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 a student architect, Daniel's drawing abilities are essential for both the course he studies and his future career. In Daniel's spare time, he chooses to draw his secondary passion: animals, specifically birds. While he does draw animals on commission or just for fun, birds have always been Daniel's muse. To him, it's the shape, the feathers, and their many distinguishing characteristics, such as their wings and beaks.
Pavel Shynkarenko is a forward-thinking, meta-modernistic artist and entrepreneur who explores the fascinating intersection of technology and human creativity. By delving into meta-modernist ideas, oscillating between opposites like irony and sincerity and subjectivity and objectivity, Shynkarenko's work transcends traditional artistic boundaries. In making new art, Pavel also experiments with AI language models.
Carmen Aztibia is an Argentinian artist, based in Buenos Aires. As an active walker, she observes her surroundings, aware of the vitality that each city has today, from which she takes references. The landscape is also a strong trigger in her poetics. Tightening the boundaries between the self-referential and the collective, her work seeks to reflect on being in society, on exchange as human beings, and on how we collectively inhabit geography.
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.
Antonia-Maria Platzer is a Italian multi-disciplinary artist and designer currently based in Berlin. The main interest within their practice involves creating a cosmos of their own in which they can manifest a colorful safe haven for their inner child or, as they like to call it, a ‘revolution for softies’, based on real-life experiences as well as research-based symbologies, theories, and storytelling from around the world.
Elida Diez is an artist and olfactory expert, born in Panama and currently based in the Basque Country. In her creations, she mixes her ethnobotanical, phytotherapeutic, and culinary knowledge with a sensitivity that manages to transform the tangible into the ethereal, transporting us to the deepest universes. She founded Gaua Project to share this biodiverse universe with others.
Pamela Scherson (1994, Mexico City), AKA La Changa Pachanga, is a tattoo artist and street artist based in Mexico City. In her artistic practice, La Changa is consistently drawn to capturing aspects of pop culture through the lens of her inner child's ignorant perspective. She prioritizes spontaneity and embraces intentional mistakes, aiming to shed light on the unconventional beauty found within ignorance.
Born in Cameroon and raised in Lebanon during the civil war of 1975, Katia Aoun Hage moved to the United States, where she resides with her husband and three children. Her life is filled with music, poetry, writing, translation, painting, and running a publishing company, Elyssar Press, in Redlands. Katia loves to collaborate with artists and writers.
Olumide Egunlae is a painter and art educator based in Banjul, The Gambia, West Africa, whose works celebrate and treasure his African traditions, backgrounds, values, and culture. He focuses his paintings on the local eccentric and ordinary rites of his people and portrays what his ancestors have built for average African communities. He finds the beauty in them and translates them into his colorful and beautiful paintings.
IJWBAA is a multi-talented artist hailing from Pangasinan, Philippines. He delves into the realms of digital art, painting, and writing, demonstrating a diverse range of creative pursuits. His work revolves around a deep fascination with the fusion of three esteemed old masters, Rothko's abstract style, Giacometti's elongated figures, and Venus de Milo's armless physique.
Jon Burr is a photographer based in Seoul, South Korea. When he works, he uses various artistic languages, such as modern art and pop art, and tries various techniques. Through these experiments and challenges, he wants to create new creative methods and works. He hopes that through these changes, art will become closer to our daily lives.
Nataliia Kutykhina is a painter, originally from Ukraine. In her work, the author explores the world around her, events, history, science, and philosophy; all facets of our universe are interesting. Every day she discovers something new in art. There are no boundaries in creativity, and each creation conveys not only the world of the artist but is also an integral part of our world, like a grain of sand is part of a vast desert.
Sofiya Bokareva is a young talented multidisciplinary artist who positions herself as an artist integrated into several different directions - sculpture, painting, ceramics, drawing, and design. Sofiya combines her creative work with curatorial activities in the field of art, holding the position of Associate Director and official representative at Art-Prime Gallery.
Smishdesigns is a contemporary artist, designer, and illustrator. Charged with meaning and drenched in color, her work reveals and questions the social constructs of gender, prejudice, and power. Publishing under an alias, she has emerged as a strong voice in Indian protest culture. She regularly inspires conversation and concern for human rights and social justice on her online platforms.
Paulette Gutierrez’s work can be identified by intricate, bold-colored organic shapes. Gutierrez is a Mexican American artist born and raised outside of Detroit, Michigan. Gutierrez is interested in using the organic material she encounters while studying biology as inspiration for her work. The intricacy of organic materials and organisms, when looked at closely, serves as the substance to abstract.
Alberto Ballocca (b. 1993 - Turin, Northern Italy) is a contemporary artist whose background is linked to sensitive factors. Alberto works with acrylics, self-made natural pigments, sprays, oil pastels, oil, and more unconventional mediums and supports, both in painting, sculptures, drawing, and private or public wall paintings, continually seeking a bridge between the abstract and the figurative approaches.
The pop-art fine artist Silke Wolff opens a secret, supernatural universe with her metaphysical graphics.Through her widened consciousness, which she has been developing for 20 years of daily meditative practice, she is able to perceive this sphere of existence. Such unique situations she catches with oil pastel drawings in sketchbooks. From these ideas, her series arise, which she creates as digital collages and complete with texts.
Lucell Larawan is an acclaimed Filipino artist. The artist has evolved from a neo-pointillist approach to a hybrid style and recently incorporated mercerized cotton strings due to their nuanced meaning of connectivity and rootedness.Overall, Lucell’s art reflects his journey to find freedom and a sense of belonging while exploring themes that resonate with many individuals.
Masoomeh Aftabi, born in 1991 in Rasht, is an Iranian artist and designer. Masoomeh’s first solo exhibition, “Dream of Trees,” was a tribute to the beauty and majesty of trees, with each piece embodying the artist’s unique perspective on traditional design. Within the first three days of the exhibition, all of the artworks were sold, garnering praise from notable designers.
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.
