Charles Jos Biviano

Charles Jos Biviano is a noted artist living in Richmond, Virginia. He is the recent recipient of the Best Of World-Wide Landscape 2010 Genre Award and the Best Of America Artist Award for 2009.

Jos received his Bachelor of Arts from the Virginia Military Institute in 1979, and subsequently entered military service as a commissioned officer where he traveled and experienced the world. After military service, Jos received his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Texas at Austin and pursued a career as a designer where he specializes in total environmental design.

 

Jos has always been fascinated by the interplay of color, texture, and the luminosity on a subject as well as the story they tell through ever changing patterns of light, shade, and shadow. His compositions push the viewer for an emotional response. With few instances, his work often depicts the land with no elements of human intervention. Jos seeks to portray the land as God made it, and before Man spoiled it. While his earlier work followed more representational forms, Jos recently sought to conventionalize his subjects. These new, abstracted landscape paintings are intended to evoke memory and emotion through their use of light and dark; shade and shadow; color and form. While these paintings suggest landscape through abstracted layers of luminosity, they still allow our recognition of the environment.

Jos enjoys painting landscapes bathed in late afternoon sunlight when color harmonies are most pronounced. His love of landscape stems from having lived in many beautiful areas of the country, including many years in the desert Southwest, the Great Plains States, and most recently the MidAtlantic region. Although he works predominantly in oil and polychroma resins, Jos also enjoys gouache and acrylic media.