Saturday, May 14, 2011

2011 Artist Reviews in Hot Springs, Arkansas

This is just a draft of my Artist Review Blog. I will continuously update this blog with new Artist and information about them.
  

Aaron Brewer - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars

Affiliation: Maxines

Dossier: Available soon.

Style: Photographer

Medium: Film

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Alex Oberste - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars

Affiliation: The Art Church

Dossier: He is the only real Artist in The Art Church. His Art deserves better than that Gallery of Hacks.

Style: Sketch Artist

Medium: Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Graphite, Mixed Media

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Alison Parsons - City Rating: 2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 1 Star

Affiliation: Owner of The Alison Parsons Art Gallery

Dossier: Her Art looks like something out of a beginners paint by numbers kit.

Style: Painter

Medium: Acrylic, Oil, Water Colors
                  
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Ashley Wilkerson - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars

Affiliation: The Living Canvas

Dossier: She is the best female Tattoo Artist in Hot Springs. If you come to Hot Springs to get a Tattoo then go to Red Beard's and ask for Ashley.

Style: Sketch Artist, Tattoo Artist

Medium: Ink, Graphite

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Beau Myers - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars

Affiliation: Available soon.

Dossier: Available soon.

Style: Painter, Sketch Artist

Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil, Watercolors

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Benini - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars

Affiliation: Available soon.

Dossier: World Famous Italian Artist.

Style: Painter

Medium: Oil

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Bethannie Newsom Steelman - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars

Affiliation: ACAC, Star Gallery

Dossier: She is a pretty good Artist. It's too bad that she is a Con Artist and The Poster Child for The Star Gallery Scam.

Style: Painter, Sketch Artist

Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Watercolors

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Bre Harris - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars

Affiliation: Head of The Arkansas Sculptors Guild

Dossier: Available soon.

Style: Sculptor

Medium: Metal

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Bryan Sink - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars

Affiliation: Prodigious Art LTD

Dossier: Brian Sink is a talentless hack and is living proof that anyone can be an abstract Artist.

Style: Painter

Medium: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor

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Chuck Dodson - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars

Affiliation: The Gallery 404-B

Dossier: If I was ever stupid enough to get married I'd have Chuck Dodson take the pictures of my wedding.

Style: Photographer

Medium: Film
                                      
                                                                              

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Curt Mullins - City Rating: 5 Stars / U.S. Rating: 5 Stars

Affiliation: The Tin Grizzly

Dossier: World Class Kentuckian Artist

Style: Painter, Sketch Artist

Medium: Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Oil, Prisma Color
                                                                         
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Gary Simmons - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 1/2 Stars

Affiliation: The Xu International Gallery

Dossier: Author of The Technical Pen and Professor at Henderson University.

Style: Illustrator, Painter, Sketch Artist

Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Ink, Oil, Water Colors

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Jay Wilburn - City Rating: 5 Stars / U.S. Rating: 5 Stars

Affiliation: The Tin Grizzly

Dossier: World Class Kentuckian Artist

Style: Painter, Sketch Artist

Medium: Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil

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Jeanfo - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars

Affiliation: Available soon.

Dossier: World Famous French Artist.

Style: Welding

Medium: Metal
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Jesse Evans - City Rating: 0 Stars / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars

Affiliation: Available soon.

Dossier: He's a wannabe Artist/Wannabe Musician and he's terrible at both. If he didn't have his own Gallery for awhile he wouldn't have been seen in this town. Here's a bit of advice Jesse just stick with one thing until you're good at it and then maybe you will be good at something before you die.

Style: Painter, Sketch Artist

Medium: Acrylic, Graphite

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Marc Menefee - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars

Affiliation: Owner of The Art Church

Dossier: He makes abstract paintings on Car Parts. The only reason why I gave him 1 Star is because in Hot Springs it get's even worse than that. I'm not just talking about people who claim to be Artist. I'm talking about people who are actually on display in Galleries here.

Style: Painter, Welder

Medium: Acrylic, Metal
                                                  
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Maxwell Blade - City Rating: 0 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars

Dossier: He is a Great Magician, but I have seen small children make better Art than this man.

Style: Painter

Medium: Acrylic, Oil

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Michael Schaeffer - City Rating: 0 Stars / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars

Affiliation: The Art Church, Star Gallery

Dossier: Mike Schaeffer is the living embodiment of what I hate about Co-Operative Galleries. I get about as much feeling looking at his Art as I do staring at a Brick Wall. He is a Zero as an Artist and if he didn't pay $50 a month to be seen in The Art Church and $50 to Star Gallery each month to be seen nobody would know who he is. I have know him since we had our Art in The Hot Springs Art Gallery over 14 years ago and dare I say it his Art is worse now than it was then. I don't know if he is huffing Gas or what but go by Star Gallery, look at his "art" then let me know what you think.

