Syrian artist Abdulrahman Naanseh (b. 1991) learned Arabic calligraphy with the support of his father, a self-taught calligrapher. is an Artist Protection Fund alumni and the 2022 Artist-in-Residence at George Mason University’s School of Art.
INTERVIEW | Fernando Madera Alvarado
Fernando Madera Alvarado is a Mexican artist. His work is mostly composed of bidimensional surfaces: paper of all sorts, canvases, walls, or wood panels. For the last couple of years, his work has been focused on acrylic ink compositions. He also works with digital software to modify his ink sketches and compile them for use on larger compositions.
INTERVIEW | Chenglin Xue
Chenglin Xue’s work uses Arduino, processing, Maxmsp, and other interactive software in synergy with photography, video, printmaking, and other media. His work explores the nature of video and objective reality, focusing on the relationship between people and nature, attempting to harness interactive media to explore an invisible reality.
INTERVIEW | Kyle Yip
Kyle Yip is a Canadian, JUNO Award-Nominated hypersurrealist artist internationally recognized for his highly accurate creations of original visual art, electronic music, and films from his dreams. Yip's paintings are highly accurate creations from an ongoing series envisioned during recurring REM dreams of the artist. The series explores the Gestalt and spirit of art vicariously through Yip's dreams.
INTERVIEW | Nadra Jacob
Nadra Jacob is a visual artist from Santiago de Chile. Her artistic work is based on the representation, through painting, of a series of environments, landscapes, and elements located both in the internal and external imaginary. From the above, a synergy between both worlds is developed that allows her to create images that move between the figurative and the abstraction through the use of a wide color range.
INTERVIEW | Marco Jacconi
Marco Jacconi is a Swiss artist based in Zurich. His work is a dive into the unknown. Cause and effect remain diffuse with these surfaces and amorphous forms, which dramatically overlap and penetrate each other until depths emerge. Each work is visualized energy; as if something is pushing outwards from the inside, as if the surfaces were under pressure.
INTERVIEW | Veronika Spleiss
Veronika Spleiss is a German painter, originally from Tallinn, Estonia. She has been working with fine visual arts for more than fifteen years. Her paintings are in obvious chaos, but they have an inherent order and harmony that only emerges on further contemplative viewing. In the end, the work becomes a panorama of a city, a combination of houses, people, stairs with their own order: an order of perspectives.
INTERVIEW | Dan Petersen
Dan Petersen is a visual artist from New Jersey, USA. His love for the psychedelic has led to largely abstract works that incorporate vibrant colors, trippy patterns, and dynamic textures. Each piece's intent is to challenge the viewer while also allowing for an abstract simplicity, ultimately leaving it up to the viewer to decide how the piece should be interpreted.
INTERVIEW | István Dukai
István Dukai is an Hungarian artist and graphic designer, currently based in Budapest. The fundamental principle of his compositions is reduction, which is based on natural elements being stylized to geometric shapes and the diverse ways of combining these elements. Sensuality also plays a key role in his pictures. He has opened towards interdisciplinary fields.
INTERVIEW | Syl Arena
Syl Arena is a California-based artist known for his explorations of non-representational photography. He freely admits that he is addicted to color and shadow. In his current series, Constructed Voids, Arena deconstructs white light into vibrant hues and mixes them onto monochromatic constructs. Through the intersection of light, construct, and lens, Arena finds transformative relationships that he describes as “inner landscapes.”
INTERVIEW | Sofya Danilova
After a decade of constant work, Sofya Danilova got to the point where two-dimensional photography was just not enough to express everything she wanted to. As a seasoned photographer, she tried a hand in different styles, and in the end she started to create kaleidoscopes — images that can achieve the effect of space's enclosure and deeper immersion in the picture.
INTERVIEW | Salvatore Mauro
Salvatore Mauro is an award-winning Italian artist. His art opens in two directions, the first is a more performative expression, where the central element is the interaction with the viewer of which he becomes the protagonist. The other concerns sculptural elements, which he calls "lightboxes and constellations", which are created to last over time.
INTERVIEW | Patrícia Magalhães
Patrícia Magalhães is a multidisciplinary artist from Lisbon, Portugal. her work is mostly drawing. The contamination with painting, etching, sculpture, and photography in a diversity of mediums and scales that she applies in each work is perceptible. She is represented in some private collections such as Fundação Bienal de Cerveira and Universidade Lisboa, among others.
INTERVIEW | Susan Hensel
Susan Hensel makes sculptural textile works from a feminist perspective combining mixed-media practices with fabric and embroidery across digital and manual platforms, transforming personal experience, private and public spaces, and notions of beauty, through the alchemy of color, scale, lighting and placement.
INTERVIEW | Mike Steinhauer
Mike Steinhauer is a photographer, conceptual artist, blogger, and arts administrator who is keenly interested in the environment within which he lives. Mike is particularly interested in the relationship between past and present use (and perception) of object and space. His most recent work is an investigation into memory—both as it is created and re-experienced.
