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.
Sharmaine Thérèsa Pretorius is a high-end, South African artist who has been living in the Sultanate of Oman for the past ten years. She is a process artist. Sharmaine reates blueprint, mixed media drawings of her dreams. Then her work gets photographed, and she uses kaleidoscopic computer software to produce digital art copies of the original work.
David Fleshman is an American artist based in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a painter and digital designer, his artistic work has an important place in today’s art world by merging both traditional and digital artwork in one cohesive style. His work is inspired by Alan Fletcher, Herbert Bayer, Max Miedinger, Irina Furman, Paul Cezanne, and Wayne Thiebaud.
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.
Taline Balian works primarily with portraits. Social media requirements are being represented in her practice by aesthetically attractive faces when seen from far. When closely looked at, these livid faces convey a disturbing feeling of loss of control and glitches, the cracks of the virtual world, and its illusion of perfection. Drained out, most of the Human Faces‘ expressions and facial muscles are fading away.
Felipe Farme D'Amoed was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and has lived in the US for the past ten years. In his sculpture, the artist uses plastic and rebar to torture the trunk blatantly. By suffocating the piece, impeding it to breathe and recover, he transfers agony to the offender. Asphyxiation kills all living beings. In each confronting medium, the artist elucidates our concern for the soul and place in the world.
Through the representation of otherworldly creatures and realms, Shilowska found a doorway to constantly reinventing her reality. A way of defying the paradigms set upon her regarding ethnicity, place of birth, gender, physical appearance, social status, and age. Through her work, the artist looks forward to the spectator to dream and engage with the message in their own unique way.
Katarina Čelebić is 24 years old artist from Podgorica, Montenegro. Her paintings are very expressive and based on emotions and intuition.In her creative process, she lets things happen spontaneously. Her inspiration usually comes from dreams, emotions, people she meets, spontaneous events, and every detail she finds motivate her to put it on paper.
Carol Camp is a Brazilian visual artist, currently based in São Paulo. She works mostly with photography manipulation, video art, paintings, and poetry. With her art, she attempts to make the now - not the idea of it, but its intricacies - tangible. Using bright colors and pure black, she investigates the contrast between the so-clear now and the ever-fading past.
Originally from Perth, Australia, artist Lee Musgrave currently lives and works in the US. He favors a visual language that explores the shallow picture plane and is abstract as well as representational. Musgrave is intrigued by images that blur the border between the virtual and the real. He specializes in abstract photography, for which he has received several awards.
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.
James Johnson-Perkins is an award-winning British artist who currently lives and works in the UK and China. His practice draws from themes of memory, nostalgia, and play. His VIDEOSTALGIA work, ‘Four Films in Reverse’, combines important and poignant places, with filmed performance to camera and nostalgic music to explore the many aspects of change.
Coming from user experience design, Caterina has extensively studied human perception and sensory interaction (particularly the visual and cerebral variety). As she is fascinated by the study of perception and stimulus processing in immersive human-interface experiences, she decided to ask questions about the future of co-existence on our planet.
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.
Kenneth Henckel took the painting seriously 11 years ago. Before that, he had been around diverse types of media, such as photo art, video art and graphic design. His paintings show us a surreal, subtle, sometimes tormented universe.He pictures anecdotes, crazy humor and modern everyday nightmares.
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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.
Mariaceleste Arena is a Sicilian drawer and painter who works with both traditional and digital techniques. She created several urban regeneration works, collaborations with non-profit associations, published in various magazines and catalogs, exhibited in various art venues. For her, art must always be innovative: it is, in fact, a mental process, and therefore it is always in constant transformation.
Sandy Michel is a black female artist, business owner, and content creator. Her inspirations for her artwork and photography are nature, textures, patterns, the built environment, traveling, historical places, and the sun. Sandy loves the surprise, the unknown, the imperfection of the printing process. She is known for her use of blending colors and matching them with conventional shapes.
Sheila Gomes is a Brazilian artist and designer. For Sheila, art transcends cultures, concepts, ideals, and time itself, connecting us with all that we are. Her purpose is to unveil the new and expand this connection. She has been showcasing her work in a variety of exhibitions, collaborations, and projects, with curated works featuring international books and magazines.
Ko Smith is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. His works embrace the complexity of personal histories and examine the narratives and psychological habits that have brought us to our present juncture. Smith's work has been presented and exhibited at NYC venues, numerous art fairs in NY and Florida, and international residencies in France and Italy.
Fiorentina Giannotta has a passion for those subjects which at first sight are trivial supporting actors of the surrounding environment. Her world is inhabited by historical figures or ordinary people, always iconic. Processed in a too colorful space, with industrial paints and brushes for ceramic, they characterize her works in a very original way.
