La Quadrata art competition - PLEASE VOTE!!

Hope you like my art and of course, hope you would help me by voting for my artwork for this interesting competition.

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Here is the link and my artpiece that I have presented.

http://www.concorsiarte.it/laquadrata/2017-stephanie-seymour/

Oh boy, Jet Lag!

Jet Lag is a funny thing,

 but not that funny the day before Christmas

, when all through the house not a creature

 is moving except for those who have jet lag.

Yesterday I went for a well-needed nap, late, at 4pm. At 8pm I found the lights on in the hallway and thought "Why didn't my husband close the door while he gets ready for work now at 6.45am!?" Then my hand felt that I had jeans on....WHAT?...I thought...Jeans on for sleeping all night???

Only then did I realize that it was 8 and he had come home from work and I had slept four full hours after being back from the USA for a bit over a week. What a lot of confusion!! Where AM I and what am I doing at all these strange hours?

So, friends, observers of my blog, people far away, and others in and on my timezone.

Travel is wonderful, travel is marvelous, but it can do strange things to our inner clock.
Here it is 5.15am in Italy, and 8.15pm in the States where I just came from. Today is a fun and busy day, daughter will arrive from another Italian city, and tonight a big wonderful meal at my relative's house. Tomorrow a nice meal here, the house to be straightened up and food cooked but boy oh boy....I am going to be tired with all this jet lag....

Hello, goodby, good morning and good night to you all!

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

Opening day The Other Side

Opening of my exhibition THE OTHER SIDE at Gaia Gallery, Papiano of Marsciano (Perugia), Italy.
A good crowd, many artists, friends who came from a distance to see the exhbition and enjoy a buffet afterwards.

                                    Fiorenza Mosci, writer and friend who presented the show. 

                          Pino Bonanno, curator and owner of Art Farm Gaia and the Gaia Gallery.

The first floor of the gallery which hosts four larger works. On the floor above another seventeen works varying from 30x30cm to 60x90cm, works in acrilic and oil on canvas.

Here are some of the pieces on display:

Se io fosse te, 100x100cm                                                          Vuoto moderno, 100x100cm

Blue jazz, 60x80cm acrylic                                                               Gioventù solare, 60x80cm acrylic

 Timid ballerina, 40x50 acrilic

Bon ton, 40x50cm acrilic

Quick shopper, 40x40, oil 

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                

Third prize won - La Nobil'Ebbrezza Montepulciano

While out of the country this past August (I was in Chna)  I learned of my winning third prize in the art competition at Montepulciano

during the contest/art exhibition

"La Nobil'Ebbrezza"

Here is a photo taken by Pippo Biribim of me in front of my painting "Red Wine Woman"

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

The Olympics, China, and my father

I am particular fond of China, have several personal reasons for this, as well as having had extraordinary experiences when there.
My first trip in 2007.....I had bought a little Olympus camera and took many photographs of the people there. When I arrived back to Italy where I live, I had my first photography show with the photos of this trip entitled "Incontri ravviCINAti", close (Chinese) encounters.

When we stayed in Dalian China for six weeks, I stopped people and took close-up photos of them. It was quite an experience, a very moving one.

But also, I was lucky to be able to photograph all the Olympic sports in magnificent sculptures in a huge plaza in the city of Dalian. Here are just a few on this post.

The Olympics are also in my heart....my father was an silver medalist winner as a javelin thrower in the 1948 Olympics in London.
A curious note, when I discovered that Missoni, famous Italian designer has also been in the Olympics that year (I had read it in the newspaper) I wrote to him personally asking if he had met my father (my dad died years ago). He never wrote to me but I got the surprise of a PHONECALL from him where he burst out with "Sono MISSONI!!" It was a delightful conversation, and on his part, a very nice gesture. Perhaps that is the Olympic way.....

So, here my photos also contain the javelin sculpture.

I have a full collection of all of the sports, and they are magnificent larger than life sculptures.