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from Amazon.com & your local bookstore! featuring the Digital Art of Yolanda Klappert! Publication - Art International 2004; Book Art Press, Woodstock NY Cover Art Award: "Waldscenen" |
| Striking forms with an electronic brush, coaxing depth and dimension with fingers set upon keyboard and curved mouse buttons, Yolanda Klappert builds scenes from emptiness, vistas and worlds in tints and textures that will solidify on paper with a startling clarity of depth and perspective. Her musical touch, accustomed to coaxing melodious sound from other keyboards composes imaginative visual symphonies with personal flair and verve. |
| Currently a resident of Topanga, California, Klappert studied at the Ravel Academie, St. Jean-de-Luz,, France and Fontainebleau Ecole des Beaux Arts, France. She earned a B.M. at the Univeristy of Cincinnati; an M.M. and M.M.A. from Yale University; and a D.M.A. from the University of Southern California. A classical concert pianist from twenty-five years, Klappert has won numerous musical awards and scholarships and recorded frequently. In 1998 she created the original CD-ROM, From Stoneage to Rock: An Interactive History of Classical Music, and has been involved with many other CD-ROMs and animations. Among sites of exhibition are Chashama Gallery of New York City; Long Beach Arts Center, California; Topanga Canyon Gallery, California; Fulton Street Gallery, Troy, New York; and elsewhere. |
| "I begin each picture with a blank canvas (or screen.) The pictures are not scanned images that are 'doctored.' I create unique, one-of-a-kind works of art, derived from wireframe shapes and added textures, while making intuiticve decisions about movement, color and depth. The resulting 'photographic-like paintings' created and rendered on a computer, are printed on a special photographic paper, with archival inks. Each picture's wireframe or shell substructure is composed of hundreds of individual polygons. The rendering process of the final image (changing wireframes to objects that have color, depth, shape, and volume), takes many, many hours, sometimes days to complete. The finished pictures are several hundred million pixels in size. Often, the images are so large that they cannot be seen in their entirety (in actual pixels on a computer screen) until they are printed. The element of surprise is truly a delight as, often, I discover many unusual and exciting effects that I did not expect, plan, or see originally on the computer screen." |
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| 2007
LACDA - LA Center for Digital Art , LA, CA Abbot Kinney Gallery, Venice, CA Arthouse Gallery @ TVA, Santa Monica, CA Topanga Canyon Gallery, Topanga, CA Rome Coterie , Rome, GA |
2005
The Skylight Gallery, The Dalles, OR Mt. Scott Art Center, Portland, OR |
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