Photography

We are living in an endless threshold of moments.
The communication between emotion and logic of our moments is the language that has inspired me in art and design.

New Envisionings
Matthew Salomon

Matt will read a selection of poems from his own works, translations, and those of others, old and new that have been inspired by or have inspired works of visual art. Each reading will be accompanied by visual projections of the work(s) inspiring or inspired by the poem. The performance will attempt to simulate (as much as possible) conditions under which readers might encounter poem-image pairings on the internet, and will allow for interaction and collaboration between the reader/presenter and listener/viewer.

Matt is a DC-area poet, currently working on a book-length manuscript of original poems and translations, and a prose adaptation of the Middle English poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. He has read from his poems and prose at a number of venues in recent years and, in 2007, he completed an MFA in Creative Writing at American University. He is interested in exploring the new freedoms for poetry and visual art made possible by the ascendancy of the so-called new media. Please visit and contribute your energies to the GOLEMPOEM blog (the website listed above).

Samba Trovao is a Bahian style samba percussion ensemble, called samba reggae. Our sound comes from the northeastern coast of Brazil, where samba music mixes with the rhythm of afoxe, muzenza, candomble, forro, capoeira, and reggae. Our influences are Ile Aiye, Olodum, and Timbalada.

As an art student I studied at Rhode Island School of Design and Corcoran College of Art and Design working two and three dimensionally in mixed media and fiber art. In my current work I am creating drawings with free form patterns and radial symmetry. I work intuitively to make images that are from internalized inspiration. I allow the imagery I see in the world around me to sink in and later reveal it spontaneously as I draw. Making these drawings is meditative. I work inside out then add color to disguise or reveal certain aspects of the piece. Creating visual art is a necessary part of my life.

I am an information architect and creative by nature. I use information architecture methods and methodologies to arrive at the contrast between truth, reality, and perception.

Improvisation with Live Music

With my work I try to reflect my inner world.
This inner world is mistic, magic,and mysterious.
In my inner world I play with my emotional essence,creating abstract characteres.
I paint on canvas,burlop,wood, using different techniques .Like oil,collage , working with different textures that I considere very important on my pictorial world.
I invite the spectators to approach to my world.
The spectators can create his own inner world through my painting,creating by himself his own characteres searching his ownn essence.

I will host several SAW singer-songwriter showcases throughout the event.

I take photos of beautiful things, ordinary and sublime, everyday and unique, miniscule and gargantuan. Sometimes I take those photos and create paintings from them - tending toward a brushy loose style with colorful acrylics.

I'd love to sell you some photos - just prints, or matted or framed - or if you dig the painting style, bring me your photos and commission me to put it on canvas. Get in touch and we'll work something out!

My Artomatic exhibit is a collection of photographs from the streets of Paris. Work includes fiber prints and large-scale canvasses.

My work is an exploration of familiar things. I am fascinated with life that goes unnoticed around us. My camera takes me down the path to another dimension that allows me to uncover beauty and harmony in both nature and man-made objects. This process also engages me in discovering light, reflections, angles and space. I am looking to draw the viewers into the photograph and let them wander around in there.

I started as a painter and art teacher long long ago. About ten years ago I discovered a class in Art dolls and I was hooked. This media had it all, sewing, color, painting and no rules. Since that class I have added silk painting to my passions, working with a dear friend and fellow old hippie. Fiber sculpture brings all my passions and media together.

Conceptual Cartographer
Ward 1, Washington, DC

ARTIST STATEMENT: I make decorative maps
ARTIST MOTTO: Socio Ditata Labore

My exhibit space is on the 8th Floor in the south-east corner, behind the M in artoMatic. I made a time-lapse YouTube video of the installation and have also made an abstract exhibit fly-through in reverse slow-motion to show a selection of works on display.

Over "the base map" are three original pieces for Artomatic: NOVA ET ACCVRATISSIMA TOTIVS TERRARVM ORBIS TABVLA [2008], Federal Triangle Quilt #4, and Charlotte Spheres.

On the floor there are three polyester 60" x 40" tapestries featuring the Kennedy Center Quilt with Chinese signature, Mount Pleasant Cross, and Federal Triangle Quilt #3 with Chinese signature as well as assorted ceramic tiles.

In the corner of the space is perspective analysis installation called the "Art-O-Matic Art Overload Stress Relief Device." Try it out when you visit the space and you might see stars!

For purchasing inquiries please contact: artomatic@nikolasschiller.com

This series of photographs is about generative technologies—technological developments that have had profound and multicentric effects on global culture. The vacuum tube was an outgrowth of the light bulb that allowed the creation and modulation of electrical signals. The development of tubes generated technological innovations with far reaching cultural effects—including radio, television, telephone networks, and computers.

The development of thirty-five millimeter motion picture film created a mechanism for the far-reaching dissemination of cultural values. From U.S. suburban multiplexes to remote villages in India, the technology has been virtually unchanged from it development through he present day. Motion pictures remain a prime mode for the dissemination and reinforcement of cultural values. The photographs in this series, depict film reels from Khoya Khoya Chand (Lost Moon), a “Bollywood” film released in December 2007.

Light dancing with color has always fascinated me. I want viewers of my paintings to feel the passion and movement that brought these paintings to life. Before I start working, I see the finished painting in my mind’s eye. The challenge for me is to work with the paint or pastels to capture the luminosity in, and interaction of, colors. Every painting is an experiment in color with brush or palette knife.