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Louis Ocepek
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Louis Ocepek is an artist and designer born and raised in Detroit. He studied design and fine art at Wayne State University, and earned his graduate degree from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. He taught at Montana State University, Portland State University, and New Mexico State University. Ocepek works in a variety of media, exhibiting prints, paintings and hybrid works in group and solo exhibitions throughout the country. His work may be viewed on his website at louisocepek.com, and several self-published books of his work may be viewed at blurb.com.
Hajime Namiki
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Hajime Namiki is part of the post-war Sōsaku-hanga ("creative prints") art movement. While his subjects are traditionally Japanese, he elevates his work to the Western definition of fine art. Hajime draws, carves, and prints each piece himself—his sole creation. That control over the entire process allows him to express himself, unlike any other Japanese artist.
Ty Smith
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Ty Smith is an American artist, art educator, and curator who lives and works in Birmingham, AL. A native of Montgomery, AL, he graduated from the University of Alabama, in 2001 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. While working on his undergraduate degree, Smith studied with Professor Alvin C. Sella. In 2006, Smith moved to Oklahoma where he received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Tulsa in 2009. In Tulsa, he studied with painter Mark Lewis, as well as artists Deborah Kahn and Stanley Lewis, during a summer program at the Chautauqua School of Art. Smith currently teaches as Adjunct Faculty for the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Samford University. Smith’s approach to the studio is congruent with that of the Color Field and Minimalist art movements of the post-war painting era and his methodical process is loaded with tradition and experimentation. He has extensive exhibition experience and his work has appeared in museums and other venues throughout the U.S.
bob nugent
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Bob Nugent received his Master of Fine Arts Degree in Painting from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1971. Since that time he has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships including a Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, NEA Fellowship, Fulbright Travel Grant and a California Arts Council Grant for his work in Brazil. Bob has had over 100 solo exhibitions and has been included in over 600 group exhibitions throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and South America. His work is in the collections of the Oakland Museum of Art, International Telephone and Telegraph, International Paper, Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, The Brooklyn Museum, Bank of America Collection, Hewlett Packard, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Amerada Hess Oil, 3M Corporation, Kaiser Permanente, Museum of Latin American Art, Triton Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil, Western Electric, Hilton Hotels and Washington State along with many others.
barrie goshko
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Early access to digital technology influenced the direction of her work. For many years, she was fortunate to print with Nash Editions in Manhattan Beach where they allowed her to play and create works on experimental substrates, including painted canvases and aluminum foil, as well as traditional Iris prints in small editions. As technology became more accessible, she began creating large format prints in her own studio.
Her current work focuses on drawing and combines digital processes with ink drawing and hand stitching to create unique pieces that speak with one another through their shared imagery.
Maarja roth
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I am a working artist with an eclectic career. In addition to my studio work I have done workshops, teaching, publishing, and commissions. I believe in experiential learning. I'm interested in all aspects of the creative process. I have been an Outward Bound instructor in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and led trips through Alaska as well as developing creative problem solving classes for corporate retreats in Europe. The thread that connects all of my work is a love of nature and helping myself and others unleash our creativity.
Barbara Kacicek
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My paintings and drawings, intimate in scale, are a reflection of my quiet, contemplative existence. Often bathed in the light of the ‘magic hour’, my subjects are imbued with a sense of mystery, mysticism, memory and poetry under thoughtful, careful observation. Surrounded by beauty, my intent is to capture the lucid stillness of natural light over skin, stones, fruit, clouds — each one a unique, rapturous, wordless meditation on form, light and color, revealing the unseen world through the seen world. My work is informed by my personal spiritual practices, the Old and Modern Masters, earth, water, sky, phases of the moon, the music and poetry of singer-songwriters, the human figure, silence, my hands. I am leading myself to a secret dream that I have had over and over again.
Marty Nash
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Marty Nash is a painter and teacher living in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a member of the Minneapolis based Form + Content Gallery, while exhibiting throughout the region.