Moods....and painting

I think I may be on to something new: a fresher style, more impulsive, spontaneous.
Tonight color and form poured out onto a new canvas without much planning, without hesitation.
Very impulsive, and very colorful.
Actually the color is far away from what my "soul" is feeling, but I think it is a way to ironically go against my feelings and get out emotion with COLOR!
Here is a shot of this painting from a "bird's eye view"....right "above" the painting, showing the lines in the canvas. And the second shot is of a detail, all of it still very wet with oil paint.

To be continued and completed.....

SPHINX - opening of exhibition at Sphinx, Perugia

Yesterday afternoon the opening of my exhibition of paintings in the elegant window displays of

SPHINX  in Perugia.

A nice turnout, very enjoyable afternoon.

Here are a few of the many photographs taken. Showing of my paintings together with the vast variety of jewelry in the window displays until January 10, 2018.

Ieri pomeriggio l'inaugurazione della mia esibizione di dipinti nelle vetrine eleganti della gioielleria SPHINX di Perugia.

Ecco qualche fotografia -- i miei dipinti nelle vetrine del negozio con una bellissima varietà di gioielli. La mostra continua fino al 10 gennaio 2018.

THANK YOU to owner Anna (here to the right) for the generosity and enormous help in putting this show together, and to Nicoletta to the left, for her help. Wonderful teamwork, a pleasure to put this exhibition together with them.

GRAZIE MILLE al proprietario Anna (qui a destra nella foto) per la sua generosità e grande aiuto a mettere insieme questa mostra, ed anche a Nicoletta per il suo grande aiuto. E' stata un bel lavoro di squadra, un piacere lavorare insieme a far possibile questa mostra. 

SPHINX invites Stephanie Seymour

Click on the below link to see the page that SPHINX Jewelry Store created for our upcoming event!

SPHINX invites Stephanie Seymour

ART LOVE ELEPHANT -- exhibition at Mogliano Veneto, Treviso

Here a couple of photos of the exhibition in which my new painting THE END is on display in the Benetton Museum in Mogliano Veneto, Treviso for the exhibition

ART

LOVE

ELEPHANT. 

Part of the proceeds of sales will go towards this worthy cause, to help save elephants.

Here my painting, 50x1,30cm painting THE END acrylic on canvas.

Catalogue available with the works of thirty artists, painters and sculptors.

Bathroom Art Youtube video

I just had some fun (after a bit of work) making this video for Youtube called "Bathroom Art" 

Agenzia Stampa Italia - article by Sarah Minciotti - my exhibition THE OTHER SIDE

Translation of the article written by writer, singer, composer Sarah Minciotti of my exhibition
THE OTHER SIDE.

AGENZIA STAMPA ITALIA

(ASI) Perugia - Anyone wishing to embark on a meaningful journey in art astonishment through the emotions of color, shapes, varied content that painting gives off, can very well do so by going to visit the exhibition "The Other Side" by American artist Stephanie Seymour at Gaia Gallery in Papiano (Marsciano-Perugia), on display from October 15 to November 20, 2016 with opening hours every day from 10 to 13 and from 16 to 19.30.

The event is curated by Pino Bonanno and has been placed in the context of the Twelfth "Contemporary Day" established by AMACI. (For information and contacts: www.artfarmgaia.it; tel. 3473652984).

The works of Stephanie Seymour all have an unbreakable bond: depth and color, colors are strong and determined as ecstasy imprints art of this painter not only essential but more ironic sometimes. playful woman, an interrogater, restless and curious as in the character of  healthy children when the great questions about the world, the surrounding scenery, the equations and the enigmas of life are the essential lifeblood to find out the reality. His paintings tell of lives that intersect with ours, while we pause to learn their contours observing the manifold production of this artist of California at Los Angeles who lives in Umbria for many years.

