STUDIO SPOTLIGHTS

Aomi Kikuchi is an artist actively learning various knowledge and techniques of crafts. Through her quest, she try unique approaches to conventional ideas and methods to create innovative art. She is vigorously using scrap and waste as materials. Her sources of inspiration are from Japanese aesthetics and Buddha's philosophy.

Chan Suk On was born and lives in Hong Kong. She graduated from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University with a Bachelor of Photographic Design. She gained her Master of Arts in Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. On is an editor, photographer, and artist. She is inspired by everyday life experiences. Her artistic journey is going from documentary photography to conceptual art. 

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hold your attention. The more you look at them, the more satisfying they become for the viewer. The more time you give to the painting, the more you get back. The viewer is a living, breathing being that moves about in space and I want the painting to be experienced like that.

I have never been interested in a normal way of thinking. A normal way of thinking has limits and structure.
I have always been interested in seeking an alternative. There is always more to life than being satisfied with what and how you are told to think. Behind the walls. Beyond the doors. Around the corners. Where imagination has no boundaries. Finding an escape through art. 

 His upcoming solo exhibition will be focusing on colors and simplified forms in either abstract or objective. "I especially feel like we need to recharge after long painful monotonous life we have been suffering through over 1 and a half years due to pandemic. I have been trying to relay the message of encouragement in vitality, ‘Recharge Life’ using bright and bold colors.

Oil painter Aliaksei Ovsyannikov is based in Minsk, where he explores self-identity. Bold, colour-rich brushstrokes show a depth of personal emotions and memories. Ovsyannikov notes: “I, like a transformer, pass the outside world through my internal perceptions and express the picture that I depict. It’s important to express yourself, your feelings and sensations, which belong only to you.”

Tess Williams progressively unravels the soundness of established concepts, treating pictorial tradition as a field of action where she can break down codes. Uprooting the cloth from its structural support, roaming the formless desert of vision to un-conceal the pure physicality of matter.

Brooke DiDonato is a photographic artist based in Austin, Texas. Her latest body of work, A House is Not a Home, is a series of self-portraits that call into question the boundaries of reality and the psychological mindset. She draws on early work positioning her and other people’s bodies in familiar domestic settings – straddling the line between the mundane and the absurd.

Mallory Page is a New Orleans-based artist specializing in large-scale abstract paintings. Her compositions employ multiple layers of monochromatic hues applied with various techniques over the course of many weeks. Through abstract studies of color, her work explores essential elements of painting, and how calculated manipulations of shape and color can effect shifts in visual understanding. 

Combining video art and painting, exploring the boundaries of each via a cross-examination that invigorates both media in new and inventive ways. Constructed along parallel lines, his videos and paintings explore composition, mass, color and depth of images in unexpected ways....

Using galvanized wire, stone, and bronze, Asawa crafted nest-like works inspired by native Mexican basket-weaving techniques. “I was interested in it because of the economy of a line, making something in space, enclosing it without blocking it out. It’s still transparent,” she said of her materials. “I realized that if I was going to make these forms, which interlock and interweave, it can only...

Neto's work has been described as "beyond abstract minimalism". His installations are large, soft, biomorphic sculptures that fill an exhibition space that viewers can touch, poke, and walk on or through. They are made of white, stretchy material—amorphous forms stuffed with Styrofoam pellets or, on occasion, aromatic spices.