of the Matter is a metaphor for the tearing off from the original culture space.

The Matter bears the marks of a human process, an emotional approach to History and a search of origins. The Matter becomes a means of expression because it constitutes the infrastructure of the relationship between human beings and culture, lived history and memory. The painting's space is a limited surface, which becomes a territory which inner and outer parts imply a reference to the architectural elements surrounding our daily life. Walls, doors, windows become the metaphor of a painting in search of a fundamental unity.

Untitled (2006)
Mixed Media Acrylic on Paper
60" x 56"
Untitled (2006)
Mixed Media Acrylic on Paper
25" x 30"
Julia San Roman (Madrid, Spain)

She says: Icons are panels with a painting of sacred personages that are objects of veneration. They were developed in the middle Ages as a personal, intimate and indispensable medium for spiritual transaction. As an artist from Spain, I developed a reverence for this type of art, as well as Renaissance painting. Currently, in exploring my visual ideas, I attempt to integrate the old styles and techniques with the use of contemporary devices.

My work reflects my experience as a woman in an interconnected series on fertility, femininity and the dynamics of gender interaction. In the present series, “Of Grace”, I try to bring femininity to the level of veneration by using superimpositions of metaphors: beauty on beauty, form on form. The techniques of Italo-Byzantine art and the visual poetry of Sandro Bottichelli are clear influences in the manifestation of this attempt to bring the female figure to the level of icon. What you see is the honest expression of what I have to give as a woman to the modern world. Come down this road and sing along with me.

"Gallo"
Oil on Rice Paper
48" x 48"
"Nest"
Mixed Media Oil and Collage
40" x 30"
"Offspring"
Oil on Canvas
30" x 48"
Dennis M. Ellman (Los Angeles, California)

A Los Angeles born Artist, graduated from San Diego State University and earned his Masters of Fine Arts at the University of California, Irvine. He has exhibited in solo and group shows in San Diego Santa Cruz and his work is represented in private and corporate collections. His recent work on display for the Galerie D’ Art International exhibit demonstrates his intrigue with shape, movement, beauty and oddity of the primitive human form and how it relates to its real and imagined environment

"I don't think so"
Acrylic and Paste on Canvas
40" x 40"
"The Poet"
Acrylic on Canvas
30" x 48"
"Dancer inthe reeds"
Acrylic on Canvas
36" x 36"

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