Johan Rosenmunthe is born near Copenhagen, Denmark, where he now is living and working. He is educated in art-photography from Fatamorgana The Danish School of Art Photography (www.schoolartphoto.com), with teachers like Anders Petersen, Birgitta Lund, JH Engstr�m, Nina Korhonen, Peter Funch, Morten Nilsson & Morten Bo. He is now working on his own projects, and is also part of different photographic collectives, such as SHOK (Scandinavian) and L�ber N�gen (European).

Johan Rosenmunthe has a unique ability to make oblivion tangible, and his photographs contain a smoldering sense of the overlooked. What did we overlook, what did we forget, who was that person we paid no attention to as we passed?

Through his tableau-like photographs Johan Rosenmunthe becomes the person who turns around and looks behind him, the one who collects and brings out the details that remind us that we missed something.

He has developed professional skill by working with a collage technique in which the past collides with the present and apes confront the suburban housing boom. However, the technical perfection and the calculation conceal the underlying personal expression. Johan Rosenmunthe�s strength lies not in the figures themselves, but in their relative placement, in the holes and spaces between them. His images gain fullness and originality from this distance, the distance of oblivion and anticipation.

This distance is at stake when Johan Rosenmunthe juggles with the impossible. He sees the emptiness in that which we overlooked and the loneliness in that which we abandoned. The desolation we created by forgetting � that is what Johan Rosenmunthe makes visual in his unique works.

When people from the past pop up in images of the present, when African flamingos prance around in Copenhagen, a smoldering sense of powerlessness emerges: a strange, poetical and bittersweet sensation of having been forgotten. It is then that the holes come to life and the spaces become meaningful.

He tempts us with recognizable motives, points the way for us with a good idea, but then leaves us before we reach the destination. Johan Rosenmunthe�s intention is not to tell us the truth, but to make it possible for us to discover it.

To discover the desolation within ourselves � and the meaninglessness of the overlooked.

- Morten Bo, july 2007

Website: Photographer Johan Rosenmunthe
Contact email: johan@rosenmunthe.com

John Crouse is a self taught artist, born and raised on a small farm in rural Hunterdon County New Jersey. The family farm has provided him with a lifetime of inspiration and subject matter that he can easily relate to and apply to his work.
Before taking on a career as a fine artist, he was a freelance and commission artist/designer for the outdoor advertising industry. Clients included manufacturers and businesses in many fields including advertising, printing, signage, architecture, engineering, etc. He was best known and often acqired for his illustrative talents which specialized in animals, caricatures and original design.
His abilities to combine and adapt to a variety of mediums, application styles, and techniques, as well as meeting client demands would eventually serve to help develop his talents as a fine artist. Using techniques from airbrush,drybrush and blending, to very fine detailed lines coupled with an illustrative composition are combined to produce a variety of works from small studies and portraits to large storytelling pieces.
Acrylic on board is his medium of choice for all subjects which include wildlife,farm animals,birds of prey,farm implements,butterflies, and still lifes that feature objects often related to or found on the small farms that are fast becoming a thing of the past. Memories from his childhood days on the farm where he spent most of his time taking in all that farmlife had to offer has inspired him to create works that would remind and introduce others to the sights, sounds and sceneries of rural life in America. Sometimes represented as pure and raw like the raptors and predators found here, and often as whimsical and curious as the barn cats, butterflies and song birds. Originals are on continuous display at three East coast galleries, as well as open and limited edition fine art prints. Current and past works as well as prints are available for viewing and purchase at the artist’s web site.

Website: johncrouseart.com
Contact email: johncrouseart@aol.com