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  • Mariana Peirano Royuela
    Mariana Peirano Royuela
    Visual Arts: Painting
    I was born an artist yet at some point in my early adult life I unconsciously moved away from that idea and became an elementary school teacher. Once my family moved away from my native Argentina, my life changed completely. My struggles as an immigrant child prompted me to become a bilingual teacher and help those in similar situations. During those years, my art was limited to creating classroom materials for my students and my own children.    Now, more than twenty years later, I return to my true nature and I’m an artist again.  My concern for the human condition, which has permeated my life, is reflected in my artwork.  The grace and beauty of the human body and the perplexity of facial expressions are all recurring themes in my work. I like to create images that evoke emotion and portray the complexity of the human mind.    I consider my work contemporary realism, however my recent work has a touch of the mystical and spiritual reflecting my own growth and awareness. Through my art I like to reveal the dramatic experience of self discovery and the monumental transformations that occur in our human life. I hope to provoke thought and introspection in the viewer.   My medium of choice is oil but I also work in acrylic and pastel. After a whole year working in acrylic, I’m once again loving the richness and vividness of the oils. They allow me to take my time and work in layers. It’s almost as if I discover a new painting in each layer.   My process reflects my belief that I’m merely an instrument for the creative forces of the universe. I’m inspired by images that evoke a strong emotional response in me. And so I write poems to decipher the messages I receive from those images. Then the words and the images become my painting.    
  • Michael Perlmutter
    Michael Perlmutter
    Literature: Drama; Theatre: Acting, Directing, Other; Visual Arts: Painting
    Michael Perlmutter, playwright, passed away at the tender age of 33 ("the age that Mozart died and sweet Jesus was set free"--Harry Chapin).  Michael will be best remembered for-- . . . What?  Ok, fine, he isn't dead--Hey, I was going for the sympathy vote, here.  -  Like you’re tellin’ me this is not a contest?  Of course it's a contest.  Everything's a contest: LIFE is a contest.  And my Bio is gonna win this thing big time (never under estimate the sympathy vote).  And never mind that I'm speaking in the first person now, or that I've won awards for my plays such as Crimson, 1865, Parking Lot Traffic, Random Acts.  Or that my plays have been presented in Los Angeles, New York and London.  Or that my recent works  Office Games, My Perfect Alibi and Directing Hamlet were finalists in associated venues across this country.  Nobody cares that I live with my wife, three children and too damned many animals in Southern California.  (OK, two have married and moved away, fine—full disclosure—but within ten miles—though David hasn’t even invited us over for dinner yet but that’s NOT THE POINT!)  The point is that I'm not dead . . . yet.  But you can check out my website for more information on my growing body of work at www.DirectingHamlet.com.  And feel free to leave a comment.  I'd love to know what you've thought of my work . . . that is if I'm still breathing.
  • Shay Peyote
    Shay Peyote
    Media: Other; Visual Arts: Painting; Animation
    No matter what medium I’m working in, I feel that the purpose of art is to provide what life does not. So I create a kind of beauty not found in nature, and I replicate the kind of beauty that otherwise can only be created by the passage of time. Grunge is gorgeous! Used to be a time when artist’s materials were expensive and rare, only for the few. Now anybody with an Amazon account can have the best supplies available on a whim, so I expand upon the notion of what fine art is. I make no distinction between ‘low art’ and ‘fine art’ because really there is no difference so I can’t see it anyway. Life is a mystery, everyone must stand alone, but we connect with each other through creativity.
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