Highlights from Direct Art Volume 18

On The Cover: Andrea Kowch

.... lonely, desolate American landscape encompassing the paintings subjects serves as an exploration of nature’s sacredness and a reflection of the human soul, symbolizing all things powerful, fragile, and eternal. These real yet dreamlike scenarios serve as metaphors for the human condition, all retaining a sense of vagueness....

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E. Thurston E Belmer

      The figures in my work emerge within a living space.
While at first the interiors appear distinguishable, the space breaks and folds into a mental atmosphere that invades the viewer’s psyche. Each scratch on the canvas becomes a wound on the surface of the mind as well as on the distance between figures and the space in which they inhabit...

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Rose Freymuth-frazier

My paintings are allegorical portraits of the contemporary
female experience and consequently, self-portraits...

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Elena Del Fabbro

        I begin with pure color instead of shape, it is an  instinctive and passionate process. As the work develops, I form lines, shapes and consistencies. I have worked for years without color, but now I am choosing it again. I use black and white drawings from my past and make them into something new. This is the core of my expression.

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Jeramy Turner

      In our image saturated society the nervous system is visually stimulated, often far beyond our ability to process, by art. We have come to view this aspect of our existence as inevitable, as part of nature, as something that has always been around in its multifaceted incarnation. But Art’s historical role has been exponentially extended beyond our wildest dreams...

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Slowinski

I wonder what I would have created and what my life would have been like if we lived in a peaceful world. It’s sad really, the entire world seems to be a mess...