Dimensions: 10 x 10 Media: collage on canvas Artist Statement : I am a painter of psychological space. Direct and abstract text-based works comprise a vernacular which has been developed through the highs and lows of my own personal experience and relationships.
My work explores themes of religion, love and science. I am very much interested in the intertwining of word and image to create a new language.
Dimensions: 8 x 10 x 0.75 Media: Limited edition archival print of photomontage Artist Statement : Composite photograph with zoris and bed layered with the exterior of an internment barracks at the Manzanar Historic Site, California
Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 1.5 Media: Oil on canvas Artist Statement : This piece is from a series called “Love Letters”. They are self-portraits, painted from photos that I carefully took of myself to share with a person I was intimately involved with. After the relationship ended I decided to recreate some of these images as paintings and in doing so discovered an unexpected process of healing and a sense of reappropriation and reaffirmation - the value of the gift of myself was never diminished but on the contrary it only increases.
Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 1.5 Media: Oil on canvas Artist Statement : This is the view from the door of my apartment in the early morning in Mexico City. The promise of the morning is beautiful and it contrasts with the urban setting. The reference was a quick photo of the morning sky, and much later I decided to recreate that moment. Downtown Mexico City is noisy and full of people but at 6am it is peaceful and fresh. This the part of the contrast I experience every day.
Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 0.75 Media: Watercolor and Asemic Writing in Ink Artist Statement : I'm a Baltimore based artist whose primary work is training resident spiritual care practitioners at The Johns Hopkins Academic Medical Center. My art, gifted to patients and chaplain residents alike, is also featured in local coffee shops and two exhibits in Baltimore this summer: one in Fells Point and another in the Bromo Arts District.
Each of my pieces features Asemic writing and vibrant, abstract watercolors. My art is a way for me to process the loss and pain that comes with work as a hospital chaplain educator. I've come to believe that there's an inexorable connection between pain and beauty.
I'm fascinated by a new field, neuroaesthetics, that posits that making and beholding art is healing. That's why I make art and encourage my residents, and the patients they serve, to make art.
Dimensions: 7 x 7 x 2 Media: Acrylic on canvas, construct with spectators Artist Statement : I am continuing to explore what I imagine what my art would look like in a museum setting, and how people would respond to it.
Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 1 Media: Fiber, sewing machine, thread, 100% cotton Artist Statement : Sitting in a doctor's office admiring a Mapplethorpe orchid photograph, until I noticed the reflection of the windows behind me obscuring the top half of the image, once noticed I could not "un-see" this intrusion. This observation led me to a series of investigations where an object or objects are placed in a specific way to obstruct the viewer from seeing the underlying subject matter, in this case you only see the reverse, or backside of the work.
This image also puts on display the two aspects of using the sewing machine as a drawing tool, the straight stitch creating the right-angle grid. At the end of each line, the thread is pulled through the back and tied off 3 times. This relates to looking at the back of a tapestry and the fussiness of the image presented. Repeating the premise; once seen, can it be “unseen”?
Dimensions: 4.25 x 3.25 x 1.5 Media: Luted Crucible Bronze Casting - an ancient bronze casting technique, which is a low-cost and low-tech method of casting,
relatively unknown outside India and West Africa. It involves sealing the raw ingredients for bronze - copper and tin - into
one half of a peanut-shaped crucible made from mud. The other half contains the wax model to be cast. The whole thing is baked
in a furnace with wood charcoal (approx. 1200°C), and when the metal is molten it is flipped over, and the liquid bronze
fills the cavity left by the wax. Artist Statement : As an artist it is important for me to create work that conveys a sense of the Divine. I am
attracted to visuals of nature, pattern, and repetition that allude to the underlying forces that
act upon a piece. This is not a reference to any particular religion, but a spiritual nod to the
inter-connectivity that we all experience. I do this because it's the only process that makes
sense to me. Money, prestige, ambition, and what people think of me - all the non-essentials
fall away.
My work comes from a sense of mysticism and animism. The shamanic journey has focused my work.
But I refuse to lift imagery from another culture's religious iconography. My personal mythos comes
from the need to connect with Spirit. Each piece animates with Spirit.
Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 1.5 Media: Recycled paper relief on wood board.
Paper tubes rolled from magazine pages and assembled on cardboard to create levels of relief. Artist Statement : The diversity and beauty of mingled ethnic groups in Brazil inspired the series Ethnicities in 2021 during an art residency in Sao Paulo. Face #6, Yorgey, represents Greek-British descendants. I continue depicting different ethnic groups from Brazil and the US, working, in 2024, on Face #17.
