The Persistence of Form The versatility displayed in the works of The Persistence of Form underscores the idea that as long as people dream and imagine art will never cease to exist, inspire, and bring about contemplation in others. These talented artists bring their thoughts and feelings to reality in a stunning variety of styles and forms that will touch audiences long after viewing the painting.
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Emma Coyle
 
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Emma Coyle raises issues of female beauty, identity and desirability through her Pop Art paintings of pale-skinned, posing fashionistas. With a Warholian focus on haute couture's surface beauty, Emma's work evokes glamour stripped of its sheen; she invites us to see these women with a more critical eye. The result is art which brightly parades its bold colors, spare composition and strong line. The facial features of her subjects are subsumed by their attitude, and are noteworthy mostly for their similarity--lips are all the same pulpy red, and similar eyes are lined by short but spiky lashes--as if these languid personas achieved full life only through their fashions. Emma has given these stylish women not identities so much as presented them in the varying roles that consumer society imposes on women.
Through subtle yet scathing irony, Emma Coyle's work provides a commentary about dictums on beauty, which are just as seductive and overpowering as the colors in which they are portrayed in these disarming works.
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"Zero 17#"
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"Zero 15#"
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Patricia Herz Deahl
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Patricia Herz Deahl, over a lifetime career in the arts, has ranged widely across form and material. She has used media from standard to exotic and she has painted large and small. What has reasserted itself throughout the years is landscape. Sometimes the earth’s features abstract themselves into symbols of nature, and other times they relax into a representational romance. This conflict between forms of vision is echoed in the landscape itself. Herz Deahl says that her preoccupation is with the meeting of sky and ground. Solving that head-on confrontation at the horizon provides her reason to paint. She wants for us beauty that we do not have to question. She wants for us a place to rest.
A New York artist, Deahl has a Bachelor of Science degree from SUNY New Paltz and a Masters in Studio Art from the College of New Rochelle. She has been exhibiting her work nationally, though primarily in New York, for over forty years.
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"Seen Moments Ago"
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"Where Is Near"
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Berenice Michelow
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Berenice Michelow’s stunning works on canvas and paper provide relevant and meaningful commentaries on contemporary life with a blend of hyperrealistic and abstract styles. By synthesizing her abstract roots with a new naturalism, Michelow crafts meaningful works of art which express undeniable political themes and socially aware messages. When combined with the sheer virtuosity of her draftsmanship and skillful technique, Michelow’s works become a powerful document of the artist’s observations and emotions concerning the world around her. By juxtaposing realistic subjects against abstracted backgrounds, Michelow gives her works a tenuous and poetic impression, as though envisioned from a fading memory. As we peer into her works, we attempt to recapture the images within our collective consciousness, images imbued with the important issues of our past and present.
Internationally celebrated artist Berenice Michelow has shown throughout her native South Africa, Chile, and the United States and is included in a number of important private and corporate collections. She currently lives and works in the United States.
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"Pathways 1"
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"Pathways 2"
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Pari Ravan
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Pari Ravan has gone beyond mere landscape painting to engender a style dubbed “Romantic Surrealism,” a unique pastiche of imagery, which includes flowers, figures, boundless skies and even written words. Her sensitivity for color is demonstrated in beautifully painted skies with varying tints of deep, midnight blues and warm, sunset pinks, reinforcing the dreamlike quality of her work. “My art should guide the spectator to his own emotions and experience,” Ravan explains. “In this aspect every picture of mine is like a painted dream.”
Born in Iran, Ravan is no stranger to the sweeping desert landscapes that prove to be fantastic backdrops for many of her paintings. Her distinctive style was influenced by trips around Iran, a love for poetry, and her experience as a professional pilot. Ravan later immigrated to Europe, where her work has been sold and displayed in venues such as the Museum of Siegburg in Germany. In 2007 her artistic achievements were recognized with the Prize L’Aigle de Nice. Presently, Ravan lives and works in France.
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"Tree in the Winter"
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"Cyclamens"
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Pinar Selimoglu
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Pinar Selimoglu's fiery mixed media works record the reverberations of events and emotions in life. Graceful, fluid motions are recorded in sweeping brushstrokes that are then layered upon by convulsive marks and spatters. Selimoglu's work is about freedom of expression, summoning the subconscious to pour out without being impeded by forethought or planning. "I'm tuning myself into my unlimited subtle emotions through meditation and prayings and then let it go" she states. The result is an ephemeral vision brought to life, where brooding colors inflect repose while flitting strokes of crimson and ochre highlight energy in the composition.
Her process creates a stunning variety of textures and variations of color, appearing smeared, scraped and splattered onto the surface of paper, canvas or collage. Steering clear of overt representation, the stylized application of color becomes the mouthpiece of the work, speaking to audiences directly with raw intensity. Currently preparing for several group and solo exhibitions, Selimoglu's career in the arts is gaining momentum. She lives and works in Istanbul, Turkey.
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"Untitled 10"
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"Untitled 7"
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