Weston Jandacka
Brian Phillips
& Victor Perez
Weston is a multidisciplinary visual artist, born 1981 in Seattle Washington USA, where he currently lives and works. He spent several years at the University of Washington where he focused on European history and English literature. His work has been exhibited in North America, Europe and Scandinavia. Works in private collections currently reside throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Japan.
Victor’s work explores the human condition by exploiting and recontextualizing culturally significant images. Through this process, he is able to construct new narratives out of existing characters and create dialogue between disparate subjects. Interested in internal conflicts stemming from our preoccupation with mortality, sexuality, and failure, Perez strives to create absurdities as a means to inspire a search for meaning in the image.
In his own words, Brian has “always been helplessly drawn to the visual aspects of everything I encounter”. His interest is in recontextualizing images to convey intentional and incidental associations and the space that objects occupy and leave vacant. He has had several solo and group shows in the Orlando area.
Julie Perreth, better known in the Orlando art community as Lucy Fur, is a talented illustrator and painter. Although Lucy has obtained a degree in Fine Arts from Milwaukee University, it wasn’t until after college that Lucy grew into her own identity as an artist. She has participated with the B-side artists and shown her work at many local galleries and cafes throughout Orlando.
Working with mixed media Lucy Fur paints on wood, building layered effects with paper, paint and graphite. Depicting beauty through the exaggeration of nature Lucy Fur portrays her own surreal ideal of both flora and fauna, and of the human struggle to coexist with one’s animalistic nature.
Morgan Wilson has been active in the arts for so long that she can’t even recall her first art lesson. But legend tells of a toddler whose earnest fascination with architecture & anatomy marked her as a natural talent. The history of her early artistic development, as transcribed by the elders, tells of a leap from crayon scribbles directly into realism, bypassing gangly stick figures to begin her work in carefully rendering the world around.
Her early advancement in the arts lead to a young life buzzing with creative opportunities: Private lessons, group lessons, and juried art shows colored her world – a world ever expanding through regular visits to fine art museums and science camps, eventually leading to a European tour that solidified a tangible lust for the transcendent language of Art.
Tobar is founder of InProgress Magazine and co-founder of the B-Side artist collective, both staples in the Orlando art community. His past work tells the story of his iconic Man in The Mask character, a comic book inspired alter ego whose face is hidden by a gas mask. This new exhibition signifies a transitory voyage for the artist, continuing the story of the Man in The Mask while introducing a realm of new characters and inspirations.
Brandon McLean is an Orlando based mixed media artist who creates multi-layered paintings and installation works rooted heavily in the realms of nostalgia. Much of his work uses appropriated imagery, text, logos and stories from both popular culture as well as more personal, auto-biographical sources .” I find making art to be the perfect process for me to explore the meanings, and mysteries amongst life and it’s memory”.
Born and raised in Arkansas, Brice Stephens started painting in 1999 truly “out of boredom”. The majority of his work consists of portraits, painted from real people, in reverse on old wooden framed windows. His paintings are done primarily using Bic or Bombay Ink and acrylic house paints, and most recently, with water colors. In his words “I used to worry about finding ‘my’ style but I realized there should not be worrying in painting, and every piece is a new experiment and has been.” In 2011, Brice and his wife, Haley, had a beautiful baby girl, which may slow down his work for just a bit, but to all of our benefit, he states “I will never stop painting”.
Scott Donald is an illustrator, painter and designer from Orlando. Florida-born; he has also lived in Tennessee, Delaware and Northern Virginia. Most of his illustrations and paintings are part of a larger narrative involving myth, inherited memory, and transient glimpses into nature’s interconnectedness.
Mr. Donald currently works as Creative Director for Alarie Design Associates, Inc., contributes regularly to Neon Forest Gallery projects and is a partner in the Phantom Limbs artist collective.
Johannah O’Donnell, a Florida native, grew up in the city of Sarasota. She graduated from Ringling School of Art and Design with a degree in Fine Art in 1995, and three years after moved to Orlando. O’Donnell has been in numerous exhibitions both locally and nationally, she recently completed a solo show at Bold Hype Gallery in New York City.
Influenced by the American Pop Art movement, Spanish Surrealism, and Sci-Fi/Fantasy, O’Donnell’s paintings use natural and figurative symbolism to comment on the ever-evolving human condition.