A.M.Hanson / alexcalledsimon projects present:
MISSY ISLAND: the early island years.

A look back and forward to the story of how concept environmental character “Missy Island” came to life, as new large scale related (and other photo based) work is currently being produced and prepared for future/forthcoming shows and publication (watch this space).

The `early island` work includes drawings, paper hats and masks, biodegradeable eye-patches, photo books, picture books, objects and recorded and live performances.

This digital mini show (see link) records Missy’s first steps, early jaunts and evolving island identity. Witness her travels of mind, body and spirit and her ongoing mixed / multi media take on everyday encounters, on-off relationships, fantasy situations and other realities. All in a range of guises and formats, across a variety of venues and locations.

We would like to invite you to take a trip with Missy as an introdutory `Hello` (or refresher) to A.M.Hanson’s alexcalledsimon projects.

Enjoy this island life!

(A.M.Hanson is a photographer and mixed media photo-related artist, map maker, sometime song writer and performer)

(alexcalledsimon projects is an ongoing concept character situation)

(simonsplaypeneditions produces printed matter by A.M.Hanson and collaborators).

Website: alexcalledsimon projects
Contact email: info@amhanson-photoworks.org

Inspired by her �companionship with nature� since childhood summers spent on the Atlantic coast, Jennifer Bain�s paintings give structure to an experience that is otherwise capricious. Bain�s paintings draw the viewer through rapid shifts of visual information to effect the perceived or �felt� experience of time, place and memory._Incongruent images of flowers, foliage and wildlife are linked in sequential vertical or horizontal bands to be �read� across or down the paintings like �filmstrip� narratives. The passages are rendered in various stages of observation; close-up and detailed botanical line drawings segway into blurred and painterly environs of flowers or birds in flight, and further juxtaposed with bands of abstract, highly-saturated color fields. In Bain�s experience, �place is digested in small parts and observations . . . broadly and then up close simultaneously�. She compares her painting composition to that of a ��visual poem�, where one is lead through many passages or shifts in description and metaphor to culminate in a work that is open to interpretation�.

Website: Jennifer Bain
Contact email: jbstudio@sbcglobal.net

Tedited makes fresh gay art inspired by the beauty of the male body and soul. He sees his work as a gay artists exploration of homoerotic art beetween pornography and the ordinary nude, expressing more of the homoerotic longing and the soul within than ordinary gay art can. Born in the serenely beautyful Norwegian countryside, Tedited’s gay and homoerotic art carries a haunting longing for beauty.

Website: The gay art gallery of Tedited
Contact email: tedited@tedited.com

Introduction:
John�s Arts and Crafts –a fun small Art and Crafts
Business. Advertised on such web sites as: www.Shopping.com,
www.johnsartsandcrafts.com, www.epage.com www.anioman.com its founder
John Pavon is the sole proprietor a Napa native, previous young girl
soft ball coach, previous member of Big brother & Big sisters, American
Red Cross volunteer, past volunteer for three churches in the Napa
Valley. Received several written accommodations for saving human lives.
John�s first public showing a juried event at the American Canyon
Arts Foundation festival in 1994. John�s Abstract/Acrylic art received
1st and 2nd place ribbon. �What are odds of submitting your art work
for the first time and receiving first and second place ribbons?�1
John�s Arts and Crafts participates in charitable events and schools
with his mobile business division called Pavon�s Laisseraller.

Website: John’s Arts & Crafts