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.
As an artist working primarily with drawing and painting, Sven Froekjaer-Jensen strives to reach the utmost perfection of expression. In all his works, he strives to describe and understand human nature, its structures, and relations in the world of today, often using unconventional materials or sometimes installations to unmask or describe the deeper structures of the human mind.
Lee Ellis is an American contemporary artist currently based in the south of France. Since 2020, he found himself drawn to smaller works and started creating a series of works where he put hundreds of post-it notes with individual drawings onto a canvas. With his work, Lee Ellis attempts to reinforce this ethos by giving the audience a glimpse at the overwhelming power we have together.
Dave Kwinter is a San Francisco based artist, originally from Toronto, Canada. After years of painting with acrylics and digital art software, Dave has discovered the delights of assemblage. Working in three dimensions is much more fun for him than being confined to two. The components of his sculptures come from thrift stores, flea markets, and eBay. More than once, something he picked up from the sidewalk ended up in an art piece.
Attri Chetan is an Indian artist, working primarily with printmaking and painting. His series ‘Enclosures & openings’ is a set of 50 works of the same size and colour schemes. His colour pallet of Yellow and Gray represents the dull and bright side of human feeling and emotions, and the series reflects on the compact and very small apartments in which we live nowadays.
Brigitta Körmöndi is a self-taught digital artist from Hungary. When taking pictures, she often thinks about the world and art. Artworks can create meaning, convey messages, and decode messages. She believes that the key to all creative activity lies in self-education after university and thinks that this taught her to see and interpret our society and the world in her own way.
River is a visual artist and graphic designer specializing in digital design and large abstract canvas work. While her work is visually striking with intense color, her work is also known for her deep narratives on Māori culture, in particular, her recent canvas works look into museum repatriation. She wants people to understand colonisation and the devastating impact it had not only in Māori but all indigenous cultures.
Jiahan Fan is a visual and illustrative artist whose work reflects the every day possibilities of the imagination. Operating in a variety of materials and media, Jiahan specializes in combining visual art with the function of creating valuable and beautiful artworks. She draws inspiration from Popism, Generation Z, and Chinese culture to create work that employs the strategies of these disciplines while providing a visual experience for the viewer and participant.
Zhenyuan Shi is an artist and designer originally from Shanghai, China, and currently lives and creates in New York. Having lived through environments where the direct expression of self could bring danger to the marginalized as a queer immigrant of color, they became intrigued by capturing the nuanced, complex, and intense emotional experiences through poetic imagery.
Margarita Howis is a creative rebel and an artist by heart with a background in architecture. Her work is influenced by observing cultural differences and perspectives on authenticity, women's rights, and societal expectations. Through her experiences, she has come to understand the ways in which culture shapes our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world.
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.
Yanming Chen is a UI/UX designer, originally from China. She devotes herself to the path of design for its features in avant-garde concepts, visual presentation, and commercial performance. Her inspiration comes from all details she captures in everyday life. She translates what she observes and how she feels into illustrations in her special tone. Her design is often the illustration of her effort in research and observation through vibrant colors in a minimalistic style.
Aylal Heydarova is an emerging Azerbaijani painter whose works span various artistic styles and creative techniques, including pointillism, modernism, and abstract. With her distinct individualistic approach, Aylal's paintings are highly appreciated by her viewers, who are usually overwhelmed by the brightness and combination of colour, clear composition, and beautiful artificiality.
Aline Cavalcante (Brazil, 1980) is a visual artist and photographer, base in São Paulo. Her work is focused on emotions, and she seeks to represent through memories the relationship between people and space. Analogic and digital collages, interferences, and photo assemblies with repetitive effects are the basis of the works that have already participated in exhibitions in Brazil and abroad, besides having received recognition in international awards.
Acquaetta Williams utilizes the feelings, thoughts, and memories inspired by African images to express their relevance to contemporary African American women. She has worked in a variety of mediums, including acrylic paint, glass, paper, canvas, and wood. The materials are diverse, addressing the surface and the depths of each form and connecting them to the stories that emerge from these environments.
Negentrop is a transnational collective of artists started by three sisters in Cornwall, UK, in 2022.Their aim is to visually respond to Cybernetic and Eschatological themes emerging in Science, Philosophy, and Art and, through this, develop new unknown ways of working visually & collectively. Negentrop believes individual creation is an 'obsolete' and 'manipulated' ideal and that we have entered a creative era that is unknown, unbound, and unhuman.
Guillermo Pacheco is an artist from Maryland currently residing in New York City. Throughout his architectural education, Pacheco became obsessed with the connection between art and architecture. Pacheco's explorations of spatial representation allow his visual works to move away from literal depictions of natural scenes and towards conceptual representations and experiences.
Zemfira Alaskarzade is an artist and jewelry designer from Azerbaijan. Zemfira paints in her own style, which was born thanks to impressionism and expressionism. She is inspired by the ideas of impressionism in the transmission of the first emotions, impressions, and expressionism - a vivid demonstration of feelings. However, the main genre of her work is portraiture.
Laura Mirarchi is an Italian artist currently based in Florence. Her works are based on experimentation with different mediums with an emphasis on the visual and narrative aspects. In her current participatory practice, she examines through photography and video the feeling of struggle to find a real connection and the contrast between what is visible and what is not.
Karim Abed was born in El-Kelâa (Tigzirt), a small village in North Africa. He moved to Ontario, Canada, in 2004, where he has lived ever since. His work explores the dynamics of human relations both at the individual and societal levels. Through his photos, he examines the impact of modernity on ancient cultures that are fighting for survival. The idea of power and how it is used in our day and age is at the center of his current work.
water-ish is a Japanese artist. She graduated in Jewelry Design and Gemology, and worked as a designer and Jewelry adviser, before turning to art. She lived in the US and currently resides in Japan, where she practice her art. She works with watercolor on paper, and realizes portraits. Every day she makes a different portrait, which she later shares on Instagram. Currently, she has approximately 7000 works.
