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An interior designer by training and vocation, Ginny Herzog has taken her eye for detail and interest in architectural elements and abstracted it into one-of-a kind mixed media paintings using oils, watercolor, crayons, graphite, cold wax and any other medium that will give her the effect she is after.

 

Balancing the traveling life with family meant that for several summers running one of her children would be her partner for the season. When one of her kids smashed her van into the garage wall before a big art fair she and friend artist Jody dePew McLeane squeezed all their work, displays and tents into Jody's minivan and enjoyed this style of travel so much they continued it for several years435.jpg?width=260.

As she travels she takes photos of the architecture of cities along her art fair route, later mining the images for her collages. She does several site specific paintings a year for clients. These paintings may be of one project (commercial or residential) or may include a body of work by one architect, architectural firm, or developer. I have done city specific series that reflects the architecture in several different cities, including Chicago, Denver, Des Moines, Miami and New York.

Labor Day weekend you can meet Ginny in Royal Oak, MI, where she will be exhibiting for the first time at Arts, Beats & Eats.

Read more about Ginny and her work:  www.artfaircalendar.com/featured artist

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Artist of the Month: Mark Traughber

Like most artists Mark Traughber has been drawing and painting all of his life. Always encouraged by his parents to do the things he enjoyed he honed an awareness that has feeds him today. After graduating from college and unable to find a job he is now grateful for all of those "no, thank you's" that have led him to a creative life doing what he loves best.

As befits this idea he says, "I'm very interested in the idea of personal identity," he said, "finding what is truly ourselves, and what makes us happy, and what's good and natural to us versus what we're fed about what we should be."

His work is a combination of playful and thoughtful images, with a mix of his influences Egon Schiele, Lucien Freud and Andy Warhol thrown in.

What you'll find in his booth at an art fair: charcoal drawings, mixed media paintings, watercolor sketches, spray paint and collage images. Traughber is one of a breed of artists whose youthful energy melds many techniques into a fresh exuberance, nothing "old school" here, a new look for new collectors.

He does only a few art fairs, but if you are lucky you can find him in Royal Oak, MI, (September 3-6) at Arts, Beats & Eats and Kansas City, MO, (September 24-26) at the Plaza Art Fair.

More about Mark & his art: www.ArtFairCalendar.com/featuredartist
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Featured Artist: Linda Chamberlain

At first glance Linda Chamberlain's paintings are lighthearted and fun, with a hint of the Arts and Crafts Movement, but eavesdropping in her art fair booth you will hear patrons talking Art Fair Calendar.comabout the "dark side" of the work comparing it to that of Maurice Sendak. This makes you pause, take another look and see beneath the surface. "Good Day" Is it only birds and children, or is it more? Childlike figures lead us to the path of our own introspective journey. The naivete and sweetness belie and explore what is underneath. Or, as Linda says, "humorous work requires some dark side. To be successful and memorable it must be about more than butterflies." Linda's art fair career spans more than thirty years. Beginning as a weaver as a way to keep her family together after her young husband died she has progressed through wearables, doll making, found object sculpture and most recently mixed media painting. You'll enjoy Linda's journey, read it here: www.ArtFairCalendar.com/featured artist
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