Art
"Stasis" by Dennis Coelho
- Item Number
- 219
- Estimated Value
- 45000 USD
- Sold
- 1000 USD to Live Event Bidder
Item Description
"Stasis" is a 30"x40", Medium- Oil on canvas and an absolutely remarkable piece created for Arbeat 2015 by the established and prolific Rhode Island based Artist and Philanthropist, Dennis Coelho, graciously donated from the Collection of Dr. Stpehen Skoly. Coelho has participated in Artbeat year after year and is was the 2012 Featured ArtBeat artist. Often reaching the highest bids in the auction! When asked why he continued to donate to Artbeat year after year he stated, "Let's not forget what the HIV/AIDS crisis was 30 years ago. It's not over, there is still work to be done." He encourages that we need to BID HIGHER for the annual auction, saying, "don't give up, just give!" "Stasis" is the perfect addition for any serious art collectors interested in abstract contemporary impressionistic art. Canvas generously donated by Jerry's Art-O-Rama.
Coelho is a career artist (oil painter) as well as a consultant art-brokter. Coelho is a self educated artist from Providence, RI. He began painting shorty after being diagnosed with autism at the age of ten. He was very much influenced by such 20th century artists as Jasper Johuls, Jim Dintes, Pablo Picasso, Coelho's abstract works are inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Warhol.
Most noted works also indicate the power of Vincent Van Gogh as well as Dr. Ralph Netters, and Dr. Viktor-Frankl.
Coelho's contributions to the contemporary art world have been described as Epochal. Coelho is known for imparting on his peers the importance of practicing and utilizing old world methods and ethos.
Artist Info: "What I Strive to achieve with each of my works is nothing other than this...to form a connection between the work, the viewer,and the space a coheisive bond that when interplayed evokes, a deep psychological response one leaving an imprint on the observer, where they are affected at the deepest levels of their psych, where only color, line and form can dance; the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom."
Born Dennis Akervik Coelho to Portuguese mother Mary Elizabeth Coelho in 1968. Coelho is regarded as one of the most important painters at work today. An Autistic Savant, Coelho began his foray into the world of art at the early age of ten when he attended a boarding school in Connecticut, for children with Autism, and the gifted.. Noted at this early age as a peculiar,brilliant child, with abilities far beyond his age. Chosen at age eleven to be the editor and chief of his schools newspaper,Winning awards for his "Unique concepts" in both pottery and art.His abstract works have been popular with fashion designers, as well as collectors. "Coelho" described by his critics as having the power of VanGogh, which can be observed in his tribute paintings to VanGogh.
A master who believes that . "A painter should experiment with all schools of art, developing his own style along the way. As Professional Artists we have a duty to not only capture our audience with our chosen discipline, but that also of each of our own unique languages that we develop as individual artisans. We convey in a primitive method when we create our works, although we are in modern times nevertheless we must not forget that our abilities stem from our complete makeup. We also have a duty to protect and respect the moral and ethos of the fine art world, something that has been abused for the past couple of decades. "I am a believer that if something has tangible value, someone will figure out how to exploit it, as with any platform with viable asset value. The Art world is probably the only investment platform left standing that is not regulated; I have an interest in making sure thata it stays that way unlike those who are exploiting it up to this very moment"
Coelhos works of recent can be compared to Gerhard Richters as they both share common similarities.
Coelho like Richter borrows much of his painted imagery from newspapers, or even his own Images from trips to Provincetown, or other special places.. Often he begins by mechanically projecting such an image onto the canvas, a technique for thinking about how images often seem to have a life of their own, like mysterious ghosts haunting our psyche. This act of visual compression, in which photography, projection, and painting merge to make a finished art work, suggests that all vision is a kind of conversion of the "real" into the "imaginary.
Coelho like Richter often blurs his subjects and embraces chance effects in his own painting process in order to show the impossibility of any artist conveying the full truth of a subject in its original condition. Such means for suggesting that something essential to the model has been "lost in translation" often leads a viewer's attention to the oil pigment's dense, material nature, thereby demonstrating both its expressive strengths and shortcomings.
Dennis Akervik Coelho
coelhoden@yahoo.com
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