Communication of Yesterday - Oil on Canvas 36'' x 48'' David Jough’s unique paintings present human faces as their own multidimensional canvases. He deconstructs facial features, while retaining their basic parts, and rearranges them as if to stir up and reveal the life within. In the process, he re-imagines faces as creatures unique to his imagined world. In David's work, faces can sprout musical instruments or landscapes, or become abstract investigations into form and color.

David is interested in exploring the many dimensions of human identity. The way a sculptor works with clay to form his material into art, he sculpts with color and forms, in a surrealist style, as he re-mythologizes portraiture according to psychological states instead of social status. His work reflects society’s current fascination with body alteration and stretching the definition of what it means to be human. These paintings seem to postulate that if technology can redefine the human with its own specific scientific tools, then so too can art, with the instruments at its disposal: the primal tools of color, imagery and especially imagination.

Thierry Fazian in his studio The wondrous existentialist symbolism of Thierry Fazian’s mixed media paintings and collages owes its spectacular hybridity, in part, to the place where he has lived his whole life: the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. As he puts it: “The place where I'm living is a crossroad full of beauty and paradox.” That statement proves a fitting description of his art, too, which melds a series of artistic influences, stories and media into mystical visions and the occasional abstraction. Trying to enumerate the various facets of his work is virtually impossible, so complex is the network of influences and allusions woven through each piece, but two dominant styles and iconographies are unmistakable: European surrealism and Caribbean mysticism. The bright and color-saturated worlds Fazian depicts are populated by elongated human silhouettes, many adorned with drum-shaped heads after certain Caribbean folk traditions. It’s a world of surreal desert landscapes, floating orbs of light and astrological symbolism. Bold blues and greenish yellows dominate most pieces, suggesting a cool, infinite depth, and glowing heat. Fazian applies his acrylic paints in even and smooth brushstrokes, creating a sleek surface that he then embosses and embeds with other objects and media.