![]() Hosafros wrote her artist statement from Fido’s point of view and in the same way a writer would construct a fictional tale. One such invisible commentator, Fido, pops in on her work, “Sirius Made Me Do It,” exhibiting in NOMA’s “Dog Days of Summer.”Īrtists in the NOMA show were tasked to draw from the phrase “dog days of summer,’ which comes from ancient Greece and Rome, when people believed that the hot and sultry days of summer were caused by the rising of the star Sirius, also known as the “dog star,” the brightest in the night sky, and during the summer months, it rises and sets with the sun. She describes this unseen subject as an unreliable narrator. Subjects peering from outside the works come to life through her artist statements and are as much a part of the art as the subjects we actually see. Her unique approach to point of view adds an intriguing layer. …It’s like life: You do your best, but sometimes life takes you in all these different directions and you just go with the flow.”įeatured in NOMA’s 2022 summer exhibit. “It was so much fun because it’s so serendipitous. “An artist friend introduced me to alcohol ink, and, of course, I just went crazy,” she recalled with a chuckle. Oil is Hosafros’s preferred medium (“acrylic dries too fast”), but don’t ask her to paint a portrait. The CF show features a work inspired by a character in the book: “DragonElla of the Misfit Forest,” and her honorable mention-winning “Pareidolia - Seeing Faces and Shapes Out of Randomness,” which celebrates the human tendency to see familiar forms in clouds and other ambiguous patterns. Her paintings draw the viewer in with alluring, stylized imagery, which ranges from impressionistic to surreal to abstract.Īnimals and imaginary creatures often appear most recently, the half-dragon-half-human in a fantastical world she’s been chronicling in her young adult novel in the works, “The Misfit Forest.” 27, and in “Summer Spotlight XXVI” at CF’s Webber Gallery through July 20. ![]() This summer, you can see her paintings in NOMA Gallery’s “Dog Days of Summer” show, which runs from June 7 to Aug. Hosafros’s works have been featured at the College of Central Florida’s Webber Gallery three times and at NOMA Gallery twice in the past couple of years. Though Hosafros has been painting fine art professionally for five years, she has been drawing since she was old enough to wield a pencil, when her uncle taught her how to trace over the Sunday comics. I strategize, and I plot things, but when I’m painting, I’ll start with an idea and I’ll think, ‘Oh, gee, I’m going to do this landscape,’ and then it goes off the rails because I’ve just let myself go. ![]() “I’m equally right-brained and left-brained,” she explained. She has worn the hats of a corporate communications director, cartoon illustrator, graphic designer, storyteller, journalistic features writer, wife, mom, farm girl, and, most recently, a fine art painter. You see the success, but then there’s also the reality of the rock and roll lifestyle and the toll that it takes.Ellen Hosafros is as multi-talented and dynamic in her life as she is in her art. And so that has a consequence…that’s really where we get to in the story. He continued: “The idea that as opposed to sort of dealing with the emotions, kind of like all of them, they just kept charging forward like full steam ahead, pedal to the metal, go as fast as you can sort of attitude. Webber also spoke on capturing Neil’s complicated and troubled story in the film, saying, “There’s the outside thing that we all see, which is the charm and success and cool and attitude and bravado and all of that stuff that everybody sees in the performance, but you have to get beyond that, go dig below the surface, and there was one thing that stuck with me that kind of took me through the whole shoot, which was he said at one point his destination of choice was oblivion. “We really just wanted to capture the essence of who these guys were, the spirit of their story, and I think each one of us somehow just had a kernel of that, which just got slowly encouraged to come out as we went along,” he said. 'The Way Back' Star Janina Gavankar Shares Ben Affleck's Memorable Reaction to Her Short FilmĪlongside Webber as Neil, the film stars Machine Gun Kelly as Tommy Lee, Douglas Booth as Nikki Sixx and Iwan Rheon as Mick Mars, and as Webber tells THR, the actors “really became these four maniacs.”
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