Wishful Thinking will run from March 13th through April 10th 2010 at Orlando’s Bold Hype Gallery featuring paintings and photographs from 6 different artists exploring the many sides of human desire, dreams, and wishes.

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Skot Olsen

While growing up in Connecticut, Skot and his parents spent their summers sailing up and down the coast of New England and all over the West Indies. It was on these long trips that Olsen developed his love for the culture and history of sea-faring people. Whale watches and scuba diving cultivated an interest for the strange things that live in the sea such as giant squid, which are the subject of many of his paintings. Small harbor towns and islands provided backdrops for many of the artist's formative years and the people he met there left an impression on him that is now visible in his current series of work.

Chris Scarborough

Chris Scarborough lives and works in Nashville, Tennessee. Since graduating from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in 2000, Scarborough has gained representation with Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, Foley Gallery, NYC, Curator's Office, Washington DC, TAG Gallery, Nashville and Geischeidle Gallery, Chicago as well as exhibiting in numerous other galleries and institutions across the U.S. He has been reviewed in numerous publications including ArtPaper's Magazine, High Fructose Magazine, Dart International Magazine, Alarm Magazine, NY Arts Magazine, The Atlanta Journal Constitution and others. Scarborough's work has been exhibited in art fairs in Tokyo, London, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Palm Beach and the Hamptons, NY.

Mark Garro

After 15 years as a successful Illustrator and cover artist for more than 100 paperbacks in the fantasy genre, Garro has exploded onto the fine art scene and has exhibited his paintings nationally and internationally. His growing collector base eagerly awaits his next meticulously designed and executed work.

A miniaturist who likes to work big, Garro struggles with this clash of sensibilities all the time in order to be as prolific as possible. The work often features classically beautiful figures as cosmological cogs working within the complex mechanisms of the universe. Dynamic motion of familiar shapes morphing and implying other familiar shapes, creating, destroying and re-creating once again in two dimensions but implying four.

Noah Doely

Noah Doely was raised in Iowa and earned his BFA in sculpture from the University of Northern Iowa. He works with sculpture, installation, and antiquated photographic processes. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally and recorded and toured with the band The Old Scratch Revival Singers. Noah relocated in 2008 and currently resides in San Deigo, California where he is pursuing his MFA at the University of California, San Diego.

Noah crafts elaborate narrative scenes and frames them with the use of historic photographic processes and antique equipment. The historic processes lend the image not only a historical aesthetic but also create serendipitous haunting textures. Together the photographic processes' aesthetic and the narrative create his own photographic "evidence" of stories, discoveries, and inventions lost in the shuffle of time.

Brody Albert

Brody Albert is a student of Illustration and Fine Art at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

"I try to think about my work as a practice, as something that is a part of me and an extension of how I occupy the world. I don't see my art as individual pieces; it's about the body of work and the direction it takes me. The work only acts as a record of a process, images or objects that follow a line of thought. I try not to think about my paintings as statements but as questions that ask about meaning and my role as an artist. These specific paintings deal with memory and personal icons of exploration."

Jeremy Dower

Jeremy Dower is a Melbourne based artist, musician, and film director. His art has been exhibited in Australia, the U.S., and Europe. Most recently in Berlin at the “Haus der Kulturen der Welt” as Part of the international ‘Pictopia’ exhibition; An exploration of recent developments in reductive figuration, animism and the uncanny in contemporary character art. Jeremy will be a guest speaker at the “Pictoplasma” festival in Berlin April 2010.

Jeremy primarily (though not exclusively) creates digital images, exploring the aesthetics of digital art and its unlimited plasticity. His work centers on reductive figuration, in a contemporary ‘character art’ visual language, occupying a grey area between art and pop / sub-culture.

Playing with the uncanny, and the animistic qualities of the image he explores the notion of bringing characters to life, pausing the process at the brink. The usual signs of life and animation are obscured, leaving the subject mysteriously poised at the threshold of life and death.

Jeremy has recently completed his first independent film, which has aired on TV in Australia, a music video for the Australian group “Super Melody” for their debut song “Champagne Glass”.

His music has been released on various labels around the world including “Chapter Music” Australia, “Bit of Heaven” Japan, and “Plug research” U.S.A.

He graduated from the painting department at The Victorian College of the Arts in 1997 with a Bachelor of Fine Art Painting, and afterwards worked as an artist in the video game, Fashion, and Advertising industries before pursuing a career as a fine artist.

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