Painting

INTERVIEW | Elinor Shapiro

INTERVIEW | Elinor Shapiro

Elinor' Shapiro, an American artist from Los Angeles who works on top of the large canvas and mixed media pieces. The figures in Elinor Shapiro's work are raw and disconnected. The combined mediums give her the ability to render them with detail and disintegrate them with a line. As a code, there are words and phrases layered into the paint.

INTERVIEW | Rita Hisar

INTERVIEW | Rita Hisar

Rita Hisar Canadian abstract painter based in Toronto Canada. Rita Hisar is also inspired by the bold colors of the Caribbean, the raw honesty of graffiti art, and the passion of Pop Culture Icons in music, film, fashion, and sports. Inspired by Henri Matisse, Picasso, Andy Warhol, and Georgia O'Keeffe.

INTERVIEW | Nevena Ivanovic Guagliumi

INTERVIEW | Nevena Ivanovic Guagliumi

13 Questions with Nevena Ivanovic Guagliumi Finalist of the 13 & 14th ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE Arsenale Venice Italy. Nevena Ivanovic Guagliumi, is an Italy based multidisciplinary Serbian artist, mostly oriented toward the drawing in her artistic expression.

INTERVIEW | Anne Wölk

INTERVIEW | Anne Wölk

Anne Wölk, German artist currently lives and works in Berlin. She is a figurative painter whose artistic work stands in the tradition of realistic contemporary artists Vija Celmins and Russel Crotty. Committed to an attitude of reskilling, Wölk uses traditional methods and materials. Her paintings predominantly show us night sky scenes with deep and open galaxies. By quoting Spacetelescope images and digital photography resources, Anne Wölk tests the margins between art and reality.

INTERVIEW | Denis Haračić

INTERVIEW | Denis Haračić

Denis Haračić is a visual artist from Bosnia and Herzegovina, currently based in Sarajevo. The artist primarily uses combined techniques of printmaking, drawing, painting, and digital installation, trough, which he tends to question social structures and identity from both the individual and our group perspective.

INTERVIEW | Sergey Piskunov

INTERVIEW | Sergey Piskunov

A burst of emotion forces the artist to turn inside out his soul and leave it on the canvas – that's how the Ukrainian artist Sergey Piskunov (1989, Ukraine) sees the work of his life. Hyper-realistic paintings possess their charm and character, children of unique inspiration – they like no other reflect the inner state of their creator, the depth of his personality, exposing him to the outside world.

INTERVIEW | Màrk Lakos

INTERVIEW | Màrk Lakos

MÀRK LAKOS (1993) is a Hungarian artist inspired by his surroundings and circumstances. His paintings capture scenes from his travels across the globe, incorporating the emotions related to these journeys. He often walks hours to explore the cities and enthralling find sites to paint them using unique compositions and perspectives to express his feelings and mood.

INTERVIEW | Ruocong Ma

INTERVIEW | Ruocong Ma

Ruocong Ma examines the contradiction and correlation of spiritual strength, human body, sexual representation, and feminism in our society, working on oil painting, performance, and sculpture. Her erotic portrait painting often employs domineering poses, vivid colors, creative lighting, and tight costume as symbolism for implying audiences about complex class power.

INTERVIEW | Giovanni De Benedetto

INTERVIEW | Giovanni De Benedetto

Giovanni De Benedetto works with photography, video art, and music. His projects have multiple points of view. The observer is an active part of the creative process, and each artwork shakes the spectator from the inside. Starting from 2012, he took part in several solos and collective exhibitions with his main project PREMATURE, exhibiting in cities like Venice, Paris, Miami Beach, Berlin, and Bangkok

INTERVIEW | O. Yemit Tubi (MOYAT)

INTERVIEW | O. Yemit Tubi (MOYAT)

Nigerian born, American trained Artist based in UK with a creative and unique personal style. He paints in acrylic and watercolor, but his favored medium is oil paints. Most of Moyat's recent paintings were influenced by the political and social upheaval of our world today and the works of the Renaissance artists. The uprising in the Arab world is what influenced O Yemi Tubi's first political painting "ARAB REVOLUTION" in 2012

INTERVIEW | Timea Szőke

INTERVIEW | Timea Szőke

Timka Szőke is a Hungarian artist. She was born in Budapest. Her versatility unfolds in illustration, lead glass design, and photography. Her artworks are inspired by the antique art trends, most notably Renaissance, Expressionism, Baroque, Symbolism, and Art Nouveau, also the cartoons and comics. She displays the facial mimicry that she spices with natural charm in her works

INTERVIEW | Stephanie Zwerschke

INTERVIEW | Stephanie Zwerschke

Stephanie Zwerschke draws her inspiration from all her surroundings that incorporate nature, fragility, age, and beauty in decay. She experiments with the rather unusual painting media steel plates and rust. The artist transfers the metaphorical value of rusting steel to the level of her art through the images she displays.

INTERVIEW | Pablo Von Goethe

INTERVIEW | Pablo Von Goethe

Fascinated by Michelangelo and Pablo Picasso. Pablo Von Goethe work emerges from the eyes of the protagonists of his stories that always cite the verses of being. The works created over the years have profound contents that invite the viewer to dive into the created worlds to search for the messages and the mediated values.

INTERVIEW | feeleash

INTERVIEW | feeleash

feeleash (M. Andresakis) actively works in music as well as the international publishing scene, implementing all types of digital graphics and video. Michael combines incompatible worlds into a new universe, increasing the dynamics between the audience and the author, investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.

INTERVIEW | Ayse U Akarca

INTERVIEW | Ayse U Akarca

Ayse U Akarca is a Turkish scientist who balances making art with her career in research at one of the world’s leading institutions at UCL. Working with different cancer tissues, faced with the reality of what this disease is and the effect it has on people’s lives, Ayse thinks about mortality – and the fine line that exists between life and death.

INTERVIEW | Bogdan Murg

INTERVIEW | Bogdan Murg

Bogdan feels an urge to paint, as he wants to make up for all the years he has not been painting. His style surfaced intuitively. Bogdan mostly identifies himself with Francis Bacon’s concept of a ‘tightrope walk between what is called figurative painting and abstraction.’ Each painting in multiple performances.

INTERVIEW | Barry Wolfryd

INTERVIEW | Barry Wolfryd

The work investigates the exploration and exploitation of “human symbology,” the many “forms” of how we relate to ourselves and others. Wolfryd aims to “awaken minds” to fleeting governing laws by virtue of playing pictorial detective through challenging social norms. He creates a tangible environment in which the viewer challenges the perspectives about the qualities of culture and history.

INTERVIEW | Susana Aldanondo

INTERVIEW | Susana Aldanondo

Susana Aldanondo embodies in her work the joy found in the human connection, focusing on the positives through gestural abstraction, splattered and dripped paint, large and thin strokes, straight lines, and loose curvilinear forms. She creates movement and energy that stand out in her abstract paintings. She expresses a deep connection to identity and spirituality, appealing to deep feelings of connection to ourselves and others.

INTERVIEW | Anna Snegina

INTERVIEW | Anna Snegina

Anna Snegina abstract expressionism work often includes dynamic brushstrokes as well as drips of paint. It may accurate geometric shapes and elements. Whether it’s a photo or a sculpture, it’s always the creative process that leads Anna in her art, and it’s a study of the world and introspection at the same time. She aims to inspire those who see her artwork to discover the beauty in colors, shapes, everyday objects.