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In the No. 10 Best Art Town in America, you'll find creative, diverse and talented artists. Take at look at what they have to say about themselves ...
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Bob Geiser |
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 My exploration of photography began in High School after taking a photography class. From there I went on to be a yearbook photographer, and also contributed to the school newspaper.
I took more photography courses at San Diego State University and also worked at a One-hour photo lab. I ended up at the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.- actually majoring in Photography. After studying Photography for a year and a half, I decided that it was going to be really difficult to make a living at this, and I ended up at California State University Chico. There I earned a degree in Information and Communication Studies with an emphasis in Broadcasting. While attending CSUC, I worked for the Chico News & Review as their Fashion and Advertising Photographer. I was getting paid to take pictures and it was great!, but I still couldn't make a living at it. While in graduate school, I worked in the Special Collections Department at Chico State as an Archival Photographer— copying historical photographs and making prints for the library collection. I've always felt there was a narrow gap between amateur and professional photography. With today's high-tech auto-focus cameras, it is even more so. I've taken thousands of photographs over the past 28 years, most of them on film. I'm really excited about the dawn of digital photography- it allows me to edit photographs in a way that previously, could only be dreamed about. Anyone can go out and take photographs of the same things that I do. Two main differences are that I try to wait until the weather or lighting is just how I want it (or as good as I can hope for) and I have a practiced eye for composition. I have visited some locations a half dozen times looking for just the right light. It's easy to look at a photograph and think to yourself- "I can do that", but go out and try it. It's not as easy as it looks. That's the true mark of a professional- we make the hard stuff look easy. Bob geiser Please visit my website: http://www.printroom.com/pro/geiser. |
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Brenda Musgrave-Doss |
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 Born in McMillan, a small rural town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, Brenda acquired a great love for the outdoors. Hours were spent studying and appreciating nature, and as her interest grew so did her fascination to capture how she saw it through her eyes.
She started a dream, and at the age of eleven, with her parents help and encouragement, she began a life-long career in art. As her love for wildlife grew so did her need to paint it.
Brenda feels a closeness toward each animal as she works with it. "An animal's eyes, just as ours do, tell a story. I want my animals to come alive as you look at them, and speak to you. Their eyes can do that." |
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Bruce Ertle |
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 David Hockney once observed that it is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, not what he says about his work. However, I feel I owe the viewer a few words about how I work, and why I paint what I paint.
As with many other artists, my inspiration comes from the ordinary things which make up a large part of the fabric of our lives, such as eating breakfast or riding on a crowded bus, I prefer them as subjects because our busy lives often blind us to them, and also because they are so open to personal interpretation. |
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Bruce Sillars |
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 Bruce Sillars is a prolific designer considered by other glass blowers to be a true master of glass technique. Sillars grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs. In high school he worked in ceramics, later becoming a technician in the ceramic studio at Moorpark College. He holds a BA degree in Art with an emphasis in ceramics, glass, and sculpture from California State University, Chico. In 1973.
His career in glass began when he was hired as Orient & Flume's first employee. Bruce created iridescent vases and paperweights that incorporated both geometric and naturalistic floral motifs. As time passed by, the designs became more and more complex and sophisticated, and by the early 80's his work began to move away from iridescent glass. Replacing the iridescent glass with clear crystal, Bruce began an all consuming and life-long exploration of heavy clear glass vessels utilizing three-dimensional motifs and employing both "torch worked" and "lamp worked" design elements. |
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