Paradoxes repeated in most iconographic forms of figures that are imprinted on the canvas as to radiate the static restless of life, the dynamics of the eternal return of the equation or never stable of concepts that transpire from perfection, from irregularities of exposed people.

For this painter, illustrator and American photographer is not (only) an exponential multiplication, but existential: Who is man? Or who is Stephanie Seymour?

In "The Other Side" there are questions not only about the artist in question but above all on themselves. The man who investigates through looks, poses, eyes that is 'wide open' in the mirror without ever reaching a solution, is the man that yes, it looks from the outside, but from within is the real star of life , of what he sees and what he lives. There never is a  separation between artist and the observer that creativity produces never parish. Stephanie Seymour offers a 'world' in which she herself is a reflection of all of us, as well as art is life in all its complexity, in every color, intense or dull, rational or irrational, or just playful mocking ... Paintings a pictorial naturalness where every brushstroke is in the right place and where each color says and gives her space to time that goes beyond its horizon. And even where there is the contrast of colors, it seems to re-emerge even other colors and shades, as if to signify that even if the colors are not seen are still within the perceptual world of being and existence. Faces and images painted with very sinuous and almost surreal in the ability to settle on the canvas without misled by a millimeter: the canvas at the bottom is that space where time, the dynamic, the form and substance of things have their bond. Is the artist with his talent to know how to say it in so little space. Stephanie Seymour succeeds naturally and those who can enjoy the great creative power of this woman, will understand perfectly what is hidden to most people, being able to sense the ultimate expression of the self, potential that takes the form of the soul. This is the true art of Seymour: grasp the essence and dynamics dispute of the things that are interwoven and which seem to have no links ... But instead they thin the bond of life and union with the transcendence of reality with reality transcendent that becomes part of the new and unique in time monograms and color, space and synchronicity, interiority and consciousness, self-irony and pure actuality. All thickened by crystalline colors, effective, full of shiny softness, the colors defined but that capture the human soul polychrome, radiated from the look with which the heart rests and dips into reality. snapshot of a busy life that makes Seymour a real artist, a real big woman, who always offers us new answers before questions. With the taste of wonder. Sarah Minciotti - Agency Print Italy

Agenzia Stampa Italia - articolo di Sarah Minciotti

The other side” : L’altro lato di Stephanie Seymour. L’artista californiana in mostra alla Gaia Gallery di Marsciano (Perugia).

Scritto da Sarah Minciotti

Categoria: Cultura

Pubblicato: 21 Ottobre 2016

(ASI) Perugia -  Chi volesse intraprendere un viaggio significativo nello stupore dell’arte attraverso le emozioni del colore, delle forme, dei contenuti variegati che la pittura sprigiona, può benissimo farlo andando a visitare la mostra “The Other Side” dell’artista americana Stephanie Seymour presso la Gaia Gallery di Papiano (Marsciano-Perugia), in esposizione dal 15 ottobre al 20 novembre 2016 con orari di apertura tutti i giorni dalle 10 alle 13 e dalle 16 alle 19,30.                                                                                                                        

L’evento è a cura di Pino Bonanno ed è stato inserito nel contesto della Dodicesima “Giornata del Contemporaneo” istituita dall’AMACI. (Per info e contatti: www.artfarmgaia.it ; tel. 3473652984).

Le opere di Stephanie Seymour hanno tutte un legame inscindibile: profondità e colore, colori forti e decisi sono come impronte dell’estasi artistica di questa pittrice non solo essenziale ma il più delle volte ironica. Donna giocosa, interrogatrice, inquieta e curiosa come è nell’indole sana dei bambini in cui le grandi domande sul mondo, sui panorami circostanti, sulle equazioni e sugli enigmi della vita sono la linfa essenziale per scoprire la realtà. I suoi quadri narrano di vite che si incrociano con le nostre, mentre ci si sofferma a carpirne i contorni osservando la produzione multiforme di quest’artista californiana di Los Angeles che vive in Umbria da molti anni.

