Tag: butterflies

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Paul Villinski

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Paul Villinski (born 1960) is an American sculptor best known for his large-scale installations of individual butterflies made from aluminum cans found on the streets on New York City.He briefly attended Phillips Exeter Academy and the Massachusetts College of Art, and graduated with a BFA with honors from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

With a lifelong concern for environmental issues, Villinski’s work frequently re-purposes discarded materials, effecting surprising and poetic transformations.An avid pilot of gliders and single-engine airplanes, metaphors of flight and soaring often appear in his work.As an artist, Villinski coaxes clouds of aluminum butterflies into a lyrical orbit.His primary muse has taken the form of butterflies rendered in multiples as they swirl across walls or carefully organize into shapes.

More of Paul Villinski’s creative art can be found at http://paulvillinski.com/.

 

 

 

 

Faerie Paths — Magic

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The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.   ~ W.B. Yeats

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery on Friday — Tresor Mukonkole

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The goal of Tresor Mukonkole’s artistic vision is to illustrate certain complexities, including his artistic point of view, of the world.Mukonkole comes from the Congo, an unstable country on all fronts,  underground rich in minerals, yet full of numerous conflicts between different political and economic factors.From the soil of the Congo, his homeland, his work as an artist is about the analysis of the presence of man on earth, and his impact on everything, especially the environment and the future of nature.Mukonkole says he produces a narrative from his paintings with butterflies in order to express himself on the beauty and the fragility embodied by nature and the earth.His artistic work aims to illustrate his perspective as an artist on the threats to our environment by presenting a glimmer of positivity to replace the darkness.Despite the complexities of his world and his artistic calling, his butterfly paintings are bright and full of life and hope.

More of Tresor Mukonkole‘s beautiful work can be found at http://mukonkole.com/lipekapeka/.