Collaborations: Summer Collection 2009

Patti Didiomete
Canadian artist Patti Didiomete brings a mix of vibrant color combined with emphasis on form, resulting in work that is reminiscent of Cubism meets Fauvism. She combines geometric shapes with fluid, flowing lines forming playful scenes many of which display French Café-like settings of dancing, kissing, and drinking cocktails with friends. Her style is a mix between Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. She paints geometric linear compositions such as Picasso did in his Cubist works. However, Patti also portrays similar qualities to French Artist Henri Matisse as seen through their use of both expressive and colorful language. They also share the common treatment of fluid lines representing graceful movement found on the canvas. Patti’s figurative paintings represent a love of life and the expression of a moment in time.

In an effort to diversify her work, Patti also paints abstract pieces which she refers to as her “Dreamscapes.” Their light and airy qualities are validated by her use of very organic, natural colors. The overall experience is much different than her figurative pieces which produce a chic magnetism and instead reflect a much softer, quieter, serene atmosphere.

Laura Ross-Paul
Laura Ross-Paul's work is ethereal and honest. In general, Laura’s work is stylistically most similar to Neo-Impressionism encompassing everything from nudes and portraits to still-life and landscapes. Her figurative subjects are positioned in natural settings and painted with a great variety of color highlighted with the use of a wax finishing. The figures she portrays often confront the audience allowing us to engage into what they are feeling, what emotion is being provoked. There seems to be a reoccurring theme of vulnerability within the painted figures. It causes the viewer to reflect upon themselves and their inner battles. "What drives me to paint is my desire to explore the human condition. Through art I strive to capture the most common to the most complex elements of our nature, to visit my own struggles and the struggles of others, and to explore the emotions we all share yet find so hard to explain." – Laura Ross-Paul

Sandy Clark Sandy Clark's beautiful water colors maintain an essence of pure delight. Sandy paints both figurative as well as landscape water colors. Her figurative pieces display the upmost elegant women draped in loose, whimsical fabric emphasizing the beauty of the female form while highlighting features such as the curvature of the back or the twisting of the torso. Sandy’s landscape paintings depict nature as a sacred haven. The plush oases covered with soft, muted colors create a unique landscape filled with the desire to explore a new visual discovery.

Bill Agee Bill Agee is most commonly known for his photographic work. However, Agee is delving into a new medium creating abstract expressionistic work that is suggestive of the work of action artist Jackson Pollock. Agee's new pieces contain explosions of bright primary colors. Various sized dots organically form together creating forms and shapes that cannot be distinguished as purposeful or spontaneous. They move above a layered surface of one solid color, such as a strong yellow or red, making the surfaced spots of color pop. Although Agee's art is similar to the drip paintings of Jackson Pollock, Bill's work is much more controlled. Pollock’s pieces are frantic and chaotic while Agee’s work is much more orderly and similar to that of Pointillism, using smaller points/dots to create a larger whole. Bill Agee’s new paintings are more of an attitude than a style ... "In painting I like the texture and stroke of the brush and the paint. It makes the image more abstract." – Bill Agee

James Verbicky
Emotive in Character, yet Rational in thought. James Verbicky’s expressionistic abstract paintings evoke emotion. His gestural style calls attention to the handwriting of his expressionistic brushstrokes. Seemingly raw at first glance, Verbicky's work is agreeably cultured with a polished fervor.

Verbicky was first recognized in California for a commissioned piece done on one of the Frank Gehry Spheres displayed at the Hollywood Bowl. Today, he shows widely in galleries as well as fine and famous homes across North America, including the Frank Sinatra Estate in Northridge. Current collectors include the new face of Calvin Klein, Lara Stone, actor Cameron Mathison, and the Chicago Art Museum. His work has most recently been featured in Riviera Magazine Orange County, Luxe Magazine, Kontact Magazine, and as part of the 2008 Emmy Awards Celebration.

"As an artist, I document passing moments in time and, in turn, create similar experiences for the viewer, capturing them in a unique atmosphere, drawing them through an image into a single moment of deeper meaning, moving through form into space. Art can draw the viewer into a more intrinsic moment, and it is in these moments that we evolve." - James Verbicky

"All these artists will inspire, provoke, engage and mesmerize. With visual perceptions always changing, peek behind the stories told and you're sure to find the right artistic expression!