Get to Know the Unquiet Artists
The Cambridge Art Association, Small Group Show, Unquiet world.
Emily Corbato
Current Projects: Corbató continues to develop ”Detours”, a series of photographic diverions and “Glorious Women”, depicting women of refreshingly emboldened spirit, as well as creating new images from Plum Island MA. In April, 2013 she will exhibit with three other artists, “Unquiet World”, at Cambridge Art Association/University Place.
Suzanne Hodes
I have worked for 30 years in my studio, with tall windows and good north light. I start my paintings with line to shape the forms, then use oil wash and thicker pigment to construct an abstract and fluid space in the spirit of abstract expressionism. My work combines images of the observed world with those from memory and imagination. Often I use multiple images to suggest the passage of time, and optical reflections in which changes of form and color suggest shifting aspects of our perceptions.
I am drawn to images of water, with constantly changing depths and surfaces, mirroring of sky, clouds and wind. The primeval power of nature is a source of energy, inspiration, fear, and often solace.
I hope to suggest a correspondence between the marks I make on paper and canvas and the myriad elements of nature. I try to recreate the feeling of immediacy and renewal I find in nature, and explore the deep connection between my own life, the cyclic aspect of time and the rhythms of nature.
Milan Klic
Mine is a story of an immigrant, cultural fusion, ongoing, never complete. I was born and educated in former Czechoslovakia, today’s Czech Republic. At that time the country was a part of the communist block and all aspects of culture, visual arts in particular, were subject to political dogma and tough censorship. My natural inclination towards sculpture seemed unrealistic in such environment, desires had to be put aside, postponed, silenced and reduced to dreams. I chose Natural Sciences (math, computer science) as a practical survivor’s way. I graduated in 1974 from Palacky University, Olomouc with MS and began my career as computer programmer.
Brenda Steinberg
The first drawings I distinctly remember were those I drew on the blackboard for my classmates when my teacher left the room. I was seven and the drawings were cartoon characters. This pastime yielded to endless doodling in my schoolbooks and eventually into more serious artistic endeavors. My work is influenced by just about everything I encounter: by the beauty of nature and of manufactured objects, by people— delight in their generosity and kindness; dismay at their willful and often unwitting inhumanity to the men, women, children, and animals with whom we/they share the world. My work expresses these concerns both because my emotional response is inevitably translated into art and because I believe that it is my responsibility as an artist to share my concerns about violence and injustice. I employ a variety of materials. Each individual piece develops from an interaction between particular materials, a concept, and the work itself as it evolves. Each piece is a work of love.