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In her own words: At the prime of my life, I was diagnosed with macular degeneration, which changed my life. However, it guided me to a new world, where I am starting a new life and enjoying it. My art has changed, too, but it is impossible for me to imagine not doing it, for it gives me life.
Robin Antar has been blind in one eye from birth, due to RFP (too much oxygen), but was not aware of this until she was 16 years old. She refers to herself as having "unbalanced vision," which she regards as an extraordinary art gift rather than as an affliction.
During the 1980s, while she was working in tinted limestone, the artist felt her "gift" gave her sculptures an "uncommon perspective, jarring color, an anomalous form." She was not concerned with aesthetic beauty or superficial thought, only her fundamental feelings and basic sensations. She feels the line of vision, seeing at close range, the texture and color are very important to the final statement of the piece.
Esref Armagan is a congenitally blind figurative artist from Turkey. Born to a poor family in Istanbul, Esref made his first pictures with a nail on the cardboard boxes his father brought home from work. He received no support or understanding from his environment. Like many other blind children in Turkey, he had no formal schooling, as people did not think him capable of learning. Later he taught himself how to write. Armagan remembers that he has always had an instinctive knowledge that he could make pictures. This internal conviction kept him working on his art.
In his own words: Since my vision loss my art work has taken a different direction; I like to include texture to most of my pieces, and I also like to include a way to incorporate the sense of hearing into my art. I have overcome my visual challenge by slowing down and understanding the materials that I am working with, and by having a plan in place for executing each of my projects.
Toni Christenson uses the traditional art form of quilling, creating works of art out of long, thin strips of rolled paper. What began as a hobby ultimately evolved into a full-time job. As her vision worsens due to glaucoma, she relies on touch and memory in order to continue quilling holiday decorations. Christenson can distinguish between light and dark in her left eye, while barely identifying shapes six feet away with her right eye.
In her own words: Paper has always caught my attention. I remember it was a subject of choice for a one-semester project back in elementary school. Perhaps that is why a quilling book with a package of paper caught my eye when I was looking for a hobby many years later. Now that hobby is my vocation.
In her own words: Colors are probably what I have consistently most missed. They have always held a fascination for me. Learning how the spectrum is constructed -- how the light refracts to make the colors, and how the primaries blend to make secondary colors, as well as the infinite wonder and variety of shade and depths that can be created -- was probably the science lesson that had the most permanent impact on my personal life. . . The abstract drawings I now create are the perfect medium in which I can spread and blend the colors I love.
Vinod Dave is a mixed media artist whose visual impairment is caused by myopia and also accident. Vinod lost vision in his right eye from an automobile accident. While carrying canvases in a three-wheeler in 1978, a crash made a painting hit his eye, tearing the pupil. After few years, this caused retinal tear in the left eye.
In his own words: Seeing with only one eye that has limited vision has provided me with a different way of "seeing" that has lack of spatial depth and, therefore, my work uses graphic mark making (like letters, hard edged lines and geometrical shapes) juxtaposed with fluidly painted forms as a substitute for the missing element.
Fotis Flevotomos is a Greek painter whose work has largely been influenced by music. He is also a researcher with interests in the psychology of art and the relationship between music and painting. Flevotomos' dual interest in the spatial and temporal arts was developed at any early age due to the visual disorders of strabismus and nystagmus.
He is a graduate of the Athens School of Fine Arts, the Athenaeum Conservatory of Music and the University of Essex. His thesis, Composing in Unison: Studies in Affinities between Some Musical and Pictorial Structures, was published in 2009 by VDM Verlag. In addition to his pictorial and theoretical work, Flevotomos is active in the field of filmmaking. He has collaborated with musicians and visual artists on documentaries and music videos such as L'Atelier d'Antonis Lionis and Postcards. In June 2011, Flevotomos exhibited a series of drawings and watercolours at Mid-Manhattan Library in New York City and spoke about the effects of low vision on his art. His paintings have also been displayed at various spaces and galleries in Finland, Greece, and Cyprus.
