Artemisia: Living with Art

Spring in Artemisia Opening

Rebirth of the land, colorful flowers appear, birds open our wintery ears, water from the melted snow replenishes streams, and the things that were just dreams at the turn of a new year are alive and well.  Join Galerie de la Vie in ringing in Spring 2009 with a celebration of color. Jazz Calhern, Goose Wycliffe, Caebrianna Champollion and Christian Sandell bring to Artemisia the awakening of Spring. Through colorful images representing life after winter and wonderful fountains bring the water of life one can see that the season for beauty, love and enchantment has arrived in Artemisia. The four artists that we have gathered for the gallery’s first Spring Extravaganza represent some of SL’s finest.

Christian Sandell, Caebrianna Champollion, Goose Wycliffe, and Jazz Calhern

Jazz Calhern has been involved with Second Life photography and photo art for over two years.  She has experimented with various types of photo art, from landscapes filled with color and movement to richly-lit portraits.  She has had extensive experience as a SL freelance photographer and still accepts assignments, although infrequently. Her work appears at various SL locations, including her own gallery, Jazz By The Sea.

Goose Wycliffe is a real life artist and photographer, with a BA in fine art photography from Southern Illinois University, USA. “I love the concept of looking at an image and knowing that in a sense you’re peering into the soul of the photographer.” She has a large portfolio of Second Life work which is currently showing at her gallery in Savelli. Goose’s latest collection will be based on the concept of rebirth or renewal.  This is a theme that is particularly close to her heart – as it expresses a personal journey that recently connected her first and Second Lives as intimately as anyone can.Caebrianna Champollion is a photographer/graphic Artist with over 20 years of RL experience. She has won numerous awards for her RL work, and donates her time to Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, infant bereavement photography (www.nilmdts.com), The Heart Galleries (www.adoptuskids.org), and several other charity organizations in RL.  In SL she donates her time/work to Relay for life, the Heron Society, and Angel Dorei. “I love photography with all my heart, and my favorite genre will always be Children’s Portraiture.”

Christian Sandell creates and designs some of the most fascinating fountains in SL. Curator RobertSteven Smythe said that the first time he saw one of Christian’s fountains he knew that one day he would have him exhibit at a gallery.  “I did not know that one day I would have my own gallery because at the time I was doing exhibitions at Bissorte Marina. Now that I am curator for Galerie de la Vie I knew that his work would be perfect for a Spring show.

Please join the residents of Artemisia and Galerie de la Vie for the first Spring Extravaganza.  The opening reception was Thursday April 16 with the Eth Tedeschi our DJ for the evening. See the pictures with dancing around (and in) Christian’s fountain.

Galerie de la Vie, Artemisia

Now through April 14th

Reception April 2nd at 3:00 pm SL time

The exhibition “The Collector” is focused around the art collection of Sichel Seifert an art enthusiast who has been collecting and commissioning some of the finest artists in Second Life since early 2005. You will see as never before from the eyes of a collector and connoisseur of Second Life art. This last installment of “The Collector” displays the wonderful work of elros Tuominen and Glyph Graves, two of Second Life’s most colorful and inspiring artists.

Glyph Graves, “My art is currently focused on the interplay between structure and texture. As well as the normal digital tools of graphic and 3D modeling programs, I also freely make use of Linden Scripting Language as both my chisel and my paintbrush.  I’m constantly in a state of wonder (and occasionally, despair) at the depth and the dimensionality that’s available for the art of Second Life. I am also known for my work with slow alpha textures in complex sculpts but also work with interactive sound and solid Transformational pieces.”

Graves on Tuominen’s work, “elros creates beautiful textures and animates them in new and surprising ways, exploring  the  sculptures physical as well as textural space.  He has a romantic spirit that comes through strongly in his work, with the cubic form a major object of his affection.   My personal favorites though are his work with flex.”

elros Tuominen relates, “My work is  based on three basic points: light, colour and rhythm, and almost all the ideas come from own feelings and experiences, most of them, not all. I just create some music without sound, some alive watercolour, watercolours that never dry, and light, many light, giving those 3d pieces more depth and movement, it’s the main idea, movement, kinetic works, creating in a fourth dimension, a new dimension to play with and express myself, so maybe there’s some kind of futurism there too. With each work I try to create what I have envisioned after thinking about a concept, then I develop it, until I discover what I wanted to build—that’s a nice moment really…”

Tuominen on Graves work, “I love the sweet movements and dizzy transitions he builds, like flowers from a world called SL. I really like his pieces they are delicate and so smooth, like some kind of peace in this world…”

Don’t miss the last installment of “The Collector” a once in a lifetime exhibition now through April 14th. Opening reception April 2, 2009 at 3 pm SL time.. Please join the residents of Artemisia in this wonderful exhibition from Second Life’s greatest artists. Artemisia – Living with Art.