Visual Language Magazine Contemporary Fine Art Vol 2 no 10 October 2013
Visual Language Magazine is a contemporary fine art magazine filled with dynamic international fine art, brilliant colors and stimulating composition. This month features the Miller Gallery Fall Show in Cincinnati, and studio visits with Nocona Burgess, Artspan artist Joe Belt, Sarah Beth Banning, Dave Sime, Connie Morse, and Texas artist Kristine Byars. Enjoy an up close and person interview with Texas Artspan artist Sharon Hodges and the gallery show of Texas Artspan artist Melissa Doron. The issue would not be complete without the fascinating photography of Artspan Photographer Rudolph De Ram. On the Cover is the artwork of Artspan Artist Joe Belt. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language Magazine crosses all boundaries.
Visual Language Magazine is a contemporary fine art magazine filled with dynamic international fine art, brilliant colors and stimulating composition. This month features the Miller Gallery Fall Show in Cincinnati, and studio visits with Nocona Burgess, Artspan artist Joe Belt, Sarah Beth Banning, Dave Sime, Connie Morse, and Texas artist Kristine Byars. Enjoy an up close and person interview with Texas Artspan artist Sharon Hodges and the gallery show of Texas Artspan artist Melissa Doron. The issue would not be complete without the fascinating photography of Artspan Photographer Rudolph De Ram. On the Cover is the artwork of Artspan Artist Joe Belt. Visual Language is the common connection around the world for art expressed through every media and process. The artists connect through their creativity to the viewers by both their process as well as their final piece. No interpreters are necessary because Visual Language Magazine crosses all boundaries.
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Studio Visit Dave Sime<br />
Dave Sime, has spent a lifetime studying, sketching, painting and sculpting his landscape,<br />
western, Indian and wildlife subject matter. Some people find their calling in life early on and<br />
through many different directions the journey ends right where it started. As a young boy Dave<br />
carved small birds which were correct in every detail and mounted over driftwood found on the<br />
shores of nearby lakes or streams. Today he incorporates natural driftwood into his clay sculptures<br />
which are then cast in bronze. He states, “The wonderful forms found in nature can<strong>no</strong>t be<br />
duplicated by man so I find satisfaction in the inclusion of these forms with my sculptures.”<br />
Sime conveys the gentler side of a Montana grizzly in this limited edition bronze sculpture,<br />
“Something in the Wind”. While working for the Forest Service, he encountered this bear in the<br />
<strong>no</strong>rth fork of the Flathead River near Glacier National Park. Here he shows the large bear, an<br />
almost silver tipped grizzly alerted by something in the air.<br />
Concerning his “Silent Watch” sculpture he states, “When I was sixteen I spent the summer of<br />
1956 on a United States Forest Service, forest fire lookout called Cougar Peak in <strong>no</strong>rthwest<br />
Montana. While on a hike I saw a mountain lion about thirty feet away and never forgot his intense<br />
look and attitude. After all these years I created this sculpture from that encounter.<br />
Dave Sime’s deep sense of feeling, k<strong>no</strong>wledge and enthusiasm for his subject matter, whether<br />
it be wildlife, Indian, western or whimsical themes allow him to paint or sculpt clean lines and<br />
fluid forms. They declare their presence with expressive emotion and gestures capturing the<br />
feeling and attitude of the subject to involve the viewer in a visual adventure.<br />
He owes a great debt of gratitude to watercolorist, Harold Olsen and sculptor, John Coleman for<br />
their k<strong>no</strong>wledge and instruction.<br />
Dave Sime’s sculptures and watercolors have been juried into Gilcrease Museum, Mountain<br />
Oyster Show, Charlie Russell Show, <strong>Art</strong>s for the Parks and the Briscoe Museum of Western <strong>Art</strong>.<br />
Silent Watch Dave Sime<br />
www.redcliffgallery.com<br />
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Something in the Wind Dave