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Vanessa Bistrain
 
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When asked to recall her most profound childhood memories, Vanessa Bistrain reminisces about weekends spent with her father and sisters painting with watercolors. She would later go on to study graphic design, photography, painting, illustration, engraving, sculpture and textile design at several universities throughout Latin America and the United States.
The daughter of a Brazilian mother and Mexican father, Vanessa Bistrain draws heavily on the influence of the two cultures in her work. The contrasts between the two are often noted in the artist’s usage of warm and cold colors; and the results are striking. Mastery of various techniques using acrylic and sand mixed with warm colors give added texture and brightness to her work. And the passion associated with Latin American cultures is apparent in Bistrain’s urgent desire to incite the soul and transmit feelings of absence, presence, sadness and happiness through her paintings. Bistrain currently resides in Mexico.
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"Absence"
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"Opposed Feelings 2"
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Ashley Bullard
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Ashley Bullard is an emerging artist whose intriguing works are beginning to attract attention from the greater art world. Using the medium of oil on linen, she makes use of challenging colors, texture and a strong sense of shape to create images that impart a sense of interrupted chaos. The splashes seem wild, but are tamed by the use of clearly defined geometric shapes, and subtle nuance takes each piece one step beyond the obvious.
A native of New Hampshire, Ashley attended the University of New Hampshire and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1999. She has exhibited locally, both as a solo artist, and in larger exhibitions. Ashley maintains a solid silence about her works. Instead of speaking about them, she lets her art speak for itself, and allows each individual to find the meaning and spirit within.
Burning ascents, burning descents, these are the works of Ashley Bullard. It is up to you to enter the flames, and embrace the mystery.
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"Right Back in It"
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"Burning Descent"
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Adrian Lascom
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“When painting, there are no unintentional marks, only conscious and unconscious. I attempt to bypass the conscious mind, the cerebral censor, and gain access to hidden thoughts and images created by the unconscious.” This statement by Adrian Lascom speaks volumes about his work. He dramatically daubs his canvases with oils and acrylics, overlaying dark, even aphotic layers with bursts of washed-out color that often seem to drag purposefully downward, almost clawing at the canvas as they fall. His painting style displays a feral physicality, a seething of a subconsciousness made corporeal. He draws upon his dreams and the effects of family trauma to actualize his own catharsis. “I continue to develop and hone an individual style and technique to create a body of work that is a true personal expression,” he declares, “work that can represent Adrian Lascom.”
Lascom is a graduate of London’s Royal College of Art. In his 15-year career he has both been featured in numerous solo exhibitions and created numerous award-winning commercial projects.
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"Thirty Seven"
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"Thirty Eight"
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Dale Oftedal
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While appropriating icons of consumer culture in art hardly registers a shockwave since Warhol's soup cans, Dale Oftedal's current series, in which he juxtaposes these familiar images into collages which are witty, visually striking and challenging, wisely focuses less on social critique (although that is present in them) and more on offering an object lesson in the archetypal shapes inherent in selling us cereal, heroes or spirituality. His use of the sphere and parallel lines in multifarious ways--flags, patterns, bull's eyes, planets, faces--presents a portrait of our culture beyond mere ironic commentary.
Dale unearths the shapes by which we make sense of visual stimuli, and the means by which advertising exploits our visual vocabulary. The sphere, the flag and the starburst--the world, the nation and heaven. These are the promises of commercial culture, and Dale Oftedal has found rich source material in his investigation of our world. He reflects our consumer culture back to us, and invites us to open our eyes.
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"Stop Sign"
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"Tony"
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Kiki Slaughter
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"Portobello Road"
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"Meadow"
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