"Healing" is a 30"x40", Medium- Oil on canvas and an absolutely remarkable piece customly created for Arbeat 2014 by the established and prolific Rhode Island based Artist and Philanthropist, Dennis Coelho. Coelho has generously donated to Artbeat year after year and is was the 2012 Featured ArtBeat artist. "Healing" is the perfect addition for any serious art collectors interested in abstract contemporary impressionistic art. 

Artist Info: "What I Strive to achieve with each of my works is nothing other than this...to form a connection between the work, the viewer,and the space a coheisive bond that when interplayed evokes, a deep psychological response one leaving an imprint on the observer, where they are affected at the deepest levels of their psych, where only color, line and form can dance; the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom." 

 A master who believes that . "A painter should experiment with all schools of art, developing his own style along the way. As Professional Artists we have a duty to not only capture our audience with our chosen discipline, but that also of each of our own unique languages that we develop as individual artisans. We convey in a primitive method when we create our works, although we are in modern times nevertheless we must not forget that our abilities stem from our complete makeup. We also have a duty to protect and respect the moral and ethos of the fine art world, something that has been abused for the past couple of decades. "I am a believer that if something has tangible value, someone will figure out how to exploit it, as with any platform with viable asset value. The Art world is probably the only investment platform left standing that is not regulated; I have an interest in making sure thata it stays that way unlike those who are exploiting it up to this very moment"

 Coelhos works of recent can be compared to Gerhard Richters as they both share common similarities.

Coelho like Richter borrows much of his painted imagery from newspapers, or even his own Images from trips to Provincetown, or other special places.. Often he begins by mechanically projecting such an image onto the canvas, a technique for thinking about how images often seem to have a life of their own, like mysterious ghosts haunting our psyche. This act of visual compression, in which photography, projection, and painting merge to make a finished art work, suggests that all vision is a kind of conversion of the "real" into the "imaginary.

Coelho like Richter  often blurs his subjects and embraces chance effects in his own painting process in order to show the impossibility of any artist conveying the full truth of a subject in its original condition. Such means for suggesting that something essential to the model has been "lost in translation" often leads a viewer's attention to the oil pigment's dense, material nature, thereby demonstrating both its expressive strengths and shortcomings.

Dennis Akervik Coelho 
coelhoden@yahoo.com