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 Kristine Byars<br />
Color with a Twist<br />
Galleries have a difficult time pinpointing Kristine Byars painting style. Kristine (“Kris”) likes that. Her<br />
art doesn’t seem to fit in any one category. It’s been described as, “contemporary-retro” “exaggerated-realism”,<br />
and “colorful-expressionism”. Whatever her paintings are, they convey a feeling of joy to<br />
the viewer and represent the world Kris sees. Talking with Kris, she describes her art, like her world,<br />
full of amazing people, animals, settings, and they are all bursting with life, vibrancy, and sometimes<br />
unexpected color.<br />
Kris gives credit to her Grandmother, who was an artist, for her early inspiration. Sometimes on longer<br />
visits to their Wisconsin dairy farm, her Grandmother gave Kris and her sisters full access to her<br />
expensive pastels and encouraged them to use these tools to express themselves. “It was probably<br />
an effort on Nana’s part to gain some peace, but it was special for us. Both of my sisters had more<br />
innate talent, but I was the only one who stuck with painting.” laughs Kris. Then while still in High<br />
School Kris was given the opportunity to work for a small advertising agency called Kruse & Associates.<br />
These wonderful folks provided her with a life direction, and an outlet for creativity. She started<br />
on the boards...<strong>no</strong> computers of any kind. A self-portrait of agency owner Richard (Duke) Kruse hangs<br />
prominently on the wall in Kris’ studio.<br />
She bought the painting last year at 89-year-old Duke’s solo art exhibition. After college, Kris worked<br />
in agencies and design firms for years, finally freelancing as an <strong>Art</strong> Director. But there was never time<br />
<strong>no</strong>r energy for painting. So she was thrilled, ten years ago, when her husband Steve encouraged her<br />
to return to painting.<br />
“I really love, and am proud of what I do.“ says Kris. She works primarily in oils, occasionally in oil<br />
pastel. She took on challenging gouache for a recently completed children’s book project, as she<br />
wanted the vibrancy of oil but the matte finish of the gouache. But <strong>no</strong>w that the book is complete, she<br />
firmly claims her allegiance to oils!<br />
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