D.M. Hubbard Art

The art of Philip Wittmann is founded on signals. For him, signs serve as a bridge between abstraction, reality and writing, too. When he was 26 years old, he began painting as a hobbyist using 'pure' abstraction. However, he believed his work lacked a solid foundation upon which to grow. ​He discovered a book on the origins of the Chinese alphabet, which origins are essentially signs, in 2008 while taking a calligraphy class. The 26 letters of our Latin alphabet are less pictorial than the Chinese characters as we know them now. He discovered that pictorial representation is more prevalent when examining the origins of alphabets—all alphabets, in fact—because there is frequently a similarity between the sign's true meaning and what it is meant to represent. For instance, the symbol for a turtle in the original Chinese script resembles a turtle. Wittmann loves signs as they leave room for interpretation. For instance, if one writes “the sky is blue”, one will make for themself a mental representation of a blue sky, even if each one-off us will probably have some nuance in our own mental representation of that blue sky. On the other hand, a sign can...

Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor in black and red color on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size. This is the "Many thoughts...

Ink & watercolor on rice paper, Framed 80 x 80 x 5 cm Li Qingyan is a female Chinese artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Beijing, China. Qingyan is a painter by profession. S...

Ink & watercolor on rice paper, Framed 80 x 80 x 5 cm Li Qingyan is a female Chinese artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Beijing, China. Qingyan is a painter by profession. S...

Ink & watercolor on rice paper, Framed 80 x 80 x 5 cm Li Qingyan is a female Chinese artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Beijing, China. Qingyan is a painter by profession. S...

Ink & watercolor on rice paper, Framed 80 x 80 x 5 cm Li Qingyan is a female Chinese artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Beijing, China. Qingyan is a painter by profession. S...

Ink & watercolor on rice paper, Framed 80 x 80 x 5 cm Li Qingyan is a female Chinese artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Beijing, China. Qingyan is a painter by profession. S...

Ink & watercolor on rice paper, Framed 80 x 80 x 5 cm Li Qingyan is a female Chinese artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Beijing, China. Qingyan is a painter by profession. S...

Ink & watercolor on rice paper, Framed 80 x 80 x 5 cm Li Qingyan is a female Chinese artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Beijing, China. Qingyan is a painter by profession. S...

Ink & watercolor on rice paper , Framed 80 x 80 x 5 cm Li Qingyan is a female Chinese artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Beijing, China. Qingyan is a painter by profession. ...

This series was inspired by a 1950’s era instruction manual found while clearing out my father’s basement workshop. The How To Light A Model manual employed voluptuous female models to teach lighting techniques to amateur photographers such as my father. Diagrams plot the prescribed direction of the lights. The nude women hold the pose, their lips bright red and their feet dirty from the studio floor. As naked props for the authoritarian photographer, their vulnerability seems palpable. This work visualizes the human condition as a balance between feral and fabricated worlds. Vivid, oversized creatures embody instinctual energy. Wax seals, gold spheres and text-like marks signify rational structures. One speaks in a whisper, the other in a hiss. Winifred McNeill...

Ink & watercolor on rice paper, Framed 80 x 80 x 5 cm Li Qingyan is a female Chinese artist born in 1972 who lives and works in Beijing, China. Qingyan is a painter by profession. S...