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Fine Arts & Sculpture Artists
Autumn Tierney focuses her art mainly in three areas: “tattoo artist, mixed media artist, painter.” She and her husband Beau originate from Upstate New York and have lived in the Bangor area since 2005. She has worked at Riverview Tattoo in Brewer, Maine since moving here. When not tattooing, she likes to create mischief and run amok with random acts of craftiness.
Jeffrey Prymowicz is a fifth year Studio Art and New Media double major at the University of Maine. He is a local artist, growing up in Hampden, Maine with a love of art. Early on, he spent a lot of time with drawing and illustration, and also learned that he had a love for design. His submitted works to this year’s festival are done on paper, framed and with some lithography. Prymowicz has also exhibited his work with the state wide art publication, Flannel Collective, a participant in 2010’s art festival.
Rama Brown was born in Athens ME in 1980 and moved to the suburbs of Boston in her teens. She graduated from Shawsheen Valley Vocational Technical High, in 1998 with Certification in Technical Illustrations and Commercial Art. On the Honors Deans List upon graduation at Middlesex Community College (2004), she was given the Studio Art Award along with an Associates of Studio Arts Degree. She has lived in Boston for the last 5 years and received her Bachelors in Fine Arts in 2009 from Massachusetts College of Art and Design with a Sculpture concentration. Within the last year and a half since graduation Rama has been in 4 significant Exhibitions: Most recently, "Collective” at the Galatea Fine Arts, Boston MA (August 2010), juried by Dina Deitsch, Assistant Curator at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, "The Beast in Me", at the Nave Gallery, Somerville MA (2010), curated by Jenn Harrington. In 2009 she had multiple sculptures in "Collective Expressions", Abington MA, and "Got Art", Holliston MA. Currently located in Athens ME, Brown will be exhibiting some of her many sculptures with the KahBang Art Festival. For a preview Brown’s works, visit www.got-art.net/rb.html.
Abbeth Russell was born in Schenectady, New York and grew up in Byfield, Massachusetts. She now lives in Portland, Maine. Prior to graduating from Maine College of Art, she attended School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and State University on New York, Purchase. She has shown her work at School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Maine College of Art’s Free Street Gallery, Sanctuary Tattoo, Empire Dine and Dance, Brooklyn’s Finest, Back Bay Towers, Space Gallery, and Sylvia Kania Gallery and now with the KahBang Art Festival. She once had a discussion about whether or not paintings have souls. Her intent is to create paintings with souls so glowing and obvious that they reside in each layer, all the way down to the gesso.
Kris Johnsen is an artist working out of Portland ME from his own Emblem Studio. Emblem Studio is an independent design & screen- printing studio located in The Artist Studio Building. Johnsen started his design studio in January of 2009. His works include show and event posters for The State Theater, Space Gallery and the Portland Museum of Art, to name a few. Offering classes, freelance consulting, and collaborations, he has gained notoriety in his field. He also offers a blog on his studio site. Johnsen's complete portfolio can be viewed at krisjohnsen.com . For more information on Emblem Studio, visit emblemstudio.org. Or view his work in person at Kaleidoscope Gallery, Bangor ME.
Heather Small is a local artist whose intent at this year’s festival is to bring onlookers to “[Explore] the language of visual culture through digital art, photography, video, drawing, sculpture, and installation.” She graduated with a BA in New Media from the University of Maine in 2004 and went on to gain experience in the field of graphic design, creating layouts and designs for an international magazine publishing company, and such brands as Tide, Pantene, TJ Maxx, and Marshalls. Currently in her final year in the University of Maine’s Intermedia Master or Fine Arts Program, she intends her work to re-contextualize elements to encourage viewers to examine what’s hidden behind the familiar.
David Cox is originally from Los Angeles and came to live in his father's home state of Maine in 1998. He likes vinyl records, paper books, and recently rediscovered film photography during the last months of Kodachrome and is currently concentrating on instant photography. He received his degree in microbiology at the University of Maine and lives in Orono with his partner, Steve.
Taylor Bone is a conceptual artist whose work concerns reality and how people view themselves. His works attempts to find meaning in the meaningless instances we find ourselves in, being human and tries to unveil the hypocrisy that we all have in common, especially concerning power over other people. Recently, he has exhibited poetry read to a photographic slideshow in the Pecha Kucha event held in Bangor ME.
Steven Brooks is a 26-year-old Found Material Sculpture artist located in Naples ME. He graduated from Maine College of Art in the winter of 2009 and has since been making work out of recycled wood. His preference for found materials in art stems from the belief that they allow he artist to work freely, without feeling financially connected to the material, which he believes allows him to open up creatively. He began drawing with crayons in high school, creating his my own "coloring books" and brought this method to Ringling School of Art & Design in Sarasota FL. He gained an interest in fine arts and began sculpting his drawings into metal art, eventually transferring back to ME to attended Maine College of Art. He brought the sculpting back with him and graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Art in sculpture (while still maintaining his drawings). Recently, he been working with discarded wood and shingles with a focus on wildlife. He believes that we all have our own ideas of how certain animals look. These are just his.
Nathan Nicholls is a welder and sculptor of both recycled and found object metal located in Waldoboro ME. The majority of my work his truly one of a kind and made from the heart without the primary goal of making money. He is currently in the process of transforming his yard into an extensive sculpture park where people can come and meditate or simply enjoy the view. This year, his works will be display in the KahBang Sculpture Park on the Bangor Waterfront. Nicholls sees shapes in junk that remind him of significant parts of natural life and work them in varied scale into his art. He has a preference for rust as a patina because it is a living surface that gives life to the. He draws inspiration and motivation from anything in life, Love, Anger, Frustration, you name it, it has motivated and inspired him. To view Nicholls sculpture art, visit recyclesculptor.com.
Sebastian Meade is a self described Neo-Post-Dada-Pop, which he explains as ‘the use of found objects in my art indirectly represents pop culture. It is a combination of Dadaism and Popism - two movements that moved art using humor and fun’. His approach to art is about pulling the viewer into the experience and getting the observer to not only look at but also to actively be a part of the work. He expects his viewer to wonder exactly what is depicted and how he managed to achieve the effect. He works with paper mache, found objects, etc, because of the surprises that happen when paint and surfaces interact. His work with the subject matter is because of the complicated interactions that can be shown.
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