Wired Artist Co-op Members

Featuring:

Peter Ambush

From a very, early age, Peter wanted to be an artist. After graduating from Frederick High School, he attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, where he received a bachelor`s degree in fine art. He also studied at the duCret School of Art in Plainfield, New Jersey where he now teaches. Through the years, Peter has worked in various fields of art such as greeting cards, caricatures, children`s books, computer graphics, digital art, wildlife and portraiture.

From 1994 to 2005, he worked for the Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, N.J. as a graphic artist and illustrator. For many of those years he created cover art for the papers weekly TV guide. Before leaving the paper he illustrated over 400 covers. He now lives in Stroudsburg, Pa. with his wife and daughter as a free-lance artist.

I pray to God that He keeps blessing me each day with a spirit of excellence, and that He constantly imparts His will in my art and in my life Peter Ambush

Susan Blair Brew

Susan Blair Brew is an artist in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania who works in mixed media and fabric. Having received a BA in Art and Classics in 1977 from Wheaton College, Massachusetts, she has pursued her artwork while raising two sons. Susan expanded her passion for art with further education at New York’s Brooklyn Museum Art School, and School of Visual Arts. While in Pennsylvania she has studied at Lehigh Valley’s Baum School, and Banana Factory, and at the Wayne Art Center, in Wayne, PA.

In her fabric collages, Susan either begins by printing her digital photographs onto fabric as iron-on transfers, or she takes pieces of fabric that tell their own story with their synergy of abstract shapes and colors.   Her passion for working in fabric emerged three years ago, when she created her beaded hangings for a Tibetan fundraiser.  Her photographs of lily pads compelled her to choose fabrics onto which these images could be ironed, and then embellished with beads and fabric strips. 

These become the beginning of a love affair with the medium of fabric, thread, and other materials, which combines her passion for photography and paint, with her infatuation with cutting, gluing and sewing new forms.  

To see more of Susan's work go to
www.paintthesoulsdance.com

Gail Buckner

Vivian Fishbone

I graduated from Skidmore College with a BA in Biology,and worked for several years as a research technician at Rockefellar Institute, U of PA, and Jefferson Medical College. I believe this background in biology is often apparent in my paintings.

With my children grown, I enrolled in Art Students League in NYC., studying with Richard Pousette-Dart, Theodoros Stamos, Will Barnett, and Leo Manso. I started with representational portraits and figure studies in oil, and slowly worked my way through expressionism, impressionism, cubism, hard edge abstraction, and color field painting to the work I now do in acrylic on paper, wood or canvas.

I have had 25 one-woman shows, and was visiting artist at Lafayette College for 5 years. I am listed in Who's Who of American Women

Darrell George

Using oil paints gives me better control of the medium. By choice, I am able to manipulate what happens on canvas, making conscious decisions about the evolution and finality of the painting. I always try to use a palette that best communicates depth in a painting, never using the same color in both the background and foreground. Combined with the importance I find in facial reaction or the gesture of the body I hope to create the picture of stopped motion that I can see through my minds eye.

I seek refuge in the human body. I find the ultimate expression of emotion is best depicted through the action of a figure. Expressed with subtlety, a sort of shyness helps us to see the main character in a painting as a hero. Discernible to the viewer, the figure becomes the most complicated machine on the planet, capable of expressing our insecurity, awkwardness, hostility, or joy. From the reaction and movements of the body it is possible to understand their physical and emotional destination. The viewer is tempted to look more than once, recognizing something new with each glimpse. A story for their creative fantasy is conceived. There are a range of emotions felt and observed everyday; sadness, anger, frustration, or joy. They’re all in there. A story will be told.”

See more of Darrell George's original oil paintings at
www.unstopgallery.com

Mathew Halm

Kelly Kehs

I believe there is a cycle to life. Things happen for a reason and there is a spiritual interconnection and balance between all that exists. This philosophy is expressed in my artwork, both intellectually and technically through spontaneous and experimental processes.
By use of color and texture my artwork represents a world in which the subconscious meets the conscious and imagination becomes reality. Each stroke on the canvas leads to the next, each color complements or contrasts another, and the process continues until the space that I have manipulated makes sense to me.

Chris Kosztyo

Jonathan Narmita

Lisa O'Brien

Kitchy fun!

