OsHa hALL :: sElf pOrtRaiT

OsHa hALL sElf pOrtRaiT

Self portraits are an interesting portrayal of ones view of themselves. I call it a mark in time. A calculation during a faze of life. At what ever age in the moment. At what ever emotional, physical, and mental state present.

What side of the personality is visible? Can viewers some how understand an individual through a self portrait? How about their living conditions. What happens during the creation process?

I believe an artist can create a mood. The artist can invite a viewer into their thoughts. An artist has the ability to set the environment tone. We can use a serious tone or a playful tone. The medium an artist uses is a part of this. I believe though that people will read what they want to into any image they feel drawn to. They will like it or dislike it based on their own reasons. I also believe an artist can control the majority of that by the image content and rawness or softness portrayed.
Self portraits are fun. I like to see how my work has changed or not changed over time. How I look is also a part of it for me. My hair changes all the time as does my weight. What I see in the mirror isn't always what others see. I find all parts fascinating.

What about me is necessary for you to know?

I am a graduate from Pacific Northwest College of Art with a Bachelors of Fine Art in Illustration. My mediums of choice are oils, watercolors, and colored pencils. My interests include creating illustrations that educate, evoke, engage, enlighten, and stimulate minds.

I have studied the work Jerry Pinkney, Andrew Wyeth, and many other Illustrators and Artists. These guys render people really well in my opinion. Realism is my thing.

Illustrating children's books is my goal. A job of a lifetime to work with an author who has wonderful words that bring pictures to the mind. I would have the opportunity to help the images have life and meaning visually. Words teamed with pictures make a book powerful to whomever would be engaged. I've been blessed to be able to work on such a project earlier this year. I also have my own that I have big big plans for. Mainly to be in print and much more after that.

Although the field of illustration has a wide spectrum of opportunities. I have only dealt with two areas. Which leads me to greeting cards which I love to create. I specifically do handmade greeting cards and have been fortunate to have a rep out of New York by the name of Constance Kay.

My blog space is http://oshasmosha.blog.com.

Jan Wurm :: Self Portraits

"Pandora" mixed media on cigar box
private collection, Oakland, California



"Odalisque" mixed media on paper 11"x14"
now on view "A Tribute to the Rotonde " Gallery Gabrichidze, Brussels


"Medusa" watercolor and chinagraph on paper 12"x10"
collection Archive Verein der Berliner Künstlerinnen, Berlin



"Leda and the Swan" watercolor and chinagraph on paper 10"x12"


"The Couple" oil and charcoal on paper 11"x14"
from "The Look of Love" The Loft Space@ Art Object Gallery, San Jose,
California February 2007


Jan Wurm writes:

Whether engaged by the mythology of the Greeks or the lurking myths of
family or the daily weaving of lively tales, images of Medusa or Leda
or Pandora or the Cat Caught with a Bird, all work forms a self
portrait. And as Leonardo wrote, we are all painting ourselves ( and he
warned that we be alert to our own physical shortcomings lest they
appear in our paintings ). Thus a short survey of these self depictions
are interesting not so much for the recurrent features - curly wild
hair, bumpy nose, wrinkled brow -as for the recurring themes: struggle
with the suitor ( be he bird, swan or man ), seduction, exploitation,
abandonment. All of this cloaked in storytelling and a red wig.

Jan Wurm

http://janwurm.com

Jan Wurm graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, and received a Master's degree from the Royal College of Art in London. Wurm's work has been exhibited in many galleries, including the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, the Mandeville Art Gallery of the University of California, San Diego, the Newport Harbor Art Museum Art Rental Gallery, and Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco. She has taught for the University of California Extension, and the Art Studio of the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC). Wurm lives and works in Berkeley, California.

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Jesse Edwards :: Self Portraits

Jesse Edwards lives in a downtown studio that is packed with his paintings. They lean in stacks and protrude in piles. His bed is a sack on the floor, which is littered with fast food packaging, art books and objects he uses for his still lifes, including a skull, a skateboard, pop cans, bongs, porn magazines, shredded dolls, a toy cop car and the odd piece of fruit.



Jesse Edwards, 29, is a formal easel painter living a highly informal life. In spite of his thuggish behavior and attitude, most of the Seattle art community has been very welcoming thanks to his undeniable talent.




He has a computer covered in graffiti on a wrecked table beside half an office chair, foam spilling out, that he found on the street.

Creature comforts are not his thing.

"I'm an artist," Jesse Edwards said. "I want to paint in oils like the old masters."