Paradossi ripetuti in più forme iconografiche di figure che si imprimono nelle tele come a irradiare la staticità irrequieta della vita, la dinamica dell’eterno ritorno o dell’equazione mai stabile dei concetti che traspaiono dalla perfezione o dalle irregolarità dei soggetti esposti.

Per questa pittrice, disegnatrice e fotografa statunitense non c’è (solo) una moltiplicazione esponenziale, ma esistenziale: chi è l’uomo ? Oppure chi è Stephanie Seymour ?

In “ The Other Side” ci si interroga non solo sull’artista in questione ma soprattutto su se stessi. L’uomo che indaga attraverso sguardi, pose, occhi che si ‘spalancano’ dentro lo specchio dell’anima senza mai raggiungere una soluzione, è quell’uomo che sì, osserva da fuori, ma che dal di dentro è il vero protagonista della vita, di ciò che vede e di ciò che vive.

Non c’e mai separazione tra artista e colui che osserva ciò che la creatività produce senza mai perire. Stephanie Seymour propone un ‘mondo’ in cui ella stessa è un riflesso di tutti noi, così come l’arte è la vita in ogni sua complessità, in ogni suo colore, intenso od opaco, razionale o irragionevole, beffardo o solo giocoso… Quadri di una naturalezza pittorica dove ogni pennellata è al giusto posto e dove ogni colore dice e dona il suo spazio al tempo che va al di fuori del proprio orizzonte. E anche dove c’è il contrasto dei colori, sembra riemergano pure le altre tinte e sfumature, come a voler significare che i colori anche se non si vedono sono sempre all’interno del mondo percettivo dell’essere e dell’esistere. Volti e immagini dipinte con forme molto sinuose e quasi surreali nella capacità di stanziarsi sulla tela senza fuorviare di un millimetro: la tela in fondo è quello spazio dove il tempo, la dinamica, la forma e la sostanza delle cose hanno un loro legame. Sta all’artista con la sua bravura saper dire tutto in così poco spazio. Stephanie Seymour ci riesce con naturalezza e coloro che potranno gustare la grande capacità creativa di questa donna, capiranno perfettamente quello che si nasconde ai più, potendo intuire la massima espressione del Sé, potenziale che prende forma dell’anima.

Questa è la vera arte della Seymour : cogliere l’essenzialità e la controversia dinamica delle cose che si intrecciano e che apparentemente sembrano non avere nessi… Ma che invece hanno sottilissimo il legame di vita e di unione con la trascendenza del reale, con la realtà trascendente che diventa parte nuova e unica nei monogrammi di tempo e colore, spazio e sincronia, interiorità e coscienza, autoironia e pura realtà effettiva. Il tutto addensato da colori cristallini, efficaci, pieni di pastosità lucente, di tinte definite ma che catturano la policromia dell’animo umano, irradiato dallo sguardo con cui il cuore si posa e si immerge nella realtà.

Un’intensa istantanea di vita che fa della Seymour una vera artista, una vera grande donna, che ci propone sempre nuove risposte ancor prima delle domande. Con il gusto dello stupore.

Sarah Minciotti - Agenzia Stampa Italia

Eventi e Sagre in Italy

My exhibition THE OTHER SIDE on the website online of 

Events and Festivals in Italy.

Click on link below. 

Eventi e Sagre in Italy

Press Release for THE OTHER SIDE

PRESS RELEASE

Saturday October 15, 2016, during the event AMACI (Contemporary Art Day), the opening of the personal art exhibition “The Other Side” will be held at 7pm at Gaia Gallery, Strada per Caprareccia, 220, Marsciano – Papiano (Perugia) of the artist Stephanie Seymour, with the presentation by Fiorenza Mosci.

The exhibition is an event organized by E20Gaia.

Between irony,  social commitment, the need to represent the limits that  existence imposes, the pleasure of letting go to the aesthetics of creating, to the incessant dialogue with  color and its mysteries, Stephanie Seymour fascinates us with her works in the exhibition "The Other Side ".

