WE LOVE NEW ARTISTS! (Part I)

Translations Gallery is proud to announce that we are expanding!  Expanding our artists, that is.  We have recently begun representing 21 new artists, most of whom live and work in Colorado.  These artists work in a wide variety of media, including paint, metal, ceramics, fiber and other materials.  They have collectively created a vast body of beautiful work.  We would like to introduce them to you.  Because there are 21, however, which is really quite a lot, we will be approaching these introductions in a series of blog posts, of which this is the first.  So here are the stats on 7 of the brand new artists Translations Gallery is thrilled and proud to represent.

- PATRICIA AARON - 
     The recent winner of Best in Show at the This is Colorado exhibit, Patricia Aaron's mixed-media encaustic works are truly stunning.  Her pieces tend to be based on scenes remembered from her Ohio childhood, the abstract works evoking the kind of gritty, grey urbanism you feel when standing in the middle of a busy city that has been polluted by industry.  Aaron approaches these landscapes with a lovely combination of honesty and nostalgia, the combination of which produces work that is fascinating in its ability to simultaneously project both order and chaos.

  

Youngstown, Circa 1964

- ANA MARIA BOTERO - 
     Ana Maria Botero's work as an artist began as a hobby - background for a prominent career in the field of architecture.  Her passion for art, however, eventually won out as her dominant interest, and Botero has been producing work consistently since.  Botero's semi-abstract and abstract paintings focus on pulling emotion from viewers through experimentation with color, texture, and other elements designed to elicit excitement and a sense of drama.

Longhorn

- PATRICIA BRAMSEN - 
     Painter, drawer, poet - Patricia Bramsen's work draws from numerous avenues of creativity to form her overall vibe as an artist.  Because the Artist Statement on her website is a poem (please see http://www.patricia-bramsen.com/statement.html - it is really very lovely) we will discuss her work with a Haiku:

simply quite complex

color and form exalted

portraits in feeling

Inaudible Dialogue

- JUDY BROWN -

     Inspiration, potential, possibility - these words describe the driving forces behind Judy Brown's work.  Her awareness of her surroundings, and of the way in which she and others interact with the natural world around them forms the basis of both her technique and her aesthetic.  Her work with metals and jewelry is informed by what she sees occurring naturally in the world around her, and she constantly strives to maintain a balance between the world as it is and the effects that humans have upon it.

- BRIAN CURRAN - 

      Brian Curran's charcoal drawings are intricate, delicately detailed and remarkably realistic.  His images of well-known figures from the world of celebrity stand out as strikingly different from the work of other artists.

Jimi Hendrix

- WILL DAY - 

      Will Day's journey to his current career as an artist has taken him to numerous countries, through higher-education programs and other vocational opportunities, and to an exploration of various creative outlets and artistic media.  Following time in the Peace Corps, extensive personal travel, and a career in architecture, Will Day came to the conclusion that what he really wanted to do was paint.  Paint a lot.  Big.  With many colors and varied textures and materials.  And that is precisely what he did.

Rescue

- BARRY GILLESPIE -

      Architectural forms, the concepts of space, light and pattern - these elements have become incredibly important to Barry Gillespie's recent works.  His earlier, more abstract works certainly contained versions of these elements, but it is only recently that Gillespie has begun to introduce a new sense of intensified realism into his art.  Focusing on local buildings and locations, he methodically captures the play between light and architectural form, giving a new perspective on familiar objects.

The Condo Range