ART EXOTIC GALLERYThis web-site presents, a selection of international artists from around the World, different nations, different styles and mediums. Represented by their web-sites, this virtual gallery is only meant as a platform, an introduction to the viewer, showing many new currents in Contemporary Art. Just remember, the Art Exotic Gallery, does not replace each artist's own gallery or own agent, nor can you contact the following artists through the Art Exotic Gallery.
Please enjoy this selection of very tasteful, creative an outstanding World & Exotic Contemporary Art.
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The ARTISTS
Martin Waugh, Gerry Joe Weise, Hew Locke, Clare Langan, Billy Blob, Spencer Reynolds, Tony Calzetta, Michel Tuffery, Jeff Raglus, Shag.All works are copyright by the artists.
L I N K S :
TIKI ART FARM
http://www.tikifarm.comSCULPTURE PARK
http://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/ABORIGINAL ART
http://www.aboriginalartonline.com.au/
yMARTIN WAUGHy
http://www2.liquidsculpture.comMARTIN WAUGH combines art and science to capture nature's infinite beauty. The photography has a free-flowing aspect that evokes images of rolling oceans to drops on a calm lake. The photography taken at high-speed is put to great creative expression, engaging in metaphors that are not in your usual mainstream art. By varying the size, speed and position of drops, as well as color, viscosity, and surface tension; Martin Waugh creates a liquid landscape panorama.
%GERRY JOE WEISE%
http://www.gerryjoeweiseartwork.blogspot.com/
Gerry Joe Weise was born in 1959 in Sydney, Australia. In the 1980s and 1990s he had been living in Germany, Switzerland and France. He returned to Australia in 1999, and since the 2000s has been living in Australia and France. In 2000 and 2001 he stayed out on two remote Aboriginal communities : Manmoyi and Gunbalanya. He has traveled a lot, and his artwork is influenced by different cultures, civilizations, the cosmos; where he uses many mediums from painting on canvas, bark, wood, metal, slate, stone, installations of colored pigments on earth and the natural elements, music and performance, to video and photography.
(HEW LOCKE)http://www.hewlocke.netHEW LOCKE was born in 1959 in England. His artwork has historical references, voodoo like arrangements, gaudy colors, mixed-media installations, commentaries on local and international politics : some work alludes to slavery - colonialism - and the history of globalization. His images of the British Royal Family, have created a great sensation, both positive and negative! Hew Locke's artwork reflects the Western fear and / or desire for the Exotic.
GCLARE LANGANG
http://www.clarelangan.com
CLARE LANGAN was born in 1967. In 1992 she attended the New York Intensive Film Workshop after receiving her honors degree at the NCAD in Dublin. She specializes in cinematography. Her films and photographs, offer us visions of a future overwhelmed by nature after what seems to be a major catastrophe. An unnerving sensation of post-environmental-hazards are omni-present. This gives us a feeling of a vacated World, reinforced by the fact of a story untold that documents the aftermath of these calamities. There is a dreamlike and/or nightmarish character, created by the optical qualities of these films. These qualities are attributed to the images that take place on exceptional grounds : the Namib Desert, in Ireland, and in Iceland.
! BILLY BLOB !
http://www.billyblob.comBILLY BLOB is a freelance webmaster, capable of making web and TV animation, online games, and an illustrator and T-shirt designer. Billy Blob's paintings, mainly acrylic on canvas, have a slight Basquiat influence - but with a comic twist to them.
His website is a wacky representation of animated contemporary pop-art. Billy Blob's cartoons are of an intellectual integrity of abstract stories, created with loose geometric figures and symbols on a tight background, all outlined with sophisticated color schemes.
SSPENCER REYNOLDSShttp://www.artandsurf.com
Spencer Reynolds was born in 1973 in Oceanside California. The main subject of his work is Ocean Art, that reflects influences from famous Surf Art artists to the chaos and comedy of Chuck Jones' Looney Tunes, and the color and light of American Impressionism: expecially from John Singer Sargent. Reynolds is always trying to create New Worlds through the movements of waves and action sequences, and ocean-weather-futurism; there-in much of his artwork leads to unworldly situations.
iiTONY CALZETTA
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http://www.artishell.com/calzetta/calzetta.html
TONY CALZETTA was born in 1945 in Ontario, he lives and works in Toronto, Canada. He has been doing solo and group exhibitions since 1975. His attitude towards painting is intuitive, and surrealist automatism has been of great interest to him as well. A lot of the shapes used by Calzetta are likened to and/or strangely rendered windows, doors, openings, boats, cars, parts of landscape: like trees and stones, parts of interiors mixed with exteriors; in which a sense of mystery surrounds all - in an endeavor to create an abstract pictorial language of simple shapes of abstract sizes.
J MICHEL TUFFERY J
http://www.micheltuffery.co.nz
MICHEL TUFFERY is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and he excels in performance and installation. He explores the positioning of the PACIFIC WAY OF LIFE in terms of point of origin, migration, and the hybridisation of cultures in the Pacific. His artwork shows the rich culture of NEW ZEALAND ART, where he interplays with symbols and abstraction based on POLYNESIAN and MELANESIAN: TAPA CLOTH, TATAU, NAVIGATION & CEREMONIAL SYMBOLISM.
UJEFF RAGLUSU
http://www.jeffraglus.com
JEFF RAGLUS was born in 1958, he is an artist, illustrator, jazz musician (trumpetist), T-shirt designer, poster designer, ex surfboard designer, and he hails form Victoria, Australia. Raglus has his own-style-version-mix of Lowbrow Pop art: being part naive art and part surf art, as well as being certainly very musical. He is known to describe his painting as Suburban-Primitive.
C SHAG C
http://www.shag.com
SHAG is a painter, illustrator and designer from Southern California. Since his first solo exhibition in 1997, he has had successful exhibitions in the USA, Europe, Japan and Australia. His paintings are set in the middle of a story and / or situation; no further clues are offered by the artist to explain how they got there, or where they are going to : except that his works are about consumer society. This is typical LOWBROW ART.
