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Artist Portfolio Magazine is anindependent and free online digitalart magazine. In this issue you willfind the art from our LA vs NY II ArtExhibition.All artists submitted theirart through our website and wenarrowed it down to what we thinkare the best 20 works of artsubmitted.Make sure to follow us to see all theart fromevery artist who submits artthrough Artist Portfolio Magazine.

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Cover ArtistPaige EmeryRancho Santa Margarita, CApaigeemeryart.com

AnxiousOil on Wood14" x 23"

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Ivars Jekabsons - Fontona, CAranee_d@hotmail.com

Snowman - Oil on Canvas - 26" x 26"

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InaOil on Canvas

36" x 24"

Randy Sprout - Los Angeles, CArandy-sprout.artistwebsites.com

Randy Sprout began his art career in 1964 at the University of Iowa, printmaking and studyingwithMauricio Lasanskyand Dr. John Schultz. He graduated with a BA in fine arts from the University of Iowa in 1968 Army service in Koreainterrupted his art for two years, after which he studied with Robert Heinecken, Jan Stussy, Ray Brown, Sam Amato,Richard Diebenkorn and Stanton MacDonald-Wright, in the UCLAGraduate School of Fine Arts. He was awarded anMAandanMFAatUCLA in1973.Hehadmanyshowsduring that time, includingaOneManshowat theSantaBarbaraArt Museum. He also worked during that time for the LACMA museum, with Ben Johnson, and got to restore manypriceless prints for Norman Simon.

Working closely with Jan Stussy and Stanton McDonald-Wright, he began painting and his drawings began to getlarger and better. In 1973, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to restore some Goya steel-faced etchings at thePrado, in Lisbon. Then Ruth Weisberg of the USC Department of Art reached out to him, and he worked there as aAssociate Instructor in printmaking for 2 years. After that, he taught painting and printmaking for 4 years at the UCLAArt Extension then taught painting, printmaking and drawing at Pierce College. He coauthored the book “InnovativePrintmaking” 1977 Crown Publishers, New York.

His work can be found in the following Collections: Archives Ohlone College, Fremont, California Grunwald GraphicArt Center, U.C.L.A. Photographic Collection, School of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Photographic Collection,Oakland Museum of Fine Art, California44 U.S. Embassies around the world, Photographic Collection, U.C .L AFall River Art Association, Mass. Photographic Collection, School of Fine Art, University of lowa. Print Collection ofLos Angeles County Museum of Art. The Flint Institute of ArtsHe still lives in the foothills of Los Feliz with his wife of 45 Years, the former Dawn Eberle and has 3 children, Barrett33 Laurel 36, and Robert 39. He now divides his time between painting, real estate management, and fishing on hisboat the FORTUNA.

1st Street Train Station LA - Pen, Ink & Acrylic Washes on Paper - 8.5" x 11"

Boys on the Dock - Acrylic on Canvas - 30" x 30"

Hyewon Yoon - Torrance, CAhyewonyoon.com

My recent work deals with portals, more specifically things that are evoked around the openings in organic structuressuch as sea shells. There is a sense of mystery within the dark openings in these forms. This mystery is what drawsme towards these forms. The organic forms are like abandoned structures, left over habitations and pieces of smallerecosystems. What was there or where did it go? What is there now and how do these micro-universes relate to ourown civilization? What similarities are there between the natural environment and humanity? How are the actions ofmankind affecting the civilizations of these creatures?

This work of art was formerly realized through oil paints, but has transformed into drawn works on paper. The organicnature of paper brings out a different visual interpretation of my mental thoughts. The action of drawing fine one-dimensional lines on a permanent platform forces me to meditate deeply about my experience and express it withprecision. This permanence does not allow me to retreat or correct which is in likeness to true life. And as in true life,the interpretation can only be reshaped in the future.

Abandoned Structure_01Pen on Paper

49.5" x 38"

Abandoned Structure_03 - Pen on Paper - 45.5" x 35"

Kristine Schomaker - Los Angeles, CAkristineschomaker.net

KRISTINE SCHOMAKER is a new media and performance artist, painter and art historian living and working at theBrewery artist complex in Los Angeles California. She received her BA in Art History and her MA in Studio Art fromCalifornia StateUniversity at Northridge. Kristine has taught art history at Antelope ValleyCollege andPasadenaCityCollege, she has formed an artist collective in Los Angeles, has organized and curated numerous art exhibitions andshe is a member of the Los Angeles Art Association, Southern California Women's Caucus for Art, College ArtAssociation and Siggraph. Currently Kristine is the president of the Brewery Artwalk Association. In 2011, she wonhonorable mention in the Fabrik Magazine juried competition and in 2010 she won the jurors award at the AnnualJuried art Exhibition at California State University at Northridge.

