Creative Fine Art will host a fine artists exhibition at Regency Fine Art in
Norcross, Georgia on Saturday, September 12, 2009, 6pm-until. The public
is invited to come out and enjoy a night of art and entertainment.

Art Quake is a fine art group exhibition of emerging and established
artists from the region. Why the name Art Quake?
Because our exhibiting artist want to shake the Atlanta
art community up. A music group will perform
throughout the evening. Refreshments will be served.
Click here to sign up

The vision for the future is for Art Quake to transition into a
online art gallery for Atlanta and National artist. A online
Atlanta, Georgia artists market for fine artists.

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Corey Barksdale colorful art painting.

Thomas Arvid has achieved spectacular success and national acclaim with his still-life compositions of wine and the rituals surrounding its consumption. The self-taught artist translates abstract composition and a talent for portraying light and color into sumptuous, super-realistic oil paintings of wine. Atlanta-based Thomas Arvid unites the aesthetics of art and the sensual complexity of fine wine in his large-scale paintings that leave collectors and critics begging for more

Romildo Santos is a self taught artist with a passion for self expression in the sculpting of paint. A native of Recife (The Venice of Brazil); his work reflects those cultural roots. Romido came to theUnited States to live and develop his art in 2000. It is here in Atlanta that he wishes to pursue his dream of working as a full time visual artist.

Nicole Merkens moved to Roswell in 2005 strapped with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the University of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. However, her move to Georgia would lead to a continuing education through the superb arts programs offered at the Roswell Recreation Center. Upon taking some mixed media and clay classes with husband and wife artists, Frank Shelton and Deborah Fritts, Nicole approached the Heaven Blue Rose Gallery on Canton Street in historic downtown Roswell. The gallery would be the first to feature her inspiring work, with a featured show entitled, No Rule of Thumb . This show garnered rave reviews in the AJC, and from there, things just clicked. 

StarBUCKS, that is, unofficial Star Wars money by Atlanta artist Mark Brooks. We re not huge Star Wars fans, but this tickles our imaginations and makes us smile. Some may disagree, but we think these fake notes are works of art.

Speak Memory: On view at the Georgia Society of Contemporary Painters Gallery (located near the graduate painting studios in the Lamar Dodd School of Art) is a selection of paintings by Atlanta artist Whitney Stansell. Though stylistically quite divergent from Blanks  pop-encrusted imagery, Stansell shares with him the ability to imbue a quality of richness and the desire to look again and again at relatively simple images. The exhibition, An Iconography of an Imagined History  is made up of pictures the artist has drawn based on her mother s stories of her childhood and past.

Funky fresh dressed to impress, ready to party? No dress code  only a free online pass for legal drinkers and a fearlessness of sweat  was required to attend the 2010 Atlanta edition of Art, Beats + Lyrics on Friday, July 30 at the Compound. More than 2,000 people filled the multi-level Midtown nightclub/event complex, that provided an ideal backdrop for the layers of entertainment. Where else could you see dance battles to 80s and 90s mixes, a live band featuring Cody ChestnuTT, and an exhibit of some of the most unique urban art and photography, served up with free-flowing Gentleman Jack cocktails?

My most recent body of work entitled Durations, begun in 2007, represents a break from my technological-rooted work Drawing Voices, which set out to explore, catalogue and use the aural artifact made by inscription as a viable tool for communicative expression. Durations is a return to basic drawing approaches using basic materials. The rate of the execution of these drawings is exceptionally slow. They mimic visually and conceptually the building of stratification over geological time and the sound waves as seen in oscilloscopes and spectrograms. One could think of my method being inverted in that rather than responding to a sound that yields a pictorial result [e.g. Drawing Voices], I am responding to a visual [line] that yields the appearance of a spectrographic result. I also see these works as internal expressions. The slow and obsessive nature of the process literally places me within the work through the meditative produced through its creation.

By 1993 the Blue Dog had far-reaching fame. After the success of Absolut Louisiana the previous year, Michel Roux of Carillon Importers commissioned Absolut Rodrigue, which appeared full page in hundreds of magazines that year, and continued in hundreds more in the following. As recently as this past summer, it was the most highlighted of sixteen Absolut art pieces, including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, and others, at the Galway Art Festival in Ireland. More than anything else it was Absolut Rodrigue that caused an overnight change in the Blue Dog s popularity. I remember that year with a mixture of excitement and anxiety. Unlike the early years when people walked into the gallery with the question What s with this blue dog?,  after Absolut Rodrigue they announced, I ve seen this dog!  Or more often some version of, Oh my gosh; this is it, the real thing! 

DOG POP ART by Keck! This abstract german shepherd art print is a limited edition issue of 200. This contemporary, abstract dog art print - Dirty Paw Moo - was inspired by the artist's pet, Moose (aka Dirty Paw Moo). The first 25 fine art giclee prints issued were donated to PETA for a celebrity charity event for Dec. 2008. Each fine art giclee print in this ltd ed. will be hand-signed and hand numbered by the artist. 10% of each sale of this limited edition is being donated to PETA.org Michel Keck's original abstract art paintings, mixed media assemblages and contemporary art giclee prints hang in over 1,500 private and corporate art collections in over 15 countries world-wide.

Romero Britto added the final thick, black brushstrokes to a densely colored cityscape in his Miami studio, while Madonna s Get into the Groove  played from a small radio on his work table. I was commissioned to paint her portrait for her 50th birthday,  said Britto, 44, a self-taught neo-pop artist and philanthropist. He has also painted the images of Princess Diana, Michael Jordan, and Belle, from Beauty and the Beast. Such are the commissions of this rare breed of artist  the kind that enjoys the success of his art during life. He d just arrived from his summer home in upstate New York, where he d spent some time with his son, Brendan, a film student, and his wife, Cheryl, a former nurse.

The pop artist Christina Aguilera has just dropped £25,000 - that's about $43,500 - on a painting by the British graffiti artist Banksy. The painting shows the late Queen Victoria, who passed anti-homosexual laws and "famously believed women were incapable of being gay", depicted as a lesbian. Victoria, clad in stockings and garter belt, is painted in a compromising position with another woman. Aguilera plans to display the controversial painting in her home. The painting is after the jump and is possibly not safe for work.