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Gabriel Patrom

is a theoretical artist who was born in Virginia, raised in Florida and currently lives in Denver, Colorado. He matriculated through the Pinellas county school system, graduating from St, Petersburg high school in 2000. His passion for art began in middle school after seeing his dad perform at an art festival. The concept of this artwork is called making something out of nothing.

sAMMY cAPONEGRO

Jersey artist Sammy Caponegro taught in New Jersey Union Public School System for 37 years. His featured show “A Summer by the Pool in Hollywood, Florida”, depicts his many summer filled days of color, music and people of the east coast Florida beaches. Illustrating his fun filled relaxing days in the sun, Sammy uses as his canvas large natural pieces of wood and bright colors to bring

Yuko ueno

Born 1976, Utsunomiya, Tochigi, Japan.
Lives in United States since 1997.

She studied life-size figure sculpture in clay with Barney Hodes 2001 for 4 years at The Art Students League and National Academy in New York. After graduate, she worked and self taught at her studio. She has received numerous awards including those from National Sculpture Society, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Art Kudos International Competition and National Academy.

What makes an art object offensive?

I once read an article about Italian artist, Piero Manzoni, (1933-1963) who, in 1961, exhibited a few small cans of his own feces, and labeled each as "Artist's Shit." I found the work to be offensive to my intelligence, imagination, and identity as an artist,

because I feel that content, (message or statement) should supersede just having "been first" at doing something. The one thing we probably all agree on, is that each of us can usually immediately see why a particular work of art would be considered offensive to a large number of viewers. The reason, of course, is that there are certain aspects of all our personal lives that we do not want treated or viewed as being unimportant, trivialized, ridiculed, or made public; such as religion, sex, and certain crimes.

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