Artist Statement

When I am easy and ride paint, irregular form is born. Some kind of form appears and disappears when they stare at the irregular form. Innumerable form born from there becomes the beasts, and it is a meteor, and it is a corona.

I grope for it, and I continue drawing it from now on.

In Japanese:

絵の具を無造作に載せると不規則な形が生まれる。
その不規則な形を見つめていると、何らかの形が見え隠れする。
そこから生まれた無数の形が、獣類となり、流星となり、コロナとなる。

燃えさかる炎、天からの神々しい光、広大な宇宙・・・

体内から沸き起こってくる激しい感情が具現化したその果てにあるもの・・・

私はこれからも、模索し描き続ける。

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Membership: exclusive member since June 20, 2011
Energy Art style: energetic surrealism
Medium: oil on canvas
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About the Artist

My creative practice is a mix of merging disciplines, spanning across fine art, graphic design and illustration. I entered university with a fine art background and went on to study Graphic Design at BA and MA level. Asian culture and visual style have soaked into my work subconsciously as a result of growing up in South-East Asia (India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand). The incredible experiences I carry from all these places have become the canvas upon which I create my works. It is what accounts for my particular style of work as well as my general outlook on life.

“Her painting is comprised of an in-between style born of the dialogue of two – or more – cultures… Expressions, which on one hand work with fragments of the visual arts from these respective countries, but on the other hand the way these fragments are transformed, the way they are subjected to the laws of composition reveals the position the artist is coming from… it is her position of distance, of stepping back, which enables her to process the stimuli coming from different visual cultures in a new way.”

- Prof. Peter Michalovic, PhD, Department of Aesthetics, Faculty of Arts, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

My inspirations include Alfons Mucha, Andy Warhol and Jan Saudek, all of whom share my Czech-Slovak roots. But foremost in my artistic development, is the influence of my guru Prof. Om Prakash Sharma, a famous contemporary Indian artist. Colours radiate from his paintings with a life of their own, every brush stroke is infused with a harmonious energy, and decorative detailing like on some ancient temple mingles with clean lines of abstracted geometry. His work has been like nothing I have ever seen before, or since.

“What is common for philosophies of the Far East… is spontaneity and naturalness. The artist [Ladi] feels that the intellect acts as an obstacle to this insight and, therefore, she converts the motifs into symbolic forms… Reincarnation of souls is evident in this art. The highest intensity of symbols is presented in paintings inspired immediately by natural motifs.

Ladi has created a cultural bridge between European and Asian cultures.”

- Prof. Miroslav Klivar, PhD, European Union of Art, Prague, Czech Republic

I consider myself an international citizen of the world and this mentality has transferred to my art. Art, that embodies the cultural influence of both the East and West, and speaks of coexistence and great tolerance. My work is a symbiosis of my Czech and Slovak heritage, international education, and the influence of the Asian cultures that colour my memories.

Member Data

Membership: exclusive member since May 11, 2008
Energy Art style: energetic surrealism
Medium: mixed media – oils, acrylics, pastels, and digital art
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Artist Statement

My quest is to find ways of seeing differently from the normal way, which I define as one that expects or demands specific outcomes. The pivotal idea is that our minds produce very dense filters of thought which, if completely eliminated, would allow us to see everything as it actually is: infinite.

I attempt to remove preconditioned thought from the creative act in two ways: one, by harnessing the complexity and randomness inherent in digital scripts (which, by nature, transcend the limits of human expectation) and two, by interacting with the output of such scripts in a spontaneous, synchronistic way – similar to the way one might toss coins for the I-Ching or snap a photo of a particular instant in time and space. The historical roots of the processes in art lie in DuChamp’s “ready-mades,” the Dadaists’ “exquisite corpse,” and Pollack’s “action-painting.”

I am drawn to processes and works that allow for the bending and breaking of space. Instead of physical objects, words, or canvas and paint, I use digital code and human interaction as a new milieu for art. I collaborate with the computer to extend the realm of what can be rendered into a perceivable form. I am particularly struck by the notion of infinity and how we might represent it visually. Virtual 3-D tools are designed to generate photo-realistic visualizations of form. Can these same tools be tweaked and agitated to allow for glimpses of the absence of form, or what I would consider infinity?

Essentially I am exploring art as a catalyst for awareness of the Zen-like state of no-mind (complete emptiness and one-ness with infinity). The nature of split-second digital interaction offers us an instant of pre-conscious, subliminal apprehension that breaks through the normal continuum and connects us with infinity.

Digital Art and the interconnected Digital World is my realm of the new technology and when through my work I am offered these periodic glimpses of the infinite, I do my best as an artist to capture it.

Biography

John Vega is a digital artist and designer living in Boulder, Colorado. A 20-year veteran of commercial new media, Vega is an award-winning interactive art director and motion graphics designer. His career clients comprise Fortune 500 companies such as Apple, IBM, Motorola and Sony Online Entertainment. In the early 1990s, while working as director of multimedia for Boulder, Colorado-based Leopard Communications, Vega produced multimedia for live events that traveled from Beijing, China, to Basel, Switzerland.

Vega has been a senior instructor of digital arts in the CU-Boulder Fine Arts Dept., and later became a senior instructor of CU’s ATLAS program to teach generative art and motion design. He has also collaborated with net artists Keith and Mendi Obadike to create the interactive libretto for the net opera, “The Sour Thunder,” and he has produced video art for several live events including concert visuals for electronic music pioneer Steve Roach and a theatrical collaborative piece with Philip Glass.

In addition to showings at major electronic art festivals including SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica and Transmediale, Vega’s digital art has be seen in museum and gallery exhibitions including showings at the American Museum of the Moving Image and the Austin Museum of Digital Art. He is currently teaching Digital Media and Art at the University of Colorado ATLAS program. Vega continues to create commercial new media with select agencies and clients through his “virtual” agency, John Vega & Associates.

Member Data

Membership: senior member since Dec. 3, 2009
Energy Art style: energetic abstractionism
Medium: algorithmic digital art
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