Stephan Joseph Ravare Jr. transcends the title of mere artist. His work embodies the role of a storyteller, channelling ideas, confronting and breaking barriers, and honouring his Louisiana Creole heritage through his art. Viewing art as a catalyst for transformation and acceptance, Stephan uses culture and differences to not only cope with mental health but to inspire solace and creativity.
Roxana Casillas is a sculptor, born in Mexico City in 1964. Her work aims to celebrate the enigmatic aspects of femininity, delving into her own psyche as both the creator and the subject while offering viewers profound insights into the complexities of existence and the journey of self-discovery. Working primarily with contemporary sculpture, Roxana finds joy in the tangible and transformative nature of this medium.
Vivian Cavalieri is a visual artist based in Chincoteague Island, Virginia. Her three-dimensional miniature scenes prompt conversations on a range of global issues, including immigration and social justice. Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions in the US and abroad, including London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, and Athens.
Haley King, also known by their artist name GRVNGE LESTAT, is a Chicago-based LGBTQ+ mixed media artist who primarily uses illustrative methods to construct their body of work. They combine that with digitally manipulating their own photography to achieve an effort to create their artistic world, which houses themes of hauntingly provoking atmospheres.
As an artist and designer at the dynamic intersection of art and sustainability, Shuyi Qi's work is deeply committed to unraveling the intricate relationship between human existence and ecological preservation. In her practice, she employs a fusion of visual art and design to construct narratives that provoke thought and foster a heightened awareness of sustainability.
Andrea Kurtz is an illustrator and artist based in Graz. She delves into her own emotions and those of individuals, encapsulating feelings, fears, desires, and, above all, (un)happiness, which she expresses forms to make them tangible. Currently, she is experimenting with a diverse array of materials to create different structures.
Luciano Caggianello, born in Siena in 1959, is an Italian artist and designer, currently based in Turin. His work identifies the artistic objective of a basic conceptual thematic project and of experimentation inserted between concrete "poverty" and digital work, revealing much more relevant to parameters and concepts of presentation than of representation.
Napoleon M. Haboc is a quinquagenarian industrial product design freelancer and an emerging contemporary artist based in Qingxi Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province, China. He has two main mediums in his art: colored textured acrylic paint on the mat board and a monochromatic crosshatched bamboo fine debris art, respectively. A combination of nature and intention is the two phases in his artistic approach to his colored art medium.
Qixin Chen was born in 2001 and raised in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Through mixed media and installation, she focuses on the existential anxiety arising from transitional society and culture, which threaten the fundamental values and state of being of individuals in a pervasive and widespread manner. She believes that this painful emotional experience creates a collective emptiness, isolation, and fear.
Hwang Sung Mi is a Korean visual artist. She received a B.F.A in Printmaking from the Hong-Ik University, in Seoul, South Korea. In her career, she has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in South Korea, Italy, and Greece, starting in 2008. Her work has been published internationally, in the press, and in artists' books. She works with plastic bags and laces to create flowers.
Amélie Dickerson was born in Congo and raised in the South of France. She came of age as an artist in Paris while pursuing a degree in Fashion Design. Life brought her to the United States. She paints to bring light to people. Bold lines and vibrant colors collide in her work to convey emotion - whether she is capturing the hidden spirit in a portrait or pure, raw feeling in an abstract.
Sirui Yang is an emerging interdisciplinary creative thinker and practitioner from China, currently based in Australia. Sirui has a strong passion for exploring how aesthetic forms in nature have inspired the development of her jewellery project in creating its unique aura or atmosphere, as she wants to evoke her unique feelings of the vitality in nature. Her recent art practices encompass drawing and painting, digital illustration, photography also installation art.
Honey is an Iranian artist currently residing in Calgary, Canada. She focuses on art, painting, graphic design, photography, installation, digital painting, poem, and theatre, as well as artistic production and cultural promotion. She explores memories, good and bad, through creative multimedia artworks. She wants to show stories about people, humanity, suffering, true love, and real life all over the world.
Yishi Deng is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York. Yishi Deng's artwork symbolizes the journey that is taken and finally seeing hope through warm colors. She often references everyday city life through her works and explores the relationship between loneliness and inner peace. Inspired by surrealism and minimalism, the subject matter of each piece is often pulled from reality and a hit of Yishi's imagination.
Katerina Brovkova is an artist, illustrator, and clothing designer from Ukraine. She believes that art can communicate global values and influence the design and fashion industry. And, of course, art is the best way to convey meaning, special feelings, and vibrations through art. All her work is created when she is happy and full of energy, so all this energy of love and growth is transmuted into her art.
Céline Sicard is a contemporary French artist. All her projects have in common the desire to surprise the visitor with unexpected visions that invite to a poetic or shifted journey. She borrows from various techniques to create contemporary masks as an intuitive artist. All her pieces have a ceramic base, but also incorporate basketry to create an interface between art and nature, between the useful and the useless.
Marie Wuithier is an autodidact artist born in Reims (France) in 1990. Inspired, curious, and sensitive, Marie likes to offer herself the freedom to imagine and create without codes but her feelings, taste, instinct, and careful balance. She likes to sprinkle glitter on life to reveal its true emotional richness between contrasts, sensitivity, and magnificence.
Moti Bazak makes use of recycled materials to create thought-provoking, often abstract images inspired by the existential aspects of modern life. Moti has started off with sculpture and wall art, currently embracing traditional photography and digital art. Moti grew up in Israel, where he first began developing his self-taught style. Since then, he has won several awards and had his work exhibited across the United States, Europe, and Israel.
Francesca Falli is an Italian painter and mixed media artist. Her works are inspired by Pop Art painters with revisions, experimentations, provocations. Her ability to experiment led her to create an innovative way of 'artistic work', where painting and decoration are contaminated by the opportunities of the new digital technique. Continuous research leads her to the production of the "Pollage" series.
Paola Nicotra is an Italian self-taught artist currently based in Piedmont. She likes to explore the possibilities offered by different materials such as raw jute used without primer, or wood waste, and anti-rust paint. She wants thickness in her work because she thinks that the unconscious has to express itself on a higher and thicker level than the simple two-dimensional canvas.
Rebecca Lamona is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. In her works, she mainly uses photography and painting. She defines her work as "pieces of memory", that she creates mixing analog photography and painting, to partially remove elements from the photograph. Lamona's work aims to leave identifiable traces, trapping the memories and transforming them into matter.
