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Cate Cormack Cate completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Diploma of Art Education from the School of the Art Institute (SAIC) of Chicago, U.S.A. In 1978 and 1979 she was the recipient of two fellowship awards from SAIC, the most prestigious award given to outstanding graduate students. Cate was a conceptual performance artist from 1975-1985 exhibiting in major museums and galleries throughout the United States. Since 1983, Cate has lived in Australia where she has built an art practice working predominantly in watercolour, encaustic and mixed media. Cate has exhibited in Australia, Korea, Mexico and the USA. Her paintings reflect the countries where she lives and where she travels. She takes great pleasure being in dialogue with other artists and other cultures internationally. Since 2010 she has been living and painting in both Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia and San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. My tiny 4 year old hands swished gobs of red on the left, blue on the right, together into one massive shape of purple. Eyes wide, I remember a “oh” escaped my surprised, delighted soul. The movement, the weighty shape, the miracle of creating a color. Astonsishing. All my life I have been a person who sees deeply.I look at, onto, into, around, through. I FEEL a profound “soaking in” as I precieve detail in light, color, shapes, texture, tones, weight, contrasts. My perception resonates with synesthesia where one sense co-activates my other senses. In my art I endeavour to use my senses to seize moods, describe situations and develop imagery that creates a distinctive atmosphere for each piece. I make marks that breathe, fly, scream, dent, scatter. I paint colorful shapes that soften, have flavor, sound, and are buried, then unearthed. Representational or abstract, the work and its mediums tells me what it wants to reveal. Through its direction, I can locate it outside my self where it can live. For more details catecormack.com catecormack@cloud.com 위 3,4번 교체 ARTISTS STATEMENT My approach is one of curiosity and delving into visceral feeling. The work becomes my divulging of reactions and interactions from both real life, imaginary worlds and my spiritual experience. As I work,I allow the artwork to reveal atmospheric environments and relationships among the shapes. Using the mediums of watercolour, oil and cold wax or encaustic achieves a balance of opacity and transparency. Thus I layer, bury and excavate the imagery as it evolves and is resolved. =====/////////// =======//////==== Judson Chatfield BIO Judson Chatfield is a New Zealand born sculptor who was classically trained in the 1960’s at Elam School of Art, Auckland University,New Zealand and Ilam School of Art,Christchurch University,New Zealand. Judson became a master in all sculptural mediums and techniques. He has a lifetime of carving, casting and constructing in the elements of stone, metal, bronze, wood and glass. The concepts for his pieces arise from many forms of stimulation; a whimsical comment, the figure in activity, the elegant flight of a bird, a fragment of texture, a distortion of light through trees. Each idea finds its expression through the sculptural medium that best suits its essence. In addition to his sculptural practice, Judson spent 25 years operating a glass etching and embossing studio. As a glass etcher, Judson restored the majority of historically significant public and private buildings in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.He now operates two sculpture specific studios, one on the north coast of Australia in Byron Bay, New South Wales and the otherin San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. His work is represented by Addington Gallery, Chicago USA, Corsica Fine Art, Puerto Vallarta Mexico.The artist directly represents himself from his studio galleries in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Australia and New Zealand. Judson Chatfield is an internationally exhibited sculptor and master carver who works in stone, metal, bronze, wood and constructed glass. The concepts for Chatfield's sculptures arise from any number of moments that offer inspiration: a whimsical comment, the figure in activity, the elegant flight of a bird, a fragment of texture, a distortion of light through trees. Each idea finds its expression through the sculptural medium that best suits its essence: ephemeral or dynamic movement represented through glass, strong flowing themes carved in wood, static strength worked in steel, stability and beauty sculpted in marble or stone, or agility and balance captured in cast bronze. The figures depicted in Chatfield's bronze work are intimate and made to be viewed up close. Some of these figures are proportional and relativly naturalistic. Others are elongated and exaggerated. But they all have one thing in common - their expressive surfaces. These surfaces reveal the sure hand of the artist as he forms the works by hand in clay or wax before casting them in bronze. Like an expressive gestural drawing or painting, there is a spontaneity found in these works that is rare in a material like bronze that is so solid and enduring. It is a beautiful counterpoint that Chatfield gives us: The captured movement of the figure, the expressive hand of the artist, and the solidity and timelessness of the material. It is this expressive surface that, in the end, gives these figures that sense of humanity that we recognize and feel an affinity towards at our gut level. These pieces speak to our humanity, imperfections and all. They revel in the expressive physicality of our bodies, and they project a sense of both joy and contemplation as they reveal the qualities of balance and motion we engage with every day. Chatfield lives and works in Australia and Mexico. For more details judsonchatfield.com |
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