An aspiration to old master painting is not the first thing that comes to mind on meeting him.

He looks like a thug. At 29, he's tall and lean with thick muscles running up his tattooed arms and down his torso. His smile doesn't often reach his eyes, which bore into people.

"I'm an ex-thug," he said. "In the old day, I'd stomp people who disrespected my tags."

Stomp?

"Put them down so they don't get up. I was a kid. I didn't know any better."

Edwards considers art his salvation, the job that focuses his energy, calms him and gives him a leg up in the larger world.

(text from Seattle Post Intelligencer October 2006 (read the whole article here)

Jesse Edwards Website Jesseedwards.net

Jesse Edwards MYSPACE http://www.myspace.com/forthelordismyshepard


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This is part of an on going project that seeks to display self portraits from living artist in the United States. So if your an artist - please submit! To see all of the other submissions go here go here


Jesse Edwards is the Ninth artist to submit to the Art Talk Self Portraits
The other artist are:

Rob Byrd His website (http://ww2.coastal.edu/rtbyrd/)
Kieth Farris (visit his myspace here)
Charlie Allen Kraft (visit his site here)
Chris Ellis

Gwen Seemel (visit her at www.onefaceatatime.com)
Andrew Sloan
Robin Feeyly (visit her here at www.bungalowart.com)
Poet Robert Klein Engler (visit him here at RobertKleinEngler.com)

Self Portrait :: Rob Byrd

You can see more of Rob Byrd's work at his website: http://ww2.coastal.edu/rtbyrd/




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This is part of an on going project that seeks to display self portraits from living artist in the United States. So if your an artist - please submit! To see all of the other submissions go here

Rob Byrd is the eight artist to submit. The other artist are:
Kieth Farris (visit his myspace here)
Charlie Allen Kraft (visit his site here)
Chris Ellis

Gwen Seemel (visit her at www.onefaceatatime.com)
Andrew Sloan
Robin Feeyly (visit her here at www.bungalowart.com)
Poet Robert Klein Engler (visit him here at RobertKleinEngler.com)

Robert Klein Engler

e: RKleinEngler@aol.com

web: RobertKleinEngler.com

Interview: http://adirondackreview.homestead.com/interviewengler.html

NOTE: It is quite possible, and highly probable that much of the information about this person- is self generated. 

Robert Klein Engler lives in Chicago and New Orleans. He is a writer and artist whose work is sometimes characterized as politically incorrect. Born on the southwest side of Chicago, Robert taught many years at Richard J. Daley College, until he was banned by the chancellor. Robert holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana and the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has received 2 Illinois Arts Council awards for his poetry. Just google his name to find his writing on the Internet.

Michael Morgan writing in the Comstock Review says that Robert Klein Engler "...is a poet of the first rank." Another reviewer on amazon.com disagrees. This reviewer says that Engler's book, A Winter of Words, is trash and that "Engler is a conflicted, sad man who likes to sulk in his book." He then adds, "Mr. Engler you are a Eurocentric nutcase and need to go to a mental hospital."

Larry Winfield of Los Angeles, CA writes that "...I must admit my grievous lack of artistic judgment (sic) in publishing Engler's poetry in past issues of Liquid Glyph"...Engler is "the poetry scene's version of Dinesh D'Souza."
" These comments are echoed by Andrew Huff's assessment in Gaper's Block where Huff refers to Engler's writings as a "sublime banquet of bullshit."

Self Portraits: Robyn Feeley

Cool idea! Attached is a new self portrait for an upcoming art show. The idea is to place myself into my art creating a unique view of myself as the artist
in the art.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

The fall of 1963, Robyn enrolled in the Oakwood Preschool in Evanston Illinois. The program was rich with art, cookies, milk and the dreaded nap time. They studied the colours and patterns of the monarch butterfly and made ceramic animals that were fired in a kiln. Her first pet portraits began a few years later after adopting a neighborhood puppy named Katy. Since then…

Robyn has been delighting her audience with fun & whimsical pastel drawings since 2001. Her truly unique style captures the essence of each pet, with a whimsical sense of humor. Her work has been featured on Animal Planet and will be on Lifetime Television & HBO this fall. Currently her work is hanging in the Lake Street Gallery in Miller Beach Indiana, Topanga Canyon Gallery located in Topanga California and the Red Dog Gallery in Phoenix Arizona.

