Art
Our community here in the northwest is bursting with artistic talent, so much that too many artists go unnoticed or are hiding in their little studios like mad scientists waiting for the sun.
Well the sun is back and it's time to enjoy the work of our strange painterly friends out
in the woods!
Photosynthesis festival is providing space for this creativity to thrive, featuring numerous inspirational artists from the area, both digital and raw. Many of your favorite artists will be painting live throughout the festival and showcasing their gallery pieces in our art space.
Ephraim Peniston
Ephraim Peniston is a Seattle-based artist who finds life too short to keep to one medium. His graphic arts in collaboration with web media take on proactive initiatives that communicate movement and change, his fine arts explore the abstract, aiming to portray the knowledge and beauty he finds within life and his photography attempts to capture and further expand upon the intricate world around us.
Ephraim is probably most noted for his 'rust' paintings, where he uses metals to leave impressions on paper. This is a medium he has been exploring and building on for years. At Photosynthesis Festival, he will be sharing with us some of his newest works both live and in the gallery.
Cameron Nagashima
Cameron Nagashima is not bound by medium or materials. His life and mind exists in a constant state of creation, whether through photography, painting, or dancing down the streets with the music of the city." Life is creation there for life is art." At 24 he is now working on multiple series of Art photos call," Making something before could" and a painting series depicting hypersurreal trees.
Ryan Johnson
Master of the digital stylus, Ryan Johnson specializes in immortalizing the world around him as it happens. He offers the gift of inspiration as he peers through the great visionary lens, and allows the future to pour through his hands. His art peeks into a forgotten past, blended with a future that might be. Never failing to capture the true essence of the moment in epic figures and dramatic tribal imagery. His humble demeanor and willingness to actively contribute have quickly made his work a symbol of the people he loves.
Geo
George Atherton seeks to create medicinal narratives. My education empowered me with a vision of how I could use my art to disseminate information that serves the causes of social justice. Since then I've been channeling my energies into launching a career as a professional comic book artist and animator. In my work I plant and nurture the seeds of revolution, encouraging viewers to rise up, connect with each other and work to propel us into a brilliant new stage of human evolution.
Jacob Aman
In 2005 Jacob Aman started an artistic project called the Rebirth of Totem with the intent to build upon NW tribal art and use it as a platform for downloading and rendering other-dimensional mindscapes. Now the next phase of this project is commencing, born out of my interest in biochemistry, mathematics and tryptabeing complexes--currently this phase of the artistic experiment is called mandalic chemistry. The plan is to show molecular interactions within cells as spiritual interactions, adding sacred geometries and artistic rendering over documented biochemical processes. After this phase is underway, Jacob will begin to paint new imaginary plant life as an attempt to attract new plant forms into existence (i.e. this is a precursor to plant breeding).
Ty Young
www.abstract-n-surreal-art.com
Maren Olsen
Maren feels that art is a sacred practice and is dedicated to capturing geometry, rhythm, mathematical sequence, color theory, and numbers in hopes of creating a body of objects that will unify and harmonize both sides of the brain. She studies Fine Art at Evergreen State College and her current series is called Manual Digital.
Jesse Miller
Jesse primarily works in the abstract with charcoal, paint, and ink, often using bold colors and hallucinatory imagery. Much of his work could be described as playful, guided Rorschach (ink blot) tests. His passion for art stems from his desire to explore the nature of the human mind, body, and spirit. More specifically, to share those explorations, honestly and completely, with others. He believes that the true natures of these phenomena are they themselves abstract and best understood from multiple, simultaneous perspectives . . . his work attempts to reflect this belief.
Alida Mulliken
Alida Mulliken has experimented with many different mediums including photography, drawing, hair, fabric, and sculpting. Most recently she has found her passion in painting and reflects the orderly chaos of the natural world in her work. Aspiring from a philosophy that life is creation, her work is alive and usually in a dream state of mind. Her love extends from each piece to reach people on a deeper level as she feels art is a view into spirituality and the soul.