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Featured Artist: John Leben, digital art

Posted by Connie Mettler on June 24, 2010 at 9:00pm
With the advent of digital cameras many people got into the photography game -- now it was so easy, point and shoot, send the file to the printer and voila an artist is born!

That is not what John Leben is doing. A former video producer, painter, graphic designer, and documentary producer he has been compelled by technology since college days, exploring its various uses as an art medium. The continuous changing landscape in the graphic arts field led him to the art fairs some years ago where now you can find a man and his work that is the result of his various careers.

Relatively new to the art fair business John exploits his graphic arts background to continues his life's interests using his computer, painting and drawing on his computer screen, layering photos and color using software called "Art Rage" to create his imagery. This is not "photoshopped" imagery but original painting. You've must see it!

Lucky you, if you live in the Midwest you can meet John and explore his work soon:

Summer Art Festival - Omaha, NE - June 25-27
Krasl Art Fair on the Bluff - St. Joseph, MI - July 10-11
South University Art Fair - Ann Arbor, MI - July 21-24

Learn more: ArtFairCalendar.com/FeaturedArtist
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Where Do Art Fair Artists Go? Kenneth Huff's Story

Posted by Connie Mettler on September 21, 2009 at 6:04pm
An amazing digital artist (and I really mean digital in that he uses the computer as his tool) used to participate in the nation's art fairs. He took top prizes everywhere he went. About five years ago he dropped out to see if he could make it in another arena. It is no surprise to those of us who saw his work to read about his success. Read below and be inspired. From Kenneth Huff: Last week, during the 2009 Ars Electronica Festival in Austria, one of my time-based works was shown, accompanied by the Bruckner Orchester Linz. The concerto for piano, "Lousadzak (The Coming of Light)" by Alan Hovahness, was conducted by Dennis Russell Davis, with Maki Namekawa on piano. The piece was very well-received by the festival audience. There is a brief clip on my blog from the final rehearsal and a photo from the performance: www.kennethahuffblog/comingofthelight I am looking forward to similar events in the future. ---------- * On-going exhibition of work at the Ars Electronica Center Also at the Ars Electronica Center, there is a three-year exhibition of a selection of my still images, Organik Constructions, that is showing in the center's Deep Space projection gallery. An installation photo and links to the exhibition pages can be found here: www.kennethahuff.com/blog/ars-electronicafestival.com The exhibition opened 2 January. I was visiting the Center as it was being built in December and was thrilled to experience my work as the very first images shown in the space, the day the projectors were turned on for the first time. www.kennethahuff.com/blog/2009/01/03/ars-electronica-center ---------- * Blog I have a blog where I am posting current events and news. Occasionally, I also post reference photography, the occasional technical detail and soon, stereoscopic images of my travels. You can find the blog here: www.kennethahuff.com/blog
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June Artist: Daryl Thetford - Photography & Digital Art

Posted by Connie Mettler on June 25, 2009 at 11:12am
I'd guess that at least half of the artists you see at art fairs have been working on their art since they were children. The other half are people who have unearthed their talent later in their lives, whose life experiences have taken them a step at a time to their present situation, later discovering a passion for exploring their artistic abilities. Daryl Thetford's story is a long unwinding from mental health therapist, manager of a mental health center, which segued into book collecting, establishing one of the first online bookstores for used and rare books, until watching his wife's art career unfold gave him the taste to explore his own artistic nature. Since 2001 he has been exhibiting his photographs at art fairs. His long incubation allowed his imagery to emerge nearly full grown, as proven by his inclusion this year at almost every one of the nation's top art fairs, including Miami's Coconut Grove, Chicago's Old Town, Milwaukee's Lakefront, Des Moines Arts Festival, Denver's Cherry Creek, the St. Louis Art Fair and Houston's Bayou City. Daryl's photographs are straightforward captures of Americana, mostly from the rural South. His digital art is built on this base, layering additional photographs onto them and thereby transforming them into something complex, richly textured, and painterly. He says, "My influences include vintage matchbooks, posters, postcards, graffiti, and pop artists Rauschenberg, Johns and Warhol. My goal is not to present nostalgia, but to revisit existing artworks and then re-vision them into a wholly new and original form." More about Daryl and his work.
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