 (International) --Tackling head-on the sensitive issue of children's lives lost to extreme violence, international artist Aberjhani kicked off the 2019 art season with the launch of the provocative new series, "Kaleidoscope Moons for Children Gone Too Soon." The series successfully combines themes of social and environmental justice with aesthetics of highly-appealing formats and styles to confront one of the most disturbing concerns of modern times. It kicked off with 3 canvases and a special series gallery posted on Fine Art America/Pixels. The gallery can be found on this page: Kaleidoscope Moons. The posted canvases are numbered but each also has an individual title. Number 1 is "Ascension," number 2 ", and number 3 "Intensified." Product pages each carry a description of the specific artwork but also contain the following description by the artist of the new series: THE STORY BEHIND THE SERIES "During the holiday season some years ago, I lost a niece and nephew to extreme violence and chose to honor their lives by naming a Christmas tree after them. It was my way of gifting them the joy of which they had been robbed. The new Kaleidoscope Moons Series is an extension of that tradition in honor of children lost to such violence around the world as we move forward into 2019. It is also an expression of standing in solidarity with families who have endured these losses as they adjust to something from which they are unlikely to ever fully recover. Therefore, in lieu of a Christmas tree: the Kaleidoscope Moons Series.
“Specifically: The news out of Houston, Texas (USA) was particularly gruesome upon learning that 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes had been shot and killed while in a car with her family the morning before New Year's Eve. Her mother, LaPorsha Washington, was also shot but survived along with 3 other daughters. In my hometown of Savannah, Georgia, an up-and-coming 17-year-old rapper named Tyrese Carter and a 20-year-old named Jamar Davis Jr. were shot dead within 24 hours after the New Year got underway. “The family of one gun violence victim, former university student Rebecca Foley killed 6 years ago in Savannah, announced plans to fight back. They are suing, to the tune of $35 million, the owners of the apartment complex where Ms. Foley was killed for the "inadequate security" they feel contributed to her death. “Obviously art cannot bring back any of our loved ones lost to senseless violence. But for those who did not get their chance to establish mega-stardom and document their passage on this journey we call life, the Kaleidoscope Moons Series can testify on their behalf. It can proclaim they were here and their lives were as deserving of celebration and remembrance as anyone's." # # # Bright Skylark Artnotes
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The Silk-Featherbrush Collection, described by artist Aberjhani as "an accidental discovery which has yielded some very welcomed surprises," introduced collectors to an innovative body of work that fuses fresh style and technique with inspired social awareness and signature Chromatic Poetics processing upon its debut at Fine Art America and on Pixels.com November 15, 2018. The four prints included in the inaugural collection were as follows: 1) Silk-Featherbrush Number 1: Rhapsody in the Key of Joy and Mystery
2) Silk-Featherbrush Number 2: Two Redbirds of a Feather Cozy Together
3) Silk-Featherbrush Number 3: Symphony of the Wandering Refugees
4) Silk-Featherbrush Number 4: All-Night Vigil at the Lighthouse Blues Club
Shortly after being were made available for purchase, different prints were featured on the front pages of the Fine Art America Beauty in Art, Abstract Moods, and Art District art groups. Current marketing plans for the Silk-Featherbrush line call for one or two new images to be released every Wednesday up until the end of December 2018. In addition, different items will also be made available at special discount rates for short periods. The timing of the release of the Silk-Featherbrush Collection is fortunate for individual buyers and merchants because it allows them to take advantage of promo code HSPRXZ, which allows shoppers to take 30 percent off any of artist Aberjhani's catalog titles until the noted time. Bright Skylark News Notes --end-- 
Following the 2017 launch of his art catalog at Pixels.com and Fine Art America, content for the database of artwork titles by contemporary artist Aberjhani for sale online has more than doubled in 2018.
That news is notable because the catalog initially was intended to provide validation of the artist's work as a writer, confirming his authorship of popular quotations by featuring them as the text for his Postered Chromatic Poetics products. However, responses to popular original photography, digital paintings, collages, and mixed media have inspired the creation of themed collections and individual prints. Among the most recent are “Suzannanian Algorithm Finger-Painted on an Abstract Wall” posters number 1 and 2, and “Harlem Renaissance Deja Vu Number 1.” These three items are also presented as commemorations of the Harlem Renaissance Centennial. Lovers of art and purchase agents for various businesses interested in keeping up with posts of new images by the artist can do so by subscribing to his Art-Notes Blog. Below are brief snippets from and links to works currently available: 1. Introduction to Artist behind PosteredChromatic Poetics 2. Art-notes On Suzannian Algorithm Finger-painted On An Abstract Wall Number 1 Thursday, August 02, 2018, 10:29 AM "Suzannian Algorithm Finger-Painted on an Abstract Wall Number 1" (which you can view by clicking the link at the bottom of this post) was inspired by conversations with the artist to whom it is dedicated: Suzanne Jackson. We discovered we both had c... 3. Art-notes On Suzannian Algorithm Finger-painted On An Abstract Wall Number 2 Thursday, August 02, 2018, 10:29 AM I am profoundly grateful to the 3 women who modeled for "Suzannian Algorithm Finger-Painted on an Abstract Wall Number 2" (which you can view by clicking the link at the bottom of this post). Each is highly-accomplished in her own right and did not h...
