Dear Colleague,

Your new issue of Fabrik's ArtistConnect is here. Following is your next installment of artists in our continuing efforts to provide you with a constant flow of resources for any project(s) you may have.

Each artist has their contact information and website listed. They are happy to receive your call or email, and provide you with detailed information. But if for any reason you want us to contact them for you, we’d be happy to do that on your behalf.

And as always, we welcome your suggestions and comments!

Kindly,
Chris Davies
Publisher

Luc Leestemaker

Painter

Luc Leestemaker grew up in the Netherlands, and has worked and lived in Los Angeles since 1990. It was Leestemaker’s long-standing heritage in painting (a number of his predecessors were artists), that would ultimately command his devotion.

His paintings are exhibited throughout the US and internationally, and through his collaborations with architects and interior designers increasingly becoming a part of major corporate and private collections. Two retrospective museum exhibitions were held in 2004 and his work was recently included in a show at the Riverside Museum in California.

The documentary “Swimming Through The Clouds” about the artist’s life and work, was screened at a number of Film Festivals around the world and broadcast by Link TV, a culture and arts satellite network. In 2007 Skylark Press published his book, “Luc Leestemaker: Paintings” which is now available in bookstores and online. He collaborated with famed jazz composer and musician Charlie Haden and created the artwork for the cd “Land of the Sun,” which won a Grammy in 2005. His paintings have been showcased in a number of film and television projects, amongst them, Boston Legal, Spiderman, Bringing Down the House, Erin Brockovitch, Simone, and Shopgirl.

Links:

Artist Website: http://www.lucleestemaker.com
Upcoming Exhibition: D'Orsay Galerie, Boston, Mass.
Upcoming Exhibition: Madison Gallery, La Jolla, Calif.
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jim McHugh

Photographer

Jim McHugh is famous for the artist portraits, celebrity lifestyles and fine art he photographs. His images of Samuel L. Jackson, Clint Eastwood and Sir Anthony Hopkins, his unique environmental portraits for Architectural Digest covers, his comprehensive photographic survey of the Los Angeles art world, have garnered him numerous accolades and prizes. As one of the original Contributing Photographers to People Magazine when it began in the mid-70s, McHugh’s sensibility and sensitivity have served him well.

Working with the Grammy Awards, he created a unique series of celebrity images and traveling exhibition for “The Grammy Image Project”, chronicling the history of contemporary music. His work is included in several prominent collections such as MOMA, the Walker Art Center and The Polaroid Collection. McHugh has published several books on Contemporary Art and Artists, including “California Painters: New Work” and “The Art of Light and Space.”

Links:

Artist Website: http://www.jimmchugh.com
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Richard Erdman

Sculptor

Richard Erdman creates abstract sculpture of both intimate and monumental scale in stone and bronze from his studios in Williston, Vermont and Carrara, Italy. His art is known for its vitality, energy, and seemingly light buoyant motion, as if defying the material from which it is formed.

The power and life the artist bestows in his work, both daring and subtle, conveys passion and strength, deeply engaging the viewer. The artist’s extensive body of work can be found in distinguished public and private collections in over 40 countries worldwide.

Links:

Artist Website: http://www.richarderdman.com
Upcoming Exhibition: D'Orsay Galerie, Boston, Mass.
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ted Vancleave

Photographer

Ted VanCleave’s new Hollywood Sign Series captures an icon recognized worldwide using his unique vision and color palette. These new images are available in very limited edition.

"The Hollywood Sign is an international iconic symbol that is recognized by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. It not only represents Hollywood, but it also represents the movie and entertainment industries and the dreams of everyone who has enjoyed a movie and who dreams of being in the world of entertainment," says Ted VanCleave.

Ted VanCleave's art has received numerous honors and distinctions. His work was selected by Laura Rosenstock, Curator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York to appear in the Faber Birren Color Award Show and he was awarded Top National Honors from the prestigious National Watercolor Society. Featured interviews of VanCleave have received a worldwide audience on CNN, among others. His highly stylized photographs offer an exciting new approach to fine art photography. Ted is based in Los Angeles.

Links:

Artist Website: http://www.tedvan.com
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Patrick Marold

Sculptor

Having grown up in Colorado, with the proximity of nature always within reach, Marold creates sculptural responses to environmental relationships, urban and rural, with an almost otherworldly sensitivity to material, light and change, drawing upon the workings and iinfluences of the land and raw materials. Wood, Steel, Wind, Rope, Water and Fire play equal parts in the drama the artist creates. Both in his small scale intimate sculptures and the public installations, spanning vast areas of land (such as the ambitious Windmill Project), one quickly finds an almost immediate sense of familiarity and comfort in his work.

After successfully turning wind-generated lights into environmental sculptures in Reykjavik, Iceland in 2001, (with the support of the Fulbright Foundation and the American Embassy), the artist installed some 3000 lights to illuminate Vail Valley in Colorado for a six-week period in the Spring of 2007. Over a 2 month period, this body of windmills translated the behaviors of the Valley's winds into a living body of light. The entire installation covered over 15,000 square feet, and was the largest Windmill Project installation to date.

Links:

Website: http://www.patrickmarold.com
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Flat 6 Concepts

Design Studio

Flat 6 Concepts is a branding , marketing and graphic design firm that specializes and caters predominantly to interior design firms, architects, artists, photographers and hotel developers. At Flat 6 we believe a company with a strong, consistent and cohesive communications strategy can excel in the marketplace, reaching its goals faster while building a valuable brand that can be positioned both nationally and globally. Our understated, simple and clean
approach attracts a clientele that appreciates those same qualities and likes to see them exemplified in their marketing and visual communication they have with their clients.

Flat 6 offers identity and logo design, collateral, web development, both interior and exterior photography and complete marketing
strategies for the appropriate markets. Think of Flat 6 Concepts as a design firm that can create a complete makeover for a design firm.

We like to take beautiful and turn it into stunning and then market that stunning work to the most highly acclaimed shelter magazines and media in the country.

Links:

Website: http://www.flat6concepts.com

Publisher
Chris Davies

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Peter Frank

Managing Editor
Aparna Bakhle

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Brad Mahaffey

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© Jim McHugh

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