Capucine Safir

ARTIST STATEMENT

Through my art, I explore Nature with her random and pure forms. Femininity in its roundness, strength, and complexity, is another significant inspiration.
I work mainly on instinct. The process of reduction plays an important role in my creation. By removing details and simplifying my shapes, I obtain the roundness, sensuality, and emotion that I seek in abstraction. This applies to my sculptures as well as to my drawings or paintings. If the physical involvement in the two media differs considerably, the gesture, the movement as well as my thoughts go in the same direction. I like the idea of installing a dialogue between my sculptures and my drawings. 

My work is elegant, pure, organic, and sensual 

BIO

Born in Paris, Capucine Safir now lives in Miami. 

After working for several years in the movie industry, she decided to change career and earn a degree in interior design in Australia where she lived for 3 years. Back in Paris, she works for her own firm. In addition, she discovered the art of direct carving in stone in a studio of the 17th district. This form of art is immediately natural. It is after her second expatriation, in Miami, in 2013, that she becomes a professional artist by extending her practice to other materials and techniques. Capucine integrates a local gallery in the first year. Since then, her sculptures have been part of numerous private collections and are regularly exhibited in contemporary art galleries and fairs throughout the United States. 

ARTIST LINKS

Website:  www.capucinesafir.com

Instagram : @capucinesafirart

PJ Mills

ARTIST STATEMENT

“But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.”

― Marcel Proust

ARTIST LINKS

Website:   www.pjmills.info     

Instagram: @pjmills101

Polen Cerci

BIO

Polen is an architect by training, worked in design industry and with developers for a long time in her professional carrier. Her architecture projects when she was a student were more expressive and conceptual than just rationally followed lines. Form used to follow function. Big sheets were regulated canvases bringing different aspects of human requirements. She studied MBA and MIS following her Architectural degree in Cyprus. She then moved back to Bodrum and Istanbul and left Istanbul for good for Miami. She had successful exhibitions at Art Basel in Miami. She worked with different artists and curators and currently working on 3D canvas paintings, sculptures and contemporary abstract acrylic paintings.

ARTIST STATEMENT

‘Form follows function’, I followed and believed in this in my architecture practices, in the past. Now I am free of function and form that makes sense. Nothing needs to make sense. It is in the eye of the beholder. I experience becoming limitless by one painting at a time, by unlearning, by forgetting, by leaving the past and future behind in that moment. What excites me is the bystanders, before they read the name tag, before they read anything about art or my art pieces, I am curious about their facial expressions, where their eyes follow on the painting, what do they think and of all the words and thoughts that crossed their mind which words go thru the preconceived filters and which words do they choose to say, can they break even the smallest of the barriers of a lower case rationalism. It is like a discovery; it is like an expensive Rorschach test without the test and without any expectations for results. Their interpretation becomes a part of my art. Maybe not all, but some, some express it in ways that I cannot even imagine. Simple, a few words or sentences but in that moment, I feel we are connecting thru my art, thru their soul and need for expression.

ARTIST LINKS

Website: polencerci.com

Instagram: @polen_cerci_art