Interpretive Realms Interpretive Realms is a collection of meditative abstract works from artists with unique backgrounds and experiences. The works draw on life experiences, spirituality and nature, rendering the ineffable to explore the mysteries of existence. The sheer variety of style is a testament to the endless possibilities of abstraction, where a color or the quality of a line may traverse cultural boundaries to speak to audiences everywhere.
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Hildebrando de Melo
 
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From the civil-war-torn country of Angola in West Africa, emerges Hildebrando de Melo(HM), a twenty-nine-year-old artist who has the unique ability to render a painting that is complex in its simplicity. Restraint dictates his style. It is this moderation, both in terms of color and line, however, that prolongs the viewer’s attention.
Even though there are many lines converging within a single work, the plain, oftentimes white, backgrounds provide plenty of open space in Hildebrando de Melo’s paintings. This paradox means that the paintings have an overall feeling of energetic minimalism. At the same time, the humanistic affectation of the lines makes them resemble cave drawings or rock engravings. Each painting features a central “character,” a brown line in the shape of an abstract stick-figure that symbolizes God (Vorax) and dominates the canvas. All other lines and markings may be more colorful, in bright yellow, orange, or blue, but they act as accents to the larger figure at hand. As such, Hildebrando de Melo’s paintings are full of animation without overpowering the senses.
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"Under Zero"
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"Stroctor"
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Savior El Mundo
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Savior El Mundo's works are profoundly moving compositions which envelope the viewer with the very visibility of their formal processes. A fresh update on Jackson Pollock, Mundo's gestural works are infused with pervasive color and gloss, resulting in an incomparable vibrancy and spontaneity. Through layering up to ten compositions upon any given canvas, Mundo achieves a textural complexity which takes time to decipher even as it grips the viewer instantaneously. Behind the dense web of poured and splattered lines this Cherokee Indian/Puerto Rican artist unravels an emotional spindle as dense as his own heritage. His process is rooted in the rituals of Cherokee ceremonies, which he believes help him to bring out "strength and boldness into the scribbles, the lines, the background color, the force of the paint splatters." He transfers the angst of an unresolved adolescence into deeply spiritual works which are bold and self confident, energetic to the point of being riveting.
Born in Harlem, New York, Savior El Mundo has practiced art mediums as diverse as hip hop breakdancing and independent filmmaking. His films have appeared in numerous festival circuits, including showings at the New York Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. He is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan.
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"Tragedy"
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"Bizarre"
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Suzete Martins
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Suzete Martins combines mediums in new and refreshing ways to create works that communicate a love for the craft of painting, as well as the power of visual impact. Texture and movement, figuration and abstraction, all combine to give Suzete Martins' paintings a uniquely cerebral quality. Her work ranges from distinctly feminine in palette and tone, to aggressively masculine in geometry and composition. Her eclecticism spans the gamut of techniques, materials, color choices and moods. However, even as the majority of the works reveal a concentration on form over detail, the paintings never fail to convey the artist's deep passion for her medium.
Suzete Martins, originally from Brazil, received her formal training as a student of Arquitec School of Art and Interior Design in Campinas and has studied with renowned Brazilian artists, including Claudia Dal Canton, Francelino A. Rodrigues, and Ulisses de Andrade. Her mediums and artistic interests include lithography, tempera, pastel and oil painting, collage and acrylic, collage and paper, as well as abstraction, among others.
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"Yunak"
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"Boundaries II "
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Donna McGee
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Donna McGee's cathartic abstracts create a cerebral moodiness, as they undulate in tone and palette to reveal layers of depth and density. Evoking the technique of later-day Gerhard Richter and the color choices of Mark Rothko, the paintings speak in meditative and restrained voices. With subdued hues, McGee creates not merely composition but atmosphere, resonating with evocations even as they lack narrative in their abstraction. McGee's medium-scale abstract works reveal an exploration in compositional qualities as well as a palpable sensitivity to palette.
The intellectual yet profoundly emotive approach to painting emerges from McGee's extensive background in early childhood education in the arts. She holds a Masters of Education degree from Pennsylvania State University and has written "The Whole Collage, an art book for aesthetic education" and "Creativity and The Child: Training Modules For Teachers". She has also taught at numerous universities, including Pennsylvania State University, George Mason University, and Northampton Community College. In addition to numerous academic awards, Donna McGee has been the recipient of a prize in the 79th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Art Association of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
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"Hidden Value"
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"Cranberry Hill "
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Raymond Yosuico
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Raymond Yosuico’s abstract Expressionist paintings are intensely sensual. Many of his works evoke those from Kandinsky’s Blue Rider period, though Yosuico’s use of both sharp and diffuse borders between neighboring color planes builds on that style’s conventions. Letting certain colors expand throughout the canvas while confining others to their margins, Yosuico teases our desire to read figures and backgrounds into his abstract works.
This technique also allows him to build on the emotive qualities of his colors. In canvases dominated by a relaxing blue or a frenetic yellow, the shape and repetition of color planes can convey, alternatively, movement or static, rhythm or silence. Through this dynamic interaction between his colors and shapes, Yosuico’s canvases take on a musical dimension that he manipulates effectively from one canvas to the next. Thus, certain works suggest a calm and melodic soundscape, while others are frantically musical. In every case, however, Yosuico’s sense of composition maintains a sense of harmony within each work. |
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"River's Wish"
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"God Spoke"
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