A Comfortable Skin, Installation

A Comfortable Skin, AvatarSimulacrumDigitalVariable

A Comfortable SkinFiberglass, Acrylic

6' x 2'

Anton Godard - Los Angeles, CAantongodard.see.me

I push the limits, if thereareany,usingcanvasandpaint. I cut andpastecanvasas ifworkingwithpaper,, lifting, foldingand flowing loose to create a threedimensional painting. Loveof fantasywriters have inspiredmysubjects.My recentexperiments leave the frame entirely to free the painting to be hung anywhere no longer confined to the wall.

Magic of Youth - Paint on Canvas - 47" x 45" x 5"

Forest Creature - Paint on Canvas - 44" x 43" x 6"

Preston M. Smith - Los Angeles, CApmsartwork.com

Through my artwork, I am mainly interested in exploring the existential experience of the human being. I find myselfconstantly infatuated by “scenes”, almost “freeze-frames” of the human experience, ranging from the ordinary tothose bordering on insanity. I am not concerned with adhering to specific genres that exist in art; in fact I willsometimes mix many different techniques in the same painting. Rather, my work focuses on and is an expressionof the human condition, incorporating feelings of confusion, suffering, depression, wonder, nostalgia, empathy,happiness, etc.. Thoughmyworkmany times features strong elements of realism, these “scenes” comemainly frommy imagination and therefore can be quite abstract. However, I do deal with the human figure in many paintings andwhen doing so I am concerned primarily with emotional content. Eyes are a focal point in many of my paintings, andI also deal with the appearance of human skin much as I would with fabric. This makes my work stand apart frommany figurative paintings. I keepmyself constantly inspiredby surroundingmyself withmusic, literature,movies, andby cultivating my own everyday experiences. I use all of these elements to completely access the present moment,where all true creativity flows from, and which allows ideas to adapt and evolve. This is what feeds my art and helpsit to grow and change with every passing day and moment.

Force of NatureOil on Wood Panel24" x 36"

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Just BeeOil on Canvas

24" x 36"

Joanne Wu - Irvine, CAjoannewu9611@hotmail.com

Diamond in the Blue - Digital - 15" x 20"

Hope - Digital - 15" x 20"

Paige Emery - Rancho Santa Margarita, CApaigeemeryart.com

Paige Emery is an Orange County-based fine artist currently attending school at Laguna College of Art and Design.She plays between oil painting, drawing, and printmaking to depict life the way she sees through her eyes.Specializingmostly inportraits, sheexpresses thecharacter of subjectswith an illustrative and impressionistic touch.She uses vivid color and bold brush strokes to capture the emotion of her subjects and force that emotion on heraudience.Herpaintingsdisplaypeople caught in amomentof timeand truth among the rushingmotionsandpatternsof life.

DaydreamOil on Wood24" x 42"

Anxious - Oil on Wood - 14" x 23"

Adam Greener - Venice, CAadamgreener.com

In his large-scale loose-leafs, seemingly torn from the notebook of a distracted grade-schooler, Adam Greenerexplores the ways in which the youthful imagination processes the chaotic swirl of social and cultural imagerythat seeks to shape, stimulate, and confine it all at once. As a kid, Adam spent most of every 56-minute classperiod doodling in his spiral-bound, visual wanderings that often landed him in detention, repeatedly writing “Iwill not…”

With this series of ink illustrations, created on handmade “notebook” sheets, he taps into his memories of hisearly visual preoccupations and re-presents them with a witty and subversive not-so-grown-up eye. In Greener’svision, movie monsters cast an ominous shadow over a pop quiz; Star Wars characters intrude upon thepassage of a love note: All of early experience — cognitive, social, emotional — is circumscribed, for better orworse, by our cultural iconography.

In May, Greener participated in Create:Fixate, a prestigious art organization that puts on group shows featuring30 emerging artists from the Los Angeles area where he sold out and won BEST IN SHOW. In October 2013,Greener participated in Artworks for the Cure event and in December, The Kimball Art Center in Park City hostedGreener’s first solo show.