4. Art-notes On Harlem Renaissance DejaVu Number 1
Friday, July 20, 2018, 9:03 AM The Harlem Renaissance is celebrated around the world as one of the most important cultural and political periods in African-American and American history. Next year, 2019, celebrations will get underway to mark the 100th anniversary of the Renaissan... 5. Art-notes On Song Of Love And Compassion Friday, July 20, 2018, 8:59 AM When I look at this artwork in its current form, I am reminded of the late art critic Bertha Husband's description of the style and technique known as "real" painting. In her review of the ELEMENTAL Exhibit then on display at the Jepson Center for th... 6. Art-notes On Lovers Dancing In The Golden Light Of Dawn Friday, July 20, 2018, 8:56 AM Lovers Dancing in the Golden Light of Dawn is one of those pieces I had to force myself to stop working on after years of experimenting with different ideas for it. A number of artists have told me about similar struggles deciding when to quit or whe...
7. Art-notes On Flowers And Wings For Her Years And Tears
Friday, July 20, 2018, 8:51 AM This print was almost titled Roses and Wings for Caring and Giving because of the subject which inspired it. Elderly matriarchs in most large southern families in America have traditionally been taken care of by younger female relatives when the time... 8. Art-notes On Cultural Literacy For Lovers And Dreamers Number 1 Friday, July 20, 2018, 8:47 AM This abstract print along with it corresponding piece, Cultural Literacy for Lovers amp Dreamers Number 2, was created out of recognition of the millions of people currently #seeking relief from war, starvation, terrorism, gun violence, drug addictio... 9. Art-notes On Dare To Love Yourself Rainbow Poster 3rd Edition Friday, July 20, 2018, 8:40 AM Providers of some friendly feedback regarding the first two posters in my Official Dare to Love Yourself Series suggested that, for their specific tastes, the images were "pretty but kind'a tame." I heard them well enough and for this third edition i... 10. Elemental Month Continues With Beautiful Irony Friday, May 11, 2018, 10:57 AM The current celebration of the 10th anniversary of ELEMENTAL, The Power of Illuminated Love, continues this week with the posting of two new print images: Portrait of the Poet as an Angel Drunk on Love, and, Black When Haitians Were Heroes in America...
11. Thanks For All The Support
Monday, July 17, 2017, 12:41 PM I have received a lot of encouragement from the great community at Fine Art America since joining a couple of months ago and today was notified about my first sale. It is for of a pack of Official Chromatic Poetics greeting cards titled ldquoEugene T... 12. Appreciating Beauty Of Magnificent Fountains Of The World Monday, May 15, 2017, 1:24 PM Fountains are among the most admired ornamental manmade structures because they combine the artistic beauty of refined sculpture with the precision of engineering and architecture. Celebrated examples can be found all over the world, including Savann... 13. Dare To Love Life On National SelfieDay And Always Monday, May 15, 2017, 1:18 PM The Dare to Love Yourself "movement" had nothing to do with National Selfie Day when it began to slowly develop ten years ago. The well-known quote--"Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends."-- as many are now aware, ori... 14. The Mysterious Wonder Of Birds And Winged Horses Thursday, May 04, 2017, 9:55 AM Who hasn't at some point wished they could just fly off somewhere, like birds or other winged things, without dishing out cash for a ticket or becoming unwillingly intimate with pat-down procedures' My homage to winged beings actually
15. Correcting Legacies Of Injustice
Thursday, May 04, 2017, 9:48 AM One of the hardest questions posed by recent headlines in the U.S. has been: How do we come to terms in 2017 with legacies of an American past during which racism and other forms of social injustice were openly practiced' It's not a question that can... 16. Expanded Perspectives On City Of Savannah, Georgia Wednesday, April 26, 2017, 9:04 AM I just added 3 images to a new FAA collection called Sojourns in Cosmopolitan Multicultural Savannah. Because the city is an odd mixture of diverse cultures framed within some intense southern history, the text provides a bit more background than wha... 17. Art Plus Poetry Equals Amazing Magic Part Two Tuesday, April 18, 2017, 12:32 PM EDITORIAL NOTE: This is a continuation of the previous blog discussing changes in the publishing industry in regard to books of art and poetry. Publication of the ekphrastic art and poetry collection ELEMENTAL, the Power of Illuminated Love, proved a... 18. Art Plus Poetry Equals Amazing Magic Part One Monday, April 17, 2017, 11:27 AM Art and poetry have long functioned as a kind of team in my creative life. It is interesting at this point, while setting up the profile here on Fine Art America, to recall the different artists who have inspired me. I never intended to make attempts ... Bright Skylark News notes Aug 2018 |
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