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| Francesca Dotta | | Francesca Dotta was born in 1978 in Pordenone, Italy. Interested in the Art, especially in photography, multimedia and Internet. Since 2004 she have participated to different Exhibitions in which she has obtained the recognition of big personalities of the world of the Art, among them the teacher Lanfranco Colombo, and since 2005 her name is present in the files of the foundation Bevilacqua la Masa in Venezia. She begins very early with the target and black, mainly in internal spaces in those that she makes stand out the effects between lines and lights. However she doesn\'t forget the external spaces in which it proposes particularly interesting marks for courts and chromatisms. With their lens it transforms the interpretive paper of any common element, transforming it to protagonistic with a decoded vision, imaginative, ironic and mainly view the reality from another point of view. She captures the human figure in an alternative way, without stereotype and view like main character-interpret of the same life. Each image represents a moment lived before its objective but always captured with a sensation of serenity and of “human” irony. Rarely she uses and applies the digital techniques that allow her to make a light manipulation and retouch of an image. Each one of the pictures of Francesca is a perception of themselves, of their philosophy of life, of so she\'s able to enter in each one of the chosen elements as main characters, off how she lives each one of the moments immortalized with her lens and of like she can see the same reality from a perspective of fantasy and creativity. | | | | |
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| Michael Ward | | He began his artistic career doing pen and ink renderings of historical architecture. From 1984 to 1990 he operated a mail order business selling these drawings on calendars, prints, and related items. He began painting in 1980, first in gouache, then in acrylics. Artists whose work he admires and draw inspiration from include Edward Hopper, Charles Sheeler, Richard Estes and Vermeer. He is most interested in depicting what Alan Watts called the mystery of the ordinary; the workaday world we live in without seeing until we are forced to focus upon it, as in a painting. Nearly all his paintings are based on photographs he has taken, primarily of Southern California scenes, over the years. Though it was never his intention to depict nostalgic scenes, many of the images he has painted have disappeared or been radically altered in the ever-changing landscape that is Southern California. Thus nostalgia is thrust upon the works. But the distinctive light remains, which is what he attempts to capture in his painting. That, and the built environment that we humans inhabit, where nature manifests itself only in clipped shrubs, weed-like palms, thirsty lawns and the omnipresent cerulean sky. As a painter, he is self-taught. In his day job, he works as an Art Director and Graphic Designer. | | | | |
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