Heat & MatterInk, Prismacolor on Board32" x 40"

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32" x 40"

Curtis Brooks - Santa Monica, CApaintsculptor.com

Mywork is anexplorationof somethingdeep rootedwithinme. It is a connection tomy lineage, heritageand theharshdesert terrain on which I was raised. It is not an intellectual pursuit but rather an instinctive process. I create a visiblehistory for each piece and through my efforts I am able to connect with and examine my own personal history andspiritual present.

I am motivated, inspired and driven most by the material that I work with. All the wood and paint used in my workis essentially scrap wood and leftover paint frommymany years of restoring and painting homes and furniture. I usesheets of acrylic and latex enamel paintskins to create paint sculptures. It is a technique that I have developed andbeenexperimentingwith formany years. I also useplywoodand stir stickswith paint andwood finishes to buildwoodsculptures. The titles are the names of actual paint colors found on a stick in each piece, or used in the making ofthe paintskins in the sculptures. I am expressly interested in the potential that paint and wood have to offer as amedium in sculpture.

Sunbeam - Paintsticks - 72" x 48"

Cupids Dart - Paintsticks - 39 x 48"

Sedi Pak - Los Angeles, CAsedipak.net

Sedi Pak was born in Korea and spent her early years living in the middle east, Europe, and South America. Sedistudied at Parsons The New School for Design in New York and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She hassuccessfully directed largecommercial and residential designprojectshereandabroad.Herworkasanexperimentalartist is widely appreciated.

Amoebus II3/4" Plywood and Steel97" x 52" x 24"

Amoebus III3/4" Plywood and Steel93" x 61" x 29"

Alexander Churchill - Norwalk, CTalexchurchillart.com

Through my art I want to explore an underlying anxiety and uncertainty towards the natural world and humaninteraction. I attempt to do this by creating images that will incite certain feelings of vague uneasiness, confusedintrigue and ominous portent.I alsomakeaneffort to subtly include themesof fundamental humanconcernswith the useof ambiguous symbolism,absurd imageryandabstract elements. The intentionof this is to trigger anelemental andanimalisticpart of theviewerin away that is suggestive topowerful controllingcues like sexuality, violence, personal interaction, relationshipswithchildren and abstract thought. All of this portrayed as a delicately painted picture, having some semblance of anarrative, attempts to create a conflict between beauty and repulsion and a tension between empathy andmistrust.Ultimately I want to use my art as a way to observe humanity's interaction with itself and the extramental and to tryand learn something about myself and find some truth in the human experience, while at the same time make theviewer do the same.

Beauty of Nature - Oil on Canvas -24" x 30"

A Girl Needs a Grub - Oil on Canvas - 24" x 32"

Tatiana Mitra - New York, NYstudiotatiana.com/pages/sculpture.html

After I gave birth my life changed forever. It acquired a new meaning and so did my art.

I've been sculpting for many years but I never felt I could give people as much with my art as I do now.

For me, motherhood is a unique state of body and soul that is not created by simply giving birth to another being -it blooms into its full strength from interactionbetweenamother andher child: from touch, eye contact, bodywarmth,love and care.

Through my sculpture I attempt to share my own deeply human and yet unique experience of being a Woman anda Mother.

Listening to the Life Within - Sculpture - 15" x 8" x 8"

Mother's Love - Sculpture, 11" x 9" x 7"

Christopher Kennedy - Doylestown, PAphotoluminism.com

To create the Photo Luminism technique, I have combined my loves of photography and colored illuminations withthe effect of static light sources on a digital sensor in motion.

The complex images are created in a long exposure using meticulously staged illuminations while the camera andlens aremanipulated to achieve the intended goal. Photo Luminismabstractions of ‘light unseen’ are created entirelyin-camera in a single exposure with no creative post additions.

The challenge forme in creating this serieswas to result in something different; something fresh and alluring; to showhow beautiful light can be and to capture the imagination, stimulating thought and conversation.

I believe that if art is to be bold, the statement it makes should be equally outspoken. To that end I print my imagesonto large sheets of lightly brushedaluminum, amediumwhose inherent reflectivity enhances the imagesof lightwithan almost 3-dimensional luminosity. The dye sublimation process is utilized for exceptional color, brilliance andlongevity.

Passage 2 - Digital - 96" x 43"

Playful - Digital - 60" x 33"

Xiao Fu - Brooklyn, NYfuxiaoart.com

Xiao Fu is a Chinese artist who is currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from LuxunAcademy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China, and her MFA in Sculpture from the Academy of Art University in SanFrancisco, California. Her experiences visiting and living in a variety of cultures has given Xiao an appreciation forthe unique characteristics and complexities found in diverse communities. Her journeys continue to impact andinfluence the imagery she employs in her works.

