Best Local Artists In Sacramento
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Troy Mighty
www.volutiongallery.com/abouttroymighty.html
He was born Troy Daniel Collins. But as a teenager, "yearning a brave new surname" and "with a growing lust for life," Troy left home in El Cajon and came to the nearest metropolitan city – Sacramento. "He was constantly astounded by the sights around. Folks in wheelchairs, blind people, dirty people, crazy people and so much more all existed here; the sheltered life he'd thus far lived became plainer to see," states his biography page. The new Troy Mighty met some of these people and was inspired to revisit the artistic skills he had learned as a young child. It was through his involvement in booking music concerts at diverse places that he developed a skill for making flyers, CD covers, T-shirts, and other works of art. That led to an exhibit of his works using a variety of mediums, including acrylics, pen and ink, pencil, and screen-printing.
Bruce Gossett
www.abitchinspace.com/BioBruce.html
Gossett's artworks are influenced by living in West Sacramento. He uses a label format as a touchstone for fine art paintings, including firecracker labels. He cites as a primary influence the graphic history of produce label art used in the agricultural industry in the Sacramento region from the 1900s to 1950s. "This area is rich with produce label history," he says. "… The trained artists that rendered these images, usually including the hand-designed fonts, produced work anonymously for a paycheck…It was a means to an end." Gossett says there is currently a renewed interest in these images, which were traditionally painted using gouache or watercolor and were approximately two to three times the size of the finished or printed label. "It is my intent to reintroduce the format using acrylic on canvas on a much larger scale with today's sensibilities and a heavy dose of humor, in an attempt to appeal to the fan that hence far has been unable to obtain originals from this bygone era."
