WERKSTATTE : ART COLLECTIVE
ARTIST PROFILES
About: IAN ROSS
IAN ROSS Artist Statement
I work without the burden of intention. I allow my paintings to grow organically, into their own unique and separate reality. While working in this fast and spontaneous manner, I focus on color and compostition instead of subject matter, allowing the unknown and mysterious imagery the chance to emerge from the shapes and lines.
Painting “live” for an audience has become the focus of my creative energy over the last six years. The challenges and rewards of this exercise have had a profound effect on my each painting, and on my career. Every time I paint “live” I learn something about myself, and my work. The audience is also engaged in the creative process, and feel as if they have affected the development of the painting.
I have a BFA in Ceramics from CSULB. My experience with three-dimensional artwork, sculpture, and installation pieces is reflected in my paintings. My work in two-dimensions suggests special arrangements, landscapes and objects. I am very interested in the notion of visual stimulation, or “eye candy” and how this idea can come through in my artwork. Lines can lead your gaze around a canvas, and details might make you pause to think.
I enjoy working fast and spontaneously. I believe in the emotion of each painting, I feel as if I’m trying to communicate with the inanimate canvas as if it is alive. I have a relationship with each piece that developes over time until we are separated. This process is what makes me who I am.
-Ian Ross
Artist Profile: CARLY IVAN GARCIA
Carly Ivan Garcia has consistently challenged the boundaries of fine art as we know it. With his eccentric style illuminations in an abstract form of human expression is created on canvas utilizing a wide range of mixed media. Making a scene throughout the Bay Area, he has participated in a number of group shows and often been featured artist.
Sensational oil and mixed media paintings take center stage in the events and galleries shown throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. His work has been in the media spotlight and can be seen in the feature film Touching Home, starring Ed Harris.
Carly’s paintings ultimately construct a relational landscape of people and ideas toward modernist conception. His images and use of a visually refined color palette elevates the work beyond surface level to reveal that which lies beneath.
Carly’s artistic process has manifested prolific volumes of compositions. The oil, acrylic and mixed media paintings that make up his body of work all accentuate dynamic interactions. There is a strive for balance that pushes boundaries when reasoning sits on the edge of shifts and changes reflecting contemporary experience.
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Artist Profile: MAX EHRMAN
About Max:
As an artist i have been painting for over 12 years. Through graffiti,i have traveled and created murals all throughout Europe and American. Currently I have presented Canvas work in 4 different countries and have personally organized 3 art shows in Naples Florida with the Journeyman Gallery (www.journeymangallery.com). I have sold canvas work here in the United States and also in Berlin, Antwerp and Barcelona. Once a year i travel to Europe to paint with friends at several Graffiti/Hip Hop jams in Germany, Holland and Belgium. Through my travels i have made some great friends as well as been lucky enough to paint with some very talented artists.
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As an artist i have been painting for over 12 years. Through graffiti,i have traveled and created murals all throughout Europe and American. Currently I have presented Canvas work in 4 different countries and have personally organized 3 art shows in Naples Florida with the Journeyman Gallery (www.journeymangallery.com). I have sold canvas work here in the United States and also in Berlin, Antwerp and Barcelona. Once a year i travel to Europe to paint with friends at several Graffiti/Hip Hop jams in Germany, Holland and Belgium. Through my travels i have made some great friends as well as been lucky enough to paint with some very talented artists.
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Artist Profile: ROBERT HARRIS
About Robert:
Harris derives inspiration from spiritual energy, nature, traditional art, music and most significantly, humanity. He takes what lies beneath the human façade and creates a non-linear, authentic reality. This reality taps into raw emotions inherent in all human beings, though often hidden behind societal-influenced masks. Removing the mask and exposing truth is more than art, it is a movement.
“Every form of artistic expression is a direct representation of human existence. The raw emotion, thought processes, and consequences endured by ordinary people profoundly connects the community. The art movement not only exposes this connection, it embraces it; it encourages self-examination in a selfless context,” said Harris.
Harris’ work has progressed into distinguished and highly recognizable pieces that are displayed in public and private collections worldwide. Additionally, he serves as a visual DJ though live artperformances at special events including, but not limited to: wine tasting parties, celebrity concerts, art store openings, non-profit fundraisers, night club promotions, and business gatherings.
Harris derives inspiration from spiritual energy, nature, traditional art, music and most significantly, humanity. He takes what lies beneath the human façade and creates a non-linear, authentic reality. This reality taps into raw emotions inherent in all human beings, though often hidden behind societal-influenced masks. Removing the mask and exposing truth is more than art, it is a movement.
“Every form of artistic expression is a direct representation of human existence. The raw emotion, thought processes, and consequences endured by ordinary people profoundly connects the community. The art movement not only exposes this connection, it embraces it; it encourages self-examination in a selfless context,” said Harris.
Harris’ work has progressed into distinguished and highly recognizable pieces that are displayed in public and private collections worldwide. Additionally, he serves as a visual DJ though live artperformances at special events including, but not limited to: wine tasting parties, celebrity concerts, art store openings, non-profit fundraisers, night club promotions, and business gatherings.