Joan Lemler, Pastel Afternoon, 2017.

Joan Lemler, White on White, 2017

Joan Lemler, Girl on the Balcony, 2017.

Joan Lemler, Angels on the Wall, 2017

Joan Lemler, Two Boys, 2017

Photography gives me the stillness I long for, and that desire for solitude is reflected in the images I seek, often in urban environments.  My photographs are never crowded with people, but rather inhabited by one or two persons, or infused with traces that people have left behind.

I want to pay homage to ordinary places and deserted sites that become intriguing, or mysterious, even beautiful, by the ever-changing light, color and atmosphere.

My ideal venues are empty streets, buildings or rooms, worn by time.  The peeling wallpaper, layers of paint, faded signs and objects that have aged have more visual and emotional texture, and suggest more to know and understand.  So I happily embraced Havana.  Every street I roamed was a gift, the buildings and cars providing the layered imagery, warmth and color that fascinate me.

– Joan Lemler

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Artist website: www.joanlemler.com

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Crystal Ruth Bell ResidencyTo honor the spirit and and life of our friend Crystal, Red Gate, together with China Residencies, is thrilled to announce the inauguration of the Crystal Ruth Bell Residency.  The artist selected will be awarded a fully-funded three month residency from December until February. The first Crystal Ruth Bell Residency will be run from December 2014-February 2015, and continue on annually.

We will be taking applications from September 30 to October 25, 2014.

CLICK HERE TO APPLY TO THE CRYSTAL RUTH BELL RESIDENCY

RESIDENCY HAPPENINGS
We were very busy this summer–with monthly open studios, openings at Red Gate and the Opposite House, visits to the Great Wall and artist communities, regular artist talks, guided tours to museums, group dinners and more.

EVENTS AND MEDIA Red Gate Gallery and Residency Founder Brian Wallace was interviewed in Art:I:Curate, read it here .

This month, as part of the 2nd FASIC Australian Studies Conference “The Big Picture–Lives, Landscapes, Homelands and Chinese Art,” hosted by the Australian Studies Center of Renmin University and organized by Creative Asia, a panel session called “At Home in the World–Artist Residencies and Transnational Practices” was held at Red Gate Gallery. The panel was moderated by Geoff Raby, and panelists included Brian Wallace, Art Director of Asialink Lesley Alway, Australian artist Laurens Tan, and Chinese painter Zhang Zhaohui. Brian Wallace spoke about Red Gate Residency, it’s history and future.

More at: http://www.redgategallery.com/

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I was born in Mazara del Vallo, where I live and work. After a long journey into the soul of Modern and Contemporary Art, I decided to live a new experience, creating the project Smoke Artist. That is, pasting packets of cigarettes, lighters, matches, maps, and cigarette butts. I want to convey in my works that the smoke is just smoke, of everything there is.

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As an artist, working in various projects, I mainly focus on video art and paintings. Although I have a series of artwork based on a specific concept, the final artwork is abstract so it can be interpreted differently by each viewer. For my paintings I use plastic colors because they allow me to intervene directly in my artwork. I use the adventitious act so that my instinct can prevail over my academic knowledge of art. Therefore, I like the balance between these two elements. I get inspired by my colleagues when working together in team projects and by directors like Quentin Tarantino.

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My inspiration comes from the nature surrounding the area where I live in the south of Sweden, on an island in the Baltic, from the human body, and from within. The nearness of water and the open landscape creates a lot of light in various shapes, and the way that this light alters objects and scenarios provides a constant challenge. I began my career a long time ago as a P.E. teacher, and my fascination with the body and movement has continued. In a painting, colors and space add dimension to movements and gestures, transforming them into statements about existence. I focus on the feeling or mood and translate it with color. Whether the final work is abstract or figurative lies in the eyes of the beholder.

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My work consists of three major projects developed throughout my career: El Porqué de Valparaíso (Why Valparaíso?), La Huella del Tiempo (The Footprint of Time), and Del Salitre a Iquique (From Saltpeter to Iquique). It is vital to experience the geographical and ethnographic spaces in situ, in order to connect emotionally and intellectually with my painting. I have traversed the Atacama Desert, Valparaíso, and the southernmost region of Chile, to then recreate and interpret them in the solitude of my studio. My fourth project, Entre Marruecos y la India (Between Morocco and India), on which I am currently working, aims mainly to explore opposite cultures that join together for a common purpose.

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My paintings, which are often referred to as “atmospheric expressionism” for their dreamscape colors and bizarre images, are largely an attempt to determine how far the human imagination can stretch itself, by allowing the work to push the limits of the mind’s eye. I believe the human imagination is as deep and as vast as the universe is expansive and limitless. It possesses the same compelling internal mysteries as the compelling external mysteries possessed by the starry universe. Usually, the experiment becomes an effort to depict an imaginary vision of the origins of the natural world, both as landscape and as skyscape.

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I have always loved drawing directly from my subject, particularly figures in movement, portraits, and dramatic landscapes. I like wild, dramatic places and watching athletes and dancers at the peak of their fitness. I work with mixed media using torn paper, acrylics, and oil pastels, but love working purely in oils too. I love the way dancers inhabit their space, the moment before the jump, the split second of flying through the air. I have been fortunate and privileged to work with the beautiful Russian dancers in St. Petersburg at the Vaganova Ballet Academy and Marinsky Theatre.

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I’m driven by color—it excites and inspires me. As I paint, I’m conscious of the energies that colors possess, especially as agents of healing that can transform us. Color can change how we feel. I work fast and I’m always in motion, like dancing, I need space. Sometimes I work with paintings on the ground so I can come in from any angle. I love a translucent surface with depth to see through the layers into time and space. I try to reveal our natural source and it’s all there in the color.

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Everything around us is wavelengths, from sound to color. I believe they play a big part in our emotions. Different wavelengths—color in this case—get a different answer from the viewer. I use recordings of music as something to inspire my emotions. I let the freedom of creation take the piece where it wills. Music and nature are ephemeral, but painting lasts. Art can be appreciated by the many and not in a single instant but in an infinite number of moments right now.

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