STUDIO SPOTLIGHTS
AOMI KIKUCHI
TOMASSO SILVESTRI
TOMASSO SILVESTRI
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.
TOMASSO SILVESTRI
TOMASSO SILVESTRI
TOMASSO SILVESTRI
Silvestris art, designs and sculptures of morphic multimedia constructions are executed with great precision of layered iconic imagery. Renowned for his vision with highly technical skills, techniques and visionary precise dreamworlds. A complexity of provocative paintings and drawings involving a unique morphic style with great precision of layered iconic imagery and brilliant color palette.
CHAN SUK ON
TOMASSO SILVESTRI
CHAN SUK ON
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.
MARIJA TANASKOVIC PAPADOPOULOS
Born in Belgrade/Serbia Marija graduated from the University of Fine Arts as a Sculptor. In 2004 she moved to Chicago where she was working as a fine artist in traditional painting and sculpturing techniques. During her creative journey she started creating artworks with modern technologies. Today she is a multimedia artist of a very wide spectrum.
ANDREW PARANAVITANA
I am inspired by the world every day. It’s people, places, landscapes and cultures are a visual feast and sensory overload at times. Simple things that often get taken for granted or go unnoticed can be a virtual playground to a person with a camera in hand. My art strongly focuses on the psychology of dark emotional states of mind and has been inspired by my own experiences, trauma, and processes of healing. Within this focus, I have divided the work into two main categories: darkness and light. My work explores the dualities found between the two, in opposition to each other or in co-existential crises.
Janusz Tworek
Janusz Tworek is an architect. He creates collages, drawings, and dry pastels. oil paintings, stained glass ceramics and photographs. For Janusz Tworek, art is a way of expressing the attitude towards reality. His paintings and drawings flow from the zone of instinct, operating beyond intellectual considerations. He believes that this makes them the most authentic representation of reality. His painting is spontaneous, resulting from the emotions he experiences. Most often, the ideas that constitute the intellectual basis of what I want to paint change under the influence of the emotions of the moment.
Michel Audebert
"Even more than a work on the representation, my research is the expression of the feeling which emanates from the photographed subject ... In my images, the repetition does not have a "hypnotic" goal... The least variation on the subject must modify our perception of it... I have a high idea of Photography as a mode of expression. In a parallel with reality and the time which passes, I regard this one as a major art... It can create the illusion of reality like the impression of stopped time. For me, photography is a formidable instrument of dream and nostalgia.
Katha Rossein
I have spent my life creating safe spaces for patients to reveal themselves...In turn, painting has given me that safe space to reveal myself The body is my medium-I see/feel/know the body as something that gives me inspiration. As a physician and artist it is the language with which I am most comfortable. Studying Fine Arts at NYU during the late 1960's was a time fraught with political movements both from the anti war movement to civil rights to the women's movement and my training as both a painter and printmaker quickly combined using figurative expression to speak to the politics of the times. I then went on to complete my medical degree at New York Medical College and for forty years I cared for and nurtured others to achieve their body’s best. The concentration in my artwork shifted from political to personal, from individual to universal - the new conversation embraced the hard questions of loss, turbulence and suffering as well as triumphs and change.
vittorio iavazzo
Matthew shlian
lou crow
kendall geers
STUDIO SPOTLIGHTS:artists we love*
TESS WILLIAMS
Brooke didonato
Brooke didonato
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
Brooke didonato
Brooke didonato
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
Brooke didonato
mallory page
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.
Alex Hubbard
Alex Hubbard
mallory page
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....
ruth asawa
Alex Hubbard
ERNESTO NETO
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...
ERNESTO NETO
Alex Hubbard
ERNESTO NETO
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.
willy virginer
Willy Verginer crafts hyperrealistic chiseled wood sculptures that are equally poignant and absurdist. Verginer’s precisely rendered sculptures variously depict children with their heads poking through cardboard boxes with branches growing from their feet, red-eyed cows whose hooves are stuck in tires, and bespectacled businessmen kneeling on top of donkeys. Deadpan juxtapositions of contemporary industry and bucolic animal life is a common motif in his work, as is a graphic delineation in color. Verginer’s works comment on contemporary pollution and environmental degradation and implicate their human subjects as passive observers or even active contributors to this destruction.
Arild Askeland
In his Norwegian studio, the international artist Askeland creates a complex interplay of shapes, colors, light, texture and structure that dances along the surface of his abstract expressionist images. Far from being simple studies of, or homage to, these elements, he expresses a wonderful complexity in his compositions (of gardens, abstract and geometric forms..), made intelligible by a united language of line and color. His works invite the eye into the depths with subtle transparency.
STUDIO SPOTLIGHTS
MARYSE PIQUE
DANIEL MCKINLEY
DANIEL MCKINLEY
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.
DANIEL MCKINLEY
DANIEL MCKINLEY
DANIEL MCKINLEY
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.
JAY CHUNG
DANIEL MCKINLEY
JAY CHUNG
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.