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| The Genre Art Advocacy Center is a private organization that advocates and promotes the modern expression of the historically significant production of Fine Art. GA2C organizes exhibits of relevant, important works of art being produced by today's living masters and by emerging artists who show promise of productive carriers. Our main emphasis is on modern realism which includes the classical to the modern. We also focus on the new media that is involved with creating new expressions with pixels instead of brushes. | ||||||
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Richard Ferguson
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Martin Eichinger
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Linda Yoshida
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Heather Soderberg
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Artist, illustrator, designer, sculptor, and Photographer. Richard is a graduate of The University of Southern Miss, where he earned a BFA in drawing and painting. His career started in Newspaper (Editor, AD), Magazine, Advertising, and Retail AD. He is the President of Ferguson Fine Arts and Flint Films. He has designed books, magazines and catalogs as well as illustrating The award winning book, Christmas Traditions and Legends. In his free time he writes, directs, and produces short films through Flint Films. www.fergusonfinearts.com www.flintfilms.com |
Working in his 6,000 square foot studio, with its 16 foot high ceilings and specialized enlarging equipment, Eichinger creates dramatic bronzes that range in scale from intimate to monumental. For more than twenty years, this dynamic, visionary artist has produced limited-edition sculptures that engage the minds and hearts of collectors and resonate within our larger social and political culture. Grouped into themed series—Dream, Circus, Exotic Woman, Goddess, Duet, Passage, Dance, and Mythic Man—the sculptures chronicle the eternal human pursuit of meaning, happiness, and growth. In addition to his University degrees, Eichinger undertook independent studies in classical sculpture throughout Europe. Today, as a master teacher, he is founder and faculty member of the Fire & Earth Art Center (www.fireandearth.org), a Portland, Oregon art school that stresses the imperative for meaning and emotional content in addition to formal aesthetic technique. Over the past two decades Eichinger has taught numerous workshops and mentored more than twenty apprentices, many of whom have gone on to rewarding artistic careers of their own. A professional member of the National Sculpture Society, he is also a founding member of the Pacific Northwest Sculpture Association. His work is represented by more than two-dozen fine art galleries throughout the United States and is housed in over 1,000 private and corporate collections around the world. |
Linda Yoshida, aka Kaylin McFarren, is a rare bird indeed. Not a migratory sort, she prefers to hug the West Coast and keep family within visiting range. Although she has virtually been around the world, she was born in California, relocated with her family to Washington, and nested with her husband in Oregon. In addition to playing an active role in his business endeavors, she has been involved in all aspects of their three daughters' lives - taxi duties, cheerleading coaching, script rehearsals, and relationship counseling, to name but a few. Now she enjoys spending undisciplined time with her two young grandsons and hopes to have many more. Although Kaylin wasn't born with a pen in hand like so many of her talented fellow authors, she has been actively involved in both business and personal writing projects for many years. As the director of a fine art gallery, she assisted in furthering the careers of numerous visual artists who under her guidance gained recognition through promotional opportunities and in national publications. Eager to spread her own creative wings, she has since steered her energy toward writing novels. As a result, she has earned more than a dozen literary awards and was a 2008 finalist in the prestigious RWA® Golden Heart contest. Kaylin is a member of RWA, Rose City Romance Writers, and Willamette Writers. She received her AA in Literature at Highline Community College, which originally sparked her passion for writing. In her free time, she also enjoys giving back to the community through participation and support of various charitable and educational organizations in the Pacific Northwest. |
Heather Soderberg has been sculpting since the age of 1 and selling professionally in galleries and art shows. She has co-sculpted with her partner, John Soderberg, on many commissions for the Crystal Cathedral, hospitals, corporations and private clients. Her passion is sculpting commissions to touch other’s lives on a personal level. She is currently working on a 10-foot tall commission of Christ the Healer and has begun a larger than life-size monument of Christopher Reeve and his wife Dana to be placed at the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center. “The artist is fundamentally alone in the creative process, whether he/she is supported and encouraged by other artists and lovers of art, or is solitary. The inner drama, the complex ebb and flow of feelings, hints and glimpses of images and ideas, the inner drive, urges, promptings and doubts -- the often fierce, undeniable, gut-deep need to create -- are those of individual artists alone, that they must somehow deal with through visions of the beauty and torment of the world. Artists are meant to probe heaven and hell, good and evil, beauty and ugliness -- the full dimension of life on earth, humanity's relations with itself, with nature, with God, and the universe, as their personal needs and interests dictate.” |
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