Daniel Paashaus

For Daniel Paashaus, every photograph is an attempt to construct, even if only for a fleeting moment, a world to call his own creation. These conceptual self-portraits are based in literature, philosophy, and performance art with a strong concentration on the individual's inability to truly connect with contemporary society. His two current series are Ideological State Apparatuses, inspired by the writings of Althusser, Zizek, and Foucault, and Philosophical Propositions, inspired by the writings of Camus and Lacan.

Benjamin Pawlowski

Benjamin has a very mathematical approach to his work. He develops a process or equation in which the variables are altered to form different reactions. His themes often contain double meanings and hidden messages commenting on both the world of art and his own personal life. Yet he wants his work to be open enough so that viewers can find their own interpretation. To learn more about Ben's views visit his blog at lettersismadeofletters.com

Richard Redd

Richard Redd , painter and printmaker began his life and career in the Lehigh Valley and Lehigh University in 1958. He received degrees from the University of Toledo and the University of Iowa. The majority of his work at WAC consists of Collagraph Prints. The plates are made from 4-ply cardboard and have layers glued onto them, they are then hand inked in different areas and run on the press. A plate may be used more than once, but it is hand inked which makes each print one of a kind.

John Reinking

Artist Statement Ceramics
Within my ceramic work I use Raku, Porcelain and Stoneware clay bodies. My work consists of functional objects that are heavily influenced by the history of ceramics specifically the japanese aesthetic and form. They are also influenced by the natural world and organic form. The clay should move, dance and breathe. I create objects that highlight each specific aspects of the different firing processes. Whether it be the the dancing flame of the wood firings or the hands on approach of the raku process,

I strive to create pieces that are beautiful and effortless.
 
Artist Statement Ceramics
My paintings become, in some cases, the literal interpretation of my ceramic work. These two dimensional, figurative vessels exist within their own environment. These figures, much like their three dimensional counterparts, are molded vessels. Some are broken, some have fallen, and some are meditative. They are all on a journey, they all are hollow, they are all real, they are all of us

For more information on John Reinking visit his website at www.jarstudios.com

Mike Rosak

Mike is primarily a wildlife, flower, and landscape photographer. People have to deal with many negatives in life, so Mike's photographs are meant to bring positive feelings of warmth, happiness, or tranquility to the viewer. Mike uses archival printing and matting materials to insure that his photographs will retain the look they had when created.

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Cynthia Rossi

Sarah Schimeneck

Erica Shankland

I Play With Rocks

I marry together silver, semiprecious stone and glass, contemporary, vintage and ancient. When the piece calls for it I have been known to add crystal, pearls and silver of my own fabrication. I try to make each piece different from anything else I have created before.

My favorite stone is the one I am currently working with. Sometimes I see a strand of beads and see a design in my head and just sit down and make it. Other times the design fractures and it takes me many attempts to bring the creation back together. So while my design process varies I’m never finished until I am satisfied with the final piece.

Currently I am planning a design using Ancient Roman Glass, once used by the Romans, shattered, and left to become weathered and opalized by nature, retrieved from the soil for my use. I have an idea in my head of how I want this to turn out, but until the work is completed you never know, I may have to take it apart and put it back together all over again.

Michelle Schissler

Larry Skahill

Andrea Osgood Smith

Andrea Osgood-Smith paints with watercolors with a loose and brushy style often uncommon in watercolorist. She selects bold, vibrant colors that breath new life into the medium. She shares her love of nature's amazing hues through her artwork and successfully engages the viewer by using very active hues and lines that vibrate the on the paper. "Watercolors are magical to me! I am enchanted by the way the medium moves with the flow of water. It is a joyful meditation for me to paint and I am lost in the moment of creativity."

More about Andrea can be found on her website at
www.martimandrea.com

Cynthia Underhill

Cindie is just beginning her career in Landscape Photography. The two things she enjoys most about this type of work are being outside (usually with her dog) and networking with people about interesting things to photograph in the area. The majority of her work is local landscapes. Water of all forms entices her as a topic. Everything from foggy, rainy days to waterfalls to reflections. Lately she has been networking with several gardners in the area and photographing their gardens as well as wildflowers in abundance.

Reinaldo Valentin

John Walsh Jr

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