The relief is composed of eight layers and the colors come from the selection of magazine pages without acrylic or oil paint. I started using recycled paper as a form of expression in 2005 when I immigrated to the US. With little money to buy supplies, I chose the piles of paper stuffed into mailboxes daily, as my way of creating art. That satisfied my need to find fulfillment in creating meanings rather than owning disposables. Using an endless supply of trash, I can spread awareness while contributing to saving the earth’s resources with my art and lifestyle.
Dimensions: 10 x 8 x 1.5 Media: Recycled paper relief on wood board.
Paper tubes rolled from magazine pages and assembled on cardboard to create levels of relief. Artist Statement : The diversity and beauty of mingled ethnic groups in Brazil inspired the series Ethnicities. Face #5, Anahi, depicts a native Brazilian I met in Ilhabela, Sao Paulo, in 2021. She is a Tupi-Guarani descendant and her name Anahi, in their language, means "the one with a sweet voice." I continue depicting different ethnic groups from Brazil and the US, working, in 2024, on Face #17.
The relief is composed of eight layers and the colors come from the selection of magazine pages without acrylic or oil paint. I started using recycled paper as a form of expression in 2005 when I immigrated to the US. With little money to buy supplies, I chose the piles of paper stuffed into mailboxes daily, as my way of creating art. That satisfied my need to find fulfillment in creating meanings rather than owning disposables. Using an endless supply of trash, I can spread awareness while contributing to saving the earth’s resources with my art and lifestyle.
Dimensions: 8 x 8 Media: Mixed media Collage with ceramic tile and postage stamp on masonite Artist Statement : This piece explores the random happenstance of birth. Our circumstances in life begin when we are born.
Sold Dimensions: 10 x 10 Media: Digital Graphic (Manipulated Digital Photo) Artist Statement : This image evolved from a photo of Christmas lights. After warping the image to create a psychedelic effect, I mirrored a portion of it repeatedly to create a digital tapestry, and then wrapped that tapestry into a mandala-like image. I added a flare to the center to suggest a supernova.
Affirmation #4, Because She Was, She Was Beautiful
Linda Popp
$200.00
Dimensions: 11 x 7 x 2.5 Media: Found Objects Artist Statement : Relationship with Female Image/Beauty Series featuring vintage cast metal female figure, perfume, button display, pearls, cameo, rouge, scissors, etc. A daily reminder that all women.....all shapes, sizes, ages, colors, vocations, and locations are beautiful.
Dimensions: 8.26 x 5.9 x 1 Media: Aquatint printed with oil based ink on Hahnemüle paper. Hand inked and pulled print number 1 of a limited edition of 10. Matted and framed in an 8 x 10" frame. Artist Statement : Inspired by Ionesco's play by the same name, this Rhinocerous in a bad suit is presented in front of an ambiguous city scape.
Dimensions: 11 x 8 x 3 Media: Photo collage, paper and cardboard Artist Statement : My work deals with interventions. The intervening entity varies whether it be human, plant or animal. Drawing from observations of the natural and mediated manipulations around me, I am trying to understand shared traits of life. Connections point to both difference and similarity in human/animal space, feeling and motivation.
Dimensions: 8.5 x 8 x 4 Media: Photo collage on paper and cardboard Artist Statement : My work deals with interventions. The intervening entity varies whether it be human, plant or animal. Drawing from observations of the natural and mediated manipulations around me, I am trying to understand shared traits of life. Connections point to both difference and similarity in human/animal space, feeling and motivation.
Dimensions: 11 x 9 Media: handprinted watercolor monotype on Rives Lightweight Artist Statement : In my work I use suggestion and impression to describe time and place. I am interested in how line and marks, color and gesture, along with variations in the visual perception of the paper can create a unified whole from which individual elements emerge held together by a sense of light.
Moi Dans L'Atelier is a handprinted water color monotype. The plate was painted from direct observation in a marvelous high ceilinged space. The unexpected mixings and qualities of the paint when printed make visible something intrinsic but intangible that captures something real and essential about the subject.
This thought from Van Gogh captures what I am reaching for:
“It comes down to seizing what does not pass away in what passes away.”
Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 0.5 Media: Paper and fabric collage with two transfers to provide a focal point and unification. Mounted on black artist panel Artist Statement : the Alchemy of the art making process, of being in the flow, creates magical moments.
Dimensions: 8 x 10 x 0.75 Media: acrylic on canvas Artist Statement : Deep ultramarine blue is one of my favorite hues. It signifies spirituality and human emotions. I was working on a series using this hue as a base. These times are unsettling and the blue was solace for my soul.