The exhibition is a project in which the search for one’s self  exalts through sustained action of internal analysis. Seymour is an artist who stubbornly pursues  responses between landings and departures, in the need to crystallize the poetic inclination of life, invisible and elusive of this present illusion.  She is a diviner who has an urgent inner need to give shape and structure of language to her emotions.

Hers is an expressive and human universe, dense and complex: her art lives on poetry and, at the same time, is extraordinarily visionary. It is expressed on the border between  dreamlike and surreal, and  takes unpredictable forms, never predictable.

Her attention is to the psychological relationship between

herself and  reality that surrounds her, in the attempt to imagine other identities that enable them to live and overcome the increasingly suffocating  and repetition of everyday life.   

The nature of humanity and her deep poetic feeling is the center for artistic reflection that finds its maximum expression in intense chromatic elaboration  full of suggestions for insatiable soul-searching.

The exhibition is also a reflection on  woman and her role in relationships with  reality that surrounds her.  As body and character, precious presence and misunderstood human figure, strong and weak.              Pino Bonanno

Artist:  Stephanie Seymour

Opening :  Saturday October 15, 2016, 7pm

Gallery:  Gaia Gallery, Strada per Caprareccia, 220 – Marsciano-Papiano (Pg)

Dates:  15 Ottobre   –  20 Novembre 2016

Curator:  Pino Bonanno

Presentation of exhibition: Fiorenza Mosci

Hours open: Monday to Sunday 10am-13pm  – 4pm – 7.

Secretary organizers:  E20 Gaia - e-mal: info@artfarmgaia.it -  tel.+39.347.3652984                

THE OTHER SIDE of Stephanie Seymour in the program of AMACI

With just a little over a week from my exhibition THE OTHER SIDE 

that will be held at Art Farm Gaia in Marsciano (Papiano), Perugia, Italy,

 below is the link to  the latest post on Facebook by Pino Bonanno,

 curator of the show regarding the show and how it is related to AMACI this year. 

This year as in other years, GAIA GALLERY partecipates, in the

  "Day of Contemporary Art" which is on October 15 and part 

of the program of AMACI  (Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museums).

 My exhibition begins on that day and is listed as a part of the events planned for this special day.

Newest fb post by Art Farm Gaia

Click on the following link to view my event

AMACI website and list of events of October 15, 2016

 listed on the AMACI website

La Nobil'Ebrezza - opening day at Montepulciano

Opening day of  La Nobil'Ebrezza at Montepulciano in the hills of Tuscany.
Here are some photos taken during a fabulous opening, with a lively group of artists, in a marvelous atmosphere ending with a long table of artists enjoying anything but dull conversations!

Partecipating artists

Entrance to the Fortezza (Fort) where the show is being held on the second floor

 Officials who spoke about Montepulciano and this exhibition

 Presentazione by Silvia Rossi who curated the show

Officials speaking 

Courtyard, wine, cheese, etc....

Views of this magical town 

Two exhibition openings on the same day, Montepulciano and Los Angeles

This Saturday at 6pm in Montepulciano, is the opening of a painting and sculpture exhibition in which I have three paintings on the theme of WINE on display. 

LA NOBIL'EBBREZZA.

Immediately following the opening of this show, on the other side of the world in California.....(see below for details).....

MONTEPULCIANO, ITALY

is the opening of another photography show with two of my framed photographs....this time the theme is FLIGHT AND FLOW at the stunning gallery in the San Fernando Valley

"San Fernando Valley Arts and Cultural Center"

Opening of the show at 5pm.

If I take a quick flight, I can make it to both openings. 

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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA

"The Other Side" of Stephanie Seymour at Gaia Gallery included in the Giornata di AMACI

ENGLISH

The Other Side

painting exhibition of Stephanie Seymour  at the Gaia Gallery

(Marsciano-Papiano, Art Farm Gaia, voc.Le logge 125)

 an event to be included as part of the

Giornata di AMACI (AMACI Day)

(Association of Contemporary Art Museums in Italy).

