My approach to art is greatly influenced by the social climate of America in the 1950s and 1960s. I seek to reproduce significant feelings, images, and words that are reflective of the ever changing and maturing American cultural landscape that I experienced growing up in California.

I am a romantic with a strong yearning for the simple beauty and feelings of a time past. I document the disappearing periods of roadside billboards stacked like dominoes toward the future, of weathered words and images that alone make no sense but together evoke nostalgia, and the idea of alienated heroes who find the understanding of women elusive. By redefining and reintroducing these images I hope to spark a collective memory and address an inner association with a piece of America�s past.

Singular and combined processes are utilized to create mixed media collages. They integrate fragmented photographic imagery, familiar everyday objects, celebrated literary novels, and painted surfaces. Words and images are layered, juxtaposed, and abstracted to develop the narrative qualities of celebrated symbols and icons. I encapsulate this mythology of American vintage history in surfboard resin to preserve and fossilize the images and history that keep the innocent memories of my youth from disappearing.

I believe it is necessary for our country to re-evaluate its past in order to create its future. I want people to look at my paintings and recall a time when we were all fairly innocent and filled with hope for our future. If my work slows them down and elicits these feelings, then I am communicating what I feel about that time.

Website: Artist/Painter
Contact email: gmillerstudio@verizon.net

Albertine Eylenbosch was born in Mechelen Belgium in 1949. She studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Mechelen and Antwerp. Has won many prizes and had many exhibitions both in Belgium and abroad.

Website: Albertine Eylenbosch Paintings Prints Photographs
Contact email: eylenbosch@scarlet.be

Professional artist since 1983, art school graduate, specialized in space art made with oil, acrylics, and mixed media, as well as sci-fi book covers and illustrations (digital art included).

Website: Space Art