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Altered States of Reality provides a glimpse of the world as captured through the lens of a camera, technology, and through the artists own inner vision. The gifted artist’s participating in Altered States of Reality offer us a perception of the world, as seen, through a complex, enigmatic fusion of emotions and technical mastery. The old boundaries have come tumbling down and the new reality has been altered and is forever changing. This exciting exhibition allows us to challenge our ideas, parables and perceptions that constitute our own reality.
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Lil Dafonte
 
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Lil Dafonte is a Renaissance man reincarnate. Like Da Vinci and Arcimboldo, two 16th century artists who joined technological innovations to art making, Dafonte is committed to marrying new scientific discoveries to his creative endeavors. He sees beauty, ethics and intelligence as equally integral to the human experience and his images seamlessly merge these three elements. Working in a style he terms Fractal Neosurrealism, Dafonte consistently acknowledges his scientific and artistic historical roots while also asserting his work’s contemporary relevance. Digital imagery and multiple portals of information have come to dominate our daily interactions with the world. Dafonte’s portraits delve into how this new phenomenon shapes our unconscious lives.
Layered with complex patterns and abstract imagery, Dafonte’s portraits are mysterious despite their technical sleekness. He uses digital mediums like painters use paint to imitate the fluidity of the natural world. Dafonte studied Economics, Music and Graphic Arts at The Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. He has also extensively explored Organic Surrealism, Scientist Cubism and Fractal Dimension. He lives and works in Spain.
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"Similarity 04"
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"Similarity 09"
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Rupert Davis
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Five years ago, waiting for a train, I had a strong impulse to buy a camera. I bought a disposable camera and just about made it onto my train... Since then my photography has developed as an intuitive and naturally evolving expression of myself and what I see around me. My thing is beauty, and the soul behind everything. I love to capture what feels like the essence of something, that which gives it life, uniqueness, and its own beauty, whether it is a tree, a building or a person. At times my pictures are abstract, at times more classical. It is the depth and feeling of a scene or person that calls me to photograph. Sometimes I can be lost in a state of joy, surrendered to whatever is unfolding around me, inviting it to fill the camera. I also teach photography and creativity, leading people to discover their own creative potential.
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"Uluru"
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"New York, New York II"
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GISART
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GISART’s imaginative digital photo-collages weave a dreamlike narrative with intriguing images. Early in his career, GISART, undoubtedly influenced by the Surrealists, has in recent years found inspiration in the works of Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg. But, GISART imparts a new perspective to two well established traditions: his works possess a transcendent, other worldly quality, enhanced by the exquisite manipulation achieved through the method of digital collage. Working in both black and white and in full color, the sheer complexity of his works provides intense visual stimulation. GISART transforms a group of images into a composite representation of his thoughts and feelings. Each work captures a distinct mood or collection of moods and the photographs gently blend together to form a cohesive image that is at once harmoniously balanced, yet dynamic and alive.
GISART’s unique artistic vision was born out of a lifelong desire to experiment, express and create. He has exhibited his work in Europe, in Nairobi (Kenya), and in New York. GISART lives and works in Barcelona.
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"Sley"
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"Vida Conyugal"
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Sharon Hickey
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Australian landscapes are often very graphic and vivid in color and I have tried to incorporate these images within my work. I tend to work in bodies or series of photographs when exploring a subject. With my nature studies, I enjoy moving deep within the subject and finding its essence and unique abstract quality. I especially enjoy the moment when the subject becomes indefinable. The work then becomes an expression of color, shape and movement and not an image of reality. I hope this encourages the viewer to appreciate the image for itself and not to classify and codify it as a known object before they can enjoy it.
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"Release"
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"Talking Heads"
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Isaac Images
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Images have almost always been a revelation. Wherever I am, they flash into my brain. The hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It’s been that way since I was a kid, one eye closed–being the camera before I ever owned one. Other times, a concept or an idea is the revelation. These images are inspired by movies, theater, books and music. Either way, I have developed a theme that conveys an appreciation of the beauty of an instant in time, visual puns and a self-deprecating sense of humor, with a native New Yorker’s edginess and threat. You got a problem with that?
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"Squiggle Field"
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"Blood From a Stone"
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Joblueheart
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Photographer, writer and painter Joblueheart captures the unique moments in time expressing the complexity of the human spirit in his introspective and intimate photographs of daily life. Experimenting in a variety of digital manipulation techniques, Joblueheart's photos relate the limitless versatility and extreme depth of his chosen medium. From total representation to graphic abstractions of form, Joblueheart elevates his photographs to the level of painting, imbuing them with a sense of emotional depth and conceptual sophistication. Brilliant colors, often unnatural to their subject matter, combine with rapid movement to create dynamic images which strike the viewer with their visual intensity. At the same time, further displaying his artistic breadth, Joblueheart produces intimate portraits allowing the viewer to peek in to the life of a stranger.
