Bio

Nicholas Teetelli is both a published and international award-winning fine art photographer. He was born in New York City and grew up in lower Manhattan’s Greenwich Village. During the late 1960s, and into the 1970s, the Village was a hotbed of culture and the arts. During this period, Teetelli was introduced to art and photography, developing an interest in what would become his lifelong passion.

While he took some photography courses in college, Nicholas Teetelli is primarily self-taught. Spanning the last four decades, he has learned, developed, and honed his skills independently, becoming an avid and serious amateur photographer who has recently turned professional.

Although he lived and grew up in New York City, he has spent many summers in the Greek islands and has traveled to many other places in the world. He continues to travel extensively in pursuit of the perfect photographic image.

During each journey, with camera in hand, he records much of what he sees, sharing the impression of his mind’s eye through composition, light play, and shape and design. His photographic portfolio is diverse: it includes landscape, architecture, portrait, flora and fauna, underwater, and street photography.

He has recently brought his portfolio to the public eye and, in short order, has had more than one hundred of his photographs juried and invited into exhibition

at dozens of galleries and museums across the United States, receiving many awards for this work. He has won awards in international competitions in Moscow and London and a featured artist at major art shows at Art San Diego, Spectrum Miami, Artexpo New York, and has private gallery placements in Vienna, Austria and Bologna, Italy.

He almost exclusively uses Leica cameras and lenses which yield superior results for him. He has recently added a Hasselblad medium format camera to his bag.

Artist’s Statement

There is much beauty to behold in this world, moments that the eye captures, the wonders it sees… moments that should be committed to perpetual memory, but sadly only to become fragments of a faded recollection, or more often, simply forgotten. I draw inspiration to record these timeless and special moments, to capture them in my mind’s eye, and through my lens, transforming each image so that I can share them with others in hope they too may see what I see and find equal enjoyment.

 Recent Featured Exhibitions

-Little Treasures 2016 – Galleria De Marchi, November 26^th through December 8^th 2016 (Bologna, Italy) – Trevisan International Art. Exhibition pieces: Mind Games, Mind Games V, Mind Games VI, Mind Games VII

-Art San Diego- Art Show – November 3-6, 2016 (San Diego, CA) – Featured Artist, Represented by Artavita Gallery

-Spectrum Miami Art Show November 30^th – December 4^th 2016 (Miami, FL) – Featured Artist, Represented by Artavita Gallery

-Spectrum Miami Art Show November 30^th – December 4^th 2016 (Miami, FL) – Featured Artist, Represented by ADC Gallery & Blink Art Resource

– Metropolitan Gallery Las Vegas Art Museum – March 4 through July 3, 2017 (Las Vegas, NV) Featured Artist

– New York Art Expo Art Exhibition. April 21-24^th 2017 – (New York, NY) – Featured Artist, Represented by Artavita Gallery

– New York Art Expo Art Exhibition. April 21-24^th 2017 – (New York, NY) – Featured Artist, Represented by Blink Art Resoruce

 Artist Statement

In 2009, I started creating art to relieve myself from the stress I was experiencing in daily life.  On a visit to the national US Botanic Garden and I became inspired to paint flowers.  I find that a flower’s beauty, color, and texture evoke deep emotion within me.  My art conveys this emotion and when people see my work, I would like it to induce any type of feeling or memory.

My main subject matter over the last few years has been bearded irises. A bearded iris displays a heart-pounding beauty in its splendor.  The velvety texture of the falls, the papery lightness of the standards, and the colorful splash of the beard combine to make a deeply inspiring portrait of this gorgeous flower.  Although I have planted a garden bed full of irises that I now work from, I also choose other genus of flowers to paint from when I am inspired.

The inspiration for “Yearning” came from a family friend.  She suggested that I paint a peony, a flower that she is deeply connected to.  A few weeks later as I went out to groom my irises and I noticed this incredibly beautiful magenta flower reaching for the morning sky.  While I did not know that I had peonies in my garden, it did not take me long to find inspiration in this challenging flower.

My pieces are all acrylic paint on canvas.  I use acrylic because I am sensitive to chemicals. I love the brilliant color that is achievable.  I use it to make my subject matter pop from the canvas visually.  With the advances made in the development of acrylics it facilitates the blending and drying times making it easier to blend and create believable textures.

Maria grew up in Irapuato, Gto, a small place at the center of Mexico. Since she was a child she was interested in art and had participated at art activities at school. Then she moved to Monterrey, N.L., to study the Law degree, and living in Monterrey she started to take art lesson at “Marco” the Contemporary Art Museum of Monterrey, and then she enter into the lessons of the visual artist Lorena Rodriguez. Together with other students Maria has being part of several art expositions trying to express her vision of art and life. Her art includes Mexican origins with Mexican artisans pieces in a contemporary context. In other pieces she tries to represent the real world through the animal word and its relations with humans and the similar that the two species are. Maria uses several techniques like acrylic, drawing and installations in the same pieces.

Artist’s Statement

I am becoming increasingly aware of the interconnectedness of all things: bird and wind, eye and shadow, breath and bone. Nature is one breathing entity. Each sculpture I make is like a single breath, containing enough interplay of elements to convey some of the essence of the whole. When creating a piece, I attempt to capture some of the visual music I see around me, composing a harmony of natural and human design. Although every component is carefully chosen with symbolic references, each piece is not a puzzle to be solved or a message to be deciphered, but a breath to be inhaled.

I begin by welding a thin skeleton of carbon steel. I overlay this with a hand-stitched fiber substrate.   Numerous layers of sprayed or hand applied paper pulp, often interspersed with organic materials, imbue each piece with a life of its own. The fascinating chemistry of paper forges the elements together without the use of foreign chemicals or glue.

Bio

My unique method of sculpting with sprayed paper pulp is described in Volume 13, No.2 of HAND PAPERMAKING and in THE PAPERMAKER’S COMPANION (©2000 by Helen Heibert). My awards include 2011 & 2014 Niche Awards from the Buyer’s Market of American Craft., and a 2006 SAC Award at Boston’s Society of Arts & Crafts. Several of my pieces are pictured in the book 500 PAPER OBJECTS (Lark/2013), in Contemporary Cape Cod Artists: On Abstraction (Forman/Schiffer/2015), in the Fall 2015 issue of Fiber Art Now, and in Artistry in Fiber, Volume 2: Sculpture (Summer 2017). My work has been exhibited nationally. You can see more of my work at www.artbyjus.com.