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Thursday, October 25, 2012

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Monday, October 15, 2012

CONTEMPORARY ARTIST LESLIE KLURFELD

Leslie Klurfeld

Leslie Klurfeld has been a student of mine both at The Athenaeum & at my studio. She is a natural for Contemporary Art with her eye for Urban Art and freedom of expression. It is such satisfaction to watch an Artist such as Leslie "bloom"!

This year I was involved in three juried group Shows In San Diego. One was at On Assignment Studios in san Diego, which included all the students in our art class at the Athenaeum with Rivian. It was called, “16 Plus One,” and two exhibitions at the La Jolla Library. One of the shows there was entitled “ New Directions In Art.” The other was a 'one subject' photography show in which the subject was pictures of the library. It was called, “ Reading Can Be Beautiful.”

My instructor at the Athenaeum Art Studio has been Rivian Butikofer. She has greatly influenced me as an artist and has 'opened up' my creativity. I also love doing photography because it is enjoyable, shows imagination, tells a story, and creates memories.

Among some of the artists that have influenced me are Pablo Picasso, Emile Nolde, Henri Matisse, and Jean –Michel Basquiat
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Leslie Klurfeld

Leslie, Self, Acrylic

Leslie, After Nolde, Mixed Media

Leslie, Faces, Mixed Media incl. Mono Type & Acrylic

Leslie, Ater Kandinsky, Acrylic

Leslie, After Picasso, Mixed Media

Leslie, Photograph, "Reading Can Be Beautiful" La Jolla Library

"Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, See No Evil", Mixed Media

Leslie, Untitled, Acrylic, Spray paint

Leslie, Untitled, Mixed Media

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

PREVIEW OF NEXT WEEK, A NEW CONTEMPORARY ARTIST LESLIE KLURFELD!

LOVE BROTHER, mixed-media

WHATS UNDER THE SKIN? mixed- media

Thursday, August 9, 2012

"Artists view the world with our own eyes, each of us; and we make from us the world we see." San Diego , FAITH FLEURY

Faith Fleury & Rivian Butikofer@ 16+1

My earliest memories are in my grandmother’s gardens – the lively bursts of color and the lush, cool green shade of the 75-year old willow trees. That’s probably when my fascination with color began.

I spent a large share of my life building business models and product launch plans in “high tech” – the more creative side of finance,

all the while pining for that satisfaction of making something visually expressive.

There is nothing like that special elation from creating a drawing or painting that makes people want to stop and drink in the environment I’ve produced.

Now I devote as much of my time to those pursuits as I can, keeping a playful frame of mind whether it’s making an intriguing portrait, an inviting landscape or experimenting in mixed media/ collage and more abstracted forms.

Artistic Influences

Sorting out the influences on my work is a complex task – on any given day, the order of importance shifts.

In studying art history, I was exposed to the whole panoply of “gods”: Durer, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Renaissance artists Da Vinci and Michealangelo – they still captivate me; the economy of brushwork of Valasquez and Goya which looks remarkably “modern”; the expressiveness of El Greco, etc. But the period which has most influenced me is twentieth/ twenty-first century artists: Matisse, Cezanne, Picasso, Degas, Kandinsky, Calder and those who’ve followed.

As I have explored more contemporary work, I find my favorites list has grown to include Nolde, Lucien Freud, Basquiat, Wayne Thiebaud and David Hockney. There are so many exciting developments in today’s artistic environment. I’ve become a great fan of many current painters including Elizabeth Peyton, Romare Beardon and Beverly McIver.

FAITH FLEURY

I am so proud to say that Faith has been a student of mine since I first began teaching at The Athenaeum, La jolla nine years ago.