I am a visual artist based in Byron Bay, the most easterly point of Australia. I approach composition with the realization that the painting is a living object, what lies beneath the surface of the painting are of equal importance. The possibilities are unlimited and the first brush stroke is the beginning of an untold story. I am fascinated how colour and tone affects the atmosphere and mood of an image, the unseen rhythms, harmonies and light and the final relationship between painted scene and the viewer. I build up areas of the image by using a series of glazes to achieve vibrancy in colour. I then allow the insights and intuition that I feel to take shape and form enabling the painting to move and come alive, breaking the static. The journey for me is to uncover issues around identity and belonging and to explore figures and textures that landscape the human condition. I aim to convey the depth of the subject matter from palette onto canvas to the viewer.

Website: Sean O’Shea website

Rama Hoetzlein (b. 1975), is a media artist and computer scientist working in the areas of surrealism, artificial intelligence and computer graphics. He completed a BFA in Fine Arts and a BA in Computer Science at Cornell University in 2001, with thesis works on robotic and mechanical sculpture. From 2001 to 2004, Rama co-founded the Game Design Initiative at Cornell University with David Schwartz (CS), while also developing user interfaces in biotech. In 2007, Rama completed his master’s thesis on knowledge organization and visualization with the Media Arts & Technology Program at the University of California Santa Barbara. He has shown work at the 2nd International Beijing Arts & Science Exhibition at Tsinghua University, and lectured extensively on interdisciplinary topics. Rama’s current research interests, at the Univ. of California Santa Barbara, lie in the areas of surreal biology, artificial intelligence, and cognition

Website: r.c.hoetzlein
Contact email: rch@umail.ucsb.edu

Expositions personnelles

2008 “in-vivo”, The Armenian Center for
Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA, Erevan
2008 “quelque chose de vivant”, Galerie
Eponyme, Bordeaux
2006 “espaces temp�r�s de l�intime”, Espace art
et libert�, Charenton, France (catalogue)
2000 Peintures, espace culturel Leclerc, Vitry,
France
1999 Bergamot station art center, Santa Monica,
USA
1998 Cit� des Artistes, Francheville, France
1996 Galerie Basmadjian, Paris, France
1993 Galerie les cent, Paris, France
1978-1988 Expositions informelles, Er�van Arm�nie

Expositions collectives (s�lection)

2007 -National Picture Gallery, Er�van Armenie
-Mus�e d’Art Moderne, Er�van, Armenie
-”grand bleu, r�ves de la mer entre Gyumri,
Erevan et Paris”, Galerie Artcore, Paris
-Artistes du Mus�e d�Art contemporain
d�Arm�nie � Paris, Orangerie du Luxembourg
(catalogue)
2005 Ego - Independancia MAMM, Mus�e d� Art
Moderne de Medellin, Colombie
2004 Ego festival d�art contemporain, Ezanville
(catalogue)
2003 Extra-muros espace culturel le 148,
Alfortville (catalogue)
2001 -Bunker � Paris, galerie Yvart, Paris
-Bunker � Moscou, CDK, Moscou, Russie
-Bunker, Don O�Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles,
USA
2000 Bunker � Er�van, Mus�e Nationnal d�Art
Contemporain d�Arm�nie
1997 Estampes contemporaines, Ezanville
1996 -Peintures de l�Est, Courbevoie
-Jerry Solomon Gallery Foundation of
Creative Arts, USA
1996 Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union,
Zimerly Art Mus�um, USA
1995 -Semaines d�Art Arm�ni�n, Mus�e de Bokhum,
Allemagne
-Art contemporain en Arm�nie, Maison
Centrale des Expositions, Moscou, Russie
1994 Abstractionnisme en Arm�nie, Er�van ,
Arm�nie
1991 Sovangard Art Gallery, Moscou, Vienne,
New York (catalogue)
1990 3eme �tage � Copenhague, Danemark
1989 l�Avant garde de l�Arm�nie � Paris,
Chapelle de la Salp�tri�re, Paris
(catalogue)
1988 Festival des Avant-gardes, Narva, Estonie
1987 3�me �tage, Er�van, Arm�nie
1983 Happening, Galerie du Centre d�Education
Artistique, Er�van, Arm�nie
1978 premi�res expositions clandestines avec le
groupe Carr� Noir � Er�van, Arm�nie

Collections publiques

- Mus�e National d�Art Moderne d�Arm�nie
- Minist�re de Affaires Etrang�res d�Arm�nie
- Minist�re de la Culture d�Arm�nie
- Mus�e d� Art Moderne de Medellin, Colombie
- Mus�e National des Arts du Kazakhstan
- Zimerly Art Museum, USA

Bibliographie:

- 2007 “espaces temp�r�s de l’intime”, catalogue
monographique, Paris
- 2006 �Modern Art Museum of Armenia�, Erevan
- 2004 �Ego� festival d�art contemporain,
Ezanville
- 2003 �Extra-muros�, espace culturel le 148,
Alfortville
- 1995 � l�Art Contemporain en Arm�nie 80-95…�
Minist�re de la Culture d�Arm�nie
- 1990 �express-Avantgarde� Moscow, Wien, New York
- 1989 �le Troisi�me �tage� l�avant garde de
l�Arm�nie � Paris

Website: Armen Rotch
Contact email: rhadjian@aol.com