It is only recently, however, that I realized the positive effects of this condition and started to accept my vision as original rather than limited. The "loose" relationship with stereoscopic depth and three-dimensional space has turned my interest to wider spaces (spaces of multiple viewpoints), and to the distortions of expressive contours. These ideas I had the opportunity to explore recently in Finland and Greece through a series of small-scale works which I called "Fiskars Diaries" and "Summer Drawings."
An artist from an early age, Carmelo C. Gannello attended the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1937 to 1940. It wasn't until 1976, however, that he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Art Institute of Chicago. Through the years, he has worked with oil, conte, pastel, watercolor, linocut, and mixed media. His work can be found in the Museum of the City of New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the University of Illinois, AMOCO, and in many private collections.
Rafael, was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated from Rio Grande High School in 1967 and joined the United States Army. During his combat tour in Viet Nam in 1970, he sustained a serious eye injury. A progressive eye condition developed, causing mass vision loss; after serving his country proudly for 12 years, Rafael was forced to change careers. Taking advantage of an opportunity to go to college, Rafael earned his B.A. degree in visual arts from the College Of Santa Fe. Despite his visual impairment, Rafael has chosen a career as an artist/painter, and now has a studio in Los Lunas, New Mexico. The original of the painting shown here is in a private collection, but prints are available. For details, visit his website, listed below.
In his own words: As an artist with severe visual impairments, every painting becomes a challenge just to complete. Having to adjust the lighting and placement of the canvas for each painting becomes a routine. Developing my direct approach technique was the next big step. I squeeze the paint right out of the tube on to a glass palette, and use my brushes to mix my colors right on to the canvas. I draw with my paintbrush and create my paintings in an expressionistic style. The disadvantage of using this method, is that the paint can build up, therefore creating some small visible bumps. I don't really see them but I can feel them when I'm painting. That's what makes the painting unique and easily identifiable as an original. I work hard and long hours to complete the challenge of this chosen career, and I truly enjoy what I call "my therapeutic journey" through the creative process. We never know what life is going to put on our plate. In my case there is always a chance that I may lose my vision completely without warning. I do know I will continue to paint for as long as I can.
Multi-media artist Devorah Greenspan earned a B.A. degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where she majored in history. She also participated in an Academic Year Abroad program in Bonn, Germany, where she studied at the Rheinische Fredrich-Wilhelms Universitt. A few years ago, Devorah tells us, she enrolled in a drawing class. Prior to that she considered creating visual artwork, aside from doodling, "off limits" due to her vision. "I visually test around the administrative line for 'legally blind,'" Devorah explains.
Today, she enjoys drawing and painting, as well as writing and digital photography. Her artworks have been featured at New York City's Viridian Gallery, Object Image Gallery, the Bay Ridge Art Fair, and the Educational Alliance. Devorah collaborated with Turkish artist Ahmet gut in Performa '09, a match made through the Art Beyond Sight website. Her work is in private collections in New York and Washington State. If you're interested in the artist's work, contact her directly at the email address listed below.
In her own words: Whereas writing builds an image in the readers' mind, visual art sets the information before the eye, hopefully in multiple layers of meaning. A still life work can be representative of an object. It can also explore tonality, light and depth. My still life work is Disegno. I don't use rulers for drawing edges. I intellectually experiment with reaching beyond the limits of my physical vision. Other works take recognizable shapes, adding elements of abstraction and elements of the Colore philosophy. I draw and paint with the recognition of form, yet details can be omitted if I don't have a visual concept of them. Life experiences, culture and available technology are expressed in these works. Mostly recently, I've been traveling the country, thumbing it to places, many far from the interstate.
Bruce Hall has been a scuba diver and underwater photographer since 1983. As an elementary school teacher in Costa Mesa, California, he often used his photography to share his knowledge of local ocean life in the classroom to engage his students. Macro, or close-up, photography enables Bruce, who is legally blind, to identify specific features of plant and animal life living along the southern California coastline as well as to study and to enjoy the undersea world after he has left it. He continues to explore, using photography and technology to observe, perceive, then capture his impressions.
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