Artocratic

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Art Gallery

	Cross Rye Twombly	Question Nico Vassilakis
Series 4, #1 Liz Meyer	Series 4, #4 Liz Meyer	Series 5, #8 Liz Meyer	3 Turn and Spin Liz Meyer
Cat's Cradle Melissa Harshman	Constant Negotiations Melissa Harshman	En Garde Melissa Harshman	Megaphone Melissa Harshman
Causeway John Howard	Ephemeral John Howard	Impact Velocity John Howard	Land of Enchantment John Howard
Disk John Howard	Heaven John Howard	Witnesses John Howard	Spectra John Howard
Caesar Roger Shurtleff	Glyph Roger Shurtleff	Demography Roger Shurtleff	Steady Wrecker Roger Shurtleff
Cruiser Roger Shurtleff	8 Susanne Friedman	Asian Pear Susanne Friedman	Fall 1 Susanne Friedman
Lost In The Morning Fog Susanne Friedman	Rose Moon Susanne Friedman	The Feather II Susanne Friedman	Untitled 2 Susanne Friedman
Vertigo Angielena Chamberlain	Protection Angielena Chamberlain	#4 Andie Francoeur	#5 Andie Francoeur
#6 Andie Francoeur	#7 Andie Francoeur	Jealousy Christine Elcee	Emerge Christine Elcee
shot from a moving car 23 Christine Elcee	Stinger Christine Elcee	Whip Kathryn Andrews

Artist Statements

Rye Twombly is currently creating miniature works to be carried in a pocket and viewed by fingertip. For more information, visit: ryetwombly.com.

Nico Vassilakis works with alphabet both textually and visually. Recent books include Protracted Type (Blue Lion Books, 2009), Disparate Magnets (BlazeVOX Books, 2009), staReduction (Book Thug, 2008), and Text Loses Time (Many Penny Press, 2007). His Vispo videos have been shown at festivals and exhibits of innovative language art. Nico is a founding member of the Subtext Collective.

Liz Meyer studied drawing and painting at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Since moving to Highland Park, Illinois fifteen years ago she has rediscovered figure skating and has found a way to capture the designs the blade leaves in the ice. The rubbings of the etchings in the ice form the basis for her artwork. For more information visit: www.lizmeyerdesigns.com. .

Melissa Harshman is a printmaker, painter, and photographer. She incorporates imagery from a variety of sources in her work. She often scours flea markets and antique stores, seeking printed ephemera to provide her with inspiration. She is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia and Chair of the Printmaking Department. Her work can be seen at melissaharshman.com.

John Howard lives, teaches and creates in Greenwich, Connecticut. With a background in painting, he has moved into the realm of the digital. Further inquiries can be directed to JHoward@greenwichacademy.org

Roger Shurtleff is a Seattle painter working with historical and cultural narratives. Using layered abstraction, contoured figures, and emotive, contrasting line, his subjects from the past extend into the present, and become mythic. To see more about his art or to contact him, visit his Web site. His paintings were photographed by Tim Aguero.

Susanne Friedman is a Seattle-based painter who likes the depth and transparency of encaustic painting, incorporating found metal objects and organic materials into her work, such as rice paper, leaves, seeds, coffee grounds and tar. The colors and textures of these materials inspire the direction of her work. Visit http://susannefriedman.com for more information.

Angielena Chamberlain studied painting and printmaking at the Gage Academy of Art and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. She draws inspiration from early-20th-century printmaker, Käthe Kollwitz. Angielena seeks to balance intensity with a sense of reverent playfulness in her work. She is currently the director of the Georgetown Art Center in Seattle. For more info: www.achamberlain.com

Andie Francoeur is a photographer who focuses mostly on self-portraits and outdoor settings. She is currently living/traveling around S.E. Asia and is putting a portfolio together in hopes of publishing a book of photos someday. She is also a musician and song artist and has just finished recording a CD called "Project: Landing," which will be released in November of 2009.

Christine Elcee is a multimedia artist, interested in creating evocative environment installations. "My depictions tend to be of internal states in which I bring some bold element into juxtaposition with the most tender and vulnerable counterpart to it." Further inquiries can be directed to zoeypenelope@gmail.com

Kathryn Andrews is a Maryland-based artist who works in a variety of media, including paint, fiber, photography, computer graphics and decoupage under glass. Her background in opera informs her work with a lyrical bent, as she combines traditional techniques with contemporary subject matter. Her blog and links to her work can be found at www.pricklygirl.blogspot.com.