Style: Painter, Sketch Artist

Medium: Mixed Media

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Patricia Collins - City Rating: 0 Stars / U.S. Rating:  Stars

Affiliation: Executive Director of The Fine Arts Center

Dossier:

Style: ?

Medium: Mixed Media

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Paul Cooper - City Rating: 0 Stars / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars

Affiliation: Star Gallery, The Art Church

Dossier: .Paul Cooper is living proof that any hack off of the street can have their "art" in Star Gallery or The Art Church provided that they are willing to pay a $50 a month wall fee for either Gallery.

Style: Illustrator, Sketch Artist

Medium: Graphite, India Ink

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Randall M. Good - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating: 4 stars

Affiliation: Blue Moon Gallery

Dossier: I'm still not convinced that this guy didn't just step out of a time Machine from The Italian Renaissance, beyond that all I can say is bravo to the Scavo's for discovering this Gem.

Style: Painter, Sketch Artist

Medium: Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil

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Richard Stephens - City Rating: 3 Stars / U.S. Rating: 2 1/2 Stars

Affiliation: The Xu International Gallery

Dossier: Watercolor Magic's 2005 artist to watch for.

Style: Cartoonist, Sketch Artist, Painter
 
Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil, Water Colors

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Sofya Mikeworth - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars

Affiliation: The Tin Grizzly

Dossier: Sofya Mikeworth is a Master Painter from Russia that has a very unusual style considering her background. She is a practitioner of The Ancient Cherokee Feather Painting Technique.

Style: Feather Painter

Medium: Acrylic on Turkey Feathers

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Terri Menefee - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars

Affiliation: The Art Church

Dossier: She is a very nice lady but I'm not judging how nice she is. I've seen people who don't even claim to be Artist do better than this. This woman belongs in a convenience store not an Art Gallery.

Style: Painter, Sketch Artist

Medium: Acrylic, Magic Marker, Oil

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Thad Flenniken - City Rating: 1 Star / U.S. Rating: 0 Stars

Affiliation: Blue Moon

Dossier: A Failed Artist that gives aspiring Artist Associates Degrees in worthlessness at the local Junior College. He is the embodiment of the phrase "Those who can do. Those who can't teach.".

Style: Painter, Sketch Artist

Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Oil,Water Colors

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Thomas Kinkade - City Rating: 5 Stars / U.S. Rating: 5 Stars

Affiliation: American Art Gallery

Dossier: It broke my heart when I found out that Thomas Kinkade is a Con Artist. I still love his Art though.

Style: Painter

Medium: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolors

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Thomas Payne - City Rating: 4 Stars /  3 1/2 Stars

Affiliation: Available soon.

Dossier: The Man is a Local Legend that has helped a lot of fledgling Artist. Myself included.

Style: Painter, Sculptor, Sketch Artist

Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Clay, Colored Pencils, Conte Crayons, Graphite, Ink, India Ink, Marble, Oil, Watercolors, Wood

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Tim Payne - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars

Affiliation: Available soon.

Dossier: He is the son of Painter Thomas Payne. If you asked Tim he would tell you that he's just a hobbiest, but his photographs say otherwise. Artistic Talent definitely runs in the Payne Bloodline. He is only 35 which means that he is a child in this Industry, by the time he is 50 he will be The Ansel Adams of The 21st Century.

Style: Photographer

Medium: Film

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Trey Steelman - City Rating: 3 1/2 Stars / U.S. Rating: 3 Stars

Affiliation: The Living Canvas

Dossier: This Man is a Machine. If I was ever stupid enough to get a Tattoo then this is the guy that I would trust to do it for me.

Style: Sketch Artist, Tattoo Artist

Medium: Graphite, Ink

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Xu Long Hua - City Rating: 4 Stars / U.S. Rating 4 Stars

Affiliation: Owner of The Xu International Art Gallery 

Dossier: World Famous Chinese Artist that made the Sculpture of the Goddess of Nature in Down Town Hot Springs. He is also the owner of The Xu International Art Gallery.

Style: Painter, Sculptor, Sketch Artist

Medium: Acrylic, Charcoal, Conte Crayons, Clay, Marble, Oil, Water Colors

                                                                             
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