The opening of the exhibition will  coincide with the  Giornata di AMACI  Oct 15, 2016

and  will continue until Novembre 20^th.

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ITALIANO

The Other Side

 esibizione di pittura di Stephanie Seymour alla Galleria Gaia

(Marsciano-Papiano, Art Farm Gaia, voc le logge 125) 

un evento che sarà incluso come parte della Giornata di AMACI

(Associazione Musei Arte Contemporanea Italia).

L’inaugurazione della mostra coincide con la Giornata di AMACI il 15 ottobre, 2016 

e continuerà fino al 20 Novembre 2016.

Per informazione clicca qui sul link:

The Other Side - Stephanie Seymour exhibition part of Giornata di AMACI

The Other Side - exhibition Stephanie Seymour included in Giornata di AMACI

ENGLISH

The Other Side

painting exhibition of Stephanie Seymour  at the Gaia Gallery

(Marsciano-Papiano, Art Farm Gaia, voc.Le logge 125)

 an event to be included as part of the

Giornata di AMACI (AMACI Day)

(Association of Contemporary Art Museums in Italy).

The opening of the exhibition will  coincide with the  Giornata di AMACI  Oct 15, 2016

and  will continue until Novembre 20^th.

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ITALIANO

The Other Side

 esibizione di pittura di Stephanie Seymour alla Galleria Gaia

(Marsciano-Papiano, Art Farm Gaia, voc le logge 125) 

un evento che sarà incluso come parte della Giornata di AMACI

(Associazione Musei Arte Contemporanea Italia).

L’inaugurazione della mostra coincide con la Giornata di AMACI il 15 ottobre, 2016 

e continuerà fino al 20 Novembre 2016.

Per informazione clicca qui sul link:

The Other Side - Stephanie Seymour exhibition part of Giornata di AMACI

FIZZY SHOW in Livorno at the Melograno Gallery

Thanks to Maria Teresa Majoli of the Melograno Gallery 

in Livorno for this selection of photographs of the opening

 of the collective exhibition entitled 

FIZZY SHOW

The exhibition which opened Saturday March 26 at 6pm will

 continue through April 8 in Via Marradi 62/68, Livorno. 

www.ilmelograno.eu

www.gallerialivorno.it

One of the exhibition areas of the Melograno Gallery, Livorno.

Maria Teresa Majoli at the opening of the exhibition FIZZY SHOW (here in the center).

Lots of colorful artwork on exhibition until April 8. 

My artwork TEASE, 80x80cm, acrilic, which is one of the 

paintings in the collection "Cactus Ladies"

"Tease" in the background. 

Many colorful and ironic art pieces on exhibition. 

The view of the gallery with the new show displayed.

A very nice, well-lit gallery which I had the pleasure to 

visit days ago when I brought in my artwork.

Group exhibition Corciano Festa della Donna (Women's Day celebration)

Opening day of the exhibition of paintings by various Umbrian artists on two themes the nude figure, and famous women in history.

Next to each famous woman was a short biography of each famous person.

I chose Lady Godiva, which can be seen in the center of this exhibition room in the hilltown, Corciano, not far from Perugia. 

Here my piece is seen in the middle of the doorway. This is the room that I had my exhibition Faces and Places, a photography show, several years ago. 

A curious and attractive collection of red shoes led the way to the various exhibition areas. 

                            Guests including many of the artists who partecipated in the exhibition

                               My piece for the "Nude" section of the show can be seen in in
                                    this photo, the girl reaching fora cloud in black and white.

One of the pieces shown in the section "famous women in history" here, Margaret Hack. I was especially curious about this piece since it so reminded me of a piece I did for another show at Rione Cassero (Foligno) of friend, Marco (shown down below)

...the other eye is winking, but what's the difference!