Hand Inspiration

Guido Daniele is an airbrush painter who uses hands and people as the "paper". He has been working in back stages for artistic and advertising pictures as well as for tv commericials and programs. Daniele was born in Soverato, Italy and now lives and works in Milan. From 1964-68, he attended Brera artistic High School and graduated from Brera School of Arts in 1972 majoring in sculpture. In 1972, he worked as a hyper-realistic illustrator. It was then that he worked in a co-operation that used and tested different painting techniques as well as advertisement and editing.

Phantom of the...Library???

In the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh wanders a Phantom (or used to wander). Nobody knows his or her name, but the librarians and the readers happen to come across beautifully crafted sculptures of printed paper. On each sculpture there is a note that addresses to the Library thanking them their "... support on books, words, ideas, and those places that house our treasures" (Phantom's quote). There has been ten sculptures and "thank you" notes from this mysterious artists in the Scottish Poetry Library and none of them identify it's owner. This artist, in my perspective, seems to understand that sometimes being an anonymous character can be a beautiful and powerful quality.

The Stone Age/ Robin Antar

Robin Antar's passion involves sculpting stone into everyday items that mirror life as we know it today. She replicates thes items into a real-life scale and completes in with meticulous detail. She does this by adding parts of the actual object, yet also by staining, painting, and incorporating plastic as well as gold leaf. Robin was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1957 and has been sculpting since 1974. A school teacher actually introduced her to her choice of mediumand she has been taking it on ever since. She has been feautured in various shows and galleries (The National Arts Club,NY; Nabisco Gallery, NJ, etc) as well as newspapers and radio broadcasts.

Let's Be Fruity/ James Parker

James Parker is an exceptional artist for creating fruit and vegies garnishes. He came up with the idea of Veggy Art which emerged as Parker saw busy chefs sturggling to put finishing touches. Therefore, Veggy Art was launched as a "ready-to-use" garnish company where finishing touches are as important as the food itself. From Veggy Art's beginning, Parker has given demonstrations, given classes, and sold garnishes  all over the country. He has been cooking for The White House, Bloomingdale's The U.S. Marine Corps, Penn College, and Dean and Deluca to name a few. His culinary career began while attending the Pennsylvania College of Technology, where he graduated with a Culinary Degree. He earned several medals and awards from creating showpeices which included melon carvings, ice carvings, and tallow wax scupltures. He is frequently featured in The Food Network and is one of the most reknowned and influential garnish cooks in the world.

Fat Boy Loves Cake

In St. Petersburg, Russia, there is a bakery called Zhanna's Bakery where the most amazing cakes are made! The owner Zhanna...., has an amazing assortment of cakes from debilble treasure chests to flats of PEPSI cans to sewing machines and cigarratte boxes. These look so realistic, it's difficult to realize that they are actually cakes.

Edible Art??/ Jim VIctor

"NYSFNeighborhood"

Jim Victor is a sulptor who uses butter and chocolate (among many) as his medium. Victor graduated from Pennsylvania Acadamey of Fine Arts and majored in scuplture in 1968. He also went to York Academy of Art in 1962-63. Since 1969, he has been teaching sculpture at several insituitons such as: Pennsyvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Rosemont College, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia Museum of Art, University of the Arts, Drexel Univeristy, Penn State, etc etc. He does many portrait sculptures of famous actors such as Robin William and Anne Miller to name a few. Victor also sculpts animals and people in everyday situations.

                                                     "Let's Ride"

Scrap Metal/ Sayaka Ganz

                                                                                                   Emergence

Sayaka Ganz was born in Yokkohoma, Japan; although she lived there for a while, she also grew up in Brazil and in Hong Kong. She studied in the Fine Arts in Printmaking at Indiana University Bloomington in 2000 (with a minor in Theater and Drama. In 2008, she got her Masters in Fine Arts in 3D studios with concentration in scuplture at Bowling Green State University.  Currently, she teaches drawing and design at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. Ganz's work comes to her through used plastic household objects along with old scrap metal. Her sculptures take life as she looks at and collects certain pieces of worn metal/plastic pieces. Amazingly, Ganz shapes these worn and rusty pieces and colors them with energy. This energy is depicted through animals in motion. Her work has been collected and exhibited in London, Tokyo, Takaoka, Isle of Man, New York, San Francisco, Monterey,, Toledo, and Fort Wayne.

   Wisdom