Garden Journal X: On the Beach White Line Woodcut, 1996 Assateague Ponies, Carousel Rides, Sugarloaf Mountain with Wooly Sheep, a Kauai Rooster, Goldfish and Koi Ponds, sea bearing vessels, vintage cars, beaches and landscapes, table scenes and garden scenes, portraits of old friends and neighbors, nude sketches and monkeys at the zoo. Zahn wrote numerous Artist Statements over her artistic career, but she never described herself as working in the figurativism style. A review of her work from her early art days to her death shows that the figure played an important role in her subject matter, whether in sculptural terra-cotta nudes displayed in her garden or in her prints. She used modern techniques and ideas to depict real-world subjects, including very recognizable human and animal figures. Sometimes, she would include landscapes to house her figures. Frequently, her garden scenes might take on more abstract elements, but she always included enough realism and imagination to allow f
Jorge Blanco Delbugio is a Modern Latin Minimalist from Uruguay. He has exhibited in the United States, but frequently signs his work “Blanco” which then becomes confused with the other Latin American artist Jorge Blanco, who is known as a sculptor with a great internet presence. Blanco Delbugio is highly influenced by Universal Constructivism that was introduced by the Uruguayan artist Joaquin Torres-Garcia. Torres-Garcia developed an artistic style that combined geometric shapes with pictographs that created meaning to the viewer. Torres-Garcia brought this style back to his home country in the 1930s from time spent in Spain, France and Italy, as well as New York City. After World War II Latin artists were beginning to be influenced by modern geometric abstraction concepts in design and artistry. In 2007, North America celebrated Latin America’s love for these artistic concepts with a traveling exhibit that featured artists and designers from all the major South American cities inclu