Largely self taught, Joblueheart's masterful photographs display an innate visual aesthetic and spatial understanding. An exciting emerging artist, Joblueheart lives, works and exhibits in France.
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"Me by Me"
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"Me for Me"
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Eleanor Owen Kerr
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I am compelled by places and moments which illuminate the gossamer web of the eternal which weaves itself through all things temporal. Drawn to the natural world in all its manifestations, I photograph what is there to explore what else is there - to find the questions which reveal the answers that lie all around us. Quite often, my photographs choose me - making me simply the vehicle for bringing them forth. Much of my job is to be aware enough to hear the call. Particular moments, relationships, and places stop me in my tracks; if I pay heed, even with the barest glimmer of insight or wisp of understanding, these are the images which come to mean the most to me.
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"Passages II"
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"Stone Stairway"
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David LaBella
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The greatest challenge to landscape photography is to its legitimacy as an art form. Comparisons with other subject matter, increased utilization of digital technology as a part of the process, market saturation with technically sound but occasionally repetitive images - all of these add up to much more than nagging doubts: indeed, uncertainty is always present. So much the better - for from doubt springs purpose and originality and the artist’s eye is stretched and made more bold by having felt its legitimacy called into question. For myself, I welcome the challenge and hope that I may contribute to the long and respected history of American landscape art.
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"Crabtree Falls, Virginia"
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"Amelia Island, Florida"
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Clecio Lira
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Clecio Lira uses contemporary digital technology to create traditionally beautiful images, as in his enchanting Copos de Leite, or Calla Lilies. He digitally sculpts his original black and white photographs of flowers by adding luminous colors, backgrounds, shadows and the suggestion of motion. By enhancing his images, he removes these blooms from their natural environment, and invites us to focus on the basics of their curves and lines. In the process, the flowers achieve an added dimension - they are naturally living entities adopting abstract shapes - and we are led to observe the grace of nature's forms in a bold, refreshing and innovative way.
Clecio Lira was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has been influenced by the colors and revelry of the Carnival. He was also a modern dancer for fifteen years, which gives him insight into movement and the aesthetic use of space. His art certainly uses cutting-edge technology, but by focusing on such themes as the loveliness and refinement of natural forms, he is at heart an artist in the most classic sense of the word.
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"Lily17"
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"Lily40"
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Uri Mahlev
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My artistic work is expressive and abstractive in nature. I try to do something that reacts with one's inner self. My work is about exposing something different and new. My work is more about intuition and interaction. Interaction between the viewer and the piece; between different perspectives such as subject, space, time, motion and beyond. In my work, as in life, change happens within interaction. I do not ask the viewer to understand my work or to figure out what I was trying to catch. My work is about exposing and composing the unexpected "happening" which is dynamic in nature, challenging and lends insight and inspiration.
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"1045"
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"Excentric"
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Lymarie Rodriguez
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I realized the endless possibilities after noticing a small crystal water ball that is used to maintain humidity in plants. The reflective properties of a tiny drop captured my eye and amazement. Although I was the one manipulating the balls and their surroundings by combining more balls and breaking them at my will, they controlled what they did and didn’t want to reflect. As I rush through life, I hope that I can stand on my own and reflect my world and my life with the power and strength as these tiny water balls.
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"#77"
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"3001"
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Toktam Tayefeh
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When looking at a work by multi-disciplinary artist Toktam Tayefeh, one feels as though one is entering the space between waking and sleep. Whether working in paint on canvas or through high-tech digital imaging techniques, Tayefeh’s works have a feeling of otherworldliness, conjured completely in the imagination, and allow the viewer’s mind to wander and explore through the realm of the artist’s own dream space. Her works speak quietly to the viewer, beckoning the eye with peaceful rhythms and a gentle sense of energy and movement. As they delight the eye, they soothe the spirit, speaking directly to the heart in the language of truth, beauty, integrity and individuality.
Relying almost completely on her imagination and rejecting the constraints of traditional art, Toktam Tayefeh prefers to think of herself as a “creator” rather than an “artist” and her work, which creates as much of a calming ambiance as it does a beautiful object, reflects this sentiment. Born in Tehran, Iran, Toktam Tayefeh now lives and works in California.
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"White Waves"
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"A Dream"
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Maria Trezzi
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I grew up in the art world since my grandparents were painters. I was surrounded with brushes, canvases, images, colors and smells. They taught me to live in the real world, but not necessarily with both feet on the ground. I learned the importance of the dream world, the world inside everybody. I think that the most important thing is what you are, not what you know. Everybody should follow their soul and let their inside world grow. I love my “Città Fantastiche” because they are a dreams and I think “Città Fantastiche” can bring a little serenity, quietness and peace to the people who look at it.
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"032_M"
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