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This project successfully raised its funding goal on May 20, 2011.
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You darling supporters will receive a lovely piece of artsy "bling", metal dog-tag style charm to wear proudly around your neck commemorating the project. NOTE: rewards at this level will be send in August 2011.
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You marvelous supporters will receive the lovely piece of bling and an 11" x 14" signed photo print of one of the finished project paintings. NOTE: Bling shipped in August 2011, prints shipped by August 2012 (I have to paint the paintings before they can be printed!)
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You beautiful supporters will receive a signed copy of the book "Welcome Home: the BM Portrait Project" NOTE: Books shipped in August 2012 (I have to paint all the paintings and write the book before they can be sent to you, which will take a year to complete after the 2011 Burning Man Festival.)
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You amazing supporters will receive a signed copy of the book and a limited-edition signed giclee' print. NOTE: Books & prints shipped in August 2012 (I have to paint all the paintings and write the book before they can be sent to you, which will take a year to complete after the 2011 Burning Man Festival.)
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You stunning art lovers will receive a signed copy of the book, and an original study painting by the artist (chosen by the artist) NOTE: Books & paintings shipped in August 2012 (I have to paint all the paintings and write the book before they can be sent to you, which will take a year to complete after the 2011 Burning Man Festival.)
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You most honorable supporters, along with my undying love & affection, will receive a signed copy of the book, and an original gallery quality original oil painting by the artist. (painting selected at the artist's discretion.) NOTE: Books & paintings shipped in August 2012 (I have to paint all the paintings and write the book before they can be sent to you, which will take a year after the 2011 Burning Man Festival.)
Project By
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M Vlasic
VLASIC STUDIO
Denver, CO
MarieVlasic@vlasicstudio.com
www.VlasicStudio.com
Represented in Colorado by Walker Fine Art
Artist Statement
I have a strange relationship with people. I am at once fascinated and repulsed. Fear and loathing with a joyful embrace. This duality in my at-odds psyche has turned into an obsession, one which I express the only way I know how, and that is to paint. When I render the human form, I am digging into the person, pulling out what and who they are. I want to show their insides, for better or worse. By pushing and pulling the paint, the light and the shadow, I am laying them, and myself, bare on the canvas. It is my attempt to find the humanity, the God-spark, in them, and in me.
There is nothing more beautiful and horrible and lofty and base as a human being, and for me, no other subject worthy of deep exploration. I feel my soul in painting the human form, and so the flesh is always calling me.
Only oil paint will do for me. I fell in love with the medium, with it’s soft, sensual feel and rich intensity of color in my first college painting classes. I paint thin, in many successive layers. This time-consuming technique gives my work a luminous quality. Because of the brief, expressive nature of the images I am creating, I work from photographs, many taken myself and some in collaboration with local photographers.
I am often asked which painting is my favorite. The answer, the one I am doing now. The process of watching each work unfold, the moment when the flat canvas begins to breath, that is the fuel that drives me to keep creating.
Thank you for your interest,
-M Vlasic