Did You See Me? - Neon, Steel - 32" x 50" x 18.5"

Two Squares - Steel - 15.5" x 21" x 12.25"

Cross - Steel - 7.5" x 17.5" x 9"

Abie Sussman - New York, NYmorgangaynin.com/sussmanart

Wait Until Morning - Digital Print - 48" x 58.33"

Mandela - Digital - 48" x 70"

Gregory Maroun - Redding CThttp://boffa.ink

Gregory Maroun, a native of South Africa, is affectionately known as Boffa.

Gregory has only recently decided to share his Art with the world after many years of creating.

Asanartist,Gregory utilizes a vast arrayofmaterials to create uniquedesigns, pushing theenvelopewith his intricate,expressive images that are drawn by hand.

Lonely ChildPen & Ink16" x 20"

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Love is BlindPen & Ink

16" x 20"

Joseph O'Neil - New York, NYJoeiamone@yahoo.com

Time SquareDigital Photography11" x 17"

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BenchesDigital Photography

11" x 17"

Raisa Nosova - Woodland Park, NJraisanosova.com

Raisa Nosova is a Russian-born American artist that has received her formal art education from the Fashion Instituteof Technology, Vesalius College in Brussels, and the Art Students League of New York. Curiosity in cultures and inclear perception of the world has driven Raisa to begin encountering the world through travels to Europe, Near East,and Southeast Asia. She shares the discovered essence through her “atmosphere-capturing” paintings.

Raisa has shown at galleries throughout the New York City metropolitan area, with solo shows in Brooklyn, Newark,andMontclair,NJ.Herworkhasalsobeenexhibited ingroupshowsat theMonmouthMuseum, theWhistlerMuseumof Art, Bakhrushin Central State Theatre Museum in Moscow, the SCOPE art fair in Miami, Armory Art Center andNJIT Museum. She has created public artworks with colleagues as well as autonomously in Brussels, Miami, NewYork, and Northern New Jersey. Raisa is a recipient of George T. Dorsch Award, 2012 and Fannie Kipnes MemorialAward for Oil Painting, 2014.

Avenue d'Auderghem, Bruxelles - Oil on Canvas - 44" 68"

33rd Line, Rostov-na-Donu - Oil on Canvas - 60" x 60"

Steve Sangapore - Milford, CTsangapore.com

My philosophy on art is very much parallel to my philosophy on life. The greatest beauty is the dynamism within theendeavor.Our philosophies, education, experiences and interests are always changing, keeping the intrigue high thewill for progress higher. As an artist, the chase is often more rewarding than the final conception of the objective. Icreate because I enjoy the act of creating, not just the final result.

My work is hard-edged, geometrically illustrative renditions of themes relating to my observations of reality andexperience.Myobjectivewithin thework is the capturingof socially objective scientific themesandpersonal, visceralreflection. Visually, my art is a gathering of matter strongly focusing on the nature and physics of reality and themesinmyownpersonal philosophies. Eachcanvasbears a tangible anddetailed capturingof profoundmomentsof focusthrough arrangement, depth and texture.

My passion for science and investigative will for understanding reality, truth and the symmetries in life are all aspectsof my being in which I feel may be the most worthy subject of my visual expression. Within my process, I abstractlyand implicitly convey ideas and implications of my own subjectivity. Sex, mystery, growth of knowledge and deepphilosophical emotions are themes in which I break down into visual shapes with texture and form. Through visualmeans, I attempt to express humanities’ deepest questions andmarry together some of themost profound scientifictheories humans’ have ever devised.

Like phrases in music, my work's leitmotif and creative spirit will forever remain a watermark in the web of our neverending, dynamic, and collective conscious manifestation that is existence itself...

I ama recent graduate (December 2013) of AlbertusMagnusCollege inNewHaven,CT.Duringmy four years I earnedmy BA in Graphic Design as well as Traditional Studio Art, and minor in Music. In November of the same year Icompleted a seven month internship with All U Design in Branford, CT and am currently working as a GraphicDesigner in the greater Boston, MA, area. I am currently exhibiting nationally receiving gallery representation fromGallery 263 in Cambridge, MA, USA and Uforge Gallery in Jamaica Plain, MA, USA.

The Place - Acrylic on Canvas - 40" x 30" x 2"<<--

And then There was LifeAcrylic on Canvas24" x 30" x 2"

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