ARTTRAFFIC

Rob Kalmbach has recently uploaded some of the most electrifying photography I’ve seen. If that’s not enough to get you to check out his work by clicking on the link, I’m sure it won’t take you too much longer to succumb!

Rob kalmbach is based in Los Angeles but hails from south-eastern Pennsylvania.

A vast sense of geographical experience and knowledge of the world has enabled this talent to blossom rapidly, and Rob’s work covers everything in between cold Pacific Australian waters and moonscape middle-eastern deserts.

We await even more uploads from Rob’s outstanding collection.

From camera and lense tricks to mere photographic genius (not to mention some chiaroscuro that will blow your mind), Rob Kalmbach is a true pleasure to have onsite and you need to view his work, right now!

http://www.arttraffic.co.uk/artists/422-rob-kalmbach

Right now, I said!

R

The ArtTraffic offices have been buzzing recently. The phones have been ringing off the hook since last Thursday’s Founding Artists exhibition and Mo Kelly, Mark O’Neill and Rod Coyne are certainly producing the goods.

One of our founding artists, Mo Kelly, has recently been working alongside Vodafone in a bid to boost Vodafone Mobile Broadband. She was interviewed in last month’s The Gloss magazine and spoke about her hectic lifestyle.

Mo juggles her artistic and djing careers astonishingly and she uses her mobile broadband to instantly upload pictures of her art contemporary to ArtTraffic. To quote from the article about her:

“I also use it in the studio that I use for painting – it allows me to upload digital pics of my latest paintings to instantly exhibit online at www.arttraffic.co.uk.”

Needless to say, we are ecstatic to be working with Mo and helping to showcase and sell her artwork.

As one of our higher profile established artists, Mo has been exemplary in spreading the ArtTraffic word and has worked hard to link us and drop a line whenever she possibly can. We promise to repay the favor.

Thanks very much to Mo, keep up the great work and keep plugging away!

R

With more than a splash of vino and a feast from Stilton-covered crackers to chocolate-wrapped rice nibbles, Thursday night’s exhibition began with a bang and kept on going!

Walls adorned with art contemporary surrounded a center-floor equipped with bespoke seating; a lower-level wine and catering table was manned by two handy helpers and the visitors were never without.

The ArtTraffic Founding Arists’ Exhibition was held (and is still set up for your viewing pleasure) at 102 Upper George Street, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin at the Brian S Nolan Gallery. Art contemporary from Rod Coyne, Mark O’Neill and Mo Kelly was precisely and perfectly set amid room and extra detail lighting.

Over 100 people came and went through the front doors in a constant rush of admirers and prospective buyers. Two trips to the local shops had to be made in order to cater for the customers and ArtTraffic has had several follow-up calls about buying artwork ranging from just a a few hundred euros to well over three thousand!

And the best thing is, you can go and visit right now, as the exhibition is still well and truly open…Just bring your own wine this time!

Enjoy the photographs, and please do email us if you have any questions about the event, the art or the artists.

Thanks!

R

American artist, Kim Barry, has been a member of the ArtTraffic community for just over three weeks. With a cumulative total of well over 350 thumbs up in just that short amount of time, we have jumped at the chance to make her our newest featured artist, as testament to her impressive art contemporary abilities.

Kim Barry graduated from Penn State University in 1998 and has exhibited her art internationally since. Collections of Kim’s work can be found all over America and the rest of the world.

Kim and fellow artist/partner, Joey Thate, run their own gallery and the couple, along with six other galleries, head a Jacksonville movement called “Off The Grid”. The movement is backed by the Cultural Council in order to revitalize their city through the arts.

Interesting, eh?

Check out Kim’s art contemporary online without going to a gallery. Click on http://www.arttraffic.co.uk/arts/1284 in order to see what all the fuss is about.

R

It’s summertime!

School’s out for the majority of students and it’s about time for those of us who aren’t in full-time education to take a break! Get on a vacation, go to the beach or just have a rest; you deserve it!

All I’m saying is: when you feel that urge, when you’re on that beach or drinking that wine or enjoying that view, when you feel that urge, embrace it; paint it, draw it, etch it, snap it, do something with it, but don’t waste it.

We’re artists, and at the times when we are most inspired, we are at rest. With some extra time on our hands or just a sunny view, it could be time to let the art contemporary flow and to get it on ArtTraffic (we don’t need a break thank you)!!!

Whatever happens, have a fantastic summer, use any spare time you do have wisely and let us know about your adventures!

Thanks

R

I was walking down a corridor today, whistling away as I normally do. Five or ten works of art contemporary adorned the white walls and I stopped a few times to enjoy the modernist and traditionalist aspects of the pieces. I was in, of course, a corridor in one of the buildings at Savannah College of Art and Design.

I sat down in the hallway because I had a good twenty minutes to wait until my next engagement and sitting next to me, doodling away on a small sketch-pad, was a young artist. She had huge green headphones covering most of the side of her head, but the sketches she had scribbled were outstanding! Out of the corner of my eye, and hoping that she hadn’t seen me staring and wasn’t slightly freaked out by my sudden interest in her abilities, I watched her scribe gorgeous, simple works of art contemporary onto her sketchpad.

“Do you do larger artworks?” I inquired eagerly, repeating myself as she removed her headphones.

“Yeah, I draw and paint all the time.” She smiled back and blushed in the cheeks ever so slightly.

“Well what do you do with them? You’re really talented.”

“Well, I’ve just got a huge pile underneath my bed and keep some in my closet. Sometimes I give them to my family as presents but I’d like to be an artist one day and sell them.”

The crazy thing is, and it goes for thousands and thousands of people around the world, that she was an artist! Boy, was she an artist?! She didn’t have to wait until she was older to sell her art and earn a living and make a name for herself! All of those artworks she had could be sold in a minute if she had really looked into it.

I signed her up at ArtTraffic, immediately.

Don’t leave that artwork under the bed!

R