This Week At TAG: Fielden Harper, Bruce Sanders, Arlene Weinstock, K Ryan Henisey, Shelley Lazarus

May 9, 2020

This Week At TAG…

See what the TAG artists are creating while we all stay home! Scroll down to see a virtual studio visit and walkthrough from Fielden Harper as well as work from Bruce Sanders, Arlene Weinstock, K. Ryan Henisey, & Shelley Lazarus! For any inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net

TAG Member Artist Content:

Fielden Harper gives us a peek into studio her recent series of experimental works utilizing fabric. Click the link for the full video!

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Website: fieldenharperart.net

TAG Member Artist Bruce Sanders Primal Dance.jpg — **Bruce Sanders**

*Primal Dance,* acrylic & glass bead gel on canvas, 36" x 48"

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Website: **brucesanders-art.com**

TAG Member Artist Bruce Sanders Guardians Of The Dream.jpeg — **Bruce Sanders**

*Guardians of the Dream,* acrylic & coarse pumice gel on canvas, 30” x 40”

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Website: **brucesanders-art.com**

TAG Member Artist Arlene Weinstock Illi.jpg — **Arlene Weinstock**

*Illi,* mixed media pencil and water-media, 18" x 24"

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Website: **arlenew.com**

Santa Clarita Arts is presenting a virtual take on its New Heights series with artist development videos available to the public. The series alternates between visual and musical arts. In this episode, K. Ryan Henisey shares his five tips on how to stay inspired:

1. Organize and Prioritize
2. Create and Art Routine
3. Connect Creatively
4. Care for Yourself
5. Make Something

View the full episode here!
Link to ArtsinSCV!

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Website: kryanhenisey.com

TAG Member Artist Shelley Lazarus Converstation.png — **Shelley Lazarus**

*Converstation circa 1940’s*, giclee of a watercolor, 36" x 28"
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Member Artist Spotlight: Liliana D'Ambrosio, David Stewart Klein, Edward Lightner, Bruce Sanders

May 5, 2020

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TAG-Member-Artist-Liliana-D'Ambrosio-Artwork-A.jpg — **Liliana D'Ambrosio**

**Liliana D’ambrosio** was born in 1951 in Irpinia, Italy. During early her adolescence, she developed a passion for painting which would extend throughout her life. Inspired by her passion for art, she went on to study at the Art School of Avellino.
For a long period extending from the late 1980’s to the early years of the 2000’s, she drew on paper with rapidity and acrylic colors worked into her paper using dry and slightly diluted brushes.

TAG-Member-Artist-Liliana-D'Ambrosio-Artwork-B.jpg — **Liliana D'Ambrosio**

During this period she experimented with different mediums, though she continued to create masterpieces using acrylic paint. Liliana’s work began to provoke emotions with the use of diverse colors and linear shapes. In 2018, after a prolonged absence from the art world due to illness, she decided to return to the United States to expand her influence in the world of American Art.
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Website: **lilianadambrosio.com**

**David Stewart Klein**

Since the young age of 3, **Klein** has not put down his artist tools. Klein's work focuses on the inner world of his subjects, and has a hyper sensitive approach to observing and conveying his subjects, melding the characters forms together with the world in which he/she inhabits to give a heightened sense of the persons expressed experience. The paintings and drawings he makes carry fragments of his memories and creates palettes of color to brighten up worlds that don't see enough light, and also describe the dark areas of the human mind which can also be quite comforting in ways.

**David Stewart Klein**

"I'm using colors and themes that are familiar to me from my childhood. I grew up in a home that had a sense of warmth and it has a lot to do with Latin American and Eastern European cultural palettes and faces, so that is something that is embedded in my mind. In addition its about my sensibility as a uniquely formed person to try to explore and create visions I have never seen before myself in the real world, the kind of things you see in dreams...That is when all these elements come together."
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Website: **theartofdekay.com**
Facebook: **facebook.com/theartofdekay**

**Edward Lightner**

Over the last several years, the execution of **Edward Lightner’s** art has become more and more process oriented. In understanding the titles, it is helpful to know how the Department of Energy arranged the groups of tests. For the most part, all the imagery he is using comes from the Nevada Test Site, where each group of tests were given a designation name, such as Flintlock, Fulcrum or Bowline. Within each test group there are then individually named test shots. This atomic testing is all archived with the DOE, so the coordinates of any specific underground test site can be acquired and entered on Google Earth. It is the resulting satellite images that are used to generate all his paintings.

**Edward Lightner**

The images are cleaned up and edited, with a kaleidoscope process imposed upon each. The transformed image is next put through a contour program. The result of these two manipulations is the final form that is then worked with. This process is applied in the same manner to the photographs of the land where each weapons related test shot took place. The Flintlock series also has an added collage element taken from medical information sheets, among other sources. The resulting works explore the aesthetics of beauty, but all are generated from a dark place.
Follow Ed - **instagram.com/edwardlightner**
Website: **edlightner.com**

**Bruce Sanders**

**Bruce Sanders** is a neo-expressionist/symbolist, and abstract painter living in Malibu, California. Bruce’s work blurs the lines of representational and abstract art. It delves into a space between the real world and a mystical-magical realm. Bruce employs kinetic forms, dynamic colors, and primal emotions into all of his art. By doing so, his work compels viewers to empathize, analyze, and interpret their own feelings.

**Bruce Sanders**

Bruce’s work has been exhibited in shows in Laguna, Newport Beach, Santa Monica, Ventura, Los Angeles, and Palm Springs. Bruce is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association. He is a Member Artist of TAG Gallery in Los Angeles near LACMA.
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Website: **brucesanders-art.com**

This Week At TAG: Susan C Price, Shalla Javid, SKÜT, Ed Lightner

May 2, 2020

See what the TAG artists are creating while we all stay home! Scroll down to see a virtual studio visit and walkthrough from Susan C. Price as well as work from Shalla Javid, SKÜT, & Ed Lightner! For any inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net

Susan C. Price

TAG member Susan C Price gives us a peek into her recent series "Body of Work."