Robyn works closely with animal rescue organizations throughout the country such as Best Friends, Much Love, and the Miller Humane Society, with donations from the sales of her original portraits.

On the board of directors of the Topanga Canyon Chamber of Commerce, Robyn is extremely active in her community. Born and raised in Miller Beach Indiana, she now lives with her thirteen year old son Max, three rescue dogs and a miniature pot belly pig in the hills of Topanga California.

More...

Robyn Feeley of bungalow art creates an amazing line of animal greeting cards in a style that is singularly her own.

Zazzle is proud and happy to be able to show a few pieces of her art and equally proud of her latest promotion to Director of Animal welfare in the city of Topanga in California. Very cool.

If redboy gallery sells any of her shirts the money will be donated to the animal cause of Robyn's choosing.


Robyn Feeley
Bungalow Art
www.bungalowart.com

Self Portraits: Andrew Sloan

Me & My Ideas.
Acrylic on Canvas.
Painted during a massive pre-solo-show studio session. This is me and all that was coming out of my head (and going in) at that time. Seemed appropriate then and works for now as well. Good to have your arms out - not just for balance, but to receive all that the world has to offer.
All the best,
Andrew

Andrew Sloan
Providence Rhode Island
andrew@newsheriff.com

Gwenn Seemel :: Self Portraits

"The gaze of a self-portrait is a curiously intimate one: it is the
gaze of a person that scrutinizes her-him self. Looking at an
artist's self-portrait is a most delicious intrusion on a private
moment."

Gwenn Seemel

www.onefaceatatime.com

Gwen paints portraits one face at a time. Her web site chronicles her work. Not just portraits for portrait sake (which she does do) but also what she considers to conceptual projects:"When do you become a woman? Is it through puberty or after marriage? Maybe when you become a mother? How do modern gender surgeries affect what it means to be a woman? Can a breast enlargement surgery make you more of a woman? Or a male-to-female sex reassignment surgery? Is menopause the end of womanhood? Or is a woman always someone older than you? Are you a woman?

My next series questions whether physical changes have anything at all to do with becoming a woman. Each of my subjects has undergone some kind of physical change in 2006, transitions that are traditionally--as well as not so traditionally--associated with becoming a woman. I am capturing this year of change with two portraits of each subject, one "before" image and one "after."

Also, I am currently gathering subjects around the question "what does it mean to be an American?" Most of the subjects are immigrants or children of immigrants, because I tend to think that first and second generation Americans are more American than people whose families have been in the U.S. for many generations. What do you think?"
Please email her if you are interested in participating in this series or if you would like to be added to her mailing list: gwenn.seemel@gmail.com.

Chris Ellis :: Self Portraits

"Self Portrait" age 21 ( Graphite )
graphite self portrait created during
my student years.




"Self Portrait with Skull" age 35 ( photograph )
eye patch resulted from a severe shingles
attack to the optic nerve.



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*Chris Ellis*
***Artist***
United States
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Charlie Alan Kraft :: Self Portrait

Thoughts on the picture of self portraits: ( self portraits in general )

How very rare to find a self portrait that contains the very music of the artist themselves. Too often do I find myself looking at Hollywood reproductions of what a person is not instead of what a person is, using the self as a way to express entertainment instead of sacrifice. Self portraits should reflect the rawness of the core inside of ourselves. The empty that no one else can see or hear. When I see painting after painting of eyes and smile or smug lips and casual hair I am reminded of nothing and no piece of the painter has been given to me.
Charlie Alan Kraft

You can see more of Charlie Alan Kraft's work at his website. Cool Stuff.

http://www.charliealankraft.com/index02.html#

keith farris :: Selp Portrait

this portrait is several years old now. i was in the classroom and the lighting was such and from a mirror i imagined myself emerging, bourbon soaked, from the magnolia bar and grille at closing time; all lit up with neon and brimming with nihilism.

keith farris
portland


You can visit him at his MYSPACE place: existing in space

http://www.myspace.com/grinchly_schleprock

Call for Submissions - self portraits with links to artist sites

Self portraits

A focus on fifty artist self portraits- Could be you

What we are looking for-

1. Self portraits by artist -(physically sent via email- link below )

2. Your comments or thoughts about the picture of the subject of self portraits

What we will Do

1. Make a blog entry on Art Talk titled: (Your name) Self portrait.

You may send up to four pictures.

2. We will include a link to your website (or blog or myspace)- if you want

Why?

Because we thought it would be cool

Are you willing to expose your view of yourself?

Send entries HERE

 

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