This is my first time participating in Art-o-matic (and second art show ever). I am showing my mosaics and collage pieces which are some of my favorite works. I really like these pieces because they are all created with something that would have been thrown away. The collages are primarily made from junk mail and old magizines. The mosaics include broken dishes, broken tile, broken mirrors and recycled bottles mounted onto old bookshelves, scraps of plywood or old mirrors.

I hope you enjoy it and please leave comments.

Thanks.
-Nicole

I fell in love with Rene Magritte at 12 years old, sitting on the floor of a public library in the art book section. I've been trying to paint like him ever since.

Studied fine art at California State University Sacramento and have sold lots of paintings and sculptures in lots of places. I still can't paint like Magritte but I do paint like Shaanon Lindauer, so I have that going for me.

Twisted Tidings creates greeting cards.

In theory, when we don't know what to say, we can send a greeting card. These cards are filled with declarations of unconditional love and earnest expressions of either congratulations or condolences.

But what if we instead committed our real thoughts to paper? What would a Valentine's card to a cheating spouse look like? Or a birthday card to an ungrateful child?

Twisted Tidings is based in Washington, DC and, by day, works in the rapidly shrinking financial services industry.

Cartoonist, Illustrator.
Member of the National Cartoonists Society and the Illustrators Club of DC.
Graphic Artist/Photographer for Georgetown University.

Early cartoon influences include Herge’s Tintin books and
Bud Blake’s comic strip, Tiger. Lived in London and Tokyo.
Has Master’s degree in History from Georgetown University
and therefore an awesome Trivial Pursuit partner. Also
good at Pictionary.

Once shook hands with Mr. T.

Cheryl Patrice Derricotte has been a member of the Washington Glass School since its inception. She considers herself a sculptor who works with glass as the primary medium. She enjoys layering other textures into her pieces--like the raffia and display metalwork in this year's Artomatic exhibit. Cheryl's "day jobs" have always been in the field of community development. Thus, her sculptures reflect her continued concern for how we live, how we define ourselves and how we deal with global social problems. For more of her work visit www.cityglassworks.com.

I build sculptural drawings using extruded clay forms that work much like lines in a drawing or brushstrokes on paper. Focusing on line and form, many of my works are assembled only after their component pieces are fired. Whether spiral coils, thin rods or delicate ribbons, these forms echo the movement and playfulness of much less fragile materials. I find the tension that the clay gives these forms exciting.
In addition to the material's potential fragility, there is also the reality that each time I install a piece, it is different. Much of my work is assembled on-site and when it is moved, it is dismantled and reinstalled. This being the case, no piece is ever exactly the same as it once was.

As a “Green artist” I am concerned with environmental issues and show this in my themes and the techniques I use. Since it's not just the finished product, but also the process used to create the art, the work invites the viewer in to explore the underlying structures and themes, which are strikingly visible below the surface. The themes are all highly personal but also very universal, focusing on reforming and restructuring our lives and society to one that is more respectful of our surroundings.

The material that I use in my artwork is one of the least recycled materials: window glass. Unlike the glass made specifically for craft and art use, window glass is difficult to re-melt, and I have had to develop new techniques to exploit the characteristics of this material.

HAPPY COLORS LEAP FROM MY PAINTINGS---PAINTINGS THAT BRIDGE MY PILGRIMAGE FROM EAST TO WEST.

Amber is an architectural and urban historian whose photography aims to capture and animate spaces that are often mistaken as being secondary to everyday experience. Her Artomatic 2009 exhibit is a collection of experiments with diptychs, triptychs, lomography, architectural fragments, and double exposure scenes documenting travel across the nation. She has had images published on the websites of CNN, National Geographic Traveler, DCist, Seattlest, Shanghaiist, and the Society of Architectural Historians. Her photography has been published in print in the 2009 Official Albuquerque Visitors Guide, Society of Architectural Historians Newsletter, and Black Ivy: a literary and visual arts magazine.

"Painting is an expression of the mind. It is constantly evolving to evoke feelings of the moment. I am inspired by nature. Creating an image that shares experiences with the viewer is my lifelong passion. The reward is in captivating their attention and enabling them to make the visions their own."