Connections
Photos by Staff
by Staff
On display at Groundfloor Gallery
Jerome Gastaldi
Jerome Gastaldi is a contemporary American artist of Italian ancestry, whose work combines first hand impressions, perceptions and observations that explore and comment upon our society. Gastaldi’s powerful works stand astride the borderline between Expressionism and Surrealism, and have been compared by art critics to that of Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Kienholz, and Francis Bacon. His creative process is both emotional and intuitive, as evidenced by Gastaldi’s rapid handling of paint, his distortion of the human figure, the rich use of symbols, and the inclusion of found objects. There is a complexity and depth to his multi-layered imagery that reflects what the modern world offers the individual; not fixed, solitary images that can be grasped and reflected upon, but instead a seemingly unceasing flow that blurs the sense of reality and threatens to overwhelm the ability to comprehend.
He lives and works in Southern California. His studio is on his four acre ranch called Rancho Capriata, named after the town of Capriata de Orba in Northern Italy, where his family is originally from. He works in a number of media, including painting, sculpture, print making, and performance. Gastaldi’s work has been exhibited internationally in museums, universities and other public institutions, as well as held in public, private and corporate collections.
Dustin Otterbach
Dustin Otterbach is a native of Southern California. The fifth of six children, he credits his parents’ work ethics, creativity, and the stable upbringing that provided him the sense of freedom to express himself. Also a talented carpenter and sculptor, Dustin has embraced the affinity for painting on scrap metal, allowing its weathered patinas and textures to guide his color stories and intricate tonalities. Otterbach cuffs are wearable versions of his signature works on metal.
Dustin has owned and operated two successful art galleries in Laguna Beach and currently works out of his studio and workshop in Venice, California
Otterbach’s mission is to celebrate every day through honoring the artistic and entrepreneurial spirit of family, finding and generating beauty, demonstrating respect for the environment, inspiring other artists by example, and supporting charitable causes through international and cross-cultural collaborations.
Micah Nelson
Jacob Micah Nelson is an experimental artist/musician/animator/livepainter/multidimensionalist. Born in Austin, TX, Micah has spent much of his live traveling and playing music with his family and now lives in Los Angeles, CA. Micah’s artwork from his illustrations, paintings, scultures, and animations to his music and A/V Cymatics experiments investigate the inextricable link between the micro and macro-cosmic, as well as the symbiosis between waking life and lucid dream consciousness. His live-cymatic visuals, often combined with solo music project PARticLeKid, have been featured in music videos and performed at venues such as the Downtown Independent Theater in Los Angeles and SXSW Festival in Austin, TX. He has performed live-paintings with several bands all over the country from venues such as Red Rock Amphitheater in Colorado, to Charley’s Saloon in Paia, HI
Todd Marinovich
Marinovich's approach to painting emphasizes the formal qualities of art being more important than subject matter. His aim is to create not a duplicate of nature, but rather an arrangement of form and color first. As an admirer of the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Expressionist movements, he marvels at those artists liberation and expressive use of color. The aim of all art is to communicate, to express ideas that evoke responses in a viewer. Todd's hope is that you the viewer is moved. As Todd's artistic journey continues to evolve he describes the challenges to convey emotion through his art as " my internal need and responsibility as an artist."
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October 2011
The Film & Video Issue
This issue features articles on actress Alison Haislip., filmmaker Janicza Bravo, and a fashion spread by Adri Law.
We hope you enjoy this month's issue and feel free to let us know what you think.
-The Bunker Hill Magazine Staff