Isle of the artist
Sample Size art, inspired and created at a local cafe. If you ever find me making these, I'm very willing to take a coffee or tasty pastry in trade.
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Lungfish and the Skyless Night, on display at Pygmalion's Art Store in Bloomington, IN.
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This one I did in a hotel room on vacation. I left it behind as a "thank you" gift for the staff.
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Persona Gallery
Hello, my name is Joey Like and I'm an Indiana native who has made Bloomington my hometown for more than 15 years. My artistic style comes from researching such pioneers of design as Frank Lloyd Wright, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. It is from their provocative concepts that I feel compelled to display my own colorful aesthetic. I use geometric subdivisions, linear interplay and conceptual forms to create Rational Abstractions. I believe these designs to be significant without being ambiguous. A look at the everyday and what's beneath the curtain. I feel that a blank canvas is not always an empty one, and as a visual artist I search for methods to draw out that ideal. So please enter my gallery, look over my works and tell me what inspires you. Contact me here or in person if in the Bloomington area. I thank you for visiting and, as always, ENJOY!=)
"There is nothing anyone can do to take your originality away from you."--Audrey Flack
"Penetrating vision and depth of feeling are more important than appearance."--Paul Klee
"Painting is really extraordinary because it's nonverbal, it's non-temporal, it's non-translative. It's like you can't have a conversation with a monkey, but you can both paint pictures."--Matthew Ritchie
"If you try to make paintings that please everyone, you will be inhibiting your own creativity and most likely repeating what has been done before."--Ann Baldwin
"I believe what I do and do only what I believe; and woe to anybody who lays hands on my faith."--Arnold Schoenberg
"Outsider artists are becoming so popular that they're practically insiders."--Lisa Hunter
"When any any mark, the merest dot, is placed on a rectangle of paper, or on a canvas, new forces are brought into being."--Maurice de Sausmarez
"Luck beats skill in collecting--you never know where the opportunities are."--Stefan T. Edlis
"Hand-painted art that gives the illusion of depth depends on a deliberate rendering by the artist."--Frank Mulvey
"Not only does it make you look smart, but viewing art has been shown to reduce stress, letting you focus on the things that really matter."--from 31 Ways To Get Smarter In 2012 in Newsweek(1/9-1/16/12)
"It more and more appears to me that art is not an elite activity destined exclusively to be appreciated by a limited number of art lovers, but is meant for everyone, and it is in this spirit that I shall continue to work."--Keith Haring
"By diminishing expression we belittle our freedoms."--Joey Like
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