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      Distant is Recovery Shawn Mishak July 11 – July 26, 2008

An exhibition of digitally assembled photographic collages. I began exploring digital photo manipulation in an effort to see what it had to offer me and my work, and how I might use it as a medium for expression.  I also wanted to find a way of working with it as intuitively and with the same…

Seems, it is very reasonable to draw a tree next to a house, when one wants to make a landscape picture. However, I never make them together.  Seems, it is very comfortable to draw a flower jar on a table (maybe, against a window or wall), when one wants to make a still-life picture. However,…

      Broken and picked over .. left as only a whisper in the wind … where fragments of the past lay, new life sprouts through reminding us that eventually mother earth will reclaim what was once hers. Sometimes we must go back to go forward. Interpretation by BBenderB4 Location: Randall Park Mall, North…

When I paint, I am interested in memory, emotion, and spontaneity.  I approach the canvas without primary sketches or concrete plans in an attempt to record ideas from below the conscious level.  The work is a document of my experiences, interests, and state of mind at the point in my life when I created it.…

Ever since I was gifted a Pentax K1000 back in 1994 my conscious life has been driven by the world of photographic imagery. Immediately, the science and manipulation of film chemistry and the philosophy of imagery had me hooked. Since then, current digital revelations in photography keep me intrigued with possibilities I have yet to…

  Seeker – Student – Photographer – Musician – Poet – Father – Grandfather – Husband   Join me in a creative process that begins in my mind’s eye, enters through a lens, is captured by a chemical film, realized on paper, and interpreted by you. I hope to trigger a flow of emotions, questions,…

An artist is more of a translator then anything else. Sure the artist can also be a painter, a sculptor, or even a poet, but in essence they are still a translator of a sublime unwritten language of thoughts and ideas. An Artist fails when they cannot fully convey their idea or perception of a…

Artist Statement I have always created art in some way.  As a child in a small town in Florida, I would entertain myself by drawing small human figures dancing.  From that obsessive habit early on I have continued over the last 30 years to create visual art. I still often work in pen and ink…