Frank O. Husemann III

artist and photographer

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Artists Bio and Manifesto:
I was born in St. Louis, MO in 1964. I was not expected to live due to a congenital heart disease; even after surgery, my chances were slim. In the years that followed, I was not allowed to play any reindeer games and I've danced with Death all my life.

I've had many years of art education, where is not important. The one thing I've learned is that anyone can become a painter, but very few have what it takes to be an artist. That's a gift. Think what you will of my work. It doesn't matter to me. I don't do it for you. Maybe I do it for the world and maybe it should never have been done at all.

The existence of artists and their work to me is a double edged sword: Art has no Practical function, nor does the artist. Yet art and they are invaluable to society.

Karen S. Gulbransen

artist and illustrator

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An eclectic artist . . . painting and illustrating for over three decades. . .  
specializes in acrylic, oil, and ink . . .

works include graphic & web design and video. . .

Artists statement, Early 2011:
I've always enjoyed realists and surrealists: the old masters, Renoir, Mary Passat (Impressionist), and Homer, but also enjoy more modern artists such as Warhol and O'Keefe. There is also something that attracts me to Egyptian art and symbols, as well as cave drawings and Native American works. I like the simplicity and basics of it - plus how they incorporated art into everyday, utilitarian items.

Regarding painting realism: I enjoy the challenge of making something look photo realistic or surrealistic from globs of color. I appreciate black and white works too. I like the feel and close-ups of flowers from Georgia O'Keefe and have recently painted something in her style. I've incorporated a bit of cave drawings or symbols in my painting 'Caverns of Ulthar”.

Creating art is relaxing, a type of therapy to me. Having Diabetic Retinopathy and have lost sight in my eyes temporarily many times in the past, I constantly have to get over deppressed feelings and really appreciate the fact that I can still see well enough to draw and create. Of course, you don't draw and paint with your eyes, you create art with your brain.

Kate Fallucca

photographer and writer

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Artist's Bio:

As a national artist I have been on display in New Mexico, Illinois, Wisconsin,  and Ohio. The subject matter of my landscape photographs ranges from Native American ruins to images of nature including and, sky, and water. I have also taken pictures of various places and subject in Wisconsin, Illinois,  Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.

My fine-art photographs are currently on display at various commercial venues in Springfield and Dayton Ohio. I have been a member of, worked in and exhibited at four galleries and three art associations. My work has also been seen in coffee shops, a museum, a restaurant, a college, a mayor’s office, a Chamber of Commerce office, an art center, a clothing store, a martini lounge, a recreation center, a book store, a newspaper’s office and even a church. I was commissioned by a real estate title company to create a custom display in their lobby.

I studied commercial art & advertising, art history, drawing and painting at Carthage College in Kenosha Wisconsin. I took liberal arts/general art classes at Oakton Community College in Des Plaines and Skokie Illinois campuses. My creative writing education was conducted at a correspondence course through The Institute of Children’s Literature in Redding Connecticut. The ability and desire to write has transformed me into an art correspondent. I have written two articles for San Juan City WOMAN, sixteen articles for www.exposekenosha.com and five articles for www.miamicountypost.com.

My photography has been published commercially in newspapers, magazines, an annual book through the International Library of Photography, a real estate website, an art association newsletter, local newspapers as part of a press release when promoting my art shows, art association and gallery’s websites, and incorporated in writing articles. My photographs were also published several times in Urbana Citizen, The Kenosha News, various other small weekly papers, the Kenosha Art Association newsletter, the TALON newspaper and the Chamber of Commerce newsletter in Aztec New Mexico.