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www.susancprice.com

TAG-Member-Artist-Shalla-Javid,-Motherly-Love,-Acrylic-on-Canvas,-20'-x-24'.jpg — **Shalla Javid**

**Shalla Javid**
*Motherly Love*
Acrylic on Canvas
20" x 24"
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Website: **shallartist.com**

TAG-Member-Artist-Shalla-Javid,-Friends-Forever,-Acrylic,-24'-x-30'-_-I-Like-Squares,-Acrylic-on-Canvas,-30'-x-24'.jpg — **Shalla Javid**

**Shalla Javid**
*Friends Forever*
Acrylic, 24" x 30"
*I Like Squares*
Acrylic on Canvas, 30" x 24"
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Website: **shallartist.com**

TAG-Member-Artist-SKÜT-(Scott-Lewallen),-You-Are-Not-Alone,-Blues-Edition,-Digital-on-Canvas,-20'-x-16'.jpg — **SKÜT**

**SKÜT**
*You Are Not Alone, Blues Edition*
Digital on Canvas
20" x 16"
Follow SKÜT: **instagram.com/inkedbyskut**
Website: **inkedbyskut.com**

**SKÜT**

**SKÜT**
*You Are Not Alone (Red, Rainbow, Pink Editions)*
Digital on Canvas
20" x 16"
Follow SKÜT: **instagram.com/inkedbyskut**
Website: **inkedbyskut.com**

TAG-Member-Artist-Ed-Lightner,-Yannigan-Blue-Mandrel;-1-8-12,-acrylic-and-ink-on-paper-with-frame,-15'-x-15'.jpg — **Ed Lightner**

**Ed Lightner**
*Yannigan Blue Mandrel; 1-8-12*
Acrylic And Ink On Paper With Frame
15" x 15"
Follow Ed: **instagram.com/edwardlightner**
Website: **edlightner.com**

TAG-Member-Artist-Ed-Lightner,-Arnica-Violet-Mandrel;-1-18-12,-acrylic-and-ink-on-paper-with-frame,-15'-x-15'.jpg — **Ed Lightner**

**Ed Lightner**
*Arnica Violet Mandrel; 1-18-12*
Acrylic And Ink On Paper With Frame
15" x 15"
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Website: **edlightner.com**

Member Artist Spotlight: Michael Burnham, Shalla Javid, James R. Lane, Gianna Vargas

April 28, 2020

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**Michael Burnham**

It’s the subject, it’s the content, it’s the idea, it’s the emotion that needs to be expressed and the artist must get out of the way of what is transcendent in their work. I’ve only ever wanted to work with the subjects, concepts, techniques and medium that interest me. But, all my artistic life I’ve heard the same thing over and over again.

**Michael Burnham**

I don’t try to contort a subject or concept into the tyranny of my own style. I don’t believe in forcing my style on an idea. Style is just another limitation on artistic expression. With each project I delve into I let the theme, subject or emotion I want to convey dictate to me what the style of the image shale be.
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Website: **www.michaelburnhamphoto.com**

**Shalla Javid**

Moving to the states by myself was heroic and a little nutty. I was living somewhere in between freedom, delight and dishonor. I think that’s why my paintings speak to individuals.They are human, real, truthful and hopeful. You might recognize yourself at the brink of an emotion you can’t just yet describe.This is why I paint, to express all that I can not put into words, any language or even a religion. It’s where all the desires hang out and touch each other. To me, painting is my lover, my meditation, it’s my soul yelling to others “please witness my beauty, honey.”

**Shalla Javid**

I’ve been told that I stoke emotions with my compositions. Sometimes, excitement or tranquility and sometimes it’s just plain sexy. I just get carried away. The paint, the colors, rhythms, shapes, and sultry repetitions take over me and create a dramatic scene that is so delicious I think they want to be devoured. My paintings are meant to be reveled, absorbed and enjoyed, just like life’s experiences.
Follow Shalla - **instagram.com/shallaart**
Website: **shallartist.com**
Facebook: **facebook.com/ArtofShalla**

**James R. Lane**

Ever since I was first taught to do so at age 14, I’ve always been captivated by the magic that comes from printing photos in the darkroom – the mystery resulting from exposing a blank piece of photo paper to light and creating something more. I’m driven by visualizing an image in my mind’s eye, and working to make it take life and substance on the paper. When that happens, when the visualization is matched in the print, I feel exhilaration. And, I love the reward of utter surprise and delight when what appears is beyond what was imagined, and something much, much better comes into existence.

**James R. Lane**

My practice is defined by bringing each of my pieces beyond a flat image on a two-dimensional plane. That is the limitation that comes with traditional photography, and that is why I am always looking for ‘more.’
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Website: **jamesrlaneart.com**

**Gianna Vargas**

Gianna Vargas is an artist and educator living in Los Angeles, California. She divides her time between teaching science and painting. Her work is informed by her background in science. Her studio is located in the Hawthorne Arts Complex.

**Gianna Vargas**

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Website: **giannavargas.com**

This Week At TAG: Pam Douglas, Liliana D'Ambrosio, Douglas Teiger, Shirley Asano Guldimann

April 25, 2020

See what the TAG artists are creating while we all stay home! Scroll down to see updates and works by Liliana D'ambrosio, Douglas Teiger, Pam Douglas, & Shirley Asano Guildmann and new additions to the TAG online store. For any inquiries, please email gallery@taggallery.net