Archive for January 31, 2015

Artist of the moment………..Jessica Sabogal

 

Jessica Sabogal is a street artist renown for her plight for trying to help women of different cultures from around the globe. Jessica Sabogal was based out of San Francisco, California. Sabogal is a first generation American, her parents both came from Colombia.

Sabogal tries to portray the beauty, grace, and power that exist in women.

The artist was commissioned to paint some murals at the Facebook’s California headquarters in Menlo Park.

Price range information: Sorry none available.

A link to the website of Jessica Sabogal:

http://jessicasabogal.com/

Below a great interview with Sabogal:

The artist documented the people’s desire for change in Egypt with a peace celebrating the activity in Tahrir Square.

In this clip we check out Sabogal as she creates a very large mural:

What I find most interesting about Sabogal is that when she began painting the female figure and became obsessed with it, she switched from painting glamorous movie star women to heavier and fuller women and loved the results. The artist has a keen way of expressing herself via her art. No matter what the subject looks like, her works are always powerful.

The artist also has a great outlook on life. One of her goals is to help take care of every important woman in her life.

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Artist of the moment……..William Morris

 

William Morris is a wonderful contemporary glass artist. William Morris was born in Carmel, California in the year 1957. The artist attended California State at Chico and also Central Washington University at Ellensburg.

The artist became aware of the world of art and glass by first being a truck driver for Pilchuck Glass School located in Stanwood,  Washington. He was able to learn the craft and eventually worked with America’s most famous glass blower, Dale Chihuly.

 

In this clip we view many samples of Morris’ glass works:

 

Below we view a show featuring works dealing with animals and art:

Its hard to believe some of the items made by Morris’ are glass! What creativity he uses to create bones, wood, and other items all out of glass.

William Morris is now based out of Washington and Hawaii.

Price range information: Sorry none available.

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