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Dave Martsolf
Visit my web site: http://davemartsolf.com
Recent Events: Featured on the Home Page of 1st Angel Arts Magazine web site http://1stangel.co.uk/art/pick-of-the-day-dave-martsolf/ Sept 2009
Trees Atlanta's 1st Annual National 'Trees in Art' Exhibition, Atlanta, GA
Projekt30.com December 2008 On-line Juried Exhibition
Projekt30.com March 2009 On-line Juried Exhibition
I use a photorealistic collage style for some of my major surreal work. I also have a hand-drawing personal style that I love, and you will find some of that intermixed with the photo collages. On top of that I continue to enjoy explorations in many other directions, including computer graphics, pen and ink work, and watercolor. What you see here is the best of the end results.
The gestalt behind all of the work is an inquisitveness into the emotional and physical properties of as much of the universe as I can comprehend, moderated by personal choice regarding which of the infinite avenues I want to explore. As a result you won't find Hannibal Lector here, nor Joe Suicide. Those and others are certainly valid paths. I simply do not choose to take my life there.
My surreal visionary style is conceived in the bowels of endless empty space. Worlds come out of nowhere to define and fill empty space with form and reflected light. In these paintings I use photographs to develop a hallucinogenic, some say gut-wrenching realistic space where mind-bending visions rule.
Then there is my personal drawing style. In its simplest essence it is the line; the drawn line and what it represented as the delineation of a form, a space, almost the way a topographical line feels out the form of a hill, or the way a blind man feels out the tender forms of his or her lover.
